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Fag Automobiltechnik Ag

Fag Kugelfischer Ag & Co. Kg

Schaeffler Kg

Jens Heim

Peter Niebling

Heinrich Hofmann

Darius Dlugai

Roland Langer

Christian Mock

Wolfgang Steinberger

Horst Masuch

Horst Doeppling

Gottfried Ruoff

Joachim Hering

Edgar Streit

Sven Gempper

Marion Jack Ince

Jakob Schillinger

Charles Schwab

Dietmar Huber

Brian M Schneider

Wolfgang Ehrfeld

Ernst Masur

Rainer Breitenbach

Horst Doppling

Jens Schäfer

Stephan Risch

Stephan Neuschaefer-Rube

Martin Kram

Bernd Wittmann

Alfred Pecher

Stefan Glück

Horst Brehm

Christian Nuissl

Florian Koeniger

Robert Heuberger

Marc-Andre Schaefer

Frank Benkert

Wolfgang Braun

Bernhard Wilm

Frank Michel

Horst Döppling

Jürgen Gierl

Tilman Ulrich

Ralf Hund

Matthias Sperber

Andreas Schiffler

Armin Gerner

Jon Hamilton

Jörg-Oliver Hestermann

Sergej Mensch

Terry Lee Fruehling

Stefan Scharting

Jochen Damerau

Roland Werb

Werner Schlereth

Volker Graeff

David Ilgert

Masato Izumi

Ralf Weippert

Andreas Frühwald

Tyler Kulig

Kelly Possehl

Dirk Schmidt

Benedikt Neugebauer

Marco Hornung

Henri Van Der Knokke

Eduard Beresch

Vasilis Hassiotis

Christoph Weeth

Wolfgang Seidl

Timo Schmidt

Andreas Thölke

Matt Leroy

Andreas THÖLKE

Marc-André SCHÄFER

Günther Schmid

Roland SÜSSKIND

A roller bearing assembly for determining loads on a roller bearing includes a roller bearing having coaxial inner and outer rings and an axis of rotation, and a plurality of rollers each having a rotation axis being arranged between the rings. At least one ring has recess for receiving a force-measuring pin. A force-measuring pin is received in the recess. The longitudinal axis of the force-measuring pin extends at least partly along the axis of rotation of the roller bearing. The recess and the force-measuring pin extends into a region, which is under a load, of the ring that has the recess such that at least one vertical projection plane perpendicular to the rotation axis of the rollers extends along the force-measuring pin and a region of maximum load. This allows loads to be reliably measured.

Roller bearing assembly for determining loads

An elastic transmission element is part of a strain wave gear. Such strain wave gears are also referred to as Harmonic Drives. The elastic transmission element is also referred to as a flexspline and has an outer toothing (). The elastic transmission element is equipped with at least one strain gauge () for measuring a mechanical strain on the elastic transmission element. The one strain gauge () or the plurality of strain gauges () extends at least as a whole about a circumference of a lateral surface or an axial lateral face of the elastic transmission element.

Strain wave gear and transmission element for same, robotic arm and method for measuring a torque

A bearing assembly, comprising a bearing configured to support a machine part, an installation space configured to receive at least one electronic module, a mount in the installation space that includes an electric line and the electronic module is attached to the mount, one or more continuous electronic conductor paths, and one or more interrupted conductor path that is parallel to the continuous electronic conduct path.

Bearing assembly with incorporated electric line for providing multiple operating voltages

A camshaft adjuster for adjusting the phase angle between a crankshaft and a camshaft of an internal combustion engine comprises an actuator, in particular, an electric motor, and an adjustment module, which comprises a drive element, which can be driven by the crankshaft, and an output element, which can be rotated relative to the drive element to a limited extent and which is provided to be securely coupled to the camshaft, wherein a signal generator, which is arranged so as to be fixed in position on the internal combustion engine and which has an inductance, is inductively coupled to a measurement circuit, which is integrated into the adjustment module and which has at least one resonant circuit component having electrical properties that depend on the said phase angle.

Camshaft adjuster and method for determining the setting of a camshaft adjuster

The invention relates to a component with a material recess and a measuring element comprising at least one sensor which is inserted with a positive fit in the material recess. This sensor is arranged in such a manner in or on the measuring element such that the measuring direction of the sensor essentially corresponds to the action line of the contact angle.

Component with at least one measuring element comprising a sensor

Rolling bearing arrangements are disclosed. The bearing may include an outer ring, an inner ring, and a strain sensor device having an annular main body. The strain sensor device may be connected to the outer ring and configured to measure axial loads acting on the rolling bearing. A circle segment-shaped force introduction element may extend in a circumferential direction and connect to the annular main body via a web-shaped coupling element. The strain sensor device may have, on an outer end facing away from the rolling bearing, a recess for accommodating a strain sensor. The recess may extend over the force introduction element at least in the circumferential direction and the coupling element may have a smaller extent in a radial direction than the recess.

Rolling bearing arrangement having a strain sensor device

A kit including a plurality of modules which can be integrated in a bearing installation space is disclosed. The modules include a plurality of supply management modules for supplying bearing components, a plurality of functional modules for measuring bearing state variables and/or for triggering and/or activating specified events under specified conditions, and a plurality of infrastructure modules for implementing communication tasks and/or for saving and processing specified and/or recorded data. A bearing arrangement having a bearing and a plurality of modules which can be connected to a common connection medium is also disclosed, wherein the modules are components of the kit.

