Patents by Inventor Jorg Willert

Jorg Willert 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: 6196369
    Abstract: An actuating device for a friction clutch arranged in the drive train of an automobile between an internal combustion engine and a gear in a casing bell. The actuating device includes a disengagement bearing arrangement and a positioning servo arrangement, having a pressure-medium power cylinder arrangement, for the disengagement bearing arrangement, the positioning servo arrangement having a control valve connected to a pressure-medium source. The control valve includes a valve arrangement which can be changed over between at least two control states as a function of an actual value representing the axial position of the disengagement bearing arrangement and of a command variable representing a desired position of the disengagement bearing arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Mannesmann Sachs AG
    Inventors: Jörg Willert, Joachim Lindner
  • Patent number: 6116399
    Abstract: An operation device for a friction clutch arranged in the drive train of a motor vehicle. The operation device includes a positioning servo arrangement with a pneumatic power cylinder arrangement. The pneumatic power cylinder arrangement acts on a clutch release sleeve arrangement. The positioning servo arrangement can be operated with a control valve that is connected to a pneumatic source depending on a command variable representing a desired position and an actual variable representing the axial position of the clutch release sleeve arrangement. The pneumatic power cylinder arrangement is arranged inside of the bell-shaped housing and the control valve is arranged outside of the bell-shaped housing or the bell-shaped housing is arranged at least partially inside of the bell-shaped housing, but is accessible from the outside and/or can be removed when the bell-shaped housing is attached to the combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Fichtel & Sachs AG
    Inventors: Hans-Jurgen Drexl, Wolfgang Grosspietsch, Manfred Wehner, Herbert Voit, Joachim Lindner, Thomas Otto, Jorg Willert
  • Patent number: 6029789
    Abstract: A actuating device for a friction clutch which is arranged in the drivetrain of a motor vehicle in a housing cover between an internal combustion engine and a transmission. The actuating device includes a release bearing arrangement and a positioning servo arrangement for the release bearing arrangement. The positioning servo arrangement has a pressure medium power cylinder arrangement and a control valve connected with a pressure medium source. The control valve includes a valve arrangement which is switchable between at least two control states depending on an actual quantity representing the axial position of the release bearing arrangement and on a control quantity representing a reference position of the release bearing arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Mannesmann Sachs AG
    Inventors: Joachim Lindner, Jorg Willert, Thomas Otto
  • Patent number: 6000511
    Abstract: An arrangement of foot operated elements for a motor vehicle includes a first element with a power booster for operating a brake and a second element with a second power booster for operating a clutch of the motor vehicle. The second power booster for actuating the clutch release is arranged adjacent the power booster for actuating the brake device. The power booster for the clutch has a linear guide which guides the second element, which is an actuating push rod by which the second power booster for the clutch can be operated directly. The second power booster for the clutch further has a servo device which further reduces the actuating forces and/or the operating paths for actuating the clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesmann Sachs AG
    Inventors: Angelika Ebert, Thomas Otto, Jorg Willert
  • Patent number: 5950788
    Abstract: An operating device of a friction clutch arranged in the drive train of a motor vehicle, having a positioning servo arrangement with a pressure medium power cylinder arrangement located inside the housing bell and acting on a clutch release bearing arrangement. The invention that the pressure medium power cylinder arrangement, an input element arrangement associated with a control valve and, in some cases, additional anti-tilting moment devices are embodied and/or adjusted to each other and, in some cases, to the clutch so that the force resulting from the forces exercised by the pressure medium power cylinder arrangement, the input element arrangement and, in some cases, the additional anti-tilting moment devices directly or indirectly on the clutch release bearing arrangement or the clutch release bearing arrangement side of the pressure medium power cylinder arrangement, during at least one clutch operation phase, are at least substantially coaxial to the clutch axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1999
    Assignee: Mannesmann Sachs AG
    Inventors: Jorg Willert, Jurgen Liebler, Joachim Lindner