Patents by Inventor Stephan Oberle

Stephan Oberle 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: 20150308555
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multicomponent gear having an outer part with a toothed rim, an inner part, and a connecting part made of plastic for the positive locking connection of the inner part and the outer part. The outer part is thereby arranged on an outer circumferential surface and the inner part is arranged on an inner circumferential surface of the connecting part. The connecting part is additionally provided with a plurality of indentations on two opposite primary surfaces lying outside and perpendicular to a rotational axis. The invention is thereby characterized in that the indentations in the first primary surface of the connecting part are, in comparison to the indentations in the second primary surface of the connecting part, arranged offset to each other radially and/or in the circumferential direction to the rotational axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Stephan Oberle, Markus Bernhard, Manuel Seidel, Christian Kutscher, Eugen Stoppel
  • Patent number: 8870286
    Abstract: An adjusting device (10) is provided for a vehicle subassembly to be adjusted. The adjusting device has an adjusting motor which, via an adjusting mechanism, drives a toothed rocker (12) assigned to the vehicle subassembly to be adjusted. The adjusting mechanism structurally reinforces the vehicle subassembly to be adjusted, and an adjusting worm (20) of the structurally reinforcing adjusting mechanism acts directly on the toothed rocker (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignees: Dr. Ing. H.C.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft, IMS Gear GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Jungert, Tassilo Gilbert, Thomas Heger, Nino Andricevic, Jens Fechler, Matthias Koop, Wilfried Synovzik, Wolfram Hofschulte, Stephan Oberle
  • Patent number: 8794096
    Abstract: The invention concerns a gearwheel (1) with a gear rim (2) and an insert (3) whose external diameter (d3) is greater than half of the external diameter (d1) of the gearwheel (1), wherein the insert (3) is surrounded by injection molding by means of a cone mold during the manufacture of the gearwheel. In particular, the gear rim (2), including gear teeth on the external circumference, is formed at the same time during the injection molding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: IMS Gear GmbH
    Inventor: Stephan Oberle
  • Patent number: 8795569
    Abstract: A gearwheel (1) is provided with an external part (2), an insert (3), and a connecting part (4) for creating a form-fitting connection between the external part (2) and the insert (3), wherein the connecting part (4) is made from a material molded between the external part (2) and the insert (3). A method for manufacturing a gearwheel (1) is provided, in which an external part (2) and an insert (3) are form-fittingly connected to a connecting part (4), wherein the minimum of one such connecting part (4) is molded between the external part (2) and the insert (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: IMS Gear GmbH
    Inventor: Stephan Oberle
  • Publication number: 20120104817
    Abstract: An adjusting device (10) is provided for a vehicle subassembly to be adjusted. The adjusting device has an adjusting motor which, via an adjusting mechanism, drives a toothed rocker (12) assigned to the vehicle subassembly to be adjusted. The adjusting mechanism structurally reinforces the vehicle subassembly to be adjusted, and an adjusting worm (20) of the structurally reinforcing adjusting mechanism acts directly on the toothed rocker (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicants: IMS GEAR GMBH, DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Dieter Jungert, Tassilo Gilbert, Thomas Heger, Nino Andricevic, Jens Fechler, Matthias Koop, Wilfried Synovzik, Wolfram Hofschulte, Stephan Oberle
  • Publication number: 20110259136
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a shaft with two front sides and an axis of rotation, whereby the shaft comprises at least one gear with the same axis of rotation, which gear borders at least a first one of the front sides in an axial area. Viewed from radially inside toward radially outside, the gear comprises a connection part with a central receptacle for the shaft, and an outer part with teeth. The connection part is cast directly between the shaft and the outer part. The connection part extends over the shaft in axial direction and covers the first front side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: IMS GEAR GmbH
    Inventors: STEPHAN OBERLE, Bernd Schilling, Uwe Probst, Markus Bernhard
  • Publication number: 20110011195
    Abstract: The invention concerns a gearwheel (1) with a gear rim (2) and an insert (3) whose external diameter (d3) is greater than half of the external diameter (d1) of the gearwheel (1), wherein the insert (3) is surrounded by injection molding by means of a cone mold during the manufacture of the gearwheel. In particular, the gear rim (2), including gear teeth on the external circumference, is formed at the same time during the injection molding process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: IMS GEAR GMBH
