Patents by Inventor Helmut Zimmermann

Helmut Zimmermann 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: 11268534
    Abstract: A blower wheel is provided with a base member having an axis of rotation and with a rotor of a generator, wherein the rotor is fixedly secured on the blower wheel. At least one magnet is arranged on the rotor. An inertia ring is fixedly secured on the base member at a spacing to the at least one magnet. The inertia ring is made of a first material having a first density and the base member is made of a second material having a second density. The first density is greater than the second density. An internal combustion engine is provided with such a blower wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Wolf, Wolfgang Weissert, Volker Lempges, Helmut Zimmermann, Günter Wolf, Holger Vollmer, Marcel Förster, Ute Dawin, Jonas Lank
  • Patent number: 10814518
    Abstract: A chainsaw having a drive motor. The chainsaw has a fixed part and a movable part. The guide bar is retained on the fixed part in a manner braced between the fixed part and a tensioning element. The movable part is shiftable in a longitudinal direction with respect to the fixed part in order to tension the saw chain with the tensioning element released. The chainsaw has a stop face and a tensioning face. At least one additional contact face that is firmly connected to the fixed part in the longitudinal direction and at least one additional contact face that is firmly connected to the movable part in the longitudinal direction are arranged between the stop face and the tensioning face. All the contact faces lie one after another in the flux of force from the tensioning element to the fixed part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: ANDREAS STIHL AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Gerstenberger, Helmut Zimmermann, Andreas Fricker
  • Patent number: 10144146
    Abstract: The invention relates to a work device with a guide rail (4) on which a chain (5) is driven in a circulating manner. The work device has a clamping device (15) for the chain (5). The clamping device (15) has a clamping element (16) which acts on en the guide rail (4) in the direction (19) of the longitudinal central axis (18) of the guide rail (4). The clamping device (15) has a rotatably mounted adjusting element (17) which is connected to the clamping element (16) via a threaded connection (20). A rotation of the adjusting element (17) about its rotational axis (21) causes a movement of the clamping element (16) in the direction (19) of the longitudinal central axis (18) of the guide rail (4). The outer circumference of the adjusting element (17) has a threaded portion (22) with at least one turn (23), said threaded portion being provided for engaging with at least one threaded portion (24) of the clamping element (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Benjamin Frey, Helmut Zimmermann, Klaus-Martin Uhl
  • Publication number: 20180281225
    Abstract: A chainsaw having a drive motor. The chainsaw has a fixed part and a movable part. The guide bar is retained on the fixed part in a manner braced between the fixed part and a tensioning element. The movable part is shiftable in a longitudinal direction with respect to the fixed part in order to tension the saw chain with the tensioning element released. The chainsaw has a stop face and a tensioning face. At least one additional contact face that is firmly connected to the fixed part in the longitudinal direction and at least one additional contact face that is firmly connected to the movable part in the longitudinal direction are arranged between the stop face and the tensioning face. All the contact faces lie one after another in the flux of force from the tensioning element to the fixed part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Oliver GERSTENBERGER, Helmut ZIMMERMANN, Andreas FRICKER
  • Patent number: 9855672
    Abstract: A handheld work apparatus has a drive motor which drives a tool of the work apparatus. A lubricating arrangement is provided for the tool. The lubricating arrangement includes a lubricant piece that is solid at 20° C. The work apparatus has a melting chamber into which the lubricant piece projects and which is connected to the tool via at least one lubricant channel. The melting chamber is delimited at least partially by a heat conducting element which is heated during operation of the work apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Helmut Zimmermann, Carel Karrar, Benjamin Frey
  • Publication number: 20170266834
    Abstract: The invention relates to a work device with a guide rail (4) on which a chain (5) is driven in a circulating manner. The work device has a clamping device (15) for the chain (5). The clamping device (15) has a clamping element (16) which acts on en the guide rail (4) in the direction (19) of the longitudinal central axis (18) of the guide rail (4). The clamping device (15) has a rotatably mounted adjusting element (17) which is connected to the clamping element (16) via a threaded connection (20). A rotation of the adjusting element (17) about its rotational axis (21) causes a movement of the clamping element (16) in the direction (19) of the longitudinal central axis (18) of the guide rail (4). The outer circumference of the adjusting element (17) has a threaded portion (22) with at least one turn (23), said threaded portion being provided for engaging with at least one threaded portion (24) of the clamping element (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Benjamin Frey, Helmut Zimmermann, Klaus-Martin Uhl
  • Patent number: 9713881
