Patents by Inventor Rainer Bruhn
Rainer Bruhn 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).
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Patent number: 11933387Abstract: An electromotive actuator to adjust a height includes an electric motor with a motor shaft, a helical gear assembly operatively connected to the motor shaft, a sleeve-shaped friction brake to act on the motor shaft, and a housing surrounding the electric motor or the helical gear assembly and including a seat of the friction brake. The friction brake includes an opening extending in a radial direction relative to a longitudinal axis of the motor shaft such that the friction brake is attachable to the motor shaft perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NIDEC MOTORS & AUCTUATORS (GERMANY) GMBHInventors: Rainer Bruhn, Martin Spielmann
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Publication number: 20230052201Abstract: A DC-excited brushed motor includes a commutation system with a commutator with vanes uniformly distributed in a circumferential direction and at least two brushes which interact with the vanes, to connect the brushes to a DC voltage network via connecting leads. The commutation system is in a metal housing of the motor, and the motor includes an interference suppressor for the commutation system including an interference suppression choke and a capacitor for each connection lead, and the connection leads include an EMC shield between a connection for the respective capacitor and a housing passage through the metal housing of the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Tanja SIELER, Christian SIELER, Rainer BRUHN
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Publication number: 20220338616Abstract: An electromotive actuator to adjust a height includes an electric motor with a motor shaft, a helical gear assembly operatively connected to the motor shaft, a sleeve-shaped friction brake to act on the motor shaft, and a housing surrounding the electric motor or the helical gear assembly and including a seat of the friction brake. The friction brake includes an opening extending in a radial direction relative to a longitudinal axis of the motor shaft such that the friction brake is attachable to the motor shaft perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Rainer BRUHN, Martin SPIELMANN
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Publication number: 20210057965Abstract: An asymmetrical, direct current excited brushed motor may include a motor shaft; a commutator with a number of lamellae arranged in the circumferential direction; an armature with a number of armature teeth and armature grooves, where anchor windings are arranged in the armature grooves to form coils; at least one brush pair for supplying the coils with power, including two brushes contacting the lamellae; and a number n of permanent magnets in the stator to form a magnetic field, where n is a multiple of 2 and n>2, and where the number of armature teeth is unequal to a multiple of n. A position angle between the brushes of a brush pair is equal to or less than 90° and unequal to a multiple of the position angle between two directly consecutive lamellae.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2020Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Niklas HERMANN, Rainer BRUHN, Christian SIELER, Maria GAREIS, Tanja SIELER, Max SCHWING
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Patent number: 10876623Abstract: A compensating arrangement for compensating axial play for a transmission housing unit, having a housing base body and a rotatable shaft, a first guide surface transversely to the axial direction and a second guide surface obliquely to the axial direction, wherein the shaft is supported between the guide surfaces with the interposition of the compensating arrangement, is configured in the shape of a wedge and is displaceable along the second guide surface in a feed direction transversely to the axial direction in order to compensate axial play of the shaft, wherein the transmission housing unit contains a pre-stressed spring element for the compensating arrangement in the feed direction, wherein the compensating arrangement is configured to increase the frictional force at least in the direction opposite the feed direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (GERMANY) GMBHInventors: Rainer Bruhn, Jian Yang
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Patent number: 10760667Abstract: In a transmission housing unit having a housing base body for a shaft, which is supported with a compensating arrangement between a second end face and a second guide surface. The compensating arrangement has an axial disk. The axial disk and the housing base body have corresponding geometric unbalances in accordance with the poka-yoke principle such that the axial disk is only insertable in a single orientation into the housing base body in the assembly condition.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (GERMANY) GMBHInventors: Rainer Bruhn, Jian Yang
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Publication number: 20200124158Abstract: In a transmission housing unit having a housing base body for a shaft, which is supported with a compensating arrangement between a second end face and a second guide surface. The compensating arrangement has an axial disk. The axial disk and the housing base body have corresponding geometric unbalances in accordance with the poka-yoke principle such that the axial disk is only insertable in a single orientation into the housing base body in the assembly condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Rainer BRUHN, Jian YANG
