Patents by Inventor Ulrich Rohs

Ulrich Rohs 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: 10450945
    Abstract: In an axial piston motor in which fuel and compressed combustion medium are continuously burned in a combustion chamber so as to be turned into the working fluid and successively be delivered to working cylinders, at least one of the compressor discharge valves is closed in a positively controlled manner and is opened by a compressor pressure building up in the respective compressor cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: GETAS Gesellschaft für thermodynamische Antriebssysteme mbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Rohs
  • Patent number: 10422419
    Abstract: A conical friction ring transmission has a fluid supply for wetting at least one of the main transmission elements with fluid. The fluid supply has a drop dispenser from which fluid drops onto the main transmission element and/or an outlet from which fluid falls onto the main transmission element. A method operates a conical friction ring transmission, wherein the friction ring of the conical friction ring transmission is moved in the spacing between the two friction rings, and at least one of the main transmission elements is wetted with fluid via a fluid supply. The fluid is conducted in a circuit at a pressure below 100 kPa (1 bar) for wetting purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Inventor: Ulrich Rohs
  • Patent number: 10267392
    Abstract: In order for it to be also possible to transmit relatively high torques in an operationally reliable manner with low power loss and with a low or inexpensive design outlay in a bevel friction ring gear mechanism, consisting of at least two component transmissions which are configured as bevel friction ring gear mechanisms and have a first adjusting device for a friction ring of the first component transmission and a second adjusting device for a friction ring of the second component transmission, wherein the bevel friction ring gear mechanism has a regulating device for regulating an axial position of the friction rings, it is proposed that the regulating device has at least one first part regulating device with a first reference variable and a second part regulating device with a second reference variable which is separate from the first reference variable, wherein the first component transmission has the first part regulating device for regulating the position of the friction ring of the first component tra
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Ulrich Rohs
    Inventor: Ulrich Rohs
  • Patent number: 10119398
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to improve the efficiency of an axial-piston motor comprising at least one working cylinder fed by a continuously operating combustion chamber comprising a pre-combustion chamber and a main combustion chamber. To this end, the axial-piston motor is provided with a pre-combustion chamber comprising a check valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: GETAS Gesellschaft fuer termodynamische Antriebssysteme mbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Rohs, Dieter Voigt
  • Patent number: 9879635
    Abstract: To improve the efficiency of an axial piston engine, the invention proposes an axial piston engine with a combustion chamber which operates with two-stage combustion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: GETAS Gesellschaft für thermodynamische Antriebssysteme mbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Rohs
  • Patent number: 9719582
    Abstract: In a conical friction ring transmission, the safety device may have a normal state, in which electrical energy is applied to the safety device, and a failure state, in which the safety device is free of electrical energy, or a bi-stable safety actuator with a normal position and a failure position, and may change the effect parameter of a mechanical articulating element for adjusting a friction ring. An especially compact design of the conical friction ring transmission is thus achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Inventor: Ulrich Rohs
  • Patent number: 9638295
    Abstract: A friction ring-type transmission includes two roller bodies which are arranged at a distance from each other about a gap, which correspond to each other via the friction ring and which rotate (5) on axial roller body axes. The friction ring is arranged in an adjusting bridge in such a manner that it can be axially displaced about an adjusting path along the gap and the adjusting bridge is mounted by an individual, axial guiding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventor: Ulrich Rohs
  • Patent number: 9540931
    Abstract: To provide an axial piston motor, comprising at least one main burner, which has at least one main combustion space and at least one main nozzle space, and comprising at least one pre-burner, which has at least one pre-combustion space and at least one pre-nozzle space, wherein the pre-combustion space is connected to the main nozzle space by way of at least one hot gas feed, that has improved operating and control characteristics even under non-steady-state operating conditions, the pre-nozzle space of the pre-burner has at least one auxiliary hot gas feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: GETAS Gesellschaft fuer thermodynamische Antriebssysteme mbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Rohs, Dieter Voigt
  • Patent number: 9540930
    Abstract: To provide an axial piston motor, comprising at least one main burner, which has at least one main combustion space and at least one main nozzle space, and comprising at least one pre-burner, which has at least one pre-combustion space and at least one pre-nozzle space, wherein the pre-combustion space is connected to the main nozzle space by way of at least one hot gas feed, that has improved operating and control characteristics even under non-steady-state operating conditions, the pre-nozzle space of the pre-burner has at least one auxiliary hot gas feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: GETAS Gesellschaft fuer thermodynamische Antriebssysteme mbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Rohs, Dieter Voigt
  • Patent number: 9523409
    Abstract: A torque fluctuation absorbing apparatus comprises a first plate member, a second plate member disposed at a position axially offset from the first plate member, an intermediate plate member that is disposed between the first plate member and the second plate member and has a frictional sliding surface mating with the second plate member, rolling elements disposed so as to roll between the intermediate plate member and the first plate member, and resilient member that allows the intermediate plate member and the first plate member to rotate relative to each other. The intermediate plate member and the first plate member have acting sections on a surface whereon at least one of the rolling elements rolls, the acting sections press the intermediate plate member against the second plate member by a relative rotation between the intermediate plate member and the first plate member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignees: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ATESTEO GMBH
    Inventors: Masaru Ebata, Tomohiro Saeki, Tsutomu Sekine, Masakazu Kamiya, Ulrich Rohs
  • Patent number: 9376913
