Patents by Inventor Karlheinz Mayr
Karlheinz Mayr 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: 7984729Abstract: A proportional pressure control valve for regulating the pressure level in a hydraulic circuit including a magnet part and a valve part. The valve part includes an inflow opening for the inflow volume flow and two discharge openings. The first discharge opening is for an operating pressure connection and the second discharge opening is for a tank volume flow. The valve part also has a ball seat and a flat seat with an opening. A closing member is operable to control a flow rate through the opening of the flat seat. The valve part also includes a stream deflector disposed between the ball seat and the flat seat that has a circumferential surface configured to deflect a stream filament of the flow by an angle of ?30 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2006Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventor: Karlheinz Mayr
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Patent number: 7905249Abstract: An electromagnetic proportional pressure-control valve of a vehicle transmission which includes a magnet part, a hydraulic part and a spring operatively connecting the magnet part to the hydraulic part. The magnet part includes a coil, an armature and an armature bar. The hydraulic part includes first and second closing elements. The first closing element forms a flat seat and the second closing element a ball seat and the closing elements are opened and/or closed via a tappet rod. When no current is applied to the valve, the second closing element is closed and an gap (ü) in the first closing element is larger than one seventh a nominal width (NW) of the valve. The second closure area (A_2) is larger than a circular area having a diameter corresponding to double the gap and the diameter (s) of the tappet rod is smaller than 0.7 times the diameter (b) of the orifice.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2006Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: ZF Friedrichsafen AGInventors: Karlheinz Mayr, Thilo Schmidt, Markus Moosmann
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Publication number: 20100326543Abstract: A pressure control valve for at least one of controlling and/or regulating a pressure level in a hydraulic circuit. The control valve comprises a valve housing (1) in which a control element (2), that can be acted upon by a system pressure (P_Sys), is arranged to move. The control element (2) is coupled to a drive mechanism in order to set an operating pressure (P_Kpl). At least one linear motor (3) is provided as the drive mechanism which can be controlled at least by a signal feedback (4) acting as a control circuit as a function of the operating pressure (P_Kpl) actually set at the time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Ralph BOEHM, Karlheinz MAYR, Stefan MESCHENMOSER, Thilo SCHMIDT, Georg GIERER
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Patent number: 7849759Abstract: A shifting device (1) for a transmission with a selection actuator and a shifting actuator, which a shifting shaft (2) comprising shifting forks (3) or selector forks, which engage in sliding collars for engaging the gears in which the shifting motion can be carried out by way of an axial motion of the shifting shaft (2), while the selection motion is kinematically disengaged from the shifting motion and the shifting shaft (2) does not rotate during the selection motion.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2005Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Josef Bader, Stefan Renner, Karlheinz Mayr, Reiner Keller, Kai Heinrich
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Publication number: 20100276022Abstract: A pressure control valve device with at least one inlet area and first and second outlet areas which can be connected by two poppet valves. A flow guide device (21), with inflow and outflow areas (22, 23) for guiding the fluid flowing from the inlet area in a defined manner in the direction of the second poppet valve, is located upstream of the second poppet valve, between the first and second outlet areas. The fluid in the flow guide device (21) passes in the area between the inflow and outflow areas (22, 23) through a plurality of channel areas distributed around the periphery of the flow guide device (21) and separated from one another, which are shaped at least approximately helically and impart an at least approximately vortex-like flow pattern to the fluid flowing in the direction of the second poppet valve downstream of the outflow area (23).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2008Publication date: November 4, 2010Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Markus Moosmann, Frank Hamma, Karlheinz Mayr, Hubert Remmlinger
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Publication number: 20100243079Abstract: An arrangement of a pressure limiting valve (1) for the pilot control of a pressure control valve of a hydraulically actuatable shifting element of a motor vehicle transmission in which the pressure limiting valve (1) is disposed such that the armature axis thereof is disposed perpendicular to at least one of the driving direction and the longitudinal axis of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2008Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Ralph Boehm, Markus Moosmann, Stefan Meschenmoser, Georg Gierer, Karlheinz Mayr
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Publication number: 20100043584Abstract: A shifting device (1) for a transmission with a selection actuator and a shifting actuator, which a shifting shaft (2) comprising shifting forks (3) or selector forks, which engage in sliding collars for engaging the gears in which the shifting motion can be carried out by way of an axial motion of the shifting shaft (2), while the selection motion is kinematically disengaged from the shifting motion and the shifting shaft (2) does not rotate during the selection motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2005Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Josef Bader, Stefan Renner, Karlheinz Mayr, Reiner Keller, Kai Heinrich
