Patents by Inventor Carsten Sauerbier

Carsten Sauerbier 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: 20250001220
    Abstract: A portable tool, such as a spreader tool, cutting tool or combination spreading/cutting tool is for mobile use. The tool has an electric motor, a rechargeable battery received on the tool, a mechanically or hydraulically driven, displaceable piston rod for performing spreading and/or cutting and/or lifting or pressing. An electronic control and regulation unit controls/regulates the electric motor, such as a brushless DC motor. The electronic control and regulation unit specifies a first operating mode in which the electric motor is operated at a first frequency, and a second operating mode in which the electric motor is operated at a second frequency. The operating mode is switchable by an operator of the tool using a manually operable switch between the first and the second operating modes. The rotational speed of a three-phase current electric motor is higher at the second frequency than at the first frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Carsten SAUERBIER, Uwe kIRCHNER
  • Patent number: 12042677
    Abstract: A portable tool, such as a spreader tool, cutting tool or combination spreading/cutting tool is for mobile use. The tool has an electric motor, a rechargeable battery received on the tool, a mechanically or hydraulically driven, displaceable piston rod for performing spreading and/or cutting and/or lifting or pressing. An electronic control and regulation unit controls/regulates the electric motor, such as a brushless DC motor. The electronic control and regulation unit specifies a first operating mode in which the electric motor is operated at a first frequency, and a second operating mode in which the electric motor is operated at a second frequency. The operating mode is switchable by an operator of the tool using a manually operable switch between the first and the second operating modes. The rotational speed of a three-phase current electric motor is higher at the second frequency than at the first frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: LUKAS HYDRAULIK GMBH
    Inventors: Carsten Sauerbier, Uwe Kirchner
  • Patent number: 11911639
    Abstract: A mobile portable tool, such as a spreading device, cutting device or combined device with cutting and spreading function includes a housing. An electric motor is located in the housing. The tool includes a rechargeable battery or a connection to an external electrical energy source. The tool is a mechanically or hydraulically driven and has a displaceable piston rod spreading and/or cutting and/or lifting and/or pressing work. An electronic open-loop and closed-loop control unit controls the electric motor and includes a printed circuit board and control cables with a connector for transporting control signals. For under water operation while still having a simple design, the electric motor is a brushless direct-current motor. The electronic components of the printed circuit board are enclosed by a potting compound to prevent water entering, and the connector of the control cable is protected against the ingress of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LUKAS HYDRAULIK GMBH
    Inventors: Carsten Sauerbier, Thomas Littwin
  • Patent number: 11794041
    Abstract: A method for operating an electromechanical or electrohydraulic working device or rescue device is performed by an operator person and can be used autonomously. The working/rescue device includes a cutting tool having two cutting tool halves movable toward and away from one another and define a virtual cutting plane by their movement. The working/rescues device includes a housing, an electric motor; a pump or mechanical transmission, each driven by the electric motor for actuating the tool insert. An exchangeable rechargeable electrical energy source is in/on a device side of the working/rescue device and includes a housing. During operation of the working/rescue device, orientation of the working/rescue device is sensed and the relationship between the angular position of the working/rescue device cutting plane and the force applied by the cutting tool to the object to be cut is established and the working/rescue device is controlled in dependence on the relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: LUKAS HYDRAULIK GMBH
    Inventors: Carsten Sauerbier, Uwe Kirchner
  • Patent number: 11738222
    Abstract: A control device for operating a fire extinguisher system includes at least one hose (3) having an extinguisher nozzle (4) arranged at the end of the hose (3) to be operated by an operator for releasing a pressurized extinguishing fluid. A conveying pump (5) conveys the pressurized extinguishing fluid in the hose (3) towards the extinguisher nozzle (4). A first supply line (7) connects the conveying pump (5) to a tank (8) of a fire extinguisher device, such as a fire extinguisher vehicle (1). A second supply line (9) connects the conveying pump (5) to a stationary extinguishing fluid source (2). A multi-port switch valve (10) connects upstream of the conveying pump (5), proximate the first supply line (7) and second supply line (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: IDEX EUROPE GMBH
