Patents by Inventor Klaus Zaps
Klaus Zaps 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: 9413202Abstract: The invention relates to a stator for an electric motor having a base body composed of stator laminates which are axially in layers with respect to a motor axis and having a number of frame-like coil formers which are fitted with stator windings, with the coil cross-sectional surfaces of said frame-like coil formers essentially being directed at the motor axis. It is proposed that in order to fit them, the coil formers can first of all be placed obliquely with respect to a final position on coil former holders of the base body and can then be aligned in the final position, and in that the arrangement is designed such that the alignment involves axial bracing of the stator laminates.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, WuerzburgInventors: Klaus Zaps, Peter Hauck
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Patent number: 9119324Abstract: Disclosed is an electrical component of a motor vehicle, having a plastic housing and a conductor track structure which is at least substantially embedded in the plastic housing in the injection-molding method and is intended to provide the electrical connections required for operation. The conductor track structure includes—separate wires which each do not run in a straight line, and that any deviation from a straight course of the wires goes back solely to a corresponding bending operation in terms of manufacturing.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2010Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KG, HALLSTADTInventors: Alexander Kifer, Klaus Zaps, Peter Hauck
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Patent number: 8646350Abstract: The actuator has a gear unit with a gear housing and a motor unit with a motor housing and an internally located rotor with a drive shaft, and a cylindrical bearing housing on the drive side. The bearing housing protrudes, along with a bearing and the drive shaft ducted therein, into an opening in the gear housing. The motor housing is flange-mounted, along with a drive shaft mounted therein, to the gear housing. The outside of the bearing housing and the inside of the opening in the gear housing have been geometrically mutually harmonized such that clamping points and tension-free places will form between them when the actuator has been assembled. The pretensioning force resulting therefrom produces a permanent frictional engagement between the outer circumference of the bearing and the bearing support or the bearing shell located opposite it. The operating life of an actuator of such type is increased.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2006Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co., Kommanditgesellshaft WurzburgInventors: Gerald Viernekes, Klaus Zaps
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Publication number: 20120319511Abstract: Disclosed is an electrical component of a motor vehicle, having a plastic housing and a conductor track structure which is at least substantially embedded in the plastic housing in the injection-molding method and is intended to provide the electrical connections required for operation. The conductor track structure includes—separate wires which each do not run in a straight line, and that any deviation from a straight course of the wires goes back solely to a corresponding bending operation in terms of manufacturing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2010Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KG, HALLSTADTInventors: Alexander Kifer, Klaus Zaps, Peter Hauck
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Publication number: 20120299400Abstract: The invention relates to a stator for an electric motor having a base body composed of stator laminates which are axially in layers with respect to a motor axis and having a number of frame-like coil formers which are fitted with stator windings, with the coil cross-sectional surfaces of said frame-like coil formers essentially being directed at the motor axis. It is proposed that in order to fit them, the coil formers can first of all be placed obliquely with respect to a final position on coil former holders of the base body and can then be aligned in the final position, and in that the arrangement is designed such that the alignment involves axial bracing of the stator laminates.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2010Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KG, WUERZBURGInventors: Klaus Zaps, Peter Hauck
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Patent number: 8040015Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for an electric motor, comprising a rotor shaft, a rotor core stack that is attached to the rotor shaft, a ring member which surrounds the rotor core stack, and a gap located between the rotor core stack and the ring member. Adhesive is introduced into the gap for fastening the ring member to the rotor core stack. Molded articles that are used as spacers are admixed to the adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2007Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, WürzburgInventor: Klaus Zaps
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Patent number: 7944101Abstract: The invention relates to a brush system for a motor-vehicle actuating drive, having a base body, a board on which interference-suppression components are mounted, and electrically conductive plug contacts. The plug contacts each have an accommodation slot. The board is inserted into the accommodation slots in the plug contacts.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2007Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, WürzburgInventors: Roland Keller, Gerald Viernekes, Klaus Zaps
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Publication number: 20100045132Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for an electric motor, comprising a rotor shaft, a rotor core stack that is attached to the rotor shaft, a ring member which surrounds the rotor core stack, and a gap located between the rotor core stack and the ring member. Adhesive is introduced into the gap for fastening the ring member to the rotor core stack. Molded articles that are used as spacers are admixed to the adhesive.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2007Publication date: February 25, 2010Inventor: Klaus Zaps
