Patents Issued in November 30, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170343067
    Abstract: An actuator element is provided for a parking brake that has a mechanically acting actuating mechanism and that can be coupled via a shiftable clutch device to a pump drive of a hydraulic system of a primary assembly by means of a shiftable clutch device in order to activate the parking brake
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Sascha Miebach, Marc Eck
  • Publication number: 20170343068
    Abstract: A coupling comprising a brake plate (70); a first friction pad (64) operable to be selectively biased against the brake plate (70). In a first mode of operation the first friction pad (64) is biased against the brake plate (70) by a first force. In a second mode of operation the first friction pad (64) is biased against the brake plate (70) by a second force. The second force is substantially greater than the first force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS plc
    Inventor: MARTYN INGLETON
  • Publication number: 20170343069
    Abstract: A disc brake apparatus structured such that, on receiving a pressing force from an operating spring, a piston arranged within a cylinder formed in a caliper body presses a piston side pad. The disc brake apparatus includes a support part formed in a part of the caliper body, a reaction force receiver provided on and projected from the lateral side of the piston and opposed to the support part, and cam parts interposed between the support part and the reaction force receiver and, on receiving a rotation force, capable of spreading the distance between the support part and the reaction force receiver to thereby release the pressing force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro YOSHIKAWA, Toshifumi MAEHARA
  • Publication number: 20170343070
    Abstract: A drum brake assembly includes a brake spider having a central aperture configured to receive an axle extending therethrough and first and second brake shoes. Each of the first and second brakes shoes has a first end pivotally coupled to the brake spider. First and second cam followers are disposed at corresponding second ends of the first and second brake shoes. A camshaft has a shaft extending through a camshaft aperture in the brake spider and disposed along a rotational axis and a cam disposed at a first end of the shaft and in engagement with the first and second cam followers. An electric motor has an output shaft coupled to the camshaft. A controller is configured to drive the electric motor to cause rotation of the camshaft and move the first and second brake shoes between positions of engagement and disengagement with an associated braking surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Matthew J. Schwartz, Phillip Kasper
  • Publication number: 20170343071
    Abstract: The friction material composition has superior conductivity of a friction material, superior adherence of a coating during powder coating, superior film formation of coating and superior abrasion resistance without containing copper having serious environmental effects, the friction material composition includes a binder, an organic filler material, an inorganic filler material, and a fibrous substrate material, wherein the friction material composition contains 8 to 35 mass % of ferrosoferric oxide (Fe3O4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: JAPAN BRAKE INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuo UNNO
  • Publication number: 20170343072
    Abstract: The vibration damping device 1 comprises an outer cylinder member 9 formed by winding a flat plate member into a cylindrical shape; an inner mounting member 11 connected to the outer cylinder member via elastic members 14; and a rod portion 30, wherein: the outer cylinder member has a meeting portion 60 where end surfaces of the flat plate member on both circumferential ends of the outer cylinder member face each other; a joint portion 61, where joining was performed, is formed on at least a part of the meeting portion; and the rod portion is connected to an outer circumferential surface of the outer cylinder member so as to not overlap the meeting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akinori KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20170343073
    Abstract: A damper includes a housing in which an opening is formed, a cap closing the opening of the housing, a movable member movably housed between the housing and the cap, and a gel-like attenuating medium filled in a movable area of the movable member inside the housing. The housing and the cap are physical objects, the attenuating medium is filled between the physical objects and the movable member, and the housing and the cap are formed by the same principal material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Makoto MURANAKA
  • Publication number: 20170343074
    Abstract: An air bleed system for a suspension fork or shock absorber includes: a fluid passage between an interior of the suspension and an exterior of the suspension; and a manually operable valve having a first position substantially closing the fluid passage and a second position allowing fluid flow between the interior and the exterior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.
