Patents by Inventor Horst Aepker

Horst Aepker 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).

  • Method and device for actively reducing clutch grabbings in a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 7396314
    Abstract: A method and a device with which disturbing vibrations are diminished at least in the height of their amplitude. A control and regulating device (24) and suitable sensors (34, 36, 41) activate a device (7, 11, 15, 23, 29, 30) when previously established limiting values are exceeded with regard to procedure, with which components of the motor vehicle are influenced such that the disturbing vibrations are damped or compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Matthias Winkel, Thomas Jäger, Rupert Kramer, Horst Aepker
  • Method and device for actively reducing clutch grabbings in a motor vehicle
    Publication number: 20050261109
    Abstract: A method and a device with which disturbing vibrations are diminished at least in the height of their amplitude. A control and regulating device (24) and suitable sensors (34, 36, 41) activate a device (7, 11, 15, 23, 29, 30) when previously established limiting values are exceeded with regard to procedure, with which components of the motor vehicle are influenced such that the disturbing vibrations are damped or compensated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2003
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Inventors: Matthias Winkel, Thomas Jager, Rupert Kramer, Horst Aepker