Patents by Inventor Jurgen Donath

Jurgen Donath 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: 20150107580
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bearing arrangement (1), in particular for bearing the carrying shaft (30) of a parabolic trough collector (26), having a disc- or ring-shaped component (3), at least one support roller (5), which radially fixes the component (3) and on which the component (3) rolls on the circumferential side during rotation about a rotation axis (2), and a support structure (6), on which the support roller (5) is mounted by a radial sliding bearing (8). According to the invention, the lateral surface (12) of the support roller (5) which receives the component (3) has a convex curve in the axial direction. The invention further relates to parabolic trough collector (26) mounted on a plurality of such bearing arrangements (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Martin Weber, Jorg Bauer, Jurgen Donath