    Inventors: Uwe Kirchner, Carsten Sauerbier
  • Publication number: 20230067110
    Abstract: A mobile safety device (1) is for rescuing at least one person at risk of falling. The safety device includes a support device (2) in the form of a jumping cushion, jumping sheet, platform, base plate or stretcher for receiving and transporting the person at risk of falling. A positioning device (3) locally positions the support device (2) at the location of the person at risk of falling. At least one unmanned, remote-controlled drone (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) is provided as the positioning device (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventor: Carsten SAUERBIER
  • Publication number: 20220001215
    Abstract: A mobile portable tool, such as a spreading device, cutting device or combined device with cutting and spreading function includes a housing. An electric motor is located in the housing. The tool includes a rechargeable battery or a connection to an external electrical energy source. The tool is a mechanically or hydraulically driven and has a displaceable piston rod spreading and/or cutting and/or lifting and/or pressing work. An electronic open-loop and closed-loop control unit controls the electric motor and includes a printed circuit board and control cables with a connector for transporting control signals. For under water operation while still having a simple design, the electric motor is a brushless direct-current motor. The electronic components of the printed circuit board are enclosed by a potting compound to prevent water entering, and the connector of the control cable is protected against the ingress of water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Carsten SAUERBIER, Thomas LITTWIN
  • Publication number: 20210402219
    Abstract: A method for operating an electromechanical or electrohydraulic working device or rescue device is performed by an operator person and can be used autonomously. The working/rescue device includes a cutting tool having two cutting tool halves movable toward and away from one another and define a virtual cutting plane by their movement. The working/rescues device includes a housing; an electric motor; a pump or mechanical transmission, each driven by the electric motor for actuating the tool insert. An exchangeable rechargeable electrical energy source is in/on a device side of the working/rescue device and includes a housing. During operation of the working/rescue device, orientation of the working/rescue device is sensed and the relationship between the angular position of the working/rescue device cutting plane and the force applied by the cutting tool to the object to be cut is established and the working/rescue device is controlled in dependence on the relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: LUKAS Hydraulik GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten SAUERBIER, Uwe KIRCHNER
  • Publication number: 20210252316
    Abstract: A portable tool, such as a spreader tool, cutting tool or combination spreading/cutting tool is for mobile use. The tool has an electric motor, a rechargeable battery received on the tool, a mechanically or hydraulically driven, displaceable piston rod for performing spreading and/or cutting and/or lifting or pressing. An electronic control and regulation unit controls/regulates the electric motor, such as a brushless DC motor. The electronic control and regulation unit specifies a first operating mode in which the electric motor is operated at a first frequency, and a second operating mode in which the electric motor is operated at a second frequency. The operating mode is switchable by an operator of the tool using a manually operable switch between the first and the second operating modes. The rotational speed of a three-phase current electric motor is higher at the second frequency than at the first frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: LUKAS Hydraulik GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten SAUERBIER, Uwe KIRCHNER
  • Patent number: 11000713
    Abstract: A method is for operating an electromechanical or electrohydraulic work appliance or rescue appliance that can be carried and used by an operator, having a movable tool insert, a spreading tool or a lifting tool, a housing, an electric motor, a pump or a mechanical transmission driven by the electric motor, for actuating the tool insert. The appliance has an exchangeable, rechargeable appliance electrical energy source, having a housing in or on the rescue appliance. During operation of the appliance, operating data of the appliance and/or of the energy source are acquired and transferred into a data carrier or data storage device in the electrical energy source. The electrical energy source is removed from the appliance and connected to a charging device. The operating data stored in the data carrier or storage device of the electrical energy source are read by the charging device and transferred to a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: LUKAS Hydraulik GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Sauerbier, Tammy Horne, Ian Cuba, William J. Brown, Nick Ramirez, Uwe Kirchner
