Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Kundermann

Wolfgang Kundermann 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: 11752855
    Abstract: A hybrid module having a damper hub connected to an internal combustion engine, a housing, a clutch, an electric machine which has a rotor and a stator connected to the housing, a torque converter has a converter housing connected to a central hub and a turbine shaft, and an output shaft. The rotor of the electric machine is connected to the central hub or the converter housing. The turbine shaft is connected to the output shaft to be fixed with respect to rotation and the clutch is arranged between the damper hub and the torque converter The central hub is supported at the output shaft via at least one bearing and is supported at the damper hub via at least two bearings and the damper hub is supported at the housing by a bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Monika RÖßner, Gerald Viernekes, Wolfgang Kundermann, Wolfgang Großpietsch, Martin Brehmer, Thilo Schmidt, Thomas Riedisser
  • Patent number: 11732762
    Abstract: A clutch arrangement (3) with a friction clutch (8) and a dog clutch (9), wherein the output side of the friction clutch (8) and the output side of the dog clutch (9) are connectible to a flywheel mass device (4). A powertrain unit having such clutch arrangement is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Guido Schmitt, Alexander Bartha, Wolfgang Kundermann, Axel Rohm, Gerald Viernekes, Alessio Paone, Monika Rössner, Michael Kunth
  • Patent number: 11280375
    Abstract: A torsional damper arrangement for a motor vehicle with a housing. The housing encloses a wet space. A momentum start clutch arrangement is arranged in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Monika Rößner, Gerald Viernekes, Alessio Paone, Axel Rohm, Alexander Bartha, Michael Kunth, Guido Schmitt, Wolfgang Kundermann, Stephan Stroph, Thomas Riedisser
  • Publication number: 20210146770
    Abstract: A hybrid drive module for a motor vehicle having a housing, an electric machine with a rotatable rotor and a stator fixed with respect to rotation relative to the housing, and a clutch. A first half of the clutch is connected to a hub, and a second half of the clutch is connected to the rotor. The rotor is rotatably mounted at the hub via a first rolling element bearing. The hub is rotatably mounted via a second rolling element bearing at a bearing shield connected to the housing. A supporting of axial forces on both sides is carried out between the rotor and hub via the first rolling element bearing and between the hub and bearing shield via the second rolling element bearing. Also disclosed is a motor vehicle powertrain with a hybrid drive module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Angelika EBERT, Monika RÖßNER, Wolfgang GROßPIETSCH, Wolfgang KUNDERMANN
  • Publication number: 20210131541
    Abstract: A hybrid drive module for a motor vehicle having an input shaft, an electric machine with a stator fixed with respect to relative rotation and a rotatable rotor, a disconnect clutch in the power flow between the input shaft and the rotor, and a torque converter with a lockup clutch, the housing of the torque converter being connected to the rotor so as to be fixed with respect to rotation relative to it. The disconnect clutch is actuatable in closing direction by pressurization of a first pressure space. The lockup clutch is actuatable in closing direction through pressurization of a second pressure space. The two pressure spaces are defined at least partially by the housing of the torque converter. The housing of the torque converter separates the first pressure space directly from the second pressure space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Monika RÖßNER, Gerald VIERNEKES, Wolfgang KUNDERMANN, Wolfgang GROßPIETSCH, Martin BREHMER, Thomas RIEDISSER, Thilo SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20210123406
    Abstract: A coupling device for transmitting a torque from a flywheel mass to a drive device. A ratchet wheel and a transmission element of the flywheel mass ‘SUE’, which is identical to the flywheel mass (or is connected to the flywheel mass, are axially displaceable relative to one another, and pawls of the ratchet wheel can be moved into cutouts of the SUE, and a friction device, particularly in the form of a friction cone, is connectable to the SUE at least partially in a frictionally engaging manner and is connected to the ratchet wheel in a positively engaging manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Wolfgang KUNDERMANN, Wolfgang GROSSPIETSCH, Axel ROHM, Steffen MATSCHAS
  • Publication number: 20210123483
    Abstract: A clutch arrangement (3) with a friction clutch (8) and a dog clutch (9), wherein the output side of the friction clutch (8) and the output side of the dog clutch (9) are connectible to a flywheel mass device (4). A powertrain unit having such clutch arrangement is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Guido SCHMITT, Alexander BARTHA, Wolfgang KUNDERMANN, Axel ROHM, Gerald VIERNEKES, Alessio PAONE, Monika ROSSNER, Michael KUNTH
  • Publication number: 20210107346
    Abstract: A hybrid module having a damper hub connected to an internal combustion engine, a housing, a clutch, an electric machine which has a rotor and a stator connected to the housing, a torque converter has a converter housing connected to a central hub and a turbine shaft, and an output shaft. The rotor of the electric machine is connected to the central hub or the converter housing. The turbine shaft is connected to the output shaft to be fixed with respect to rotation and the clutch is arranged between the damper hub and the torque converter The central hub is supported at the output shaft via at least one bearing and is supported at the damper hub via at least two bearings and the damper hub is supported at the housing by a bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Monika RÖßNER, Gerald VIERNEKES, Wolfgang KUNDERMANN, Wolfgang GROßPIETSCH, Martin BREHMER, Thilo SCHHMIDT, Thomas RIEDISSER
