Patents by Inventor Axel Kuhnle
Axel Kuhnle 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).
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Publication number: 20100018734Abstract: The invention relates to an electric machine tool comprising a device body (10) that is disposed in a housing (11) and a handle (12) in which a switch (13) is arranged. Said switch (13) is indirectly connected to a switching element (14) located in the device body (10) in order to actuate an electric on/off switch (15).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2006Publication date: January 28, 2010Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
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Patent number: 7644929Abstract: A very easy-to-actuate, replaceable tool fitting is comprised in that at least one movably supported profiled body (15) on an output spindle (1) or on the tool fitting (11) of the hand-held power tool and at least one profiled recess (7) on the output spindle (1) or on the tool fitting (11) are shaped and situated in such a way that when the tool fitting (11) is slid onto the output spindle (1), the at least one profiled body (15) engages in detent fashion in the at least one profiled recess (7), achieving both an axial locking and a rotary driving of the tool fitting (11) in relation to the output spindle (1) and means (6, 8, 14) are provided, which, through a rotating and sliding motion of the tool fitting (11) on the output spindle (1), guide the profiled body (15) into the profiled recess (7).Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2005Date of Patent: January 12, 2010Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Karl Frauhammer, Otto Baumann, Rolf Mueller, Heinz Schnerring, Dietmar Saur, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle, Thomas Bernhardt, Uwe Engelfried
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Patent number: 7628219Abstract: A handle for an electric hand tool, which in use, is detachably connected to the hand tool as an auxiliary handle (2), includes at least one detection device (6), which communicates with at least one regulating and/or control element in the electric hand tool through a contactless signal transmission device.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2004Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Karl Frauhammer, Gerhard Meixner, Axel Kuhnle, Andreas Strasser, Erhard Hoffmann, Dietmar Hahn, Andreas Heilmann, Ulrich Single
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Publication number: 20090294144Abstract: A hand-held power tool has a main element; a main handle fastened to the main element, the main handle being supported such that the main handle is movable relative to the main element, the main element including a tool fitting that defines a tool axis and the center of gravity that defines a normal direction oriented perpendicular to the tool axis and pointing toward the center of gravity, the main element being moved out of a stationary position toward the main handle so that a portion of at least 10% by weight of the main element is guided with a movement component in the normal direction along a trajectory.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Gerhard Meixner, Heiko Roehm, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle, Andreas Strasser, Ralph Dammertz, Joachim Schadow, Christian Koepf, Juergen Lennartz
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Publication number: 20090120658Abstract: A portable power tool, particularly a hammer drill and/or chipping hammer, comprising a main element (12) which is provided with a tool axis (30), a center of gravity (32) and a normal axis (34) extending perpendicularly to the tool axis (30) and through the center of gravity (32), wherein the tool axis (30) and the normal axis (34) define a plane of movement, comprising a handle (14), which is mounted displaceably relative to the main element (12) in the plane of movement, and comprising a spring unit (46) connecting the handle (14) to the main element (12), the unit being provided with at least one spring element (48). It is proposed to provide the spring unit (46) so as to define at least substantially a path of movement (110) for at least a portion of the handle (14) in the plane of movement when a load (102) occurs that prompts the handle (14) to leave an idle position and approach the idle main element (12).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2007Publication date: May 14, 2009Inventors: Axel Kuhnle, Karl Frauhammer, Willy Braun
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Publication number: 20090068936Abstract: The invention relates to a hand-held electric power tool comprising at least one driven rotating part (3) that is mounted in at least one bearing (7, 13). According to the invention, the rotating part (3) is vibrationally decoupled from the bearing (7, 13).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2007Publication date: March 12, 2009Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Axel Kuhnle, Justus Lamprecht, Joerg Lemmel, Steffen Tiede, Ulrich Bohne, Dietmar Saur
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Publication number: 20080303358Abstract: The invention is based on an electrical power tool with an electrical machine, having a motor housing that receives the electrical machine and having a rotatable brush plate for reversing a direction of rotation of the electrical machine. The brush plate is covered in its cross section by a pivotable cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2008Publication date: December 11, 2008Inventors: Axel Kuhnle, Willy Braun
