Patents by Inventor Karl-Heinz Matucha

Karl-Heinz Matucha 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: 6673168
    Abstract: An aluminum-based material for anti-friction bearings composed of an aluminum alloy with 10-25 wt % tin or 5-25 wt % lead, impurity-caused components characterized by 0.75-2.5 wt % iron and an alloy additive capable of forming an intermetallic compound having a spherical phase homogeneously distributed in the aluminum alloy. The alloy additive is one of: a) manganese and silicon, in which the weight percentage fractions of manganese and silicon are at least half the weight percentage fraction of the iron and for manganese, at most 3 wt %, and for silicon, at most 2 wt %; b) 0.1-0.5 wt % cobalt; and c) 0.1-0.5 wt % molybdenum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: KS Gleitlager GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Matucha, Thomas Steffens, Werner Schubert
  • Patent number: 5024882
    Abstract: A material for composite sliding surface bearings having a plastic sliding layer comprises a metallic backing layer and a sliding layer that is joined to the backing layer and consists of a matrix-forming fluorine-containing polymer, in which a metal powder having a high affinity to fluorine is finely dispersed. In order to increase the life, a fluorine-containing polymer is provided, which in an X-ray diffractogram prepared by CuK.alpha.-radiation has a sharp intensity peak at a double Bragg angle of 2.theta.=18.07.+-.0.03.degree. and has a melting range of 320.degree. to 350.degree. C. and contains metal fluoride and metal oxyfluoride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1991
    Assignee: Kolbenschmidt Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Matucha, Thomas Steffens, Hans-Paul Baureis, Wolfgang Bickle, Jurgen Braus
  • Patent number: 5024881
    Abstract: A material for composite sliding surface bearings having a plastic sliding layer comprises a metallic backing layer and a sliding layer that is joined to the backing layer and consists of a matrix-forming fluorine-containing polymer, in which a metal powder having a high affinity to fluorine is finely dispersed. In order to reduce the friction torque and the wear rate, the fluorine-containing polymer contains metal fluoride and metal oxyfluoride and consists of monoclinally crystallized PVDF, amorphous PVDF and a novel polymer, which in an X-ray diffractogram prepared by CuK .alpha.-radiation has a sharp intensity peak at a double Bragg angle of 2.theta.=18.07.+-.0.03.degree. and has a melting range of 320.degree. to 350.degree. C. and is free of ortho-rhombically crystallized PVDF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1991
    Assignee: Kolbenschmidt Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Matucha, Thomas Steffens, Hans-Paul Baureis, Wolfgang Bickle, Jurgen Braus