  • Publication number: 20200232519
    Abstract: A torsional damper arrangement for a motor vehicle with a housing. The housing encloses a wet space. A momentum start clutch arrangement is arranged in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Monika Rößner, Gerald Viernekes, Alessio Paone, Axel Rohm, Alexander Bartha, Michael Kunth, Guido Schmitt, Wolfgang Kundermann, Stephan Stroph, Thomas Riedisser
  • Patent number: 10480591
    Abstract: A coupling arrangement for the powertrain of a vehicle with a clutch housing with a feed arrangement for feed medium contained in the clutch housing and with a clutch mechanism, wherein the clutch mechanism has input-side clutch units communicating with an input-side clutch unit carrier, output-side clutch units communicating with an output-side clutch unit carrier, and a pressing device through which an operative connection between the input-side clutch units and the output-side clutch units can be produced or cancelled, and wherein the input-side clutch unit carrier is part of the feed arrangement. The feed arrangement further has a feed device which is associated with the input-side clutch unit carrier and which is connected to the input-side clutch unit carrier and/or to the pressing device so as to be fixed with respect to relative rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Kundermann
  • Publication number: 20170227068
    Abstract: A coupling arrangement for the powertrain of a vehicle with a clutch housing with a feed arrangement for feed medium contained in the clutch housing and with a clutch mechanism, wherein the clutch mechanism has input-side clutch units communicating with an input-side clutch unit carrier, output-side clutch units communicating with an output-side clutch unit carrier, and a pressing device through which an operative connection between the input-side clutch units and the output-side clutch units can be produced or cancelled, and wherein the input-side clutch unit carrier is part of the feed arrangement. The feed arrangement further has a feed device which is associated with the input-side clutch unit carrier and which is connected to the input-side clutch unit carrier and/or to the pressing device so as to be fixed with respect to relative rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventor: Wolfgang Kundermann
  • Patent number: 7287443
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a drive train having a drive unit, a gearbox having a first gearbox input shaft and a second gearbox input shaft, and a clutch having a first clutch device which is associated with the first gearbox input shaft, and a second clutch device which is associated with the second gearbox input shaft, for transferring torque between the drive unit and the gearbox. The first and second clutch devices are plate clutches to which an operating fluid, such as a cooling oil, is supplied to operate the same. The gearbox is associated with an actuator device and a control device for controlling the actuator device, the arrangement of which enables the gears associated with the first and second gearbox input shafts to be engaged and disengaged. The control device is designed such that at least one gear is automatically engaged by the actuator device, as a result of the clutch release of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Jochen Kuhstrebe, Olaf Moseler, Axel Rohm, Eduard Steiner, Rainer Reuthal, Hans-Jürgen Schneider, Wolfgang Kundermann, Jörg Sudau, Thomas John, Thomas Strasser
  • Patent number: 7207922
    Abstract: A power train for a motor vehicle is configured with a control unit operable to increase or decrease the flow of operating fluid as a function of the instantaneous demand for the supply of the operating fluid to at least one of multiple clutch arrangements in such a way that the control unit decreases or interrupts the flow of operating fluid when the supply demand is low and increases the flow of operating fluid unit when the supply demand is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Jochen Kuhstrebe, Olaf Moseler, Axel Rohm, Eduard Steiner, Rainer Reuthal, Hans-Jürgen Schneider, Wolfgang Kundermann, Jörg Sudau, Thomas John, Thomas Strasser
  • Patent number: 7114605
    Abstract: A multiple disk clutch device for arrangement in a drivetrain of a motor vehicle between a drive unit and a transmission, includes at least an inner and an outer disk clutch arrangement that are radially staggered and associated with a transmission input shaft of the transmission. Each of the plural clutch disk arrangements includes a set of disks, the set of disks have an outer disk associated with an outer disk carrier and an inner disk associated with an inner disk carrier. The outer disks are operable to mutually engage the inner disks in a driving arrangement. Each of the plural disk sets includes at least one disk having a lining and at least one disk being unlined where one of the inner and outer disks of the inner and the outer disk clutch arrangements of the plural disk clutch arrangements is the lined disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: ZF Sachs AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Grosspietsch, Wolfgang Kundermann, Volker Stampf, Angelika Ebert, Wolfgang Reisser
  • Patent number: 7107870
