Patents by Inventor Juergen Lennartz

Juergen Lennartz 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).

  • Publication number: 20210268636
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a machine tool, in particular a hand-held machine tool, comprising a housing and an electronics module, wherein the electronics module has a position-determining unit and a communications unit, wherein the electronics module can be supplied with energy via an at least partially independently formed energy unit. According to the disclosure, the electronics module is accommodated in an electronics housing, wherein the electronics housing is coupled to the housing of the machine tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Willy Braun, Juergen Lennartz, Stephan Ulloa, Carsten Diem
  • Patent number: 9969071
    Abstract: Percussion unit, especially for a rotary hammer and/or percussion hammer, comprising a control unit which is designed for open-loop and/or closed loop control of a pneumatic percussion mechanism, and at least one operating condition sensor unit. According to the disclosure, the control unit is designed to detect at least one percussion mechanism parameter depending on measurement values of the operating condition sensor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Nitsche, Matthias Tauber, Gerd Schlesak, Antoine Vandamme, Thomas Winkler, Christian Bertsch, Achim Duesselberg, Ulli Hoffmann, Thilo Henke, Juergen Lennartz, Helge Sprenger
  • Patent number: 9815160
    Abstract: A percussion unit for a rotary hammer and/or percussion hammer includes a control unit that is configured for open-loop and/or closed loop control of a pneumatic percussion mechanism. In at least one operating state in which the control unit changes from an idle mode to a percussion mode, the control unit is configured to adjust at least one operating parameter temporarily to a starting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Nitsche, Matthias Tauber, Antoine Vandamme, Gerd Schlesak, Helge Sprenger, Carsten Diem, Wolfgang Fischer, Haris Hamedovic, Juergen Lennartz, Christian Bertsch, Mario Eduardo Vega Zavala, Achim Duesselberg
  • Patent number: 9652217
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electric tool, particularly a hand-held power tool, comprising a control unit which has control software with control parameters, and is provided for the purpose of controlling a drive unit. According to the disclosure, said electric tool comprises an interface unit that is provided to fundamentally update and/or modify the control software and/or the control parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Winkler, Ulli Hoffmann, Klaus Kuespert, Klaus Marx, Carsten Diem, Jan Breitenbach, Juergen Lennartz, Ulrich Schulmeister, Christian Bertsch, Achim Duesselberg, Helge Sprenger
  • Publication number: 20160129578
    Abstract: A manual power tool operating device includes at least one control and regulating unit configured to drive a manual power tool drive unit. The manual power tool further includes at least one operating mode selection element configured to adjust a plurality of operating modes. The at least one control and regulating unit includes at least one operating program configured to be as a function of at least one signal of the operating mode selection element. The at least one operating program configured to at least one of modify and adjust at least two operating parameters characterizing at least one operating mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Helge Sprenger, Juergen Lennartz, Christian Bertsch, Achim Duesselberg
  • Patent number: 9144875
    Abstract: The invention is based on a handheld power tool device, having at least one safety mechanism, which intervenes in an uncontrolled blocking situation, and which has a sensor unit. It is proposed that the sensor unit is provided for directly detecting at least one orientation parameter of a handheld power tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Schlesak, Christoph Klee, Juergen Lennartz
  • Publication number: 20150158166
    Abstract: A pneumatic percussion mechanism apparatus, in particular for a rotary and/or percussion hammer, includes a striker mounted so as to be movable in a percussion direction in a guide tube, and at least one venting unit which is configured to influence a movement of the striker. The venting unit has a setting unit configured to set a percussion intensity, and is further configured to influence, during a percussion operation, a venting of a percussion space adjoining the striker in the percussion direction in the guide tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Gerd Schlesak, Juergen Lennartz, Christian Bertsch, Antoine Vandamme, Matthias Tauber
  • Publication number: 20150136433
    Abstract: Percussion unit, especially for a rotary hammer and/or percussion hammer, comprising a control unit which is designed for open-loop and/or closed loop control of a pneumatic percussion mechanism, and at least one operating condition sensor unit. According to the disclosure, the control unit is designed to detect at least one percussion mechanism parameter depending on measurement values of the operating condition sensor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Rainer Nitsche, Matthias Tauber, Gerd Schlesak, Antoine Vandamme, Thomas Winkler, Christian Bertsch, Achim Duesselberg, Ulli Hoffmann, Thilo Henke, Juergen Lennartz, Helge Sprenger
  • Publication number: 20150129248
    Abstract: A percussion unit for a rotary hammer and/or percussion hammer includes a control unit that is configured for open-loop and/or closed loop control of a pneumatic percussion mechanism. In at least one operating state in which the control unit changes from an idle mode to a percussion mode, the control unit is configured to adjust at least one operating parameter temporarily to a starting value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Rainer Nitsche, Matthias Tauber, Antoine Vandamme, Gerd Schlesak, Helge Sprenger, Carsten Diem, Wolfgang Fischer, Haris Hamedovic, Juergen Lennartz, Christian Bertsch, Mario Eduardo Vega Zavala, Achim Duesselberg
  • Publication number: 20150135306
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electric tool, particularly a hand-held power tool, comprising a control unit which has control software with control parameters, and is provided for the purpose of controlling a drive unit. According to the disclosure, said electric tool comprises an interface unit that is provided to fundamentally update and/or modify the control software and/or the control parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Winkler, Ulli Hoffmann, Klaus Kuespert, Klaus Marx, Carsten Diem, Jan Breitenbach, Juergen Lennartz, Ulrich Schulmeister, Christian Bertsch, Achim Duesselberg, Helge Sprenger
  • Patent number: 8905153