  • Publication number: 20210128961
    Abstract: A control device operates a fire extinguisher system. The system includes a hose having an extinguisher nozzle arranged at the end of the hose for releasing pressurized extinguishing fluid. A conveying pump pressurized conveying of the extinguishing fluid towards the extinguisher nozzle. A first supply line connects the conveying pump to a tank of a fire extinguisher vehicle. A second supply line connects the conveying pump to stationary extinguishing fluid source. A controller is positioned at a distance from the extinguisher nozzle and functions as an operations center. A control line runs along the hose to the nozzle end of the hose. A radio device connected to the control line converts signals from the control line into radio signals and outputting the signals. An operator carried portable radio device receives radio signals output by the radio device. An operator carried display displays information based on the transmitted radio signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: IDEX Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten SAUERBIER, Uwe KIRCHNER
  • Patent number: 10967444
    Abstract: A shear blade (2) is for a portable hydraulic cutting device, such as a rescue device having a blade body (9). The blade body (9) has an assembly region (18) and a cutting region (15), a cutting edge (16) in the cutting region (15), a contact surface (13), located on one side of the cutting edge (16), for an additional shear blade. An outer surface (14), located on the other side of the cutting edge (16), is provided to act on the object to be cut. The cutting region (15) has a recess (22) for receiving a cutting insert (21). The recess (22) is configured such that the cutting insert (21) is insertable into the recess (22) at an acute angle ? to the contact surface (13) of the shear blade (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: LUKAS Hydraulik GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Tischler, Tammy Horne, Carsten Sauerbier
  • Patent number: 10751815
    Abstract: A shear blade is for a portable hydraulic cutting device having a blade body. The blade body has assembly and cutting regions, with a cutting edge in the cutting region. A contact surface is on one side of the cutting edge for an additional shear blade. An outer surface on the other side of the cutting edge acts on the object to be cut. A first surface portion of the outer surface extends away from the cutting edge along an orthogonal, which meets the contact surface at the cutting edge, or at an acute angle ? relative to the orthogonal. A second surface portion connects to the first surface portion at an acute angle ? to the orthogonal. A third surface portion connects to the second surface portion at an acute angle ? to the orthogonal. Angle ? is smaller than angle ?, which is smaller than angle ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: LUKAS Hydraulik GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Tischler, Tammy Horne, Carsten Sauerbier
  • Publication number: 20200230452
    Abstract: A control device for operating a fire extinguisher system includes at least one hose (3) having an extinguisher nozzle (4) arranged at the end of the hose (3) to be operated by an operator for releasing a pressurized extinguishing fluid. A conveying pump (5) conveys the pressurized extinguishing fluid in the hose (3) towards the extinguisher nozzle (4). A first supply line (7) connects the conveying pump (5) to a tank (8) of a fire extinguisher device, such as a fire extinguisher vehicle (1). A second supply line (9) connects the conveying pump (5) to a stationary extinguishing fluid source (2). A multi-port switch valve (10) connects upstream of the conveying pump (5), proximate the first supply line (7) and second supply line (9).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: IDEX Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe KIRCHNER, Carsten SAUERBIER
  • Publication number: 20200139654
    Abstract: A method for producing an inflatable lifting cushion includes providing a core with main surfaces in the form of a front side and a rear side and an outer peripheral region. A two-dimensional layer of vulcanizable material is applied on the front side and rear side of the core. A single-layer or multi-layer prefabricated two-dimensional fiber-reinforcing layer is drawn in the form of a tube, onto the arrangement including the core and two-dimensional layers of vulcanizable material located on the core so that the fiber-reinforcing layer, extending around the peripheral region, covers the two-dimensional layers of vulcanizable material at least partially. A further two-dimensional layer of vulcanizable material is applied to the fiber-reinforcing layer at the front side and the rear side of the core. The arrangement is heated to obtain a bond of the fibers of the fiber-reinforcing layer with the two-dimensional layers of the vulcanizable material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: Vetter GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten SAUERBIER, Wilhelm SCHNICKE
