Patents by Inventor Ralf Heiss

Ralf Heiss 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: 7997803
    Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-friction bearing comprising a first bearing race, a second bearing race and a plurality of anti-friction bodies that are located between the first bearing race and the second bearing race. According to the invention, the anti-friction bodies are arranged in several rows and the pitch diameters of at least two rows differ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Christian Mock, Peter Niebling, Ralf Heiss, Darius Dlugai, Berthold Krautkraemer
  • Patent number: 7857520
    Abstract: A collar, made from plastically deformed material, of a hub. The collar holds at least one inner ring of a wheel bearing unit on the hub in an axially fixed manner. Also, end-side teeth, are formed in the collar for engaging in a mating toothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller, Peter Niebling
  • Patent number: 7597405
    Abstract: The wheel bearing joint unit having an inner ring that sits on a hub of the wheel bearing joint unit. The inner ring is axially retained on the hub using a collar that is formed from the hub. The collar is provided with a toothing which meshes with a corresponding opposite toothing on a joint part. The toothing and the opposite toothing are braced against each other by a screw which rests on the hub and engages into a thread on the joint part. The joint has two axial projections, one which has the toothing to engage the toothing on the collar and another with the threading to engage the screw. These two projections are spaced apart by a groove to provide flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller, Peter Niebling
  • Publication number: 20090116778
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rolling bearing having a first bearing ring, a second bearing ring and a plurality of rolling bodies which are arranged between the first bearing ring and the second bearing ring. The rolling bodies are arranged in at least four rows, at least two rows have a first reference diameter, at least two further rows have a second reference diameter which is different from the first reference diameter, and those rows which have in each case the same reference diameter are arranged symmetrically with respect to a predefined plane which is aligned perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Christian Mock, Peter Niebling, Ralf Heiss
  • Publication number: 20090010586
    Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-friction bearing comprising a first bearing race, a second bearing race and a plurality of anti-friction bodies that are located between the first bearing race and the second bearing race. According to the invention, the anti-friction bearings are arranged in several rows, which are asymmetrical in the longitudinal direction of the anti-friction bearing in relation to any plane that runs perpendicularly to said longitudinal direction of the anti-friction bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Christian Mock, Peter Niebling, Berthold Krautkraemer, Ralf Heiss, Kay Schumacher
  • Publication number: 20090010583
    Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-friction bearing comprising a first bearing race, a second bearing race and a plurality of anti-friction bodies that are located between the first bearing race and the second bearing race. According to the invention, the anti-friction bodies are arranged in several rows and the pitch diameters of at least two rows differ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Christian Mock, Peter Niebling, Ralf Heiss, Darius Dlugai, Berthold Krautkraemer
  • Publication number: 20080193071
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hub on a wheel bearing unit, comprising at least one inner ring, sitting on the hub, whereby the inner ring is axially retained on the hub by a collar, formed from the hub, said collar comprising a toothing. The inner ring has a radially inward projection on the front face thereof and the projection is filled with plastically displaced material from the collar such that the material of the inner ring at least engages in the projection and the material in the projection is enclosed in the radial direction by the inner ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller, Peter Niebling
  • Publication number: 20080185906
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel bearing joint unit comprising at least one inner ring that sits on a hub of the wheel bearing joint unit. Said inner ring is axially retained on the hub by means of a collar that is formed from the hub. The collar is provided with a toothing which meshes with a corresponding opposite toothing on a joint part. The toothing and the opposite toothing are braced against each other with the aid of at least one screw element which rests on the hub and engages into a thread on the joint part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller, Peter Niebling
  • Publication number: 20080175526
    Abstract: The invention relates to a face spline of a toothed rim running in the circumferential direction around a rotation axis on a wheel-bearing arrangement for a driven wheel hub. The face spline is provided for play-free engagement with the counter-spline, facing the face spline and the teeth of the face spline have a wedge-like embodiment such that the geometrical lines of the face spline meet centrally at a common point on the rotation axis and the teeth thus run in the radial direction on the rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller
  • Publication number: 20080156610
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spur toothing on at least one coupling element for transmitting torques about a rotational axis, said spur toothing axially engaging with a corresponding mating cutting. The face cutting is provided with teeth from a material of the coupling element that has been plastically shaped in an at least partially non-cutting manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller, Peter Niebling
  • Publication number: 20080148893
    Abstract: The invention relates to a collar, made form plastically deformed material, of a hub, said collar holding at least one inner ring of a wheel bearing unit on the hub in an axially fixed mariner, and end-side teeth, for engaging in a mating toothing, being formed in said collar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Ernst Masur, Ralf Heiss, Benno Fueller, Peter Niebling