Patents by Inventor Bernhard LAENG
Bernhard LAENG 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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Patent number: 12088033Abstract: An electrical plug forms an electrical plug connection to a coupling that is complementary to the plug. The electrical plug includes a plurality of metal contact elements for electrically contacting an electrical apparatus arranged in a housing, a contact carrier element and a receiving element for receiving the coupling in a receiving space surrounded by the receiving element. The receiving element can be introduced into the housing in a first direction through an opening in the housing. The receiving element, to form the plug, can be brought into engagement in the first direction with the contact carrier element, the contact elements being guided through the contact carrier element and having contact regions which, when the receiving element has been brought into engagement with the contact carrier element, extend into the receiving space, away from the contact carrier element, counter to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Bucher Hydraulics AGInventors: Bernhard Laeng, Thomas Huber
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Patent number: 12062934Abstract: A system includes a first, particularly mobile, unit which has a number m of function terminals, a first potential equalization terminal, which is intended to be galvanically connected to a reference potential, an energy source, a power converter, which is fed from the energy source and produces a number m of signals, a switching unit, the signals produced by the power converter being fed to the input side of the switching unit, and the output side of the switching unit being connected to the function terminals, or the input side of the switching unit being connected to the energy source and the output side of the switching unit being connected to the power converter, an insulation monitoring unit, which detects an undesired galvanic connection of a component of the system to the reference potential, and a connection monitoring unit, which monitors whether the first potential equalization terminal is properly electrically connected to a corresponding potential equalization terminal of a second unit to be connType: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: Bucher Hydraulics AGInventors: Alex Itten, Bernhard Laeng, Matthias Thurn, Peter Bode
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Patent number: 11791089Abstract: A coil component includes a cup, a magnetic core, an electric conductor wound around the core, a cover, which closes the cup, and electric terminal contacts, which are in electric contact with ends of the electric conductor. The core and the electric conductor are arranged in the cup and the cup is filled with potting compound.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Schmidhauser AGInventors: Christof Schneggenburger, Dirk Schekulin, Bernhard Laeng, Silvia Gross-Kaeufler, Tobias Diefenbacher
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Publication number: 20230104950Abstract: A system includes a first, particularly mobile, unit which has a number m of function terminals, a first potential equalization terminal, which is intended to be galvanically connected to a reference potential, an energy source, a power converter, which is fed from the energy source and produces a number m of signals, a switching unit, the signals produced by the power converter being fed to the input side of the switching unit, and the output side of the switching unit being connected to the function terminals, or the input side of the switching unit being connected to the energy source and the output side of the switching unit being connected to the power converter, an insulation monitoring unit, which detects an undesired galvanic connection of a component of the system to the reference potential, and a connection monitoring unit, which monitors whether the first potential equalization terminal is properly electrically connected to a corresponding potential equalization terminal of a second unit to be connType: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventors: Alex ITTEN, Bernhard LAENG, Matthias THURN, Peter BODE
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Publication number: 20230058430Abstract: A power converter, includes: a first terminal, a second terminal, a third terminal and a fourth terminal; stored-energy-source terminals, to which a stored energy source can be connected; four inverter bridge branches, which are formed from semiconductor switching devices, the inverter bridge branches each having a center tap, each center tap being assigned to one of the terminals, and the inverter bridge branches being interconnected and controllable such that electrical energy can be transferred bidirectionally between the stored-energy-source terminals and the first terminal, the second terminal, the third terminal and/or the fourth terminal; and a control unit, which is designed to control the semiconductor switching devices of the inverter bridge branches.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Alex ITTEN, Dirk SCHEKULIN, Bernhard LAENG, Christof SCHNEGGENBURGER, Benjamin FAESSLER
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Patent number: 11569677Abstract: A charging system has: a number of connections for connecting at least one electric energy store to be charged; a number n of at least three inverter bridges, each of which has a center tap; a number n of electric filters, wherein the input of each filter of the number n of filters is electrically connected to a respective corresponding center tap of an inverter bridge of the number of inverter bridges; a controllable assigning unit which is inserted between a respective output of a filter of the number n of filters and the number of connections and which is designed to electrically assign the output of each filter of the number n of filters to a respective corresponding connection of the number of connections depending on at least one actuation signal; and a control unit which is designed to generate the at least one actuation signal depending on a desired charge mode of the charging system.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Bucher Hydraulics AGInventors: Bernhard Laeng, Alex Itten, Benjamin Faessler
