Patents by Inventor Till Cramer
Till Cramer 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: 10460267Abstract: A method for reporting as-built data of a project is disclosed. In one embodiment, at least one attribute of a task perform by a handheld tool is recorded at the handheld tool. The attribute of the at least one task is reported via a wireless communication link to an information management system. The at least one attribute of the task is used to update a record of a project stored at the information management system.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Trimble Inc.Inventors: Kent Kahle, Pat Bohle, Markus Messmer, Oliver Glockner, Angela Beckenbauer, Till Cramer, Andreas Winter
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Patent number: 10451212Abstract: A device for fixing an optical device is disclosed. The device has a housing, an actuating device having an adjustable actuating element, an expansion sleeve having a plurality of expansion segments, which can be displaced in a plane perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the expansion sleeve between a closed state and an expanded state, and a first adjusting device, which converts a movement of the actuating device into a radial movement of the expansion segments in the plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the expansion sleeve. The expansion segments can be inserted into the receiving opening of the optical device in the closed state of the expansion sleeve and, in the expanded state, form a force-fitting or form-fitting connection with the receiving opening of the optical device.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ralf Siegler, Till Cramer
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Patent number: 10197675Abstract: A system and a method for determining a position and an orientation of an object relative to a defined reference frame is disclosed. A plurality of targets are disposed at known locations relative to the defined reference frame. A head assembly is disposed on the object, where the head assembly includes a plurality of cameras. The head assembly determines the position and the orientation of the object from location data associated with the plurality of targets and image data from the plurality of cameras.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Paul Yalden Montgomery, Andreas Winter, Till Cramer
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Patent number: 10192178Abstract: A method for conveying application information for power tools is disclosed. In one embodiment, information describing a task which is to be performed by a handheld tool is accessed. In one embodiment, the handheld tool is a power tool. Based upon the information describing the task, at least one operating parameter for performing the task is conveyed to the handheld tool. The handheld tool is then configured with the at least one operating parameter prior to initiating the task.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Trimble Inc.Inventors: Kent Kahle, Pat Bohle, Reinhard Waibel, Markus Messmer, Oliver Glockner, Angela Beckenbauer, Till Cramer, Andreas Winter
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Patent number: 9898705Abstract: A method of automated handheld tool task verification is disclosed. In one embodiment, at least one operating parameter for performing a task is received at a handheld tool. It is then verified at the handheld tool that it is configured with the at least one operating parameter. The handheld tool then generates data verifying that the task was performed in accordance with the at least one operating parameter.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Trimble Inc.Inventors: Kent Kahle, Pat Bohle, Robert Painter, Markus Messmer, Oliver Glockner, Angela Beckenbauer, Till Cramer, Andreas Winter
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Patent number: 9817839Abstract: A method for managing information at a construction site is disclosed. In one embodiment, task data is received from a handheld tool at a construction site. A database is populated with the task data such that the task data can be retrieved from the database. The task data is then used to generate at least one report.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Trimble Inc.Inventors: Kent Kahle, Pat Bohle, Robert Painter, Markus Messmer, Oliver Glockner, Angela Beckenbauer, Till Cramer, Andreas Winter
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Publication number: 20170234477Abstract: A device for fixing an optical device is disclosed. The device has a housing, an actuating device having an adjustable actuating element, an expansion sleeve having a plurality of expansion segments, which can be displaced in a plane perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the expansion sleeve between a closed state and an expanded state, and a first adjusting device, which converts a movement of the actuating device into a radial movement of the expansion segments in the plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the expansion sleeve. The expansion segments can be inserted into the receiving opening of the optical device in the closed state of the expansion sleeve and, in the expanded state, form a force-fitting or form-fitting connection with the receiving opening of the optical device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2015Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Ralf SIEGLER, Till CRAMER
