Patents Assigned to MetisMotion GmbH
  • Patent number: 12258983
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic transmission unit for an actuator, which hydraulic transmission unit can be filled with a hydraulic fluid and has a first and a second chamber which are hydraulically interconnected and of which one is designed as a drive chamber and the other one is designed as an output chamber. At least in the first chamber, a piston is arranged movably along a piston axis, such that this piston subdivides the first chamber into a variable-volume working chamber and a rear-side chamber, the rear-side chamber being delimited at least partially by a bellows element having a variable axial length. The invention further relates to an actuator having such a hydraulic transmission unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: MetisMotion GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Bachmaier, Matthias Gerlich, Takeru Nemoto, Wolfgang Zoels
  • Patent number: 11837974
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stroke transmitter for an actuator device. The stroke transmitter comprises a first and a second conversion unit, which are mechanically connected to one another in series, wherein the first conversion unit is designed as a hydraulic conversion unit, it can be connected to an actuator on its drive side and it is connected to the drive side of the second conversion unit on its output side, wherein the second conversion unit is designed as a cable system and has an output element on its output side. The invention also relates to an actuator device comprising an actuator and a stroke transmitter mechanically connected in series with the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MetisMotion GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Bachmaier, Matthias Gerlich, Takeru Nemoto, Wolfgang Zoels
  • Patent number: 11286961
    Abstract: The invention provides an actuator device, which has: an output element, which is acted on by a fluid and as a result is movable into a holding position; two solid-state actuators, which are able to be activated alternately; a coupling element common to the solid-state actuators; a discharge duct, via which the fluid is able to be discharged from the output element; and at least one valve element, which is adjustable between a blocking closed state and an open state, in which the valve element allows the fluid to be discharged from the output element via the discharge duct and allows the output element to move from the holding position into at least one yielding position, wherein the valve element is actuable, via the coupling element of the respective solid-state actuator, by the respective activation of the solid-state actuator and is able to be moved into the closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: MetisMotion GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Bachmaier, Patrick Fröse, Matthias Gerlich, Wolfgang Zöls
  • Patent number: 10330125
    Abstract: The hydraulic actuator comprises: a hydraulic input cylinder having an input piston; a hydraulic output cylinder, which is hydraulically coupled to the input cylinder; and a pressure-limiting valve, which limits the output cylinder with respect to pressure in dependence on the usability of a force on the input piston. The method is a method for operating such a hydraulic actuator, wherein the drive actuator is deflected with deflections having a deflection duration at a deflection frequency for the duration of an acting or a non-acting phase of the hydraulic actuator, wherein the deflection duration defines a movement stiffness of the hydraulic actuator and the deflection frequency defines the resulting deflection speed of the hydraulic actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: MetisMotion GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Bachmaier, Andreas Gödecke, Thomas Vontz, Wolfgang Zöls