Patents by Inventor KAI VENHOFF
KAI VENHOFF 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).
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Patent number: 12559197Abstract: An electric bicycle drive unit mounting arrangement (50) by which a mid-motor electric drive unit (30) is floatingly attached to a drive receptacle (21) of a bicycle frame (20), wherein the drive receptacle (21) comprises two mutually parallel frame-fixed and vertical frame flanges (211, 212), wherein a drive unit housing (34) comprises two parallel and vertical housing flanges (41, 42), wherein one housing flange (41) is attached to one frame flange (211) and the other housing flange (42) is attached to the other frame flange (212), defining a flange pairing, respectively, and wherein both flange pairings comprise respectively at least one rubber mount (80) by means of which the frame flange (211, 212) is connected to the associated housing flange (41, 42) in a floating and rubber-elastic manner, so that the housing flanges (41, 42) do not bear directly against the corresponding frame flanges (211, 212) in each case, but are spaced apart from the corresponding frame flanges (211, 212) by a spacing gap (58) wType: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: February 24, 2026Assignee: SRAM, LLCInventors: Dietmar Greven, Kai Venhoff
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Publication number: 20240351371Abstract: A wheel unit for a pedelec includes a hub and a rim connected via spokes which rotate about a rotational axis, a brake disc non-rotatably connected to the hub via a fastening device, and a sensor ring. The fastening device includes a mounting element non-rotatably arranged on the hub, and a clamping nut fastenable to the hub or to the mounting element via a screw connection. The brake disc is interlockingly connected to the mounting element in a direction of rotation. The brake disc is clampingly attached via the clamping nut in the direction of the rotational axis between the hub or the mounting element and the clamping nut. The sensor ring is connected rotationally fixed to the hub and is fixed to the clamping nut. The sensor ring is fastenable together with the clamping nut to the hub or to the mounting element via the screw connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: SRAM, LLCInventors: KAI VENHOFF, CHRISTIAN WURMBAECK
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Publication number: 20230415849Abstract: An electric bicycle drive unit mounting arrangement for attaching an electric drive unit at a drive receptacle of a bicycle frame is provided. The bicycle frame has a fixed bearing fastening frame leg and a parallel loose bearing frame leg. A drive unit housing has a fixed bearing housing flange and a parallel loose bearing housing flange. The fixed bearing housing flange is frictionally attached directly against the fixed bearing frame leg. A loose bearing fastening element attaches the loose bearing housing flange to the loose bearing frame leg. The loose bearing fastening element is a loose bearing threaded bolt having a cylindrical bolt head seated in a loose bearing cylinder bore of the loose bearing frame leg without radial play, and has a threaded portion with an external thread screwed in a corresponding internal thread to the loose bearing frame leg or to one of the housing flanges.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: SRAM, LLCInventors: AXEL HEMSING, KAI VENHOFF, DIETMAR GREVEN
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Patent number: 11834128Abstract: A pedelec bottom bracket drive unit includes a rigid drive housing and a tolerance compensation sheet-metal spring which is arranged to stand substantially in a vertical plane. The tolerance compensation sheet-metal spring includes at least one fixing point at a housing side and at least one mounting point for fastening the tolerance-compensating sheet-metal spring to a pedelec-frame-side drive mount. The at least one fixing point has a fixing point traverse axis. The tolerance compensation sheet-metal spring is fixed to the rigid drive housing at the at least one fixing point at the housing side. The at least one mounting point has a mounting point traverse axis. The at least one mounting point is arranged offset with respect to a next adjacent fixing point of the at least one fixing point as viewed from the fixing point traverse axis and from the mounting point traverse axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SRAM, LLCInventors: Dietmar Greven, Kai Venhoff, Axel Hemsing, Peter Thiele
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Publication number: 20230322327Abstract: An electric bicycle drive unit mounting arrangement (50) by which a mid-motor electric drive unit (30) is floatingly attached to a drive receptacle (21) of a bicycle frame (20), wherein the drive receptacle (21) comprises two mutually parallel frame-fixed and vertical frame flanges (211, 212), wherein a drive unit housing (34) comprises two parallel and vertical housing flanges (41, 42), wherein one housing flange (41) is attached to one frame flange (211) and the other housing flange (42) is attached to the other frame flange (212), defining a flange pairing, respectively, and wherein both flange pairings comprise respectively at least one rubber mount (80) by means of which the frame flange (211, 212) is connected to the associated housing flange (41, 42) in a floating and rubber-elastic manner, so that the housing flanges (41, 42) do not bear directly against the corresponding frame flanges (211, 212) in each case, but are spaced apart from the corresponding frame flanges (211, 212) by a spacing gap (58) wType: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: SRAM, LLCInventors: DIETMAR GREVEN, KAI VENHOFF
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Publication number: 20220089250Abstract: A pedelec bottom bracket drive unit includes a rigid drive housing and a tolerance compensation sheet-metal spring which is arranged to stand substantially in a vertical plane. The tolerance compensation sheet-metal spring includes at least one fixing point at a housing side and at least one mounting point for fastening the tolerance-compensating sheet-metal spring to a pedelec-frame-side drive mount. The at least one fixing point has a fixing point traverse axis. The tolerance compensation sheet-metal spring is fixed to the rigid drive housing at the at least one fixing point at the housing side. The at least one mounting point has a mounting point traverse axis. The at least one mounting point is arranged offset with respect to a next adjacent fixing point of the at least one fixing point as viewed from the fixing point traverse axis and from the mounting point traverse axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: AMPRIO GMBHInventors: DIETMAR GREVEN, KAI VENHOFF, AXEL HEMSING, PETER THIELE