Patents by Inventor Ingo Schulz

Ingo Schulz 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).

  • Publication number: 20240006957
    Abstract: An electrical machine, in particular for use in a hybrid or fully electrical power train of a motor vehicle includes a stator and a rotor coaxially and rotatably arranged therein; a balancing disk for receiving and/or removing at least one balancing mass arranged on the rotor for conjoint rotation therewith, the balancing disk rotating in a radial plane of the rotor and being impinged by cooling fluid that is conducted radially outwards along at least one face under the effect of centrifugal force when the balancing disk rotates. On its face, the balancing disk includes a first fluid conducting element which runs radially more and more outwards in the axial direction out of the balancing disk such that the cooling fluid can be directed from the balancing disk toward the stator at an angle ? relative to the radial plane when the balancing disk rotates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin KAHLENBERG, Ingo SCHULZ, Tim FEREBAUER
  • Patent number: 11788605
    Abstract: A modular high precision gear box arrangement includes first and second gear boxes. The first gear box has a first rotatable hollow wheel, a second fixed hollow wheel and at least one double planet having a first planet and a second planet arranged on a planet shaft. The first planet meshes with the first hollow wheel, the second planet meshes with the second hollow wheel, and the first hollow wheel is coupled with an output. The second gear box includes a fixed hollow wheel that is the second hollow wheel of the first gear box and at least one planet that is the second planet of the at least one double planet of the first gear box. The second gear box further includes an input for driving the planet shaft, wherein the input is arranged centrically or eccentrically to a central rotation axis of the gear box arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventor: Ingo Schulz
  • Publication number: 20230313837
    Abstract: A bearing assembly includes first and second raceways and balls between the raceways, and is conceptually divided into four quadrants by a ball rotational axis and an axis perpendicular to the ball rotational axis. The second raceway includes a first portion lying in the first quadrant and a second portion lying in the second quadrant, and the first raceway includes a first portion lying in the third quadrant and a second portion lying in the fourth quadrant. Each of the balls has a raceway contact point in each of the quadrants, and a center of curvature of each of the portion of the raceway in each quadrant is located in an opposite quadrant. The contact points are offset from the axis perpendicular to the ball axis of rotation and are arranged in a range of ±10°, around the axis perpendicular to the ball axis of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Ingo Schulz, Lijun CAO, Christoph ZEUG
  • Publication number: 20230096956
    Abstract: A modular high precision gear box arrangement includes first and second gear boxes. The first gear box has a first rotatable hollow wheel, a second fixed hollow wheel and at least one double planet having a first planet and a second planet arranged on a planet shaft. The first planet meshes with the first hollow wheel, the second planet meshes with the second hollow wheel, and the first hollow wheel is coupled with an output. The second gear box includes a fixed hollow wheel that is the second hollow wheel of the first gear box and at least one planet that is the second planet of the at least one double planet of the first gear box. The second gear box further includes an input for driving the planet shaft, wherein the input is arranged centrically or eccentrically to a central rotation axis of the gear box arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Ingo Schulz
  • Publication number: 20230039622
    Abstract: A constant velocity joint includes an outer part having a connecting portion and an opening portion and a plurality of axial grooves forming outer raceways, and an inner part having a plurality of axial grooves forming inner raceways. Each outer raceway and inner raceway form a raceway pair, a ball being disposed in each raceway pair. Each raceway pair defines a region in axial cross-section with respect to a groove longitudinal axis conceptually divided into four quadrants. The outer raceway is in the first and second quadrants and the inner raceway is in the third and fourth quadrants. With torque transmission in a first direction, the ball has two contact points in the first quadrant and/or two contact points in the third quadrant, and with torque transmission in a second direction, the ball has two contact points in the second quadrant and/or two contact points in the fourth quadrant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Tom SCHMITZ, Klaus Dietmar RIPPSTEIN, Lisa BAIERL, Ingo Schulz
  • Patent number: 11506260
    Abstract: A planetary gear is disclosed that provides at least a first hollow wheel with a helical gearing and a second hollow wheel with a helical gearing are adapted to rotate in a first rotational direction and a second opposite rotational direction, and a first double planet having a first wheel with a helical gearing meshing with the helical gearing of the first hollow wheel and having a second wheel with a helical gearing meshing with the helical gearing of the second hollow wheel. The disclosed configuration minimizes backlash between the helical gearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventor: Ingo Schulz
