Patents by Inventor Herbert Dobhan

Herbert Dobhan 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: 4875787
    Abstract: In a bearing bushing for universal joint pins, a thrust washer on the bottom of the bearing bushing has a contact surface for a plurality of cylindrical rollers and for a universal joint pin. The thrust washer has a number of recesses on the side facing away from the cylindrical rollers which are distributed around the periphery and which extend from the lateral surface in a radial direction approximately over the length of the contact surface for the cylindrical rollers. Two adjacent recesses form a projection between them in each case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Inventors: Bernhard Bauer, Herbert Dobhan
  • Patent number: 4806026
    Abstract: A seal for bearing bushing with a sealing ring in a bore of the bearing bushing having a sealing surface which rests against a cylindrical surface of a machine part supported in the bearing bushing. An auxiliary seal is located between the open end of the bearing bushing and a shoulder of the machine part. The auxiliary seal has a ring-shaped collar extending in the axial direction, by which it is connected to the bearing bushing and at least one sealing lip bearing against the bearing bushing. The ring-shaped collar is pretensioned with radial pretension. The auxiliary seal has axially oriented projections located in a ring-shaped recess on the side facing the bearing bushing and each projection is situated over a portion of its length on a tongue of the ring-shaped collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1989
    Assignee: SKF GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Bauer, Herbert Dobhan
  • Patent number: 4795280
    Abstract: A locking mechanism for connecting machine parts such as bearing rings on a support. The support includes at least one radially elastic element having a seating surface for the ring which is deflectable radially inwardly to permit assembly of the ring on the support surface and at least one locking element formed integrally with the support and acuatable between a release position wherein the snapping element can be flexed to facilitate assembly and removal of a ring on the seating surface and a locked position wherein the ring is supported in a form locking manner in the seating surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1989
    Assignee: SKF GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Dobhan, Bruno Schemmel, Hilmar Leuner, Walter Hahn
  • Patent number: 4717264
    Abstract: A ball bearing for lengthwise movement has a cage sleeve between a shaft and a housing. The cage sleeve has a plurality of circumferentially distributed channels in which a corresponding row of circulating balls is arranged. The balls loaded by the shaft travel in one linear raceway and return unloaded in another linear raceway, the ends of the linear raceways being connected by a pair of reversing raceways. A load-transmitting raceway rail is seated in each of a plurality of openings in the cage sleeve. Each raceway rail has a raceway groove formed by an inner shoulder and an outer shoulder which overlies the linear raceway for loaded balls, a surface portion which overlies the linear raceway for unloaded balls, and a pair of end surfaces which overlie the respective reversing raceways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1988
    Assignee: SKF Linearsysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar Walter, Uwe Mayer, Otmar Winkler, Herbert Dobhan
  • Patent number: 4654181
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacture of a rolling body directly on a bearing, comprising a hub, a roller sleeve, an annular portion joining the hub and roller sleeve, and reinforcing ribs on either side of the annular portion. Injected material fills the recesses for forming the reinforcing ribs from two directions: a primary flow radially inwardly directed from the mold portion for forming the roller sleeve and a secondary flow radially outwardly directed from the mold portion for forming the hub. The total cross-sectional area of the recesses for forming the reinforcing ribs is adjusted with respect to the circumferential cross-sectional area of the mold portion for forming the annular portion so that the fronts of the primary and secondary flows meet in the recesses. Pressure-release openings are arranged to communicate with the recesses at points in the area at which the meeting of the flow fronts occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1987
    Assignee: SKF Kugellagerfabriken GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Brandenstein, Roland Bonengel, Herbert Dobhan
  • Patent number: 4623270
    Abstract: A pocket cage for a rolling bearing, e.g. a cylindrical roller bearing, made in a mold with single-piece, radially movable sliders, in particular out of plastic material with low deformability, which cage comprises two side rings connected by webs, with at least the circumferential outer surface or the bore being provided with projections which project into the pockets and extend along only part of the web length for retaining the rolling elements in the radial direction. In particular, a retaining projection is provided on a first side of each web and a recess, i.e. free space, is provided on a second side of each web. The angle between the oblique surface of the recess and the second side surface of the web is greater than or equal to the angle between the surface of the retaining projection which faces the rolling element and the first side surface of the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1986
