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).

  • Patent number: 11933387
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC MOTORS & AUCTUATORS (GERMANY) GMBH
    Inventors: Rainer Bruhn, Martin Spielmann
  • Publication number: 20230052201
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Tanja SIELER, Christian SIELER, Rainer BRUHN
  • Publication number: 20220338616
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Rainer BRUHN, Martin SPIELMANN
  • Publication number: 20210057965
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Niklas HERMANN, Rainer BRUHN, Christian SIELER, Maria GAREIS, Tanja SIELER, Max SCHWING
  • Patent number: 10876623
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (GERMANY) GMBH
    Inventors: Rainer Bruhn, Jian Yang
  • Patent number: 10760667
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (GERMANY) GMBH
    Inventors: Rainer Bruhn, Jian Yang
  • Publication number: 20200124158
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Rainer BRUHN, Jian YANG
  • Publication number: 20200124164
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Rainer BRUHN, Jian YANG
  • Patent number: 10530216
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (GERMANY) GMBH
    Inventors: Rainer Bruhn, Che sakre Bin Shamsol
  • Patent number: 10454231
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (GERMANY) GMBH
    Inventors: Rainer Bruhn, Che sakre Bin Shamsol
  • Patent number: 10454339
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (GERMANY) GMBH
    Inventors: Rainer Bruhn, Che sakre Bin Shamsol
  • Patent number: 10281037
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (GERMANY) GmbH
    Inventors: Niklas Alexander Hermann, Rainer Bruhn
  • Publication number: 20180045308
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Niklas Alexander Hermann, Rainer Bruhn
  • Publication number: 20170093245
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Rainer BRUHN, Che sakre BIN SHAMSOL
  • Publication number: 20170085150
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Rainer BRUHN, Che sakre BIN SHAMSOL
  • Publication number: 20170085048
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Rainer BRUHN, Che sakre BIN SHAMSOL
  • Patent number: 8847538
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Nidec Motors & Actuators (Germany) GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Bruhn, Thomas Voegerl, Andrè Ebel, Che sakre Bin Shamsol
  • Publication number: 20040245885
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Rainer Bruhn, Martin Jauch
  • Publication number: 20040103735
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Inventor: Rainer Bruhn
  • Patent number: 6700246
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Valeo Auto-Electric Wischer und Motoren GmbH
    Inventor: Rainer Bruhn