Patents by Inventor Heinz Kiwitz

Heinz Kiwitz 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).

  • Patent number: 4639008
    Abstract: A self-propelling commercial vehicle, especially a tractor-like agricultural vehicle, with two units each having an unsprung axle, of which the first unit, as drive unit, includes a drive aggregate and a driver place located within the area of its end coordinated to the second unit, and of which the second unit is guided by way of a cantilever which is connected with the first unit to be pivotal in the vertical direction and is elastically supported with respect thereto; the cantilever is additionally pivotal in the vertical direction with respect to the axle of the second unit while a guide support is provided for the rectilinear guidance of this axle which is offset in the vertical direction to the centilever and is detachable and pivotal with respect to the axle and the drive unit of the first.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gustav Krettenauer, Heinz Kiwitz