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Patent number: 7360606Abstract: A hand power tool has a striking element via which a tool (10) in a tool holder (12) can be driven in striking fashion, which the tool holder can be detachably secured—via its body (14)—to a drive part (16) via at least one locking element (18), which the locking element, in its engaged position, is capable of being fixed in position radially by a retaining element (20), which the retaining element is capable of being automatically guided by means of an operating element (22) out of its locked position into a release position that radially releases the locking element (18) in order to release the tool holder (12), whereby the retaining element (20) is capable of being moved by a corresponding component (14) into its release position against a spring force of a spring element (24) when the tool holder (12) is pushed onto the drive part (18), wherein the retaining element (20) is captively held on the drive part (16) and is capable of being guided into its release position by the operating element (22) in the pType: GrantFiled: September 6, 2001Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Dietmar Saur, Axel Kuhnle, Helmut Wanek
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Publication number: 20070295522Abstract: In a hand power tool having a housing which at least in part comprises an inner housing and an outer housing, and in which the inner housing and the outer housing are spaced apart from one another, at least one damping element is provided between the inner housing and the outer housing, so that the inner housing and the outer housing are decoupled from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2007Publication date: December 27, 2007Inventors: Ulrich Bohne, Justus Lamprecht, Juergen Wiker, Dietmar Saur, Axel Kuhnle, Steffen Tiede, Joerg Lemmel, Joachim Schadow, Thomas Schomisch, Joerg Maute
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Patent number: 7303026Abstract: A hand power tool has a housing, and drive motor accommodated in the housing, a tool receptacle in which a tool is guided, a gear mechanism, a driving gear, and rotary sleeve arranged so that via the gear mechanism, the driving gear, and the rotary sleeve the tool receptacle is drivable in rotation, a crank drive mechanism and a hammering mechanism located inside the rotary sleeve so that the tool receptacle is drivable through the crank drive mechanism and the hammering mechanism translationally, and a safety coupling provided between the driving gear wheel and the rotary sleeve and formed so that the safety coupling separates if a limit torque is exceeded, the safety coupling being formed as an overlock coupling seated on the rotary sleeve and having two axially adjacent coupling parts that mesh in a form-locked manner by torque-transmitting transmission elements and are overlockable if the limit torque is exceeded counter to an axially acting elastic force, one of the coupling parts being a part associatedType: GrantFiled: May 23, 2005Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Karl Frauhammer, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
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Patent number: 7258349Abstract: A hand power tool selected from the group consisting of a drill hammer and an impact hammer has an exchangeable tool holder, a guide pipe which receives the tool holder at its free end, a locking device arranged on the guide pipe and operative manually for fixing the tool holder on the guide pipe in a defined locking position assumed by the tool holder on the guide pipe, so that the locking position is arranged before a mounting position in a displacement direction of the tool holder, in which mounting position the tool holder is held unlocked on the guide pipe, the locking device being provided with means activatable by a release of the locking device and providing a displacement of the tool holder to the mounting position.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2004Date of Patent: August 21, 2007Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Karl Frauhammer, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
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Publication number: 20070096404Abstract: A very easy-to-actuate, replaceable tool fitting is comprised in that at least one movably supported profiled body (15) on an output spindle (1) or on the tool fitting (11) of the hand-held power tool and at least one profiled recess (7) on the output spindle (1) or on the tool fitting (11) are shaped and situated in such a way that when the tool fitting (11) is slid onto the output spindle (1), the at least one profiled body (15) engages in detent fashion in the at least one profiled recess (7), achieving both an axial locking and a rotary driving of the tool fitting (11) in relation to the output spindle (1) and means (6, 8, 14) are provided, which, through a rotating and sliding motion of the tool fitting (11) on the output spindle (1), guide the profiled body (15) into the profiled recess (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2005Publication date: May 3, 2007Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Otto Baumann, Rolf Mueller, Heinz Schnerring, Dietmar Saur, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle, Thomas Bernhardt, Uwe Engelfried
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Patent number: 7137457Abstract: A hand power tool, in particular a drill hammer or jackhammer, is disclosed, which has a guide tube (11), a tool holder (24) that can be attached interchangeably to the guide tube (11), and a locking device (23) that locks the tool holder (24) to the guide tube (11), the locking device being manually releasable by means of an axial displacement of a slide sleeve (34) oriented away from the tool holder (24). To achieve a compact connection construction, which is economical in production terms, between the interchangeable tool holder (24) and the hand power tool, the tool holder (24) is embodied as insertable by an end portion (241) into a guide portion (111) embodied on the front end of the guide tube (11), in the inner wall thereof (FIG. 1).Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2004Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Karl Frauhammer, Gerhard Meixner, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
