Patents by Inventor Johann Mitterreiter
Johann Mitterreiter 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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Patent number: 7469478Abstract: A coupling is for the connection, that is radially elastic but torsion resistant, of two component parts. The coupling includes base elements and a plurality of tabs formed integrally with the base elements at node areas. Each tab has two support points that are at a distance from one another in the circumferential direction. The node areas form the connection of the tabs to the base elements. Both the node areas and the tabs are configured such that they are flexurally softer than the base elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2006Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbHInventor: Johann Mitterreiter
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Publication number: 20080066327Abstract: In an angle-measurement system and a method for producing an angle-measurement system, the angle-measurement system includes a bearing assembly and a scanning head, the bearing assembly including a graduated ring, an outer ring and rolling bodies. Rolling surfaces are formed both on the graduated ring and the outer ring, the rolling surface of the graduated ring having a smaller path radius than that of the outer ring. Furthermore, the rolling surface of the outer ring is arranged opposite the rolling surface of the graduated ring, and the rolling bodies are disposed between the two rolling surfaces such that the bearing assembly is free of radial play. In addition, an angle scaling is applied directly onto the graduated ring such that a geometrical pattern of the angle scaling in a first region deviates from a geometrical pattern in a second region as a function of rotational eccentricities of the bearing assembly. The angle scaling is able to be scanned by the scanning head.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2007Publication date: March 20, 2008Inventor: Johann MITTERREITER
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Patent number: 7222543Abstract: A modular encoder includes an encoder housing and a printed circuit board mounted in the encoder housing. The modular encoder also includes a mounting bracket adapted to electrically couple to the printed circuit board and a mounting screw adapted to couple the encoder housing to a motor and to electrically couple the mounting bracket to the motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbHInventors: Gary Rhodes, Mamoru Yamashita, Johann Mitterreiter, Mathias Tresenreiter, Yoshiyuki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20060277771Abstract: A coupling is for the connection, that is radially elastic but torsion resistant, of two component parts. The coupling includes base elements and a plurality of tabs formed integrally with the base elements at node areas. Each tab has two support points that are at a distance from one another in the circumferential direction. The node areas form the connection of the tabs to the base elements. Both the node areas and the tabs are configured such that they are flexurally softer than the base elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2006Publication date: December 14, 2006Inventor: Johann Mitterreiter
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Patent number: 7136249Abstract: A positioning device includes a swiveling shaft, at one end of which an element to be positioned may be attached, a swivel drive, made up of a rotor, which is movable relative to a stator, a position measuring device, made up of two parts movable relative to each other, and a roller bearing, which includes several rolling elements. The rotor of the swivel drive and a first part of the position measuring device are connected to the shaft in a rotatably fixed manner. The rolling elements are made of a ceramic material.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2004Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbHInventors: Volker Hoefer, Johann Lahr, Johann Mitterreiter, Gerhard Scheglmann
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Publication number: 20060107760Abstract: A modular encoder includes an encoder housing and a printed circuit board mounted in the encoder housing. The modular encoder also includes a mounting bracket adapted to electrically couple to the printed circuit board and a mounting screw adapted to couple the encoder housing to a motor and to electrically couple the mounting bracket to the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2004Publication date: May 25, 2006Inventors: Gary Rhodes, Mamoru Yamashita, Johann Mitterreiter, Mathias Tresenreiter, Yoshiyuki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20050217400Abstract: In a gear system and a rotary transducer provided with the gear system, the gear system includes a first part, a convex toothed wheel, a supporting body, relative to which the first part and the convex toothed wheel are rotationally mounted, and engaging elements which mesh with the toothed wheel according to the rotational position of the first part. The engaging elements carry out a movement with a radial directional component relative to the toothed wheel. A force with a tangential directional component is applied to the toothed wheel, the force being the result of the interaction between the engaging elements and the supporting body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2003Publication date: October 6, 2005Inventor: Johann Mitterreiter
