Patents by Inventor Michael Buss

Michael Buss 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: 10156165
    Abstract: A hydraulic vane-type camshaft adjuster, having a stator and a rotor arranged therein such that the rotor can rotate during control mode, wherein the rotor and the stator form at least two working chambers and are separated by a vane. A locking pin immobilizes the rotor in a rotationally fixed manner in relation to the stator wherein the locking pin is connected to an active accumulator, which deflects the pin if required. The active accumulator is arranged below a rotation axis on a camshaft. A method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co., KG
    Inventors: Gerhard Scheidig, Michael Busse
  • Patent number: 10156164
    Abstract: A camshaft adjuster (4) with a stator (20) that has an outer part (50) for concentrically holding a rotor (22) with vanes (34) arranged around the rotor (22) and a segment (52) projecting from the outer part (50) for engaging between two vanes (34) of the rotor (22), in order to form, together with the two vanes (22), pressure chambers (44) of the camshaft adjuster (4). A cover (1564, 156) is located on an axial side of the ring-shaped outer part, and the cover includes a cavity for holding hydraulic fluid from the pressure chambers (44). The segment (52) may also have a cavity (70) for holding a hydraulic fluid from the pressure chambers (44).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jens Schafer, Martin Steigerwald, Michael Busse, Jurgen Plate, Andreas Wedel, Olaf Boese, Steffen Racklebe
  • Patent number: 10094302
    Abstract: A hydraulic camshaft adjuster for changing the control times of gas exchange valves of an internal combustion engine, designed as a vane cell camshaft adjuster. A control device inserted in the vane selectively opens and interrupts a flow connection between the working chambers. A locking device prevents relative motion between the rotor and the stator in that the rotor is fastened to the stator at a vane position. A switching valve, which has three working ports, a P port and a T port, can be moved into different control positions by an adjusting element,—wherein in the control position, the P port communicates with the working chambers via the A port, the B port is blocked at the switching valve, and the T port communicates with the control device of the vanes via the C port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Michael Busse
  • Patent number: 10093279
    Abstract: A wiper blade for cleaning vehicle windscreens includes a wiper rubber with groove-like holding fixtures formed in the longitudinal sides of the wiper rubber, in which spring strips are partially contained. The spring strips project laterally from the holding fixtures with their longitudinal sides, and having an adapter element consisting at least essentially of plastic for the at least indirect attachment of the wiper blade to a wiper arm. The adapter element exhibits groove-like guides which are disposed on the two longitudinal sides of the adapter element on sides facing one another, wherein the guides encompass the two spring strips on the sections of the spring strips projecting from the holding fixtures. The adapter element is connected to at least one separate reinforcing element which encompasses the spring strips on the sections of said spring strips projecting from the holding fixtures at least section-wise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Wolfgang Scholl, Michael Buss, Jürgen Bommer
  • Publication number: 20180170610
    Abstract: A zipper carton assembly for receiving a blinded trial product includes a carton body having an encircling side wall, a floor, and a covering that together bound an inner compartment for receiving the blinded trial product, an adhesive layer disposed on a portion of the covering, and a removable liner covering at least a portion of adhesive layer. The covering includes an inner closure panel that folds into a closed position to selectively cover an access opening to the inner compartment and an opposing outer closure panel that folds over and is secured to a portion of the inner closure panel by means of the adhesive layer. The removable liner covers the adhesive layer until the zipper carton assembly is ready for sealing. The sealed zipper carton assembly can be opened by removing a zipper tear strip formed in a portion of the covering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventor: Michael Buss
  • Publication number: 20180105313
    Abstract: An attachable panel assembly includes a replacement panel having a mounting panel and a closure panel projecting from the mounting panel. The closure panel has an attachment portion and a removable zipper tear strip disposed between the attachment portion and the mounting panel. The panel assembly also includes a first adhesive layer disposed on the mounting panel and a second adhesive layer disposed on the attachment portion of the replacement closure panel, the first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer being disposed on opposing sides of the replacement panel. A resealable carton system includes the panel assembly attached or attachable to a carton body of a carton assembly by means of the first adhesive layer. The carton assembly can be sealed by closing an inner closure panel of the carton assembly and folding the replacement closure panel so that the second adhesive binds to the inner closure panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Michael Buss
