Patents by Inventor Hans Boni

Hans Boni 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: 6799643
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a percussion electrical hand-held tool having an electronic control unit (5) for controlling at least one power parameter of the electrical tool, and a substantially flat force sensor for controlling operation of the electronic control unit (5) and arranged sliding displacement-free for sensing a press-on force (F, F1) applied by a user in an operational direction of the electric tool, without being displaced, between at least two, associated with each other, press-surfaces (7a, 7b) extending at least partially transverse to a percussion axis (A) of the electrical tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Orestis Voulkidis, Hans Boni
  • Patent number: 6700341
    Abstract: A microcontroller for controlling operation of a safety clutch of a hand-held electrical power tool and which is arranged in a force transmitting chain of the tool, with the microcontroller including a unit (2,5,4;8) for processing at least one parameter of the power tool and for outputting a resulting parameter in form of a calculated torque (M1), and a control unit (7) for comparing an actually measured torque (M) with the calculated torque (M1), and for outputting a control signal (&thgr;) when a difference between the actually measured and calculated torques exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Roland Schaer, Hans Böni
  • Patent number: 6640205
    Abstract: The method of and a device for using this method, on equipment or assigned to equipment for working a material, for investigating and identifying the nature of the material, which is to be worked and for making available at least one operating parameter for the optimized pre-setting of the working equipment, provides for the use of a sensor, preferably assigned directly to the working tool, such as a hammer drill, in order to detect shock waves generated or induced in the tool. From the shock wave signal measured, at least one distinguishing feature characteristic of the material to be worked, is extracted and evaluated for the comparative classification of the material by means of an algorithm. Preferably, an external force, especially the contacting force, acting on the working equipment, is taken into consideration for the algorithmic evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Werner Bongers-Ambrosius, Roland Schaer, Hans Böni, Harald Schmitzer
  • Publication number: 20030116333
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a percussion electrical hand-held tool having an electronic control unit (5) for controlling at least one power parameter of the electrical tool, and a substantially flat force sensor for controlling operation of the electronic control unit (5) and arranged sliding displacement-free for sensing a press-on force (F, F1) applied by a user in an operational direction of the electric tool, without being displaced, between at least two, associated with each other, press-surfaces (7a, 7b) extending at least partially transverse to a percussion axis (A) of the electrical tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: Orestis Voulkidis, Hans Boni
  • Publication number: 20020053892
    Abstract: A microcontroller for controlling operation of a safety clutch of a handheld electrical power tool and which is arranged in a force transmitting chain of the tool, with the microcontroller including a unit (2,5,4;8) for processing at least one parameter of the power tool and for outputting a resulting parameter in form of a calculated torque (M1), and a control unit (7) for comparing an actually measured torque (M) with the calculated torque (M1), and for outputting a control signal (&thgr;) when a difference between the actually measured and calculated torques exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2001
    Publication date: May 9, 2002
    Inventors: Roland Schaer, Hans Boni
  • Publication number: 20020050168
    Abstract: The method of and a device for using this method, on equipment or assigned to equipment for working a material, for investigating and identifying the nature of the material, which is to be worked and for making available at least one operating parameter for the optimized pre-setting of the working equipment, provides for the use of a sensor, preferably assigned directly to the working tool, such as a hammer drill, in order to detect shock waves generated or induced in the tool. From the shock wave signal measured, at least one distinguishing feature characteristic of the material to be worked, is extracted and evaluated for the comparative classification of the material by means of an algorithm. Preferably, an external force, especially the contacting force, acting on the working equipment, is taken into consideration for the algorithmic evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2000
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: Hans-Werner Bongers-Ambrosius, Roland Schaer, Hans Boni, Harald Schmitzer
  • Patent number: 6356077
    Abstract: A method of determining a time-dependent gradient of a shock wave in a percussion or subjected to a percussion load ferromagnetic element and including subjecting the ferromagnetic element to action of a magnetic flux, providing a voltage measuring instrument associated with the ferromagnetic element for determining a change of a magnetic flux velocity, which is determined as a change in a measuring voltage, during a percussion action, and determining the gradient of the shock wave by additive superimposition of the measuring voltage; and a device for effecting the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Roland Schaer, Hans Böni, Peter Fabo, Andrey Jarosevic