Patents by Inventor Thorsten Muller

Thorsten Muller 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: 8694214
    Abstract: An automatic transmission of a motor vehicle driven by an internal combustion engine with a transmission oil circuit, a main oil pump, mechanically driven by a combustion engine, and an auxiliary oil pump (1) that can be electrically driven and is located inside an oil sump (4). It is proposed that the auxiliary oil pump (1) is arranged transversely with respect to the travel direction (x) of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Thorsten Muller, Peter Schiele, Linus Eschenbeck, Oliver Gloge
  • Patent number: 8020654
    Abstract: A drivetrain is proposed for a hybrid motor vehicle, which comprises an electric machine arranged between the vehicle's transmission (2) and a differential (8) of a driven axle in order to drive the axle via a Cardan shaft (7) or another shaft capable of torque transfer in which a transmission (10) made as a reducing gear system is arranged in the force flow direction behind the electric machine in order to produce the necessary speeds and torques and transfer them to the Cardan shaft or to the other shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Thorsten Muller, Markus Hoher, Linus Eschenbeck
  • Publication number: 20090177361
    Abstract: An automatic transmission of a motor vehicle driven by an internal combustion engine with a transmission oil circuit, a main oil pump, mechanically driven by a combustion engine, and an auxiliary oil pump (1) that can be electrically driven and is located inside an oil sump (4). It is proposed that the auxiliary oil pump (1) is arranged transversely with respect to the travel direction (x) of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Thorsten MULLER, Peter Schiele, Linus Eschenbeck, Oliver Gloge
  • Publication number: 20090103876
    Abstract: A cable sleeve for the structured storage and handling of optical waveguides guided in optical waveguide cables is disclosed. The cable sleeve comprises a covering body, which defines an interior. The cable sleeve also comprises a sealing body comprising two dimensionally stable end pieces and a compressible gel element arranged between the end pieces. The sealing body is adapted to be inserted into an opening of the covering body and is operable for feeding optical waveguide cables into the interior and/or for feeding optical waveguide cables out of the interior. The sealing body bears against a stop with an inner one of the two dimensionally stable end pieces. A locking body can be screwed to an outer one of the two dimensionally stable end pieces of the sealing body while compressing the gel element. At least one compensation element is operable for storing the force applied via the locking body and exerting a compression force onto the gel element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Wolf Kluwe, Roman Arnold Theodor Syplacz, Thorsten Muller
  • Publication number: 20090103877
    Abstract: A cable sleeve for the structured storage and handling of optical waveguides guided in optical waveguide cables is disclosed. The cable sleeve comprises a covering body defining an interior. A sealing body comprising two dimensionally stable end pieces and a compressible gel element arranged between the end pieces is adapted to be insert into an opening of the covering body and operable for feeding optical waveguide cables into the interior and/or for feeding optical waveguide cables out of the interior. Spring elements are integrated into the interior of a covering body. When the sealing body is inserted into the opening of the covering body and compressed, the spring elements bear against one of the dimensionally stable end pieces of the sealing body and exert a compression force onto the gel element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Wolf Kluwe, Roman Arnold Theodor Syplacz, Thorsten Muller, Oliver Lapp
  • Publication number: 20090087158
    Abstract: An apparatus for restraining fiber optic cables in the region of a sealing body of a cable sleeve, namely within an interior delimited by the cable sleeve is disclosed. The apparatus has a fitting part which is capable of being fastened on the sealing body of the cable sleeve, and which has a plurality of slide parts acting on the fitting part. Each slide part is used for individually restraining a single fiber optic cable and is capable of being moved in terms of its position relative to the fitting part within predetermined limits for the purpose of matching said slide part to a cable diameter of the respective fiber optic cable to be restrained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Inventors: Jens Knorr, Thorsten Muller, Roman Arnold Theodor Syplacz, Wolf Kluwe
  • Publication number: 20090067804
    Abstract: A splitting apparatus and manipulating apparatus for optical waveguides is disclosed. The splitting apparatus has a bottom plate, a first side and a second side. At least one bundled core guide device, which is used for guiding and/or restraining a plurality of bundled cores, can be inserted into a first bushing region of a splitting apparatus on the first side in such a way that the bundled core guide device latches detachably with ribs and/or the bottom plate of the respective first bushing region. A second bushing region can receive the optical waveguides on the second side, wherein the optical waveguides are individual or loose from the bundled cores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventors: Jens Knorr, Thorsten Muller, Roman Arnold Theodor Syplacz, Wolf Kluwe, Oliver Lapp, Michael Muller, Simon Thibault
  • Publication number: 20090050384