  • Patent number: 9759102
    Abstract: A hydraulic camshaft adjuster, including a rotor and a stator and a hydraulic medium management system, by which at least two chambers separated by a rotor-fixed vane can be or are connected to a hydraulic medium supply device and/or hydraulic medium discharge device by an interposed hydraulic valve, wherein the vane contains a switchable hydraulic medium control device designed for selective release and interruption of a fluid connection from one chamber to the other chamber. A locking device for excluding a rotational movement between the rotor and the stator locks the rotor to the stator in a vane position in which the volume of the two chambers is approximately equal, and includes a pin, interlockable with a stator-fixed component, designed to control the inflow and/or outflow of hydraulic medium to/from a chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Michael Busse
  • Publication number: 20170159579
    Abstract: A hydraulic camshaft adjuster for changing the control times of gas exchange valves of an internal combustion engine, designed as a vane cell camshaft adjuster. A control device inserted in the vane selectively opens and interrupts a flow connection between the working chambers. A locking device prevents relative motion between the rotor and the stator in that the rotor is fastened to the stator at a vane position. A switching valve, which has three working ports, a P port and a T port, can be moved into different control positions by an adjusting element,—wherein in the control position, the P port communicates with the working chambers via the A port, the B port is blocked at the switching valve, and the T port communicates with the control device of the vanes via the C port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Michael Busse
  • Patent number: 9421950
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wiper blade (10) for the cleaning of vehicle windows, with a wiper blade body (12), which is able to be connected to a wiper arm (1) via preferably a wiper blade adapter (11) arranged approximately centrally on the wiper blade body (12), wherein the wiper blade body (12) has a wiper rubber (13) with a wiper lip (14), and wherein a receiving groove (16, 17) which is U-shaped in cross section is formed and in which a strip-shaped spring strip (18, 19) engages in the wiper rubber (13) on both longitudinal sides lying opposite each other. According to the invention, it is provided that the two spring strips (18, 19) are rigidly connected to each other by means of at least one reinforcing element (25), wherein the reinforcing element (25) engages over the wiper blade body (12) on the side facing away from the wiper lip (14) and is connected at least indirectly to the two spring strips (18, 19).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Jürgen Bommer, Michael Buss
  • Publication number: 20160053640
    Abstract: A camshaft adjuster (4) with a stator (20) that has an outer part (50) for concentrically holding a rotor (22) with vanes (34) arranged around the rotor (22) and a segment (52) projecting from the outer part (50) for engaging between two vanes (34) of the rotor (22), in order to form, together with the two vanes (22), pressure chambers (44) of the camshaft adjuster (4). A cover (1564, 156) is located on an axial side of the ring-shaped outer part, and the cover includes a cavity for holding hydraulic fluid from the pressure chambers (44). The segment (52) may also have a cavity (70) for holding a hydraulic fluid from the pressure chambers (44).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jens Schafer, Martin Steigerwald, Michael Busse, Jurgen Plate, Andreas Wedel, Olaf Boese, Steffen Racklebe
  • Publication number: 20160024979
    Abstract: A hydraulic camshaft adjuster, including a rotor and a stator and a hydraulic medium management system, by which at least two chambers separated by a rotor-fixed vane can be or are connected to a hydraulic medium supply device and/or hydraulic medium discharge device by an interposed hydraulic valve, wherein the vane contains a switchable hydraulic medium control device designed for selective release and interruption of a fluid connection from one chamber to the other chamber. A locking device for excluding a rotational movement between the rotor and the stator locks the rotor to the stator in a vane position in which the volume of the two chambers is approximately equal, and includes a pin, interlockable with a stator-fixed component, designed to control the inflow and/or outflow of hydraulic medium to/from a chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventor: Michael Busse
  • Patent number: 9222377
