Patents by Inventor Rainer Fuhrmann

Rainer Fuhrmann 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: 11125302
    Abstract: A hydraulic tensioning device for a chain drive, including tensioning piston, which is guided in a holder and which has locking grooves on the outer peripheral surface of the tensioning piston, and including a locking element, which has at least two annular sections and at least two radial extensions, wherein the locking element can be brought into engagement with one of the locking grooves by the at least two annular sections, and including a clamping stop and a sliding stop, which are axially spaced apart from each other. In order to simplify the design, the holder has at least two axial extensions, which extend in the axial direction between the clamping stop plane and the sliding stop plane. The at least two axial extensions and the tensioning piston do not enclose the at least two radial extensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Alexander Schug, Patrick Wege, Rainer Fuhrmann
  • Patent number: 11125303
    Abstract: A hydraulic tensioning device for a chain drive of an internal combustion engine, having a receptacle and having a tensioning piston which is guided in displaceable fashion in a cylindrical hollow space of the receptacle and which has a piston hollow space, wherein the piston hollow space together with the cylindrical hollow space of the receptacle forms a pressure chamber, and having a pressure relief valve unit arranged in the piston hollow space. The pressure relief valve unit is a preassembled structural unit and comprises a spring, a closing body and a valve seat and also a valve receptacle which surrounds the valve seat in a first subsection, wherein the valve receptacle forms an interference fit with the valve seat, and wherein the valve receptacle or the valve seat in a second subsection form an interference fit with the inner shell surface of the tensioning piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Ullein, Rainer Fuhrmann
  • Patent number: 11054003
    Abstract: A hydraulic tensioning device for a chain drive, having a tensioning piston which is guided in a holder and which, on its outer circumferential surface, has locking grooves, an inner guide which projects into a cavity of the piston, and a locking element which has at least two annular sections and at least two radial extensions, wherein the locking element can be placed in engagement by the at least two annular sections with one of the locking grooves, and having a clamping stop and a sliding stop which are axially spaced apart from one another. To simplify the structural design, the holder has at least two axial extensions which extend in an axial direction between the clamping stop plane and the sliding stop plane, wherein the at least two axial extensions and the tensioning piston do not enclose the at least two radial extensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Rainer Fuhrmann
  • Publication number: 20190170224
    Abstract: A hydraulic tensioning device for a chain drive, having a tensioning piston which is guided in a holder and which, on its outer circumferential surface, has locking grooves, an inner guide which projects into a cavity of the piston, and a locking element which has at least two annular sections and at least two radial extensions, wherein the locking element can be placed in engagement by the at least two annular sections with one of the locking grooves, and having a clamping stop and a sliding stop which are axially spaced apart from one another. To simplify the structural design, the holder has at least two axial extensions which extend in an axial direction between the clamping stop plane and the sliding stop plane, wherein the at least two axial extensions and the tensioning piston do not enclose the at least two radial extensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Rainer Fuhrmann
  • Publication number: 20190128389
    Abstract: A hydraulic tensioning device for a chain drive of an internal combustion engine, having a receptacle and having a tensioning piston which is guided in displaceable fashion in a cylindrical hollow space of the receptacle and which has a piston hollow space, wherein the piston hollow space together with the cylindrical hollow space of the receptacle forms a pressure chamber, and having a pressure relief valve unit arranged in the piston hollow space. The pressure relief valve unit is a preassembled structural unit and comprises a spring, a closing body and a valve seat and also a valve receptacle which surrounds the valve seat in a first subsection, wherein the valve receptacle forms an interference fit with the valve seat, and wherein the valve receptacle or the valve seat in a second subsection form an interference fit with the inner shell surface of the tensioning piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Ullein, Rainer Fuhrmann
  • Publication number: 20190113112
    Abstract: A hydraulic tensioning device for a chain drive, including tensioning piston, which is guided in a holder and which has locking grooves on the outer peripheral surface of the tensioning piston, and including a locking element, which has at least two annular sections and at least two radial extensions, wherein the locking element can be brought into engagement with one of the locking grooves by the at least two annular sections, and including a clamping stop and a sliding stop, which are axially spaced apart from each other. In order to simplify the design, the holder has at least two axial extensions, which extend in the axial direction between the clamping stop plane and the sliding stop plane. The at least two axial extensions and the tensioning piston do not enclose the at least two radial extensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Alexander Schug, Patrick Wege, Rainer Fuhrmann
