Patents Assigned to Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
  • Publication number: 20220109288
    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: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Bodo THIELMANN
  • Patent number: 11283246
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mounting plate arrangement with a switch cabinet frame and a mounting plate fastened thereto via at least one mounting plate holder, wherein the switch cabinet frame has a rectangular floor frame with four profile struts, which has on its outer side a fastening section offset relative to an outer sealing plane of the switch cabinet frame relative to the interior of the switch cabinet frame, wherein the mounting plate holder is formed in multiple parts, with a support bracket and with a base connected to the support bracket, wherein the support bracket is connected to the fastening section and to the mounting plate and the mounting plate stands on the base, and wherein the mounting plate holder with the base is placed on a profile side of one of the four profile struts extending between the sealing plane and the fastening section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Siegfried Boehme, Heiko Holighaus, Daniel Brück
  • Patent number: 10816188
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control cabinet light for illuminating a control cabinet interior, wherein the control cabinet light comprises a light base member which holds an illuminating means of the control cabinet light and a transparent illuminating means cover mounted at the light base member, said cover transparently surrounding the illuminating means, characterized in that the illuminating means cover has two transparent separated parallel sides between which the illuminating means is disposed when the illuminating means cover is placed on the light base member, wherein the illuminating means comprises a flat illuminating means plate on which a plurality of individual illuminating means, in particular LEDs or OLEDs, are distributed, and wherein the illuminating means plate extends parallel or at an angle of more than 0°, in particular less than an angle of about 45°, relative to the parallel sides of the illuminating means cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ewgenij Premysler, Marco Deusing, Kurt-Michael Schaffer
  • Patent number: 10811854
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mounting plate arrangement having a mounting plate which is fixed to a frame of a switch cabinet via at least one mounting plate holder, the mounting plate holder having a bearing piece which bears against or is fixed to a lower longitudinal edge of the mounting plate, the mounting plate with the bearing piece resting on a horizontal strut of the frame via a mounting bracket of the mounting plate holder, wherein at least a contact side of the bearing piece, via which the bearing piece rests on the mounting bracket, is or comprises a damping element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Siegfried Boehme, Heiko Holighaus
  • Patent number: 10792775
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and machining device for clamping and machining a control cabinet component in a machining device. The method includes the following steps: Arranging a workpiece configured as a control cabinet component on a work surface of a machining device; clamping the workpiece on the work surface, wherein a supporting unit with at least one clamping device arranged on it, is shifted to an edge of the workpiece using an actuator-driven shifting unit and a clamping element of the at least one clamping device is shifted from a released position to a clamped position when guided towards the edge of the workpiece, meaning that the clamping element comes to rest at multiple contact points on the workpiece so that the clamping element secures the workpiece in a machining position, preventing it from shifting perpendicularly to the work surface, and machining the workpiece using a machining tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Kersten Wurm
  • Patent number: 10765025
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stabilizing arrangement for transporting a switch cabinet, with a switch cabinet which comprises a frame stand consisting of vertical and horizontal struts, and with a switch cabinet door fastened on a door side of the frame stand by at least one hinge, so that the switch cabinet door can be pivoted back and forth between an open position in which it is pivoted away from the door side and a closed position in which it rests on the door side, characterized in that at least one positive-locking part is fastened on the door side and which extends away from the door side with its free end and comprises an undercut on its free end, wherein the switch cabinet door comprises a positive receptacle into which receptacle the positive-locking part extends with its free end in the closed position and extends behind the undercut in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Paul Clements, Malcom Sillingford
  • Patent number: 10765035
    Abstract: A control cabinet arrangement, comprising a cooling device which is received in a control cabinet housing, wherein the cooling device can be slidably held on the control cabinet housing via a linear adjusting unit, particularly a bar system, and can be adjusted between a pull-out position and a slide-in position, wherein the cooling device in the slide-in position is completely received in the control cabinet housing, and in the pull-out position, the cooling device protrudes at least partially beyond a door side of the control cabinet housing from the control cabinet housing, and wherein a door element, which closes in its closed position the door side of the control cabinet housing, comprises at least one air passage opening which opens into an air outlet and/or an air inlet of the cooling device in the closed position of the door element, when the cooling device is in the slide-in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Juan Carlos Cacho Alonso, Manfred Immel, Sandra Schwietz, Jan Meschkat
  • Patent number: 10718496
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switch cabinet light for illuminating the interior of a switch cabinet, comprising a light-emitting circuit board that has at least a first and a second orientation relative to a translucent light cover of the switch cabinet light in order to vary the beam direction of the switch cabinet light, wherein a light-emitting side of the light-emitting circuit board faces toward a first wall section of the translucent light cover in a first orientation of the light-emitting circuit board and toward a second wall section of the translucent light cover in a second orientation of the light-emitting circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ewgenij Premysler, Kurt-Michael Schaffer, Marco Deusing, Matthias Müller, Christian Dietrich
  • Patent number: 10714912
    Abstract: A switch cabinet which has a plurality of vertical frame profiles, whereby outer vertical planes (V) are defined, wherein at least one side panel of the switch cabinet is arranged in at least one of the vertical planes (V), characterized in that the side panel consists at least partially of a fabric with metallic or metallically coated threads or fibers. Furthermore, a related method and a related bay of cabinets are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Derek Winsor
  • Patent number: 10680417
