Patents by Inventor Sven Kuerschner

Sven Kuerschner 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: 7775800
    Abstract: A device for electrically interconnecting two relatively rotating members, such as a vehicle steering wheel and steering column assembly, has a stationary housing portion carried with the steering column assembly and a moving housing portion carried with the steering wheel. A plurality of flexible, electrically conductive wires are spirally wound around the device between the two housing portions. Each conductive wire is guided in a direction-reversing loop formed therein. Each conductive wire is affixed at each of its two respective ends at electrical terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Reischl, Sven Kuerschner, Dieter Kurz, Peter Leng
  • Patent number: 7748985
    Abstract: A connecting device arranged between a steering wheel and a pitman module of a motor vehicle encompasses a stator part and a rotor part accommodated therein for enclosing a flexible line comprising several individual electrical conductors, is taken up with its two wide sides via a U-shaped turning section with several windings onto the axially aligned inner wall of the rotor part and spaced apart, and conversely said line is taken up with several additional windings onto the likewise axially aligned outer wall of the stator part, and is held with its two narrow sides between the radially aligned base which in the area of the inner wall is a component of the rotor part and in the area of the outer wall is a component of the stator part, and the radially aligned cover wall of the rotor part. The base and/or the cover wall are designed so that between the inner wall and the outer wall said walls only form sections of a supporting surface for the narrow sides of the line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sven Kuerschner, Lutz Schneider
  • Patent number: 7552946
    Abstract: A fastening device for a steering column module of a vehicle includes a housing bottom (30) coupled to an essentially tubular fastening flange (20), which module is mounted on the steering column jacket (10) of a steering spindle. The fastening flange (20) has at least one radially movable arresting block (40, 40?), which, in a fastening position of the fastening flange (20), engages in a corresponding radial recess (12, 12?) of the steering column jacket (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sven Kuerschner, Joerg Schoenleber, Gerd Rudolph, Hans Peter Kunz
  • Publication number: 20080254646
    Abstract: An electrical connecting device, in particular for arrangement between steering wheel and steering column switch module of a motor vehicle, comprises a stationary housing portion and a housing portion rotatable relative thereto, which in each case carry a terminal unit and surround at least one spirally wound flexible electrical wire which is in each case connected terminally to the terminal units and guided in a direction-changing loop within the housing. At least one additional, spirally wound, flexible electrical wire is provided, which is connected to the terminal units and which is guided in a direction-reversing loop within the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Erik Reischl, Sven Kuerschner, Dieter Kurz, Peter Leng
  • Publication number: 20070123079
    Abstract: A connecting device arranged between a steering wheel and a pitman module of a motor vehicle encompasses a stator part and a rotor part accommodated therein for enclosing a flexible line comprising several individual electrical conductors, is taken up with its two wide sides via a U-shaped turning section with several windings onto the axially aligned inner wall of the rotor part and spaced apart, and conversely said line is taken up with several additional windings onto the likewise axially aligned outer wall of the stator part, and is held with its two narrow sides between the radially aligned base which in the area of the inner wall is a component of the rotor part and in the area of the outer wall is a component of the stator part, and the radially aligned cover wall of the rotor part. The base and/or the cover wall are designed so that between the inner wall and the outer wall said walls only form sections of a supporting surface for the narrow sides of the line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Sven Kuerschner, Lutz Schneider
  • Patent number: 7147496
    Abstract: Electrical connection device, for arrangement between a steering wheel and a steering column module of a vehicle, which includes a rotor part (2) and a stator part (3) for enclosure of at least one electrical conductor connected to it at the end, in which the rotor part (2) inserted into the stator part (3) is non-rotatably connected with a guide ring (6) mounted in the stator part (3), and a blocking rocker (12) acted upon by a compression spring, to be released by mounting the steering wheel (1), is present for fastening the rotor part (2) in an assembly position. The blocking rocker (12) acts between the guide ring (6) and the stator part (3) so that a relative rotation is prevented when the steering wheel (1) is not installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Sven Kuerschner
  • Publication number: 20060141834
    Abstract: Electrical connection device, for arrangement between a steering wheel and a steering column module of a vehicle, which includes a rotor part (2) and a stator part (3) for enclosure of at least one electrical conductor connected to it at the end, in which the rotor part (2) inserted into the stator part (3) is non-rotatably connected with a guide ring (6) mounted in the stator part (3), and a blocking rocker (12) acted upon by a compression spring, to be released by mounting the steering wheel (1), is present for fastening the rotor part (2) in an assembly position. The blocking rocker (12) acts between the guide ring (6) and the stator part (3) so that a relative rotation is prevented when the steering wheel (1) is not installed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Inventor: Sven Kuerschner
  • Publication number: 20060061079
    Abstract: A fastening device for a steering column module of a vehicle includes a housing bottom (30) coupled to an essentially tubular fastening flange (20), which module is mounted on the steering column jacket (10) of a steering spindle. The fastening flange (20) has at least one radially movable arresting block (40, 40?), which, in a fastening position of the fastening flange (20), engages in a corresponding radial recess (12, 12?) of the steering column jacket (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventors: Sven Kuerschner, Joerg Schoenleber, Gerd Rudolph, Hans Kunz