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Publication number: 20200124164Abstract: A compensating arrangement for compensating axial play for a transmission housing unit, having a housing base body and a rotatable shaft, a first guide surface transversely to the axial direction and a second guide surface obliquely to the axial direction, wherein the shaft is supported between the guide surfaces with the interposition of the compensating arrangement, is configured in the shape of a wedge and is displaceable along the second guide surface in a feed direction transversely to the axial direction in order to compensate axial play of the shaft, wherein the transmission housing unit contains a pre-stressed spring element for the compensating arrangement in the feed direction, wherein the compensating arrangement is configured to increase the frictional force at least in the direction opposite the feed direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Rainer BRUHN, Jian YANG
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Patent number: 10530216Abstract: A motor may include a rotating section; and a stationary section. The rotating section may include a shaft, a rotor core, and a coil wound around the rotor core. The stationary section may include a brush holding device, a housing, a magnet, and a bearing. A first circuit board may be retained by the brush holding device. The housing may include a cylindrical portion, a lid portion, and a bottom portion. The brush holding device may include a brush holder, a plug, a first plug contact element, and a second plug contact element, and at least two brushes. The cylindrical portion of the housing may include a through-hole in a radial direction. The plug may be exposed to the outside through the through-hole, and ends in an axial direction of the brush holder may covered by the lid portion and the bottom portion of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2015Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (GERMANY) GMBHInventors: Rainer Bruhn, Che sakre Bin Shamsol
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Patent number: 10454231Abstract: A brush holding device may include a brush holder; a plug; a first plug contact element and a second plug contact element; and a first circuit board. The first plug contact element and the second plug contact element may be connected with a brush through a choke coil. The first circuit board may include electric-magnetic interference suppression components connected to a first and second contact area of the first circuit board. The electric-magnetic interference suppression components may be electrically connected to the first contact area and the second contact area, and the electric-magnetic interference suppression components may be directly or indirectly grounded.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2015Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (GERMANY) GMBHInventors: Rainer Bruhn, Che sakre Bin Shamsol
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Patent number: 10454339Abstract: A motor may include a rotating section; and a stationary section. The rotating section may include a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, a coil wound around the rotor core, and a sensor magnet fixed to the shaft. The stationary section may include a brush holding device, a housing, a magnet fixed inside the housing, a bearing, a first circuit board, and a second circuit board. The housing may include a cylindrical portion, a lid portion, and a bottom portion. The brush holding device may include a brush holder, a plug, a first plug contact element and a second plug contact element, the first circuit board, a choke coil, and a brush. The first circuit board may include electric-magnetic interference suppression components. The second circuit board may include a magnetic pole facing the sensor magnet.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2015Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (GERMANY) GMBHInventors: Rainer Bruhn, Che sakre Bin Shamsol
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Patent number: 10281037Abstract: A worm gear assembly may include an input shaft having a first and second screw formed axially thereon, a first torque transfer unit comprising a first worm wheel operatively coupled to the first worm screw, a first radial pinion coaxially affixed to the first worm wheel, and a first axial crown wheel operatively coupled to the first radial pinion, and a second torque transfer unit comprising a second worm wheel operatively coupled to the second worm screw, a second radial pinion coaxially affixed to the second worm wheel, and a second axial crown wheel operatively coupled to the second radial pinion, wherein the first radial pinion is in meshed interface with the second radial pinion, and wherein torque differences between the first axial crown wheel and the second axial crown wheel are transmitted at least in part through said meshed interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (GERMANY) GmbHInventors: Niklas Alexander Hermann, Rainer Bruhn
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Publication number: 20180045308Abstract: A worm gear assembly may include an input shaft having a first and second screw formed axially thereon, a first torque transfer unit comprising a first worm wheel operatively coupled to the first worm screw, a first radial pinion coaxially affixed to the first worm wheel, and a first axial crown wheel operatively coupled to the first radial pinion, and a second torque transfer unit comprising a second worm wheel operatively coupled to the second worm screw, a second radial pinion coaxially affixed to the second worm wheel, and a second axial crown wheel operatively coupled to the second radial pinion, wherein the first radial pinion is in meshed interface with the second radial pinion, and wherein torque differences between the first axial crown wheel and the second axial crown wheel are transmitted at least in part through said meshed interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Niklas Alexander Hermann, Rainer Bruhn
