Patents Assigned to Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
  • Patent number: 6206211
    Abstract: A frame piece for a rack of a switching cabinet having fastening possibilities, torsional rigidity, material expenditure and manufacture that corresponds to requirements. The frame piece includes a section outside as a connection section between outsides of the rack that contact at right angles. Fastening sections of a section inside are connected to the connection section, which have in a longitudinal direction of the section fastening mounts and transition into section sides having second fastening mounts. The fastening sections are at a first angle to the outsides of the rack and the section sides are at a second angle to the connected fastening section. The fastening sections and the section sides form two inside edges of the section inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Nicolai, Udo Münch, Georg Vogel
  • Patent number: 6206494
    Abstract: An assembly unit with assembly cavities, which can be mounted on frame sections of a switching cabinet. One or more assembly elements can be installed on at least one part of the frame sections to support the assembly rail. The assembly rail can be easily secured to a frame section if the assembly rail has at least one profiled side with at least one insert cavity by which the assembly rail can be placed on the fastening element, and the fastening element can be moved in relation to the frame section in order to attach the assembly rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Köhler, Udo Münch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6189988
    Abstract: A switching cabinet with two side walls, a back wall, a bottom side and a cover side and with frame pieces which, at least in part, are formed by multiple beveling of the side walls, the back wall, the bottom side or the cover side in the inner space of the switching cabinet, where the sections formed by beveling have a section which is inclined or parallel to the plane of the corresponding side wall, the back wall, the bottom side or the cover side and is at a distance from these. Extended mounting capabilities are offered by the fact that the inclined or parallel sections of two bordering walls standing perpendicular to one another or of a wall and a side of the switching cabinet are assigned to one another in such a way that they form a deepened inside receptacle in the inside space of the switching cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Walter Nicolai, Udo Münch, Georg Vogel
  • Patent number: 6174034
    Abstract: A switching cabinet having a rack with an upper and lower frame and vertical and horizontal struts which are disposed horizontally. The upper and lower frame have corner cavities, to which vertical frame profiles can be connected. The vertical frame profiles have profiled segments which are turned towards an inside of the rack. Access to the inside of the rack is improved when the vertical frame profiles may be mounted or dismounted afterwards which can be done with few components and involves little effort during mounting by including vertical profiles on at least one side of the rack, whose ends and profiled segments can be inserted into the corner cavity from the outer side of the rack, and by placing and fixing the profiled segments onto the connector of a corner cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Köhler, Udo M{umlaut over (u)}nch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6170673
    Abstract: A switch cabinet having a rack with vertical frame pieces, wherein the vertical frame pieces are coupled to a lower unit or to an upper unit. Electronic components can be assembled by connecting two adjacent vertical frame pieces to a separate assembly unit with connecting elements and by fixing the components to be assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Walter Nicolai
  • Patent number: 6164460
    Abstract: A rack for a switchgear cabinet, whereby the rack is assembled from frame legs, four of the frame legs being horizontally oriented forming a lower rack frame, which is connected to support profiles for bottom plates. The support profiles form a bottom frame (30), which has upward projecting fastening straps (50, 52). The frame legs (12 to 14) of the lower rack frame (11) have vertically aligned inner profile sides (21), which are provided with recesses (26) in the area of their lower edges (23) and of the adjoining profile sides for introducing the fastening straps (50, 52), and the fastening straps (50, 52) are screwed in place, resting on the inside of these inner profile sides (21) of the lower rack frame (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6164988
    Abstract: An adapter with an adapter housing, which can be fixed in place on the bus bars of a bus bar system and which receives terminal contacts, which can be connected in an electrically conducting manner with the bus bars. An equipment holder for fastening electrical installation equipment can be connected in various positions with the adapter housing. The equipment holder has holding elements and the adapter housing has receiving elements for the holding elements of the equipment holder. Continuous adjustability between the equipment holder and the adapter housing is achieved because the holding elements of the equipment holder are designed as support strips, which can be inserted into receiving elements of the adapter housing which are embodied as receiving grooves, or as edge strips, and which are continuously displaceable along and fixable within the receiving elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventor: Hans Wagener
  • Patent number: 6164737
    Abstract: A switching cabinet with a rack having a base made of length and depth struts with connected vertical frame pieces. The vertical frame pieces are inserted into a cavity formed by the ends of the length and depth struts and are welded with the base to form a corner connector. It is possible to create a switching cabinet with a simple corner connector mounted on the rack. It is also possible to achieve precise alignment of the vertical frame pieces by providing them with centering pieces which are aligned with stops of the length and depth struts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Kohler, Udo Munch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6164985
    Abstract: A connecting element having a bracket for fastening side walls of a switchgear cabinet onto a frame profile of a switchgear cabinet frame and having a contact spring connected to the bracket for providing an electrical connection between the side walls and the frame legs of the switchgear cabinet frame. The contact springs have contact points disposed in the direction of the side wall, which contact points protrude above the contact surface of the frame profile on which a corresponding side wall is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6163854
    Abstract: A switchgear cabinet monitoring installation, wherein a switchgear cabinet has at least one control device for units built-in or units attached to the switchgear cabinet, and at least one server. A rapid detection and reaction to a failure of the network is achieved with each control device and each server being connected via the network with a lead computer, wherein the control devices are coupled through additional connections with the lead computer and via connectors with the servers. In case of a failure of the network, the data exchange between the control devices and the lead computer can be established via the additional connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Hain, Jorg Kreiling
