Patents by Inventor Thomas Ringholz

Thomas Ringholz 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: 7389584
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a motor vehicle, particularly a motorcycle in which a bent cooling element is disposed between a first and second collector tank. The bent cooling element is provided with a longer and a shorter side as well as lateral connecting planes for joining the cooling element to the collector tanks. The collector tanks are made of a material that has substantially lower strength than the material of the cooling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Thomas Ringholz
  • Publication number: 20070034365
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a motor vehicle, particularly a motorcycle in which a bent cooling element is disposed between a first and second collector tank. The bent cooling element is provided with a longer and a shorter side as well as lateral connecting planes for joining the cooling element to the collector tanks. The collector tanks are made of a material that has substantially lower strength than the material of the cooling element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Thomas Ringholz
  • Patent number: 6006622
    Abstract: A transmission gear is composed of two gear elements provided with teeth on their circumference. The gear elements are displaceable coaxially in the circumferential direction and with their teeth offset with respect to one another. The elements are also connected with one another shapewise by at least one connecting member in such fashion that when a meshing gear engages the gear elements, the existing tooth flank play is reduced or eliminated. In this way the connecting member connects the gear elements so that they are nondisplaceable with respect to one another in the circumferential direction and causes the displacement of the gear elements with respect to one another by virtue of its thermal expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bischof, Klaus Mitterleitner, Thomas Ringholz