Patents by Inventor Gregor Haab
Gregor Haab 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).
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Publication number: 20130276373Abstract: The method serves for operating a system with a foldable element that is provided with a control unit including at least two foldable elements, that are connected each via connecting shafts to related carriages, which are slidably supported in a running rail and of which at least the carriage connected to the front-sided foldable element is provided with a drive motor, the method including the step of executing a learning drive, with which the system with foldable elements is transferred from at least a first into a second position and related information is captured. According to the invention at least at the front-sided carriage data of the acting load and related position data are captured and therefrom status data of the installed system with foldable elements are determined and provided to an operating program, that controls the at least one drive motor depending on to the determined status data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: HAWA AGInventors: Gregor HAAB, Peter ETTMULLER, Werner KOLLBRUNNER, Nejib YEZZA
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Patent number: 8522398Abstract: The carriage, which serves for holding a slidable separation element, comprises a carriage body and at least one running wheel, which is a rolling along a rail when the separation elements is displaced.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2010Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Hawa AGInventors: Gregor Haab, Martin Frei, Alfred Stutz
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Patent number: 8393114Abstract: The device used to hold a separation element includes a carriage with a carriage body and at least one wheel which rolls on a running surface of a rail. The carriage is releasably connected to a mounting element which is connected to the separation element. The mounting element which is mounted laterally on an upper edge of the separation element includes a guide profile provided with a first guide surface which holds a lower and an upper flange element of the carriage body inserted therein which can be displaced along the first guide surface extending inclined by a first angle relative to the upper edge of the separation element and can be locked in an appropriate position by means of locking elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2009Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Hawa AGInventors: Gregor Haab, Hans Wüthrich
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Patent number: 8381354Abstract: The carriage provided to hold a displaceable separation element comprises a carriage body provided with at least two running wheels, which carriage body is connected to a carrier profile, which serves to carry the separation element. According to the invention the threaded shank of an adjusting screw is rotationally held in the carriage body, which adjusting screw comprises below the screw head a flange ring, which supports a flange element provided in the carrier profile, which flange element comprises an opening, through which the screw head is guided. By rotating the adjusting screw the carrier profile can thus be optionally adjusted in height. In a preferred embodiment a tool channel is provided in the carrier profile, into which tool channel a conventional tool can be introduced.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Hawa AGInventors: Gregor Haab, Cornel Fuglistaller, Peter Ettmuller
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Patent number: 8341903Abstract: A separation element including a panel and a connecting device for use with an adhesive. The connecting device includes at least one profile strip and a separation profile. The profile strip includes a back element, a first side element and a second side element that together define a mounting channel, and an anchor channel defined by the profile strip. The anchor channel is connected to the mounting channel by a through slot. The mounting channel is configured such that the edge of the panel is held within the mounting channel by means of the adhesive. The separation profile separates the profile strip from the panel, and it includes a middle part, a first side part, and a second side part and defines at least one window opening that functions to allow the adhesive to penetrate into the anchor channel.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Hawa AGInventors: Gregor Haab, Stefan Hagger
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Patent number: 8336972Abstract: The displacement device serves to hold a separation element, which is pivotally connected to a bracket, which is held slideably by a first beam of a scissor assembly and firmly by a second beam of the scissor assembly with a scissor assembly bearing. The scissor assembly bearing comprises a profile body that is adapted to the bracket and can be connected thereto, which profile body comprises a profile part which is connected articulated to the first end element of an adjusting lever, of which the second end element is connected on the one hand pivotally with the second beam and on the other hand is held by an adjusting bolt, of which the threaded shank is rotatably mounted in a threaded channel of the profile body.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2010Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Hawa AGInventors: Gregor Haab, Martin Frei, Alfred Stutz, Rolf Heisig, Wladyslaw Wasilewski
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Patent number: 7891052Abstract: A carriage which serves to hold a panel, has at least one running element such as a magnet, a wheel and/or a sliding element which is held by at least one corresponding magnetic element or supported on a running surface of an at least approximately U-profile or L-profile-shaped rail. The carriage comprises one or two carriage parts which can be anchored to the panel by mounting elements, such that the two carriage parts can be anchored on the opposing sides (4a, 4b) of the panel. One carriage part is further contemplated, which can be introduced into a groove arranged on the upper side of the panel between the sides and anchored there by the mounting elements. Further provided is a carriage and a mounting device which can be coupled to the carriage and to the glass panel with two assembly parts which are each formed or mounted on one side on the upper side or within a groove of the panel.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2007Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Hawa AGInventors: Karl Haab, Gregor Haab, Cornel Fuglistaller, Reto Beck
