Patents by Inventor Rolf Benner

Rolf Benner 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: 6155434
    Abstract: An assembly rail for a switching cabinet, designed in a form of a stamped and bent part and having an assembly wall directed towards the inside of the switching cabinet. Lateral fixing devices, bent out of the assembly wall, are fitted with an assembly plate. Hooks are stamped and bent out of the assembly plate. The hooks can be inserted into fastening cavities of the vertical frame sections of the switching cabinet. The assembly rails can be firmly and easily secured to the frame sections with slotted fastening cavities if the hooks are bent out of the assembly plate around an axis of flexion extending in the longitudinal direction of the frame sections, if a protruding section of the hook is stamped out from the bending point and if a width of the hook is determined by the material thickness of the fastening plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Kohler, Udo Munch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6149255
    Abstract: A corner connector for a switching cabinet with depth and length struts which are disposed horizontally and joined to vertical frame pieces in corner areas by corner connectors. Substantial flexibility of use is achieved with the corner connector having a compensating element enabling differently structured vertical frame pieces to be connected according to choice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Kohler, Udo Munch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6142594
    Abstract: A rack for a switching cabinet with a lower frame and an upper frame, which have horizontal length and width struts on which vertical frame sections can be arranged. The upper and lower frames are easy to produce and involve little technical complexity if the length and width struts are connected to form a continuous section in a single piece and the section is formed from a stamped and bent piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Kohler, Udo Munch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6120206
    Abstract: A switching cabinet has a frame made of stays and with open sides that may be at least partially closed by wall elements that can be secured to the stays of the framework. In order to secure the wall elements to the framework in an manner invisible from the outside, projecting hook elements are fixed on the inner side of the wall elements, matching hook elements can be hooked into the projecting hook elements and the matching hook element can be mounted on the framework stays so that the hook elements may be hooked onto them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Roland Winkel
  • Patent number: 6062664
    Abstract: A rack for a switch cabinet includes rack members and corner members with connecting projections thereon insertable into connecting receptacles on the rack members. Each rack member, symmetrical about a diagonal plane therealong, is in the form of multiply-curved, open hollow profile sections which form a pair of the connecting receptacles to receive the connecting projections extending from the corner member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventor: Rolf Benner
  • Patent number: 6035503
    Abstract: This invention relates to a mounting tool, wherein contact springs are fixed in place on a ridge by a press-on unit. A mounting tool used for a simple and secure mounting of the contact springs is created because the press-on unit has a rolling body which rolls on counter-surfaces of the contact springs and presses the contact springs on the ridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Klaus-Dieter Bovermann
  • Patent number: 6030063
    Abstract: A switchgear cabinet with a frame having frame members and corner connectors, and an open base closable by one or more bottom plates. A simple mounting of the bottom plates is achieved because the frame members serving as lower depth struts are covered from below by essentially U-shaped cover elements that have lateral arms and are connected to the depth struts and/or the corner connectors. The depth struts are chamfered in a region of their outer edges and form a seat for the outer lateral arms of the cover elements. The inner lateral arms of the cover elements have bearing flanges for the bottom plates folded toward the facing depth strut. U-shaped clamping elements with clamping screws can be used to join the bottom plates to the bearing flanges of the inner lateral arms of the cover elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Rolf Benner
  • Patent number: 6012791
    Abstract: A switching cabinet has a frame made of stays and with open sides that may be at least partially closed by wall elements that can be secured to the stays of the framework. In order to secure the wall elements to the framework in an manner invisible from the outside, projecting hook elements are fixed on the inner side of the wall elements, matching hook elements can be hooked into said projecting hook elements and the matching hook element can be mounted on the framework stays so that the hook elements may be hooked onto them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Rittel-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Roland Winkel
  • Patent number: 5992646
    Abstract: A framework made of frame pieces for a switchgear cabinet, wherein the frame pieces are preferably laterally reversed in relation to their cross-sectional diagonal and have profiled sides perpendicular to the outer sides of the framework and have fastening recesses. In an area of an inner side, the profiled sides end in sections that form a recess for fastening mounting rails. By combining several known and novel features, a framework having easily manufactured frame pieces is created which optimally meets all requirements for use with a switchgear cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 5930972
    Abstract: A frame structure assembled from frame limbs for a switch gear cabinet, in which the frame limbs are preferably designed in mirror-image like manner in relation to their cross-sectional diagonals and in the interior region of the frame structure comprise two receiving formations, having fastening rebates for fastening mounting rails. The receiving formations are orientated parallel to associated exterior sides of the frame structure. The interconnection of frame limbs and mounting rails is simplified and improved because the receiving formations pass into terminal sections, bent over once or twice, forming an open dovetail groove or a closed dovetail groove for fixing the mounting rails that have appropriate engagement formations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 5806946
    Abstract: A switchgear cabinet with a frame made up of frame members and corner joints. The open sides of the frame are or may be closed by side walls, a rear wall, a bottom plate, a cover plate and at least one door. A special design of the frame members in the area of their outer edges and of the corner joints makes it simple to attach a door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Walter Nicolai, Heinrich Strackbein