Patents by Inventor Hardy Wilkendorf

Hardy Wilkendorf has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220386492
    Abstract: A housing for electronic components, for example, for a control unit of a vehicle is disclosed. The housing comprises a housing element having an upper wall and a peripheral wall surrounding three sides of the housing element, the upper wall and the peripheral wall defining an interior for receiving one or more electronic components, the housing element having on one side a substantially U-shaped receiving portion for receiving a connection element. The housing element may have a ventilation portion configured to allow a gas flow between the interior and the exterior of the housing element. The ventilation portion comprises a flow chamber having first and second opening, the first opening communicating with the atmosphere and the second opening communicating with the interior of the housing element. A corresponding control unit comprising such a housing is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Baltrusch, Hardy Wilkendorf
  • Patent number: 7718274
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for welding two welding parts (1, 3) by means of a fillet weld (11), wherein a first welding part (1), with a bearing surface at least in an edge area of an edge that is to be welded by means of a fillet weld, is brought into contact with a bearing surface of a welding part (3) and the welding energy (5) is supplied in an energy supply area during the welding process, exclusive of a surface (7) of the first welding part facing away from the bearing surface, said energy supply area being located at a predetermined distance from the edge of the first welding part. The welding energy is supplied in a direction, whereby the direction component thereof points perpendicular to the course of the fillet weld that is to be produced in the direction of an inner area of the first welding part, forming a welding angle of less than 90° with the contact plane of the bearing surfaces of the first and second welding parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: TRW Automotive Electronics & Components GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Ertl, Hardy Wilkendorf
  • Publication number: 20100086417
    Abstract: A motor/pump unit includes a housing and at least one of: an external tank; an ECU axially disposed at the housing of the motor/pump unit; an ECU radially disposed at the housing of the motor/pump unit; electrical connector plugs of the ECU that are radially disposed; electrical connector plugs to the ECU that are axially disposed; a lead frame of the ECU that is configured in the shape of a dish; a lead frame of the ECU that is externally attached to the housing of the motor/pump unit; and a pressure limitation and check valve that is attached laterally of the pump of the motor/pump unit. The motor/pump unit is also one of firmly attached to the steering gear and integrated in the steering gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: Robert Engler, Kai Grebe, Martin Jordan, Frank Ott, Hardy Wilkendorf
  • Publication number: 20080245844
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for welding two welding parts (1, 3) by means of a fillet weld (11), wherein a first welding part (1), with a bearing surface at least in an edge area of an edge that is to be welded by means of a fillet weld, is brought into contact with a bearing surface of a welding part (3) and the welding energy (5) is supplied in an energy supply area during the welding process, exclusive of a surface (7) of the first welding part facing away from the bearing surface, said energy supply area being located at a predetermined distance from the edge of the first welding part. The welding energy is supplied in a direction, whereby the direction component thereof points perpendicular to the course of the fillet weld that is to be produced in the direction of an inner area of the first welding part, forming a welding angle of less than 90° with the contact plane of the bearing surfaces of the first and second welding parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Thomas Ertl, Hardy Wilkendorf
  • Patent number: 6983528
    Abstract: A method for winding a stator for a brushless direct current motor, which has a stator body (9) with a predetermined number of to be wound stator teeth (3) with the stator teeth (3) respectively being wound with two coils (W1, W3; W2, W4) which are magnetically coupled and which facilitate by supply of current with variable directional orientation the generation of opposite magnetic fields, whereby each of the two coils (W1, W3, W2, W4) comprises a predetermined number of in parallel arranged conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: TRW Automotive Electronics & Components GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jürgen Müller, Cornelius Peter, Hardy Wilkendorf
  • Publication number: 20050006970
    Abstract: An electromotive drive, in particular for a pump for an electrohydraulic vehicle steering device, has a motor mounting, which has a cylindrical pin, and a stator having drive coils. The stator is penetrated by the cylindrical pin of the motor mounting and is held thereby. Between the inner wall of the stator and the outer wall of the cylindrical pin of the motor mounting a tolerance ring is arranged, a torque transmission taking place between stator and motor mounting via the tolerance ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Hartmut Klingenberg, Frank Ott, Hardy Wilkendorf