Patents by Inventor Udo Saftien

Udo Saftien 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: 4561640
    Abstract: In wheel suspensions of automotive vehicles, equipped with a wheel suspension system comprising a coil spring, a specific mutual association is required for functional reasons for the individual components of the wheel suspension, forcing constructional compromises in connection with the other structural conditions inherent in the design of the vehicle. In order to be able to avoid in such cases expensive compromise solutions, it is disclosed to have one or several vehicle components, to be correspondingly correlated with the coil spring, project in between turn portions of a spring turn that has a larger lead as compared with the regular lead of the coil spring, or pass such components through the expanded spring section of the coil spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Kurt Enke, Achim Hespelt, Eberhard Hertler, Manfred von der Ohe, Udo Saftien