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Publication number: 20100281812Abstract: A connecting device, which is provided for a separation element with a panel, in particular a glass panel, comprises at least one profile strip, which comprises a back element and a first and second side element, which define a mounting channel, within which the edge of the panel is held by means of an adhesive. According to the invention the profile strip comprises an anchor channel, which is connected by a through slot to the mounting channel, within which a separation profile which is provided with window openings, through which adhesive applied to the panel can penetrate into the anchor channel, separates with a middle part the back element and with a first and a second side part the first or second side element respectively of the profile strip from the panel. The profile strips mounted according to the invention, which preferably form a frame, can be connected to further profiles, e.g. a holding grip, or to at least one guide device, in particular to a carriage guided in a rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2010Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: HAWA AGInventors: Gregor Haab, Stefan Hagger
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Publication number: 20100270898Abstract: The displacement device serves to hold a separation element, which is pivotally connected to a bracket, which is held slideably by a first beam of a scissor assembly and firmly by a second beam of the scissor assembly with a scissor assembly bearing. The scissor assembly bearing comprises a profile body that is adapted to the bracket and can be connected thereto, which profile body comprises a profile part which is connected articulated to the first end element of an adjusting lever, of which the second end element is connected on the one hand pivotally with the second beam and on the other hand is held by an adjusting bolt, of which the threaded shank is rotatably mounted in a threaded channel of the profile body.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: HAWA AGInventors: Gregor Haab, Martin Frei, Alfred Stutz, Rolf Heisig, Wladyslaw Wasilewski
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Publication number: 20100269291Abstract: The carriage, which serves for holding a slidable separation element, comprises a carriage body and at least one running wheel, which is a rolling along a rail when the separation elements is displaced.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: HAWA AGInventors: Gregor Haab, Martin Frei, Alfred Stutz
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Publication number: 20100205772Abstract: The carriage provided to hold a displaceable separation element comprises a carriage body provided with at least two running wheels, which carriage body is connected to a carrier profile, which serves to carry the separation element. According to the invention the threaded shank of an adjusting screw is rotationally held in the carriage body, which adjusting screw comprises below the screw head a flange ring, which supports a flange element provided in the carrier profile, which flange element comprises an opening, through which the screw head is guided. By rotating the adjusting screw the carrier profile can thus be optionally adjusted in height. In a preferred embodiment a tool channel is provided in the carrier profile, into which tool channel a conventional tool can be introduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2010Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: HAWA AGInventors: Gregor HAAB, Cornel FÜGLISTALLER, Peter ETTMÜLLER
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Patent number: 7752810Abstract: The invention relates to a device for supporting a displaceable separation element (3), in particular a sliding door. Said device comprises a carriage (1), which is guided in a rail (2), equipped with a carriage body (10) and mechanically mounted in the rail (2) by means of rollers (8) or at least one sliding element (11; 110). The rail comprises a central part (2?) and two lateral parts (2?), which are equipped with opposing rail feet (21) that mechanically support the carriage (1). According to the invention, the carriage body (10) is provided with at least one hard magnetic magnet (12, 120), which exerts a force on at least one of the rail magnets (22, 22?, 22?, 220, 2200) that is connected to the rail (2), said force acting in opposition, preferably in an axially parallel manner, to the gravitational force exerted by the separation element (3) on the carriage (1).Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2005Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: HAWA AGInventors: Gregor Haab, Cornel Füglistaller, Stefan Hagger, Reto Beck
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Patent number: 7748178Abstract: The device which serves for the adjustable mounting of a panel (1) to a frame element (5) provided with a lower assembly profile (51) comprises an anchoring bolt (4) serving to hold the panel (1) which comprises anchoring pins (42) on both sides which are held in grooves which lie opposite each other within the assembly profile (51). The panel consists of two glass panels (1a, 1b) connected to each other which comprise at least two recesses (11a, 11b) corresponding to each other, in which preferably cylindrical, outer eccentric elements (2a, 2b) are held preferably in a clearance-free way, which comprise eccentrically arranged, preferably cylindrical openings (21a, 21b) which are orientated concentrically with each other after assembly and preferably hold the introduced shaft (31) of an inner eccentric element (3) in a clearance-free way, which shaft (31) comprises an eccentrically arranged, preferably cylindrical opening (311), in which the anchoring bolt (4) is held.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2007Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Hawa AGInventors: Gregor Haab, Stefan Hagger
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Publication number: 20100154174Abstract: The carriage provided for a separation device comprises a carriage body serving to hold a separation element, which carriage body comprises at least one running wheel, which can be moved on a rail, and a drive device made up of an electric motor and a gearing, which drive device is coupled to a first drive element, by means of which a force can be transferred to the rail and the carriage can be driven. According to the invention the drive device is coupled to at least one second drive element, by means of which the separation element held so as to be rotatable can be driven. Using the inventive carriage, separation elements which are separate or connected to each other in a jointed way can be advantageously displaced and/or rotated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: HAWA AGInventors: Gregor Haab, Marco Odermatt
