Patents by Inventor Helmut Flemming

Helmut Flemming 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: 5080335
    Abstract: A supporting bearing for resiliently supporting parts to be connected to one another, such as the body and rear axle housing of a motor vehicle, includes two bearing parts to be arranged on mutually opposite bearing surfaces of one part, coaxially to a bore traversing the latter. These bearing parts are each equipped with an annular elastomer element arranged between two supporting parts and can be clamped to the part in which the bore has been made using a clamping bolt traversing the bearing parts and the bore with radial clearance. The elastomer elements of the two bearing parts are, on the one hand, vulcanized to one of the supporting parts accommodating them between them and, on the other hand, rest on the other supporting part by an integrally formed surface region projecting at their free front face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz AG
    Inventors: Otto Solleder, Helmut Flemming, Einhard Kleinschmit
  • Patent number: 4699230
    Abstract: This invention relates to a suspension of an axle gear casing for motor vehicles comprising at least two elastic suspension elements, with one of the suspension elements arranged in front of the axle shaft and the other one arranged behind the axle shaft, in alignment with one another in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and offset to the side of the longitudinal axis of the gear casing, wherein coordination of the stiffnesses of the suspension elements causes a rotating movement of the axle gear casing opposing a movement of the axle gear casing that occurs under the influence of the driving reaction moment from the vehicle wheels and engine drive and which normally shifts the front end of the casing correspondingly in the upward direction to maintain the position of the drive shaft of the axle gear with respect to a center of a flexible disk of a driving cardan shaft to ensure that a change of angle between the drive shaft and the cardan shaft is limited to a tolerable extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1987
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Otto Solleder, Helmut Flemming, Werner Konig, Einhard Kleinschmit
  • Patent number: 4473241
    Abstract: A supporting body for wheel guide members of motor vehicle wheels, especially rear wheels. The supporting body is adapted to be fastened to the vehicle body in end areas thereof by way of at least one elastic element. The supporting body is formed of two stamped or pressed sheet metal members, with each of the members being flat at one end and shell-shaped at the opposite end. The two sheet metal members are joined together in such a manner that in each case the flat end portion of one sheet metal member covers the shell-shaped portion of the opposite sheet metal member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1984
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred von der Ohe, Helmut Flemming, Dirk Siebelt
  • Patent number: 4457537
    Abstract: An independent wheel suspension for motor vehicles, with the wheel suspension including a wheel carrier supported relative to a vehicle body by guide elements which determine an upper and lower guide point for the wheel carrier with respect to lateral forces. At least one of the guide points is elastically movable in a transverse direction relative to the vehicle body, with the guide points together fixing a vertical first pivot axis for the wheel carrier. The carrier furthermore is supported by a transversely extending track rod offset laterally, as seen in a side view of the wheel suspension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1984
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred von der Ohe, Helmut Flemming
  • Patent number: 4453740
    Abstract: An axle carrier for motor vehicles having two side members extending in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle and two transverse members which connect the side members and are connected to the side members so that the corners at the point of connection are rigid or stiff with respect to moments about a longitudinal axis of the side members. These side members are constructed as hollow profiles which are resistant to torsion and to bending and, in a region of the respective ends thereof, are provided with openings for accommodating elastic supporting elements enabling the connecting of the axle carrier to a body of the vehicle. The axle carrier connection for the wheel guide members are provided only on the side members. The transverse members are formed by open profiles flexible to torsion, with respect to their longitudinal axis, and resistant to bending in a vertical direction transversely to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1984
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred von der Ohe, Helmut Flemming, Dirk Siebelt, Werner Konig, Otto Solleder