Patents by Inventor Michael Rockl

Michael Rockl 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: 9752647
    Abstract: An additional weight for a wheel for ballasting a drive axle of a working machine includes a first loading disk centrally connected to the drive axle and a second loading disk connected to the first loading disk. The first loading disk has a conical abutment face for pre-positioning the second loading disk relative to the first loading disk. The first and the second loading disks form encoding formations for mutually centering on end faces which face each other and which are in engagement with each other in a connected state of the loading disks. At least one of the end faces of at least one of the loading disks forms a spacer dome. In the connected state, the spacer dome contacts an end face of the other loading disk in order to position the first and the second loading disks with respect to each other in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael Röckl, Dipak Jadhav
  • Publication number: 20160341276
    Abstract: An additional weight for a wheel for ballasting a drive axle of a working machine includes a first loading disk centrally connected to the drive axle and a second loading disk connected to the first loading disk. The first loading disk has a conical abutment face for pre-positioning the second loading disk relative to the first loading disk. The first and the second loading disks form encoding formations for mutually centering on end faces which face each other and which are in engagement with each other in a connected state of the loading disks. At least one of the end faces of at least one of the loading disks forms a spacer dome. In the connected state, the spacer dome contacts an end face of the other loading disk in order to position the first and the second loading disks with respect to each other in an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: MICHAEL RÖCKL, DIPAK JADHAV
  • Publication number: 20010011842
    Abstract: A vehicle wheel includes a wheel rim for mounting a tire thereon and a wheel disc attached to the rim. The wheel disc has an axle mounting flange having a set of wheel bolt holes extending therethrough and arranged in a first inner bolt hole circle for attachment to an axle flange. A reinforcement disc is attached to the wheel disc by bolts. The reinforcement disc has an outer diameter which is larger than an outer diameter of the mounting flange. The wheel disc also includes a mounting ring which is attached to an outer portion of the mounting flange and which projects radially outwardly therefrom. The reinforcement disc has a radial width which is at least twice as large as a radial width of the mounting flange. The wheel bolt holes are used to attach the reinforcement disc to the wheel disc. A further set of bolt holes are formed in the mounting ring, and the reinforcement disc is also attached to the wheel disc by means of bolts which pass through both sets of bolt holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Publication date: August 9, 2001
    Applicant: Deere & Company, a Delaware corporation
    Inventors: Michael Rockl, Paul Smith