Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Modinger

Wolfgang Modinger 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: 9533537
    Abstract: A suspension arm (1) for a vehicle including a bearing (4) and a journal (2). The bearing (4) has at least one elastic sub-element (4c) and the bearing (4) is arranged on the journal (2) of the suspension arm (1) and encloses the journal (2). The journal (2) and the bearing (4) are designed to co-operate with one another in such manner that the bearing (4), relative to the journal (2), has a transition fit. The bearing (4) is fixed on the journal (2) of the suspension arm (1) by a fastening element (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Martin Fiechtner, Wolfgang Modinger, Hans-Juergen Wellensiek, Arnold Middelkampf
  • Publication number: 20150042059
    Abstract: A suspension arm (1) for a vehicle including a bearing (4) and a journal (2). The bearing (4) has at least one elastic sub-element (4c) and the bearing (4) is arranged on the journal (2) of the suspension arm (1) and encloses the journal (2). The journal (2) and the bearing (4) are designed to co-operate with one another in such manner that the bearing (4), relative to the journal (2), has a transition fit. The bearing (4) is fixed on the journal (2) of the suspension arm (1) by a fastening element (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Martin Fiechtner, Wolfgang Modinger, Hans-Juergen Wellensiek, Arnold Middelkampf
  • Patent number: 7273220
    Abstract: In a wheel suspension for a motor vehicle, comprising an A-arm with front and rear pivot bearings for connection to a vehicle body via A-arm-bearing eyes receiving, pressed into them, elastic bearings, at least the front bearing includes an inner tube and an outer tube with an elastic element disposed therebetween wherein the inner tube is axially engaged by a bearing console of the vehicle body and the outer tube is disposed, together with the elastic element, axially displaced forwardly from the center of the bearing eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Andress Gaupp, Wolfgang Mödinger, Achim Ritzmann
  • Patent number: 7150462
    Abstract: In a wheel guide arrangement of a steered motor vehicle wheel which has control arms and a steering knuckle, and wherein the steering knuckle includes a reception structure for a wheel mount and also connecting areas for the mounting of stubs of ball joints connected to the wheel control arms, the connecting areas are disposed at different distances from the wheel axis and the ball joints are arranged between the connecting areas and the wheel axis of rotation, that is, above the connecting areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Joachim Bortz, Andreas Gaupp, Wolfgang Mödinger
  • Publication number: 20060186629
    Abstract: In a wheel suspension for a motor vehicle, comprising an A-arm with front and rear pivot bearings for connection to a vehicle body via A-arm-bearing eyes receiving, pressed into them, elastic bearings, at least the front bearing includes an inner tube and an outer tube with an elastic element disposed therebetween wherein the inner tube is axially engaged by a bearing console of the vehicle body and the outer tube is disposed, together with the elastic element, axially displaced forwardly from the center of the bearing eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: Andress Gaupp, Wolfgang Modinger, Achim Ritzmann
  • Publication number: 20040232645
    Abstract: In a wheel guide arrangement of a steered motor vehicle wheel which has control arms and a steering knuckle, and wherein the steering knuckle includes a reception structure for a wheel mount and also connecting areas for the mounting of stubs of ball joints connected to the wheel control arms, the connecting areas are disposed at different distances from the wheel axis and the ball joints are arranged between the connecting areas and the wheel axis of rotation, that is, above the connecting areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Joachim Bortz, Andreas Gaupp, Wolfgang Modinger
  • Patent number: 5931485
    Abstract: In a support arrangement for a steered vehicle wheel mounted on a wheel carrier which is supported by a transverse link by way of a ball joint with a flange pivotally supported and mounted on the transverse link by clamping screws extending through spaced mounting holes in the transverse link and the mounting flange, the mounting holes in one of the transverse link and mounting flange is formed by at least three different receiving bores disposed at different distances from the pivot point of the flange for receiving the clamping screws and the mounting holes in the other are holes elongated along a line extending through the pivot point between the transverse link and the flange and forming jointly with the screws stops which provide for positive engagement between the transverse link and the flange in each of the different relative pivot positions between the two.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Daimler Benz AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Modinger, Thomas Schneider, Bernhard Lehmann