Patents Assigned to Accuride International GmbH
  • Publication number: 20240358152
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a carriage for a linear guide system, wherein the linear guide system comprises a rail element having two running surfaces facing towards each other and the carriage movable relative to the rail element in and against a pull-out direction, wherein the carriage comprises a base body, a first pair of a first slider and a second slider with sliding surfaces facing away from each other, wherein the sliding surfaces of the first slider and the second slider can each be brought into frictional engagement with one of the running surfaces and wherein the first slider is mounted on the base body so as to be movable in an upward direction perpendicular to the pull-out direction relative to the base body, and a spring element, wherein the spring element is mounted on the base body in such a way that the spring element biases the first slider away from the second slider in the upward direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Accuride International GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph NEUHAUS, Patrick NEIDHÖFER, Jürgen HEINZ
  • Patent number: 12082693
    Abstract: A roller carriage for displaceable linear guidance in a longitudinal direction on a rail element is disclosed. The roller carriage includes a carrier and a first, second, and third roller. The first, second, and third rollers are each mounted on the carrier such that each can rotate about a rotating axle. The rotating axles are substantially parallel to one another and the first, second, and third rollers are disposed on the roller carriage such that the first roller can be brought into engagement with a first track of the rail element and the second and third rollers can be brought into engagement with a second track of the rail element. The first roller is mounted such that it can move in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction relative to the carrier and is resiliently pretensioned in transverse direction by a first spring element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Accuride International GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Neuhaus, Thomas Quirein
  • Publication number: 20240229864
    Abstract: A rolling element cage for a linear guide system includes two receiving portions and a connecting portion connecting the two receiving portions, wherein each of the two receiving portions includes two extended top surfaces. The two receiving portions each include a plurality of apertures. Each aperture includes a side surface connecting the two top surfaces. At least one of a plurality of bearing rolling elements is receivable in each of the plurality of apertures of the rolling element cage, so that the side surface of the aperture or a transition between one of the two top surfaces and the side surface can be brought into contact with a rolling element surface of the bearing rolling element which is receivable in the aperture. The transition between one of the two top surfaces and the side surface includes, at least in sections, a broken edge, an edge including a chamfer or a rounding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Accuride International GmbH
    Inventors: Kai BODENHEIMER, Christoph BONN, Andreas HEFFEL, Christina REUTER, Desiree SCHACHNER
  • Publication number: 20240164520
    Abstract: A linear guide system has at least a first rail element and a second rail element, which are mounted to be linearly slidable opposite one another in and counter to an extraction direction, a linear drive, which includes a rotatable drive shaft and an electric motor configured for the transmission of a torque to the drive shaft. The linear drive is configured such that a rotational movement of the drive shaft causes a linear movement of the first and second rail elements relative to one another in or counter to the extraction direction. A locking element is provided, which can be set and reset between an unlocked position and a locked position, which, for blocking the rotational movement of the drive shaft in the locked position, is configured so as to engage in a form-locking or force-locking manner with an engaging element connected to the drive shaft in a rotationally fixed manner or configured as a portion of the drive shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Accuride International GmbH
    Inventors: Christian SATONY, Christoph NEUHAUS
  • Publication number: 20240156259
    Abstract: A slide-stop device designed and adapted for wedge engagement with opposing internal sur-faces of a linear motion slide track having an essentially C-shaped cross-sectional profile. The slide-stop device includes two lateral engagement sections extending essentially parallel to the longitudinal direction on opposite sides of the slide-stop device and having engagement surfaces facing outwardly in opposite transverse directions of the slide-stop device, two flex-ion elements being arranged on opposite sides with respect to the longitudinal direction of the slide-stop device. Each of the two flexion elements have one or more strips extending between and connecting the end regions of the lateral engagement sections, each strip being curved or bent to point outwardly with respect to the longitudinal direction of the slide-stop device. At least the strips of the flexion elements are made of elastic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Accuride International GmbH
    Inventor: Robert MALE
  • Publication number: 20240113592
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a linear guide system having: at least a first rail element and a second rail element, the first rail element and the second rail element being mounted linearly displaceably relative to each other in and counter to a extraction direction; an electric motor; an input shaft, the input shaft being operatively coupled to the electric motor such that the electric motor sets the input shaft in rotation during operation of the linear guide system; a linear drive, the linear drive having an output shaft, and the linear drive being designed such that a rotary movement of the output shaft effects a linear movement of the first and second rail elements relative to each other in or counter to the extraction direction; and a clutch, the clutch connecting the input shaft and the output shaft to each other such that the clutch transmits a torque from the input shaft to the output shaft, the clutch being a magnetic clutch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Accuride International GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph NEUHAUS, Christian SATONY
  • Publication number: 20240099460
