Patents by Inventor Tobias Schuster
Tobias Schuster 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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Patent number: 11959563Abstract: A membrane valve, with a valve housing, in which a housing interior is formed, in which housing interior a flexible control membrane is arranged. A drive plunger lies opposite a valve seat and the drive plunger has a shank body with a peripheral outer lateral surface. The outer lateral surface of the shank body of the drive plunger at least in the region of a guide section has a polygonally contoured prismatic shaping with a succession of outer side edges and outer side surfaces, wherein the edges and surfaces extend in the plunger longitudinal direction and the succession alternates in the circumferential direction of the drive plunger.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Andreas Bühler, Bengt Erich Wunderlich, Tobias Schuster
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Publication number: 20240011530Abstract: A switching device for a transmission of a motor vehicle includes an unsynchronized claw switching element that has a first switching part and a second switching part which are rotatable relative to each other around an axis of rotation. The first switching part has a first switching gearing and the second switching part has a second switching gearing which are displaceable relative to each other along the axis of rotation between a coupled position and an uncoupled position. Rotation positions in which the first and second switching parts are rotated relative to each other are detectable by a detection device. An electronic computing device moves the first and second switching parts from the uncoupled position into the coupled position depending on detected rotation positions. The detection device has a sensor element and a transmitter element, with transmitter segments, fixedly connected to the second switching part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Thomas DOSTER, Tobias SCHUSTER, Nils HIRSEMANN, Wadim BELEWITSCH, Thomas STEGMAIER, Lukas BECKER, Udo SCHARRER
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Patent number: 11660593Abstract: Fluid assembly for use in a fluid system, having a control module including a processing unit for processing control commands into individual electrical control signals with individually adjustable control signal levels and a control signal level electrically connected to the processing unit, with a power unit, which has a power module for converting the control signals into individual electrical control currents as a function of the control signal levels and an output interface electrically connected to the power module, wherein the processing unit is designed to provide a first group of control signals in a first time interval which can be individually predetermined for each control signal and to provide a second group of control signals in a second time interval which can be individually predetermined for each control signal and follows the respective first time interval, wherein the first control signal and the second control signal are selected in such a way that the control currents in the first time inType: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KGInventors: Tobias Schuster, Jens Engelhardt, Maik Flach, Duc-Thang Vu, Gabor Duroska, Stefan Bammesberger
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Publication number: 20230030052Abstract: A membrane valve, with a valve housing, in which a housing interior is formed, in which housing interior a flexible control membrane is arranged. A drive plunger lies opposite a valve seat and the drive plunger has a shank body with a peripheral outer lateral surface. The outer lateral surface of the shank body of the drive plunger at least in the region of a guide section has a polygonally contoured prismatic shaping with a succession of outer side edges and outer side surfaces, wherein the edges and surfaces extend in the plunger longitudinal direction and the succession alternates in the circumferential direction of the drive plunger.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Andreas Bühler, Bengt Erich Wunderlich, Tobias Schuster
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Patent number: 11318878Abstract: A circuit may be configured to control a vehicle headlamp comprising light emitting diodes (LEDs). The circuit may comprise an LED controller configured to receive video data from a video source via a first interface; an LED driver configured to drive the LEDs based at least in part on the video data; and a second interface between the LED controller and the LED driver, wherein the second interface is configured to communicate the video data from the LED controller to the LED driver and wherein the second interface communicates the video data at a slower data rate than the first interface.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Gernot Unterweger, Tobias Schuster, Andrea Scenini, Christof Michenthaler
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Patent number: 11035449Abstract: A torque converter device for a drivetrain of a motor vehicle includes a converter cover having a cover shell and a hub rigidly connected to the cover shell. The torque converter device also includes at least one multidisk clutch, which includes at least one inner disk-centering member. The hub integrally forms the inner disk-centering member of the multidisk clutch.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: DAIMLER AGInventors: Jan Velthaus, Bernhard Ziegler, Tobias Schuster, Lukas Rube, Kai Heukelbach, Bernd Koppitz, Felix Zehren
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Publication number: 20210148267Abstract: Fluid assembly for use in a fluid system, having a control module including a processing unit for processing control commands into individual electrical control signals with individually adjustable control signal levels and a control signal level electrically connected to the processing unit, with a power unit, which has a power module for converting the control signals into individual electrical control currents as a function of the control signal levels and an output interface electrically connected to the power module, wherein the processing unit is designed to provide a first group of control signals in a first time interval which can be individually predetermined for each control signal and to provide a second group of control signals in a second time interval which can be individually predetermined for each control signal and follows the respective first time interval, wherein the first control signal and the second control signal are selected in such a way that the control currents in the first time inType: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Tobias Schuster, Jens Engelhardt, Maik Flach, Duc-Thang Vu, Gabor Duroska, Stefan Bammesberger
