Patents by Inventor Helmut Drees

Helmut Drees 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: 7100750
    Abstract: An assembly for a hydraulic dashpot. The dashpot is accommodated in an overall housing (1) and provided with a shock-absorbing piston (3) traveling back and forth inside the housing on one end of a piston rod (2) and partitioning the housing into two compartments (19 & 23), and a vibration-compensating piston (11) hydraulically paralleling the first piston and accommodated inside a subsidiary housing (10). The object of is to ensure a solid and reliable connection between the shock-absorbing piston and the piston rod while allowing as much of the piston rod as possible to find support inside the housing. The vibration-compensating piston is accordingly an annular piston and travels back and forth with its inner surface resting against a section (9) of the piston rod adjacent to the fastening for the shock-absorbing piston, and with its outer surface against the inner surface of the subsidiary housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Bilstein GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Drees
  • Publication number: 20040149530
    Abstract: An assembly for a hydraulic dashpot. The dashpot is accommodated in an overall housing (1) and provided with a shock-absorbing piston (3) traveling back and forth inside the housing on one end of a piston rod (2) and partitioning the housing into two compartments (19 & 23), and a vibration-compensating piston (11) hydraulically paralleling the first piston and accommodated inside a subsidiary housing (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventor: Helmut Drees
  • Patent number: 6397987
    Abstract: A dashpot piston in halves, the face of each resting against that of the other. The piston can be fastened to the end of a piston rod either directly or by way of a connector. Each half (1 & 2) is provided with a depression (7) along the circumference remote from the face of the other, creating a continuous groove (8) with a shorter diameter and accommodating a piston-assembly ring (9). Manufacture is facilitated by the inclusion of at least one resilient supporting ring (11) between the piston-assembly ring and the base of the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Krupp Bilstein GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Pesch, Helmut Drees
  • Publication number: 20020011697
    Abstract: A strut with an air-filled cushion and comprising a bellows (1) that rolls down over a surface (3), a hydraulic dashpot accommodated inside the bellows or surface, a piston rod (5) that travels in and out of the dashpot, and an upper and lower closing and fastening component provided with seals, whereby the seals are O rings. The object is a simple approach to sealing the interface between the closing and fastening components and the dashpot that will still allow a reliable seal by means of O rings. Each O ring (9 & 10) is accordingly accommodated in a recess both radially and axially open at one side in the upper component, rests radially against the lower component, and is fixed and/or tensioned axially by a ring (14) fastened to the upper component or by a disk (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2001
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Inventors: Christoph Pesch, Helmut Drees, Antonio Branco, Rudiger Lorenz, Jens Schlittchen