  • Publication number: 20220106984
    Abstract: It is disclosed a high precision gear box (1) comprising at least one lubricated unit (40, 52, 64), wherein the lubricated unit (40, 52, 64) comprises a first element (42, 54, 66) and a second element (44, 56, 68), wherein the first element (42, 54, 66) and the second element (44, 56, 68) are configured to rotate against each other, wherein a space (48, 60, 72) is formed between the first element (42, 54, 66) and the second element (44, 56, 68), wherein the space (48, 60, 72) is filled with a polymer material (50, 62, 74) being saturated with oil for lubricating the first and the second element (44, 56, 68).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventor: Ingo SCHULZ
  • Publication number: 20220082154
    Abstract: A planetary gear is disclosed that provides at least a first hollow wheel with a helical gearing and a second hollow wheel with a helical gearing are adapted to rotate in a first rotational direction and a second opposite rotational direction, and a first double planet having a first wheel with a helical gearing meshing with the helical gearing of the first hollow wheel and having a second wheel with a helical gearing meshing with the helical gearing of the second hollow wheel. The disclosed configuration minimizes backlash between the helical gearings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: Ingo SCHULZ
  • Patent number: 11143282
    Abstract: A rolling-element bearing transmission includes a rotor configured to rotate a shaft relative to a stator and a rotatable output ring that includes a first rolled-on surface element. The shaft includes at least one second rolled-on surface element, and the stator includes a third rolled-on surface element. First and second pluralities of rolling elements are located between the shaft and the stator and between the shaft and the output ring. Also, a transmission mechanism transmits a rotary motion of the shaft to the output ring with a speed reduction such that the output ring rotates at a lower speed than the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Ingo Schulz, Bernd Stephan
  • Patent number: 11078988
    Abstract: A transmission assembly includes a sun gear including an outer set of gear teeth, a planet carrier disposed around the sun gear, and a ring gear surrounding the planet carrier and the sun gear and including an inner set of gear teeth. At least one double planet is attached to the planet carrier. The double planet includes a first set of gear teeth and a second set of gear teeth, the outer set of gear teeth of the sun gear meshes with the first set of gear teeth, and the second set of gear teeth meshes with the inner set of gear teeth of the ring gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventor: Ingo Schulz
  • Patent number: 10823258
    Abstract: A planetary transmission includes first and second ring gears and a double planet with first and second gears rotatably disposed about a common shaft and arranged such that the gear teeth of the first gear of the double planet engage into the gear teeth of the first ring gear, and the gear teeth of the second gear of the double planet engage into the gear teeth of the second ring gear. The first gear of the double planet is preloaded in a clockwise direction such that the gear teeth of the first gear of the double planet are in contact with the gear teeth of the first ring gear, and the second gear of the double planet is preloaded in a counterclockwise direction such that the gear teeth of the second gear of the double planet are in contact with the gear teeth of the second ring gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Ingo Schulz, Wolfgang Glaentz, Tilmann Haar, Daniel Reck
  • Patent number: 10655681
    Abstract: A bearing assembly for rotatably supporting a first carrier element on a second carrier element includes first and second parts, each having a through-bore, configured to rotate about a common axis, and a first fastener for attaching the first part to the first carrier element and a second fastener for attaching the second part to the second carrier element. The first and the second through-bores are aligned with each other, and the second fastener is configured to pass entirely through the first through-bore into the second through-bore and engage an interior of the second through-bore to fasten the second part to the second carrier element. The first fastener is too large to pass entirely through the first through-bore and is configured to engage an interior of the first through-bore to fasten the first part to the first carrier element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Ingo Schulz, Tilmann Haar, Daniel Reck
  • Publication number: 20190383360
    Abstract: A transmission assembly includes a sun gear including an outer set of gear teeth, a planet carrier disposed around the sun gear, and a ring gear surrounding the planet carrier and the sun gear and including an inner set of gear teeth. At least one double planet is attached to the planet carrier. The double planet includes a first set of gear teeth and a second set of gear teeth, the outer set of gear teeth of the sun gear meshes with the first set of gear teeth, and the second set of gear teeth meshes with the inner set of gear teeth of the ring gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventor: Ingo Schulz
  • Patent number: 10443488
