Patents by Inventor Volker Härtel

Volker Härtel 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).

  • Publication number: 20150000763
    Abstract: A valve body for a snap-in valve of a vehicle wheel includes a valve stem having a valve core and a jacket-shaped body connected fixedly to the valve stem having the valve core. The body is formed of a rubber mixture containing chloroprene rubber. A snap-in valve having the valve body is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: CARLA RECKER, GWENN LELIEVRE, VOLKER HAERTEL, KONSTANTIN EFIMOV
  • Patent number: 7213799
    Abstract: A pneumatic suspension and damping arrangement (100) is fixedly mounted on the chassis at the upper region and to the wheel mount at the lower region thereof. The arrangement includes two hermetically closed air springs (101, 102) filled with pressurized gas, whose volumes can be changed and which are connected via an air connection (134) to a pressurized gas source. The air springs are each enclosed by a movable wall formed by a flexible member (116, 124) and each roll off on a roll-off contour and are connected to each other via a throttle element (108) through which the gas can flow in two directions. The air springs are arranged one above the other and the roll-off contour of the first air spring (101) is defined in such a way by the second air spring (102) that the first air spring (101) rolls off on the second air spring (102). A connecting element of the upper cover (104) ) with the roll-off piston (128) of the second air spring (102) runs outside of the two air springs (101, 102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christof Behmenburg, Heinz Job, Michael Märtens, Volker Härtel, Gerald Huber, Armin Kilsch, Thomas Engelke, Burkhard Kott
  • Publication number: 20060220448
    Abstract: The invention relates to a chassis bearing (1), in particular for the rear axle of a motor vehicle. The bearing includes an outer bearing sleeve (2), an inner bearing sleeve (3), an elastomer body (4) that is situated between the outer and inner bearing sleeves and two chambers (5, 6), which are located between the outer and inner bearing sleeves and are delimited at least partially by the elastomer body. The chambers are separated from one another and are positioned symmetrically on either side of the longitudinal axis (7) of the inner bearing sleeve. Each chamber has a stop (8, 9), which is located on a common transverse axis (10) of the inner bearing sleeve and is positioned at a distance from a corresponding counterstop surface (11, 12) inside the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventors: Volker Härtel, Hans-Jürgen Karkosch, Armin Kilsch, Heiner Volk, Hans-Joachim Harting, Meinert Holst
  • Patent number: 6773352
    Abstract: Bearing for damping or decoupling vibrations between adjacent components. The bearing includes a spring body having face ends, a connection part coupled to at least one of the face ends, and a frictional damper coupled in a parallel manner with the spring body. The frictional damper is at least one of electrically and electronically regulatable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Volker Härtel, Jürgen Tschimmel
  • Patent number: 6702075
    Abstract: Controllable shock absorber with a damping valve controllable within a passage or bypass located between the lower working space and the upper working space, such that in the push and pull stage control of the damping force is possible, in which the controllable damping valve is designed so that the piston stroke in the push or pull stage, a flow through the passage that is varible over the duration of the piston stroke can be controlled by variation in the flow cross section at a minimum of one point of the passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Volker Härtel
  • Patent number: 6337749
    Abstract: A method for generating an electric control signal driving apparatus to produce a topological structure on a workpiece, in particular to produce a leather structure. Initially, at least, two different signal components are generated and the control signal is then formed by their addition. One signal component may correspond to a fine structure and another for instance to a coarse structure or to a line structure. In this manner, the portions of the structure can be determined and processed one at a time to imitate a natural leather surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Benecke-Kaliko AG
    Inventors: Volker Härtel, Dieter Blind, Rudolf Werner, Uwe Müssigmann