Patents by Inventor Mario Buhner

Mario Buhner 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).

  • Method for shifting a neutral state of an automatic multi-Stage Transmission
    Publication number: 20090038424
    Abstract: Method for shifting a neutral state of an automatic multi-stage transmission of a motor vehicle, where, to engage and to disengage gear stages of the transmission, shift couplings, at least one of which is equipped with a synchronizing device, can be actuated by a transmission actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Hans-Jurgen Schneider, Thomas John, Mario Buhner
  • Actuating device for automatically actuating a manual transmission
    Patent number: 6105448
    Abstract: An actuating device for automatically actuating a manual transmission, which has an output element that can be driven in a first direction by a first drive and in a second direction by a second drive. Each drive is assigned a sensor which displays an actuating movement and detects a movement if the output element and whose signals are fed to a control device. In the case of a movement of the output element the sensors output to the control device signals assigned to this movement, the signals specifying the respective magnitude of the movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Mannesmann Sachs AG
    Inventors: Udo Borschert, Mario Buhner, Lutz Leimbach, Jens Dorfschmid