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Patent number: 7121359Abstract: The present invention relates to a drilling hammer comprising a hammer tube (13) that is rotationally drivable inside a housing (10), a striking tool (14) located in the hammer tube (13) and provided with a piston (15) that can driven with a reciprocating motion, and an operating mode change-over switch (35) for the “impact drilling” and “chiseling” operating modes. The hammer tube (13) is decoupled from its rotary drive when in the “impact drilling” operating mode and is secured in the housing (10) in a non-rotative manner when in the “chiseling” operating mode.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2003Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Karl Frauhammer, Gerhard Meixner, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
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Publication number: 20060185867Abstract: A hand-held power tool has a main element; a main handle fastened to the main element, the main handle being supported such that the main handle is movable relative to the main element, the main element including a tool fitting that defines a tool axis and the center of gravity that defines a normal direction oriented perpendicular to the tool axis and pointing toward the center of gravity, the main element being moved out of a stationary position toward the main handle so that a portion of at least 10% by weight of the main element is guided with a movement component in the normal direction along a trajectory.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2006Publication date: August 24, 2006Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Gerhard Meixner, Heiko Roehm, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle, Andreas Strasser, Ralph Dammertz, Joachim Schadow, Christian Koepf, Juergen Lennartz
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Publication number: 20060188184Abstract: A housing has at least one housing shell enclosing an interior space and having two edges abutting each other at least one butt seam extending axially along a longitudinal axis, and first and second retaining elements provided on either side of said butt seam and acting on a particular side of the at least one housing shell on both sides of the butt seam with a force that is directed substantially radially toward the interior space.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2005Publication date: August 24, 2006Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
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Patent number: 7028786Abstract: A hand power tool has a housing (10), a hammer barrel (12), a tool receptacle (14) that is separated from the hammer barrel (12) at least one locking body (16) for fixing the tool receptacle (14) in a direction of rotation (18), a transmission unit (20) arranged radially outwardly of the tool receptacle (14) for transmitting a torque from the tool receptacle (14) radially outwardly and fixing the tool receptacle (14) in the direction of rotation (18) of the tool receptacle (14) on the housing (10), one part of the transmission unit (20) being formed by an actuating sleeve (28), the transmission unit (20) having a claw ring (30) which is separate from the actuating sleeve (28) and the tool receptacle (14) being connected through the claw ring (30) with the actuating sleeve (28) in the direction of rotation (18).Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2002Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Axel Kuhnle, Helmut Wanek
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Publication number: 20060000627Abstract: A device for a hand machine tool equipped with a hammer mechanism has a housing having an inner shell and an outer shell, which the inner shell and the outer shell are of one piece with each other at least in a subregion to be associated with the hammer mechanism; and also a hand machine tool is provided with such a device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2005Publication date: January 5, 2006Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
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Publication number: 20050281687Abstract: In a bearing device equipped with a fastening element for rotatably supporting a drive shaft of a hand tool unit, the fastening element has a heat conducting structure for conveying heat from a bearing region of the fastening element into a ventilation region of said bearing element, and in a fan apparatus provided with a fan impeller for cooling a drive unit of a machine tool the fan impeller is provided to cool a heat conducting structure which conveys heat from a bearing region of the hand machine tool into a ventilation region of the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2005Publication date: December 22, 2005Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
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Publication number: 20050269116Abstract: The present invention relates to a drilling hammer comprising a hammer tube (13) that is rotationally drivable inside a housing (10), a striking tool (14) located in the hammer tube (13) and provided with a piston (15) that can driven with a reciprocating motion, and an operating mode change-over switch (35) for the “impact drilling” and “chiseling” operating modes. The hammer tube (13) is decoupled from its rotary drive when in the “impact drilling” operating mode and is secured in the housing (10) in a non-rotative manner when in the “chiseling” operating mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2003Publication date: December 8, 2005Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Gerhard Meixner, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle