Patents by Inventor Chafic Abu Antoun
Chafic Abu Antoun 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: 11919134Abstract: A tool having a working piston that moves along a working axis, a drive, for driving the working piston along the working axis, the drive having an electrical capacitor, a squirrel-cage rotor arranged on the working piston and an excitation coil, wherein current flows through the coil during rapid discharge of the capacitor and generates a magnetic field that accelerates the working piston, the tool having a frame of a soft-magnetic and electrically conducting material surrounding the excitation coil and extending in a circumferential direction with respect to the working axis, the frame having one or more at least partial interruptions, which extend over a significant part of a radial extent of the frame with respect to the working axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Tilo Dittrich, Norbert Heeb, Emanuel Kurth, Chafic Abu Antoun
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Patent number: 11813726Abstract: A setting tool for driving fastening elements into a substrate is provided, the setting tool comprising a holder, which is provided for holding a fastening element, a drive-in element, which is provided for transferring a fastening element held in the holder into the substrate along a setting axis, a drive, which is provided for driving the drive-in element toward the fastening element along the setting axis, wherein the drive comprises an electrical capacitor, which is arranged on the setting axis or around the setting axis.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Tilo Dittrich, Chafic Abu Antoun, Thomas Sperrfechter
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Patent number: 11738429Abstract: A tool comprising a drive-in element, transferring a fastening element into a substrate along setting axis by a setting energy Ekin, a drive for driving the drive-in element along the setting axis, the drive comprising a capacitor, a rotor, and a coil, wherein current flows through the coil generating a magnetic field accelerating the drive-in element toward the fastening element, wherein a current intensity Acoil of current flowing through the excitation coil while discharging the capacitor has a time profile with a rising edge, a maximum current intensity Amax and a falling edge, Acoil rising during current rise time ?trise from 0.1 to 0.8 times Amax and during impact time ?timpact is more than 0.5 times the Amax, wherein ?trise is at least 0.020 ms and at most 0.275 ms and/or the impact time ?timpact is at least 0.15 ms and at most 2.0 ms.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Tilo Dittrich, Peter Bruggmueller, Chafic Abu Antoun
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Patent number: 11590640Abstract: A setting tool driving fastening elements, comprising a holder for a fastening element; a drive-in element transferring a fastening element in the holder into a substrate along a setting axis by a setting energy Ekin of at least 30 J and at most 600 J; a drive for driving the drive-in element toward the fastening element along the setting axis, the drive comprising a capacitor, a rotor on the drive-in element; and, an excitation coil, which during discharge of the capacitor is flowed through by current and generates a magnetic field accelerating the drive-in element toward the fastening element, the drive-in element having a piston diameter dK and a piston mass mK, and wherein, for dK, 2 3 ? ( a + b ? E k ? i ? n n ) ? d K ? 4 3 ? ( a + b ? E k ? i ? n n ) where a=33 mm, b=6 mmJ?n and n=? and/or, for mK, 2 3 ? ( c + d ? E k ? i ? n n ) ? m K ? 5 3 ? ( c + d ? E k ? i ? n n ) where c=20 g, d=30 gJ?n and n=?.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: HILTI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Peter Bruggmueller, Chafic Abu Antoun, Tilo Dittrich
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Publication number: 20230027749Abstract: A tool for working a substrate, the tool having a stator and a working piston, which is intended to move relative to the stator along a working axis, also having a drive, which is intended to drive the working piston from a starting position along the working axis to the substrate, the drive comprising a first piston coil arranged on the working piston and a first stator coil arranged on the stator, and the first piston coil being intended to enter the first stator coil during a movement of the working piston relative to the stator along the working axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2020Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventors: Chafic ABU ANTOUN, Florian SCHMID, Albert BINDER, Manuel GUT
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Publication number: 20230018142Abstract: A tool for working a substrate, having a stator and a working piston, which is intended to move relative to the stator along a working axis, and having a drive, which is intended to drive the working piston along the working axis from a starting position onto the substrate, the drive having a stator coil arranged on the stator and being intended to apply electrical current of a first current intensity I1 to the stator coil in order to generate a magnetic field which accelerates the working piston relative to the stator, the drive having a piston coil arranged on the working piston and being intended to apply electrical current of a second current intensity I2 to the piston coil in order to generate a magnetic field which accelerates the working piston relative to the stator, the second current intensity I2 being less than the first current intensity I1.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Chafic ABU ANTOUN, Tilo DITTRICH, Albert BINDER, Manuel GUT, Florian SCHMID, Jasmin SMAJIC
