Patents by Inventor Tobias Linke

Tobias Linke 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: 9714687
    Abstract: A method and device are provided for indicating wear of at least one brake pad in a disc brake having an electric motor actuator. The method adds up wear adjustment travel paths of the electric motor actuator and/or of an adjustment motor, and indicates the sum of the wear adjustment paths so obtained as the wear of the brake pad or as a residual brake pad service life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Linke, Markus Stoehr
  • Patent number: 8820488
    Abstract: A brake lining assembly for a disc brake is configured for road vehicles and includes a brake caliper and brake linings located on either side of the brake disc. An unchecked dismantling of the brake linings is effectively prevented by having a mounting assembly formed from the two brake linings and the lining retaining bracket. To achieve this, the end regions of the lining retaining bracket are connected to at least one of the brake linings in a positive fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Klement, Rudolf Fischer, Tobias Linke
  • Patent number: 8240438
    Abstract: A pneumatic disc brake for utility vehicles has two brake pad carrier plates to which brake pads are fixed. The disc brake is equipped with an application device which has two pressure plungers. By way of a force-absorbing connection between the pressure plungers and the facing surface of the brake pad carrier plate, a bridge is relieved of bending stresses. The end faces of the pressure plungers and at least the contact faces of the facing brake pad carrier plate are provided with profilings, which engage into one another in a form-fitting manner, such that at least in the event of full-load braking, each brake pad is moved in the peripheral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Baumgartner, Tobias Linke
  • Publication number: 20100300816
    Abstract: A method and device are provided for indicating wear of at least one brake pad in a disc brake having an electric motor actuator. The method adds up wear adjustment travel paths of the electric motor actuator and/or of an adjustment motor, and indicates the sum of the wear adjustment paths so obtained as the wear of the brake pad or as a residual brake pad service life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Linke, Markus Stoehr
  • Patent number: 7837015
    Abstract: A brake lining for a disc brake of a road vehicle has a blade-type retaining spring for the lining. At least two peripheral lining springs are situated on each brake lining, adjacent to the retaining spring, and exert a compressive force on at least some sections of the periphery of the lining carrier. The springs are configured in such a way that they respectively cover an edge region of the brake lining carrier, with the latter having at least two corner regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Klement, Rudolf Fischer, Tobias Linke
  • Patent number: 7673722
    Abstract: A disk brake for a vehicle, in particular a commercial vehicle, including an application device, which is used to apply a brake lining to a brake disk by at least one or two actuating spindles running parallel and at a distance from one another in a bridge. The application device has an anti-friction roller, which is supported on a pivotable lever of the application device. The disk brake is configured in such a way that the anti-friction roller is fixed as a separate component radially and axially on the lever and is held by an anti-friction roller holder that is fixed to the lever. The anti-friction roller holder is provided with cage return guides, which, when the lever is pivoted back into an initial position, likewise press the journal bearings into an initial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Tobias Linke
  • Publication number: 20090321195
    Abstract: A pneumatic disc brake for utility vehicles has two brake pad carrier plates to which brake pads are fixed. The disc brake is equipped with an application device which has two pressure plungers. By way of a force-absorbing connection between the pressure plungers and the facing surface of the brake pad carrier plate, a bridge is relieved of bending stresses. The end faces of the pressure plungers and at least the contact faces of the facing brake pad carrier plate are provided with profilings, which engage into one another in a form-fitting manner, such that at least in the event of full-load braking, each brake pad is moved in the peripheral direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2007
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Baumgartner, Tobias Linke
  • Patent number: 7469775
    Abstract: The invention relates to a disc brake, particularly for a goods vehicle, comprising a brake caliper, which has a brake disc that can be brought into active contact with brake shoes and which can be fixed to a brake support in a manner that enables it to be axially displaced relative to the brake disc. The inventive disc brake also comprises a closure plate, which closes the brake caliper on the side facing the brake disc, and comprises a removable retainer, which is fixed relative to the brake caliper and on which springs acting upon the outer edges of the brake shoes are supported. The disc brake is designed in such a manner that a fixing device is provided in the closure plate, and the facing end of the retainer lies inside the fixing device while being held in a direction of loading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Linke, Wlodzimierz Macke
