Patents by Inventor Jean-pierre SPECHT

Jean-pierre SPECHT 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: 11926361
    Abstract: An adjusting drive for a motor-adjustable steering column may include an outer threaded spindle that has an external thread that engages with a spindle nut and that has an internal thread that is engaged by an inner threaded spindle. The spindle nut, the outer threaded spindle, and the inner threaded spindle can be driven in rotation relative to one another about an axis by a motor-type drive unit. The adjusting drive may also include a blocking device that is switchable between a first position and a second position. In the first position the outer threaded spindle is locked together with the spindle nut for conjoint rotation. In the second position the outer threaded spindle is locked together with the inner threaded spindle for conjoint rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Simon Blaettler, Sebastian Huber, Jean-Pierre Specht, Tim Bayer
  • Patent number: 11807293
    Abstract: An adjustment drive for a steering column for a motor vehicle may include a housing that is able to be connected to the steering column, in which a gear wheel that is able to be rotatingly driven by a motor is mounted in a bearing assembly so as to be rotatable about a spindle axis, and on which a threaded spindle that engages in a spindle nut is axially supported in a direction of the spindle axis. To enable less complexity in manufacturing and assembling, an energy absorbing installation is disposed between the threaded spindle and the housing. When repositioning the threaded spindle relative to the housing in the direction of the spindle axis, the energy absorbing installation is configured to absorb kinetic energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Sebastian Huber, Jean-Pierre Specht, Tim Bayer
  • Publication number: 20230271643
    Abstract: A feedback actuator for a steering device of a motor vehicle may include a steering shaft that is mounted so as to be rotatable about a longitudinal axis extending in a longitudinal direction and that, by way of a belt drive, is coupled to a motor shaft of an electric motor so as to be able to be rotatably driven. The belt drive may have at least one pair of belt pulleys having two belt pulleys that are wrapped by a belt. One of the belt pulleys may be operatively connected to the motor shaft and one may be operatively connected to the steering shaft. The two belt pulleys of the pair of belt pulleys may be disposed so as to be mutually coaxial or at a mutual angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Sebastian HUBER, Jean-Pierre SPECHT, Tim BAYER
  • Publication number: 20230264732
    Abstract: An adjustment drive for a steering column of a motor vehicle may include a threaded spindle having an external thread, engaging with a corresponding internal thread of a spindle nut. A thread tooth of the external thread and a thread groove of the internal thread have corresponding axially sliding thread flanks that are braced against each other. At least one thread flank comprises at least one recessed lubricant uptake.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Sebastian HUBER, Jean-Pierre SPECHT
  • Publication number: 20230257016
    Abstract: An adjusting drive for a motor-adjustable steering column may include an outer threaded spindle that has an external thread that engages with a spindle nut and that has an internal thread that is engaged by an inner threaded spindle. The spindle nut, the outer threaded spindle, and the inner threaded spindle can be driven in rotation relative to one another about an axis by a motor-type drive unit. The adjusting drive may also include a blocking device that is switchable between a first position and a second position. In the first position the outer threaded spindle is locked together with the spindle nut for conjoint rotation. In the second position the outer threaded spindle is locked together with the inner threaded spindle for conjoint rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Simon BLAETTLER, Sebastian HUBER, Jean-Pierre SPECHT, Tim BAYER
  • Patent number: 11702124
    Abstract: A motor adjustment drive for a vehicle steering column includes a threaded spindle with an axis. The threaded spindle engages a spindle nut. A drive unit and a gear wheel which is connected to the spindle nut or the threaded spindle for rotation therewith is driveable to rotate by the drive unit and is rotatably mounted in a bearing housing between two outer bearing rings that are axially supported at the bearing housing. The outer bearing rings each have, on their sides facing one another, a circumferential outer bearing face that is coaxial to the axis. Each outer bearing face lays opposite a bearing face embodied on the end side at the gear wheel. An outer bearing ring is axially resiliently supported at the bearing housing via an elastic element, which exerts an axial force that biases the two outer bearing rings toward each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventors: Sebastian Huber, Arne Schacht, Jean-Pierre Specht
  • Patent number: 11697446
    Abstract: An adjustment drive for a motor-adjustable steering column for a motor vehicle includes a drive unit having a transmission in which there is mounted a drive wheel. The drive wheel can be driven to rotate about a drive axis and is in operative engagement with a transmission wheel which is mounted in the transmission so as to be rotatable about a transmission axis. The transmission has a drive module, which includes the drive wheel, and a transmission module, which includes the transmission wheel. The drive module and the transmission are connected to one another by a joining connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventors: Arne Schacht, Sebastian Huber, Jean-Pierre Specht