    Abstract: A handheld work apparatus has a guide bar having a periphery along which a chain runs. The work apparatus has a housing and a fastening arrangement for fixing the guide bar to the housing. The fastening arrangement has an actuating device which can be actuated in a fastening direction in order to fix the guide bar. The work apparatus has a tensioning device to tension the chain. The tensioning device includes a tensioning spring. When the fastening arrangement is loosened, the tensioning spring exerts a force in a tensioning direction of the chain on the guide bar. Simple operation and a simple construction are achieved if the tensioning spring is in operative connection with the actuating device and is tensioned during actuation of the actuating device in the fastening direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Helmut Zimmermann, Jonas Lank
  • Publication number: 20170167500
    Abstract: A blower wheel is provided with a base member having an axis of rotation and with a rotor of a generator, wherein the rotor is fixedly secured on the blower wheel. At least one magnet is arranged on the rotor. An inertia ring is fixedly secured on the base member at a spacing to the at least one magnet. The inertia ring is made of a first material having a first density and the base member is made of a second material having a second density. The first density is greater than the second density. An internal combustion engine is provided with such a blower wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas Wolf, Wolfgang Weissert, Volker Lempges, Helmut Zimmermann, Günter Wolf, Holger Vollmer, Marcel Förster, Ute Dawin, Jonas Lank
  • Publication number: 20170057139
    Abstract: A closure is provided with a closure bottom that is designed to close off a container opening. A circumferential wall is connected to the closure bottom. The circumferential wall has an inner thread that is formed of two or more thread sections spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the circumferential wall. The inner thread has a thread axis. The closure bottom has at least one demolding opening and the at least one demolding opening overlaps at least one of the thread sections, when viewed in the direction of the thread axis of the inner thread. An injection mold with only a first mold half and a second mold half is provided for molding the closure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Helmut Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 9470143
    Abstract: A work apparatus has a work tool and a combustion engine for driving the work tool and further includes a start enrichment device for the combustion engine. The start enrichment device has a start position and is actuated via an operating mode selector. The work apparatus has a braking arrangement which brakes the work tool in the actuated position and releases the work tool in the unactuated position, and also an actuating device for the braking arrangement. To ensure that the start position can only be engaged when the braking arrangement is actuated, the work apparatus has a blocking device which prevents engagement of the start position in a blocking position. The braking arrangement is coupled to the blocking device such that the blocking device is in the blocking position with the braking arrangement in the unactuated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Carel Karrar, Helmut Zimmermann, Werner Geyer
  • Publication number: 20160107326
    Abstract: A handheld work apparatus has a drive motor which drives a tool of the work apparatus. A lubricating arrangement is provided for the tool. The lubricating arrangement includes a lubricant piece that is solid at 20° C. The work apparatus has a melting chamber into which the lubricant piece projects and which is connected to the tool via at least one lubricant channel. The melting chamber is delimited at least partially by a heat conducting element which is heated during operation of the work apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Helmut Zimmermann, Carel Karrar, Benjamin Frey
  • Patent number: 9181864
    Abstract: A work apparatus has an internal combustion engine for driving a work tool of the work apparatus and a fuel pump which is driven by the engine and delivers fuel from a fuel tank to the engine. The work apparatus has a feed pump which is to be actuated manually by the operator. The fuel pump and the feed pump form one assembly which is arranged outside the fuel tank. The fuel tank has a tank wall which delimits the tank interior. An advantageous arrangement and satisfactory cooling of the assembly are achieved if the assembly is arranged at least partially on the tank wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jonas Lank, Helmut Zimmermann, Klaus-Martin Uhl
  • Patent number: 9138912
    Abstract: A power tool has guide bar guiding a saw chain. A drive motor with a sprocket drives the saw chain. A sprocket compartment of the power tool housing has a peripheral wall adjacent to a roof of the saw chain and an ejection opening for cut material. The guide bar has a longitudinal center axis intersecting the saw chain in first and second deflection areas at the sprocket and the nose of the guide bar. The sprocket compartment has an exit opening where the saw chain exits. The peripheral wall of the sprocket compartment and the roof of the saw chain are disposed at a spacing relative to each other that, when the saw chain is standing still, is less than approximately 18 mm at least across 50% of a stretch from the first deflection area to the exit opening and across an entire saw chain width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ulrich Kapinsky, Helmut Zimmermann, Jochen Oerding
  • Patent number: 8960178