    Inventor: William M. Becker
  • Publication number: 20170343075
    Abstract: A vehicle transmission system component including a first subassembly having an input and an output, between which a torque can be transmitted. A second subassembly forms a pendulum-type damping device, and disposed outside the path of the torque transmitted by the first subassembly. The first and the second subassemblies are connected to one another by at least one connecting element capable of being elastically deformed circumferentially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: VALEO EMBRAYAGES
    Inventors: Giovanni GRIECO, Roel VERHOOG
  • Publication number: 20170343076
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flywheel intended for energy storage, including a cylindrical mass body including a main material with compression resistance of at least 25 MPa, such as concrete, the body being surrounded on at least one portion of the outer surface thereof with fibers, the material that makes up the fibers having a tensile strength of at least 100 Mpa. The tension of winding the fibers around the body leads to the compression of the main material, and the tension applied to the fibers is such that the stress exerted on the material of the mass body is at least equal to half of the maximum acceptable stress, the maximum stress being lower than the compression yield strength of the material that makes up the mass body, the material of the latter thus being pre-stressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Andre GENNESSEAUX
  • Publication number: 20170343077
    Abstract: A belt made up of an elastomeric belt body, an electrically conductive tensile cord such as carbon fiber cord in a cord layer reinforcing the belt body, an outer layer of electrically conductive thermoplastic material such as polypropylene film, and an electrically conductive fabric layer residing between the tensile cord layer and the outer layer and providing electrical continuity between the outer layer and the tensile cord. An electrically conductive thread may be woven in the fabric and may present at both surfaces of the fabric and contact both the outer layer and the tensile cord to provide the electrical continuity there between.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher M. Thomas, Joseph R. Duke, JR., Karla J. Bier, Cathy Peake Wilson
  • Publication number: 20170343078
    Abstract: An end fixing structure of a composite wire rod includes a composite wire rod, a wedge body that is formed into a cylindrical shape with an enlarging diameter from a front end portion, wherein an inner wall surface is formed for engaging with the outer surface of the composite wire rod which is copied onto the inner wall surface, and a sleeve provided on an outer peripheral side of the wedge body and having a conical and hollow inner structure, and the wedge body consists of a plurality of divided wedge bodies, facing each other on their divided surfaces with a space therebetween, and the inner wall surface in the divided wedge body is made of microscopic irregularities, thereby shortening a processing time and maintaining a sufficient gripping power over long term.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: TOKYO ROPE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke MANABE, Shunji HACHISUKA, Hiroshi KIMURA, Fumihiro MATSUDA, Nobuhiro KAI, Hiroyuki SHIMMURA, Kohsuke ASHIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20170343079
    Abstract: An energy guiding chain has a plurality of articulately interconnected chain links comprising two outermost links and a plurality of inner links, and a bendable cover strip covering at least one of two sides of the articulately interconnected chain links, wherein the cover strip is held by at least some of the inner chain links, and guided displaceably with respect to at least the inner chain links in a chain longitudinal direction, and wherein the cover strip projects in a chain transverse direction at least on one side over the chain links. A processing machine for the machining of workpieces and a method of using an energy guiding chain are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Martin Blaser, Gunter Fischer, Joerg Mueller
  • Publication number: 20170343080
    Abstract: Described is a device for synchronization of a reverse gear for a vehicle gearbox including: a support shaft fixed in rotation; an idle gear wheel for engagement with a first reverse gear wheel on a gearbox primary shaft and a second reverse gear wheel on a gearbox secondary shaft, said idle gear wheel mounted rotatable and axially slidable on said support shaft and having a hub including a first friction surface; and a synchronizer ring mounted mobile on said support shaft along an axial travel and countered axially by an elastic element along said axial travel, said synchronizer ring having a second friction surface for engagement with said first friction surface. Axial movement of the idle gear wheel towards an engagement position of the reverse gear causes drawing of the synchronizer ring implementing, prior to reverse gear engagement, braking of rotary movement of the idle gear wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Alessandro DI MARTINO, Marco CONSANI
  • Publication number: 20170343081
