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).

  • Patent number: 11959563
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Bühler, Bengt Erich Wunderlich, Tobias Schuster
  • Publication number: 20240011530
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas DOSTER, Tobias SCHUSTER, Nils HIRSEMANN, Wadim BELEWITSCH, Thomas STEGMAIER, Lukas BECKER, Udo SCHARRER
  • Patent number: 11660593
    Abstract: 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 in
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Tobias Schuster, Jens Engelhardt, Maik Flach, Duc-Thang Vu, Gabor Duroska, Stefan Bammesberger
  • Publication number: 20230030052
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Andreas Bühler, Bengt Erich Wunderlich, Tobias Schuster
  • Patent number: 11318878
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Gernot Unterweger, Tobias Schuster, Andrea Scenini, Christof Michenthaler
  • Patent number: 11035449
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Jan Velthaus, Bernhard Ziegler, Tobias Schuster, Lukas Rube, Kai Heukelbach, Bernd Koppitz, Felix Zehren
  • Publication number: 20210148267
    Abstract: 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 in
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Tobias Schuster, Jens Engelhardt, Maik Flach, Duc-Thang Vu, Gabor Duroska, Stefan Bammesberger
  • Publication number: 20210107397
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Gernot Unterweger, Tobias Schuster, Andrea Scenini, Christof Michenthaler
  • Publication number: 20200208723
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Jan VELTHAUS, Bernhard ZIEGLER, Tobias SCHUSTER, Lukas RUBE, Kai HEUKELBACH, Bernd KOPPITZ, Felix ZEHREN
  • Patent number: 9902020
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Hans-Josef Bietenbeck, Kai Heukelbach, Bernd Koppitz, Thomas Lechthaler, Tobias Schuster, Bernhard Ziegler
  • Patent number: 9890842
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Kai Heukelbach, Bernd Koppitz, Thomas Lechthaler, Lukas Rube, Tobias Schuster, Bernhard Ziegler
  • Patent number: 9803717
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: David Schnaedelbach, Florian Baral, Tobias Schuster, Bernhard Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20170009864
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Kai HEUKELBACH, Bernd KOPPITZ, Thomas LECHTHALER, Likas RUBE, Tobias SCHUSTER, Bernhard ZIEGLER
  • Publication number: 20150328720
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Hans-Josef Bietenbeck, Kai Heukelbach, Bernd Koppitz, Thomas Lechthaler, Tobias Schuster, Bemhard Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20150252872
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: David Schnaedelbach, Florian Baral, Tobias Schuster, Bernhard Ziegler
  • Patent number: 9067276
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Bernd Koppitz, Rudolf Reinhardt, Tobias Schuster, Heiko Steinmetz, Bernhard Ziegler
  • Patent number: 8991576
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Stefan Sperrfechter, Tobias Haerter, Heinrich Straub, Bernhard Ziegler, Tobias Schuster
  • Publication number: 20140144742
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Stefan SPERRFECHTER, Tobias HAERTER, Heinrich STRAUB, Bernhard ZIEGLER, Tobias SCHUSTER
  • Publication number: 20130305876
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventors: David Schnaedelbach, Florian Baral, Tobias Schuster, Bernhard Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20120328360
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Bernd Koppitz, Rudolf Reinhardt, Tobias Schuster, Heiko Steinmetz, Bernard Ziegler