Patents by Inventor Matthias Doelling

Matthias Doelling 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: 8997961
    Abstract: A dual clutch arrangement for a transmission that is provided with a first input shaft and a second input shaft has a clutch housing that is connectable to a drive train in a rotationally fixed fashion. The first and second friction clutches can transmit a torque between the clutch housing and the first and the second input shafts, respectively. The first and second friction clutches are nested in the radial direction with respect to each other and actuated by a first and a second actuating unit that have pistons for pressuring clutch disk packs. The compressive force exerted by the piston of the first actuating unit and the compressive force exerted by the piston of the second actuating unit are directed in axially opposite directions with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Getrag Ford Trasmissions GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Absenger, Friedel Lauscher, Matthias Doelling, Andreas Hegerath, Hansi Gremplini
  • Patent number: 8322246
    Abstract: A gear shift mechanism of a gear shift transmission having a plurality of gears is described. A first movable gear shift fork and at least one second movable gear shift fork are provided for engaging gears of the gear shift transmission and assuming a neutral position as well as an engaged position where a gear allocated to a respective one of the first and second gear shift forks is engaged. A locking mechanism comprising a locking element is provided that prevents that both gear shift forks can assume at the same time unintentionally an engaged position. The locking mechanism is designed such that in a locking position a force for moving the first gear shift fork out of its neutral position does not generate a resulting component of force that would force the locking element against the second gear shift fork.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Getrag Ford Transmissions GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Doelling, Andreas Hegerath, Patrick Soehnge
  • Publication number: 20120241278
    Abstract: A dual clutch arrangement for a transmission that is provided with a first input shaft and a second input shaft has a clutch housing that is connectable to a drive train in a rotationally fixed fashion. The first and second friction clutches can transmit a torque between the clutch housing and the first and the second input shafts, respectively. The first and second friction clutches are nested in the radial direction with respect to each other and actuated by a first and a second actuating unit that have pistons for pressuring clutch disk packs. The compressive force exerted by the piston of the first actuating unit and the compressive force exerted by the piston of the second actuating unit are directed in axially opposite directions with respect to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Marc Absenger, Friedel Lauscher, Matthias Doelling, Andreas Hegerath, Hansi Gremplini
  • Patent number: 8274186
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hybrid drive train for a motor vehicle, comprising a clutch arrangement having a first rotatable clutch part and a second rotatable clutch part, which clutch parts can be separated from one another and which can be connected to one another, and comprising an electrical machine which is arranged concentrically with respect to the first clutch part and has a rotor, wherein the rotor is connected with the first clutch part and comprises a plurality of magnetic flux influencing portions, the magnetic flux influencing portions being arranged distributed over the circumference of the rotor with a predetermined rotor pitch. Here, the first clutch part comprises a shaft toothing that is adapted to the rotor pitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: GETRAG Getriebe- und Zahnradfabrik Hermann Hagenmeyer GmbH & Cie KG
    Inventors: Uli Christian Blessing, Bernd Blankenbach, Benjamin Kesel, Winfried Schulz, Kevin Gutmann, Matthias Doelling, Mark Absenger
  • Publication number: 20110057522
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hybrid drive train for a motor vehicle, comprising a clutch arrangement having a first rotatable clutch part and a second rotatable clutch part, which clutch parts can be separated from one another and which can be connected to one another, and comprising an electrical machine which is arranged concentrically with respect to the first clutch part and has a rotor, wherein the rotor is connected with the first clutch part and comprises a plurality of magnetic flux influencing portions, the magnetic flux influencing portions being arranged distributed over the circumference of the rotor with a predetermined rotor pitch. Here, the first clutch part comprises a shaft toothing that is adapted to the rotor pitch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicants: GETRAG Getriebe- und Zahnradfabrik Hermann Hagenmeyer GmbH & Cie KG, GETRAG FORD Transmissions GmbH
    Inventors: Uli Christian Blessing, Bernd Blankenbach, Benjamin Kesel, Winfried Schulz, Kevin Gutmann, Matthias Doelling, Mark Absenger
  • Publication number: 20100083785
    Abstract: A gear shift mechanism of a gear shift transmission having a plurality of gears is described. A first movable gear shift fork and at least one second movable gear shift fork are provided for engaging gears of the gear shift transmission and assuming a neutral position as well as an engaged position where a gear allocated to a respective one of the first and second gear shift forks is engaged. A locking mechanism comprising a locking element is provided that prevents that both gear shift forks can assume at the same time unintentionally an engaged position. The locking mechanism is designed such that in a locking position a force for moving the first gear shift fork out of its neutral position does not generate a resulting component of force that would force the locking element against the second gear shift fork.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: GETRAG FORD TRANSMISSIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Doelling, Andreas Hegerath, Patrick Soehnge
  • Patent number: 6205880
    Abstract: In a gearshift device for change-speed gearboxes of motor vehicles, having a shifter shaft (1) movable both axially and radially in the gearbox housing and engaging at one end with an actuating lever arrangement (3) with which in turn corresponding ends of a gearshift linkage or of Bowden gearshift cables engage, substantially parallel to the shifter shaft (1) a supporting pin (6) projecting from the gearbox housing or from a closing plate (2) and having a ball-and-socket joint (7) with only two degrees of twisting freedom is provided, on which is supported a three-armed actuating lever (8), the three arms (9, 10 and 11) of which are disposed perpendicular to each other in the manner of orthogonal axes of coordinates, one of said arms (9) being connected by way of a ball-and-socket joint (12) to a pin (4) projecting radially from the shifter shaft (1) and the two other said arms (10 and 11) being connected by way of their ball-and-socket joints (13 and 14) to the corresponding ends of a gearshift linkage or o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hartmut Deidewig, Jean-Pierre Chazotte, Matthias Doelling
  • Patent number: 5979262
    Abstract: In a gearshift device for a motor vehicle manual transmission, comprising a shift finger (6), located on an axially slidable and radially twistable shift shaft (1), which can be brought into engagement with grooves in shift arms of shift forks and which carries a cylindrical guide member (4), movable together with the shift finger, which co-operates with at least one spring-loaded ball catch (8), the cylindrical guide member (4) is formed of sheet material and exhibits a shift gate (9), in the form of a stamped slit, for a stationary shift pin (7), to guide the shifting movement and is provided at the outer circumference with troughs (10) extending parallel to the cylinder axis to latch with a stationary, spring loaded ball catch (8), and a part-cylindrical spring segment (11) is disposed within the cylindrical guide member (4) and is provided with a ramp-like depression (15) which co-operates with the stationary, rotatably mounted shift pin (7) to form a reverse gear shift block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthias Doelling, Jean-Pierre Chazotte, Hartmut Deidewig