    Abstract: A transmission includes a first power transmitting path of gears that obtains odd number speeds and has an output part, a second power transmitting path of gears that obtains even number speeds and has an output part; a first gear shifting part incorporated in the first power transmitting path to obtain one of the odd number speeds, a second gear shafting part incorporated in the second power transmitting path to obtain one of the even number speeds, and a path shifting part that is arranged between the first and second power transmitting parts. The path shifting part shifts the first second power transmitting paths to output power to the output shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Hirotaka HORIGUCHI, Kotei TAKAHASHI, Ryo YAGI
  • Publication number: 20170343082
    Abstract: Disclosed is a drive train including a drive shaft, a drive machine, and a planetary gearbox having three drives and three outputs, wherein one output is connected to the drive shaft, one drive is connected to the drive machine, and a second drive is connected to an electric differential drive. The differential drive can be connected directly to a network without a frequency converter, in order that the operation of the drive train is possible without a frequency converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Gerald HEHENBERGER
  • Publication number: 20170343083
    Abstract: A belt drive system for rotatably coupling an internal combustion engine to an electric machine is described. The belt drive system includes a serpentine belt and a hydraulic strut tensioner, wherein the hydraulic strut tensioner is disposed to exert a tension force on the serpentine belt. A controller is operatively connected to the electric machine and includes an instruction set that is executable to periodically induce a reduction in torque output of the electric machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Mark W. Wright, Constantine R. Checkles, Daniel D. Cottrell, V
  • Publication number: 20170343084
    Abstract: A driving device including a drive shaft and a first engaging member. The drive shaft rotates around a first axis. The first engaging member is disposed on the first axis to rotate integrally with the drive shaft. The power transmission mechanism includes a second engaging member, a propeller shaft, a piston, and a reduction gear. The second engaging member is disposed on the first axis engageable with/disengageable from the first engaging member. The propeller shaft is rotatable integrally with the second engaging member around the first axis. The piston reciprocates the second engaging member between a first position and a second position along a direction of the first axis. The reduction gear is joined to the other end side of the propeller shaft to decelerate the rotation of the propeller shaft. The reduction gear causes an output shaft joined to an object to rotate around a second axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroki HAREMAKI, Hajime SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20170343085
    Abstract: Provided are a recording apparatus and a motion unit drive method that determines a stop rotation torque of a CR motor indicating stop of a carriage by a stopper and, within a predetermined period after the determination of the stop rotational torque, supplies to the CR motor the drive signal that causes a rotational torque of the drive motor to be a low rotational torque having a smaller torque value than the stop rotational torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Takayuki TANAKA, Hirotomo TANAKA, Yasuhiko YOSHIHISA
  • Publication number: 20170343086
    Abstract: A relative translation assembly operable with a drive mechanism. The relative translation assembly can have a fixed support member, a translatable member supported by the fixed support member, and a translation guide portion to facilitate translation of the translatable member relative to the fixed support member. The translation guide portion can have a fixed translation member and a movable translation member. The movable translation member can be configured to maintain preload on the fixed and movable translation members and accommodate thermal expansion. The drive mechanism can be configured to cause translation of the translatable member relative to the fixed support member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Jake B. Range, Kirk A. Miller, David B. Peck
  • Publication number: 20170343087
    Abstract: A ball screw device is provided, including a retainer that can properly retain balls. The difference between a diameter being the pitch circle diameter of the ball screw device and the outside diameter of the rack shaft is set to be equal to or larger than the difference between the bore diameter of a ball screw nut and the diameter. The thickness center diameter of the retainer is set to be smaller than the diameter. Even when the inclination angle is reduced, the clearance between the inclined surfaces of each retainer groove on the radial inside can be easily set to be smaller than the diameter of the balls because the bore diameter of the retainer is set to be smaller. Thus, even when the inclination angle of the inclined surfaces is set to be smaller, the balls can be properly retained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro ASAKURA, Takuya NAKAYAMA, Keisuke OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20170343088