    Abstract: A telescopic extension with a stationary inner rail and an outer rail mounted so as to be movable relative to the stationary inner rail between an insertion end position and an extension end position in an insertion direction and an extension direction opposite thereto. The telescopic rail is provided and designed for detachable mounting on a side rack which includes a front vertical grid bar and a rear vertical grid bar spaced apart therefrom and substantially parallel thereto, and at least one support bracket which has a horizontal section and, at opposite ends of the horizontal section, front and rear end sections which are each angled substantially perpendicularly with respect to the horizontal section, the front end section being connected to the front vertical grid bar and the rear end section being connected to the rear vertical grid bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Accuride International GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas HEFFEL
  • Publication number: 20240081013
    Abstract: A linear guide system having a first rail element, a second rail element, and a third element. The first rail element and the second rail element are borne such that the first rail element and the second rail element are linearly displaceable in relation to one another in and counter to an extraction direction, and the third element and the first rail element as well as the third element and the second rail element are borne together such that the third element and the first rail element as well as the third element and the second rail element are linearly displaceable in relation to one another in and counter to the extraction direction. The linear guide system in this case additionally includes an electrical conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Accuride International GmbH
    Inventors: Christian SATONY, Christoph NEUHAUS, Thomas QUIREIN, Laurent TREMOLIERES
  • Publication number: 20240052885
    Abstract: A carriage for a linear guide system includes a rail element including two running surfaces facing each other and the carriage being movable relative to the rail element in and against a pull-out direction. The carriage includes a base body, a pair of first and second sliders having sliding surfaces facing away from each other, wherein the sliding surface of the first and second slider is frictionally engageable with a respective one of the running surfaces, and wherein the first slider is mounted on the base body for movement relative to the base body in an upward direction perpendicular to the pull-out direction, and a spring member, wherein the spring member is mounted on the base body such that the spring member biases the first slider in the upward direction away from the second slider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Accuride International GmbH
    Inventors: Patrick NEIDHÖFER, Thomas QUIREIN
  • Publication number: 20240052884
    Abstract: A carriage for a linear guide system. The linear guide system includes a rail member including two running surfaces facing each other, and the carriage movable relative to the rail member in and against a pull-out direction. The carriage has a base body, a first pair of support elements and a second pair of support elements in the form of sliders and at least one first support spring element and at least one second support spring element. The second pair support elements is arranged spaced apart from the first pair of support element in the pull-out direction. Thereby, each of the sliders of the first pair of support elements and each of the support elements of the second pair of support elements is movably mounted on the base body in an upward direction perpendicular to the pull-out direction, such that each of the sliders is frictionally engageable with a respective one of the running surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Accuride International GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph NEUHAUS, Patrick NEIDHÖFER, Thomas QUIREIN
  • Publication number: 20240044365
    Abstract: A rolling element cage for positioning a plurality of rolling elements between two rail elements of a telescopic rail or a linear guide which are mounted so as to be movable relative to each other is provided. The rolling element cage is composed or can be composed of two or more module elements which include a base module and one or more extension modules. Each module element has at least two receiving legs, each having one or more openings for receiving rolling elements, and at least one connecting section connecting the two receiving legs, the base module and the one or more extension modules being fixedly or releasably connected or connectable to one another in series in the longitudinal direction of the rolling element cage via fasteners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Accuride International GmbH
    Inventors: Christian SATONY, Christoph NEUHAUS, Sebastian VERMEULEN, Desiree SCHACHNER
  • Publication number: 20230383960
    Abstract: A quick-fastening system for releasably mounting a telescopic extension on a body, the quick-fastening system including a retaining bar which is fixed or can be fixed to the body directly or by means of a side grid, and a rear quick-fastening element and a front quick-fastening element for positive or positive and non-positive engagement with the retaining bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Accuride International GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas HEFFEL, Karsten DIEFENBACH
  • Patent number: 11674693
    Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning, storing or cooking items includes a housing formed by walls enclosing an internal space; at least one support arrangement removable from the housing; and at least one locking unit arranged at the support arrangement. The support arrangement includes at least one rail system having at least two rails connected together and moveable relative to each other and at least one support element. The locking unit includes at least one locking element which can be transferred between a blocking position and a free position, wherein, when the support arrangement is mounted to the housing, the locking unit is in its free state in which the locking element enables extension of the rail system. When the support arrangement is separated from the housing, the locking unit is in its blocking state in which the locking element blocks extension of the rail system with the formation of a positively locking relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Accuride International GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Heffel
  • Patent number: 11525583