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a supercharging device for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle comprising: a planetary mechanism, a first electric machine, a second electric machine, a compressor impeller, and an internal combustion engine attachment for fastening to a drive output shaft of the internal combustion engine. The first electric machine, the second electric machine and the compressor impeller are connected to one another via the planetary mechanism. Along a longitudinal axis of the supercharging device, the compressor impeller is arranged on a first side of one of the electric machines, and the other of the electric machines is arranged on the second side situated opposite said first side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Jakob Epp, Andreas Schakies, Ingo Schulz, Wolfgang Vitzthum
  • Publication number: 20190210449
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drive train (1) for a motor vehicle, having an infernal combustion engine (2), an automated manual transmission (3), an electric machine (4), a shiftable separating clutch (5) for selectively making a power flow possible between the electric machine (4) and the internal combustion engine (2), and an differential gear (20), wherein the internal combustion engine (2) has an output shaft (2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Ingo Schulz, Marco Happe, Stephan Zieger
  • Publication number: 20190203806
    Abstract: A planetary transmission includes first and second ring gears and a double planet with first and second gears rotatably disposed about a common shaft and arranged such that the gear teeth of the first gear of the double planet engage into the gear teeth of the first ring gear, and the gear teeth of the second gear of the double planet engage into the gear teeth of the second ring gear. The first gear of the double planet is preloaded in a clockwise direction such that the gear teeth of the first gear of the double planet are in contact with the gear teeth of the first ring gear, and the second gear of the double planet is preloaded in a counterclockwise direction such that the gear teeth of the second gear of the double planet are in contact with the gear teeth of the second ring gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Ingo Schulz, Wolfgang Glaentz, Tilmann Haar, Daniel Reck
  • Publication number: 20190203823
    Abstract: A bearing assembly for rotatably supporting a first carrier element on a second carrier element includes first and second parts, each having a through-bore, configured to rotate about a common axis, and a first fastener for attaching the first part to the first carrier element and a second fastener for attaching the second part to the second carrier element. The first and the second through-bores are aligned with each other, and the second fastener is configured to pass entirely through the first through-bore into the second through-bore and engage an interior of the second through-bore to fasten the second part to the second carrier element. The first fastener is too large to pass entirely through the first through-bore and is configured to engage an interior of the first through-bore to fasten the first part to the first carrier element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Ingo Schulz, Tilmann Haar, Daniel Reck
  • Publication number: 20180231113
    Abstract: A rolling-element bearing transmission includes a rotor configured to rotate a shaft relative to a stator and a rotatable output ring that includes a first rolled-on surface element. The shaft includes at least one second rolled-on surface element, and the stator includes a third rolled-on surface element. First and second pluralities of rolling elements are located between the shaft and the stator and between the shaft and the output ring. Also, a transmission mechanism transmits a rotary motion of the shaft to the output ring with a speed reduction such that the output ring rotates at a lower speed than the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Ingo Schulz, Bernd Stephan
  • Publication number: 20160305314
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a supercharging device for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle comprising: a planetary mechanism, a first electric machine, a second electric machine, a compressor impeller, and an internal combustion engine attachment for fastening to a drive output shaft of the internal combustion engine. The first electric machine, the second electric machine and the compressor impeller are connected to one another via the planetary mechanism. Along a longitudinal axis of the supercharging device, the compressor impeller is arranged on a first side of one of the electric machines, and the other of the electric machines is arranged on the second side situated opposite said first side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Jakob Epp, Andreas Schakies, Ingo Schulz, Wolfgang Vitzthum
  • Patent number: 9382944
    Abstract: A bearing having grease lubrication includes a first ring and a second ring. A plurality of screw holes axially extend through the first ring. A first axial end of the first ring is affixed to a housing by a plurality of screws extending from the housing into the respective screw holes. A first bore is defined in the first ring adjacent to a second axial end of the first ring. The first bore intersects and fluidly communicates with one of the screw holes such that grease is dischargeable therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Matthias Hofmann, Werner Horn, Holger Kristandt, Baozhu Liang, Edgar Pickel, Ingo Schulz, Mathias Seuberling