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Patent number: 7516756Abstract: Proportional pressure control valve with a magnetic part and a valve part, the valve part has an inflow opening for the inflow stream, a first outflow opening for the filling stream, and a second outflow opening for the tank volume stream, and has a ball seat, a flat seat with an opening, a closing part for controlling the throughput quantity through the opening of the flat seat, and a stream diverter. The inflow opening faces away from the magnetic part and coaxially to its longitudinal axis, and the outflow openings are constructed on the side wall of the valve part radially to its longitudinal axis, so that fluid flowing from through the valve is exposed to a diversion of a maximum of 90°. The fluid, after flowing through the ball seat and to and through the stream diverter, experiences a diversion of less than 30°.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2004Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Karlheinz Mayr, Thilo Schmidt, Walter Kill, Markus Moosmann
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Publication number: 20090065075Abstract: A pressure control valve (1) designed as a closed-end pressure regulator is proposed, which comprises two valve seats (7, 11) arranged in a hydraulic half-bridge circuit, with an electromagnet (2) having a magnetic core, a magnetic coil (3), and a displaceable armature (4), with an anchor rod (5) displaceable by the armature (4) for a closing part (6), which can be made to strike against a first valve seat (7) of the tank edge, and with a push rod (9), which is connected to the anchor rod (5) or is designed as a single piece with the anchor rod (5), which can move a locking element (10) designed as a ball out of a ball seat (11) of the inlet control edge, in which the push rod (9) is configured in such a way at its end facing the ball seat (11) that the opening cross-section of the inlet control edge (12), that is, the ball seat (11), can be modified depending on the axial position of the push rod (9) in such a way that the cross-section is reduced when the target pressure is low, in order to reduce the inletType: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2008Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Thilo Schmidt, Markus Moosmann, Karlheinz Mayr
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Publication number: 20090065722Abstract: A pressure control valve having valve seats, an electromagnet, a magnetic coil, and an armature coupled to an anchor rod, which are axially slidable for biasing a part against a first valve seat to close a tank edge. A push rod, which is integral with the anchor rod, biases a locking element off a ball seat to open an inlet control edge. The cross-section of the inlet control edge can be modified depending on the temperature such that the cross-section is opened as widely as possible at low oil temperatures. The cross-section of the inlet control edge is reduced at high oil temperatures to the extent that a high valve dynamic of the follow-up slide valve is achieved, and the leakage oil flow is not significantly increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2008Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Thilo Schmidt, Markus Moosmann, Karlheinz Mayr
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Publication number: 20080272322Abstract: An electromagnetic proportional pressure-control valve of a vehicle transmission which includes a magnet part, a hydraulic part and a spring operatively connecting the magnet part to the hydraulic part. The magnet part includes a coil, an armature and an armature bar. The hydraulic part includes first and second closing elements. The first closing element forms a flat seat and the second closing element a ball seat and the closing elements are opened and/or closed via a tappet rod. When no current is applied to the valve, the second closing element is closed and an gap (ü) in the first closing element is larger than one seventh a nominal width (NW) of the valve. The second closure area (A—2) is larger than a circular area having a diameter corresponding to double the gap and the diameter (s) of the tappet rod is smaller than 0.7 times the diameter (b) of the orifice.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2006Publication date: November 6, 2008Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Karlheinz Mayr, Thilo Schmidt, Markus Moosmann
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Publication number: 20080236967Abstract: A locking apparatus, particularly of a parking brake device for a vehicle with an automatic transmission, which has a piston unit positioned inside a housing and is axially displaced and locked in a pre-defined axial position, and a catch device that automatically activates when the piston unit is locked to hold the piston unit. The catch device has at least one spring arm actively connected with the piston unit when the piston unit is locked, the spring arm abuts the piston unit in locked position with a catch area. The spring arm has a recess in a longitudinal plane of the spring arm. The piston unit penetrates the recess of the spring arm at least approximately in a radial direction with a section that forms the catch area, so that when the piston unit is locked, the catch area within the longitudinal plane of the spring arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2006Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventor: Karlheinz Mayr
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Publication number: 20080190487Abstract: A proportional pressure control valve for regulating the pressure level in a hydraulic circuit including a magnet part and a valve part. The valve part includes an inflow opening for the inflow volume flow and two discharge openings. The first discharge opening is for an operating pressure connection and the second discharge opening is for a tank volume flow. The valve part also has a ball seat and a flat seat with an opening. A closing member is operable to control a flow rate through the opening of the flat seat. The valve part also includes a stream deflector disposed between the ball seat and the flat seat that has a circumferential surface configured to deflect a stream filament of the flow by an angle of ?30 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2006Publication date: August 14, 2008Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventor: Karlheinz Mayr
