Patents by Inventor Heiko Roehm

Heiko Roehm 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: 9366299
    Abstract: A handheld drill/driver device having a mechanical torque coupling that is provided to limit a maximum torque that can be transmitted to an insertion tool. The handheld drill/driver device have at least one monitoring unit that is provided to electrically output a characteristic quantity that is a function at least of a torque transmitted to the insertion tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Heiko Roehm
  • Publication number: 20160158929
    Abstract: In a hand-held power tool, including a screwdriver or screw drill, which includes a gear, in a gear housing, for driving an output spindle, and a torque clutch associated with the output spindle, a transmission element which is axially displaceable in the direction of a longitudinal center axis of the output spindle, a locking element, which is axially immovable in the direction of the longitudinal center axis and which is movable in a plane transverse to the longitudinal center axis, for activating and deactivating the torque clutch, the locking element enabling, in at least a first operating position, axial displaceability of the transmission element in the direction of the longitudinal center axis to activate the torque clutch, and in at least a second operating position, for at least limiting the axial displaceability of the transmission element to deactivate the torque clutch, in the second operating position of the locking element, the output spindle being at least essentially axially immovable relative
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Jens Brennenstuhl, Heiko Roehm
  • Patent number: 9346154
    Abstract: An electric handheld machine tool includes: a tool spindle driven by an electric motor; a gearing situated between the tool spindle and the electric motor; and a manually adjustable operating element which has an adjustment travel, the adjustment travel having at least two functional ranges. Upon switching over from a first functional range to a second functional range, a mechanical additional function of the gearing is mechanically connected. The operating element is configured as a part of a motor switching element for influencing the current through the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Heiko Roehm
  • Publication number: 20160129577
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool, in particular an impact drill driver, has a gearbox assemblage, a hammer impact mechanism, and a tool spindle. The hammer impact mechanism includes a striker that at least partly surrounds the tool spindle in at least one plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Joachim HECHT, Heiko ROEHM, Tobias HERR
  • Publication number: 20160121473
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool which includes a shiftable transmission that is shiftable at least between a first gear and a second gear via a shifting member, in which the shifting member is coupled to a spring element, which for the gear shifting is indirectly or directly actuatable at least via a first and a second shifting element. A coupling element which is coupleable to the spring element is associated with the first shifting element, and the coupling element is configured for allowing gear shifting by actuating the first shifting element only for the case that the second shifting element is in a predefined gear shift position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Jens Brennenstuhl, Heiko Roehm, Andreas Heber
  • Publication number: 20160101512
    Abstract: A hand-held machine tool device, in particular, for a screwdriver (12a-h), having a locking device (14a-h) for locking a power take-off unit (16a-h), and having a rotational bearing device (18a-h) of the power take-off unit (16a-h). It is provided that at least part of the locking device (14a-h) and the rotational bearing device (18a-h) be formed in one piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Joachim HECHT, Heiko ROEHM, Martin KRAUS
  • Publication number: 20160102762
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes: a shiftable transmission for driving a drive shaft, which transmission is situated in a gear housing and is shiftable at least between a first gear and a second gear via a shifting member; and a pivotably supported actuating element, which is configured as a bistable spring element and situated, at least in sections, in the area between the shifting member and the gear housing, is associated with the shifting member. The bistable spring element is actuatable for the gear shifting, and assumes a stable shift position in at least one shift position of the shifting member associated with the first or second gear, and assumes an unstable position in an intermediate position of the shifting member which is situated between shift positions of the shifting member associated with the first and second gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Jens Brennenstuhl, Heiko Roehm, Andreas Heber
  • Patent number: 9266228
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool, in particular an impact drill driver, has a gearbox assemblage, a hammer impact mechanism, and a tool spindle. The hammer impact mechanism includes a striker that at least partly surrounds the tool spindle in at least one plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Hecht, Heiko Roehm, Tobias Herr
  • Patent number: 9248507
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hand-held power tool with a tool clamping unit and an adjustment ring. The invention provides that the adjustment ring protrudes forwards in an axial direction beyond an axially rear end of the tool clamping unit, at least when the tool clamping unit is completely open. The invention further relates to an adjustment ring for a hand-held power tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Heiko Roehm
  • Patent number: 9242353
    Abstract: A hand-held machine tool device, in particular, for a screwdriver (12a-h), having a locking device (14a-h) for locking a power take-off unit (16a-h), and having a rotational bearing device (18a-h) of the power take-off unit (16a-h). It is provided that at least part of the locking device (14a-h) and the rotational bearing device (18a-h) be formed in one piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Hecht, Heiko Roehm, Martin Kraus
  • Patent number: 9211639
