Patents by Inventor Lothar Pfeiffer

Lothar Pfeiffer 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: 6556113
    Abstract: An electromagnetic adjusting device for automatic transmissions of motor vehicles has an electromagnet having a magnetic coil, a substantially cup-shaped housing which surrounds the magnetic coil and is composed of a ferromagnetic material, the housing having a housing bottom, a ferromagnetic central part which extends from the housing bottom and supports the magnetic coil, and a movable armature located before the central part and leaving a working air gap so as to form with the housing and the central part a magnetic circuit which has a magnetic resistance for a magnetic flux, and means for changing the magnetic resistance, the means for changing the magnetic resistance including an axial depression provided in the central part and an axially displaceable ferromagnetic filling member inserted in the depression and limiting with a bottom of the depression an auxiliary air gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christiane Ketschau, Markus Deeg, Lothar Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20020121828
    Abstract: An electromagnetic adjusting device for automatic transmissions of motor vehicles has an electromagnet having a magnetic coil, a substantially cup-shaped housing which surrounds the magnetic coil and is composed of a ferromagnetic material, the housing having a housing bottom, a ferromagnetic central part which extends from the housing bottom and supports the magnetic coil, and a movable armature located before the central part and leaving a working air gap so as to form with the housing and the central part a magnetic circuit which has a magnetic resistance for a magnetic flux, and means for changing the magnetic resistance, the means for changing the magnetic resistance including an axial depression provided in the central part and an axially displaceable ferromagnetic filling member inserted in the depression and limiting with a bottom of the depression an auxiliary air gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2002
    Publication date: September 5, 2002
    Inventors: Christiane Ketschau, Markus Deeg, Lothar Pfeiffer