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).

  • Publication number: 20100018734
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2006
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
  • Patent number: 7644929
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Otto Baumann, Rolf Mueller, Heinz Schnerring, Dietmar Saur, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle, Thomas Bernhardt, Uwe Engelfried
  • Patent number: 7628219
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Gerhard Meixner, Axel Kuhnle, Andreas Strasser, Erhard Hoffmann, Dietmar Hahn, Andreas Heilmann, Ulrich Single
  • Publication number: 20090294144
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Gerhard Meixner, Heiko Roehm, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle, Andreas Strasser, Ralph Dammertz, Joachim Schadow, Christian Koepf, Juergen Lennartz
  • Publication number: 20090120658
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventors: Axel Kuhnle, Karl Frauhammer, Willy Braun
  • Publication number: 20090068936
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Axel Kuhnle, Justus Lamprecht, Joerg Lemmel, Steffen Tiede, Ulrich Bohne, Dietmar Saur
  • Publication number: 20080303358
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Inventors: Axel Kuhnle, Willy Braun
  • Patent number: 7360606
    Abstract: 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 p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dietmar Saur, Axel Kuhnle, Helmut Wanek
  • Publication number: 20070295522
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Ulrich Bohne, Justus Lamprecht, Juergen Wiker, Dietmar Saur, Axel Kuhnle, Steffen Tiede, Joerg Lemmel, Joachim Schadow, Thomas Schomisch, Joerg Maute
  • Patent number: 7303026
    Abstract: 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 associated
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
  • Patent number: 7258349
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
  • Publication number: 20070096404
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2005
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Otto Baumann, Rolf Mueller, Heinz Schnerring, Dietmar Saur, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle, Thomas Bernhardt, Uwe Engelfried
  • Patent number: 7137457
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Gerhard Meixner, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
  • Patent number: 7121359
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Gerhard Meixner, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
  • Publication number: 20060185867
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Gerhard Meixner, Heiko Roehm, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle, Andreas Strasser, Ralph Dammertz, Joachim Schadow, Christian Koepf, Juergen Lennartz
  • Publication number: 20060188184
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
  • Patent number: 7028786
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Kuhnle, Helmut Wanek
  • Publication number: 20060000627
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
  • Publication number: 20050281687
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2005
    Publication date: December 22, 2005
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
  • Publication number: 20050269116
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2003
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Gerhard Meixner, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle