Patents Assigned to Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
  • Patent number: 12293508
    Abstract: A device for testing the contents of a switch cabinet following installation of equipment components (2a-2e) according to a plan and the wiring thereof via terminals (6) provided therefor by means of designated electrical cables (5), includes a camera unit (7) for the at least two-dimensional image capture of the components (2a-2e) fully installed and wired on an installation board (4) of a switch cabinet (1). The device can further include an evaluation unit (8) for carrying out a comparison between an imaged layout (100), on the basis of the image capture, of the actual state with a provided plan layout (200) of the target state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Weichsel, Thomas Michels, Lars Martin, Judith Zachrai
  • Patent number: 12218492
    Abstract: An arrangement for the assembly and wiring of electrical components in switchgear construction, the arrangement comprising a robot with an end effector designed as a gripper, a mounting plate holding device, with which a mounting plate is held in a mounting position with respect to the robot, and a component supply in the access area of the robot, via which components to be mounted on the mounting plate are provided for removal by the robot, wherein a controller of the robot has machine data for controlling the robot including position data for the arrangement of components on a mounting plane of a mounting plate to be equipped, wherein the robot has an optical imaging system which is adapted to detect an orientation of a mounting plate with respect to the robot, the controller of the robot being adapted to provide the position data with an offset representing the orientation of the mounting plate with respect to the robot as a function of the detected orientation. A corresponding method is further described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ahmad Abrass, Andreas Michael Baechler
  • Patent number: 12155184
    Abstract: A gripper for the automated wiring of electrical components of an electrical switchgear, the gripper having at least two gripper fingers, wherein the gripper fingers delimit between them a cable guide corridor, the passage cross-section of which is bounded at a distal end of the gripper fingers by opposing gripper jaws of the gripper fingers and, with respect to the distal end, is bounded further proximally by opposing cable drives of the gripper fingers, the two gripper fingers being adjustable with respect to one another in an adjustment direction which corresponds to a cross-sectional direction of the passage cross-section in order to vary the passage cross-section via a linear adjustment unit. A corresponding robot and a corresponding method are further described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Michael Bach, Kevin Jung, Andreas Michael Bächler
  • Patent number: 12152819
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switch cabinet arrangement with at least one switch cabinet housing and at least one cooling device for cooling air contained in the switch cabinet arrangement, wherein the cooling device has at least one refrigerant circuit including a flammable refrigerant, wherein the switch cabinet arrangement has at least one refrigerant sensor which detects a concentration of the flammable refrigerant in the air and is evaluated by a control unit which is adapted to trigger a safety function for reducing the concentration of the flammable refrigerant in the air below the threshold value if a threshold value of the concentration is exceeded. A corresponding method is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thorsten Heimberg, Steffen Wagner
  • Patent number: 12132298
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for wiring electrical components of an electrical switchgear arranged on a mounting plate, comprising: providing a design of a switchgear comprising at least location information and orientation information about a plurality of electrical components of the switchgear on a mounting plate and wiring information about a plurality of electrical wirings between every two of the electrical components; optically detecting an actual arrangement of the electrical components on the mounting plate and matching the location information and orientation information to the actual arrangement; and automatically wiring the electrical components in a wiring order and according to the wiring information and the matched location information and orientation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Michael Bächler
  • Patent number: 12126148
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for machining at least one switchgear cabinet including: providing at least one switchgear cabinet which is constructed in several parts and comprises at least one detachably mounted component; disassembling and removing the detachably mounted component from the switch cabinet; machining the disassembled and removed component and providing the machined component for reassembly on the associated switch cabinet; and re-assigning the machined component provided for reassembly to the corresponding control cabinet, wherein the at least one switch cabinet has an individual machine-readable switch cabinet identification and the at least one removably mounted component has an individual machine-readable component identification, which are assigned to one another, wherein re-assigning the component to the switch cabinet comprising machine-reading of the machine-readable identifications and bringing together the component and the switch cabinet which have the mutually assigned iden
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Markus Hain, Heiko Holighaus, Siegfried Boehme, Lars Martin
  • Patent number: 12068586
    Abstract: A switch cabinet having a frame and a sidewall element mounted thereon, wherein the sidewall element is mounted on the frame via at least one latch lock, the latch lock having a latch and a latch receptacle one of which is fixed to the frame and the other of which is fixed to the sidewall element and which are accommodated in a volume which is open towards an outer side of the frame and which is delimited on the one hand by a folded profile edge of the frame and on the other hand, adjoining the folded profile edge on the outer side, by the sidewall element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Rebecca Zapletal, Carsten Bäumer
  • Patent number: 12030193
    Abstract: A method for robot-assisted wiring of electrical components of an electrical switchgear arranged on a mounting plate. The method includes providing a planning of a switchgear which has at least location information about a plurality of electrical components of the switchgear on a mounting plate and wiring information about a plurality of electrical wirings between every two of the electrical components. A cable routing is extracted including a cable source coordinate and cable destination coordinates and a routing path between the cable source coordinate and the cable destination coordinate from the wiring information for at least one of the plurality of wirings. Trajectory and/or vector points are generated along the cable routing and parameter to parameterize the trajectory and/or vector points to generate robot control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Michael Bächler
  • Patent number: 11953644
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switch cabinet with a switch cabinet door which closes the switch cabinet and has a door lock which can be actuated via a door handle, the switch cabinet door having a door status sensor which has a magnetic field sensor being adapted to distinguish an open state of the switch cabinet door from a closed state of the switch cabinet door by means of a detected magnetic field change, characterized in that at least the magnetic field sensor of the door status sensor is accommodated within the door handle in a region of the door handle which is magnetically permeable to the environment of the switch cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Sven Michael Laurösch, Markus Hain