Kit for bearing and bearing arrangement

A rolling bearing with an electrical circuit is disclosed. The rolling bearing includes a first electrically insulating layer, at least one second electrically insulating layer deposited directly on at least one surface section of the rolling bearing, a first electrically conductive layer provided over the first electrically insulating layer, conductor paths with contact positions adapted for electrical contacting of electrical components, and at least one second electrically conductive layer. The at least one second electrically conductive layer is structured and supported on the at least one second electrically insulating layer. The first electrically insulating layer and the first electrically conductive layer with the conductor paths and the contact positions are deposited on the at least one second electrically conductive layer.

Rolling bearing comprising an electric circuit, and  method for producing an electric circuit for a rolling bearing

The present invention relates to a connecting element for electrical and mechanical connection of electronics modules. The connecting element includes a base part having a receptacle area that serves to hold an electronics module, wherein the receptacle area has first electrical contact points for the electrical connection of the connecting element to electrical contact points of the electronics module. The base part includes a first end region having a first recessed section on the top side and has a second end region having a second recessed section on the bottom side. Second electrical contact points for connecting to further connecting elements are disposed on the top side of the first recessed section and on the bottom side of the second recessed section. The recessed sections are designed such that the end regions of connecting elements that are located next to each other can be positioned opposite one another in such a way that the top sides of the connecting elements are located on a plane and the bottom sides of the connecting elements are located on another plane. The second electrical contact points are disposed in such a way that the connecting elements can be positioned at different angles (a) with respect to one another. The invention also relates to an electronic module arrangement having at least one connecting element and an electronics module disposed in the receptacle area of the connecting element.

Connecting element having a recessed portion on top of one end and a recessed portion on bottom of the other end

A measurement bearing is provided. The measurement bearing has a rolling bearing, at least one force-introducing ring and a space for at least one sensor layer, the space being surrounded by the at least one force-introducing ring and at least one other adjacent component of the measurement bearing.

Device for measuring force in the rolling bearing by means of a sensor layer

A circuit board () for connecting a deformation sensor (), which is provided on a radial outer side of a rolling bearing outer ring (), to a signal-processing circuit (), the circuit board including&#x2014;a cylindrical support plate () having a cylinder opening in which the rolling bearing outer ring () can be accommodated concentrically to said cylindrical support plate (), &#x2014;an electrical contact pad () on the cylindrical support plate () for electrical contacting with the deformation sensor () and&#x2014;an electrical strip conductor () which is electrically connected to the electrical contact pad () and is designed to receive signals from the deformation sensor () and convey them to the signal-processing circuit ().

Circuit board for connecting a deformation sensor to a signal-processing circuit

A measuring device for determining an operating state variable of a rotating structural element, in particular a bearing, which has a plurality of components. Specifically, the measuring device has a permanent magnet, an encoder ring for manipulating the magnetic field which is generated by the permanent magnet, a magnetic field sensor, a radio unit for transmitting measurement signals from the magnetic field sensor to an evaluation unit, and an energy converter unit for converting rotation energy into electrical energy. The encoder ring is produced from a ferromagnetic and non-premagnetized material.

Measuring device for determining an operating state variable of a rotating structural element, in particular a bearing

An apparatus and a method for determining a damage state of a wheel bearing (), in which a wheel () with a tire () arranged on a rim () in such a manner that the wheel can be rotated on an axle, in a motor vehicle, in particular during maintenance work on the motor vehicle. In order to avoid the wheel bearing () being accessed unnecessarily, a sensor unit () which communicates with an evaluation unit and is removably fastened radially outside a screw circle () of the rim () is provided for the purpose of determining the damage state.

Apparatus and method for determining a damage state of a wheel bearing

The invention relates to a method for transmitting sensor signals, comprising the following steps: a first sensor (), in particular a rotational speed sensor, supplies an alternating signal, which is present in the form of a sequence of sensor pulses () and pulse pauses () of predetermined duration, wherein in the pulse pauses () additional data () is transmitted as a bit sequence and wherein the bit sequence contains at least one free bit (); a binary information sequence () comprising data from at least one further sensor () is generated, which has a transmission length of a plurality of bits; and the data of the first sensor () and of the at least one further sensor () is transmitted through a common data line () in that a processing unit () distributes the information sequence () to a plurality of chronologically sequential bit sequences and the at least one free bit () of the additional data () is assigned at least one bit of the information sequence (). The information sequence () is thus reliably transmitted, even when it contains more bits than there are free bits available in the additional data ().

Method and assembly for transmitting sensor signals

A rolling bearing sensor, especially a rotational speed sensor, having a housing and a signal pick-up which is arranged in the housing in a manner secured against rotation and is arranged, with the housing, in a stationary receptacle in a stationary part of a rolling bearing or in a stationary component adjoining a rolling bearing, for example, an axle journal, where the housing has an outer design via which the rolling bearing sensor in the receptacle is secured against rotation in a form-fitting manner. The sensor may have a groove which runs in the axial direction and interacts with a screw or a projection. Alternatively, a securing element which predefines a defined angular position may be pushed onto the sensor.

Rolling bearing sensor with anti-rotational means

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Jens Heim