    Assignee: SKF GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Olschewski, Bernhard Bauer, Hilmar Leuner, Herbert Dobhan
  • Patent number: 4589860
    Abstract: Gear for chain drives comprising a gear body of cast material having a hub section, a gear rim section with spur teeth, and a web section joining said hub and gear rim sections, and a ring plate of metal embedded in the web section, the outer edge of said plate being near the bottom of the areas between the spur teeth and having axial openings filled with casting material around its periphery, said ring plate having at its outer radial edge, radially outwardly directed projections, which are located in each case in a tooth, and which are embedded in the casting material of the gear body, said projections extending beyond the bottom of the spaces between adjacent spur teeth, and an axial opening formed in the ring plate adjacent each projection and radially below it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Assignee: SKF Kugellagerfabriken GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Brandenstein, Roland Haas, Gerhard Herrmann, Herbert Dobhan, Rudiger Hans
  • Patent number: 4584749
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a process and a device for the production of pocket cages for roller bearings. The starting material is a cup-shaped blank or a tube, and the lateral surfaces of the cage are cut at the same time that the rolling element pockets are stamped out. In this way a work step on a separate processing machine is eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1986
    Assignee: SKF Kugellagerfabriken GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Horling, Norbert Klupfel, Herbert Dobhan, Volker Dibal
  • Patent number: 4580757
    Abstract: Apparatus for making a molded plastic roller with embedded bearings. The roller is formed directly on a bearing or the like by injecting plastic into a mold by way of an umbrella sprue. The tool parts are arranged so that the shearing surface, formed after shearing off of the sprue residue when the mold is opened, is located on the outer surface of the inner collar portion. The molding tool comprises two tool parts for forming the outer surfaces of the rolling body, at least one tool part having a molding portion for forming an annular recess in the roller, and a cylindrical tool part inserted in the bearing, or the like and having a mushroom-shaped head. A back taper of the molding portion for forming the annular recess and the edge of the head together define an annular clearance through which plastic material is injected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1986
    Assignee: SKF Kugellagerfabriken GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Dobhan, Elmar Kaiser, Bruno Schemmel, Hilmar Leuner, Werner Schneider, Manfred Brandenstein, Oskar Bretscher
  • Patent number: 4576268
    Abstract: A sliding sleeve for a clutch shifter particularly for automobile clutches comprising an elongated hub body made of a plastic material, a thrust collar which protrudes radially outwardly from the hub body and includes contact surfaces for the shift lever of the clutch and for the shift bearing, at least two lugs secured in the hub body and directed radially inwardly adjacent the bore of the thrust collar, each lug being of generally U-shaped cross section to define a groove for the shift lever extending in an axial direction and a thin plastic layer overlying the side surfaces of the groove receiving the projections of the shift lever in the hub body and the adjacent surfaces of the ends of the lugs directed radially outwardly and running parallel to the contact surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: SKF Kugellagerfabriken GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Brandenstein, Lothar Walter, Roland Haas, Herbert Dobhan
  • Patent number: 4560291
    Abstract: A cage for ball bearings consists of two side rings connected together by webs, and having ball pockets with ball pockets having curved partial surfaces inside and outside of the pitch circle and displaced from one another in the axial direction. In this arrangement the rubbing between the walls of the cage pockets and the balls is very small and free space is provided for receiving a lubricant. The pocket walls of the cage sections lying in the region of one or the other of the side rings has several radially-overlying zones, with conical surfaces, the conical surfaces being arranged at different inclinations to the bearing axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1985
    Assignee: SKF Kugellagerfabriken GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Bonengel, Herbert Dobhan, Manfred Brandenstein, Ludwig Edelmann, Horst M. Ernst, Helmuth Kregler, Anton Marx, Gunter Neder, Elmar Mause, Armin Olschewski, Rainer Schurger, Robert Stolz
