Patents by Inventor Rene Budach

Rene Budach 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: 8490727
    Abstract: A hybrid drive train for a motor vehicle comprises an internal combustion engine, and electric machine, with a stator and rotor, and a transmission. A disk clutch is located in the force flow, between the combustion engine and the transmission input shaft, and an outer disk carrier of the disk clutch is fixed to a transmission input stage and an inner disk carrier of the disk clutch is connected to the combustion engine. The rotor of the electric machine drives another element of the transmission input stage, and the disk carriers of the clutch are mounted and centered by two roller bearings which center the inner and outer disk carriers relative to one another and bring them into axial alignment, and axial tolerances within the unit which comprises the electric machine, the separator clutch and the transmission input stage are compensated by displacing and aligning the disk packet of the clutch in the drive gearing of the inner disk carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Kai Borntrager, Bernard Hunold, Max Bachmann, Rene Budach
  • Patent number: 8444519
    Abstract: A hybrid drive train of a motor vehicle which comprises a combustion engine, an electric machine which is operable as a motor and a generator and comprises a stator and a rotor, and a multi-stage planetary transmission with input and output shafts. The driveshaft of the combustion engine can be connected to the input shaft of the transmission, the electric machine is coaxially arranged about the input shaft, and the rotor of the electric machine is rigidly connected with the input shaft. To achieve a starting acceleration and climbing capacity on starting, corresponding to those provided by a drive train with an automatic transmission and a hydrodynamic torque converter or a manual gearshift transmission with a converter shifting clutch, the rotor of the electric machine can be connected with the transmission input shaft via an input transmission stage which is formed as a simple planetary gearset and has a high gear ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Kai Borntraeger, Rene Budach, Axel Michael Mueller
  • Publication number: 20110263370
    Abstract: A hybrid drive train of a motor vehicle which comprises a combustion engine, an electric machine which is operable as a motor and a generator and comprises a stator and a rotor, and a multi-stage planetary transmission with input and output shafts. The driveshaft of the combustion engine can be connected to the input shaft of the transmission, the electric machine is coaxially arranged about the input shaft, and the rotor of the electric machine is rigidly connected with the input shaft. To achieve a starting acceleration and climbing capacity on starting, corresponding to those provided by a drive train with an automatic transmission and a hydrodynamic torque converter or a manual gearshift transmission with a converter shifting clutch, the rotor of the electric machine can be connected with the transmission input shaft via an input transmission stage which is formed as a simple planetary gearset and has a high gear ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Kai Borntraeger, Rene Budach, Axel Michael Mueller
  • Publication number: 20110224043
    Abstract: A hybrid module for the hybrid drive train of a motor vehicle is proposed, comprising an electric motor, a planetary gear assembly and a clutch (6) which connects the drive shaft of the internal combustion engine to the planet carrier (5) of the planetary gear assembly in a releasable manner, wherein the mounting for the rotor (1) and stator (2) is provided by the electric motor by way of the cover (3) of the electric motor, whereby the hub of the rotor (1) serves as the ring gear of the planetary gear assembly of the hybrid module and features a ring gear gearing and whereby the subassembly, comprised of the cover (3), the rotor (1) and the stator (2) can be preassembled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Max Bachmann, Bernard Hunold, Kai Borntraeger, Rene Budach
  • Publication number: 20110132674
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine/hybrid transmission assembly of a motor vehicle, comprising an internal combustion engine and a hybrid module mounted on the internal combustion engine, the internal combustion engine having a flywheel. The hybrid transmission comprises a transmission and a hybrid module. The hybrid module has an electric motor which comprises a stator, on the stator side, and a rotor, on the rotor side, and the stator on the stator side comprises a stator housing, a stator liner which accommodates a stator core, and an end winding positioned on both sides of the stator core, when viewed in the axial direction. The section of the end winding, positioned on the side of the stator core facing the flywheel, is at least partially covered by a section of the flywheel, when viewed in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Kai Borntrager, Bernard Hunold, Max Bachmann, Rene Budach
  • Publication number: 20110124455
