Patents by Inventor KARIN VOGTHERR

KARIN VOGTHERR 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: 10112599
    Abstract: A drive device for a motor vehicle, having an internal combustion engine that outputs to a gearbox or transmission. A plurality of gear ratios steps provides shiftable driving gears from a starting gear to a highest driving gear. The gearbox has at least one gear ratio step that provides an overrun gear, which cannot be engaged in the traction mode, but only in an overrun mode, in which the vehicle drags the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Josef Winkler, Karin Vogtherr, Michael Wansner
  • Patent number: 9945465
    Abstract: The invention relates to a differential gear for a drive axle of a motor vehicle, having a driven differential case (12), which has effect on a carrier (24), particularly on a driving pin, via a coupling block (26) that is guided in a rotationally fixed but axially movable manner, on which carrier (24) planetary wheels (22) are mounted which interlock with outputting output wheels (20), wherein the output wheels (20) output on output shafts (16, 18) on both sides, and having a torque-dependent locking device for shifting the driving torque by means of at least one coupling device (28) integrated in the differential case (12), which coupling device (28) can additionally be actuated via at least one actuator (34; 44), independently of the driving torque. According to the invention, the at least one actuator (34; 44) is arranged in the region of at least one of the output shafts (16, 18) and has effect on the coupling device (28) by means of at least one transfer means (38, 40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Christian Meixner, Karin Vogtherr
  • Publication number: 20170253232
    Abstract: A drive device for a motor vehicle, having an internal combustion engine that outputs to a gearbox or transmission. A plurality of gear ratios steps provides shiftable driving gears from a starting gear to a highest driving gear. The gearbox has at least one gear ratio step that provides an overrun gear, which cannot be engaged in the traction mode, but only in an overrun mode, in which the vehicle drags the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Josef WINKLER, Karin VOGTHERR, Michael WANSNER
  • Publication number: 20160186849
    Abstract: The invention relates to a differential gear for a drive axle of a motor vehicle, having a driven differential case (12), which has effect on a carrier (24), particularly on a driving pin, via a coupling block (26) that is guided in a rotationally fixed but axially movable manner, on which carrier (24) planetary wheels (22) are mounted which interlock with outputting output wheels (20), wherein the output wheels (20) output on output shafts (16, 18) on both sides, and having a torque-dependent locking device for shifting the driving torque by means of at least one coupling device (28) integrated in the differential case (12), which coupling device (28) can additionally be actuated via at least one actuator (34; 44), independently of the driving torque. According to the invention, the at least one actuator (34; 44) is arranged in the region of at least one of the output shafts (16, 18) and has effect on the coupling device (28) by means of at least one transfer means (38, 40).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: CHRISTIAN MEIXNER, KARIN VOGTHERR