Patents by Inventor Matthias Butz

Matthias Butz 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: 10082186
    Abstract: A brake lining retention device for a disc brake of a motor vehicle. The brake lining retention device includes a brake carrier fixed at the vehicle side and having a lining shaft for receiving a brake lining, wherein the lining shaft is delimited at the brake disc leading side in relation to a main rotation direction of the brake disc and delimited at the brake disc trailing side by a lining horn-like member of the brake carrier. The brake lining retention device includes a brake lining guided in the lining shaft and has a lining retention member and a friction lining fixed thereto, and a resilient element supported on a lining horn-like member and a support face of the lining retention member, wherein the face is adjacent to the lining horn-like member and the resilient element is inserted in a recess of the lining retention member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: MAN TRUCK & BUS AG
    Inventors: Matthias Butz, Florian Orgler
  • Publication number: 20170227076
    Abstract: A brake lining retention device for a disc brake of a motor vehicle. The brake lining retention device includes a brake carrier fixed at the vehicle side and having a lining shaft for receiving a brake lining, wherein the lining shaft is delimited at the brake disc leading side in relation to a main rotation direction of the brake disc and delimited at the brake disc trailing side by a lining horn-like member of the brake carrier. The brake lining retention device includes a brake lining guided in the lining shaft and has a lining retention member and a friction lining fixed thereto, and a resilient element supported on a lining horn-like member and a support face of the lining retention member, wherein the face is adjacent to the lining horn-like member and the resilient element is inserted in a recess of the lining retention member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Matthias Butz, Florian Orgler
  • Patent number: 9695897
    Abstract: A brake disc for a vehicle has a wear indicator disposed in a braking surface of the brake disc and embodied such that its appearance in a top view of the braking surface changes across a reducing level of wear. The brake disc further has a reference indicator disposed in the braking surface of the brake disc and is embodied such that its appearance in a top view of the braking surface does not change across the reducing level of wear or changes differently in a specified manner relative to the change in the wear indicator so that wear progression can be discerned from the appearance of the wear indicator in relation to the appearance of the reference indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: MAN TRUCK & BUS AG
    Inventors: Matthias Butz, Florian Orgler
  • Publication number: 20170038000
    Abstract: A device for fastening a wear sensor to a brake lever of a vehicle brake, in particular to a brake lever having an integrated adjustment function for the vehicle brake. The device having an integrated adjustment function of a vehicle brake has a recess for the contactless passage of a brake shaft; a first fastening point for fastening a first side of the device to a housing portion of the brake lever; and at least one second fastening point for fastening a wear sensor to a second side of the device opposite the first side, wherein the second fastening point is arranged spaced apart from the first fastening point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Ludwig Füchsle, Matthias Butz, Thomas Wittmann
  • Patent number: 9355346
    Abstract: A wearing part, preferably for a vehicle, contains a wear indicator whose appearance changes depending on a wear condition of the wearing part. The wear indicator contains a multidimensional pattern that is disposed on the wearing part such that different levels of the pattern are exposed depending on the wear condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: MAN Truck & Bus AG
    Inventor: Matthias Butz
  • Publication number: 20150269468
    Abstract: A wearing part, preferably for a vehicle, contains a wear indicator whose appearance changes depending on a wear condition of the wearing part. The wear indicator contains a multidimensional pattern that is disposed on the wearing part such that different levels of the pattern are exposed depending on the wear condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventor: MATTHIAS BUTZ
  • Publication number: 20150267768
    Abstract: A brake disc for a vehicle has a wear indicator disposed in a braking surface of the brake disc and embodied such that its appearance in a top view of the braking surface changes across a reducing level of wear. The brake disc further has a reference indicator disposed in the braking surface of the brake disc and is embodied such that its appearance in a top view of the braking surface does not change across the reducing level of wear or changes differently in a specified manner relative to the change in the wear indicator so that wear progression can be discerned from the appearance of the wear indicator in relation to the appearance of the reference indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Matthias Butz, Florian Orgler