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Patent number: 6941240Abstract: A position measuring system that includes a scale graduation, a scanning unit for scanning the scale graduation. An adjustment device that includes a displacement element for setting a position of the scanning unit with respect to the scale graduation and a gear-down mechanism arranged between the displacement element and the scanning unit, the gear-down mechanism converts a displacement movement of the displacement element into a shorter displacement movement of the scanning unit. The gear-down mechanism includes a lever arrangement with joints, which converts the displacement movement of the displacement element into a linear displacement movement of the scanning unit in relation to the scale graduation.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2001Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Dr. Johannes Heidenhem GmbHInventor: Johann Mitterreiter
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Publication number: 20050161304Abstract: A gear mechanism includes a rotating input element, a rotating output element, and at least one first force transmission device arranged along a spiral line on a face of the input element. A second force transmission device is arranged along an encircling line on a face of the output element. The interaction of these force transmission devices transmits a turning moment from the input element to the output element, whereby this turning moment effects a rotating motion in the output element so that the rotational speed is lower than the rotational speed of the input element. A rotary encoder may be equipped with a gear mechanism of the aforementioned type.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2003Publication date: July 28, 2005Applicant: Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbhInventors: Alois Brandl, Johann Mitterreiter, Michael Schwabe
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Publication number: 20050134993Abstract: A positioning device includes a swiveling shaft, at one end of which an element to be positioned may be attached, a swivel drive, made up of a rotor, which is movable relative to a stator, a position measuring device, made up of two parts movable relative to each other, and a roller bearing, which includes several rolling elements. The rotor of the swivel drive and a first part of the position measuring device are connected to the shaft in a rotatably fixed manner. The rolling elements are made of a ceramic material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2004Publication date: June 23, 2005Inventors: Volker Hoefer, Johann Lahr, Johann Mitterreiter, Gerhard Scheglmann
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Patent number: 6799375Abstract: A coupling element for an angle-measuring device for connecting a first component to a second component in a radially resilient, but torsion-proof manner with respect to an axis of rotation. The coupling element including a base and a first bracket rigidly fastened on the base and the first component, wherein the first bracket has a first outer support connection location, a second outer support connection location and an inner support connection location centered in a circumferential direction with respect to the axis of rotation between the first and second outer support connection locations. One of the first outer support connection locations of the first bracket and the inner support connection location of the first bracket forms a connection of the first bracket and the base and the other of the first outer support connection location of the first bracket and the inner support connection location of the first bracket is rigidly connected with the first component.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2002Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbHInventor: Johann Mitterreiter
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Patent number: 6714292Abstract: A position measuring system that includes a graduation support having a first detent and a detector arrangement on a holder for scanning the graduation support at a preset scanning distance. An adjusting device that sets the preset scanning distance, the adjusting device is displaceable relative to the holder along a first direction from a mounting position to an operating position. The adjusting device includes a second detent which, in the mounting position, acts together with the first detent of said graduation support acting in the first direction, and the first and second detents are out of engagement at the operating position and a receiver which, at the mounting position, maintains the graduation support oriented perpendicularly with respect to the first direction, and the receiver is removed from the graduation support by being displaced in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2002Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: Dr. Johannes Heidenham GmbHInventor: Johann Mitterreiter
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Publication number: 20040030529Abstract: A position measuring system that includes a scale graduation, a scanning unit for scanning the scale graduation. An adjustment device that includes a displacement element for setting a position of the scanning unit with respect to the scale graduation and a gear-down mechanism arranged between the displacement element and the scanning unit, the gear-down mechanism converts a displacement movement of the displacement element into a shorter displacement movement of the scanning unit. The gear-down mechanism includes a lever arrangement with joints, which converts the displacement movement of the displacement element into a linear displacement movement of the scanning unit in relation to the scale graduation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventor: Johann Mitterreiter
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Patent number: 6671972Abstract: An angle measuring instrument that includes an outer component having a front face and an inner component, wherein the outer component is rotated relative to the inner component about an axis of rotation and the outer component lies further from the axis of rotation than the inner component along a radial direction with respect to the axis of rotation. A seal formed between the outer component and the inner component and wherein the front face includes a conduit, which leads radially outward and is located lower with respect to the front face.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2002Date of Patent: January 6, 2004Assignee: Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbHInventors: Johann Mitterreiter, Johann Lahr, Dietmar Richter
