Patents Assigned to Andreas Stihl
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Patent number: 12376518Abstract: A blade for a mowing unit for a lawnmower and/or a motor scythe is substantially parallelogram-shaped. The blade has a slot, wherein the slot is designed to receive a blade-holding element of the mowing unit such that the blade can rotate about the blade-holding element and move in translation relative to the blade-holding element for one cutting position of the blade defined by one end of the slot having one cutting orientation of the blade and another cutting position of the blade defined by another end of the slot having another cutting orientation of the blade. A line segment delimited by the ends of the slot does run non-parallel to sides of the parallelogram, and the parallelogram has an obtuse internal angle.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Joerg Elfner, Simon Schulte Strotmes, Markus Gassner, Marko Fiebig, Philip Wolf
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Patent number: 12370715Abstract: A drive link for a sawchain is disclosed wherein the drive link has a top side which faces away from an opening plane defined by the respective axes of the rivet openings and extends at least partially at the drive link apex. A functional surface and a contact surface spaced apart from the functional surface are provided on the top side of the drive link. The functional surface is formed on the drive link apex and includes a section of the top side in which the top side is at a maximum spacing from the opening plane. The functional surface of the top side of the drive link is point-symmetric to a symmetry point with respect to the contact surface in the viewing direction toward the drive link plane.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Tobias Grams, Juergen Maerz, Wolfgang Kienzle, Maureen Wittig, Marius Freitag, Marco Kewes
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Patent number: 12357142Abstract: A method and system automatically determine cleaning, maintenance and/or repair information for a motor-driven treatment tool, wherein the treatment tool comprises a residue, able to be detected externally optically, caused during the operation of the treatment tool. The method involves the steps of: optically detecting the residue; classing the detected residue in accordance with a type of the residue; determining the cleaning, maintenance and/or repair information based on the classing; and outputting the determined cleaning, maintenance and/or repair information.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Robert Boeker, Joerg Blaesi
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Patent number: 12362577Abstract: A housing has a communication module arranged in a housing body. Electrical contacts are provided under a closure cover of the housing and are electrically connected to electrical components arranged in the housing body. The communication module is placed on the electrical contacts and is fixed in position in a receptacle fixed to the housing body. Contact elements of the communication module are in electrical contact with the electrical contacts in the housing body. The communication module is pressed onto the electrical contacts by at least one pressure element, with the pressure element being arranged between the closure cover and the communication module.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventor: Moritz Pickhardt
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Patent number: 12349625Abstract: A power tool handle has a shaft with a fastening end securing the handle on the power tool and with a free end. The handle has an outer side for supporting a palm of a hand. First and second operating elements are pivotably supported at the shaft about first and second pivot axes, respectively. The first operating element controls a power tool drive motor. In non-actuated position, the second operating element prevents a control action of the first operating element and has an actuating section projecting from the shaft and having a first and a second end. The first end is closer to the fastening end of the shaft than the second end. The second end is closer to the free end of the shaft. The second pivot axis is closer to the first end than to the second end. A trimmer is provided with such a handle.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2023Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Liv Bicheler, Roland Mandel, Simon Haug
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Patent number: 12337498Abstract: A method is provided for operating a hand-guided processing device that has a rotating and/or circulating cutting tool, an electric motor drive system wherein the electric motor drive system is configured for generating a torque for driving the cutting tool, and a user-operable control element. The method automatically monitors whether a blocking criterion is fulfilled, wherein the blocking criterion is characteristic of a blocking of the cutting tool, and if the blocking criterion is fulfilled and the control element operated, automatically lowers the torque generated by the electric motor drive system, and temporally thereafter, automatically increases the torque generated by the electric motor drive system.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Alexander Haas, Edgar Mueller, Christian Nemec
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Patent number: 12330226Abstract: A handheld portable cutting apparatus has a cutter unit with a cutter unit longitudinal axis. In a central housing section of the cutting apparatus, a drive connection is arranged between an electric drive motor and the cutter unit, wherein a motor housing having a motor housing longitudinal axis extends from the central housing section. A handle extends from the central housing section in a handle longitudinal axis. The cutter unit includes a guide bar with a saw chain circulating thereon, wherein, in a side view onto the cutting apparatus, the point of intersection between the handle longitudinal axis and the motor housing longitudinal axis and also the point of intersection between the handle longitudinal axis and the cutter unit longitudinal axis lie in the central housing section.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Harald Mang, Alexander Trenn
