Patents by Inventor Robert Waninger

Robert Waninger 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: 20200150016
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for measuring and detecting brake dust particles that have been removed from the brake (3). Said device can comprise a particle measuring device (8) for measuring the number of brake dust particles. The particle measuring device (8) can measure the size of the brake dust particles. A removal device (6) for removing or receiving brake dust particles is mounted in an exhaust air duct (10) which conducts an air stream away from a housing (11) surrounding the brake (3). A device (7) is used to guide the brake dust particles from the removal device to the particle measuring device (8). A fan system with a fresh air channel (9) and the exhaust air channel (10) is used to guide an air stream over the brake (3). The device can be an integral component of a brake test level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Dmytro Logovyy, Tobias Kurze, Robert Waninger, Sebastian Gramstat
  • Publication number: 20170101123
    Abstract: A steering wheel for a motor vehicle, includes a rim skeleton and at least one rim casing surrounding the rim skeleton, wherein the rim skeleton and the at least one rim casing rest upon each other with respective border surfaces, and wherein the border surfaces are displaceable relative to each other in at least one section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: ROBERT WANINGER, Peter Pfitzmaier, Peter Schleburg
  • Patent number: 9062730
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internally ventilated brake disk for disk brakes, in particular for motor vehicles, having two friction disks that are arranged adjacent to one another, that are connected to one another by webs that have an essentially radial, preset curvature, and that form cooling channels between them for cooling air, and that are separated from one another in the peripheral direction. According to the invention, the webs in each case extend along a preset curve section of a web curve that has a preset curvature, with the individual web curves, separated from one another in the peripheral direction and extending between an outer peripheral edge and an inner peripheral edge, have an essentially identical design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: AUDI
    Inventor: Robert Waninger
  • Publication number: 20090095582
    Abstract: The invention relates to an internally ventilated brake disk for disk brakes, in particular for motor vehicles, having two friction disks that are arranged adjacent to one another, that are connected to one another by webs that have an essentially radial, preset curvature, and that form cooling channels between them for cooling air, and that are separated from one another in the peripheral direction. According to the invention, the webs (16) in each case extend along a preset curve section of a web curve (17) that has a preset curvature, with the individual web curves (17), separated from one another in the peripheral direction and extending between an outer peripheral edge (10b) and an inner peripheral edge (10a), have an essentially identical design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventor: Robert Waninger
  • Patent number: 7513342
    Abstract: The invention relates to a brake mechanism for a vehicle, in particular for a motor vehicle, with a brake disk and a friction lining. As claimed in the invention, the friction lining forms a reservoir for a protective agent, preferably additives, which transfers the protective agent to the brake disk in the course of a frictional connection between the friction lining and the brake disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Robert Waninger, Nikola Zupan
  • Publication number: 20060137945
    Abstract: The invention relates to a brake mechanism for a vehicle, in particular for a motor vehicle, with a brake disk and a friction lining. As claimed in the invention, the friction lining forms a reservoir for a protective agent, preferably additives, which transfers the protective agent to the brake disk in the course of a frictional connection between the friction lining and the brake disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Inventors: Robert Waninger, Nikola Zupan