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Patent number: 6668464Abstract: A coupling for the torsion-proof, but radially resilient connection of a stator of an angle encoder with a stator of an object to be measured, the coupling includes a spring element that is either normally in a first position but when the spring element is bent out by a bending force the spring element moves from the first position through a click point to a second position where the spring element engages a portion of the angle encoder or the spring element normally is biased in a first position but when the bias of the spring element at said first position is canceled the spring element is moved to a second position where the spring element engages a portion of the angle encoder.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2002Date of Patent: December 30, 2003Assignee: Dr. Johannes Heidenhain GmbHInventors: Johann Mitterreiter, Kurt Feichtinger, Hermann Meyer
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Patent number: 6542088Abstract: A multi-turn rotary encoder that includes a first code carrier connected with an input shaft, a scanning device that scans the first code carrier and generates an absolute position of the input shaft within one revolution, and a digital code word is present at an output of the scanning device and a second code carrier for measuring the number of revolutions of the input shaft. A reduction gear is arranged between and coupled to the first and second code carriers. The second code carrier includes a magnetic body with at least one north and south pole and a substrate with a spatial arrangement of sensor elements integrated therein, which are sensitive to magnetic fields, is associated with the magnetic body.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2001Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Dr. Johannes Heidenheim GmbHInventors: Steffen Bielski, Kurt Feichtinger, Alfons Spies, Erich Strasser, Johann Mitterreiter, Hermann Meyer, Andreas Schroter
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Publication number: 20030025903Abstract: A position measuring system that includes a graduation support having a first detent and a detector arrangement on a holder for scanning the graduation support at a preset scanning distance. An adjusting device that sets the preset scanning distance, the adjusting device is displaceable relative to the holder along a first direction from a mounting position to an operating position. The adjusting device includes a second detent which, in the mounting position, acts together with the first detent of said graduation support acting in the first direction, and the first and second detents are out of engagement at the operating position and a receiver which, at the mounting position, maintains the graduation support oriented perpendicularly with respect to the first direction, and the receiver is removed from the graduation support by being displaced in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Inventor: Johann Mitterreiter
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Publication number: 20020162239Abstract: An angle measuring instrument that includes an outer component having a front face and an inner component, wherein the outer component is rotated relative to the inner component about an axis of rotation and the outer component lies further from the axis of rotation than the inner component along a radial direction with respect to the axis of rotation. A seal formed between the outer component and the inner component and wherein the front face includes a conduit, which leads radially outward and is located lower with respect to the front face.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2002Publication date: November 7, 2002Inventors: Johann Mitterreiter, Johann Lahr, Dietmar Richter
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Publication number: 20020148123Abstract: A coupling for the torsion-proof, but radially resilient connection of a stator of an angle encoder with a stator of an object to be measured, the coupling includes a spring element that is either normally in a first position but when the spring element is bent out by a bending force the spring element moves from the first position through a click point to a second position where the spring element engages a portion of the angle encoder or the spring element normally is biased in a first position but when the bias of the spring element at said first position is canceled the spring element is moved to a second position where the spring element engages a portion of the angle encoder.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2002Publication date: October 17, 2002Inventors: Johann Mitterreiter, Kurt Feichtinger, Hermann Meyer
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Patent number: 6452160Abstract: An angle measuring system for measuring the angular position of two objects which are rotatable around an axis in relation to each other and includes a support with a graduation, wherein the support can be connected on a first object. A scanning device which can be fastened on a second object. A clamping element which fixes at least the axial positional relationship between the graduation and the scanning device before and during their mounting on the first and second objects, wherein the clamping element and/or the support are deformed by being radially pressed together in a clamping area, and this deformation causes at least an axially acting interlocking connection between the scanning device and the support.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1999Date of Patent: September 17, 2002Assignee: Johannes Heidenhain GmbHInventor: Johann Mitterreiter