Patents by Inventor Tobias Preuss

Tobias Preuss 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: 11806951
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing a structural subassembly, in particular for a motor vehicle, including at least one first profile component of fiber-reinforced plastic and at least one connecting component for producing a node connection of the first profile component with a further profile component. The method includes the following steps: providing a mold with at least one mold half, which has a cavity that corresponds substantially to the first profile component to be produced and includes at least one integrally molded-on connecting component; introducing a one- or multi-piece textile reinforcing material, in particular a textile semifinished product, into the mold; introducing a flowable plastics material into the mould, in order to impregnate the textile reinforcing material; and curing and/or cooling the plastics material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Staudt, Tobias Preuss, Torsten Flemming, Florian Spirkl
  • Publication number: 20230101883
    Abstract: The disclosu rerelates to a shaft adjuster, in particular a camshaft adjuster, comprising a drive gear having a spur gear toothing and a clamping gear which is arranged coaxially relative to the drive gear and which is loaded by a spring acting in the circumferential direction. The spring is also designed as an axial securing element for axially securing the clamping gear on the drive gear .
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Tobias Preuß
  • Patent number: 11326681
    Abstract: An elastic gear wheel for a harmonic drive has a cylinder portion with tooth, and a flange which is integrally designed with the cylinder portion. The flange has recesses for fastening, and through-apertures for fastening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Tobias Preuss, Rainer Ottersbach
  • Patent number: 11273872
    Abstract: A vehicle structural component includes at least one first and at least one second fiber-reinforced plastics insert, an injection-molded rib structure, where the injection-molded rib structure connects the plastic inserts and is injection-molded onto the plastic inserts, and at least one metal element which forms an attachment region of the vehicle structural component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Beil, Michael Brauch, Thomas Hogger, Octavian Knoll, Oleg Konrad, Sebastian Krull, Tobias Preuss, Simon Spitzer
  • Patent number: 11162568
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an adjustment gearing device for a shaft, comprising a strain wave gearing. The strain wave gearing has a spur gear device and an inner rotor, and the spur gear device has a first cylindrical section and a collar section. The first cylindrical section has a first diameter, and an outer toothing, and the inner rotor has an inner toothing, said outer toothing and inner toothing meshing together at least in some regions. The adjustment gearing device also comprises an outer rotor, said inner rotor being rotatable in a rotational direction relative to the outer rotor. The spur gear device is rotationally fixed to the outer rotor, and has a second cylindrical section for contacting the outer rotor. The second cylindrical section has a second diameter, and the second diameter is larger than the first diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Tobias Preuß
  • Patent number: 11098796
    Abstract: A harmonic drive is provided that comprises a wave generator, a flexible, externally toothed gear element that can be deformed by said wave generator, and at least one internally toothed gear component which meshes with the flexible, externally toothed gear element. The externally toothed element has, with respect to its mechanically unloaded state, a non-circular shape that deviates from an elliptical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Ottersbach, Peter Zierer, Tobias Preuß
  • Publication number: 20200307708
    Abstract: A vehicle structural component includes at least one first and at least one second fiber-reinforced plastics insert, an injection-molded rib structure, where the injection-molded rib structure connects the plastic inserts and is injection-molded onto the plastic inserts, and at least one metal element which forms an attachment region of the vehicle structural component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Andreas BEIL, Michael BRAUCH, Thomas HOGGER, Octavian KNOLL, Oleg KONRAD, Sebastian KRULL, Tobias PREUSS, Simon SPITZER
  • Publication number: 20200063847
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an adjustment gearing device for a shaft, comprising a strain wave gearing. The strain wave gearing has a spur gear device and an inner rotor, and the spur gear device has a first cylindrical section and a collar section. The first cylindrical section has a first diameter, and an outer toothing, and the inner rotor has an inner toothing, said outer toothing and inner toothing meshing together at least in some regions. The adjustment gearing device also comprises an outer rotor, said inner rotor being rotatable in a rotational direction relative to the outer rotor. The spur gear device is rotationally fixed to the outer rotor, and has a second cylindrical section for contacting the outer rotor. The second cylindrical section has a second diameter, and the second diameter is larger than the first diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Tobias Preuß
  • Publication number: 20190072172
    Abstract: A harmonic drive is provided that comprises a wave generator, a flexible, externally toothed gear element that can be deformed by said wave generator, and at least one internally toothed gear component which meshes with the flexible, externally toothed gear element. The externally toothed element has, with respect to its mechanically unloaded state, a non-circular shape that deviates from an elliptical shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Ottersbach, Peter Zierer, Tobias Preuß
  • Publication number: 20180372205
    Abstract: An elastic gear wheel for a harmonic drive has a cylinder portion with tooth, and a flange which is integrally designed with the cylinder portion. The flange has recesses for fastening, and through-apertures for fastening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Tobias PREUSS, Rainer OTTERSBACH
  • Publication number: 20170252987
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing a structural subassembly, in particular for a motor vehicle, including at least one first profile component of fiber-reinforced plastic and at least one connecting component for producing a node connection of the first profile component with a further profile component. The method includes the following steps: providing a mold with at least one mold half, which has a cavity that corresponds substantially to the first profile component to be produced and includes at least one integrally molded-on connecting component; introducing a one- or multi-piece textile reinforcing material, in particular a textile semifinished product, into the mold; introducing a flowable plastics material into the mould, in order to impregnate the textile reinforcing material; and curing and/or cooling the plastics material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Bernhard STAUDT, Tobias PREUSS, Torsten FLEMMING, Florian SPIRKL
  • Publication number: 20130243998
    Abstract: The present invention relates to sandwich component and a method for producing such sandwich component. In addition to a viscoelastic layer disposed between a honeycomb-like core layer and one of two cover layers of the sandwich component a porous layer is provided which is attached the viscoelastic layer at the side of the viscoelastic layer facing away from the cover layer between which and the core layer the viscoelastic layer is disposed. The porous layer has a higher compressive strength than the viscoelastic layer. The sandwich panel may be produced by forming a corresponding layered structure including the layers of the sandwich panel and subsequently applying heat and/or pressure to said layered structure in order to produce the sandwich component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Tobias Preuss, Lionel Winkelmann, Peter Turanski, Hanno Alpeter, Karsten Hesse