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Patent number: 11369046Abstract: An electrical controller includes a housing, wherein the housing has cooling air openings on two different housing sides. A heat sink is arranged inside the housing, in particular so as to be protected against contact, and forms a cooling air channel, wherein the cooling air channel runs between the cooling air openings of the different housing sides. An electrically insulating holding element is designed to mechanically fix the heat sink inside the housing in a manner electrically insulated from the housing. A number of components to be cooled are provided, wherein the components are thermally conductively coupled to the heat sink and are held by the heat sink.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Lenze Automation GmbHInventors: Christof Schneggenburger, Bernhard Laeng, Alex Itten, Tobias Diefenbacher
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Publication number: 20220069506Abstract: An electrical plug forms an electrical plug connection to a coupling that is complementary to the plug. The electrical plug includes a plurality of metal contact elements for electrically contacting an electrical apparatus arranged in a housing, a contact carrier element and a receiving element for receiving the coupling in a receiving space surrounded by the receiving element. The receiving element can be introduced into the housing in a first direction through an opening in the housing. The receiving element, to form the plug, can be brought into engagement in the first direction with the contact carrier element, the contact elements being guided through the contact carrier element and having contact regions which, when the receiving element has been brought into engagement with the contact carrier element, extend into the receiving space, away from the contact carrier element, counter to the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2019Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: SCHMIDHAUSER AGInventors: Bernhard Laeng, Thomas Huber
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Publication number: 20210410325Abstract: An electrical controller includes a housing, wherein the housing has cooling air openings on two different housing sides. A heat sink is arranged inside the housing, in particular so as to be protected against contact, and forms a cooling air channel, wherein the cooling air channel runs between the cooling air openings of the different housing sides. An electrically insulating holding element is designed to mechanically fix the heat sink inside the housing in a manner electrically insulated from the housing. A number of components to be cooled are provided, wherein the components are thermally conductively coupled to the heat sink and are held by the heat sink.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2018Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Christof SCHNEGGENBURGER, Bernhard LAENG, Alex ITTEN, Tobias DIEFENBACHER
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Publication number: 20210118609Abstract: A coil component includes a cup, a magnetic core, an electric conductor wound around the core, a cover, which closes the cup, and electric terminal contacts, which are in electric contact with ends of the electric conductor. The core and the electric conductor are arranged in the cup and the cup is filled with potting compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2018Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Christof SCHNEGGENBURGER, Dirk SCHEKULIN, Bernhard LAENG, Silvia GROSS-KAEUFLER, Tobias DIEFENBACHER
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Publication number: 20210066954Abstract: A charging system has: a number of connections for connecting at least one electric reference energy store to be charged; a number n of at least three inverter bridges, each of which has a center tap; a number n of electric filters, wherein the input of each filter of the number n of filters is electrically connected to a respective corresponding center tap of an inverter bridge of the number of inverter bridges; a controllable assigning unit which is inserted between a respective output of a filter of the number n of filters and the number of connections and which is designed to electrically assign the output of each filter of the number n of filters to a respective corresponding connection of the number of connections depending on at least one actuation signal; and a control unit which is designed to generate the at least one actuation signal depending on a desired charge mode of the charging system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Bernhard LAENG, Alex ITTEN, Benjamin FAESSLER
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Patent number: 10530147Abstract: A control device for an electrical device such as an electric motor is provided. The control device is designed to, when necessary, bring about a safe, torque-free state of an electric motor, in particular a field-weakened electric motor. The control device includes a safety unit which is designed to generate safety control signals.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2014Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Schmidhauser AGInventors: Alex Itten, Bernhard Laeng
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Publication number: 20160261107Abstract: A control device for an electrical device such as an electric motor is provided. The control device is designed to, when necessary, bring about a safe, torque-free state of an electric motor, in particular a field-weakened electric motor. The control device includes a safety unit which is designed to generate safety control signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2014Publication date: September 8, 2016Inventors: Alex ITTEN, Bernhard LAENG