Patents by Inventor Karl-Heinz Pepping

Karl-Heinz Pepping 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: 5299669
    Abstract: A vibration eliminator or suppressor for an actuating element of a set of components or aggregate, such as the clutch arrangement of a motor vehicle. A transitional element between a wire cable or a linkage and a lever of the aggregate is constructed as a cage, wherein the lever is floatingly or swimmingly supported within the cage through a prestressed two-component rubber spring, with the lever being fixedly connected with the rubber spring, and a weight being fastened to the cage. Through the intermediary of this structure there is achieved a complete isolation of any vibrations between the clutch shift and the clutch drive train due to the rubber spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Pepping, Hubert Hausmann, Michael Engel, Gunther Gebhardt
  • Patent number: 5111711
    Abstract: A coupling device for effectuating the coupling of a gearshift rod or bar member which is connected with the transmission of a motor vehicle to a further gearshift rod or bar member which is connected with the shift lever for the motor vehicle. The two gearshift rods interengage at their adjoining end sections, and each possesses a cross-section which deviates from a circular configuration in order to ensure their interconnection being secured against rotation relative to each other. Between the interengaging end sections of the two gearshift rods, an intermediate element serves for the damping or absorption of sounds which are conducted through solids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Michael Engel, Karl-Heinz Pepping, Gunther Gebhardt
  • Patent number: 4953421
    Abstract: A power-transmission joint for manual transmissions in motor vehicles for insertion intermediate a drive shaft and a shift rod of said transmission, having a box-like cage forming a frame with a sliding block fixedly arranged in the cage. The sliding block has a central bore therethrough for receipt of a steering journal, and is held in a retaining member which engages the cage in a resilient manner to allow for longitudinal displacement and a predefined rotational movement of the sliding block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1990
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Michael Engel, Karl-Heinz Pepping, Gunther Gebhardt
  • Patent number: 4822009
    Abstract: A hydraulic bearing mount including a rubber-elastic conical support having a thin-walled elastic bellows member which is connected with a metal anchor and a housing through the intermediary of vulcanization. The support member possesses reniform or kidney-shaped regions possessing a thinner material thickness in proximity to the housing, the regions being located opposite each other and symmetrically relative to a transverse axis, and in which the regions are constituted of thin-walled, curved rolling bellows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: Diehl GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Arnold Hirchenhain, Karl-Heinz Pepping
  • Patent number: 4643495
    Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is a mechanical cabinet with a paternoster-like circulating conveyor comprising two endless chains (1, 2), a multiplicity of pull-out shelves (17) for receiving industrial articles, for example, and affixed with their end walls to the two endless chains (1, 2) at predetermined equal distances by way of pairs of supporting arms (7, 8), and stationary guide rails (18, 19) on the narrow sides of the cabinet composed each of two vertical sections (20) and an upper and lower arcuate section (21, 22), said rails guiding guide members (10) rigidly mounted to the end walls of the shelves (17). With such mechanical cabinets problems arise regarding safe and smooth guidance of the endless chains and the shelves, particularly when the latter are non-uniformly loaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1987
    Assignee: Electrolux Constructor GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Pepping, Werner Kreuz