  • Publication number: 20080277215
    Abstract: A brake lining for a disc brake of a road vehicle has a blade-type retaining spring for the lining. At least two peripheral lining springs are situated on each brake lining, adjacent to the retaining spring, and exert a compressive force on at least some sections of the periphery of the lining carrier. The springs are configured in such a way that they respectively cover an edge region of the brake lining carrier, with the latter having at least two corner regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Roland KLEMENT, Rudolf Fischer, Tobias Linke
  • Publication number: 20080264742
    Abstract: A brake lining assembly for a disc brake is configured for road vehicles and includes a brake caliper and brake linings located on either side of the brake disc. An unchecked dismantling of the brake linings is effectively prevented by having a mounting assembly formed from the two brake linings and the lining retaining bracket. To achieve this, the end regions of the lining retaining bracket are connected to at least one of the brake linings in a positive fit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Roland KLEMENT, Rudolf FISCHER, Tobias LINKE
  • Publication number: 20080236960
    Abstract: A disc brake for a utility vehicle includes a caliper which straddles the brake disc, in addition to functional parts which are arranged outside of the caliper, as drive parts of an adjusting device, which are encapsulated by a cover fixed to the outside of the caliper. The disc brake is configured in such a way that the cover is connected in a material integral manner to the caliper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Robert THEIL, Tobias Linke
  • Publication number: 20070131493
    Abstract: A disc brake, in particular its brake lining, is provided with at least one temperature indicator which changes state after a permitted operating temperature is exceeded and/or remains in its position after a permitted operating temperature is exceeded. The temperature indicator may be, in particular, a coating of an adhesive or paint, an affixed label or an affixed tag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Linke, Markus Stoehr
  • Publication number: 20070023239
    Abstract: The invention relates to a disc brake for a vehicle, in particular a commercial vehicle, comprising an application device (3), which is used to apply a brake lining (11) to a brake disc (1) by means of at least one or two actuating spindles running parallel and at a distance from one another in a bridge (7). The application device (3) has an anti-friction roller (6), which is supported on a pivotable lever (10) of said application device (3). The disc brake is configured in such a way that the anti-friction roller (6) is fixed as a separate component radially and axially on the lever (10) and is held by an anti-friction roller holder (13) that is fixed to the lever (10). The anti-friction roller holder (13) is provided with cage return guides (15), which, when the lever (10) is pivoted back into an initial position, likewise press the journal bearings (8) into an initial position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Tobias Linke
  • Publication number: 20060219489
    Abstract: The invention relates to a disc brake, particularly for a goods vehicle, comprising a brake caliper, which has a brake disc that can be brought into active contact with brake shoes and which can be fixed to a brake support in a manner that enables it to be axially displaced relative to the brake disc. The inventive disc brake also comprises a closure plate, which closes the brake caliper on the side facing the brake disc, and comprises a removable retainer, which is fixed relative to the brake caliper and on which springs acting upon the outer edges of the brake shoes are supported. The disc brake is designed in such a manner that a fixing device is provided in the closure plate, and the facing end of the retainer lies inside the fixing device while being held in a direction of loading.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Linke, Wlodzimierz Macke
  • Publication number: 20060191364
    Abstract: Angular motion driving mechanism comprising, mounted on a supporting structure (SUP), a gear wheel (GW) for intermittent rotational movement in clockwise and counter-clockwise directions within an arc bounded by first and second angular positions (?1 and ?2, respectively) of the gear wheel (GW) with respect to the supporting structure (SUP), a driving gear (DG) being drivingly coupled to the drive motor (DM) and to the gear wheel (GW) imparting rotational movement to the gear wheel (GW) from said first to said second position (?1 to ?2, respectively) in an active mode of the drive motor (DM), a coiled torsion return spring (RS), which is flexed against its bias at rotational movement of the gear wheel (GW) from the first to the second angular position ?1 to ?2 in the active mode of the drive motor (DM), and which relaxes in the non-active mode of the drive motor (DM) by urging the gear wheel (GW) to return from the second to the first angular position (?2 to ?1, respectively).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Tobias Linke, Wolfgang Sauerschell, Peter Welteroth