  • Patent number: 11946298
    Abstract: The invention relates to a push rod lock for a switch cabinet housing, having a linearly adjustable push rod which is arranged on an inner side of a switch cabinet door and projects with a coupling piece from the inner side through the switch cabinet door, wherein a door lock plate which is mounted via an outer side of the switch cabinet door opposite the inner side is fixed to an actuating element which is coupled to the coupling piece via a mushroom pin connection on the switch cabinet door, wherein the push rod is adjustable between a second open position and a second closed position via the actuating element which is adjustable between a first open position and a first closed position, wherein the mushroom pin connection is arranged at least in a release position in which the door lock plate is removable from the switch cabinet door at least when the push rod is arranged in the second closed position and the actuating element is arranged in an intermediate position between the first open position and the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Daniel Brück
  • Patent number: 11933069
    Abstract: The invention relates to a locking arrangement for a switch cabinet, having a switch cabinet door which has on its inside a push-rod lock which projects through the switch cabinet door to the front side of the switch cabinet door via a coupling piece, wherein an actuating member is fixed to the front side via a handle adapter and is coupled to the coupling piece, for which purpose the switch cabinet door has at least one adapter plate, onto which the handle adapter is placed in a form-fitting manner via at least one aperture, the adapter plate having, on its side facing the actuating member, a fastening element, by means of which the actuating member is fixed to the adapter plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jacob Herr, Carsten Bäumer
  • Patent number: 11936165
    Abstract: A switch cabinet arrangement having at least one switch cabinet frame and at least one multipole touch protection module which is mounted on a mounting plate in the interior of the switch cabinet frame and in which a plurality of busbars are accommodated in a touch safemanner and are accessible to device adapters via contacting passages, wherein the touch protection module has a modular housing with at least one central module or a plurality of central modules which are arranged in a row and are identical to one another, the at least one central module or at least one of the central modules being closed at its end facing a vertical outer edge by an end module which is aligned with the vertical outer edge of the mounting plate with its vertical end side or projects beyond the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jörg Kayma, Jörg Kreiling, Andreas Bastian, Ann-Sylvia Jakob, Stefan Temme
  • Patent number: 11901707
    Abstract: A system and method for mounting a modular switch cabinet equipment in a switch cabinet housing (6) includes a computer-aided assistance unit (1) for determining a production-efficient assembly step sequence. The system and method further include at least one display unit (11-11?) for image and/or text information, which is installed at the assembly site for at least one fitter (M) in order to visualize manual assembly steps (A; B; D) of the determined assembly step sequence. The system and method further includes at least one input unit (12-12?) for acknowledgement of the completed assembly step (A; B; D) by the fitter (M).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Weichsel, Thomas Michels, Lars Martin, Judith Zachrai
  • Patent number: 11758694
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switch cabinet arrangement with at least one IT rack or switch cabinet housing and with at least one cooling device, which has an air-liquid heat exchanger for cooling components accommodated in the IT rack or switch cabinet housing with cooled air, wherein the air-liquid heat exchanger comprises a first flow for cooled liquid and a first return for heated liquid, wherein the cooling device comprises a liquid-liquid heat exchanger, to the second flow of which the first return of the air-liquid heat exchanger is connected. A corresponding method is further described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Frank Himmelhuber, Stephan Helmut Matthies, Andreas Meyer
  • Patent number: 11740616
    Abstract: A method and a system for collecting and processing of life cycle information about a switch cabinet (1) of an industrial plant, with a documentation server (2) for linking data sheet information (A) of the built-in modules (9a-9c) installed in the switch cabinet (1) on the basis of the planned construction (4) with function information (B) about their use in the context of the switch cabinet equipment, in order to store this information in a central archive database (3) under an individual switch cabinet identification (8) in data records, wherein test and acceptance information (C) of the switch cabinet (1) is added to the data records of the central archive database (3) via the documentation server (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Weichsel, Thomas Michels, Lars Martin, Judith Zachrai
  • Patent number: 11689001
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switch cabinet arrangement having at least one switch cabinet and at least one power strip, the power strip being fixed to a vertical profile inside the switch cabinet via an adapter, wherein the adapter is a hook-in adapter which has a first adapter part on the vertical profile and a second adapter part on the power strip, the power strip being hooked into the first adapter part on the vertical profile via the second adapter part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Bodo Thielmann
  • Patent number: 11689000
    Abstract: A switch cabinet with at least one brush strip for the conductor feed-through, the switch cabinet having a switch cabinet frame with a horizontal or vertical profile frame from which a profile web extends, wherein the brush strip is placed on a free end of the profile web with bristles extending from the profile web over the inner portion of the profile frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Bodo Thielmann, Ahmet Savasci
  • Patent number: 11608666
    Abstract: A locking device for a switch cabinet, with a lock door and a secondary door, wherein the secondary door, on a vertical outer edge opposite its hinge side, has a U-profile formed on a door leaf of the secondary door with a receptacle for a lock mechanism of the lock door, which receptacle is offset back relative to the door leaf and which is open towards the door leaf, wherein on an outer free profile side of the U-profile, a swivelling lever of a lock of the secondary door is pivotably mounted about an axis of rotation between an open position and a locking position. Furthermore, a corresponding switch cabinet is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Daniel Brück, Sascha Wirbelauer
  • Patent number: 11591824
    Abstract: The invention relates to a door lock with a locking element (1) for locking the door (3) in a closed state and a fastening element (2) for fastening the locking element (1) to the door (3), wherein that the fastening element (2) has an adjustable adjustment device (4) to compensate for different door thicknesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Roman Jung, Achim Bloh
  • Patent number: D1037178
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Marco Deusing