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a drive train having a drive unit, a gearbox having a first gearbox input shaft and a second gearbox input shaft, and a clutch having a first clutch device which is associated with the first gearbox input shaft, and a second clutch device which is associated with the second gearbox input shaft, for transferring torque between the drive unit and the gearbox. The first and second clutch devices are plate clutches to which an operating fluid, such as a cooling oil, is supplied to operate the same. The gearbox is associated with an actuator device and a control device for controlling the actuator device, the arrangement of which enables the gears associated with the first and second gearbox input shafts to be engaged and disengaged. The control device is designed such that at least one gear is automatically engaged by the actuator device, as a result of the clutch release of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: ZF Sachs AG
    Inventors: Jochen Kuhstrebe, Olaf Moseler, Axel Rohm, Eduard Steiner, Rainer Reuthal, Hans-Jürgen Schneider, Wolfgang Kundermann, Jörg Sudau, Thomas John, Thomas Strasser
  • Publication number: 20060037422
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a drive train having a drive unit, a gearbox having a first gearbox input shaft and a second gearbox input shaft, and a clutch having a first clutch device which is associated with the first gearbox input shaft, and a second clutch device which is associated with the second gearbox input shaft, for transferring torque between the drive unit and the gearbox. The first and second clutch devices are plate clutches to which an operating fluid, such as a cooling oil, is supplied to operate the same. The gearbox is associated with an actuator device and a control device for controlling the actuator device, the arrangement of which enables the gears associated with the first and second gearbox input shafts to be engaged and disengaged. The control device is designed such that at least one gear is automatically engaged by the actuator device, as a result of the clutch release of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Inventors: Jochen Kuhstrebe, Olaf Moseler, Axel Rohm, Eduard Steiner, Rainer Reuthal, Hans-Jurgen Schneider, Wolfgang Kundermann, Jorg Sudau, Thomas John, Thomas Strasser
  • Publication number: 20050288149
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a drive train having a drive unit, a gearbox having a first gearbox input shaft and a second gearbox input shaft, and a clutch having a first clutch device which is associated with the first gearbox input shaft, and a second clutch device which is associated with the second gearbox input shaft, for transferring torque between the drive unit and the gearbox. The first and second clutch devices are plate clutches to which an operating fluid, such as a cooling oil, is supplied to operate the same. The gearbox is associated with an actuator device and a control device for controlling the actuator device, the arrangement of which enables the gears associated with the first and second gearbox input shafts to be engaged and disengaged. The control device is designed such that at least one gear is automatically engaged by the actuator device, as a result of the clutch release of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Inventors: Jochen Kuhstrebe, Olaf Moseler, Axel Rohm, Eduard Steiner, Rainer Reuthal, Hans-jurgen Schneider, Wolfgang Kundermann, Jorg Sudau, Thomas John, Thomas Strasser
  • Publication number: 20050261108
    Abstract: A power train for a motor vehicle is configured with a control unit operable to increase or decrease the flow of operating fluid as a function of the instantaneous demand for the supply of the operating fluid to at least one of multiple clutch arrangements in such a way that the control unit decreases or interrupts the flow of operating fluid when the supply demand is low and increases the flow of operating fluid unit when the supply demand is high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Inventors: Jochen Kuhstrebe, Olaf Moseler, Axel Rohm, Eduard Steiner, Rainer Reuthal, Hans-Jurgen Schneider, Wolfgang Kundermann, Jorg Sudau, Thomas John, Thomas Strasser
  • Patent number: 6951526
    Abstract: A power train for a motor vehicle includes a drive unit, a gearbox having first and second input shafts, and a clutch having first and second multi-disk clutch arrangements assigned to respective input shafts for transferring torque between the drive unit and the gearbox. An operating fluid, especially a cooling oil, is supplied to the clutch arrangements for operation under action of the fluid. An actuator arrangement is assigned to the gearbox for engaging and disengaging gears assigned to the first and second input shafts, and a control unit controls the actuator arrangement so that at least one gear is automatically engaged when the clutch is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: ZF Sachs AG
    Inventors: Jochen Kuhstrebe, Olaf Moseler, Axel Rohm, Eduard Steiner, Rainer Reuthal, Hans-Jürgen Schneider, Wolfgang Kundermann, Jörg Sudau, John Thomas, Thomas Strasser
  • Patent number: 6860373
    Abstract: A rotary driving insertion connection, particularly for transmitting torque in a drivetrain of a motor vehicle between components or units of the drivetrain which are connected or are to be brought into a connection for transmitting torque, comprises a primary-side coupling area at a first component and a secondary-side coupling area at a second component. One of the coupling areas has a cutout which is defined by an inner circumference or at least an inner circumferential portion, and the other coupling area has at least one projecting portion having an outer circumference or at least an outer circumferential portion which is inserted or can be inserted into the cutout axially with reference to an axis of rotation in order to provide a positive rotary driving engagement between the inner circumference and the outer circumference. A plurality of coupling elements producing the positive rotary driving engagement is provided between the inner circumference and the outer circumference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: ZF Sachs AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kundermann, Jochen Kuhstrebe, Wolfgang Reisser