Patents by Inventor Roland Langer

Roland Langer 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: 7837392
    Abstract: A wheel bearing arrangement which has at least two rows of rolling bodies for mounting a wheel hub which can be driven with the wheel bearing arrangement by a drive element. The wheel hub is connected to the drive element, and the wheel hub and the drive element engage positively into one another via a pair of mutually corresponding spur toothings. In the wheel bearing arrangement, a value of greater than three is obtained for a ratio of the diameter of a toothing reference circle of the spur toothing in the wheel bearing arrangement to the rolling body row spacing of the at least two rows of rolling bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur, Roland Langer
  • Publication number: 20100284736
    Abstract: For torque transmission, for example between an articulated shaft and a hub to a drive motor vehicle wheel, it is necessary to non-rotatably couple the articulated shaft or a corresponding intermediate piece and the hub to each other. For this purpose, a coupling element, particularly a hub element, is proposed for transmitting torque about a rotational axis that is oriented in an axial direction and has a serration, which extends in the peripheral direction about the rotational axis. The serration has a plurality of teeth. Each tooth is configured as a triangle in a longitudinal section along the peripheral direction such that two tooth faces are formed, which end in a tooth head region, and at least one of the tooth faces is configured convexly in the longitudinal section with respect to an imaginary straight reference tooth face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Sebastian Lorenz, Peter Niebling
  • Patent number: 7806597
    Abstract: A wheel bearing arrangement which as at least two rows of rolling bodies which are used to bear a wheel hub which can be driven by a drive element and which includes a wheel bearing arrangement. The wheel hub is connected to the drive element. The wheel hub and the drive element engage together in a positive fit via a pair of face splines which correspond to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur
  • Publication number: 20100119185
    Abstract: The wheel bearing assembly connects a journal section of the hub and a joint body. The wheel bearing assembly has an adapter section is connected to a joint cap, a journal section is connected to a wheel hub. A separate inner ring is located on the journal section. The adapter section and the journal section intermesh by means of end gearing. The assembly also has a tensioning element that mutually braces the adapter section and the journal section under an overall pre-tension, the end gearing being braced by a first pre-tension along a first force path A between the adapter section and the journal section and the inner ring being braced by a second pre-tension along a second force path B between the adapter section and the journal section. At least some sections of the first and second force paths A and B are parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Raphael Fischer, Peter Niebling, Roland Langer, Pavel Tseluyko, Peter Partheymueller
  • Patent number: 7632020
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sealing arrangement (2) that seals at least one radial intermediate space (21) between at least one inner bearing ring (3) and at least one outer bearing ring (5). Said sealing arrangement (2) comprises at least one first support (17) that supports at least one elastic seal (18) and a second support (19) which supports at least one encoder (10) located outside the intermediate space (21). The encoder (10) is radially oriented towards at least one sensor (14) that is disposed above the encoder (10) in a radially outward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Jens Heim, Heinrich Hofmann, Darius Dlugai, Roland Langer
  • Publication number: 20090285516
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sealing arrangement that seals at least one radial intermediate space between at least one inner bearing ring and at least one outer bearing ring. Said sealing arrangement comprises at least one first support that supports at least one elastic seal and a second support which supports at least one encoder located outside the intermediate space. The encoder is radially oriented towards at least one sensor that is disposed above the encoder in a radially outward direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Peter NIEBLING, Jens HEIM, Heinrich HOFMANN, Darius DLUGAI, Roland LANGER
  • Patent number: 7607837
    Abstract: A wheel bearing module in a wheel carrier that has a wheel bearing and a wheel flange. The wheel flange is mounted using the wheel bearing which allows it to rotate relative to the wheel carrier about a rotation axis. The wheel bearing has at least one outer ring. The wheel bearing is supported, at least in areas and via an outer ring, at least radial to the rotation axis in the wheel carrier. The outer ring has, at the axial end of the outer ring, a flange radially pointing away from the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Jens Heim, Heinrich Hofmann, Roland Langer, Darius Dlugai, Horst Doeppling, Wolfgang Steinberger
