Patents by Inventor Alexander John

Alexander John 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).

  • Publication number: 20250125678
    Abstract: A method for producing an annular winding head support for a rotor of a rotating electric machine. In order to be able to produce a winding head support for particularly large machines in a simple manner, ring segments are created, after which the ring segments are connected to create a ring that constitutes the winding head support. In addition, the electric machine has a stator and a rotor, with the rotor including at least one winding head at an end side. A winding head support is provided in order to accommodate centrifugal forces occurring during operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: ANDRITZ HYDRO GmbH
    Inventors: Yassar GHANIMI, Alexander JOHN, Oliver JANTSCHNER
  • Publication number: 20240128843
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine, including a laminated core with slots in which bottom bars and top bars are arranged to in an axial direction beyond the laminated core to form a winding overhang. A bottom bar of one slot is respectively connected to a top bar of another slot in the winding overhang and, in a plan view, bottom bars and top bars cross axially outside the laminated core at crossing points and gaps remain between the crossing points. A support device has a retaining body arranged radially inside the winding overhang and at least one clip having two legs and a crosspiece. The is connected to both the retaining body and to a top bar to radially support the top bar by the retaining body. To ensure a robust stabilization of the winding overhang the legs protrude through two gaps adjacent to different top bars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: ANDRITZ HYDRO GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander JOHN, Christoph WEINBERGER, Siegfried STADLHOFER
  • Patent number: 11520170
    Abstract: A hardware mounting system for eyewear including a mounting bracket that is secured to a temple of eyewear by wrapping a stretchable retention band around the temple and aligning two openings in the retention band around a protrusion in the mounting bracket. Either or both of a mounting arm and a spherical rod end can be secured to the mounting bracket. The mounting arm can allow an ear device such as hearing protection to be secured to the eyewear. The spherical rod end allows a device having a socket such as certain illumination devices to be secured to the eyewear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventor: Alexander John
  • Publication number: 20200218091
    Abstract: A hardware mounting system for eyewear including a mounting bracket that is secured to a temple of eyewear by wrapping a stretchable retention band around the temple and aligning two openings in the retention band around a protrusion in the mounting bracket. Either or both of a mounting arm and a spherical rod end can be secured to the mounting bracket. The mounting arm can allow an ear device such as hearing protection to be secured to the eyewear. The spherical rod end allows a device having a socket such as certain illumination devices to be secured to the eyewear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventor: Alexander John
  • Patent number: 9988757
    Abstract: The invention relates to an accommodating device for a removable filter in a domestic appliance, having an accommodating opening for accommodating the filter at least in part, and having a seal which, with the filter inserted, seals the accommodating opening in relation to the filter. In order for fluff, hair and other deposits and contaminants both adhering to the filter and deposited in the vicinity of the accommodating opening to be reliably kept away from the accommodating opening when the filter is being removed, the seal is arranged at the accommodating opening and has at least one sealing element which, when the filter is being removed, passes out of a sealing operating position into a screening position, in which it encloses at least part of the accommodating opening with screening action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander John, Martin Korte
  • Patent number: 9132541
    Abstract: A pneumatic hammer mechanism is disclosed. The hammer mechanism features: a flying mass, which is movable along an impact axis; an impact surface, which limits a movement of the flying mass along the impact axis in the impact direction; an exciting piston, which limits a movement of the flying mass along the impact axis opposite from the impact direction; a pneumatic chamber between the flying mass and exciting piston; a drive for periodically moving the exciting piston with a stroke along the impact axis, wherein the flying mass is excited to a periodic movement between the impact surface and exciting piston. The stroke is selected as a function of a maximum length of the pneumatic chamber such that the periodic movement of the flying mass on the path between an impact on the impact surface and a minimum approach of the exciting piston intermittently has a velocity of zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander John, Reinhard Schulz, Eduard Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20150144748