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Patent number: 12330257Abstract: A handheld work apparatus includes a work tool. The work apparatus defines a longitudinal plane and includes a handle having a longitudinal axis. The blocking lever is mounted so as to be pivotable about a rotational axis. The blocking lever blocks the actuating lever in a blocking or disable position and enables the actuating lever for actuation in at least one operating enable position. In the direction of view perpendicular to the longitudinal plane, the longitudinal axis of the handle and the rotational axis of the blocking lever conjointly define an angle (?). The angle (?) lies in a range of from 10° to 60°.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2024Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Felix Oberhofer, Marcus Jenke, Franziska Kern, Thomas Maier, Verena Mann, Lars Bathke, Roland Mandel, Benedikt Posner
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Publication number: 20250161995Abstract: A pressure washer includes a port for a liquid source, a high-pressure pump, a main line, through which liquid can be conveyed from the port to a spray opening of the main line by the high-pressure pump, a control element for setting a pressure value for the pressure in the main line, and a pressure regulator, which adjusts the pressure in the main line according to the pressure value set by the control element. The control element is continuously adjustable along a travel path. Each position of the control element sets a specific pressure value. The pressure washer has a selector element for selecting at least two different characteristic curves, each with a different relationship between positions of the control element and pressure values. By selecting a characteristic curve using the selector element, the assignment of the position of the control element to the pressure value can be changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2024Publication date: May 22, 2025Applicant: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Simon Trinkle, Christopher Tost, Michael Renz
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Patent number: 12298353Abstract: A method determines at least one power contact resistance or at least one resistance value corresponding to the at least one power contact resistance between at least one pack power contact of a battery pack and at least one apparatus power contact of an electrically driven work apparatus or of a charging apparatus. The pack power contact and the apparatus power contact touch one another and are loaded with a power current. The battery pack and the work apparatus or the charging apparatus are electrically connected by a data communication line for transmitting a data communication signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Malte Von Hofen, Christian Saemann
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Patent number: 12290022Abstract: A trimmer line spool has first and second spool chambers for a trimmer line. First and second holder pairs are provided. The first holder pair has first and second trimmer line holders associated with the first spool chamber and the second spool chamber, respectively. The second holder pair has first and second trimmer line holders associated with the first spool chamber and the second spool chamber, respectively. The trimmer line holders of the first holder pair each have a first opening for the trimmer line. The trimmer line holders of the second holder pair each have a second opening for the trimmer line. A diameter of the first openings is larger than a diameter of the second openings. The first openings are positioned at an angle of 150° to 210° to each other. The second openings are positioned at an angle of 150° to 210° to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Sebastian Schmidt, Simon Haug, Sebastian Zappe, Christoph Brenner, Achim Rethaber, Björn Petersen, Stefan Buchner
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Patent number: 12284937Abstract: A work apparatus includes a housing, an electric motor arranged in the housing, the electric motor including a rotor shaft driven rotationally about a rotor axis, an output shaft for driving a tool, the output shaft being connected with a form fit to the rotor shaft on a receptacle of the rotor shaft, and a flange supported on the housing. The rotor shaft is mounted rotatably via a rotor shaft bearing arranged in the flange, the rotor shaft bearing extending along a bearing section in the direction of the rotor axis, and wherein the output shaft extends at least as far as the bearing section of the rotor shaft bearing.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Denis Ehrler, Matthias Maier, Anton Angelusch
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Patent number: 12256668Abstract: A gardening appliance has a traction drive system with a clutch, an electric motor drive system and a user-triggerable signalling device. The electric motor drive system effects forward rotation and backward rotation of the clutch. An operating method includes: a) in a user-triggered manner, operating the electric motor drive system in a running-down and/or braking operating mode to lower a motor rotational speed of the forward-rotating electric motor drive system; b) acquiring whether a back electromotive force caused by the electric motor drive system satisfies a standstill criterion, wherein the standstill criterion is characteristic of an attainment of a standstill state of the electric motor drive system; and c) when the standstill criterion is satisfied, operating the electric motor drive system in a backward-rotation operating mode to effect the backward rotation of the electric motor drive system for disengaging the clutch for freewheeling operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Markus Kippes, Ingo Kugler, Tobias Froehlich