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Publication number: 20210107397Abstract: A circuit may be configured to control a vehicle headlamp comprising light emitting diodes (LEDs). The circuit may comprise an LED controller configured to receive video data from a video source via a first interface; an LED driver configured to drive the LEDs based at least in part on the video data; and a second interface between the LED controller and the LED driver, wherein the second interface is configured to communicate the video data from the LED controller to the LED driver and wherein the second interface communicates the video data at a slower data rate than the first interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2019Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Gernot Unterweger, Tobias Schuster, Andrea Scenini, Christof Michenthaler
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Publication number: 20200208723Abstract: A torque converter device for a drivetrain of a motor vehicle includes a converter cover having a cover shell and a hub rigidly connected to the cover shell. The torque converter device also includes at least one multidisk clutch, which includes at least one inner disk-centering member. The hub integrally forms the inner disk-centering member of the multidisk clutch.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2017Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Jan VELTHAUS, Bernhard ZIEGLER, Tobias SCHUSTER, Lukas RUBE, Kai HEUKELBACH, Bernd KOPPITZ, Felix ZEHREN
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Patent number: 9902020Abstract: A drive train device for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The drive train device has a first component, a second component which is connected to the first component so as to transmit torque and consists at least substantially of a material formed from lightweight metal, and at least one element which is at least partially enclosed in the second component and which consists at least substantially of a predominantly iron-containing material. The enclosed element is a connecting element which is connected to the first component by substance-to-substance bonding in order to produce the torque-transmitting connection. The first component and/or the second component at least partially form a housing. The enclosed element projects axially on both sides out of the material of the second component and at least one side of the enclosed element which projects axially has at least one balancing element and/or at least one balancing recess.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2013Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Hans-Josef Bietenbeck, Kai Heukelbach, Bernd Koppitz, Thomas Lechthaler, Tobias Schuster, Bernhard Ziegler
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Patent number: 9890842Abstract: A drive train device for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The drive train device has at least one component which is included for the purpose of transmitting a torque, and at least one cast-in element which is partially cast into the component, which is included for the purpose of transmitting the torque, where the component and the cast-in element are made of different materials. The drive train device has a sealing device which is included for the purpose of sealing a junction between the component and the cast-in element.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Kai Heukelbach, Bernd Koppitz, Thomas Lechthaler, Lukas Rube, Tobias Schuster, Bernhard Ziegler
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Patent number: 9803717Abstract: A centrifugal-force pendulum device having a pendulum flange and at least two pendulum masses fastened on both sides of the pendulum flange by means of a spacer bolt received in a cut-out of the pendulum flange to form a pendulum mass pair, wherein the pendulum mass pair is guided and pivoted in a limited manner with respect to the pendulum flange by means of at least two rolling elements, and the rolling elements are received and roll in guide tracks in the pendulum masses and in complementarily shaped guide tracks in the pendulum flange, and wherein the spacer bolt is equipped, in its axial region which reaches through the cut-out in the pendulum flange, with damping means for damping contact of the spacer bolt against the cut-out, and compression of the damping means is limited by contact of a rolling element against the guide track which receives the rolling element.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2015Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: David Schnaedelbach, Florian Baral, Tobias Schuster, Bernhard Ziegler
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Publication number: 20170009864Abstract: A drive train device for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The drive train device has at least one component which is included for the purpose of transmitting a torque, and at least one cast-in element which is partially cast into the component, which is included for the purpose of transmitting the torque, where the component and the cast-in element are made of different materials. The drive train device has a sealing device which is included for the purpose of sealing a junction between the component and the cast-in element.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: Daimler AGInventors: Kai HEUKELBACH, Bernd KOPPITZ, Thomas LECHTHALER, Likas RUBE, Tobias SCHUSTER, Bernhard ZIEGLER
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Publication number: 20150328720Abstract: A drive train device for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The drive train device has a first component, a second component which is connected to the first component so as to transmit torque and consists at least substantially of a material formed from lightweight metal, and at least one element which is at least partially enclosed in the second component and which consists at least substantially of a predominantly iron-containing material. The enclosed element is a connecting element which is connected to the first component by substance-to-substance bonding in order to produce the torque-transmitting connection. The first component and/or the second component at least partially form a housing. The enclosed element projects axially on both sides out of the material of the second component and at least one side of the enclosed element which projects axially has at least one balancing element and/or at least one balancing recess.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2013Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: Daimler AGInventors: Hans-Josef Bietenbeck, Kai Heukelbach, Bernd Koppitz, Thomas Lechthaler, Tobias Schuster, Bemhard Ziegler