    Inventor: Stephan OBERLE
  • Patent number: 7798033
    Abstract: A power-assisted steering system includes a gear mechanism, coupled to a steering column, with a gear and a mating gear. The two transmission gears have teeth (4, 5) via which they engage with each other, movement and power being transmitted from one gear to the other gear via effective profiles of their tooth faces (11, 12). In order to provide a gear mechanism that has an enhanced load-bearing capacity and at the same time can be manufactured in a simple and economical way, the effective profiles of the tooth faces (11, 12) of the gear and the mating gear contact over the height (h4, h5) of the teeth (4, 5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: IMS Gear GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Oberle, Bernd Enzmann
  • Publication number: 20100201030
    Abstract: The invention concerns a gearwheel (1) with an external part (2), an insert (3), and a connecting part (4) for creating a form-fitting connection between the external part (2) and the insert (3), wherein the connecting part (4) is made from a material molded between the external part (2) and the insert (3). According to the method, the invention concerns a method for manufacturing a gearwheel (1), in which an external part (2) and an insert (3) are form-fittingly connected to a connecting part (4), wherein the minimum of one such connecting part (4) is molded between the external part (2) and the insert (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: IMS GEAR GMBH
    Inventor: Stephan OBERLE
  • Patent number: 7681471
    Abstract: A motor-vehicle gear arrangement for a power-assist gearing in a motor vehicle, that includes a gear, a flange arrangement including at least one flange, wherein the gear is located adjacent to the flange in the flange arrangement so as to rotate about a common axis, and at least one connecting element to connect the gear to the at least one flange. This gear arrangement, or a flange for this gear arrangement, is advantageous due to the fact that the ribs are formed on the flange laterally within a plane perpendicularly to the rotational axis so as to reinforce the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: IMS Gear GmbH
    Inventor: Stephan Oberle
  • Publication number: 20090291792
    Abstract: A toothed belt gear for a toothed belt drive with a cup shaped or bell-shaped base body of metal and a cogging arranged on the outside circumference of the base body, in which the cogging of the base body is closed on each of both front sides by a flanged wheel and at least one of the flanged wheels is constructed as a separate part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Inventor: STEPHAN OBERLE
  • Publication number: 20090120713
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor-vehicle/gearwheel arrangement for a motor-vehicle auxiliary gearing having a gearwheel, having a flange arrangement with at least one, preferably two flanges, wherein the gearwheel is arranged adjacent to at least one of the flanges such that these rotate about a common rotational axis and engage one into the other, and with at least one connecting element for connecting the gearwheel to at least one of the flanges. An arrangement according to a first independent embodiment is advantageous in that the gearwheel has at least one connecting-element receiving depression which leads into the body of the gearwheel parallel to the rotational axis, or has, from the body of the gearwheel, an elevation for receiving the connecting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: IMS GEAR GMBH
    Inventor: Stephan Oberle
  • Publication number: 20090038877
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical steering device having a ring gear arrangement made of one ring gear (31), at least one flange (32), and at least one damper that couples the ring gear (31) and flange (32), wherein either the damper has a single damper element that is made of metal or that has metal components, or is made of at least a first damper element (34) and at least a second damper element (35; 35°; 35*), the two damper elements (34, 35; 34, 35°; 34, 35*) having different elasticities. The first damper element (34) has a non-linear spring characteristic line (h(34)) and the second damper element (35; 35°; 35*) has a linear or almost linear spring characteristic line (h(35)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: IMS GEAR GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Willmann, Bernd Enzmann, Stephan Oberle
  • Publication number: 20080073816