  • Patent number: 6159024
    Abstract: A device for creating an electrically conducting connection for an assembly panel fitted parallel to the rear side in a switch cabinet, to which assembly panel are allocated on at least one side a frame section of a frame, an assembly track or a frame section-type edge of a side wall. Specially designed contact springs and assembly panels ensure that the assembly panel, optionally fitted with a non-conducting surface protection layer, can be fitted simply and with appropriate contacts in a switch cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Udo Munch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6155660
    Abstract: The switchgear cabinet has a framework that is closed or may be closed by wall elements and at least one door. An earthquake-proof mounting of apparatus, mounting plates or the like is achieved in that at least one housing or frame is mounted into the framework. The bottom area of the housing or frame is elastically secured by vertical dampers on horizontal bearing rails arranged between lateral vertical members. The top area of the housing or frame is elastically joined to the vertical members of the framework either directly by means of horizontal dampers or indirectly by means of angle brackets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Walter Nicolai
  • Patent number: 6155434
    Abstract: An assembly rail for a switching cabinet, designed in a form of a stamped and bent part and having an assembly wall directed towards the inside of the switching cabinet. Lateral fixing devices, bent out of the assembly wall, are fitted with an assembly plate. Hooks are stamped and bent out of the assembly plate. The hooks can be inserted into fastening cavities of the vertical frame sections of the switching cabinet. The assembly rails can be firmly and easily secured to the frame sections with slotted fastening cavities if the hooks are bent out of the assembly plate around an axis of flexion extending in the longitudinal direction of the frame sections, if a protruding section of the hook is stamped out from the bending point and if a width of the hook is determined by the material thickness of the fastening plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Kohler, Udo Munch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6155658
    Abstract: A profiled frame for a switchgear cabinet with an inner profiled section and an outer profiled section. The inner profiled section is made from a sheet steel blank and is or can have fastening receivers, on which built-ins can be fixed in place in an interior of the switchgear cabinet. The profiled frame can be visually individualized if the outer profiled section is designed as an extruded profiled section and has one or several ornamented surfaces oriented toward the exterior of the switchgear cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Woodward, Paul Runnalls
  • Patent number: 6149255
    Abstract: A corner connector for a switching cabinet with depth and length struts which are disposed horizontally and joined to vertical frame pieces in corner areas by corner connectors. Substantial flexibility of use is achieved with the corner connector having a compensating element enabling differently structured vertical frame pieces to be connected according to choice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Kohler, Udo Munch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6145943
    Abstract: A switching cabinet which is enclosed by wall elements and a door. An assembly plate is placed parallel to a vertical side wall. The assembly plate can be moved in a direction of the associated side wall by sliders on at least one guide rail and brought into a position for mounting. Limited mounting opportunities, because of the guide rails, are thus avoided by designing the guide rails as a separate part, by providing positioning units which are detachably secured to the switching cabinet, and by being able to remove the guide rails from the cabinet after the assembly plate is positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Reuter, Paul Root
  • Patent number: 6142591
    Abstract: A switch cabinet with a rack having four vertical frame sections, in which an internal housing arranged in an interior of the switch cabinet is connected to the rack, which has two vertical side walls and an upper and a lower horizontal cover. In order to be able to install the internal housing simply in the switch cabinet, the vertical side walls are attached to the vertical frame sections and each has an upper and a lower longitudinal guide that runs in the direction of the cabinet depth. The cover can be pushed into the longitudinal guides via the open front side of the rack with guide elements and secured to them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Dirk Hemann
  • Patent number: 6142594
    Abstract: A rack for a switching cabinet with a lower frame and an upper frame, which have horizontal length and width struts on which vertical frame sections can be arranged. The upper and lower frames are easy to produce and involve little technical complexity if the length and width struts are connected to form a continuous section in a single piece and the section is formed from a stamped and bent piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Kohler, Udo Munch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6138843
    Abstract: A frame piece for a rack of a switching cabinet, which has a profile outside and a profile inside, the transitions of which lie at a distance from an outside corner edge of the rack and form a free space with the profile outside to the outside corner edge, for swinging a cabinet door and introducing edges of abutting paneling elements. A frame piece with many possibilities of variation with respect to fastening planes, fastening directions and stability is created according to this invention, because the frame piece is designed as having mirror image symmetry in cross-section with respect to an axis of symmetry which is at an angle of inclination to the rack diagonal. On both sides of the rack diagonal with the profile inside and profile outside, there are at least two profile sections that are at an angle with respect to one another, at least a part of which has fastening seats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Nicolai, Udo Munch, Georg Vogel
  • Patent number: 6123400
    Abstract: A switching cabinet having a rack with horizontal and vertical frame profiles. The horizontal frame profiles form a lower and upper frame and the vertical frame profiles are secured in the comer areas of the upper and lower frames. The vertical frame profiles are symmetrical to cross-sectional diagonals running across virtual, vertical outer edges of the rack. Greater flexibility in installing built-in fixtures inside the switch cabinet is achieved by providing the vertical frame profiles which are turned towards the inside of the switching cabinet with an open inner cavity having two inner walls extending in the longitudinal direction of the profiles so that vertical assembly rails can be mounted in the inner cavity, one profiled side standing perpendicular to the outside of the rack is joined to the inner walls. The inner walls, the assembly racks and the profiled sides can have rows of fastening cavities inserted according to a division grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Nicolai, Udo Munch, Heinrich Strackbein