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Publication number: 20150252872Abstract: A centrifugal-force pendulum device having a pendulum flange and at least two pendulum masses fastened on both sides of the pendulum flange by means of a spacer bolt received in a cut-out of the pendulum flange to form a pendulum mass pair, wherein the pendulum mass pair is guided and pivoted in a limited manner with respect to the pendulum flange by means of at least two rolling elements, and the rolling elements are received and roll in guide tracks in the pendulum masses and in complementarily shaped guide tracks in the pendulum flange, and wherein the spacer bolt is equipped, in its axial region which reaches through the cut-out in the pendulum flange, with damping means for damping contact of the spacer bolt against the cut-out, and compression of the damping means is limited by contact of a rolling element against the guide track which receives the rolling element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2015Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventors: David Schnaedelbach, Florian Baral, Tobias Schuster, Bernhard Ziegler
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Patent number: 9067276Abstract: A method for non-releasable fixing of at least one component to a further component is provided in which a hot rivet is introduced into an opening of the at least one first component and an end face of a shank of the hot rivet is welded to a surface of the further component. Subsequently, with plastic deformation of the hot rivet, the shank of the hot rivet is compressed until a head of the hot rivet lies with a pre-stressing force at least in areas on a surface of the at least one component. The pre-stressing force, with which the head of the hot rivet lies at least in areas on the surface of the at least one component, is adjusted to a predefined value.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2010Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Bernd Koppitz, Rudolf Reinhardt, Tobias Schuster, Heiko Steinmetz, Bernhard Ziegler
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Patent number: 8991576Abstract: In a torque converter device for a motor vehicle having a single-piece housing element which, for drivingly interconnecting a torque converter and an internal combustion engine, wherein the housing element forms a disk carrier accommodating at least one disk of a separating clutch which is provided for mechanically connecting and disconnecting the internal combustion engine to and from the torque converter device, the housing element is provided with at least one actuating piston receptacle forming a pressure chamber with an actuating piston disposed therein for actuating the separating clutch.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2014Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Daimler AGInventors: Stefan Sperrfechter, Tobias Haerter, Heinrich Straub, Bernhard Ziegler, Tobias Schuster
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Publication number: 20140144742Abstract: In a torque converter device for a motor vehicle having a single-piece housing element which, for drivingly interconnecting a torque converter and an internal combustion engine, wherein the housing element forms a disk carrier accommodating at least one disk of a separating clutch which is provided for mechanically connecting and disconnecting the internal combustion engine to and from the torque converter device, the housing element is provided with at least one actuating piston receptacle forming a pressure chamber with an actuating piston disposed therein for actuating the separating clutch.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2014Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: DAIMLER AGInventors: Stefan SPERRFECHTER, Tobias HAERTER, Heinrich STRAUB, Bernhard ZIEGLER, Tobias SCHUSTER
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Publication number: 20130305876Abstract: A centrifugal-force pendulum device having a pendulum flange and at least two pendulum masses fastened on both sides of the pendulum flange by means of a spacer bolt received in a cut-out of the pendulum flange to form a pendulum mass pair, wherein the pendulum mass pair is guided and pivoted in a limited manner with respect to the pendulum flange by means of at least two rolling elements, and the rolling elements are received and roll in guide tracks in the pendulum masses and in complementarily shaped guide tracks in the pendulum flange, and wherein the spacer bolt is equipped, in its axial region which reaches through the cut-out in the pendulum flange, with damping means for damping contact of the spacer bolt against the cut-out, and compression of the damping means is limited by contact of a rolling element against the guide track which receives the rolling element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Inventors: David Schnaedelbach, Florian Baral, Tobias Schuster, Bernhard Ziegler
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Publication number: 20120328360Abstract: A method for non-releasable fixing of at least one component to a further component is provided in which a hot rivet is introduced into an opening of the at least one first component and an end face of a shank of the hot rivet is welded to a surface of the further component. Subsequently, with plastic deformation of the hot rivet, the shank of the hot rivet is compressed until a head of the hot rivet lies with a pre-stressing force at least in areas on a surface of the at least one component. The pre-stressing force, with which the head of the hot rivet lies at least in areas on the surface of the at least one component, is adjusted to a predefined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2010Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: Daimler AGInventors: Bernd Koppitz, Rudolf Reinhardt, Tobias Schuster, Heiko Steinmetz, Bernard Ziegler