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to improve the efficiency of an axial-piston motor. To this end, the axial-piston motor comprises at least one compressor cylinder, at least one working cylinder and at least one pressure line guiding the compressed fuel from the compressor cylinder to the working cylinder. A working piston comprising a working rod is provided in the working cylinder, and a compressor piston comprising a compressor rod is provided in the compressor cylinder. The axial-piston motor is characterized in that it at least one of the two rods comprises transverse stiffeners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: GETAS Gesellschaft fuer thermodynamische Antriebssysteme mbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Rohs, Dieter Voigt
  • Patent number: 9316293
    Abstract: A friction ring-type transmission includes two roller bodies which are arranged at a distance from each other about a gap, which correspond to each other via the friction ring and which rotate (5) on axial roller body axes. The friction ring is arranged in an adjusting bridge in such a manner that it can be axially displaced about an adjusting path along the gap and the adjusting bridge is mounted by an individual, axial guiding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Ulrich Rohs
    Inventors: Ulrich Rohs, Christoph Dräger, Werner Brandwitte
  • Patent number: 9194402
    Abstract: To provide an axial piston motor (1), comprising at least one main burner (2), which has at least one main combustion space (21) and at least one main nozzle space (23), and comprising at least one pre-burner (3), which has at least one pre-combustion space (31) and at least one pre-nozzle space (33), wherein the pre-combustion space (31) is connected to the main nozzle space (23) by way of at least one hot gas feed (30), that has improved operating and control characteristics even under non-steady-state operating conditions, the pre-nozzle space (33) of the pre-burner (3) has at least one auxiliary hot gas feed (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: GETAS Gesellschaft fuer thermodynamische Antriebssysteme mbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Rohs, Dieter Voigt
  • Patent number: 9188000
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to improve the efficiency of an axial-piston motor. To this end, the axial-piston motor is provided with a system for regulating the combustion chamber, said system comprising a means for supplying water into the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: GETAS Gesellschaft fuer thermodynamische Antriebssysteme mbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Rohs, Dieter Voigt
  • Patent number: 8708864
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to further develop a bevel friction ring gearing. The invention thus relates to a bevel friction ring gearing in which the friction ring can be displaced by means of an adjusting device that comprises a guide on which an adjusting bridge for the friction ring is arranged in a free axially displaceable manner. The adjusting device comprises a worm-gear drive that engages with the guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Ulrich ROHS
    Inventors: Ulrich Rohs, Christoph Draeger, Werner Brandwitte
  • Publication number: 20130298725
    Abstract: A torque fluctuation absorbing apparatus comprises a first plate member, a second plate member disposed at a position axially offset from the first plate member, an intermediate plate member that is disposed between the first plate member and the second plate member and has a frictional sliding surface mating with the second plate member, rolling elements disposed so as to roll between the intermediate plate member and the first plate member, and resilient member that allows the intermediate plate member and the first plate member to rotate relative to each other. The intermediate plate member and the first plate member have acting sections on a surface whereon at least one of the rolling elements rolls, the acting sections press the intermediate plate member against the second plate member by a relative rotation between the intermediate plate member and the first plate member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicants: GIF GESELLSCHAFT FUR INDUSTRIEFORSCHUNG MBH, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masaru Ebata, Tomohiro Saeki, Tsutomu Sekine, Masakazu Kamiya, Ulrich Rohs
  • Publication number: 20130284013
    Abstract: To provide an axial piston motor (1), comprising at least one main burner (2), which has at least one main combustion space (21) and at least one main nozzle space (23), and comprising at least one pre-burner (3), which has at least one pre-combustion space (31) and at least one pre-nozzle space (33), wherein the pre-combustion space (31) is connected to the main nozzle space (23) by way of at least one hot gas feed (30), that has improved operating and control characteristics even under non-steady-state operating conditions, the pre-nozzle space (33) of the pre-burner (3) has at least one auxiliary hot gas feed (40).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: GETAS GESELLSCHAFT FÜR THERMODYNAMISCHE ANTRIEBSSYSTEME mbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Rohs, Dieter Voigt
  • Publication number: 20130143713
    Abstract: In order for it to be also possible to transmit relatively high torques in an operationally reliable manner with low power loss and with a low or inexpensive design outlay in a bevel friction ring gear mechanism, consisting of at least two component transmissions which are configured as bevel friction ring gear mechanisms and have a first adjusting device for a friction ring of the first component transmission and a second adjusting device for a friction ring of the second component transmission, wherein the bevel friction ring gear mechanism has a regulating device for regulating an axial position of the friction rings, it is proposed that the regulating device has at least one first part regulating device with a first reference variable and a second part regulating device with a second reference variable which is separate from the first reference variable, wherein the first component transmission has the first part regulating device for regulating the position of the friction ring of the first component tra
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventors: Ulrich Rohs, Christoph Draeger, Werner Brandwitte
  • Patent number: 8303462
    Abstract: A friction-ring transmission has a friction ring, a first friction cone including a first friction-ring running surface, a second friction cone including a second friction-ring running surface, and at least one axial friction-ring securing element for preventing critical travel of the friction ring beyond the friction-ring running surface. The friction ring is disposed to be displaceable axially on the friction-ring running surfaces and in a gap between the friction cones, whereby the at least one axial friction-ring securing element is disposed on at least one of the friction cones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Inventor: Ulrich Rohs
  • Publication number: 20120145120
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to improve the efficiency of an axial-piston motor. To this end, the axial-piston motor comprises at least one compressor cylinder, at least one working cylinder and at least one pressure line guiding the compressed fuel from the compressor cylinder to the working cylinder via a combustion chamber. The fuel flow from the combustion chamber to the working cylinder is controlled by at least one control piston driven by a control drive, and the control piston is subjected to a compensation force oriented against the combustion chamber pressure, on the side thereof facing away from the combustion chamber, in addition to the force applied by the control drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Getas Gesellschaft Fuer thermodynamische Antriebssysteme mbh
    Inventors: Ulrich Rohs, Dieter Voigt