Patents by Inventor Josef ALTHAUS

Josef ALTHAUS 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: 20200062303
    Abstract: A wheel suspension device having a single-wheel steering for a motor vehicle with driving of the steered wheels, having a steering knuckle spring-suspended on the vehicle chassis for rotatably supporting a vehicle wheel. The steering knuckle can be pivoted about a pivot axis by means of the single-wheel steering. The single-wheel steering includes a worm gear having a worm wheel, which is rotationally fixed to the steering knuckle and arranged coaxially with the pivot axis, and which meshes with a worm, by means of which the worm wheel can be rotated about the pivot axis and which can be driven by a steering motor arranged on the vehicle chassis by way of a steering drive shaft in the form of an articulated shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicants: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Josef ALTHAUS, Kristian MURKOVIC, Björn-bruce MARTIN
  • Patent number: 10197095
    Abstract: A hydrodynamic plain bearing has a bearing shell with an inner surface forming a bearing surface for a rotating shaft or the like. The bearing surface, in order to form a bearing having a multi-wedge bore, has a plurality of surface segments arranged one after the other in the circumferential direction and each forming a circle segment having a radius R by way of the inner circumference of the surface segments. The center point of the circle segment of each surface segment is shifted relative to a center point of the bearing shell by an eccentricity. The bearing shell has two halves, each extending over 180° of the bearing surface and joined in a joint plane. At least one surface segment is offset from the center point of the bearing shell along an offset plane at an angle to the joint plane in the circumferential direction of the bearing shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Althaus, Ulrich Kempter, Andreas Fuchs
  • Publication number: 20160333929
    Abstract: A hydrodynamic plain bearing has a bearing shell with an inner surface forming a bearing surface for a rotating shaft or the like. The bearing surface, in order to form a bearing having a multi-wedge bore, has a plurality of surface segments arranged one after the other in the circumferential direction and each forming a circle segment having a radius R by way of the inner circumference of the surface segments. The center point of the circle segment of each surface segment is shifted relative to a center point of the bearing shell by an eccentricity. The bearing shell has two halves, each extending over 180° of the bearing surface and joined in a joint plane. At least one surface segment is offset from the center point of the bearing shell along an offset plane at an angle to the joint plane in the circumferential direction of the bearing shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: JOSEF ALTHAUS, ULRICH KEMPTER, ANDREAS FUCHS
  • Patent number: 8985236
    Abstract: A handheld power tool is disclosed. The handheld power tool has a drive oscillating along a working axis and a vibration damper. The vibration damper has a mass element suspended in a spring mechanism. The spring mechanism acts with a first spring stiffness and acts with a second spring stiffness. The first spring stiffness is different from the second spring stiffness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Wierer, Adrian Scherrer, Fabian Martin, Josef Althaus
  • Publication number: 20120055689
    Abstract: A handheld power tool is disclosed. The handheld power tool has a drive oscillating along a working axis and a vibration damper. The vibration damper has a mass element suspended in a spring mechanism. The spring mechanism acts with a first spring stiffness and acts with a second spring stiffness. The first spring stiffness is different from the second spring stiffness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael WIERER, Adrian SCHERRER, Fabian MARTIN, Josef ALTHAUS