    Abstract: A drivetrain is proposed for a hybrid motor vehicle, which comprises an electric machine arranged between the vehicle's transmission (2) and a differential (8) of a driven axle in order to drive the axle via a Cardan shaft (7) or another shaft capable of torque transfer in which a transmission (10) made as a reducing gear system is arranged in the force flow direction behind the electric machine in order to produce the necessary speeds and torques and transfer them to the Cardan shaft or to the other shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichschafen AG
    Inventors: Thorsten MULLER, Markus Hoher, Linus Eschenbeck
  • Publication number: 20080296116
    Abstract: A friction clutch is configured with a pressure plate arrangement having: a housing rotatably fixed to an abutment arrangement for joint rotation about an axis of rotation; a plate arrangement having at least one intermediate plate and a pressure plate, at least one of the intermediate and pressure plates being mounted in the housing and operative to axially move relative thereto and to rotate about the axis of rotation; an energy storage device coupled to the housing and operative to generate a elastic restoring force exerted on the plate arrangement, the energy storage device being coupled to the pressure plate; a releasing spring arrangement located between the housing and plate arrangement and coupled thereto, the releasing spring arrangement being tensioned to generate an elastic restoring force exerted at least on the pressure plate in a second direction opposite to the first direction in response to the elastic restoring force; and a clutch disk arrangement clamped between the abutment arrangement and
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Andreas Orlamunder, Thorsten Muller, Michael Kuhner, Winfried Bokisch, Sebastian Vogt, Waldemar Mensch
  • Publication number: 20080180006
    Abstract: A force supporting device for assisting a force required to move a flap of an overhead baggage compartment from an open position to a closed position includes a blockable piston cylinder unit attached to the flap for assisting the force required to move the flap, and a triggering device for blocking and releasing the blockable piston cylinder unit as a function of loading of the flap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: Stabilus GmbH
    Inventors: Jorg Hillen, Peter Kohns, Thorsten Muller, Michael Rudesheim, Dieter Wendling
  • Publication number: 20080023287
    Abstract: A drive arrangement for a hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine with a takeoff shaft; an electrical machine with a rotor and a stator; a first and a second clutch, each with an input part and an output part; and a housing, which surrounds at least the clutches and the electrical machine. The input part of the first clutch is in working connection with the takeoff shaft of the internal combustion engine, and the output part of the second clutch can be connected to the drive wheels of the vehicle. A torque-transmitting device for transmitting a torque is installed between the output part of the first clutch and the input part of the second clutch, where the housing has an intermediate housing wall, on which the rotor of the electrical machine is at least indirectly supported, and where the rotor of the electrical machine is or can be connected nonrotatably to the torque-transmitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Andreas Thiede, Udo Niehaus, Thorsten Muller, Alexander Bartha, Michael Wetzel, Christoph Sasse
  • Publication number: 20060289209
    Abstract: An electromotive drive module for installation in a housing between an internal combustion engine and a transmission of a motor vehicle power train. The drive module includes an electric machine with a stator and a rotor and first and second clutch devices, by means of which the rotor can be connected when desired to the internal combustion engine and/or to the transmission for the transmission of torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Wolfgang Grosspietsch, Jorg Sudau, Rudiger Herbst, Christoph Kleuker, Manfred Zimmer, Thomas Busold, Steffen Matschas, Thorsten Muller
  • Publication number: 20060249347
    Abstract: A clutch disk arrangement for a multi-disk clutch has a hub rotatable about an axis of rotation and a plurality of friction lining assemblies connected to the hub by a torsional vibration damper arrangement. The torsional vibration damper arrangement includes a central disk element on the hub and a cover disk element on each side of the central element, where the cover disk elements are permanently connected to each other and are also connected by a damper element arrangement to the central disk element for transmitting torque. A driver formation is provided on at least one of the cover disk elements and an opposing driver formation is arranged on at least one of the friction lining assemblies. The driver formation engages the opposing driver formation so that the at least one of the friction lining assemblies is fixed with respect to rotation relative to the cover disks and is axially displaceable in a direction parallel to the axis of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Inventors: Gerald Buer, Winfried Bokisch, Michael Kuhner, Thorsten Muller, Andreas Orlamunder
  • Patent number: 7005582
    Abstract: A splice protection sleeve flange includes means for clamping a cable, a seal interposed between two rings, one of which can move along the cable, and a frustoconical threaded part which is screwed into the flange and acts both on the moveable ring and on the clamping means. In another aspect, a device for clamping a cable includes a ring on which fingers are each mounted in the form of a hinge, the free end of each finger terminating in a claw turned inwardly towards the axis YY? of the ring and, on the side of the plane where the fingers do not lie, there is provided a means which, by shape complementarity, is intended to cooperate with another clamping device of the same shape but having a ring diameter greater or smaller than a value equal to the largest radial dimension of the fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: CCS Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Thorsten Muller, Jean-Louis Delatouche, Yannick Schreiber, Alberto Rodrigues
