Patents by Inventor Edwin Grubel

Edwin Grubel 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: 9945440
    Abstract: A device for damping the movement of a movably mounted component includes a first, mechanically acting braking device with at least one friction pair, wherein, in order to generate a braking force, a driven friction surface can be rotated about an axis of the first braking device relative to a secured friction surface resting thereon, and a second braking device which is coupled to the first braking device, wherein the friction surfaces of the friction pair, or of at least one of the friction pairs, are pressed against each other in response to a braking force exerted by the second braking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: FULTERER Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Muller, Edwin Grubel
  • Patent number: 9777789
    Abstract: A device for damping the movement of a movably mounted component comprises a braking device which has a driven damper surface that cooperates with a secured damper surface to enclose a gap in which a viscous damping medium is present that causes a braking force of the braking device when the driven damper surface is rotated with respect to the secured damper surface, the braking force depending on the rotational speed of the driven damper surface. The device also has an additional braking device and a coupling. In the closed state of the coupling, at least one additional damper surface of the additional braking device driven by the movement of the component about an axis of the auxiliary braking device is rotated relative to at least one secured additional damper surface about the axis of the additional braking device, the additional braking device exerting an additional braking force. In the opened state of the coupling, the additional braking device is inactive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: FULTERER Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Muller, Edwin Grubel
  • Patent number: 9777513
    Abstract: A device for blocking the pull-out movement of pull-out furniture parts including, for each of the pull-out furniture parts, a driver, a blocking unit which has a shiftable actuating, and a retraction spring and blocking rods which cooperate with the actuating parts, a respective actuating part that is shifted due to movement of the driver when the pull-out furniture part is pulled out and that displaces a blocking rod in a longitudinal axis direction, the blocking rods being blocked from any further axial displacement by a stop. Each of the blocking units has a pivotable catch arm that swivelable about a stationary pivot axis lying parallel to the longitudinal axes of the blocking rods and is loaded by the refraction spring, the catch arm being pivoted by the driver from an initial position to a final position when the pull-out furniture part is pulled out, thereby shifting the actuating part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: FULTERER Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Muller, Edwin Grubel
  • Patent number: 9759002
    Abstract: A closing device for a furniture part having a carrier connected to the movable furniture part or the body part, and a closing lever which is impinged upon by a closing spring, the closing lever having a guide track for the carrier and being pivotable by the carrier when the movable furniture part is opened between a hold-closed position and a standby position, in which the carrier uncouples from the closing lever or which is stationary with respect to the movable furniture part for the carrier connected to the body part. A closing force is exerted by the closing lever onto the carrier as of a use position assumed by the carrier in the guide track. The distance of the carrier in the use position from the lever pivoting axis of the is at least 1.5 times the distance of the carrier in the closed position from the pivoting axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: FULTERER Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Muller, Adis Causevic, Edwin Grubel
  • Patent number: 9301609
    Abstract: A pull-out guide for a furniture part which is pulled out of a basic furniture structure having first and second guide rails, the second guide rail is mounted for displacement over a displacement distance, in and counter to a displacement direction. A braking action of the second guide rail is damped at least at one end of the displacement distance by a stop damper against which a mating stop element runs up. The stop damper includes a lever mounted for pivoting about a pivot axis on the guide rail on which the stop damper is arranged, and has first and second lever arms which can be flexed elastically for damping the braking action of the second guide rail. At a limit value for the pivoting action of the first lever arm, an overload-stop device takes effect and limits the pivoting action of the first lever arm about the pivot axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: FULTERER Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Muller, Edwin Grubel
  • Publication number: 20150047149
    Abstract: A closing device for a furniture part having a carrier connected to the movable furniture part or the body part, and a closing lever which is impinged upon by a closing spring, the closing lever having a guide track for the carrier and being pivotable by the carrier when the movable furniture part is opened between a hold-closed position and a standby position, in which the carrier uncouples from the closing lever or which is stationary with respect to the movable furniture part for the carrier connected to the body part. A closing force is exerted by the closing lever onto the carrier as of a use position assumed by the carrier in the guide track. The distance of the carrier in the use position from the lever pivoting axis of the is at least 1.5 times the distance of the carrier in the closed position from the pivoting axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: FULTERER Gesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Muller, Adis Causevic, Edwin Grubel
  • Publication number: 20150001860
    Abstract: A device for blocking the pull-out movement of pull-out furniture parts including, for each of the pull-out furniture parts, a driver, a blocking unit which has a shiftable actuating, and a retraction spring and blocking rods which cooperate with the actuating parts, a respective actuating part that is shifted due to movement of the driver when the pull-out furniture part is pulled out and that displaces a blocking rod in a longitudinal axis direction, the blocking rods being blocked from any further axial displacement by a stop. Each of the blocking units has a pivotable catch arm that swivelable about a stationary pivot axis lying parallel to the longitudinal axes of the blocking rods and is loaded by the refraction spring, the catch arm being pivoted by the driver from an initial position to a final position when the pull-out furniture part is pulled out, thereby shifting the actuating part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: FULTERER GESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Muller, Edwin Grubel
  • Publication number: 20140353096
    Abstract: A device for damping the movement of a movably mounted component comprises a braking device which has a driven damper surface that cooperates with a secured damper surface to enclose a gap in which a viscous damping medium is present that causes a braking force of the braking device when the driven damper surface is rotated with respect to the secured damper surface, the braking force depending on the rotational speed of the driven damper surface. The device also has an additional braking device and a coupling. In the closed state of the coupling, at least one additional damper surface of the additional braking device driven by the movement of the component about an axis of the auxiliary braking device is rotated relative to at least one secured additional damper surface about the axis of the additional braking device, the additional braking device exerting an additional braking force. In the opened state of the coupling, the additional braking device is inactive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: FULTERER GESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Muller, Edwin Grubel
  • Publication number: 20140339031
    Abstract: A device for damping the movement of a movably mounted component includes a first, mechanically acting braking device with at least one friction pair, wherein, in order to generate a braking force, a driven friction surface can be rotated about an axis of the first braking device relative to a secured friction surface resting thereon, and a second braking device which is coupled to the first braking device, wherein the friction surfaces of the friction pair, or of at least one of the friction pairs, are pressed against each other in response to a braking force exerted by the second braking device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: FULTERER GESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Muller, Edwin Grubel
  • Publication number: 20140265795
    Abstract: A pull-out guide for a furniture part which is pulled out of a basic furniture structure having first and second guide rails, the second guide rail is mounted for displacement over a displacement distance, in and counter to a displacement direction. A braking action of the second guide rail is damped at least at one end of the displacement distance by a stop damper against which a mating stop element runs up. The stop damper includes a lever mounted for pivoting about a pivot axis on the guide rail on which the stop damper is arranged, and has first and second lever arms which can be flexed elastically for damping the braking action of the second guide rail. At a limit value for the pivoting action of the first lever arm, an overload-stop device takes effect and limits the pivoting action of the first lever arm about the pivot axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: FULTERER GESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Muller, Edwin Grubel
  • Patent number: D778906
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SENSILE TECHNOLOGIES SA
    Inventors: Edwin GrĂ¼bel, Adis Causevic, Jean-Marc Uehlinger