Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Linnenbrink

Wolfgang Linnenbrink 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: 8069566
    Abstract: An operating method improves the running behavior of gearwheels negatively noticed upon gearwheel testing and is performed by a burnishing device. The gearwheels that were rejected from the production process may be optimized rapidly and in a targeted way so that they may be returned back into the production process. The tooth flanks of a gearwheel to be machined are, in a first method step, mechanically freed of particles adhering to the surfaces of the tooth flanks or slight protrusions protruding therefrom using a first gearwheel machining tool having a machining wheel coated with an abrasive agent. Subsequently, in a second method step in a second gearwheel machining tool known as a burnishing machine, the gearwheel is chucked between gearwheel-shaped rolling tools, the so-called burnishing wheels, and rolled without material abrasion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Inventor: Wolfgang Linnenbrink
  • Patent number: 8046887
    Abstract: In a method of operating a gearwheel machining tool having a machining wheel situated on a drive axis, for reworking a gearwheel, a fixed axial distance between both wheels is set. In this manner, the engagement of the gearwheel in the teeth of the machining wheel may be performed without damage in a technically simple way, which is achieved in that the gearwheel to be machined is placed on the arbor in an arbitrary rotational angle position, tooth areas of its lateral external faces facing toward the machining wheel coming to rest on lateral tooth areas of the machining wheel, upon which the machining wheel is set into rotation and the gearwheel to be machined slides axially on the arbor into its machining position. After which the tooth gaps of the two overlapping areas of the wheels are rotated one over the other and the wheels are mutually engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Inventor: Wolfgang Linnenbrink
  • Publication number: 20090035086
    Abstract: In a method of operating a gearwheel machining tool having a machining wheel situated on a drive axis, for reworking a gearwheel, a fixed axial distance between both wheels is set. In this manner, the engagement of the gearwheel in the teeth of the machining wheel may be performed without damage in a technically simple way, which is achieved in that the gearwheel to be machined is placed on the arbor in an arbitrary rotational angle position, tooth areas of its lateral external faces facing toward the machining wheel coming to rest on lateral tooth areas of the machining wheel, upon which the machining wheel is set into rotation and the gearwheel to be machined slides axially on the arbor into its machining position. After which the tooth gaps of the two overlapping areas of the wheels are rotated one over the other and the wheels are mutually engaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventor: Wolfgang Linnenbrink
  • Publication number: 20090031544
    Abstract: An operating method improves the running behavior of gearwheels negatively noticed upon gearwheel testing and is performed by a burnishing device. The gearwheels that were rejected from the production process may be optimized rapidly and in a targeted way so that they may be returned back into the production process. The tooth flanks of a gearwheel to be machined are, in a first method step, mechanically freed of particles adhering to the surfaces of the tooth flanks or slight protrusions protruding therefrom using a first gearwheel machining tool having a machining wheel coated with an abrasive agent. Subsequently, in a second method step in a second gearwheel machining tool known as a burnishing machine, the gearwheel is chucked between gearwheel-shaped rolling tools, the so-called burnishing wheels, and rolled without material abrasion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventor: Wolfgang Linnenbrink
  • Patent number: 7004826
    Abstract: An apparatus for smoothing gear wheels has a single smoothing wheel and two further smoothing wheels opposite the single smoothing wheel. A clamping device for axially clamping the gearwheel to be smoothed can oscillate in a direction perpendicular to its rotation. The smoothing wheels are mounted on bearing brackets, which may be tensioned against one another in such a way that the gearwheel to be smoothed positioned between them is centered and may have a predetermined force applied to it. The bearing brackets form a separate clamping unit that is movable in parallel in such a way that the axis of rotation of the gearwheel to be smoothed runs coaxially to the central axis of its clamping device, which may oscillate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Inventor: Wolfgang Linnenbrink
  • Publication number: 20050181710
    Abstract: A working method and a device for smoothing gearwheels may be operated cost-effectively and in an environmentally friendly way and enables a simple method sequence and device construction. The device for performing the working method is equipped with at least one smoothing wheel, similar to a gearwheel, that acts radially on a gearwheel to be smoothed and that may be engaged with and disengaged from the wheel to be smoothed. A spray nozzle generates a fine spray mist of lubricant such as oil. The spray mist is sprayable in the form of a minimal quantity of lubrication onto the operating region of the gearwheel to be smoothed and/or onto the smoothing wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventor: Wolfgang Linnenbrink
  • Publication number: 20050181714
    Abstract: An apparatus for smoothing gear wheels has a single smoothing wheel and two further smoothing wheels opposite the single smoothing wheel. A clamping device for axially clamping the gearwheel to be smoothed can oscillate in a direction perpendicular to its rotation. The smoothing wheels are mounted on bearing brackets, which may be tensioned against one another in such a way that the gearwheel to be smoothed positioned between them is centered and may have a predetermined force applied to it. The bearing brackets form a separate clamping unit that is movable in parallel in such a way that the axis of rotation of the gearwheel to be smoothed runs coaxially to the central axis of its clamping device, which may oscillate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventor: Wolfgang Linnenbrink