Patents by Inventor Peter Reif

Peter Reif 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: 11994185
    Abstract: Provided is a brake device for braking a rotational movement of a shaft about the longitudinal axis, wherein the shaft is mounted so as to be rotatable about the longitudinal axis in a direction of rotation and in a counter direction which opposes the direction of rotation. Brake devices typically use constant and relatively high braking torques, to ensure a controlled movement of a movement portion, braked by the brake device, in every situation. However, this increases the energy consumption for a movement of the movement portion, and the wear of the brake device. A brake device equipped with a setting device for mutually opposing setting of a braking torque on the shaft during rotation of the shaft in the direction of rotation, and a counter braking torque during rotation of the shaft in the counter direction is provided. Also provided is a method for controlling a brake device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: STABILUS GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Reif, Jörg Hillen, Andreas Ritter, Peter Oster
  • Publication number: 20240026928
    Abstract: A sealed anti-friction bearing, consisting of an inner bearing ring with a raceway arranged on its outer shell surface, of an outer bearing ring with a raceway arranged on its inner shell surface, and of a multiplicity of rolling bodies which roll between the bearing rings on the raceways, wherein two circumferential annular grooves are machined into the inner shell surface of the outer bearing ring axially on both sides next to the raceway in the outer bearing ring, in which annular grooves two seals are fastened which consist in each case of a circularly annular reinforcement and of an elastomer coating and which, on their inner circumference, comprise in each case one first radial sealing lip which bears against axial surfaces of two undercuts arranged on both sides next to the raceway in the inner bearing ring, in each case one second axial sealing lip which bears against radial surfaces of the undercuts in the inner bearing ring, and in each case one third sealing lip which forms a sealing gap together w
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Fickert-Guenther, Peter Reif, Armin Bender, Christian Schmidt
  • Patent number: 7793490
    Abstract: An exhaust gas system for diesel vehicles has a first exhaust line and a second exhaust line that can be connected at the exhaust end to an engine. The first and second lines with their ends pointing downstream are connected to an SCR catalytic converter and a device with which a reducing agent can be introduced into the exhaust gas at a location situated upstream from the SCR catalytic converter. An injection unit for the reducing agent is provided only on the first exhaust line, and a mixing device is provided upstream from the SCR catalytic converter so that the exhaust lines open into the mixing device, where the exhaust gas stream of the first exhaust line to which the reducing agent has been added becomes mixed with the exhaust gas stream from the second exhaust line that is free of reducing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignees: Faurecia Abgastechnik GmbH, Audi AG
    Inventors: Bernd Amon, Herbert Albert, Peter Reif, Yohann Perrot, M. Stéphane Londos, Werner Peter
  • Publication number: 20080295495
    Abstract: An exhaust gas system for diesel vehicles has a first exhaust line and a second exhaust line that can be connected at the exhaust end to an engine. The first and second lines with their ends pointing downstream are connected to an SCR catalytic converter and a device with which a reducing agent can be introduced into the exhaust gas at a location situated upstream from the SCR catalytic converter. An injection unit for the reducing agent is provided only on the first exhaust line, and a mixing device is provided upstream from the SCR catalytic converter so that the exhaust lines open into the mixing device, where the exhaust gas stream of the first exhaust line to which the reducing agent has been added becomes mixed with the exhaust gas stream from the second exhaust line that is free of reducing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicants: FAURECIA ABGASTECHNIK GMBH, AUDI AG
    Inventors: Bernd Amon, Herbert Albrecht, Peter Reif, Yohann Perrot, M. Stephane Londos, Werner Peter