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Patent number: 12251813Abstract: A handheld power tool has an electric connecting socket and a handle for handling the power tool. The handle includes a plurality of components, wherein at least one component of the handle is used as a mounting of the electric connecting socket.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventor: Joachim Kolb
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Publication number: 20250083196Abstract: The invention relates to a pressure washer (1) comprising a port (2) for a liquid source (3), a high-pressure pump (4), a main line (5), through which liquid can be conveyed from the port (2) to a spray opening (6) of the main line (5) by the high-pressure pump (4), and a first electric motor (10) for driving the high-pressure pump (4), which generates a first amount of power. The pressure washer (1) comprises a second electric motor (20) for driving the high-pressure pump (7), which generates a second amount of power. The pressure washer (1) comprises a gearbox (30), which comprises an output shaft (31) for driving the high-pressure pump (4). The gearbox (30) is designed in such a way that the first amount of power and the second amount of power can be used simultaneously to drive the output shaft (31) of the gearbox (30).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Alexander Kiebler, Lukas Zürcher, Christopher Tost
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Publication number: 20250065485Abstract: A work apparatus has an internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine includes a crankcase in which a crankshaft is mounted rotatably about an axis of rotation. The work apparatus includes a fan spiral and a fan wheel arranged in the fan spiral for conveying cooling air for the internal combustion engine. A cylinder is arranged on the crankcase, and the cylinder includes a first outer side facing the fan wheel and a second outer side facing away from the fan wheel. The fan spiral has a first outlet opening for a first cooling air flow for cooling the first outer side of the cylinder. The fan spiral has a second outlet opening for a second cooling air flow for cooling the second outer side of the cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2024Publication date: February 27, 2025Applicant: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Robert Köhli, Tilman Seidel, Mario Kuschewski, Jens Riehmann
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Patent number: 12233524Abstract: A handheld work apparatus includes a motor, a transmission shaft, a tool, a guide tube, a housing, and a first anti-vibration element. The motor via the transmission shaft drives the tool. The transmission shaft is received in the guide tube. The motor is disposed in the housing. The tool is disposed on a front longitudinal end of the guide tube. The housing is disposed on the rear longitudinal end of the guide tube. The housing at least partially encompasses the guide tube, wherein the guide tube projects from the housing. The first anti-vibration element is disposed such that it acts in a vibration-decoupling manner between the housing and the guide tube. The first anti-vibration element is disposed on that side of the motor facing the tool. The handheld work apparatus includes a second anti-vibration element connecting the motor to the housing in an at least indirectly vibration-decoupled manner.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Johannes Menzel, Lars Robert Kraft, Matthias Maier, Denis Ehrler, Felix Moessinger, Marc Schmid
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Patent number: 12233525Abstract: A working apparatus has a manual operating region, a tubular part extending away from the manual operating region, and an electric cable arrangement in the tubular part. The working apparatus includes a rod-shaped cable holder, which is inserted into and held in the tubular part and has a cable holding arrangement, by which the cable arrangement is held in a pre-mounted manner on the cable holder. An assembly method secures the cable arrangement on the cable holder by the cable holding arrangement, and inserts the cable holder, with the cable arrangement held thereon, into the tubular part. The working apparatus may be a battery-operated, hand-guided garden or forestry working apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Johannes Luecke, Jens-Peter Kern, Johanna Koch, Matthias Maier
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Publication number: 20250041907Abstract: A pressure washer includes a high-pressure pump by which cleaning fluid can be pressurized in the pressure washer, a hose reel, which is mounted so that it can rotate about an axis of rotation, a reel hose, which can be wound onto and unwound from the hose reel, and a housing. The high-pressure pump is arranged in the housing and includes at least one piston, which can be moved back and forth in a direction of movement to generate pressure on the cleaning fluid. The high-pressure pump has a middle axis running in the direction of movement of the at least one piston. During the operation of the pressure washer, cleaning fluid can be conveyed to the reel hose by the high-pressure pump. The axis of rotation runs transversely to the direction of movement of the at least one piston. The axis of rotation intersects the high-pressure pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Christopher Tost, Alexander Kiebler, Christian Krauer
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Patent number: D1074363Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2022Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Andreas STIHL AG & Co. KGInventor: Markus Schoenecker