Patents by Inventor Rainer Schroeder

Rainer Schroeder 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).

  • Publication number: 20240084508
    Abstract: An installation for producing a fibrous material web, in particular a long-fiber paper or wet nonwoven web, contains a binder wire section having a binder wire for applying an aqueous binder to the fibrous material web, and a dryer section having a dryer fabric for drying and consolidating the fibrous material web. The binder wire section and the dryer section are arranged at a distance from each other, so that the fibrous material web is led from the binder wire to the dryer fabric in a free draw. At least one air extraction device is arranged at the edge of the installation in the region of the distance between the binder wire section and the dryer section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Egon Friesenhahn, Rainer Falkenberg, Andreas Schilz, Ralf Schröder
  • Publication number: 20230417285
    Abstract: A cage of a roller bearing includes at least two cage segments, wherein each cage segment is formed from two side pieces, which are disposed at an axial distance from one another, and from a plurality of webs that are circumferentially distanced from each other and that connect the side pieces in the axial direction, wherein each cage segment forms an arc of a given arc length, the plurality of webs includes a center web, which maintains a distance of half the given arc length from the circumferential ends of the respective cage segment, and wherein the center web is penetrated by a bore the center axis of which approximately runs through the center of gravity of the cage segment, and which is configured to accommodate a radially outwardly directed moving device in a releasable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Schroeder, Andreas Bierlein
  • Publication number: 20230417280
    Abstract: A roller bearing includes inner and outer rings, and a plurality of rolling bodies configured to roll in two rows on corresponding raceways on the inner and outer rings. At least one of the inner ring and outer ring is split radially to form at least two ring portions. The raceway in an abutment region between the at least two ring portions has a ground recess locally deepening the raceway. Each ground recess on the outer ring has an arcuate course extending transversely to the abutment region, the greatest radial depth of the ground recess lies in the abutment region, and each ground recess extends in the circumferential direction of the raceway of the outer ring over a length which is at most the circumferential distance between the contact point of a first rolling body and the contact point of a second rolling body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Bierlein, Rainer Schroeder
  • Patent number: 11846323
    Abstract: A rotor bearing of a wind turbine, in particular a rotor bearing having an improved and simplified axial introduction of force into the inner ring. It is specified for this purpose that the inner ring of the rolling bearing has a greater axial length with respect to the axial length of the outer ring of the rolling bearing by a section of the inner ring that corresponds to the axial length of the outer ring and has the length being adjoined by additional sections, wherein the axial lengths of these sections differ in size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Bierlein, Rainer Schröder
  • Publication number: 20230287930
    Abstract: A reduction in the setting of rollers in a self-aligning roller bearing is provided. The self-aligning roller bearing has inner and outer bearing rings and rollers arranged at least in one roller row. The rollers have a curved lateral surface the direction of the rotation axis and has a radius, and roll over curved raceways of the bearing rings. The raceways are each assigned a groove point around which the curved raceway extends at a radial distance in the direction of the rotation axis. A pressure line intersects the rotation axis at an angle of 90° at a point where these rollers have their largest roller diameter, and the radius of the curved lateral surface is smaller than both radial distances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christoph SCHICKE, Andreas BIERLEIN, Rainer SCHRÖDER
  • Publication number: 20230082969
    Abstract: A rolling bearing has an inner and an outer bearing ring. Each bearing ring has an inner and an outer shell surface. The roller bearing has rolling elements, which roll on raceways provided on the respective shell surfaces of the bearing rings, and a sealing disc connected to one of the bearing rings and operatively connected in a sealing manner to the other bearing ring. To connect the sealing disc to the bearing ring, one of the shell surfaces of the one bearing ring includes a first connecting means and the sealing disc includes a second connecting means. The first connecting means provide a rotating engagement in which the second connecting means engage in a connected state of the bearing ring and the sealing disc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Bierlein, Rainer Schroeder, Lukas Paehler, Simon Wolf
  • Publication number: 20220163067
    Abstract: A rotor bearing of a wind turbine, in particular a rotor bearing having an improved and simplified axial introduction of force into the inner ring. It is specified for this purpose that the inner ring of the rolling bearing has a greater axial length with respect to the axial length of the outer ring of the rolling bearing by a section of the inner ring that corresponds to the axial length of the outer ring and has the length being adjoined by additional sections, wherein the axial lengths of these sections differ in size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas BIERLEIN, Rainer SCHRÖDER
  • Patent number: 10488502
    Abstract: An ultrasound probe and method of forming an ultrasound probe are provided. The ultrasound probe comprises a two-dimensional (2D) transducer assembly having transducer elements arranged in rows and columns. The transducer elements have front and rear surfaces. The front surface is configured to transmit and receive ultrasound signals to and from an object of interest. A thin film flex circuit extends along the rear surface of the transducer assembly. The flex circuit has conductive traces arranged in layers and enclosed within a common dielectric layer. The dielectric layer has a homogeneous composition surrounding the layers of the conductive traces. The conductive traces are electrically interconnected to the corresponding transducer elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Reinhold Bruestle, Thomas Rittenschober, Manuel Schoenauer, Andreas Kremsl, Rainer Schröder
  • Publication number: 20180313943