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Patent number: 9666090Abstract: A method for positioning a handheld tool is disclosed. In one embodiment, information is received at a handheld tool for positioning a working end of the handheld tool at a desired position. Information is also received at the handheld tool for aligning the handheld tools at the desired position.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Trimble Inc.Inventors: Kent Kahle, Pat Bohle, Markus Messmer, Oliver Glockner, Angela Beckenbauer, Till Cramer, Andreas Winter, Reinhard Waibel
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Patent number: 9510150Abstract: In a method of integrating position information including: position data of an object that will be embedded in a material at a worksite is determined. The position data of the object is recorded, in an information management system. The position data is used to update a record at the information management system, where the record indicates that the object is an embedded object and the position data of the object includes a position of the embedded object. The position of the embedded object is conveyed from information management system to the to a handheld tool at the worksite. The position of the embedded object is displayed on a display device integrated with the handheld tool.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Trimble Navigation LimitedInventors: Kent Kahle, Pat Bohle, Reinhard Waibel, Markus Messmer, Oliver Glockner, Angela Beckenbauer, Till Cramer, Andreas Winter
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Publication number: 20160238706Abstract: A system and a method for determining a position and an orientation of an object relative to a defined reference frame is disclosed. A plurality of targets are disposed at known locations relative to the defined reference frame. A head assembly is disposed on the object, where the head assembly includes a plurality of cameras. The head assembly determines the position and the orientation of the object from location data associated with the plurality of targets and image data from the plurality of cameras.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2014Publication date: August 18, 2016Applicant: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Paul Yalden MONTGOMERY, Andreas WINTER, Till CRAMER
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Publication number: 20150346319Abstract: A method for determining the position coordinates of a target object in a measurement field in at least two dimensions is disclosed. In a first step, a target device is positioned with a reflector element on the target object and a first basic distance between a first and a second laser distance measuring device is determined. In a second step, a first distance from the first laser distance measuring device to the target object and a second distance from the second laser distance measuring device to the target object are determined by laser distance measurement by the laser distance measuring devices. In a third step, the position coordinates of the target object are calculated from the distances by a control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2013Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Christoph WUERSCH, Andreas WINTER, Torsten GOGOLLA, Till CRAMER, Herwig HABENBACHER
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Publication number: 20150223026Abstract: In a method of integrating position information including: position data of an object that will be embedded in a material at a worksite is determined. The position data of the object is recorded, in an information management system. The position data is used to update a record at the information management system, where the record indicates that the object is an embedded object and the position data of the object includes a position of the embedded object. The position of the embedded object is conveyed from information management system to the to a handheld tool at the worksite. The position of the embedded object is displayed on a display device integrated with the handheld tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2015Publication date: August 6, 2015Inventors: Kent Kahle, Pat Bohle, Reinhard Waibel, Markus Messmer, Oliver Glockner, Angela Beckenbauer, Till Cramer, Andreas Winter
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Patent number: 9031585Abstract: A method for integrating position information is disclosed. In one embodiment, the position data of an object embedded in a material at a worksite is recorded. The position data is used to update a record showing the position of the object as an embedded object. The position of the embedded object is displayed at a handheld tool.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Trimble Navigation LimitedInventors: Kent Kahle, Pat Bohle, Reinhard Waibel, Markus Messmer, Oliver Glockner, Angela Beckenbauer, Till Cramer, Andreas Winter
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Publication number: 20150098079Abstract: A system and a method for determining a position and an orientation of an object relative to a defined reference frame is disclosed. A plurality of targets are disposed at known locations relative to the defined reference frame. A head assembly is disposed on the object, where the head assembly includes a plurality of cameras. The head assembly determines the position and the orientation of the object from location data associated with the plurality of targets and image data from the plurality of cameras.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2013Publication date: April 9, 2015Applicant: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Paul Yalden MONTGOMERY, Andreas WINTER, Till Cramer