    Abstract: A volume store which has a substantially hollow cylindrical housing and a separating element displaceably disposed within the housing. The housing is fixedly disposed within a hollow chamber of a camshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Matthias Boegershausen, Michael Busse
  • Patent number: 9206713
    Abstract: A stator (20) for a camshaft adjuster (4). The stator (20) has an outer part (50) for concentrically holding a rotor (22) with vanes (34) arranged around the rotor (22) and a segment (52) projecting from the outer part (50) for engaging between two vanes (34) of the rotor (22), in order to form, together with the two vanes (22), pressure chambers (44) of the camshaft adjuster (4). Here, the segment (52) has a cavity (70) for holding a hydraulic fluid from the pressure chambers (44).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jens Schafer, Martin Steigerwald, Michael Busse, Jurgen Plate, Andreas Wedel, Olaf Boese, Steffen Racklebe
  • Patent number: 9188029
    Abstract: A camshaft adjuster having a first component, a second component rotatable relative to the first component within an angular range, and a locking device for locking the first component relative to the second component. The locking device includes a first locking bolt and a second locking bolt on the first component and a central slotted guide on the second component, and wherein the two locking bolts are movably guided between a locking position and an unlocking position and engage in the central slotted guide in a central angular position relative to one another in their locking position. At least one terminal slotted guide, in which the first locking bolt or the second locking bolt engages in its locking position in a terminal angular position differing from the central angular position of the components, is arranged on the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Michael Busse
  • Publication number: 20150322825
    Abstract: A hydraulic camshaft adjuster-having a stator drivable by the internal combustion engine and having a rotor connectable to a camshaft, wherein the rotor is fixed releasably to the stator via at least one first pin-like locking pin in a rotationally fixed manner in a centre position counter to a first rotational direction. The locking pin is designed for moving into and moving out of a first slotted guide in a first axial direction defined by the rotational axis of the stator and/or of the rotor. A second locking pin can be moved in a second axial direction parallel to the first axial direction but in a different direction, into a second slotted guide, so as to secure the rotor relative to the stator in a centre position counter to a second rotational direction in a different direction to the first rotational direction, and can be moved out of the second slotted guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventor: Michael Busse
  • Publication number: 20150240876
    Abstract: A fastening arrangement (1) to connect a camshaft phaser (2) to an end (3) of a camshaft (24) is provided, whereby the camshaft phaser (2) has a hub (4) that is connected to the camshaft end (3) by a fastening screw (5), whereby the hub (4) has an inner conical surface (6) that tapers away from the camshaft phaser (2), and a clamping element (7) is affixed between this inner conical surface (6) and the fastening screw (5), whereby the fastening screw (5) clamps the hub (4) to the camshaft end (3) via the clamping element (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Michael Busse, Felicitas Fust
  • Patent number: 9032924
    Abstract: An arrangement of a camshaft phaser (1) which allows a variable pressure boost in that a rotary piston (7) of the camshaft phaser (1) either creates or eliminates a fluid connection between a first pair of working chambers and a second pair of working chambers arranged in the axial direction (23).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Michael Busse
  • Patent number: 8991344
    Abstract: A directional valve (30) for controlling a hydraulic oil flow from a pressure port (34) via working chambers of a camshaft adjuster (4) to a tank port (58). The directional valve (30) includes an accumulator port (36) for conducting at least a part of the hydraulic oil flowing out of a working chamber into a volume accumulator (54) before said hydraulic oil flows out into the tank port (58), and the accumulator port (36) is connected via a passage (60) to the pressure port (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jens Schafer, Martin Steigerwald, Michael Busse, Jurgen Plate, Steffen Racklebe, Andreas Wedel, Olaf Boese, Robert Heinemann
  • Patent number: D795921
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: E*TRADE Financial Corporation
    Inventors: Shahzad Bhatti, Steven Michael Busse, Douglas Alan Miles, Drew Matthew Santo, Aaron Jason Winkler
  • Patent number: D796542
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: E*TRADE Financial Corporation
    Inventors: Shahzad Bhatti, Steven Michael Busse, Douglas Alan Miles, Drew Matthew Santo, Aaron Jason Winkler