    Abstract: A ball screw device and a steering system that include a retainer having more uniform stiffness are provided. Between a rack shaft and a ball screw nut, a cylindrical retainer having a plurality of retainer grooves that retain balls in a rollable manner is provided. Each retainer groove has two short inner surfaces that intersect the extending direction of the retainer groove and two long inner surfaces that intersect these short inner surfaces and extend along the extending direction of the retainer groove. In each of interior-angle portions where the short inner surfaces and the long inner surfaces intersect, a corner round surface is formed. The radius of the corner round surface is set to be smaller than one half of the width of the retainer groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro ASAKURA, Takuya NAKAYAMA, Keisuke OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20170343089
    Abstract: A device includes a transmission assembly having a first override clutch. The first override clutch is used especially for transmitting a torque between a first coupling partner and a second coupling partner. The first override clutch engages and disengages in accordance with a change in the load flow between the coupling partners. A freewheeling member which is associated with the first override clutch neutralizes the engagement between the coupling partners. The neutralization is, in particular, temporary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: MICHAEL BARTZ, OLIVER DUWE, FRIEDRICH LOEBNER
  • Publication number: 20170343090
    Abstract: Provided is a continuously variable transmission that uses friction clutches as power transmission switching mechanisms but without increasing the number of shafts and the overall length. The power transmission switching mechanisms are configured to switch between establishing and interrupting power transmission in the power transmission paths within the continuously variable transmission. A continuously variable transmission includes an input shaft, a first output shaft, a second output shaft, a continuously variable transmission device, and four friction clutches. The continuously variable transmission device includes, a first pulley, mounted to the first output shaft, a second pulley, mounted to the second output shaft, and an endless belt, looped around the first pulley and the second pulley. A first friction clutch and a second friction clutch are coaxial with the input shaft. A third friction clutch is coaxial with the second output shaft. A fourth friction clutch is coaxial with the first output shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Uchino
  • Publication number: 20170343091
    Abstract: An improved internal combustion engine utilizes at least one orbital body with at least one orbiting rod journal offset and engaged in a specific way from the center of orbiting body. Further, orbiting body together with orbiting rod journal and one of the gears as one body, rotationally linked to the block via stationary second gear engaged in 1:1 ratio. Which transfers the rotation to main journal via flying arm. Such that radial motion of flying arm transfers the rotation to the main crankshaft axis and constitute one body. This results in a constant volume compression period of max. 60° , improving operation, efficiency and cleanliness of the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Borislav Zivkovich
  • Publication number: 20170343092
    Abstract: A hydrokinetic torque coupling device comprises a casing, a torque converter, a torsional vibration damper and a lockup clutch disposed within the casing. The torque converter comprises an impeller and a turbine-piston coaxially aligned with the impeller and axially movable toward and away from the casing to position the hydrokinetic torque coupling device into and out of a lockup mode in which the turbine-piston is non-rotatably frictionally coupled to the casing. The torsional vibration damper comprises an input member non-moveably secured to the turbine-piston, a first retainer plate and the elastic members elastically coupling the input member to the first retainer plate. The input member includes an actuating portion configured to actuate the lockup clutch. The lockup clutch is disposed within the casing between the actuating portion of the input member and a cover shell of the casing for frictionally coupling the casing and the turbine-piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Rabah ARHAB, Alfonso MEDELLIN, Jorge SANCHEZ
  • Publication number: 20170343093
    Abstract: A vehicle comprises a hydromechanical automatic gearbox, an automatic gear shift unit (12) connected to a pressure fluid feeding pump (15). The gearbox comprises an input shaft (4) extending from an engine, gearing (23) extending to each gear step, wherein the gearing (23) is mounted on the input shaft (4) and is as a central gear (2), located on the input shaft (4), meshing with gear wheels (3) of different gear steps having different diameters mounted on the input shaft (4) of a single hydraulic torque converter (5) comprising a pump (6) and a turbine (8) located accordingly on the input (4) and output (7) shafts thereof forming a flow path of pressure fluid, each of the hydraulic torque converter (5) is electronically and hydraulically linked to the gear shift unit (12) of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Viktor Izrailevich DUMOV
  • Publication number: 20170343094
    Abstract: A method of making a strain wave includes the steps of a) providing a circular spline, a flexspline meshed with the circular spline, and an initial wave generator having an initial outer profile of a standard ellipse with a perimeter S0, and b) producing a modified wave generator rotatably fitted within the flexspline and having a modified outer profile with a perimeter S. A difference ES between the perimeter S of the modified outer profile and the perimeter S0 of the initial outer profile satisfies the equation ES=S?S0=0.1 m to 0.8 m, wherein m is the modulus of the flexspline. Through a special parameter design of the modified wave generator, the meshing ratio between the circular spline and the flexspline is increased, thereby improving the transmission accuracy and reducing the average load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Yi-Hung TSAI, Fung-Ling NIAN, Jhe-Hong WANG