    Abstract: The invention relates to an accommodating device for a removable filter in a domestic appliance, having an accommodating opening for accommodating the filter at least in part, and having a seal which, with the filter inserted, seals the accommodating opening in relation to the filter. In order for fluff, hair and other deposits and contaminants both adhering to the filter and deposited in the vicinity of the accommodating opening to be reliably kept away from the accommodating opening when the filter is being removed, the seal is arranged at the accommodating opening and has at least one sealing element which, when the filter is being removed, passes out of a sealing operating position into a screening position, in which it encloses at least part of the accommodating opening with screening action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERATEgMBh
    Inventors: Alexander John, Martin Korte
  • Patent number: 8955615
    Abstract: A pneumatic hammer mechanism is disclosed. The hammer mechanism includes: a flying mass; an impact surface which limits a movement of the flying mass along the impact axis in the impact direction; an exciting piston which limits a movement of the flying mass opposite from the impact direction; a pneumatic chamber between the flying mass and exciting piston; and a drive for periodically moving the exciting piston with a stroke along the impact axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander John, Reinhard Schulz, Eduard Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 8739895
    Abstract: The machine tool includes a pneumatic percussion mechanism having a cup-shaped exciter cylinder (21) with an inner chamber (31) which is open in the direction of impact (26), and a free piston (22) which is movable in the inner chamber (31). A recess (32) and at least one ventilation opening (35), spaced at a distance from the recess (32) in the direction of impact (26), are provided in a shell-type wall (39) of the inner chamber (31). The free piston (22) includes a sealing element (53) which seals off the at least one ventilation opening (35) when the sealing element (53) is oppositely situated from the at least one ventilation opening (35), and which in the region of the recess (32) is separated at a distance from the shell-type wall (39) when the sealing element (53) is oppositely situated from the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Hartmann, Alexander John
  • Patent number: 8616301
    Abstract: A pneumatic hammer mechanism is disclosed. The hammer mechanism features: a flying mass, which is movable along an impact axis; an impact surface, which limits a movement of the flying mass along the impact axis in the impact direction; an exciting piston, which limits a movement of the flying mass along the impact axis opposite from the impact direction; a pneumatic chamber between the flying mass and exciting piston; and a drive for periodically moving the exciting piston with a stroke along the impact axis. The flying mass is excited to a periodic movement between the impact surface and a minimum approach of the exciting piston. A length ratio of the maximum length of the pneumatic chamber to the stroke is selected as less than 1.55.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander John, Reinhard Schulz, Eduard Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 7926584
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool (1) includes a linear motor (2) having a rotor (3) which is movable along a percussion axis (A) in an axially limited manner between two reversal points (W) and which can be driven by the striking piston (5) of the power tool with the intermediary of an air spring (4), sensors designed for determining the actual state of the rotor (3) and connected to a computer (9) connected via power electronics (33) to at least one field coil (10) of the linear motor (2), with the rotor (3) being displaced against a contact element (11a, 11b) at least at one reversal point (W) and being pressed against the contact element electromagnetically; and a control process for the hand-held power tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander John, Bernhard Sander, Albert Binder
  • Publication number: 20100300718
    Abstract: The machine tool includes a pneumatic percussion mechanism having a cup-shaped exciter cylinder (21) with an inner chamber (31) which is open in the direction of impact (26), and a free piston (22) which is movable in the inner chamber (31). A recess (32) and at least one ventilation opening (35), spaced at a distance from the recess (32) in the direction of impact (26), are provided in a shell-type wall (39) of the inner chamber (31). The free piston (22) includes a sealing element (53) which seals off the at least one ventilation opening (35) when the sealing element (53) is oppositely situated from the at least one ventilation opening (35), and which in the region of the recess (32) is separated at a distance from the shell-type wall (39) when the sealing element (53) is oppositely situated from the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Hartmann, Alexander John
  • Publication number: 20100224380
