Patents by Inventor Achim Bullinger

Achim Bullinger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6966781
    Abstract: The electromechanical connector proposed has a switch and an actuator. The switch can be connected by means of contacts to a power supply and has switching magnets with encoded magnetic elements mounted on a carriage. It is fitted in a housing as an enclosed unit. The actuator has actuation magnets with encoded magnetic elements and can be connected to a consumer. The switch can be connected to the actuator, connecting these two devices causing the switching magnets to move, against a restraining force, from an inoperative position to an operating position. The electrical connection between the switch and the actuator is thus established by means of contacts. The ends of the switch and actuator facing each other are fitted with alignment devices designed so that electrical contact between the switch and the actuator can only be made when the contacts are in a particular position with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Inventors: Achim Bullinger, Klaus-Dieter Fritsch, Hermann Neidlein
  • Patent number: 6264473
    Abstract: The electromechanical connector proposed has a switch and an actuator. The switch can be connected by means of contacts to a power supply and has switching magnets with encoded magnetic elements mounted on a carriage. It is fitted in a housing as an enclosed unit. The actuator has actuation magnets with encoded magnetic elements and can be connected to a consumer. The switch can be connected to the actuator, connecting these two devices causing the switching magnets to move, against a restraining force, from an inoperative position to an operating position. The electrical connection between the switch and the actuator is thus established by means of contacts. The ends of the switch and actuator facing each other are fitted with alignment devices designed so that electrical contact between the switch and the actuator can only be made when the contacts are in a particular position with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Inventors: Achim Bullinger, Klaus-Dieter Fritsch, Hermann Neidlein
  • Patent number: 6231349
    Abstract: An electromechanical connecting device can be connected to a switching device provided with switching magnets, arranged on a working carriage and connectable to a current source by means of current supply contacts, and can also be connected to a triggering device provided with triggering magnets and electrically connectable to a consumer. These switching magnets can be moved from a rest position to a working position against a restoring force, establishing a contact among pairs of contacts and thus an electric connection between the means of a special coding together with the triggering magnets arranged in the triggering device to generate particular magnetic fields for the switching process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Inventors: Achim Bullinger, Klaus-Dieter Fritsch, Hermann Neidlein
  • Patent number: 5921783
    Abstract: The invention concerns an electromechanical connection device comprising a switching device which can be connected to a current source via power supply contacts and comprises switching magnets. A tripping device, provided with tripping magnets, can be connected to the switching device. Switching magnets are thus moved from a rest position, against a restraining force, into an operating position, the contact between pairs of contacts and hence the electrical connection between the switching device and the tripping device being established. The switching magnets and the tripping magnets are provided with a special code. The pairs of contacts are disposed at least approximately in a region of the housing between the center thereof and the switching magnets. An electrically conductive bridge is provided on the operating slide for the contact between the pairs of contacts and the power supply contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignees: Klaus-Dieter Fritsch, Achim Bullinger
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Fritsch, Achim Bullinger, Hermann Neidlein
  • Patent number: 5829987
    Abstract: The invention concerns an electromechanical connection device comprising a switching device which can be connected to a current source via power supply contacts and comprises switching magnets. A tripping device. provided with tripping magnets, can be connected to the switching device. Switching magnets are thus moved from a rest position, against a restraining force, into an operating position, the contact between pairs of contacts and hence the electrical connection between the switching device and the tripping device being established. The switching magnets and the tripping magnets are provided with a special code. A plurality of switching magnets in the outer peripheral area of an operating slide are disposed as segments at a distance from one another. An identical number of tripping magnets with opposite polarity are likewise arranged as segments in the same peripheral area as the switching magnets in the tripping device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Fritsch, Achim Bullinger, Hermann Neidlein