  • Publication number: 20170343095
    Abstract: The present invention is a variable-ratio line gear mechanism. The mechanism forms a transmission pair consisting of a driving line gear and a driven line gear, of which axes intersect at an arbitrary angle. Transmission is generated by point contact meshing movement of line teeth between the driving line gear and the driven line gear. A contact curve of the line tooth is designed in accordance with space conjugate curve meshing theory, and the designing equation is divided into an equal transmission ratio part and a variable transmission ratio part. The equal transmission ratio part provides a uniform transmission, and the variable transmission ratio part makes the transmission ratio smoothly transit. The line gear mechanism is able to provide periodically transmission with variable transmission ratio, to provide a plurality of transmission ratios during a movement period of the driven line gear, and to enable smooth transitions between respective transmission ratios in accordance with movement rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Yangzhi CHEN, Huai HUANG, Yueling LV
  • Publication number: 20170343096
    Abstract: A rotatable assembly, such as a crankshaft or camshaft assembly, includes a first rotatable component and a second rotatable component coupled to the first rotatable component. The first rotatable component includes a first body and defines a plurality of recesses extending into the first body. The second rotatable component includes a second body and defines a plurality of protrusions extending from the second body. The protrusions are disposed inside the respective recesses to allow the second rotatable component to rotate in unison with the first rotatable component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Scott A. Hucker, Chris D. Hosler, Ronald B. Beals
  • Publication number: 20170343097
    Abstract: A lubrication system for a rack and pinion mast of a drilling rig includes a lubricating pinion positioned on a cart and in engagement with the rack. The lubricating pinion includes a plurality of lubrication dispensing ports formed on faces of the teeth of the pinion. The lubrication dispensing ports are fluidly coupled to lubrication ports formed in the lubricating pinion. The lubrication ports fluidly couple to an inner bore of the lubricating pinion. The inner bore may be fluidly coupled to a lubricant reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Ashish GUPTA, Padira REDDY
  • Publication number: 20170343098
    Abstract: A fluid pump includes a pump element in communication with an inlet and an outlet. Rotation of the pump element generates a suction at the inlet and pressure at the outlet. The suction and pressure cooperate to move a fluid through a fluid path. An accessory fluid path is in communication with the inlet and outlet. The accessory fluid path includes a thermistor in communication with the accessory fluid path. The thermistor monitors a temperature of the fluid within the accessory fluid path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Ryan David Rosinski
  • Publication number: 20170343099
    Abstract: A drive device for a motor vehicle having a drive assembly that is operatively connected or can be operatively connected to an input shaft of a gearbox. A gear set of the gearbox can be supplied with lubricant by a primary lubricant pump. The primary lubricant pump is coupled to an output shaft of the gearbox.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Ivo GREITER
  • Publication number: 20170343100
    Abstract: A driving force transmission device of a vehicle includes: a main body; a carrying up gear; a drive shaft; and a blocking member. A gear that transmits a driving force to the vehicle is housed in the main body. The carrying up gear carries up a lubricating oil stored in the main body. The drive shaft has, in the shaft, a lubricating oil storage space into which the carried up lubricating oil is introduced and a lubricating oil discharge hole through which the lubricating oil in the lubricating oil storage space is supplied to a bearing unit. The blocking member blocks the lubricating oil discharge hole in accordance with a rotational speed of the drive shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Hirofumi KAWARAZAKI, Satoshi AKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170343101
    Abstract: A power transmission system includes a first case, a second case, a first tube, and a shaft. The first tube is configured to supply a lubricating oil to a first bearing and a second bearing. A shaft is rotatably supported by the first bearing and the second bearing. The shaft is provided with a through-hole extending through the shaft in an axial direction of the shaft. The first tube is insertedly fixed to an insertion hole of the first case from an outside of a space where the shaft is disposed. The first tube includes a first opening and a second opening, the first opening is configured to supply the lubricating oil to the first bearing, and the second opening is configured to supply the lubricating oil to the second bearing via the through-hole of the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kozo Yamamoto, Hideki Nakagawa, Hirofumi Nakada, Miki Natsume, Haruki Shirasaka