  • Publication number: 20200132063
    Abstract: A pump unit (10) can be carried by an operating person for the pressurized filling of inflatable filling chambers with a fluid, in particular lifting pads (2), blocking pads, tents or the like. The pump unite includes a fluid pump (12), an electric motor (11) for driving the fluid pump (12), a battery (13), a control unit (17) for controlling the operation of the fluid pump, and a connector (18) for the connection of a fluid hose (3) which leads to the filling chamber. A manually actuatable control valve (16) is positioned on the pump unit (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Vetter GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten SAUERBIER, Wilhelm SCHNICKE
  • Patent number: 10589135
    Abstract: A hydraulic implement (1) for portable use includes a hydraulic pump (2), a pump housing (10), a hydraulic cylinder (3) with a piston rod (11), a hydraulic tank (4), hydraulic lines, a compensating device, a manually operable hydraulic control valve (8), a rechargeable battery (9) which is accommodated on the implement (1), and two tool halves (16, 17) that are connected to the piston rod (11) via pivoting arms (12, 13). Each tool half (16, 17) has a wall section (20, 21) that extends perpendicularly to the extension of the longitudinal axis of the piston rod (11). When the tool halves are closed, both wall sections (20, 21) together form a flattened end region (24) that runs perpendicularly to the extension of the longitudinal axis of the piston rod (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: LUKAS Hydraulik GmbH
    Inventors: Tammy Horne, Carsten Sauerbier, Christopher Jacques
  • Publication number: 20190270145
    Abstract: A shear blade (2) is for a portable hydraulic cutting device, such as a rescue device having a blade body (9). The blade body (9) has an assembly region (18) and a cutting region (15), a cutting edge (16) in the cutting region (15), a contact surface (13), located on one side of the cutting edge (16), for an additional shear blade. An outer surface (14), located on the other side of the cutting edge (16), is provided to act on the object to be cut. The cutting region (15) has a recess (22) for receiving a cutting insert (21). The recess (22) is configured such that the cutting insert (21) is insertable into the recess (22) at an acute angle ? to the contact surface (13) of the shear blade (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: LUKAS Hydraulik GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert TISCHLER, Tammy HORNE, Carsten SAUERBIER
  • Publication number: 20190255631
    Abstract: A shear blade is for a portable hydraulic cutting device having a blade body. The blade body has assembly and cutting regions, with a cutting edge in the cutting region. A contact surface is on one side of the cutting edge for an additional shear blade. An outer surface on the other side of the cutting edge acts on the object to be cut. A first surface portion of the outer surface extends away from the cutting edge along an orthogonal, which meets the contact surface at the cutting edge, or at an acute angle ? relative to the orthogonal. A second surface portion connects to the first surface portion at an acute angle ? to the orthogonal. A third surface portion connects to the second surface portion at an acute angle ? to the orthogonal. Angle ? is smaller than angle ?, which is smaller than angle ?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: LUKAS Hydraulik GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert TISCHLER, Tammy HORNE, Carsten SAUERBIER
  • Publication number: 20190224504
    Abstract: A hydraulic implement (1) for portable use includes a hydraulic pump (2), a pump housing (10), a hydraulic cylinder (3) with a piston rod (11), a hydraulic tank (4), hydraulic lines, a compensating device, a manually operable hydraulic control valve (8), a rechargeable battery (9) which is accommodated on the implement (1), and two tool halves (16, 17) that are connected to the piston rod (11) via pivoting arms (12, 13). Each tool half (16, 17) has a wall section (20, 21) that extends perpendicularly to the extension of the longitudinal axis of the piston rod (11). When the tool halves are closed, both wall sections (20, 21) together form a flattened end region (24) that runs perpendicularly to the extension of the longitudinal axis of the piston rod (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: LUKAS Hydraulik GmbH
    Inventors: Tammy HORNE, Carsten SAUERBIER, Christopher JAQUES