Patents by Inventor Patrick Wohlhauser

Patrick Wohlhauser 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).

  • Publication number: 20240052816
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an adjusting device for adjusting the swash plate of an axial piston machine comprising an adjusting piston, which is connected to the swash plate of the axial piston machine via an adjusting lever, and a regulator for adjusting the adjusting pressure acting on the adjusting piston in dependence on a control force acting on a control piston of the regulator, wherein the adjusting piston is connected to the control piston via a feedback spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventor: Patrick WOHLHAUSER
  • Patent number: 11828276
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an adjusting device for adjusting the swash plate of an axial piston machine comprising an adjusting piston, which is connected to the swash plate of the axial piston machine via an adjusting lever, and a regulator for adjusting the adjusting pressure acting on the adjusting piston in dependence on a control force acting on a control piston of the regulator, wherein the adjusting piston is connected to the control piston via a feedback spring. In accordance with the present disclosure the feedback spring is at least partly received in a pot-shaped recess of the control piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: LIEBHERR MACHINES BULLE SA
    Inventor: Patrick Wohlhauser
  • Publication number: 20220106956
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic valve unit for the power or torque regulation comprising a first valve having a control piston displaceably supported in a first valve housing and a second valve coaxially arranged to the first valve and having a pressure piston displaceably supported in a second valve housing. A working pressure applied to a working connection can be reduced to a control pressure applied to a control connection by means of the valve unit in dependence on the position of the control piston. The control piston is preloaded by a setting spring arranged in the first valve. In accordance with the invention, the control piston and the pressure piston are connected to one another with force transmission by an elastic element, with the elastic element being adapted to transmit a force acting on the pressure piston onto the control piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventor: Patrick WOHLHAUSER
  • Publication number: 20220106946
    Abstract: The invention relates to an axial piston machine comprising a swash plate, a drive shaft having a driving mechanism, one or more driving mechanism pivots that are displaceable therein and whose piston stroke can be set by the swash plate, a mechanical adjustment unit for changing the pivot angle of the swash plate, and an externally controllable control valve. The control valve has a valve housing having a control displaceable control piston, with the adjustment device being hydraulically actuable by means of the control valve. An adjustment chamber of the control valve is connectable in dependence on the switched state of the control valve to a high pressure inlet or to a low pressure inlet for the hydraulic pressurization of the adjustment device via a setting pressure connection radially extending through the control piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventor: Patrick Wohlhauser
  • Patent number: 10837467
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydraulic apparatus, in particular to a hydraulic valve or to a hydraulic regulator, having a housing, at least one piston axially displaceably supported in a housing bore, and a respective at least one compression spring acting on the at least one piston, wherein at least one externally accessible regulating screw is adjustable within the housing bore to set the preload of the compression spring in the axial direction, wherein the adjustment distance of the at least one regulating screw is divided into at least two adjustment ranges and the torque to be applied for the adjustment of the regulating screw is larger in a second adjustment range than in a first adjustment range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: LIEBHERR MACHINES BULLE SA
    Inventors: Lennard Geissler, Patrick Wohlhauser
  • Publication number: 20200355171
    Abstract: Axial piston machine comprising a drive shaft, a drive mechanism that is connected thereto for conjoint rotation and comprises one or more drive-mechanism pistons, the piston stroke of which can be set by a swash plate, at least one return spring acting on the swash plate and a setting piston supporting on the swash plate, the axial piston machine comprising at least one control or regulating valve or at least one control or regulating unit, characterized in that a setting piston is guided in the connecting plate and a setting lever acts as a coupling member between the setting piston and the swash plate and the setting-piston axis and the setting-lever axis are positioned in a plane E1, in particular in a half plane E1* extending from the drive-shaft axis M.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventor: Patrick WOHLHAUSER
  • Publication number: 20190145389
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an adjusting device for adjusting the swash plate of an axial piston machine comprising an adjusting piston, which is connected to the swash plate of the axial piston machine via an adjusting lever, and a regulator for adjusting the adjusting pressure acting on the adjusting piston in dependence on a control force acting on a control piston of the regulator, wherein the adjusting piston is connected to the control piston via a feedback spring. In accordance with the present disclosure the feedback spring is at least partly received in a pot-shaped recess of the control piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventor: Patrick WOHLHAUSER
  • Publication number: 20190032681
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydraulic apparatus, in particular to a hydraulic valve or to a hydraulic regulator, having a housing, at least one piston axially displaceably supported in a housing bore, and a respective at least one compression spring acting on the at least one piston, wherein at least one externally accessible regulating screw is adjustable within the housing bore to set the preload of the compression spring in the axial direction, wherein the adjustment distance of the at least one regulating screw is divided into at least two adjustment ranges and the torque to be applied for the adjustment of the regulating screw is larger in a second adjustment range than in a first adjustment range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Lennard Geissler, Patrick Wohlhauser