  • Publication number: 20170343102
    Abstract: An operating element of a motor vehicle provided with a contact surface. The contact surface is provided with an element, controllable via actuators, that responds to the sense of touch of an operator, through which a feedback is provided to the operator about the currently engaged gear of the transmission of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Alexander BARKE, Christian NIEMEIER
  • Publication number: 20170343103
    Abstract: A shifter assembly in a motor vehicle includes a shifter housing. A shifter lever having first and second ends is coupled to the shifter housing at the second end. The shifter lever is rotatable about a pivot axis and is translatable parallel to the pivot axis. The shifter assembly has first and second 2-Dimensional (2D) magnetic sensors, and first and second magnets. The first magnet is coupled to the shifter lever between the first and second ends, proximate the first sensor, and has a first magnetic field in radial alignment with the shifter lever. The second magnet is coupled to the shifter lever between the first and second ends, proximate the second sensor, and has a second magnetic field perpendicular to the first magnetic field. The first sensor detects an angular displacement of the first magnetic field, and the second sensor detects an axial displacement of the second magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Mario Arturo Recio, Alberto Polonio Morales, Daniel William Raikes, II
  • Publication number: 20170343104
    Abstract: A valve device for an automatic transmission for a vehicle, preferably for a motor or utility vehicle, is provided. According to the invention, the valve device is designed such that the valve device can achieve the establishment and separation of a fluid connection between an operating pressure side and an actuator pressure side, each in a state operated without pressure. Further, an automatic transmission having such a valve device and a corresponding method for controlling such a valve device are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Alexander MARTIN, Benjamin KLUGE, Sebastian LIEBERT, Ulrich OHNEMUS
  • Publication number: 20170343105
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling transmissions and associated vehicles, machines, equipment, etc., are disclosed. In one case, a transmission control system includes a control unit configured to use a sensed vehicle speed and a commanded, target constant input speed to maintain an input speed substantially constant. The system includes one or more maps that associate a speed ratio of a transmission with a vehicle speed. In one embodiment, one such map associates an encoder position with a vehicle speed. Regarding a specific application, an automatic bicycle transmission shifting system is contemplated. An exemplary automatic bicycle includes a control unit, a shift actuator, various sensors, and a user interface. The control unit is configured to cooperate with a logic module and an actuator controller to control the cadence of a rider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher M. Vasiliotis, Loren T. McDaniel
  • Publication number: 20170343106
    Abstract: In one aspect of the invention there is provided a method of manually releasing power actuated vehicle park means in the absence of power, the method comprising the steps of: rotating a power actuated selector shaft from a park mode position in which one or more wheels are locked by the park means to a park release mode position in which the one or more wheels are released by the park means; and locking the selector shaft in the release mode position by means of locking means, whereby the successive steps of rotating the selector shaft to the release mode position and subsequently locking the selector shaft in the release mode position comprise manual translation or rotation of one or more members in first and second directions respectively, the first direction being different from the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: John Spooner, Graham Tarvar
  • Publication number: 20170343107
    Abstract: A method is provided for forming wear-resistant layer on the surface of cylinder bores a cylinder drum of a hydrostatic axial piston machine within which a respective piston is moved in a manner subject to intensive wear. The cylinder bores are gas nitrocarburized in two stages to minimize the wear and include a thin uniform connecting layer that has a thickness of 4 to 16 ?m and a comparatively thick underlying diffusion layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Bernd Gaertner
  • Publication number: 20170343108
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a sealing component includes defining a configuration for the sealing component, wherein the configuration comprises a cross-section comprising a first wall and a second wall joined by a turning wall to form a generally U-shape, the first wall and the second wall comprising a variable cross-sectional thickness, wherein the cross-section is taken along a plane extending along an axial axis of the sealing component and the cross-section extends in a circumferential direction. The method also includes depositing a powder into a chamber, applying an energy source to the deposited powder, and consolidating the powder into a layer according to the defined configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Loc Gia Hoang
  • Publication number: 20170343109