    Abstract: An ultrasound probe and method of forming an ultrasound probe are provided. The ultrasound probe comprises a two-dimensional (2D) transducer assembly having transducer elements arranged in rows and columns. The transducer elements have front and rear surfaces. The front surface is configured to transmit and receive ultrasound signals to and from an object of interest. A thin film flex circuit extends along the rear surface of the transducer assembly. The flex circuit has conductive traces arranged in layers and enclosed within a common dielectric layer. The dielectric layer has a homogeneous composition surrounding the layers of the conductive traces. The conductive traces are electrically interconnected to the corresponding transducer elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Reinhold Bruestle, Thomas Rittenschober, Manuel Schoenauer, Andreas Kremsl, Rainer Schröder
  • Patent number: 9259767
    Abstract: In a device to clean a component of deposits, at least one first nozzle unit is positioned to spray a fluid at an angle onto a surface of the component that is to be cleaned, the first nozzle unit being provided opposite a border region of the surface of the component that is to be cleaned. At least one second nozzle unit generates a flow of a gaseous medium over the surface to be cleaned and is provided adjacent to edge of the border region of the surface of the component that is to be cleaned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Oce Printing Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Mueller, Stefan Buschmann, Robert Sigismund, Rainer Schroeder
  • Patent number: 8469600
    Abstract: A roller bearing cage for guiding rolling bodies in a rolling body bearing, which has multiple rolling bodies, two cage side elements, between which the rolling bodies are arranged, and which have multiple web appendages to guide the rolling bodies, and multiple connection elements that connect the two cage side elements. The azimuthal position of the connection elements defines a connection area. Exactly one connection element and at least one web appendage are arranged in a connection. The connection element and web appendage are arranged in sections inside a radial interior of the respective cage side elements, the border of which is defined by the positions of the rotation axes of the rolling bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Messerschmidt, Edgar Karbach, Henri Van Der Knokke, Stefan Hierl, Bruno Scherb, Rainer Gebauer, Herbert Roth, Rainer Schroeder, Rudolf Zeidlhack
  • Publication number: 20130152979
    Abstract: In a device to clean a component of deposits, at least one first nozzle unit is positioned to spray a fluid at an angle onto a surface of the component that is to be cleaned, the first nozzle unit being provided opposite a border region of the surface of the component that is to be cleaned. At least one second nozzle unit generates a flow of a gaseous medium over the surface to be cleaned and is provided adjacent to edge of the border region of the surface of the component that is to be cleaned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Andreas Mueller, Stefan Buschmann, Robert Sigismund, Rainer Schroeder
  • Publication number: 20100215297
    Abstract: A roller bearing cage for guiding rolling bodies in a rolling body bearing, which has multiple rolling bodies, two cage side elements, between which the rolling bodies are arranged, and which have multiple web appendages to guide the rolling bodies, and multiple connection elements that connect the two cage side elements. The azimuthal position of the connection elements defines a connection area. Exactly one connection element and at least one web appendage are arranged in a connection area. The connection element and web appendage are arranged in sections inside a radial interior of the respective cage side elements, the border of which is defined by the positions of the rotation axes of the rolling bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Rainer Messerschmidt, Edgar Karbach, Henri Van Der Knokke, Stefan Hierl, Bruno Scherb, Rainer Gebauer, Herbert Roth, Rainer Schroeder, Rudolf Zeidlhack
  • Publication number: 20090304317
    Abstract: Bearing cage, in particular for rolling bearings, with a first cage portion and a second cage portion. According to the invention, the first cage portion has at least one first engagement element, and the second cage portion has at least one second engagement element, and these engagement elements can be brought into engagement with one another by means of a relative movement of the first cage portion with respect to the second cage portion in such a way that an at least form-fit connection is established between the first cage portion and the second cage portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventor: Rainer Schroeder
  • Patent number: 7338213
    Abstract: A barrel-shaped bearing which comprises an external ring and an internal ring, at least one row of barrel-shaped rolling bodies arranged therebetween, the cage in the form of a disk which turns together with the rolling bodies, engages inside a peripheral groove around each rolling body and is provided with recesses corresponding to the number of the rolling bodies of the one row arranged on the external periphery of the cage. The total rolling surface of the internal ring is embodied such that the cross section thereof is concave along the entire axial length of the rolling body. The smallest distance between both sides of the cavity of the disk-shaped cage in the area of the external periphery thereof is less than the diameter of a rolling body in the area of the peripheral groove thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: FAG Kugelfischer AG
    Inventors: Rainer Schröder, Martin Grehn
  • Publication number: 20070189652
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pin-cage, for a twin-row self-aligning roller bearing, essentially comprising an inner ring, an outer ring and several rollers, running adjacently between the above, in two rows on the running tracks of the inner ring and the outer ring. A pin cage is arranged between the roller rows embodied with pins on the axial faces thereof at even spaces with a stepped offset. The rollers of both roller rows each comprise an axial through drilling, by means of which the above are rotatably mounted on the pins of the pin-cage. According to the invention, the pin-cage is embodied as a pre-assembled component without a lateral disc and pins feely extending axially from the above, the length of which is less than the length of the through drillings in the rollers, whereby lubrication of the rollers is achieved by centrifugal force from the free front face thereof through the outer opening of the through drilling thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Rainer Schroeder, Martin Grehn