Patents by Inventor Siegfried Stützle

Siegfried Stützle 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: 7454991
    Abstract: A shiftable multispeed reverse transmission having one input shaft (1) and a plurality of countershafts (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) and one output shaft (8). One of gears and/or idle gears being situated upon the countershafts (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) for non-rotatably connection with the countershafts, via shiftable clutches, for gear and direction change. The reduction ratios being generated by spur pinion stages and at least one shiftable planetary stage (P).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Buck, Wolfgang Rebholz, Siegfried Stützle, Michael Riedhammer, Hugo Burkhart, Michael Herlitzek, Jürgen Legner, Jochen Schneider, Michael Thielmann, Roland Fischer
  • Patent number: 7014028
    Abstract: A drive device comprises a first switchgear (9) and a second switchgear (11) which can be actuated respectively hydraulic pressure in an opening direction and via spring force in a closing direction, and which are provided with a device (26) by which the first switchgear (9) and the second switchgear (11) are to be actuated in the opening direction when the switchgears are actuated in the closing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Buck, Helmut Eymüller, Siegfried Stützle
  • Patent number: 6949042
    Abstract: A shiftable transmission in which at least two clutches (2, 7) actuated in closing direction by spring force and in opening direction by the exertion of pressure are arranged, wherein output of the transmission is stopped by unpressurized shifting of both actuation devices (9, 13) thereby closing both clutches (2, 7). When pressure is exerted upon the second actuation device (13), the actuation force of the first actuation device (9) is composed of a spring force of the first actuation device (9) and a hydraulic force from the pressurization of the second actuation device (13). The clutch belonging to the first actuation device can thus be impinged upon with different forces depending on whether or not the second actuation device is impinged upon with pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Helmut Eymüller, Siegfried Stützle, Jürgen Legner
  • Patent number: 6250180
    Abstract: A traveling mechanism having a driving motor (24) which drives a feed pump (25) and a hydrostatic variable displacement pump (2), a zero fluctuating hydrostatic variable displacement motor (1) which forms with the hydrostatic variable displacement pump (2) a hydrostatic circuit and a hydrostatically driven 2-speed gear mechanism (11) which is engaged when the torque to be transmitted is minimal and the hydrostatic variable displacement motor (1) is at zero displacement capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Jürgen Legner, Egon Mann, Siegfried Stützle