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Publication number: 20100026114Abstract: The invention relates to a brush system for a motor-vehicle actuating drive, having a base body, a board on which interference-suppression components are mounted, and electrically conductive plug contacts. The plug contacts each have an accommodation slot. The board is inserted into the accommodation slots in the plug contacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2007Publication date: February 4, 2010Inventors: Roland Keller, Gerald Viernekes, Klaus Zaps
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Publication number: 20070013248Abstract: The electric machine has a stator, a rotor with a rotor shaft and a bearing. One end of the rotor shaft is guided in the bearing which is inserted into a clamping nut in the axial direction. The clamping nut is fixed into a housing together with the bearing. The clamping nut forms a pot bearing, which axially limits the end of the rotor shaft guided by the bearing. The pot bearing is an axially tapered cylindrical appendage of the clamping nut which forms a springing element acting essentially axially for a possible axial movement of the pot bearing. The clamping nut effects the attachment of the engine-side bearing in the housing of the electric machine and at the same time an axial limitation of the rotor shaft in the sense of a tolerance compensation or axial compensation. The component and assembly complexity for the electric machine are hereby reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2006Publication date: January 18, 2007Inventors: Gerald Viernekes, Klaus Zaps
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Publication number: 20070012125Abstract: The actuator has a gear unit with a gear housing and a motor unit with a motor housing and an internally located rotor with a drive shaft, and a cylindrical bearing housing on the drive side. The bearing housing protrudes, along with a bearing and the drive shaft ducted therein, into an opening in the gear housing. The motor housing is flange-mounted, along with a drive shaft mounted therein, to the gear housing. The outside of the bearing housing and the inside of the opening in the gear housing have been geometrically mutually harmonized such that clamping points and tension-free places will form between them when the actuator has been assembled. The pretensioning force resulting therefrom produces a permanent frictional engagement between the outer circumference of the bearing and the bearing support or the bearing shell located opposite it. The operating life of an actuator of such type is increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2006Publication date: January 18, 2007Inventors: Gerald Viernekes, Klaus Zaps
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Patent number: 6860673Abstract: The arrangement has an axial securing element for fixing to the rotor shaft to enclose it at least over a tangential partial region, especially in the form of a spreader ring for fitting onto the rotor shaft, and a spring element pressing axially elastically against the stator part for axial play compensation as part of the securing element.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2003Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Klaus Zaps
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Publication number: 20030190103Abstract: The arrangement has an axial securing element for fixing to the rotor shaft to enclose it at least over a tangential partial region, especially in the form of a spreader ring for fitting onto the rotor shaft, and a spring element pressing axially elastically against the stator part for axial play compensation as part of the securing element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2003Publication date: October 9, 2003Inventor: Klaus Zaps
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Patent number: 6508140Abstract: In a very simple production and assembly process, reliable stop absorption between a drive-side gear wheel (1) and a driven-side carrier (2) is obtained when there is a mutual relative movement between the gear wheel (1) and the carrier (2) that is caused by the stop. To this end, a cam (2.1) of the carrier (2) elastically deforms a spring element (1.1) of the gear wheel (1) via a tangential stop bevel (1.11; 1.12). The gear wheel (1) and the carrier (2) are preferably configured as injection molded parts, which are axially spaced and interconnected when produced and assembled and which can be axially fit together by releasing or breaking the connection.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2001Date of Patent: January 21, 2003Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Klaus Zaps
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Publication number: 20020000135Abstract: In a very simple production and assembly process, reliable stop absorption between a drive-side gear wheel (1) and a driven-side carrier (2) is obtained when there is a mutual relative movement between the gear wheel (1) and the carrier (2) that is caused by the stop. To this end, a cam (2.1) of the carrier (2) elastically deforms a spring element (1.1) of the gear wheel (1) via a tangential stop bevel (1.11; 1.12). The gear wheel (1) and the carrier (2) are preferably configured as injection molded parts, which are axially spaced and interconnected when produced and assembled and which can be axially fit together by releasing or breaking the connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2001Publication date: January 3, 2002Applicant: SIEMENS AGInventor: Klaus Zaps
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Patent number: 5280211Abstract: In a stator-excited synchronous machine with laminated sector stator elements (SS1 or SS2), which are arranged one behind another at an axial distance and are winding-excited by in each case one excitation winding part (EW1 or EW2) of opposite polarity, the operating efficiency can be increased with low outlay when a permanent magnet arrangement (M) having a magnetization opposing the winding excitation in the sector stator elements is provided in the axial spacing chamber between the sector stator elements (SS1 or SS2); in order to lock the position of the magnet arrangement (M), the facing laminations of the magnet arrangement (M) have bent-away tongues (Z) gripping radially from below.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 1992Date of Patent: January 18, 1994Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Werner Freise, Helmut Schmidt, Wolfgang Weinhold, Udo Winter, Klaus Zaps