    Abstract: A hybrid drive train of a motor vehicle which comprises a combustion engine with a drive shaft and an electric machine which operates as either a motor or generator. The electric machine has a stator and a rotor and surrounds a planetary automatic transmission. The combustion engine drive shaft communicates, via a controllable separating clutch, and the rotor of the electric machine communicates, via the input transmission section, with the automatic transmission input shaft. The electric machine, the separating clutch, and the input transmission section are coaxially combined within a module enclosure of a preassembled hybrid module that has input and output elements. The input element is connected with the drive shaft of the combustion engine and the output element is connected with the input shaft of the automatic transmission, and the hybrid module maintains the dimensions of a conventional hydrodynamic torque converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Kai Borntraeger, Bernard Hunold, Max Bachmann, Rene Budach
  • Publication number: 20110120568
    Abstract: A hydraulic system of a transmission comprises a main transmission pump that can be driven by torque transmitted via the transmission unit and with an auxiliary pump that can be driven by an electric machine, by which primary and secondary pressure circuits can be supplied with hydraulic fluid. Pressure sides of the main transmission pump and the auxiliary pump are connected to the primary pressure circuit upstream of a pressure relief valve provided for adjusting a main pressure in the primary pressure circuit. The pressure relief valve is arranged between the pressure sides of the main transmission pump and the auxiliary pump and the secondary pressure circuit. The pressure side of the auxiliary pump can be actively connected with the secondary pressure circuit, via a hydraulic line which can be blocked in the direction toward the primary and secondary pressure circuits, and which bypasses the pressure-relief valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Kai Borntraeger, Bernard Hunold, Max Bachmann, Rene Budach
  • Publication number: 20110118070
    Abstract: A transmission device (1) having a transmission housing (2) in which several assemblies can be positioned for creating different gear ratios, and a start-up device, preferably a hydrodynamic torque converter. At least one breakout (3, 13) is provided in the wall area of the transmission housing (2), where the edge areas (4) are designed as stiffening zones and through which the torque is brought from the transmission housing (2) to auxiliary drive trains. In the area (5) of the transmission housing (2), which is designated for a start-up device, at least one electric machine (6) of a hybrid system is provided. A connection of the electric machine (6), which is positioned in the transmission housing (2), to power electronic located external of the transmission housing (2), is brought through the at least one breakout (13) of the transmission housing (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Purretat, Ralf Ronnebeck, Alexander Schaflein, Bernard Hunold, Kai Borntraeger, Rene Budach, Max Bachamann, Alexander Gehring
  • Publication number: 20110116859
    Abstract: A device for mounting a hybrid transmission, comprising a transmission unit and a hybrid module, onto an internal combustion engine, namely, for coupling a transmission shaft (10) of the hybrid transmission to a flywheel (13) of the internal combustion engine via a torsion damper (14). The torsion damper (14) can be connected to the transmission shaft (10) by a connecting element (18). The connecting element (18) has a first part (19), with a relatively small diameter, which is clamped to a hub (16) of the torsion damper (14) and a second part (20), with a relatively large diameter, with which, via driving splines (21), the transmission shaft (10) engages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Kai Borntrager, Bernard Hunold, Max Bachmann, Rene Budach
  • Publication number: 20110100736
    Abstract: A hybrid drive train for a motor vehicle comprises an internal combustion engine, and electric machine, with a stator and rotor, and a transmission. A disk clutch is located in the force flow, between the combustion engine and the transmission input shaft, and an outer disk carrier of the disk clutch is fixed to a transmission input stage and an inner disk carrier of the disk clutch is connected to the combustion engine. The rotor of the electric machine drives another element of the transmission input stage, and the disk carriers of the clutch are mounted and centered by two roller bearings which center the inner and outer disk carriers relative to one another and bring them into axial alignment, and axial tolerances within the unit which comprises the electric machine, the separator clutch and the transmission input stage are compensated by displacing and aligning the disk packet of the clutch in the drive gearing of the inner disk carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Kai Borntrager, Bernard Hunold, Max Bachmann, Rene Budach