    Abstract: The invention relates to a securing system for securing a roof structure, in particular a cooling device, in a notch on the roof of a switch cabinet, wherein the securing system comprises a pretensioning device connected to the roof structure for a securing clamp, wherein the securing clamp comprises a fixed end and an end that moves with respect to the fixed end, on which the pretensioning device engages, so that a radius of curvature of the securing clamp can be set via the pretensioning device, wherein in a first position of the pretensioning device, the securing clamp engages underneath an edge of the notch and thereby fixes the roof structure on the switch cabinet, and in a second position of the pretensioning device, the securing clamp releases the notch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Carsten Baumer
  • Patent number: 10622735
    Abstract: A cable sequence for wiring of an electrical circuit with a series arrangement of a plurality of pre-assembled cables, each of which has a first cable end and a second cable end which lies opposite the first cable end. Each of the pre-assembled cables has a conductor and a conductor insulation. The cable ends are processed for the wiring of an electrical circuit in such a manner that a respective conductor end is insulation-free at the first cable end and at the second cable end, and connections between adjacently arranged pre-assembled cables in the series arrangement. By way of the connections, in each case a first cable end of a pre-assembled cable, produced beforehand as free cable end, and a second cable end of a next pre-assembled cable in the series arrangement, produced beforehand as free cable end, are connected to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Kersten Wurm, Jens Von Kiesling
  • Patent number: 10608419
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switch cabinet or rack or rack for receiving electrical energy storage units, in particular batteries, whereby the switch cabinet or the rack has a plurality of energy storage unit slots arranged above one another, so characterized in that the energy storage unit slots are formed by a plurality of grooves, whose longitudinal and slide-in direction extends in the depth direction of the switch cabinet or rack, whereby in each case a pair of grooves are set up on the opposite lying sides of the switch cabinet or rack at the same vertical height and with their open longitudinal side directed toward one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Michael Bach
  • Patent number: 10601205
    Abstract: A connection arrangement having a first and a second switchgear cabinet framework which each have a rectangular, lateral profile frame composed of two vertical struts and two horizontal struts, wherein the profile frames are connected to one another via an aligning connector, wherein the switchgear cabinet frameworks adjoin one another via outer sealing edges of the profile frames, wherein the outer sealing edges are arranged on the respective free end of a sealing web of the profile frame, wherein a fastening flange is bent off from each of the sealing webs so as to be set back from the outer sealing edge, with the result that the opposite fastening flanges delimit between them a receptacle for an aligning connector for the profile frames, which receptacle is further delimited by the adjoining sealing webs and, where appropriate, a sealing element arranged between the sealing webs, and wherein an aligning connector is arranged in the receptacle and is secured to the opposite fastening flanges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Reuter, Daniel Brück
  • Patent number: 10553055
    Abstract: The invention relates to a locking arrangement, in particular a door lock arrangement for a switchgear cabinet, which has a system for verifying a locking authorization, wherein the system has a door lock having an antenna for contactlessly receiving an access authorization signal from a separate transponder, wherein an excitation signal for the transponder is emitted by the antenna only in an active state of the antenna, wherein the locking arrangement has a voltmeter which is used to capture an electrical voltage dropped across the antenna or a voltage change in the passive state of the antenna, wherein the antenna changes from the passive state to the active state if a voltage drop is present across the antenna in the passive state. A corresponding method is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Heiko Holighaus
  • Patent number: 10517193
    Abstract: The invention relates to a regulation method for an electrical enclosure cooling device, which has a refrigerating machine and a heat pipe arrangement, wherein the method comprises measuring a current internal electrical enclosure temperature and determining a target temperature for the internal electrical enclosure temperature, wherein said internal electrical enclosure temperature and target temperature form input signals of a regulator for actuating the electrical enclosure cooling device, and wherein said regulator outputs a control signal for determining manipulated variables of the refrigerating machine; determining the regulator control signal as a measured variable which is proportional to the respective current required cooling power; measuring the ambient electrical enclosure temperature and determining a respective energy efficiency for the refrigerating machine and the heat pipe arrangement either in the event that the required cooling power is to be provided by the refrigerating machine or in the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Daniel Rosenthal
  • Publication number: 20190372316
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mounting plate arrangement having a mounting plate which is fixed to a frame of a switch cabinet via at least one mounting plate holder, the mounting plate holder having a bearing piece which bears against or is fixed to a lower longitudinal edge of the mounting plate, the mounting plate with the bearing piece resting on a horizontal strut of the frame via a mounting bracket of the mounting plate holder, wherein at least a contact side of the bearing piece, via which the bearing piece rests on the mounting bracket, is or comprises a damping element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Siegfried BOEHME, Heiko HOLIGHAUS
  • Patent number: 10483724
    Abstract: The invention relates to a panel holder for fastening a panel on a housing frame of a switchgear cabinet, wherein the panel holder is an open clip, which has two free push-in portions, which can be braced against one another for engagement in a recess of a housing frame, wherein the push-in portions are connected to one another by means of a fastening flange for a panel, said flange having a threaded passage, in particular a threaded bore, and wherein the fastening flange is arranged at a distance from one of the push-in portions and the threaded passage is arranged in alignment with the push-in portion, such that a screw screwed in through the threaded passage impinges on the push-in portion aligned with the threaded passage and thus braces the push-in portions against one another. A corresponding switchgear cabinet is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: D868560
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Marco Deusing
  • Patent number: D876922
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Marco Deusing
  • Patent number: D892180
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Marco Deusing