Patents by Inventor Peter Neibling

Peter Neibling 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).

  • Wheel mounting with rotatable wheel flange having different plane attachments
    Patent number: 5921633
    Abstract: A wheel mounting for a vehicle, which includes a rotatable wheel flange connected by an antifriction bearing with a stationary part of the wheel mounting. The wheel flange has pluralities of first and second mounting regions circumferentially around the wheel flange and axially spaced at different respective first and second axial locations along the wheel flange. Each of the regions includes fastening areas to which either a brake disk or a wheel rim may be attached. Rivets, pins, or the like may permit axial mounting of the brake disk with play. Radially inwardly facing, generally semicircular holes in the brake disk enable the brake disk to expand without interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: FAG Automobiltechnik AG
    Inventors: Peter Neibling, Heinrich Hofmann, Roland Langer, Rainer Breitenbach
  • Wheel bearing connector and seal unit
    Patent number: 5674011
    Abstract: To permit a reliable, compact, low vibration, lightweight wheel bearing unit having a small number of components and useful for the driven wheels of a motor vehicle, there is a connecting part fastened between the bearing arrangement on the wheel flange and a joint bell at the wheel hub and the connecting part extending between them providing elastic damping by the construction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: FAG Kugelfischer Georg Schafer AG
    Inventors: Heinrich Hofmann, Peter Neibling, Vasilis Hassiotis