Patents by Inventor Ralph Bohm

Ralph Bohm 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: 9948154
    Abstract: An electronically commutated DC motor has a stator wound with a multi-phase stator winding, a permanent magnet rotor mounted rotatably about a motor axis, a circuit board, a guide plate electrically connected to the winding and a housing component. In one implementation, a DC motor can easily be manufactured with the fewest possible process steps, which exhibits a short axial length and a low weight as well as good heat-dissipation properties. It is also an object of the invention to create a DC motor with integrated electronics, whose motor interior can be filled with oil, and which holds the electronics sealed against this oil. For reasons of logistics, an attempt is also made for partial components, such as the electronics, to be designed such that they are capable of complete prior assembly and testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignees: Buhler Motor GmbH, MELECS EWS GmbH & Co. KG, Swoboda KG
    Inventors: Ralph Böhm, Georg Bernreuther, Olaf Richter, Andreas Wall, Leopold Hellinger, Gerhard Neumann, Armin Koch, Peter Woschni
  • Publication number: 20160099623
    Abstract: An electronically commutated DC motor has a stator wound with a multi-phase stator winding, a permanent magnet rotor mounted rotatably about a motor axis, a circuit board, a guide plate electrically connected to the winding and a housing component. In one implementation, a DC motor can easily be manufactured with the fewest possible process steps, which exhibits a short axial length and a low weight as well as good heat-dissipation properties. It is also an object of the invention to create a DC motor with integrated electronics, whose motor interior can be filled with oil, and which holds the electronics sealed against this oil. For reasons of logistics, an attempt is also made for partial components, such as the electronics, to be designed such that they are capable of complete prior assembly and testing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Ralph Böhm, Georg Bernreuther, Olaf Richter, Andreas Wall, Leopold Hellinger, Gerhard Neumann, Armin Koch, Peter Woschni
  • Patent number: 7377160
    Abstract: A sensor arrangement (1) for a tachometric sensor of an automatic transmission (4) of a motor vehicle, which encompasses a module carrier (2) in which a part of a sensor housing (3) is integrated. The sensor housing (3) is secured in the module carrier (2) or in the transmission housing (4) by way of a guide in the plane and is so affixed as to prevent turning and an apparatus (5) for the generation of a prestress force by way of which the sensor housing (3) is pressed in the direction of the signal disk by way of a projection (8, 8?) acting against the sensor housing (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Ralph Böhm, Gerhard Birkenmaier, Jörg Kurth
  • Publication number: 20060254351
    Abstract: A sensor arrangement (1) for a tachometric sensor of an automatic transmission (4) of a motor vehicle, which encompasses a module carrier (2) in which a part of a sensor housing (3) is integrated. The sensor housing (3) is secured in the module carrier (2) or in the transmission housing (4) by way of a guide in the plane and is so affixed as to prevent turning and an apparatus (5) for the generation of a prestress force by way of which the sensor housing (3) is pressed in the direction of the signal disk by way of a projection (8, 8?) acting against the sensor housing (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Inventors: Ralph Bohm, Gerhard Birkenmaier, Jorg Kurth
  • Publication number: 20050191867
    Abstract: An apparatus for the connection of an electrical or an electronic component 1 with at least one electrical conductor 10, 11, 18; 12, 13. In order to accomplish the realization of an electrical connection of the electrical conductor 10, 11, 18; 12, 13 with a component 1, which connection is vibration resistant, economical and of secure mounting characteristics, provision is made that a contacting apparatus is placed on the component 1 which contacting apparatus has at least one axial and radial electrical contact surface 21, 22, 23, which need not be precisely aligned or only roughly aligned, and which is in electrical communication with electric or electronic equipment within the housing 2 of the component, and on which the housing, at each contact surface 21, 22, 23, respectively, at least one electric conductor 10, 11, 18 in regard to interference with the contact point is mechanically permanently and electrically conductively affixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: Gerhard Birkenmaier, Tilo Marschall, Thies Hameister, Ralph Bohm