Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Bernau

Wolfgang Bernau 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).

  • Synchronizing device with asymmetrical toothing
    Patent number: 6729458
    Abstract: In a synchronizing device (22) for shift clutches, specially of selector transmissions (2) for motor vehicles, having at least one pair of wheels of which the gearwheel coaxial with a sliding sleeve (28) has a clutch body (46) with outer tooth (48) which by axial displacement of the sliding sleeve (28), non-rotatably connected with a shaft (8) via a synchronizer body (24) and having an inner tooth (26), can be switched in and off the power flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignees: ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dirk Blechschmidt, Wolfgang Bernau, Kurt Bathe, Heinz Bassner, Thomas Ebert
  • Synchronizing device with asymmetrical toothing
    Publication number: 20030106762
    Abstract: In a synchronizing device (22) for shift clutches, specially of selector transmissions (2) for motor vehicles, having at least one pair of wheels of which the gearwheel coaxial with a sliding sleeve (28) has a clutch body (46) with outer tooth (48) which by axial displacement of the sliding sleeve (28), non-rotatably connected with a shaft (8) via a synchronizer body (24) and having an inner tooth (26), can be switched in and off the power flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventors: Dirk Blechschmidt, Wolfgang Bernau, Kurt Bathe, Heinz Bassner, Thomas Ebert
  • Synchronizing mechanism with asymetric toothing
    Publication number: 20020100655
    Abstract: The synchronizing mechanism for shift clutch of mechanical transmissions in motor vehicles has one sliding sleeve with meshing teeth and one clutch with meshing teeth. The half angles a1, a2; b1, b2 of the ridge edges 5, 5′; 6, 6′ and the ridge edges of the meshing teeth of the sliding sleeve and of the clutch are disposed asymmetrically relative to the respective tooth central axes 3, 3′; 4, 4′.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Inventors: Jens Patzner, Wolfgang Bernau, Dirk Blechschmidt, Kurt Bathe