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Publication number: 20080073611Abstract: A method for control of a proportional magnet of an electromagnetic valve. Detecting valve seat bouncing by observing a control signal. Adjusting a control frequency or the alternate current amplitude to achieve the smallest hysteresis while preventing valve seat bouncing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2007Publication date: March 27, 2008Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Karlheinz Mayr, Markus Moosmann, Maik Wiesner, Walter Kill
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Patent number: 7229063Abstract: The invention concerns a pressure control valve for the control of the value of pressure in a hydraulic circuit, especially in a hydraulic circuit of a vehicle transmission, with a valve housing, with a solenoid coil, with an armature component group comprising an armature rod, an armature and advantageously, a spring, with a yoke and with a push rod, which is interposed between the armature rod and a control element, whereby the section of the valve housing (3) in the zone of the control element (16) consists of a plastic flange (2a), and further, the armature rod (1) possesses a control boring in the longitudinal direction, in which a pin (12, 12?, 12?) is inserted, the material and dimensioning are so selected, that the pin can compensate for a temperature based longitudinal change of the plastic flange (2a).Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2004Date of Patent: June 12, 2007Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Thies Hameister, Walter Kill, Karlheinz Mayr, Wolfgang Schmid
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Publication number: 20070023091Abstract: Proportional pressure control valve with a magnetic part and a valve part, the valve part has an inflow opening for the inflow stream, a first outflow opening for the filling stream, and a second outflow opening for the tank volume stream, and has a ball seat, a flat seat with an opening, a closing part for controlling the throughput quantity through the opening of the flat seat, and a stream diverter. The inflow opening faces away from the magnetic part and coaxially to its longitudinal axis, and the outflow openings are constructed on the side wall of the valve part radially to its longitudinal axis, so that fluid flowing from through the valve is exposed to a diversion of a maximum of 90°. The fluid, after flowing through the ball seat and to and through the stream diverter, experiences a diversion of less than 30°.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2004Publication date: February 1, 2007Inventors: Karlheinz Mayr, Thilo Schmidt, Walter Kill, Markus Moosmann
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Patent number: 6989729Abstract: A proportional pressure control valve (1) for controlling the pressure level in a hydraulic circuit having a push rod (5) as a connection between a control element (13) arranged in the hydraulic circuit and a proportional magnet located in a housing (10), which comprises a magnetic core (2), a magnetic anchor (3), and a magnetic coil (4), the magnetic coil (4) and the magnetic core (2) are securely connected to the housing (10), and the magnetic anchor (3) can be moved axially back and forth between two end positions by means of a magnetic force. At least one part of the magnetic anchor (3, 3?) is arranged so as to be movable relative to the anchor rod (6) in dependence upon the magnetic flow, so that in this way either the gaps (11, 14) are enlarged and/or an additional second gap (8) is produced.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2003Date of Patent: January 24, 2006Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Karlheinz Mayr, Thilo Schmidt
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Patent number: 6955186Abstract: An electromagnetic dual-action control valve with a housing (2), with connections (15, 16, 17) for inflow and outflow lines for a pressure medium, with a solenoid (3) and with two armatures arranged to move within the solenoid (3) for opening and closing the line connections. To simplify the structure of such a dual-action control valve, it is provided that one of the armatures is formed as a hollow armature (4) with a closed end (11), within which an inner armature (5) is arranged to move coaxially, and the hollow armature (4) has openings (20, 21) for the pressure medium, of which one opening (21) can be closed by a sealing surface (13) of the inner armature (5).Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2004Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Walter Kill, Jürgen Halter, Hubert Remmlinger, Karlheinz Mayr
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Publication number: 20050199300Abstract: A proportional pressure control valve is described, which comprises a valve part (1) with outlet and inlet openings (4) and at least one closing element (2) for the control of an orifice (5). The hydraulically effective cross-section of the valve part (1) is determined by the size and shape of the inlet opening (4). The axial longitudinal axis of the inlet opening (4) is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the closing element (2). The resultant force action on the closing element (2) has an advantageous effect on the quality of the valve function especially at low temperatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2003Publication date: September 15, 2005Inventors: Georg Gierer, Karlheinz Mayr, Thilo Schmidt
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Patent number: 6904934Abstract: A proportional pressure adjustment valve is described which comprises one valve part with inlet and outlet openings (4) and at least one closing mechanism (7) for control of a valve (12), the same as a magnet part having one magnet core, one magnet coil and one displaceably disposed magnet armature. An actuating element (11) cooperates with the armature, actuating the spherical closing mechanism (7). The hydraulically active cross section of the valve (12) is essentially determined by the length of the valve (L), the diameter of the valve (D) and th diameter (d) of the part (13) of the actuating element (11) which penetrates into the valve. According to invention, the ratio of the length of the valve (L) to the diameter of the valve (d) is less than 2.0.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2001Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Wolfgang Runge, Hubert Remmlinger, Karlheinz Mayr, Wolfgang Schmid, Thilo Schmidt