Patents by Inventor Henning Wöhl-Bruhn

Henning Wöhl-Bruhn 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: 10794486
    Abstract: A gear indicator illumination unit for a vehicle, particularly for an automatic vehicle, is shown. The gear indicator illumination unit provides basic lighting and individual spot lighting from a plurality of different lighting devices, particularly in the form of LEDs. The gear indicator illumination unit has a plurality of lighting devices for indicating the gear and a memory for saving parameters and/or characteristic curves of the lighting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Bernhard Bley, Andreas Löhner, Henning Wöhl-Bruhn, Oliver Von Sehlen
  • Publication number: 20200271223
    Abstract: The invention relates to a shifting selection and parking lock system for a motor vehicle including a shifting selection device for engaging and disengaging transmission gears and/or for selecting at least one driving program, and a parking lock device for implementing a transmission parking lock mode. The shifting selection device has at least one gearshift lever unit with at least one gearshift lever. The parking lock device has at least one mechanical locking device and at least one electromechanical actuator that actuates the mechanical locking device. The gearshift lever unit and the electromechanical actuator are disposed in a common housing or the actuator is disposed in a separate housing and the gearshift lever unit is disposed directly on the separate housing of the actuator. The housing can be disposed in the region of the central console of the motor vehicle and/or integrated therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Ludger Rake, Joachim Spratte, Waldemar Merling, Henning Wöhl-Bruhn, Andreas Löhner, Bernhard Bley, Norbert Pelz, Oleg Semke
  • Publication number: 20200141489
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gear indicator illumination unit for a vehicle, particularly for an automatic vehicle. The gear indicator illumination unit with homogeneous basic lighting and individual spot lighting from a plurality of different lighting devices, particularly in the form of LEDs, can be realized in a simple and cost-effective manner in that the gear indicator illumination unit has a plurality of lighting devices for indicating the gear and a memory for saving parameters and/or characteristic curves of the lighting devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Bley, Andreas Löhner, Henning Wöhl-Bruhn, Oliver Von Sehlen
  • Patent number: 10598271
    Abstract: An oil pump configuration for a motor vehicle includes an oil pump having a pump part and an electric pump motor, wherein the pump part is operatively connected to the electric pump motor. The pump part and/or the electric pump motor can be mounted to a housing which at least partially delimits an oil chamber. Sealing problems at the pump part are prevented and the required installation space is low because the pump part can be mounted inside the housing and the electric pump motor can be mounted from the outside to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Raimar Warnecke, Waldemar Knoll, Ralf Sprenger, Holger Tagge, Karsten Cornelsen, Thomas Birnbaum, Frank Müller, Bernd Morthorst, Henning Wöhl-Bruhn
  • Patent number: 10263500
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor having a magnetic field generating device for generating a magnetic flux. A flux changing apparatus of the electric machine includes an axially displaceable body that is disposed axially outside the magnetic field generating device for changing a magnetic flux within a gap between the rotor and a stator in dependence upon an axial position of the body relative to the rotor. The flux changing apparatus includes an adjusting device for axially adjusting the axial position of the body relative to the rotor. The adjusting device includes an actuator and an adjusting element. The actuator acts on the body via the adjusting element. The adjusting element engages the body and/or the actuator in such a manner that a rotational movement of the body can be decoupled from the adjusting element, a housing of the electric machine, the rotor and/or the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Henning Woehl-Bruhn, Robert Plikat, Eike Hermann Timm
  • Publication number: 20180145575
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor having a magnetic field generating device for generating a magnetic flux. A flux changing apparatus of the electric machine includes an axially displaceable body that is disposed axially outside the magnetic field generating device for changing a magnetic flux within a gap between the rotor and a stator in dependence upon an axial position of the body relative to the rotor. The flux changing apparatus includes an adjusting device for axially adjusting the axial position of the body relative to the rotor. The adjusting device includes an actuator and an adjusting element. The actuator acts on the body via the adjusting element. The adjusting element engages the body and/or the actuator in such a manner that a rotational movement of the body can be decoupled from the adjusting element, a housing of the electric machine, the rotor and/or the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Henning Woehl-Bruhn, Robert Plikat, Eike Hermann Timm
  • Publication number: 20170299047
    Abstract: An oil pump configuration for a motor vehicle includes an oil pump having a pump part and an electric pump motor, wherein the pump part is operatively connected to the electric pump motor, The pump part and/or the electric pump motor can be mounted to a housing which at least partially delimits an oil chamber. Sealing problems at the pump part are prevented and the required installation space is low because the pump part can be mounted inside the housing and the electric pump motor can be mounted from the outside to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Raimar Warnecke, Waldemar Knoll, Ralf Sprenger, Holger Tagge, Karsten Cornelsen, Thomas Birnbaum, Frank Müller, Bernd Morthorst, Henning Wöhl-Bruhn