    Abstract: The present application concerns a telescopic rail comprising a first rail element, at least one further rail element and at least one rolling body cage for positioning a plurality of rolling bodies between two rail elements, wherein the rolling body cage has at least two receiving limbs having a respective plurality of through openings, wherein the receiving limbs together have a cross-section partially enclosing an internal space, and a plurality of rolling bodies received in the through openings in the receiving limbs, wherein the rolling body cage is arranged with the rolling bodies between the first rail element and the further rail element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: ACCURIDE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Laurent Tremolieres, Andreas Heffel
  • Publication number: 20220381396
    Abstract: A drive adapter for tool-free mounting of a drive element on a rail element of a guide system includes a drive carrier and a holding section. The drive carrier includes a mounting means for a drive element. The holding section includes two support surfaces and a holding ridge which connects the support surfaces at least in sections and defines a distance between the support surfaces. The two support surfaces are either each convexly curved, face away from one another and configured such that they can be clamped between two rolling element running surfaces of the rail element which face one another, or each concavely curved, face toward one another and configured such that they can be clamped onto two legs of the rail element and carry rolling element running surfaces which face away from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Accuride International GmbH
    Inventors: Christian SATONY, Christoph NEUHAUS
  • Publication number: 20220364594
    Abstract: A roller carriage for displaceable linear guidance in a longitudinal direction on a rail element is disclosed. The roller carriage includes a carrier, a first roller or pair, a second roller or pair, and roller or pair. Every one of the first roller or pair, the second roller or pair, and the third roller or pair is mounted on the carrier such that each can rotate about a rotating axle. The rotating axles are substantially parallel to one another and the first roller or pair, the second roller or pair, and the third roller or pair are disposed on the roller carriage such that the first roller or pair can be brought into engagement with a first track of the rail element and the second roller or pair and the third roller or pair can be brought into engagement with a second track of the rail element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Accuride International GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph NEUHAUS, Thomas QUIREIN
  • Patent number: 11415172
    Abstract: The invention concerns a telescopic rail comprising a first rail element with two running surfaces, a second rail element with two running surfaces, at least one rolling body cage for positioning a plurality of rolling bodies. Such telescopic rails are found to suffer from the disadvantage that the rail elements and the rolling body cages all have to be designed to be moveable relative to each other. Accordingly, the invention proposes providing a telescopic rail in which the rolling body cage is secured to the first rail element so that the rolling bodies perform a sliding movement with respect to the running surfaces of the first rail element and the rolling bodies perform a sliding movement with respect to the running surfaces of the second rail element or roll on the running surfaces of the second rail element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: ACCURIDE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Neuhaus, Thomas Quirein
  • Patent number: 11067122
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a rolling body cage for a linear guide or telescopic rail having rail elements which are displaceable relative to each other, wherein the rolling body cage has at least one bottom portion extending in a longitudinal direction of the rolling body cage, side wall portions which are arranged parallel and which extend on mutually opposite sides of the bottom portion substantially perpendicularly therefrom and in which there are provided rolling body holding recesses for receiving and holding rolling bodies between the raceways of rail elements and at at least a first end of the rolling body cage a connecting bridge which extends between the side wall portions substantially perpendicularly thereto, wherein the bottom portion, the side wall portions and the connecting bridge are produced in one piece from a first plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: ACCURIDE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Neuhaus, Thomas Quirein
  • Patent number: 11026300
    Abstract: A telescopic slide for a microwave oven has a first slide element and a second slide element each having two running surfaces with caged rolling bodies arranged on the running surfaces. The slide elements can be moved along against each other between a retracted position and an extended position. The slide elements each have at least one electrically conductive contact element arranged on the slide elements in such a way that in the retracted position either the contact elements are directly in engagement or that the contact element of the first slide element and the contact element of the second slide element are each in engagement with an electrically conducting conductive element that is moved concomitantly with the rolling-body cage. The result is that in the retracted position there is an electrically conducting connection between the first and the second slide elements, and in at least one position other than the retracted position the electrically conducting connection is broken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Accuride International GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Heffel, Philipp Krebs
  • Publication number: 20210071876
    Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning, storing or cooking items includes a housing formed by walls enclosing an internal space; at least one support arrangement removable from the housing; and at least one locking unit arranged at the support arrangement. The support arrangement includes at least one rail system having at least two rails connected together and moveable relative to each other and at least one support element. The locking unit includes at least one locking element which can be transferred between a blocking position and a free position, wherein, when the support arrangement is mounted to the housing, the locking unit is in its free state in which the locking element enables extension of the rail system. When the support arrangement is separated from the housing, the locking unit is in its blocking state in which the locking element blocks extension of the rail system with the formation of a positively locking relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Accuride International GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas HEFFEL