Patents by Inventor Martin Schaller

Martin Schaller 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: 9109665
    Abstract: A power shift transmission has an input shaft, a first output shaft coaxial to the input shaft, a planetary transmission with a planet carrier, which is connected to the input shaft, and at least three shift elements. To minimize drag from open shift elements and to optimize shift times of a connectable synchromesh transmission, the planetary transmission has at least two stepped planetary sets, which may be mounted on a common planet carrier. Each stepped planetary set meshes on input and output sides with at least one sun gear. The first output shaft is connected to an output side sun associated with one stepped planetary set by a first shift element, the first output shaft is connected to an output side sun associated with another stepped planetary set by a second shift element, and input side sun gears are blocked relative to the transmission housing by a third shift element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Ulrich Otten, Martin Schaller
  • Patent number: 9017211
    Abstract: The invention relates to a power shift transmission (10). The power shift transmission comprises an input shaft (18), a first output shaft (20) arranged coaxially to the input shaft (18), a planetary transmission (22) having a planet gear carrier (28), which is connected to the input shaft (18), and at least one dual-stage planetary gear set (30), the dual-stage planetary gear set (30) engaging on the input side with an input-side sun gear (52) and on the output side with an output-side sun gear (44) in each case, and at least two shift elements (24, 26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Ulrich Otten, Martin Schaller
  • Publication number: 20150031491
    Abstract: The invention relates to a power shift transmission (10). The power shift transmission comprises an input shaft (18), a first output shaft (20) arranged coaxially to the input shaft (18), a planetary transmission (22) having a planet gear carrier (28), which is connected to the input shaft (18), and at least one dual-stage planetary gear set (30), the dual-stage planetary gear set (30) engaging on the input side with an input-side sun gear (52) and on the output side with an output-side sun gear (44) in each case, and at least two shift elements (24, 26).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Ulrich Otten, Martin Schaller
  • Publication number: 20140296023
    Abstract: The invention relates to a power shift transmission (10). The power shift transmission (10) comprises an input shaft (18), a first output shaft (20) arranged coaxially to the input shaft (18), a planetary transmission (22) that has a planet carrier (28), which is connected to the input shaft (18) and at least three shift elements (24, 26, 68).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Ulrich Otten, Martin Schaller
  • Patent number: 8756956
    Abstract: A laundry treatment device includes a housing, a container suspended in the housing in an oscillating manner, and a detecting unit for detecting one of the position and the arrangement of the container in the housing. The detecting unit includes a magnetic field-generator that generates a magnetic field; and a magnetic field detector for detecting a magnetic flux density of the magnet field and for determining a direction of field lines of the magnet field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Dudzik, Rainer Jurmann, Thomas Kaltofen, Martin Schaller
  • Publication number: 20100147038
    Abstract: The invention relates to a laundry treatment device, particularly a washing machine, or a laundry dryer, comprising a housing (1), a container (3) suspended in the housing (1) in a swiveling manner, and an apparatus (2) for detecting the position and/or the arrangement of the container (3) in the housing (1), wherein the detection unit (2) comprises a magnetic field-generating clement (2b) and a detector unit (2a) for detecting a magnetic flux density of the magnetic field. The position detection unit (2) is characterized in that the detector unit (2a)) also detects the direction of the magnetic field lines of the magnetic field and determines the position of the container (3) as a function of the flux density and the field line direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicants: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERĂ„TE GMBH, ROBERT SEUFFER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Dudzik, Rainer Jurmann, Thomas Kaltofen, Martin Schaller