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Publication number: 20100031577Abstract: The device used to hold a separation element (6), in particular a glass panel, comprises a carriage (1) with a carriage body (11) and at least one wheel (124, 125) which rolls on a running surface (231) of a rail (2). The carriage (1) is releasably connected to a mounting element (3) which is connected to the separation element (6). The mounting element (3) which is mounted laterally on an upper edge (62) of the separation element (6) comprises a guide profile (30) provided with a first guide surface (333) which holds a lower and an upper flange element (114; 115) of the carriage body (11) inserted therein which can be displaced along the first guide surface (333) extending inclined by a first angle (a) relative to the upper edge (62) of the separation element (6) and can be locked in an appropriate position by means of locking elements (35, 92).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2009Publication date: February 11, 2010Applicant: HAWA AGInventors: Gregor Haab, Hans Wuthrich
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Patent number: 7637177Abstract: The apparatus for driving a divider element which is slidable linearly and/or in curves, comprising a drive assembly guided by two running wheels on a running surface of a rail, the drive assembly having a drive shaft driven by an electric motor and a gearing, the drive shaft being coupled by a toothed gear to a toothed belt connected to the rail, and the drive assembly being connectable by a load shaft to the divider element. The drive assembly having a traveling assembly unit with a traveling assembly body having a head piece detachably connected to a drive unit, wherein the electric motor, and the gearing are arranged such that the drive shaft emerges vertically upward from the drive assembly so as to enable the toothed gear mounted on the drive shaft to engage the toothed belt retained above the running surface of the rail.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2005Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Hawa AGInventors: Gregor Haab, Hans Wuthrich, Marco Odermatt
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Patent number: 7578096Abstract: The invention relates to a device for operating an optionally rotatable and parkable divider element which may be displaced in a linear and/or curved manner, fixed to at least two running gears, provided with support rollers which run in a running track, of which at least the first running gear is provided with a drive shaft arranged in a direction perpendicular to the running direction thereof, by means of which a drive wheel may be rotated which engages in a toothed element arranged along an inner wall of the running track. According to the invention, the first running gear is provided with an electric motor, arranged between the support rollers, the motor shaft of which is fixed to the drive shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2003Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: Hawa AGInventors: Gregor Haab, Hans Wüthrich, Cornel Füglistaller
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Patent number: 7504788Abstract: The device has at least one controllable divider element including a drive assembly guided within a track, the drive assembly being driven by an electric motor which is controllable by a central control unit and a local control unit, which units exchange data through an electric line located in the track and functioning as the power supply for the electric motor. According to the invention, a first direct voltage is provided in the central control unit, the voltage being connectable to the power supply line through a central switch which is actuated as a function of the data to be transmitted between the central and local control units, whereby, when the switch is opened, data are able to be transmitted from the local control unit to the central control unit. In addition, an especially advantageous initialization of the device is possible based on the method according to the invention.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2005Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: Hawa AGInventors: Gregor Haab, Hans Wuthrich, Marco Odermatt
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Publication number: 20080209813Abstract: The invention relates to a device for supporting a displaceable separation element (3), in particular a sliding door. Said device comprises a carriage (1), which is guided in a rail (2), equipped with a carriage body (10) and mechanically mounted in the rail (2) by means of rollers (8) or at least one sliding element (11; 110). The rail comprises a central part (2?) and two lateral parts (2?), which are equipped with opposing rail feet (21) that mechanically support the carriage (1). According to the invention, the carriage body (10) is provided with at least one hard magnetic magnet (12, 120), which exerts a force on at least one of the rail magnets (22, 22?, 22?, 220, 2200) that is connected to the rail (2), said force acting in opposition, preferably in an axially parallel manner, to the gravitational force exerted by the separation element (3) on the carriage (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2005Publication date: September 4, 2008Applicant: HAWA AGInventors: Gregor Haab, Cornel Fuglistaller, Stefan Hagger, Reto Beck
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Publication number: 20080092330Abstract: A carriage (1) which serves to hold a panel (4), in particular a glass panel, comprises at least one running element (12) such as a magnet (1200), a wheel (12) and/or a sliding element (120) which is held by at least one corresponding magnetic element (1201) or supported on a running surface (3111) of an at least approximately U-profile or L-profile-shaped rail (3). The rail comprises a central part (32) and one or two lateral parts (31a, 31b), possibly with a foot element (311), on the upper side of which the running surface (3111) is provided. The carriage (3111) comprises one or two carriage parts (1a, 1b; 1c) which can be anchored to the panel (4) by mounting elements (2; 114, 1140; 93, 111), such that the two carriage parts (1a and 1b) can be anchored on the opposing sides (4a, 4b) of the panel (4) in each case by the mounting elements (2; 114, 1140; 93, 111).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicant: HAWA AGInventors: Karl Haab, Gregor Haab, Cornel Fuglistaller, Reto Beck