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a sealing device that has a small number of parts as three or less to achieve a more compact sealing device. The sealing device is combined an inner seal ring, an outer seal ring held in an outer circumferential holding groove of the inner seal ring, and a back ring. The outer seal ring satisfies a dimensional size relationship of T>A when T is the radial thickness dimension of the outer seal ring, G is the protrusion gap dimension, R is the radial width dimension of the chamfered sections on the edges of the open side of the seal installation groove, and A is the sum of the protrusion gap dimension G and the radial width dimension R of the chamfered sections on the edges of the open side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Toshiyuki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20170343110
    Abstract: A sealing device includes a seal ring 200 made of resin which is in close contact with a side wall surface on a low pressure side of an annular groove 410, and slides against an inner peripheral surface of a shaft hole in a housing 500 through which a shaft 400 is inserted. A metal spring 300 presses the seal ring 200 toward an outer peripheral surface side, wherein a concave portion 220 is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the seal ring 200 which extends from an end portion on a high pressure side of the outer peripheral surface to a position which does not reach an end portion on a low pressure side of the outer peripheral surface, and introduces a fluid from the high pressure side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Kazunari SEKI, Koji WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20170343111
    Abstract: A seal assembly and method of directing fluid flow away from a seal. The seal assembly comprises an inner seal member coupled to a rotatable shaft and an outer seal member which is either rotatable or static. The inner seal member has a plurality of knives spaced apart from each other and extending radially away from the shaft. The outer seal member has a rub surface disposed to abut a terminal edge of at least one of the plurality of knives to thereby form a seal. An outer knife of the plurality of knives of the inner seal member extends axially at an angle and is adapted to direct fluid flow away from the seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventor: Nathan W. Ottow
  • Publication number: 20170343112
    Abstract: A metal gasket bellows seal includes a first ply comprised of a first material having a first yield strength. The metal gasket bellows seal also includes a second ply positioned adjacent to the first ply and comprised of a second material having a second yield strength that is less than the first yield strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: TIMOTHY M. DAVIS, Terence P. Tyler, JR., Jose R. Paulino, Paul M. Lutjen
  • Publication number: 20170343113
    Abstract: A thrust plate for a butterfly valve includes a thrust plate body that defines a recess that extends between a bottom thrust surface, side walls, and an open top. There is a nickel-based or cobalt-based wear-resistant coating located on the bottom thrust surface. The wear-resistant coating is harder than the thrust plate body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Peter J. Dowd, John M. Dehais, Blair A. Smith, Timothy R. Boysen, Keith J. Brooky, Aaron T. Nardi, Kevin M. Rankin
  • Publication number: 20170343114
    Abstract: A turbocharger waste gate valve includes an elastically deformable sealing member formed by sheet metal, the sealing member being carried on one of the poppet valve member and the valve housing and being arranged to be under compression between the valve seat and the valve member end face when the poppet valve member is in the closed position so as to be elastically deformed into a compressed state, and to be released from said compression so as to return to an uncompressed state when the poppet valve member is in the open position. The sealing member in the compressed state contacts the valve seat about a full circumference thereof and contacts the valve member end face about a full circumference thereof so as to substantially seal any gap between the valve member end face and the valve seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Petr Cizek, Antonin Forbelsky, Stanislav Hahn, Vit Micanek
  • Publication number: 20170343115
    Abstract: A valve includes a valve body with an annular valve seat having a first central axis, and a valve closure subassembly assembled with the valve body and including an axially movable valve stem and a stem tip attached to the valve stem by a stem connector and including an annular seal portion having a second central axis. When the first central axis is misaligned with the second central axis, the stem tip is pivotable about the valve stem to effect angular adjustment of the annular seal portion of the stem tip into uniform sealing engagement with the annular valve seat when a closing force is applied to the valve stem. The stem connector is configured to resist pivoting movement of the stem tip when the valve stem is in the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: William H. Glime, III, Branden W. Keeper
  • Publication number: 20170343116
    Abstract: A turbocharger for a motor vehicle has a housing and a valve seat in the housing. The valve seat is retained in an interlocking manner in the housing by at least one elastic securing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Manfred FRAENK