Patents by Inventor Jochen Kuhstrebe

Jochen Kuhstrebe 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: 20030164274
    Abstract: Multi-clutch arrangement, comprising at least two clutch areas, each with a pressure plate, which can be connected to a housing for rotation in common around an axis of rotation (A) and which can be shifted in the axial direction relative to this housing; with an opposing support; and with a clutch disk, the friction surface arrangement of which can be clamped between the pressure plate and the opposing support. Each of the clutch disks is designed to be connected nonrotatably to a different power takeoff element. A wear-compensating device is assigned to at least one of the clutch areas. In at least one of the clutch areas, the pressure plate is connected to the housing for rotation in common by way of a connecting element arrangement, which, when the clutch area is in the torque-transmitting state, exerts a force on the pressure plate arrangement acting in the direction toward the opposing support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Applicant: ZF Sachs AG
    Inventors: Reinhard Feldhaus, Markus Heiartz, Andreas Orlamunder, Jochen Kuhstrebe, Wolfgang Reisser, Thomas Wirth, Michael Peterseim, Jurgen Dudenhoffer, Manfred Zimmer, Sebastian Vogt
  • Publication number: 20030164275
    Abstract: A dual clutch arrangement including two clutch areas, each with a pressure plate connected to a housing arrangement for rotation in common around an axis of rotation (A) and which can be shifted in the axial direction with respect to the housing; and a clutch disk, the friction surface areas of which can be clamped between the respective pressure plate and an opposing support arrangement. Each of the clutch disks is designed to be connected nonrotatably to a different power takeoff element. In addition a clutch cooling arrangement, through which a coolant can flow, is installed adjacent to the clutch areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Applicant: ZF Sachs AG
    Inventors: Reinhard Feldhaus, Markus Heiartz, Andreas Orlamunder, Jochen Kuhstrebe, Wolfgang Reisser, Thomas Wirth, Michael Peterseim, Jurgen Dudenhoffer, Manfred Zimmer
  • Publication number: 20030150684
    Abstract: A rotary driving insertion connection, particularly for transmitting torque in a drivetrain of a motor vehicle between components or units of the drivetrain which are connected or are to be brought into a connection for transmitting torque, comprises a primary-side coupling area at a first component and a secondary-side coupling area at a second component. One of the coupling areas has a cutout which is defined by an inner circumference or at least an inner circumferential portion, and the other coupling area has at least one projecting portion having an outer circumference or at least an outer circumferential portion which is inserted or can be inserted into the cutout axially with reference to an axis of rotation in order to provide a positive rotary driving engagement between the inner circumference and the outer circumference. A plurality of coupling elements producing the positive rotary driving engagement is provided between the inner circumference and the outer circumference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Applicant: ZF Sachs AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kundermann, Jochen Kuhstrebe, Wolfgang Reisser
  • Publication number: 20030116396
    Abstract: A control unit associated with the operating fluid supply switches the flow of operating fluid on or off by controlling the operating fluid supply in the course of a respective shifting process in which the transmission is shifted up from a lower gear to a higher gear or in down from a higher gear to a lower gear to deliberately exert inertial forces on at least one of the plate carriers by means of the flow of operating fluid and, therefore, to act on this plate carrier in an accelerating or decelerating manner or in order to deliberately prevent inertial forces of this type being exerted on at least one of the plate carriers by the flow of operating fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Applicant: ZF Sachs AG
    Inventor: Jochen Kuhstrebe
  • Publication number: 20030119629
    Abstract: In a motor vehicle with a drivetrain having a multiple-clutch transmission, particularly a dual clutch device, and a corresponding transmission, an associated control device allocates different shifting forces or shifting force curves to occurring shift demands based on at least one of input data, operating states of the transmission, operating states of the clutch device, operating states of the drive unit, and driving states of the motor vehicle. By means of the actuating mechanism associated with or belonging to the transmission, respective gears are engaged with the respective associated shifting force or the respective associated shifting force curve and/or respective gears are released with the respective associated shifting force or with the respective associated shifting force curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Applicant: ZF Sachs AG
    Inventor: Jochen Kuhstrebe
  • Publication number: 20030066729
    Abstract: A multi-clutch arrangement, especially a dual clutch arrangement, having at least two clutch areas, each with a pressure plate arrangement which is connected to a housing arrangement for rotation in common around an axis of rotation (A) and which can be shifted in the axial direction relative to the housing arrangement; with an opposing support arrangement; and with a clutch disk arrangement, the friction surface arrangement of which can be clamped between the pressure plate arrangement and the opposing support arrangement. Each of the clutch disk arrangements is designed to connected nonrotatably to a different power takeoff element. In the case of at least one of the clutch areas, preferably in all of the clutch areas, the pressure plate arrangement and the housing arrangement are connected to each other for rotation in common by a connecting element arrangement. When the clutch area is in the torque-transmitting state, it urges the pressure plate arrangement toward the opposing support arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Applicant: ZF Sachs AG
    Inventors: Reinhard Feldhaus, Markus Heiartz, Andreas Orlamunder, Jochen Kuhstrebe, Wolfgand Reisser, Thomas Wirth, Michael Peterseim, Jurgen Dudenhoffer, Manfred Zimmer