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).
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Method and device for indicating wear of a brake pad in a disk brake with an electric motor actuator
Patent number: 9714687Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 18, 2007Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Tobias Linke, Markus Stoehr -
Patent number: 8820488Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 2, 2008Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Roland Klement, Rudolf Fischer, Tobias Linke
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Patent number: 8240438Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 22, 2007Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Johann Baumgartner, Tobias Linke
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Publication number: 20100300816Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2007Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Tobias Linke, Markus Stoehr
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Patent number: 7837015Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 2, 2008Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Roland Klement, Rudolf Fischer, Tobias Linke
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Patent number: 7673722Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 20, 2004Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventor: Tobias Linke
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Publication number: 20090321195Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2007Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Johann Baumgartner, Tobias Linke
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Patent number: 7469775Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 22, 2003Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Tobias Linke, Wlodzimierz Macke
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Publication number: 20080277215Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2008Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBHInventors: Roland KLEMENT, Rudolf Fischer, Tobias Linke
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Publication number: 20080264742Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2008Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBHInventors: Roland KLEMENT, Rudolf FISCHER, Tobias LINKE
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Publication number: 20080236960Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Robert THEIL, Tobias Linke
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Publication number: 20070131493Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2006Publication date: June 14, 2007Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Tobias Linke, Markus Stoehr
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Publication number: 20070023239Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2004Publication date: February 1, 2007Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventor: Tobias Linke
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Publication number: 20060219489Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2003Publication date: October 5, 2006Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Tobias Linke, Wlodzimierz Macke
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Publication number: 20060191364Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2003Publication date: August 31, 2006Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Tobias Linke, Wolfgang Sauerschell, Peter Welteroth