  • Patent number: 8926461
    Abstract: A guide member, such as a guide rail or a tensioning rail, of a traction mechanism drive, for use on an internal combustion engine. The rail-like guide member, which is preferably manufactured from plastic, has at least one through opening into which a preferably metallic sleeve is inserted and which sleeve has a first end which, projecting out of the through opening, is arranged such that it can be brought into contact with an engine part. The first end of the sleeve has a larger circumference than a second end of the sleeve, which is opposite the first end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Rainer Fuhrmann
  • Patent number: 8690717
    Abstract: A tensioning device for compensating for elongations of the traction mechanism, in particular a chain or a timing belt, of a power transmission drive, in particular on an internal combustion engine, having a tensioning mechanism, in particular a tensioning rail, a sliding shoe or tensioning arm having a tensioning roller. A tensioning element is disposed between a support surface on the tensioning mechanism and a support, in particular on the internal combustion engine, and the support surface on the tensioning mechanism is made of a material which has a high strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Fuhrmann, Thomas Ullein
  • Publication number: 20120024249
    Abstract: A hydraulic backlash compensating element for an internal combustion engine, which has a housing in which a pressure-actuated piston is mounted The piston has a check valve via which oil can flow into the housing, and the check valve has a valve seat and a valve element arranged movably therein. The valve element is a hollow ball.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: Rainer FUHRMANN, Marco KOWALSKI, Markus FISCHER
  • Publication number: 20110294613
    Abstract: A tensioning device for compensating for elongations of the traction mechanism, in particular a chain or a timing belt, of a power transmission drive, in particular on an internal combustion engine, having a tensioning mechanism, in particular a tensioning rail, a sliding shoe or tensioning arm having a tensioning roller. A tensioning element is disposed between a support surface on the tensioning mechanism and a support, in particular on the internal combustion engine, and the support surface on the tensioning mechanism is made of a material which has a high strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Rainer FUHRMANN, Thomas ULLEIN
  • Publication number: 20110105259
    Abstract: A guide member, such as a guide rail or a tensioning rail, of a traction mechanism drive, for use on an internal combustion engine. The rail-like guide member, which is preferably manufactured from plastic, has at least one through opening into which a preferably metallic sleeve is inserted and which sleeve has a first end which, projecting out of the through opening, is arranged such that it can be brought into contact with an engine part. The first end of the sleeve has a larger circumference than a second end of the sleeve, which is opposite the first end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Rainer FUHRMANN
  • Patent number: 7581560
    Abstract: A check valve includes a housing with an inlet opening and an outlet opening along with a cage-like insert disposed therein as a support for a spring element and for guiding a closing body which can be moved against the spring element and which can be moved between a first end position, in which the spring body lies in contact with a seat to form a seal, and a second end position, in which the valve is completely open. The closing body, which is constructed cylindrically and pot-like, is guided with its cylindrical casing surface at the cage-like insert and in contact with the seat with a flat outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignees: Schaeffler KG, IFT GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Koch, Rainer Fuhrmann, Christian Degenhardt, Bernd Stange
  • Publication number: 20080280710
    Abstract: The invention relates to a guide unit (1a) associated with a traction drive means, which guide unit (1a) comprises a tensioning element (3a) and a guide element (4a). The components: the tensioning element (3a) and guide element (4a), which are displaceable separately from one another with respect to a housing (2), are associated with separate regions of the traction means (8) in the operating state of the traction means drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Rainer Fuhrmann, Bert Kroon
  • Publication number: 20060021661
    Abstract: A check valve includes a housing with an inlet opening and an outlet opening along with a cage-like insert disposed therein as a support for a spring element and for guiding a closing body which can be moved against the spring element and which can be moved between a first end position, in which the spring body lies in contact with a seat to form a seal, and a second end position, in which the valve is completely open closing body which is constructed cylindrically and pot-like, is guided with its cylindrical casing surface at the cage-like insert and in contact with the seat with a flat outer surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Inventors: Reinhard Koch, Rainer Fuhrmann, Christian Degenhardt, Bernd Stange