  • Patent number: 4476913
    Abstract: Arrangement for the die casting of a roller bearing cage having pockets for the rolling bodies includes an outer housing covering the die casting mold and having guide openings opening at the central planes of the respective pockets and main and auxiliary slides arranged side by side in each guide opening. The main and auxiliary slides have guiding surfaces at their inner ends directed at an angle to the central plane, the guiding surfaces being laterally opposite one another and supporting one another. Each auxiliary slide has a lateral bulge on the side thereof opposite the guiding surface of the guide opening for defining a lateral limit wall of the pocket with holding projections for the rolling bodies on the inner and outer edges. The arrangement in accordance with the invention requires few components, provides a compact construction, and is economically produceable. The main slides are each operable from the exterior of the apparatus, and have recesses with inner and outer shoulder surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1984
    Assignee: SKF Kugellagerfabriken GmbH
    Inventors: Hilmar Leuner, Herbert Dobhan, Bernhard Bauer, Armin Olschewski
  • Patent number: 4435889
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for forming a cage part, for a ball bearing, wherein the cage parts are annular with alternate flat portions and ball receiving recesses. The cage parts are formed by pressing the rings from cage material such as steel. The flat portions are formed with axially extending rivet pins or holes for receiving the rivet pins of another cage part, in order to enable fastening of the cage parts together. The rivet pins are formed by pressing operation at the time as forming the cage part, by the flowing of the material of the cage part into recesses in a die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Assignee: SKF Kugellagerfabriken GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Horling, Hermann Hetterich, Herbert Dobhan, Norbert Klupfel
  • Patent number: 4383670
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for casting or molding cages for rolling elements, two slides are provided for each pocket. The slides have an engaging, inclined surface, and are shaped to permit one of the slides to be removed by initially sliding it along the inclined surface. The other slide may thereby be moved laterally in the formed pocket, and withdrawn from the pocket. Facing slides of adjacent pockets may be joined together, with limited movement possible therein, to form a complete ring serving as a mold member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1983
    Assignee: SKF Kugellagerfabriken GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Olschewski, Manfred Brandenstein, Lothar Walter, Heinrich Kunkel, Herbert Dobhan, Peter Horling, Norbert Klupfel
  • Patent number: 4362687
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for casting or molding cages for rolling elements, two slides are provided for each pocket. The slides have an engaging, inclined surface, and are shaped to permit one of the slides to be removed by initially sliding it along the inclined surface. The other slide may thereby be moved laterally in the formed pocket, and withdrawn from the pocket. Facing slides of adjacent pockets may be joined together, with limited movement possible therein, to form a complete ring serving as a mold member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1982
    Assignee: SKF Kugellagerfabriken GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Olschewski, Manfred Brandenstein, Lothar Walter, Heinrich Kunkel, Herbert Dobhan, Peter Horling, Norbert Klupfel
  • Patent number: 4357056
    Abstract: The arrangement according to the invention provides a sealing ring fastened to the end ring in a manner secure against removal by pulling or twisting. This sealing ring is provided with thickened extended arms and is fastened by snapping in the thickened arm sections behind an internal radial shoulder through openings in the flange of the end ring. The opening in the flange of the end ring may be economically manufactured, as by means of axial forms or cores, and without the need for additional radial cores, within the casting mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1982
    Assignee: SKF Kugellagerfabriken GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Olschewski, Manfred Brandenstein, Lothar Walter, Horst M. Ernst, Herbert Dobhan, Peter Horling
  • Patent number: 4194752
    Abstract: A skateboard comprising an elongated board and a pair of trucks mounted adjacent opposite ends of the board, each having a pair of rotatable wheels. Each truck consists of a tensile elastic suspension member and a pivot support consisting of a universally movable ball and socket joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1980
    Assignee: SKF Kugellagerfabriken GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Tilch, Wolfgang Friedrich, Herbert Dobhan, Hermann Hetterich, Peter Horling, Sigismund Finzel