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gear composed of an injection-molded material, comprising an internal gate region and an external toothed ring with teeth, wherein each tooth has an external tooth crest and two lateral tooth base segments, at least one locating hole for a driver element engaging from the side, and a weld line of the injection-molded material, wherein the weld line runs from an external wall of the locating hole to the outer circumference of the gear, wherein the weld line runs through the tooth crest of one of the teeth to the outer peripheral surface of the tooth. In addition, an injection-molding method is proposed for the injection molding of such a gear. Due to the path of the weld line through the gear body to the periphery of the tooth, tensile stresses are distributed along a greater distance than is the case in a conventional gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Stephan Oberle, Stefan Hoch, Norbert Willmann
  • Publication number: 20070186711
    Abstract: The invention relates to an engine auxiliary drive for a motor vehicle with a toothed-gear drive, comprising a first (1) and a second gear wheel (2) with teeth flanks (11, 12), engaged with each other, whereby the teeth flanks (11, 12) on the gear wheels (1, 2) in the force transmission region (13) are embodied without involute and progress directly or almost directly from a concave region into a convex region and the first gear wheel (1) is made from plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2005
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Stephan Oberle, Christian Friedrich
  • Publication number: 20070087617
    Abstract: Gearwheel and method for manufacturing a gearwheel The invention concerns a gearwheel (1) with an external part (2), an insert (3), and a connecting part (4) for creating a form-fitting connection between the external part (2) and the insert (3), wherein the connecting part (4) is made from a material molded between the external part (2) and the insert (3). According to the method, the invention concerns a method for manufacturing a gearwheel (1), in which an external part (2) and an insert (3) are form-fittingly connected to a connecting part (4), wherein the minimum of one such connecting part (4) is molded between the external part (2) and the insert (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Inventor: Stephan Oberle
  • Publication number: 20070086907
    Abstract: The invention concerns a gearwheel (1) with a gear rim (2) and an insert (3) whose external diameter (d3) is greater than half of the external diameter (d1) of the gearwheel (1), wherein the insert (3) is surrounded by injection molding by means of a cone mold during the manufacture of the gearwheel. In particular, the gear rim (2), including gear teeth on the external circumference, is formed at the same time during the injection molding process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Inventor: Stephan Oberle
  • Publication number: 20050223831
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor-vehicle gear arrangement for a power-assist gearing in a motor vehicle, that includes a gear, a flange arrangement including at least one flange wherein the gear is located adjacent to the flange in the flange arrangement so as to rotate about a common axis, and at least one connecting element to connect the gear to the at least one flange. This gear arrangement, or a flange for this gear arrangement, is advantageous due to the fact that the ribs are formed on the flange laterally within a plane perpendicularly to the rotational axis so as to reinforce the flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventor: Stephan Oberle
  • Patent number: 6837824
    Abstract: A final control element for superimposed steering engagement of a vehicle steering system with a superposition gear having two input shafts and one output shaft, in order to attain a radial freedom from play, the superposition gear is provided with a two-stage, modified planetary gear, having a planet carrier, at least one stepped planet comprising two axially aligned planet wheels connected to one another fixed against relative rotation, and two sun wheels or ray wheels; the first input shaft is connected to one sun or ray wheel, and the output shaft is connected to the other sun or ray wheel, fixed against relative rotation, while the planet carrier is drivable via the second input shaft, and the at least one stepped planet and the sun wheels are biasing toward provided for suppressing a tooth flank play that occurs between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignees: Robert Bosch GmbH, IMS Morat Soehne GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Reimann, Michael Bock, Willi Nagel, Rolf Knecht, Heinz Gert Hagedorn, Ruediger Tinter, Stephan Oberle, Ralph Eble
  • Publication number: 20040134300
    Abstract: A power-assisted steering system includes a gear mechanism, coupled to a steering column, with a gear and a mating gear. The two transmission gears have teeth (4, 5) via which they engage with each other, movement and power being transmitted from one gear to the other gear via effective profiles of their tooth faces (11, 12). In order to provide a gear mechanism that has an enhanced load-bearing capacity and at the same time can be manufactured in a simple and economical way, the effective profiles of the tooth faces (11, 12) of the gear and the mating gear contact over the height (h4, h5) of the teeth (4, 5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Stephan Oberle, Bernd Enzmann