Patents by Inventor Bernd Bellingrodt

Bernd Bellingrodt 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: 20230383770
    Abstract: A safety valve arrangement includes a fluid distributor to which a first supply valve, a first pilot valve and a first safety valve are assigned. The first supply valve selectively releases or blocks a first supply channel extending in the fluid distributor between a first supply port and a first working port. The first pilot valve selectively releases or blocks a first pilot channel extending in the fluid distributor between a first pilot air inlet and a first pilot air outlet, and the first safety valve selectively releases or blocks a first safety channel which extends between the first working port and a first safety outlet. A first separation channel, which is permanently open to the environment, is located between the first supply channel and the first pilot channel to ensure a fluid separation between the first supply channel and the first pilot channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Bernd BELLINGRODT, Christian BĂ„URLE, Thomas BEYERLEIN
  • Patent number: 11009047
    Abstract: A rotary drive device has a fluid-actuated rotary drive with a drive housing and a drive unit which is rotative relative thereto. The drive unit includes a drive shaft and a pivot piston, non-rotatably arranged thereon, separating two drive chambers from one another. For controlling the fluid-actuated rotary drive, a control valve arrangement including at least one electrically actuatable control valve is provided, which is attached to the drive housing and in this way is combined with the rotary drive to form a drive assembly that can be handled as a single unit. Furthermore, a robot arm is proposed, which has the rotary drive device as an arm joint connecting two arm members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: FESTO SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Simon Markowski, Andreas Weiss, Thomas Beyerlein, Artem Beger, Bernd Bellingrodt, Manuel Rausch, Daniel Bren, Nicole Skrok, Michael Winkler
  • Patent number: 10851812
    Abstract: A rotary drive device has a fluid-actuated rotary drive which has a drive housing and a drive unit rotatable about a main axis relative to the drive housing. The drive unit contains a pivot piston which divides two drive chambers from one another in the interior of the drive housing, which can be supplied with compressed air fluidic pressure medium controlled by a control fluid channel system, in order to cause a rotational movement of the drive unit. The rotary drive is equipped with a pressure detecting device, which enables pressure detection of the fluid pressure prevailing in the two drive chambers by means of pressure detecting channels formed separately with respect to the control fluid channel system. A robot arm is also proposed, which includes the rotary drive device as an arm joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: FESTO SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Beyerlein, Bernd Bellingrodt
  • Publication number: 20190316604
    Abstract: A rotary drive device has a fluid-actuated rotary drive with a drive housing and a drive unit which is rotative relative thereto. The drive unit includes a drive shaft and a pivot piston, non-rotatably arranged thereon, separating two drive chambers from one another. For controlling the fluid-actuated rotary drive, a control valve arrangement including at least one electrically actuatable control valve is provided, which is attached to the drive housing and in this way is combined with the rotary drive to form a drive assembly that can be handled as a single unit. Furthermore, a robot arm is proposed, which has the rotary drive device as an arm joint connecting two arm members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Simon Markowski, Andreas Weiss, Thomas Beyerlein, Artem Beger, Bernd Bellingrodt, Manuel Rausch, Daniel Bren, Nicole Skrok, Michael Winkler
  • Publication number: 20190316609
    Abstract: A rotary drive device has a fluid-actuated rotary drive which has a drive housing and a drive unit rotatable about a main axis relative to the drive housing. The drive unit contains a pivot piston which divides two drive chambers from one another in the interior of the drive housing, which can be supplied with compressed air fluidic pressure medium controlled by a control fluid channel system, in order to cause a rotational movement of the drive unit. The rotary drive is equipped with a pressure detecting device, which enables pressure detection of the fluid pressure prevailing in the two drive chambers by means of pressure detecting channels formed separately with respect to the control fluid channel system. A robot arm is also proposed, which includes the rotary drive device as an arm joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Beyerlein, Bernd Bellingrodt