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Publication number: 20170093245Abstract: A motor may include a rotating section; and a stationary section. The rotating section may include a shaft, a rotor core, and a coil wound around the rotor core. The stationary section may include a brush holding device, a housing, a magnet, and a bearing. A first circuit board may be retained by the brush holding device. The housing may include a cylindrical portion, a lid portion, and a bottom portion. The brush holding device may include a brush holder, a plug, a first plug contact element, and a second plug contact element, and at least two brushes. The cylindrical portion of the housing may include a through-hole in a radial direction. The plug may be exposed to the outside through the through-hole, and ends in an axial direction of the brush holder may covered by the lid portion and the bottom portion of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2015Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: Rainer BRUHN, Che sakre BIN SHAMSOL
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Publication number: 20170085048Abstract: A brush holding device may include a brush holder; a plug; a first plug contact element and a second plug contact element; and a first circuit board. The first plug contact element and the second plug contact element may be connected with a brush through a choke coil. The first circuit board may include electric-magnetic interference suppression components connected to a first and second contact area of the first circuit board. The electric-magnetic interference suppression components may be electrically connected to the first contact area and the second contact area, and the electric-magnetic interference suppression components may be directly or indirectly grounded.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2015Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventors: Rainer BRUHN, Che sakre BIN SHAMSOL
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Publication number: 20170085150Abstract: A motor may include a rotating section; and a stationary section. The rotating section may include a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, a coil wound around the rotor core, and a sensor magnet fixed to the shaft. The stationary section may include a brush holding device, a housing, a magnet fixed inside the housing, a bearing, a first circuit board, and a second circuit board. The housing may include a cylindrical portion, a lid portion, and a bottom portion. The brush holding device may include a brush holder, a plug, a first plug contact element and a second plug contact element, the first circuit board, a choke coil, and a brush. The first circuit board may include electric-magnetic interference suppression components. The second circuit board may include a magnetic pole facing the sensor magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2015Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventors: Rainer BRUHN, Che sakre BIN SHAMSOL
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Patent number: 8847538Abstract: An electric motor includes at least one first brush and at least one second brush, which are arranged in a stationary fashion and arranged to contact a commutator that rotates with a rotor. The commutator includes at least one cylindrical section with a circumferential surface on which a plurality of segments are arranged with insulating sections interposed between them. In order to detect the rotating speed and position of the rotor, the motor includes brushes with asymmetric circumferential widths or angles or a stator with an uneven magnetization. The motor is arranged to detect only one signal when the rotor rotates for an angle between two adjacent segments.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Nidec Motors & Actuators (Germany) GmbHInventors: Rainer Bruhn, Thomas Voegerl, Andrè Ebel, Che sakre Bin Shamsol
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Publication number: 20040245885Abstract: A brush holder system for an electrical driving device having a brush-holder plate, a central opening for receiving a collector, as well as leaf springs arranged on the brush-holder plate, including respectively a brush, carrying the brush current and pushing the brushes with a preloaded force acting in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the central opening. The brush-holder plate includes guiding means for guiding in a radial direction the brushes or the brush segments including the brushes, the spring leafs.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2004Publication date: December 9, 2004Inventors: Rainer Bruhn, Martin Jauch
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Publication number: 20040103735Abstract: A driving gear, especially a worm gear, includes a drive shaft, an output shaft, a gear housing, a rotating magnetic pole mounted on one of the two shafts, a Hall sensor resting on the gear housing and mounted in the area of the rotating magnetic pole for detecting the rotation of the rotating magnetic pole or the corresponding shaft, and a gear housing cover. The Hall sensor is mounted on a plate that can be inserted in the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2003Publication date: June 3, 2004Inventor: Rainer Bruhn
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Patent number: 6700246Abstract: A tube motor with an electric motor drive with a drive shaft located in a gear box. A reducing gear with a driven shaft is located in a gear box and coupled with the drive shaft via a gear input shaft for rotary securing of the driven shaft especially when the drive is disengaged. A wrap spring brake with a wrap spring works against the gear box, while the drive shaft and the gear input shaft work together with the wrap spring. Located between the wrap spring and the gear housing and secured against torsion is an annular element which diverts a moment introduced by the driven shaft into the gear housing.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2000Date of Patent: March 2, 2004Assignee: Valeo Auto-Electric Wischer und Motoren GmbHInventor: Rainer Bruhn