Patents by Inventor André VAAS

André VAAS 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: 11960265
    Abstract: A method adapts an apparatus to a motor-driven tool from a set of different types of motor-driven tools. The apparatus is arranged on the tool. The method has the steps of: capturing an identifier of the tool by way of the apparatus, and transmitting an item of type-specific configuration information from a database to the apparatus on the basis of the captured identifier in such a manner that the apparatus is designed to process operating data of the tool in a type-specific manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Kaiser, Andre Vaas, Kay-Steffen Gurr
  • Publication number: 20220368147
    Abstract: A power tool has a first electrical energy store and an operating data detection device for detecting operating data of the power tool. The operating data detection device includes an integrated circuit for wirelessly transmitting detected operating data. The power tool has a second electrical energy store, wherein the integrated circuit can be supplied from the first electrical energy store or from the second electrical energy store. The power tool has a circuit for reducing the rate of voltage rise, which circuit is designed to reduce a rate of voltage rise of a supply voltage of the integrated circuit when the supply of the integrated circuit from the second energy store is switched over to the first energy store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Andre VAAS, Michael KAISER, Hendrik Alexander BORNHOEFFT, Juri LESCHENKO
  • Patent number: 11276889
    Abstract: A device for capturing operating data of a motor-driven tool includes a capture and/or evaluation device, an operating data memory, and/or a communication interface. These components draw electric power from an electrochemical energy store during operation. An operating mode control device operates the components at a temperature above a temperature limit value in a normal temperature operating mode and at a temperature equal to or below the temperature limit value in a low temperature operating mode different from the normal mode, wherein less electric power is drawn in the low temperature operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co., KG
    Inventors: Kay-Steffen Gurr, Andre Vaas
  • Publication number: 20210157505
    Abstract: A device records operating data of a motorized tool. The device is arranged on the tool, wherein the device has: a recording and/or evaluation device, wherein the recording and/or evaluation device is designed to record at least one variable, wherein the variable is dependent on an operating state of the tool, and to evaluate the recorded variable in order to identify the operating data, and/or to record the operating data. An operating data memory is provided, wherein the operating data memory is designed to store the identified and/or recorded operating data. A communication interface is designed, in a state connected to an external appliance, to wirelessly transmit the stored operating data thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Michael KAISER, André VAAS, Kay-Steffen GURR, Michael GRAMM
  • Publication number: 20210157297
    Abstract: A method adapts an apparatus to a motor-driven tool from a set of different types of motor-driven tools. The apparatus is arranged on the tool. The method has the steps of: capturing an identifier of the tool by way of the apparatus, and transmitting an item of type-specific configuration information from a database to the apparatus on the basis of the captured identifier in such a manner that the apparatus is designed to process operating data of the tool in a type-specific manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Michael KAISER, Andre VAAS, Kay-Steffen GURR
  • Patent number: 10845435
    Abstract: A device registers an On state of a drive motor of a tool. A changing magnetic flux is produced in the On state of the drive motor. First and second peak hold detectors generate upper and lower peak signals from induced voltage output signals. An evaluation device is configured to form a difference from the generated upper peak signal and the generated lower peak signal, and compare the formed difference with an adjustable threshold value in order to determine the On state of the drive motor when the threshold value is reached or exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kay-Steffen Gurr, Andre Vaas, Rudolf Saemann, Marc Saemann
  • Publication number: 20190339338
    Abstract: A device registers an On state of a drive motor of a tool. A changing magnetic flux is produced in the On state of the drive motor. First and second peak hold detectors generate upper and lower peak signals from induced voltage output signals. An evaluation device is configured to form a difference from the generated upper peak signal and the generated lower peak signal, and compare the formed difference with an adjustable threshold value in order to determine the On state of the drive motor when the threshold value is reached or exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Kay-Steffen Gurr, Andre Vaas, Rudolf Saemann, Marc Saemann
  • Publication number: 20190341660
    Abstract: A device for capturing operating data of a motor-driven tool includes a capture and/or evaluation device, an operating data memory, and/or a communication interface. These components draw electric power from an electrochemical energy store during operation. An operating mode control device operates the components at a temperature above a temperature limit value in a normal temperature operating mode and at a temperature equal to or below the temperature limit value in a low temperature operating mode different from the normal mode, wherein less electric power is drawn in the low temperature operating mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Kay-Steffen GURR, Andre VAAS
  • Publication number: 20190272683
    Abstract: A device identifies operating data of a motor-driven tool. The device includes an identifying and/or evaluating device, an operating data memory unit, a communication interface, a housing, and an elastic element. The housing accommodates an electrical energy storage device and has an open and closed condition. In the open condition, the electrical energy storage device is insertable or removable. In the closed condition, the elastic element is configured to fix the electrical energy storage device by applying pressure along the insertion and removal direction of the energy storage device. The force amounts to a value of the mass of the storage device multiplied by at minimum 1 N per g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Kay-Steffen GURR, André VAAS, Cornelius GINDELE, Thomas HILT, Johannes MENZEL, Uwe FRIES