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating power tool, particularly an electrically driven hand power tool, having at least one tool drive shaft for directly or indirectly rotationally driving a tool insert. The tool insert is received in a tool holder releasably connected to the tool drive shaft. The tool drive shaft can be coupled to a drive device via a clutch device. The clutch device is provided with at least two different limit torques, which are selectable by an operator. When the tool insert and/or the tool holder is changed out, the clutch device is reset to a lower limit torque of the at least two different limit torques, particularly the lowest possible limit torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Willy Braun, Juergen Lennartz
  • Patent number: 8763722
    Abstract: The invention relates to a power tool, in particular an electrically operable hand-held power tool, having at least one tool drive shaft for direct or indirect rotary drive of an insert bit, with the insert bit being accommodated in a tool holder that is connected or detachably connected to the tool drive shaft, particularly in a replaceable fashion. At least one drive device and at least one clutch device that couples the at least one drive device to the at least one tool drive shaft is provided which has at least two different, user-selectable, limit torques. An actuating device is provided that makes it possible, with a replacement of the insert bit and/or a replacement of the tool holder, to reset the clutch device to a lower limit torque, preferably to the lowest possible limit torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Willy Braun, Juergen Lennartz
  • Patent number: 8613328
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hand power tool, in particular a drill hammer and/or chipping hammer, comprising a hammer unit (10a; 10b) for producing a pulse in the direction of a hammer axis (12a; 12b). Said tool has an axial drive unit (14a; 14b) with a drive element (16a; 16b) and a motor unit (18a; 18b), in addition to a motor shaft (20a; 20b), which forms an angle (22a; 22b) not equal to zero with the hammer axis (12a; 12b) and which co-operates with the axial drive unit (14a; 14b) by means of a torque transmission wheel (24a; 24b) of said unit, the axial drive unit (14a; 14b) being mounted on the opposite side of the torque transmission wheel (24a; 24b) from the motor unit (18a; 18b). The driven element (16a; 16b) of the axial drive unit (14a; 14b) is mounted directly on the torque transmission wheel (24a; 24b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Meixner, Ralph Dammertz, Juergen Lennartz
  • Publication number: 20130333908
    Abstract: A transmission housing, in particular for a hammer drill and/or percussion hammer, for accommodating a percussion mechanism includes at least one housing part and at least one cover part adjacent to the housing part. The cover part is configured to close off the transmission housing in a direction opposite to a percussion direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Juergen Lennartz, Achim Duesselberg
  • Patent number: 8434565
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hand-held power tool, especially a rotary hammer and/or chisel hammer. The hand-held power tool is provided with a vibration dampening unit having a first absorber mass unit with a first vibration dampening direction and at least one second absorber mass unit with a second vibration dampening direction. The hand-held power tool in particular has the first vibration dampening direction of the first absorber mass unit disposed as substantially parallel to the second vibration dampening direction of the second absorber mass unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Hecht, Gerd Schlesak, Juergen Lennartz, Stefan Holst, Klaus Kuespert
  • Patent number: 8403075
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wobble drive of a hand-held machine tool, particularly a drilling or chipping hammer, having a drive shaft, a wobble bearing disposed on the drive shaft, and a wobble plate supported on the wobble bearing. At least two wobble fingers having wobble finger axes being provided on the wobble plate. The invention provides that the axes of the wobble fingers form an angle different from 180°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Schlesak, Juergen Lennartz, Stefan Holst, Klaus Kuespert
  • Patent number: 8281873
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hand-held power tool, in particular a hammer drill which has a hammer drive, a rotary drive, a switching device, and a main output element. The switching device has a slide mechanism, which is designed for switching between different operating modes. According to the invention, the slide mechanism has at least one coupling element, which in at least one operating mode is directly coupled to a coupling element, the latter being rotationally fixed to the main output element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andre Ullrich, Helmut Heinzelmann, Juergen Lennartz, Michael Weiss, Tobias Herr
  • Patent number: 8061438
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hand tool machine (2), in particular a drilling and/or percussion hammer, with a housing (4) and a vibration-damped handle (10) elastically supported relative to the housing (4) with two essentially parallel legs (20, 22) and a coupling element (44 or 46) between each leg (20 or 22) and the housing (4) that is pin-jointed to the leg (20 or 22) and the housing (4). The coupling elements (44, 46) are connected to each other by a connector (48) that synchronizes the movements of the coupling elements (44, 46).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Lars Schmid, Johannes Schnitzler, Gerhard Meixner, Juergen Lennartz, Jan Koalick
  • Patent number: 8011442
    Abstract: A handheld power tool has a housing, a tool receptacle, a motor having a motor shaft, an intermediate shaft, an element for transmitting a rotation of the motor shaft to a rotary motion of the intermediate shaft, a drive mechanism for a tool insertable into the tool receptacle, the drive mechanism being provided with an element for converting the rotary motion of the intermediate shaft into a rotary motion of the tool receptacle and an element for converting the rotary motion into the intermediate shaft into a hammering motion of the tool receptacle, wherein the motor shaft is coaxial with the intermediate shaft, and there is an element for coupling the motor shaft to the intermediate shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Juergen Lennartz
  • Publication number: 20110139471
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating power tool, particularly an electrically driven hand power tool, having at least one tool drive shaft for directly or indirectly rotationally driving a tool insert. The tool insert is received in a tool holder releasably connected to the tool drive shaft. The tool drive shaft can be coupled to a drive device via a clutch device. The clutch device is provided with at least two different limit torques, which are selectable by an operator. When the tool insert and/or the tool holder is changed out, the clutch device is reset to a lower limit torque of the at least two different limit torques, particularly the lowest possible limit torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2008
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Willy Braun, Juergen Lennartz