  • Publication number: 20060006040
    Abstract: A friction clutch is configured with a pressure plate arrangement having: a housing rotatably fixed to an abutment arrangement for joint rotation about an axis of rotation; a plate arrangement having at least one intermediate plate and a pressure plate, at least one of the intermediate and pressure plates being mounted in the housing and operative to axially move relative thereto and to rotate about the axis of rotation; an energy storage device coupled to the housing and operative to generate a elastic restoring force exerted on the plate arrangement, the energy storage device being coupled to the pressure plate; a releasing spring arrangement located between the housing and plate arrangement and coupled thereto, the releasing spring arrangement being tensioned to generate an elastic restoring force exerted at least on the pressure plate in a second direction opposite to the first direction in response to the elastic restoring force; and a clutch disk arrangement clamped between the abutment arrangement and
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Andreas Orlamunder, Thorsten Muller, Michael Kuhner, Winfried Bokisch, Sebastian Vogt, Waldemar Mensch
  • Publication number: 20050238841
    Abstract: A ring for use in a splice protection sleeve flange includes a collar and means for putting the collar around a cable without slipping the collar over the cable. The collar comprises a base body, the inner and outer circumferential lateral faces of which include a male part and a female part, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Inventors: Alberto Rodrigues, Thorsten Muller, Jean-Louis Delatouche, Yannick Schreiber
  • Patent number: 6944388
    Abstract: A splice protection sleeve includes two half-shells provided with means for assembling them into a shell and at least two end flanges, each of them consisting of sub-flanges assembled by assembling means so as to form an opening for the passage of a cable, the assembling means including two dovetail bars and a wedge joining the two bars together. Furthermore, in a splice protection sleeve according to the invention, the half-shell includes, on the inner face, a cam which extends in the circumferential direction and is followed in this direction by a housing and the flange includes a stub intended to push the cam back before entering the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: CCS Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Alberto Rodrigues, Thorsten Muller, Jean-Louis Delatouche, Yannick Schreiber
  • Publication number: 20050014282
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for parallel and automated evaluation of the blushing of n samples of dispersion films, which comprises (a) providing an illuminated array of n spatially separated samples of the dispersion films, (b) imaging the array of n samples by means of a CCD camera at m+1 different times t0 to tm and digitizing the images, (c) automatically determining multiple brightnesses B(k, ti) for each sample at different times ti selected from t0 to tm from the m+1 different digitized images for at least a portion of the n samples, where B(k, ti) is the brightness of the kth of n samples at the respective time ti and is a measure for the blushing of this sample at this time, (d) determining values P(k) of a parameter characteristic of the kinetics of the blushing from the different brightnesses B(k, ti) for each sample for at least a portion of the n samples, where P(k) is the value of the characteristic parameter for the kth of the n samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2003
    Publication date: January 20, 2005
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schrof, Thorsten Muller, Alexander Centner, Stephan Lehmann, Joachim Hadeler
  • Publication number: 20050000274
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the combinatorial investigation of the hardening of hardenable liquid or viscous formulations (a) in which n hardenable formulations are prepared in parallel in n containers, and (b) the degree of hardening is determined at least once on each of the n formulations by inserting a measurement tip into the formulation with a certain force and measuring the maximum penetration depth achieved as a measure of the degree of hardening of this formulation, and (c) for in each case one composition of the formulations, one or more parameters that are characteristic of the kinetics of hardening are determined from the measurement values for the penetration depth at various times after preparation of the formulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schrof, Thorsten Muller, Sebastian Koltzenburg, Matthias Kroner, Stephan Lehmann, Joachim Hadeler
  • Publication number: 20040231881
    Abstract: A splice protection sleeve flange includes means for clamping a cable, a seal interposed between two rings, one of which can move along the cable, and a frustoconical threaded part which is screwed into the flange and acts both on the moveable ring and on the clamping means. In another aspect, a device for clamping a cable includes a ring on which fingers are each mounted in the form of a hinge, the free end of each finger terminating in a claw turned inwardly towards the axis YY′ of the ring and, on the side of the plane where the fingers do not lie, there is provided a means which, by shape complementarity, is intended to cooperate with another clamping device of the same shape but having a ring diameter greater or smaller than a value equal to the largest radial dimension of the fingers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Thorsten Muller, Jean-Louis Detatouche, Yannick Schreiber, Alberto Rodrigues