    Abstract: A cutting chain for a hand-operated implement for cutting metal and mineral materials such as a stone cutter has central connecting links which are connected to one another by lateral connecting links. The central connecting links comprise first central connecting links which each have a drive tooth. The cutting chain has two central connecting links with drive teeth shaped differently to the drive teeth on the first central connecting links; or located a different distance from the leading drive teeth; or having no drive teeth. A hand-operated implement for cutting mineral materials has a drive motor which drives the cutting chain around a guide bar by a drive sprocket. The cutting chain is guided round part of the circumference of the drive sprocket and round a nose sprocket on the guide bar. The drive sprocket or nose sprocket have different first and second areas matched to the cutting chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jochen Buchholtz, Matthias Schulz, Helmut Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 8869787
    Abstract: A hand-operated implement has a guide bar on which is fitted a cutting chain for cutting mineral and metal materials. The cutting chain is driven around the guide bar by a chain sprocket. The chain sprocket is arranged in a chain sprocket chamber which is delimited by a chain sprocket cover. A cutting element has an outer side facing a sidewall of the chain sprocket cover which lies in a first notional plane. The distance between the sidewall and the first notional plane measured perpendicular to the first notional plane and centrally between the top of the cutting element and the peripheral wall is less than approximately 0.8 cm over at least 30% of the section between a second notional plane containing the central axis of a fixing bolt on the guide bar and the exit opening at which the cutting chain leaves the chain sprocket chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hannah Thölking, Horst Otterbach, Helmut Zimmermann, Jens Kreutzer, Jonas Lank
  • Publication number: 20140250702
    Abstract: A handheld work apparatus has a guide bar having a periphery along which a chain runs. The work apparatus has a housing and a fastening arrangement for fixing the guide bar to the housing. The fastening arrangement has an actuating device which can be actuated in a fastening direction in order to fix the guide bar. The work apparatus has a tensioning device to tension the chain. The tensioning device includes a tensioning spring. When the fastening arrangement is loosened, the tensioning spring exerts a force in a tensioning direction of the chain on the guide bar. Simple operation and a simple construction are achieved if the tensioning spring is in operative connection with the actuating device and is tensioned during actuation of the actuating device in the fastening direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Helmut Zimmermann, Jonas Lank
  • Patent number: 8813374
    Abstract: A chain guard for a motor-driven chain saw has a narrow casing with a front end and a back end. The casing has two parallel side walls and an upper wall and a lower wall connecting the side walls to each other. The casing is closed at the front end thereof and defines an opening at the back end. A device is provided on the casing for attaching the chain guard to the clothing of the operator, a rope, a carabiner or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jonas Lank, Peter Stahl, Helmut Zimmermann, Klaus-Martin Uhl, Friedrich Hollmeier
  • Publication number: 20140000542
    Abstract: A work apparatus has a work tool and a combustion engine for driving the work tool and further includes a start enrichment device for the combustion engine. The start enrichment device has a start position and is actuated via an operating mode selector. The work apparatus has a braking arrangement which brakes the work tool in the actuated position and releases the work tool in the unactuated position, and also an actuating device for the braking arrangement. To ensure that the start position can only be engaged when the braking arrangement is actuated, the work apparatus has a blocking device which prevents engagement of the start position in a blocking position. The braking arrangement is coupled to the blocking device such that the blocking device is in the blocking position with the braking arrangement in the unactuated position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Carel Karrar, Helmut Zimmermann, Werner Geyer
  • Publication number: 20130318802
    Abstract: A power tool has guide bar guiding a saw chain. A drive motor with a sprocket drives the saw chain. A sprocket compartment of the power tool housing has a peripheral wall adjacent to a roof of the saw chain and an ejection opening for cut material. The guide bar has a longitudinal center axis intersecting the saw chain in first and second deflection areas at the sprocket and the nose of the guide bar. The sprocket compartment has an exit opening where the saw chain exits. The peripheral wall of the sprocket compartment and the roof of the saw chain are disposed at a spacing relative to each other that, when the saw chain is standing still, is less than approximately 18 mm at least across 50% of a stretch from the first deflection area to the exit opening and across an entire saw chain width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventors: Ulrich Kapinsky, Helmut Zimmermann, Jochen Oerding
  • Publication number: 20130276724
    Abstract: A work apparatus has an internal combustion engine for driving a work tool of the work apparatus and a fuel pump which is driven by the engine and delivers fuel from a fuel tank to the engine. The work apparatus has a feed pump which is to be actuated manually by the operator. The fuel pump and the feed pump form one component which is arranged outside the fuel tank. The fuel tank has a tank wall which delimits the tank interior. An advantageous arrangement arid satisfactory cooling of the component are achieved if the component is arranged at least partially on the tank wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jonas Lank, Helmut Zimmermann, Klaus-Martin Uhl