  • Patent number: 7604416
    Abstract: The invention relates to an outer ring of a wheel bearing and the axial securing element thereof, which comprises a radial flange. Said radial flange extends radially outward from the axial end of the tubularly embodied outer ring. The flange is provided with recesses which penetrate the flange in an axial direction, are radially open towards the outside, and are used for fastening the flange to a wheel support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Jens Heim, Heinrich Hofmann, Roland Langer, Darius Dlugai, Horst Doeppling, Wolfgang Steinberger
  • Patent number: 7600923
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel bearing in a wheel carrier. This wheel bearing has at least one outer race with at least one row of roll bodies, whereby the wheel bearing is supported at least on a cylindrical section of the outer race at least radial to the rotation axis in the wheel carrier, and the outer race has a flange radial pointing away from the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Jens Heim, Heinrich Hofmann, Roland Langer, Darius Dlugai, Horst Doeppling, Wolfgang Steinberger
  • 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: 20090202186
    Abstract: The bearing arrangement, in order to enable an improved connection of the wheel hub to the rotating joint and better adjust a prestress of the roller bearing, has a face of the axle stub of the wheel hub with a spur gearing element which is non-rotatably connected to a corresponding spur gearing element of the joint body of the rotating joint. The spur gearing elements are disposed at least partially radially and axially beneath the roller bearing, and that the inner bearing ring is connected to a means for the axial tolerance compensation between the inner bearing ring and the counter-surface of the joint body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur
  • Patent number: 7465102
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cold-formed bearing ring (2) and a wheel bearing unit (1) provided with a bearing ring (2). A radial ring groove (16) is formed on the bearing ring (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Heinrich Hofmann, Darius Dlugai, Jens Heim, Roland Langer, Horst Doppling, Wolfgang Steinberger
  • Patent number: 7458727
    Abstract: The invention relates to a seal arrangement for sealing off at least one radial interspace between at least one bearing ring which can rotate and at least one rotationally fixed bearing ring. The seal arrangement is provided with at least a first carrier, the first carrier carrying at least one resilient seal and being fixed to a rotationally fixed bearing ring, and a second carrier, the second carrier being fixed to the bearing ring that can rotate and carrying at least one encoder. The encoder has an outwardly oriented circumferential surface in the shape of a truncated circular cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Jens Heim, Heinrich Hofmann, Darius Dlugai, Roland Langer
  • Publication number: 20080240635
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel bearing arrangement having at least two rows of rolling bodies for mounting a wheel hub which can be driven with the wheel bearing arrangement by a drive element. The wheel hub is connected to the drive element; the wheel hub and the drive element engage positively into one another by means of a pair of mutually corresponding spur toothings. In the wheel bearing arrangement, a value of greater than three, than the numerical value 3, is obtained for a ratio of the diameter (VTK) of a toothing reference circle of the spur toothing in the wheel bearing arrangement to the rolling body row spacing (RA) of the at least two rows of rolling bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur, Roland Langer
  • 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: 20080166078
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sealing arrangement (2) that seals at least one radial intermediate space (21) between at least one inner bearing ring (3) and at least one outer bearing ring (5). Said sealing arrangement (2) comprises at least one first support (17) that supports at least one elastic seal (18) and a second support (19) which supports at least one encoder (10) located outside the intermediate space (21). The encoder (10) is radially oriented towards at least one sensor (14) that is disposed above the encoder (10) in a radially outward direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Peter Niebling, Jens Heim, Heinrich Hofmann, Darius Dlugai, Roland Langer
  • 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: 20080159677
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel bearing arrangement which as at least two rows of rolling bodies which are used to bear a wheel hub which can be driven by means of a drive element and which comprises a wheel bearing arrangement. Said wheel hub is connected to the drive element. The wheel hub and the drive element engage together in a positive fit by means of a pair of face splines which correspond to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2006
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KG
    Inventors: Roland Langer, Peter Niebling, Ernst Masur