Patents by Inventor Andreas SOCHER

Andreas SOCHER 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: 11078930
    Abstract: A hydromechanical linear converter has a cylinder, a piston unit and a seat valve unit. The cylinder and a piston of the piston unit delimit a hydraulic working chamber, into which a working connection and a further fluid connection open, and has a supply connection 10. The valve unit switches between a first position connecting the supply connection to the fluid connection and a second position blocking the fluid connection from the supply connection. The linear converter includes a valve housing with a valve seat 16, a valve body with a valve head cooperating with the seat, a spring unit preloading the valve body into a position corresponding to the first position and an electromagnetic actuator 14 acting on the valve body 12 by purely mechanical action, to move the valve body against the force of the spring unit into a position corresponding to the second switching position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HAWE Altenstadt Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Rauwolf, Josef Ritzl, Andreas Socher
  • Publication number: 20200408227
    Abstract: A hydromechanical linear converter has a cylinder, a piston unit and a seat valve unit. The cylinder and a piston of the piston unit delimit a hydraulic working chamber, into which a working connection and a further fluid connection open, and has a supply connection 10. The valve unit switches between a first position connecting the supply connection to the fluid connection and a second position blocking the fluid connection from the supply connection. The linear converter includes a valve housing with a valve seat 16, a valve body with a valve head cooperating with the seat, a spring unit preloading the valve body into a position corresponding to the first position and an electromagnetic actuator 14 acting on the valve body 12 by purely mechanical action, to move the valve body against the force of the spring unit into a position corresponding to the second switching position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Martin Rauwolf, Josef Ritzl, Andreas Socher
  • Patent number: 10837468
    Abstract: An electrohydraulic drive unit of a machine tool having a tool that can be moved up and down is provided and comprises a double-acting hydraulic cylinder-piston arrangement oriented in upright manner and having a piston projecting downwardly from the cylinder and being coupled with the tool, a valve block flanged to the cylinder at the upper end region thereof and having a servo suction valve, a hydraulic-fluid reservoir flanged to the valve block at a first hydraulic interface and a motor-pump unit having an electric motor and a hydraulic pump driven thereby and flanged to the valve block at a second hydraulic interface. A suction line, extends from the first hydraulic interface to the second hydraulic interface through the valve block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: HOERBIGER AUTOMATISIERUNGSTECHNIK HOLDING GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Rauwolf, Bernhard Russ, Andreas Socher
  • Patent number: 10421246
    Abstract: In a machine press with a lower and an upper tool support, a closed hydraulic drive system acts upon the upper tool support. This system has at least one hydraulic drive unit, which includes at least one hydraulic cylinder-piston unit and at least one hydraulic assembly acting upon this unit and supplied from a storage reservoir. A base pressure above environmental pressure constantly prevails in the storage reservoir. The storage reservoir is designed as a cylinder store with a hydraulic chamber defined by a cylinder and a piston unit displaceably guided therein. The piston unit is acted upon on its side functionally opposite the hydraulic chamber by a hydraulic fluid chamber which for its part is connected to a high-pressure gas store. The active surface of the hydraulic fluid chamber on the piston unit is small compared to the active surface of the hydraulic chamber on the piston unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: HOERBIGER AUTOMATISIERUNGTECHNIK HOLDING GMBH
    Inventors: Manfred Kurz, Andreas Socher, Stefan Guth
  • Publication number: 20190170166
    Abstract: An electrohydraulic drive unit of a machine tool having a tool that can be moved up and down is provided and comprises a double-acting hydraulic cylinder-piston arrangement oriented in upright manner and having a piston projecting downwardly from the cylinder and being coupled with the tool, a valve block flanged to the cylinder at the upper end region thereof and having a servo suction valve, a hydraulic-fluid reservoir flanged to the valve block at a first hydraulic interface and a motor-pump unit having an electric motor and a hydraulic pump driven thereby and flanged to the valve block at a second hydraulic interface. A suction line, extends from the first hydraulic interface to the second hydraulic interface through the valve block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Martin RAUWOLF, Bernhard RUSS, Andreas SOCHER
  • Publication number: 20150107466
    Abstract: In a machine press with a lower and an upper tool support, a closed hydraulic drive system acts upon the upper tool support. This system has at least one hydraulic drive unit, which comprises at least one hydraulic cylinder-piston unit and at least one hydraulic assembly acting upon this unit and supplied from a storage reservoir. A base pressure above environmental pressure constantly prevails in the storage reservoir. The storage reservoir is designed as a cylinder store with a hydraulic chamber defined by a cylinder and a piston unit displaceably guided therein. The piston unit is acted upon on its side functionally opposite the hydraulic chamber by a hydraulic fluid chamber which for its part is connected to a high-pressure gas store. The active surface of the hydraulic fluid chamber on the piston unit is small compared to the active surface of the hydraulic chamber on the piston unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Manfred KURZ, Andreas SOCHER, Stefan GUTH