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Publication number: 20230011145Abstract: A tool for working a substrate, the tool having a stator and a working piston, which is intended to move relative to the stator along a working axis, also having a drive, which is intended to drive the working piston from a starting position along the working axis to the substrate, the drive comprising a piston coil arranged on the working piston and a first stator coil arranged on the stator, the piston coil having a piston coil axis, which is oriented transversely, to the working axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Chafic ABU ANTOUN, Albert BINDER, Florian SCHMID, Thomas FRANZ, Reto CHRISTEN, Jasmin SMAJIC
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Publication number: 20230008745Abstract: A tool for working a substrate, the tool having a stator and a working piston, which is intended to move relative to the stator along a working axis, also having a drive, which is intended to drive the working piston from a starting position along the working axis to the substrate, the stator having a first electrical stator contact and the working piston having a first electrical piston contact, which slides on the first electrical stator contact and is arranged on a radially outer circumference of the working piston with respect to the working axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Chafic ABU ANTOUN, Tilo DITTRICH, Albert BINDER, Manuel GUT, Florian SCHMID
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Publication number: 20230012189Abstract: A tool for working a substrate has a stator and a working piston, which is intended to move relative to the stator along a working axis and toward the substrate or to hit a fastening element, in order to drive the fastening element into the substrate, also having a drive, which is intended to drive the working piston along the working axis onto the substrate, the drive having a piston coil capacitor and a piston coil arranged on the working piston, the piston coil being electrically connectable to the piston coil capacitor in order during rapid discharge of the piston coil capacitor to have a current flowing through it and to generate a magnetic field which accelerates the working piston relative to the stator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Chafic ABU ANTOUN, Florian SCHMID, Albert BINDER, Manuel GUT
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Publication number: 20230007855Abstract: A tool for working a substrate, the tool having a stator and a working piston, which is intended to move relative to the stator along a working axis and toward the substrate or to hit a fastening element in order to drive the fastening element into the substrate, also having a drive, which is intended to drive the working piston along the working axis onto the substrate, the drive having a capacitor and a piston coil arranged on the working piston, the piston coil being electrically connectable to the capacitor in order during rapid discharge of the capacitor to have a current flowing through it and to generate a magnetic field which accelerates the working piston relative to the stator, the drive having a diode which is arranged on the working piston and is electrically connected to the piston coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2020Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Albert BINDER, Chafic ABU ANTOUN, Florian SCHMID
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Publication number: 20230001555Abstract: A tool for working a substrate has a stator and a working piston, which is intended to move relative to the stator along a working axis, also having a drive, which is intended to drive the working piston from a starting position along the working axis to the substrate, the drive comprising a piston coil arranged on the working piston and a first stator coil arranged on the stator, and the first piston coil being intended to enter the first stator coil during a movement of the working piston relative to the stator along the working axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Chafic ABU ANTOUN, Florian SCHMID, Albert BINDER, Manuel GUT
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Publication number: 20220258317Abstract: A tool having a working piston that moves along a working axis, a drive, for driving the working piston along the working axis, the drive having an electrical capacitor, a squirrel-cage rotor arranged on the working piston and an excitation coil, wherein current flows through the coil during rapid discharge of the capacitor and generates a magnetic field that accelerates the working piston, the tool having a frame of a soft-magnetic and electrically conducting material surrounding the excitation coil and extending in a circumferential direction with respect to the working axis, the frame having one or more at least partial interruptions, which extend over a significant part of a radial extent of the frame with respect to the working axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Tilo DITTRICH, Norbert HEEB, Emanuel KURTH, Chafic ABU ANTOUN
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Publication number: 20210237244Abstract: A setting tool driving fastening elements, comprising a holder for a fastening element; a drive-in element transferring a fastening element in the holder into a substrate along a setting axis by a setting energy Ekin of at least 30 J and at most 600 J; a drive for driving the drive-in element toward the fastening element along the setting axis, the drive comprising a capacitor, a rotor on the drive-in element; and, an excitation coil, which during discharge of the capacitor is flowed through by current and generates a magnetic field accelerating the drive-in element toward the fastening element, the drive-in element having a piston diameter dK and a piston mass mK, and wherein, for dK, ?(a+b Ekinn)?dK?4/3(a+b Ekinn) where a=33 mm, b=6 mmJ?n and n=? and/or, for MK, ?(c+d Ekinn)?mK?5/3(c+d Ekinn) where c=20 g, d=30 gJ?n and n=?.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2019Publication date: August 5, 2021Inventors: Peter BRUGGMUELLER, Chafic ABU ANTOUN, Tilo DITTRICH