  • Patent number: 11667320
    Abstract: An adjustment drive for a steering column may include a drive unit having a threaded spindle that is supported in a gearbox housing at a bearing portion so as to be rotatable, with the threaded spindle including a threaded portion with a spindle thread that is axially adjoined to a shaft portion on which a gear wheel is arranged in a rotationally secure manner. The gear wheel meshes with a drive wheel that is coupled to a motor. Between the threaded portion and the gear wheel a peripheral bearing groove with a groove base may extend between groove flanks thereof. The bearing portion may be disposed in the bearing groove in a region of the groove base, and the bearing portion may be supported in a sliding manner in a bearing opening of a bearing plate that engages radially in the bearing groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventors: Sebastian Huber, Walter Lampert, Jean-Pierre Specht
  • Publication number: 20230150566
    Abstract: An adjustment drive can be used in a steering column for a motor vehicle. In some examples, the adjustment drive may include a threaded spindle that engages with an outer thread in a spindle nut and a drive unit that is coupled to the threaded spindle or the spindle nut in such a manner that the threaded spindle and the spindle nut can be driven in rotation relative to each other. The drive unit may have a torque-transmitting slip clutch that is coupled to the threaded spindle or the spindle nut. The slip clutch may include friction faces that contact each other in a frictionally engaging manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Sebastian HUBER, Jean-Pierre SPECHT
  • Patent number: 11479288
    Abstract: An adjustment drive for a motor-adjustable steering column for a motor vehicle, includes a spindle drive having a threaded spindle which engages in a spindle nut which, so as to be able to be driven in a rotating manner about the spindle axis relative to the threaded spindle, is coupled to the rotor shaft of a drive motor which has a rotor and a stator. In order to enable a compact design with minor complexity, the rotor shaft of the drive motor is configured as a hollow shaft which is disposed so as to be coaxial with the spindle axis and in which the threaded spindle is coaxially disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventors: Sebastian Huber, Jean-Pierre Specht
  • Patent number: 11472463
    Abstract: An adjusting drive for a steering column for a motor vehicle may include a threaded spindle that by way of an external thread engages in a spindle nut. The adjusting drive may also include a drive motor that is coupled to the threaded spindle or the spindle nut such that driving at least one of the threaded spindle or the spindle nut with the drive motor causes the threaded spindle and the spindle nut to rotate relative to one another. To reduce production complexity and improve functionality, the threaded spindle may have a core element that at least in portions is coaxially surrounded in a fixed manner by a threaded element that is configured from plastic and comprises the external thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventors: Sebastian Huber, Jean-Pierre Specht, Arne Schacht
  • Patent number: 11407437
    Abstract: A gear wheel for an adjustment drive mechanism which has a ring gear which is attached coaxially circumferentially to the outside of a core element which has an axial passage opening, in which a threaded element is fitted, the latter having an axially continuous internal thread having at least one thread tooth running around helically. The threaded element is formed from a plastic as an injection molded plastic part, which is molded onto the core element on an inner wall of the passage opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventors: Sebastian Huber, Jean-Pierre Specht, Arne Schacht
  • Publication number: 20220177022
    Abstract: An adjustment drive for a steering column for a motor vehicle may include a housing that is able to be connected to the steering column, in which a gear wheel that is able to be rotatingly driven by a motor is mounted in a bearing assembly so as to be rotatable about a spindle axis, and on which a threaded spindle that engages in a spindle nut is axially supported in a direction of the spindle axis. To enable less complexity in manufacturing and assembling, an energy absorbing installation is disposed between the threaded spindle and the housing. When repositioning the threaded spindle relative to the housing in the direction of the spindle axis, the energy absorbing installation is configured to absorb kinetic energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Sebastian HUBER, Jean-Pierre SPECHT, Tim BAYER
  • Publication number: 20220081020
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adjustment drive (5, 6) for a motor-adjustable steering column (1) for a motor vehicle, comprising a gearbox (8, 9) having a drive module (82, 92) in which a drive wheel (922) which is able to be driven in a rotating manner about a drive axis (A) and which operatively engages with a gearbox wheel (912) that is mounted in a gearbox module (81, 91) so as to be rotatable about a gearbox axis (G) and is connected to a threaded spindle (52) or a spindle nut (61) of a spindle drive is mounted, wherein the drive module (82, 92) and the gearbox module (81, 91) are connected to one another by way of at least one joining connection (93).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Sebastian HUBER, Jean-Pierre SPECHT