    Abstract: A pneumatic hammer mechanism is disclosed. The hammer mechanism features: a flying mass, which is movable along an impact axis; an impact surface, which limits a movement of the flying mass along the impact axis in the impact direction; a hammer piston, which limits a movement of the flying mass along the impact axis opposite from the impact direction; a pneumatic chamber between the flying mass and hammer piston; a drive for periodically moving the hammer piston with a stroke along the impact axis, wherein the flying mass is excited to a periodic movement between the impact surface and hammer piston. The stroke is selected as a function of a maximum length of the pneumatic chamber such that the periodic movement of the flying mass on the path between an impact on the impact surface and a minimum approach of the hammer piston intermittently has a velocity of zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander JOHN, Reinhard Schulz, Eduard Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20100224383
    Abstract: A pneumatic hammer mechanism is disclosed. The hammer mechanism features: a flying mass, which is movable along an impact axis; an impact surface, which limits a movement of the flying mass along the impact axis in the impact direction; a hammer piston, which limits a movement of the flying mass along the impact axis opposite from the impact direction; a pneumatic chamber between the flying mass and hammer piston; and a drive for periodically moving the hammer piston with a stroke along the impact axis. The flying mass is excited to a periodic movement between the impact surface and a minimum approach of the hammer piston. A length ratio of the maximum length of the pneumatic chamber to the stroke is selected as less than 1.55.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander JOHN, Reinhard SCHULZ, Eduard PFEIFFER
  • Publication number: 20100193211
    Abstract: A pneumatic hammer mechanism is disclosed. The hammer mechanism includes: a flying mass; an impact surface which limits a movement of the flying mass along the impact axis in the impact direction; a hammer piston which limits a movement of the flying mass opposite from the impact direction; a pneumatic chamber between the flying mass and hammer piston; and a drive for periodically moving the hammer piston with a stroke along the impact axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander JOHN, Reinhard Schulz, Eduard Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20090065226
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool (1) includes a linear motor (2) having a rotor (3) which is movable along a percussion axis (A) in an axially limited manner between two reversal points (W) and which can be driven by the striking piston (5) of the power tool with the intermediary of an air spring (4), sensors designed for determining the actual state of the rotor (3) and connected to a computer (9) connected via power electronics (33) to at least one field coil (10) of the linear motor (2), with the rotor (3) being displaced against a contact element (11a, 11b) at least at one reversal point (W) and being pressed against the contact element electromagnetically; and a control process for the hand-held power tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventors: Alexander John, Bernhard Sander, Albert Binder
  • Patent number: 7497277
    Abstract: A clamping device connects two, axially harmonically oscillating components which oscillate, as a result of their respective plane surfaces impacting each other with a frequency ? in the form of a stationary longitudinal wave with a distance A between two nodes K. The clamping device includes an axially extending springy gripping yoke having two clamping elements. The two clamping elements are located at opposite ends of the gripping yoke. The two clamping elements are spaced apart from each other by a distance corresponding to the distance A between the two nodes K of the longitudinal wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Sander, Alexander John
  • Publication number: 20080289839
    Abstract: In a method for controlling a drive (4) of an electrically operated screwdriving power tool (2) during a screwdriving process, a tool holder (14) with a screw bit (16) fastened thereto is acted upon by the drive (4) to drive a fastening element (18) having a contact area (24) into a constructional component (20), with the screw bit movable up to a maximum screw-in value (Dmax) at a speed (D) and a operational torque (MA) generated between the screw bit (16) and the fastening element (18), and after it has been detected that a predetermined triggering screw-in depth (s0) has been reached, the speed (D) is reduced from the maximum screw-in value (Dmax) during a tightening process (AV), and, when it has been detected that a determined end value of the operational torque (MA) is reached, the screwdriving process is terminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Peter Hricko, Alexander John, Hans Boeni, Peer Schmidt, Jochen Kuntner
  • Publication number: 20060229132
    Abstract: A clamping device for connecting two, axially harmonically oscillating components which oscillate, as a result of their respective plane surfaces (3a, 3b) impacting each other, with a frequency [omega] in the form of a stationary longitudinal wave (9) with a distance (A) between two nodes (K), includes an axially extending springy gripping yoke (4) having two clamping elements (5a, 5b) provided at its opposite ends and connectable by a spring (6), the two clamping elements (5a, 5b) being spaced from each other by a distance corresponding to the distance (A) between the two nodes (K) of the longitudinal wave (9), being oriented toward respective opposite ends, and forming respective compressible contact surfaces (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Bernhard Sander, Alexander John