Patents by Inventor Heinrich Straub

Heinrich Straub 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: 20170191560
    Abstract: A dual clutch transmission device is disclosed. The dual clutch transmission device has a transmission device with a transmission housing, with a coupling housing positioned within the transmission housing and with a lubricant reservoir to receive a lubricant for the transmission device, which includes an oil trap ring connected at least indirectly with the transmission housing, which at least partially surrounds the coupling housing. The oil trap ring has a side facing the coupling housing which is primarily designed as an oil guide surface and which has at least one groove which is intended to guide lubricant into the lubricant reservoir. The dual clutch transmission device also has a gear set with a dry sump to lubricate the gear set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Stefan SPERRFECHTER, Heinrich STRAUB, Josep Maria BOU ROMANO, Tobias HAERTER, Peter HAHN, Jakub ROMANIAK, Juergen SCHWEITZER
  • Publication number: 20160298733
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dual clutch transmission comprising two input shafts (11a, 12a; 11b, 12b) which are provided for respectively linking to a power shift clutch (K1a, K2a; K1b, K2b), a first countershaft (13a; 13b) arranged offset parallel to the input shafts (11a, 12a; 11b, 12b), a second countershaft (14a; 14b) arranged offset parallel to the input shafts (11a, 12a; 11b, 12b), at least five gear wheel planes (Z1a-Z5a; Z1b-Z5b) which each comprise a fixed gear (Z11a-Z51a; Z11b-Z51b) permanently connected in a rotationally fixed manner to one of the input shafts (11a, 12a; 11b, 12b), wherein one of the gear wheel planes (Z4a; Z4b) comprises an idler gear wheel (Z42a; Z42b) arranged coaxially relative to the first countershaft (13a; 13b) and an idler gear wheel (Z43a; Z43b) arranged coaxially relative to the second countershaft (14a; 14b), which form a gear wheel pair for shifting into at least one reverse transmission gear (R1a, R2a), at least nine shift units (S1a-S9a; S1b-S9b) for producing an opera
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Helmut BENDER, Josep Maria BOU ROMANO, Heinrich STRAUB, Peter HAHN, Stefan SPERRFECHTER, Juergen SCHWEITZER, Tobias HAERTER, Jakub ROMANIAK
  • Patent number: 8991576
    Abstract: In a torque converter device for a motor vehicle having a single-piece housing element which, for drivingly interconnecting a torque converter and an internal combustion engine, wherein the housing element forms a disk carrier accommodating at least one disk of a separating clutch which is provided for mechanically connecting and disconnecting the internal combustion engine to and from the torque converter device, the housing element is provided with at least one actuating piston receptacle forming a pressure chamber with an actuating piston disposed therein for actuating the separating clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Stefan Sperrfechter, Tobias Haerter, Heinrich Straub, Bernhard Ziegler, Tobias Schuster
  • Publication number: 20140144742
    Abstract: In a torque converter device for a motor vehicle having a single-piece housing element which, for drivingly interconnecting a torque converter and an internal combustion engine, wherein the housing element forms a disk carrier accommodating at least one disk of a separating clutch which is provided for mechanically connecting and disconnecting the internal combustion engine to and from the torque converter device, the housing element is provided with at least one actuating piston receptacle forming a pressure chamber with an actuating piston disposed therein for actuating the separating clutch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Stefan SPERRFECHTER, Tobias HAERTER, Heinrich STRAUB, Bernhard ZIEGLER, Tobias SCHUSTER
  • Patent number: 7798030
    Abstract: In to a modular transmission design for twin-clutch transmissions which are alternatively equipped with, or without, hybrid functionality in particular for use in connection with front-wheel drive motor vehicles, the transmission is designed to optionally accommodate the components providing the hybrid capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Daimler A.G.
    Inventors: Jügen Lang, Heinrich Straub
  • Publication number: 20080000312
    Abstract: In to a modular transmission design for twin-clutch transmissions which are alternatively equipped with, or without, hybrid functionality in particular for use in connection with front-wheel drive motor vehicles, the transmission is designed to optionally accommodate the components providing the hybrid capability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventors: Jugen Lang, Heinrich Straub
  • Patent number: 6595077
    Abstract: A change-speed gearbox has an input shaft connected to an output shaft by at least one first and one second component transmission, arranged parallel to one another in the power flow and each having a frictional power-shift clutch and an intermediate shaft. The intermediate shaft can be operatively connected to the input shaft by the power-shift clutch, with at least one gearbox constant per component transmission. Each gearbox constant has a gearwheel on one of the two intermediate shafts, at least one of which can be operatively connected to a first layshaft arranged parallel to the input shaft. At least one gearbox constant can be brought into an operative connection with the first and the second power-shift clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Axel Geiberger, Markus Heizel, Andreas Kolb, Ralf Sperber, Heinrich Straub, Guenter Woerner
  • Patent number: 4759432
    Abstract: In a pressure medium adjusting element for actuating a disk clutch; a cylinder is fixedly mounted to a disk carrier and with a shaft segment portion provided with a radial shaft bore for supplying lubricating oil for the clutch; wherein an axial piston operating in the cylinder is connected with a lubricating valve to release a stream of lubricating oil from a large oil retaining baffle chamber, connected with the radial shaft bore, to the disk stack, when the clutch is engaged; and wherein the piston abuts the shaft segment portion and is biased by return springs; and wherein the lubricating valve being structurally disposed in a wall of the baffle and operably connected between the baffle chamber and the clutch chamber containing the disk stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gunter Jurgens, Heinrich Straub