  • Patent number: 11235798
    Abstract: An adjusting drive for a motor-adjustable steering column for a motor vehicle, includes a motorized drive unit and an external threaded spindle which has an external thread and a coaxial internal thread into which an internal threaded spindle engages. The external threaded spindle and the internal threaded spindle can be driven in rotation relative to one another about an axis by the drive unit. In order to provide an adjusting drive which requires a reduced drive torque and delivers an optimized free adjustment path, the external threaded spindle engages with its external thread in a drive nut, wherein the drive nut or the internal threaded spindle is able to be driven in rotation by the drive unit and is supported relative to the drive unit in the direction of the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventors: Sebastian Huber, Jean-Pierre Specht
  • Patent number: 11203373
    Abstract: A vehicle steering column includes a support unit and by which an actuator unit is held in which a steering spindle is mounted to rotate about a longitudinal axis. An adjustment drive is disposed between the support unit and the actuator unit and by which the actuator unit is adjustable. The adjustment drive has a threaded spindle which engages in a spindle nut and has a spindle axis. The spindle nut and the spindle are drivable by a servomotor to rotate in a mutually relative manner. The servomotor has a motor shaft which is coupled to a drive gear which is rotatable about a drive axis and which operatively engages with an output gear which is rotatable about the spindle axis and is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the spindle nut or the threaded spindle. The drive axis and the spindle axis are disposed mutually parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, THYSSENKRUPP AG
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Specht, Sebastian Huber
  • Publication number: 20210380157
    Abstract: An adjustment drive for a steering column may include a drive unit having a threaded spindle that is supported in a gearbox housing at a bearing portion so as to be rotatable, with the threaded spindle including a threaded portion with a spindle thread that is axially adjoined to a shaft portion on which a gear wheel is arranged in a rotationally secure manner. The gear wheel meshes with a drive wheel that is coupled to a motor. Between the threaded portion and the gear wheel a peripheral bearing groove with a groove base may extend between groove flanks thereof. The bearing portion may be disposed in the bearing groove in a region of the groove base, and the bearing portion may be supported in a sliding manner in a bearing opening of a bearing plate that engages radially in the bearing groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Sebastian HUBER, Walter LAMPERT, Jean-Pierre SPECHT
  • Publication number: 20210362768
    Abstract: An adjusting drive for a steering column for a motor vehicle may include a threaded spindle that by way of an external thread engages in a spindle nut. The adjusting drive may also include a drive motor that is coupled to the threaded spindle or the spindle nut such that driving at least one of the threaded spindle or the spindle nut with the drive motor causes the threaded spindle and the spindle nut to rotate relative to one another. To reduce production complexity and improve functionality, the threaded spindle may have a core element that at least in portions is coaxially surrounded in a fixed manner by a threaded element that is configured from plastic and comprises the external thread.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Sebastian HUBER, Jean-Pierre SPECHT, Arne SCHACHT
  • Publication number: 20210309277
    Abstract: An adjusting drive for a motor-adjustable steering column for a motor vehicle, includes a motorized drive unit and an external threaded spindle which has an external thread and a coaxial internal thread into which an internal threaded spindle engages. The external threaded spindle and the internal threaded spindle can be driven in rotation relative to one another about an axis by the drive unit. In order to provide an adjusting drive which requires a reduced drive torque and delivers an optimized free adjustment path, the external threaded spindle engages with its external thread in a drive nut, wherein the drive nut or the internal threaded spindle is able to be driven in rotation by the drive unit and is supported relative to the drive unit in the direction of the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Sebastian HUBER, Jean-Pierre SPECHT
  • Publication number: 20210269081
    Abstract: A motor adjustment drive for a vehicle steering column includes a threaded spindle with an axis. The threaded spindle engages a spindle nut. A drive unit and a gear wheel which is connected to the spindle nut or the threaded spindle for rotation therewith is driveable to rotate by the drive unit and is rotatably mounted in a bearing housing between two outer bearing rings that are axially supported at the bearing housing. The outer bearing rings each have, on their sides facing one another, a circumferential outer bearing face that is coaxial to the axis. Each outer bearing face lays opposite a bearing face embodied on the end side at the gear wheel. An outer bearing ring is axially resiliently supported at the bearing housing via an elastic element, which exerts an axial force that biases the two outer bearing rings toward each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicants: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Sebastian HUBER, Arne SCHACHT, Jean-Pierre SPECHT