Patents by Inventor Joerg Appelshaeuser

Joerg Appelshaeuser 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: 8567275
    Abstract: A synchronizing device of a transmission is provided with a cylindrical synchronizer body having an external toothing. A shifting sleeve includes, but is not limited to an internal toothing. The internal toothing axially displaceably meshes with the external tooting of the synchronizer body. A synchronizing ring includes, but is not limited to a locking gear rim. In clearances distributed on the circumference of the synchronizer body, pre-synchronizing elements are arranged. The pre-synchronizing elements are in spring-elastic engagement with the shifting sleeve and are arrested by the shifting sleeve in a middle position. A face end of the locking gear rim includes, but is not limited to outward bulges in direction of the pre-synchronizing elements subject to the setting of spacing between synchronizing ring and pre-synchronizing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Joerg Appelshaeuser, Viktor Werwein
  • Publication number: 20120090941
    Abstract: A clutch sleeve is provided for a shift clutch having a synchronizing device, which includes, but is not limited to a clutch body, which is connected in a rotationally-fixed manner to a gear wheel mounted so it is rotatable on a shaft and has coupling teeth and a friction cone as well as a synchronizing ring having a counter cone and blocking teeth, and which has shift teeth, the clutch sleeve having shift teeth, which are designed in such a manner that a first group of the shift teeth cooperates with the blocking teeth until a synchronized speed is reached and a second group of the shift teeth engages in the coupling teeth after the synchronized speed is reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Joerg APPELSHAEUSER, Viktor WERWEIN, Marc THORAUSCH
  • Publication number: 20120060632
    Abstract: A synchronizing device of a transmission is provided with a cylindrical synchronizer body having an external toothing. A shifting sleeve includes, but is not limited to an internal toothing. The internal toothing axially displaceably meshes with the external tooting of the synchronizer body. A synchronizing ring includes, but is not limited to a locking gear rim. In clearances distributed on the circumference of the synchronizer body, pre-synchronizing elements are arranged. The pre-synchronizing elements are in spring-elastic engagement with the shifting sleeve and are arrested by the shifting sleeve in a middle position. A face end of the locking gear rim includes, but is not limited to outward bulges in direction of the pre-synchronizing elements subject to the setting of spacing between synchronizing ring and pre-synchronizing elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Joerg APPELSHAEUSER, Viktor WERWEIN
  • Publication number: 20120006643
    Abstract: A double-acting synchronizer includes, but is not limited to a shaft, first and second gearwheels rotatably mounted on said shaft, a sleeve which is axially displaceable along said shaft between a position in which it locks the first gearwheel to the shaft and a position in which it locks the second gearwheel to the shaft. A single conical friction surface is formed between a first baulk ring and the first gearwheel, and multiple nested conical friction surfaces are formed between a second baulk ring and the second gearwheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jan Sporleder, Joerg Appelshaeuser, Hans-Juergen Zuck, Theodore Kokx
  • Publication number: 20110214522
    Abstract: A shifting clutch includes, but is not limited to a synchronizer body rotationally fixed on a shaft, a first and a second gear wheel, at least two synchronizing rings, a shifting sleeve which is displaceable over a neutral position on the synchronizer body in axial direction of the shaft between a first and a second shifted position, in which it establishes a non-positive connection between synchronizer body and the first or second gear wheel, and at least one thrust piece which is displaceable over a neutral position through the shifting sleeve between a first and a second synchronizing position, in which it loads the first or second synchronizing ring in each case against the first or second gear wheel. The shifting sleeve comprises at least one inwardly directed projection which in the first shifted position restricts the axial freedom of movement of the thrust piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jan Sporleder, Joerg Appelshaeuser