    Abstract: In a hand-held power tool, in particular an impact drill driver, having a torque setting unit, a gearbox assemblage, a hammer impact mechanism, and a tool spindle, the hammer impact mechanism has a drive rotation element having a rotation axis that is disposed coaxially with at least a part of the tool spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Hecht, Heiko Roehm, Tobias Herr
  • Publication number: 20150283692
    Abstract: A hand-held tool machine has a switchable mechanism having at least two operating positions, which are able to be selected via an adjustable operating element, the operating element being coupled to an adjustable switching element via a coupling element. The coupling element is implemented as bistable coupling spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventor: Heiko ROEHM
  • Patent number: 9108306
    Abstract: Disclosed is a machine tool having a spindle driven by a drive device, the spindle having a receiving device on its free end for a tool or a tool holder, an input part being provided in the drive train of the drive device, the input part transferring a torque having a defined play in the direction of rotation via drivers to an output part which is joined in a rotationally fixed manner to the spindle, while a torque acting from the spindle in the direction of the drive device and exceeding a torque on the input side is supported on the housing of the machine tool via clamping surfaces on the periphery of the output part, via clamping elements and via a locking ring having a hollow cylindrical surface. The output part is a driving profile having two or more axially parallel planes, of which a first part acts as clamping surfaces and a second part acts as driving surfaces which cooperate with the drivers of the input part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Hecht, Heiko Roehm, Martin Kraus
  • Patent number: 9109670
    Abstract: In a handheld power tool having a reduction gear unit, drivable by a motor, for driving a drive shaft, the reduction gear unit being situated in a gear housing and being shiftable via a gearshift at least between a first gear having a comparatively high torque and a second gear having a comparatively low torque, the reduction gear unit is assigned a mechanical overload protection device which is designed to limit the reduction gear unit during operation of the handheld power tool, if a torque, transferred from the drive shaft to the reduction gear unit, exceeds a machine-specific limiting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Heiko Roehm, Ralf Windsheimer
  • Publication number: 20150209948
    Abstract: A power tool, in particular a hand-held power tool, preferably embodied as a cordless screwdriver, is equipped with a torque limiting unit in which the release torque is settable by way of a locking brace that is equipped with a spring brace for locking elements that abut axially against parts of a planetary drive, in particular the ring gear thereof or the planet carrier thereof as a last gear stage, the spring elements of the spring brace and the locking elements being located with a radial offset from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Joachim HECHT, Heiko ROEHM, Martin KRAUS
  • Patent number: 9089954
    Abstract: A hand-held tool machine has a switchable mechanism having at least two operating positions, which are able to be selected via an adjustable operating element, the operating element being coupled to an adjustable switching element via a coupling element. The coupling element is implemented as bistable coupling spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Heiko Roehm
  • Patent number: 9027666
    Abstract: A power tool, in particular a hand-held power tool, preferably embodied as a cordless screwdriver, is equipped with a torque limiting unit in which the release torque is settable by way of a locking brace that is equipped with a spring brace for locking elements that abut axially against parts of a planetary drive, in particular the ring gear thereof or the planet carrier thereof as a last gear stage, the spring elements of the spring brace and the locking elements being located with a radial offset from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Hecht, Heiko Roehm, Martin Kraus
  • Patent number: 9030145
    Abstract: A device for regulating an increase in the output torque over time of an electric drive motor, including a monitoring unit for monitoring an operating variable of the electric drive motor, a regulating unit for regulating the operating variable for regulating the increase in output torque over time, a control unit for activating the regulating unit as a function of a time derivation of the monitored operating variable, the regulating unit being designed to be deactivated after a predetermined period of time. A method for regulating an increase in the output torque over time of an electric drive motor is also described. A corresponding tool and a computer program having program code for carrying out the method are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Brennenstuhl, Heiko Roehm, Dietmar Saur, Tobias Herr, Ralf Windsheimer, Stefan Mock
  • Publication number: 20150114675
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool is provided which includes a clutch housing of a torque clutch, and a planetary gear, situated in a gear housing, for transmitting a torque which is generated by a drive motor to a drive shaft. The clutch housing cooperates with the planetary gear via a pressure plate. The pressure plate is displaced in the axial direction in order to disengage the torque clutch. The axial relative motion of the pressure plate causes an axial relative motion between a switching element and an associated optical sensor, via which the drive motor may be switched off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Martin KRAUS, Heiko ROEHM, Joachim HECHT
  • Patent number: 9016394
    Abstract: A power tool includes a drive motor and at least one auxiliary device, which is coupled to the drive motor, for activating at least two different operating states. The drive motor and the at least one auxiliary device are controllable using at least one operating device. The output of the drive motor is changed when the at least one auxiliary device is activated. As a result, the operating forces are reduced when switching between operating states, and the load on components is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thilo Zimmermann, Heiko Roehm, Joerg Welke, Dietmar Saur