Patents by Inventor Manfred Lappe

Manfred Lappe 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: 4394886
    Abstract: A steering gear with pitmans arm, steering tie rod and steering gear connecting rod for a vehicle with optionally hydraulically boosted, mechanical steering or purely hydraulic steering, and a hydraulic pump, driven by the drive engine, being connected via conduits and a flow regulating- and pressure limiting-valve to a directional control valve from which, on the one hand a line extends to a steering mechanism which is actuated from the steering gear via a cardan shaft and from which lines extend to a two-directional control valve which is connected with the hydraulic cylinders of the front axle and, on the other hand a line extends to a steering valve which is actuated by means of the steering gear and the cardan shaft, oil under pressure flowing either through a line to the directional valve connected with the cylinders for the front axle or through a line to the directional valve connected with the rear axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1983
    Assignee: O&K Orenstein & Koppel Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Uwe Rathje, Manfred Lappe
  • Patent number: 4199038
    Abstract: A steering gear with steering drop arm, steering tie rod and steering gear connecting tie rod for a vehicle, which is drivable on wheels on the road and terrain, with a steering mechanism which is actuated selectively hydraulically supported mechanically or purely hydraulically by means of hydraulic cylinders and electromagnetic valves, whereby changing from the hydraulically supported system to the purely hydraulically operating system is by means of a selective connection of a universal shaft, which is connected with the steering wheel, with one of the two systems which serve the actuation of the steering mechanism. A hydraulic pump, driven by a drive motor, and acting on both systems, is connected with a first control valve via a line, a flow control- and pressure limit- valve and a line. On the one hand a line leads from the first control valve to a steering transmission, the latter being actuated by the steering gear by means of universal shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1980
    Assignee: O & K Orenstein & Koppel Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Uwe Rathje, Manfred Lappe