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Publication number: 20140365259Abstract: A method for reporting as-built data of a project is disclosed. In one embodiment, an object for installation is automatically identified by a handheld device associated with an installer and at least one attribute of a task performed by the installer is recorded at the handheld device. The attribute of the at least one task is reported via a wireless communication link to an information management system. The at least one attribute of the task is used to update a record of a project stored at the information management system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Jean-Charles Delplace, Kent Kahle, Pat Bohle, Markus Messmer, Oliver Glockner, Angela Beckenbauer, Till Cramer, Andreas Winter
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Patent number: 8186460Abstract: A segmental hard material insert for a working tool has a planar polycrystalline diamond layer (13) having, in its layer plane, a main cutting element (16, 36) and a contact edge (15) located opposite the main cutting element, with the main cutting element (16, 36) having two, facing outwardly, convex cutting sections (17, 27; 37, 47) and a smooth, facing outwardly, concave transitional region (19; 39, 49) connecting the two convex cutting sections (17, 27; 37, 47), and with the apex (20; 40) of the transitional region (19; 39, 47) being located on a central line of the main cutting element (16; 36).Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2009Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Luis Fernando Garcia, Alfred Lammer, Klaus-Peter Bohn, Till Cramer, Peter Mugg, Steven Moseley
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Publication number: 20110135414Abstract: A method of increasing fracture toughness of an outer layer of a carbide cutting bit of a drill for impact drilling of hard materials, preferably of rock or concrete. The invention is characterized by combination of the following steps: providing a drill having a finished-contoured carbide cutting bit; treating at least one partial region of the finished-contoured carbide cutting bit by introduction of mechanical energy at a surface by using a plurality of non-sharp-edged tools with a tool diameter of up to 6 mm and directing them onto the at least one partial region of the carbide cutting bit with a predetermined metered intrinsic pulse thereby carrying out deformation of the outer layer of the partial region, with introduction of only local plastic deformation into the outer layer while preventing formation of cracks within the outer layer of the treated region of the carbide cutting bit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2007Publication date: June 9, 2011Inventors: Wulf Pfeiffer, Till Cramer, Amo Glaser
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Publication number: 20100155144Abstract: A drilling tool for rock is disclosed. The tool has a drill rod and a cup-shaped drill head, where the drill head and the drill rod can be connected detachably but rotationally secured with each other via a coupling mechanism which has at least one rotary lock-in slot of the drill head running along a tool axis and at least one rotary lock-in bar that can be inserted into the rotary lock-in slot and that is arranged on the end of the drill rod. The coupling mechanism in this case has an elastic lock for holding the rotary lock-in bar in the rotary lock-in slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Till CRAMER, Werner Kleine
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Publication number: 20100126112Abstract: A method of anchoring a fastening element includes drilling a borehole (7) in a constructional component (6) with a percussively-rotationally driven hollow drill (12), while aspirating produced drillings and drilling dust with a vacuum source (26) through a gap between an outer side of the hollow drill (12) and a wall of the borehole (7) during drilling of the borehole (7), immediately after formation of the suction-cleaned borehole (7), filling the borehole (7) with a self-hardenable mortar (41), and inserting the fastening element (46) into the self-hardenable mortar (41).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2009Publication date: May 27, 2010Inventors: Andreas Schell, Klaus-Peter Bohn, Till Cramer
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Publication number: 20090242278Abstract: A segmental hard material insert for a working tool has a planar polycrystalline diamond layer (13) having, in its layer plane, a main cutting element (16, 36) and a contact edge (15) located opposite the main cutting element, with the main cutting element (16, 36) having two, facing outwardly, convex cutting sections (17, 27; 37, 47) and a smooth, facing outwardly, concave transitional region (19; 39, 49) connecting the two convex cutting sections (17, 27; 37, 47), and with the apex (20; 40) of the transitional region (19; 39, 47) being located on a central line of the main cutting element (16; 36).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Inventors: Luis Fernando Garcia, Alfred Lammer, Klaus-Peter Bohn, Till Cramer, Peter Mugg, Steven Moseley