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Publication number: 20210220981Abstract: A setting tool for driving fastening elements into a substrate is provided, the setting tool comprising a holder, which is provided for holding a fastening element, a drive-in element, which is provided for transferring a fastening element held in the holder into the substrate along a setting axis, a drive, which is provided for driving the drive-in element toward the fastening element along the setting axis, wherein the drive comprises an electrical capacitor, which is arranged on the setting axis or around the setting axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2019Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Tilo DITTRICH, Chafic ABU ANTOUN, Thomas SPERRFECHTER
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Publication number: 20210197351Abstract: A tool comprising a drive-in element, transferring a fastening element into a substrate along setting axis by a setting energy Ekin, a drive for driving the drive-in element along the setting axis, the drive comprising a capacitor, a rotor, and a coil, wherein current flows through the coil generating a magnetic field accelerating the drive-in element toward the fastening element, wherein a current intensity Acoil of current flowing through the excitation coil while discharging the capacitor has a time profile with a rising edge, a maximum current intensity Amax and a falling edge, Acoil rising during current rise time ?trise from 0.1 to 0.8 times Amax and during impact time ?timpact is more than 0.5 times the Amax, wherein ?trise is at least 0.020 ms and at most 0.275 ms and/or the impact time ?timpact is at least 0.15 ms and at most 2.0 ms.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Tilo DITTRICH, Peter BRUGGMUELLER, Chafic ABU ANTOUN
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Publication number: 20210187715Abstract: A setting tool for driving fastening elements into a substrate is provided, the tool comprising a holder, which is provided for holding a fastening element, a drive-in element, which is provided for transferring a fastening element held in the holder into the substrate along a setting axis, a drive, which is provided for driving the drive-in element toward the fastening element along the setting axis, wherein the drive comprises an electrical capacitor, which has two electrodes, which are each arranged on a carrier film wound around a winding axis, wherein an extent of the capacitor in the direction of the winding axis is at most as great as an extent of the capacitor perpendicularly to the winding axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Tilo DITTRICH, Chafic ABU ANTOUN, Kai FRIEWALD
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Publication number: 20210170559Abstract: A setting tool for driving fastening elements into a substrate is provided, the tool comprising a holder for holding a fastening element, a drive-in element, for transferring a fastening element held in the holder into the substrate along a setting axis, and a drive, for driving the drive-in element toward the fastening element along the setting axis, wherein the drive comprises an electrical capacitor, a squirrel-cage rotor arranged on the drive-in element and an excitation coil, which during rapid discharge of the capacitor is flowed through by current and generates a magnetic field that accelerates the drive-in element toward the fastening element, and wherein the setting tool has a means for detecting a temperature of the excitation coil and a control unit which is suitable for controlling an operating sequence of the setting tool in dependence on the detected temperature of the excitation coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2019Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: Tilo DITTRICH, Chafic ABU ANTOUN, Peter BRUGGMUELLER
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Patent number: 9259830Abstract: A striking mechanism includes a working space whose first section is surrounded by a first electromagnet and whose second section is surrounded by a second electromagnet; a striking element that can move along a striking axis inside the working space and that has a magnetizable material; an anvil whose striking surface delimits the working space in the striking direction and which protrudes into the first magnetic coil and which is made of a magnetically soft material. A spring element is provided which exerts a force onto the striking element in every position in the working space in the direction of the anvil.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2010Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hanspeter Schad, Christoph Hakenholt, Sherhey Khandozhko, Jochen Kuntner, Guenther Sanchen, Chafic Abu Antoun, Johann Dorfmeister
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Publication number: 20130333904Abstract: A machine tool with a tool holder which is equipped to mount a tool, such as a chiseling tool, moveably along a movement axis. A striking mechanism contains a primary drive, arranged around the movement axis, containing at least one magnetic coil. The striking mechanism has a striker and an anvil arranged within the magnetic coil on the movement axis in sequence in the impact direction. The anvil protrudes at least partially into the magnetic coil. In addition, the striking mechanism can have an air spring affecting the striker in the impact direction. A controlled power source forms an electrical circuit in which a current flows, controlled at a target value, from the power source and into at the at least one magnetic coil during an acceleration phase. A controller ends the acceleration phase when a change, typical for an impact, is detected in the current flowing in the magnetic coil or a change, typical for an impact, is detected in a control variable of a control circuit of the power source.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Inventors: Klaus Raggl, Michael Wierer, Chafic Abu Antoun
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Publication number: 20130336809Abstract: The driving device 1, in accordance with the invention, has a ram 3, which, driven by compressed air, drives in the fastener 2. A pump device 5 produces the compressed air. The pump device 5 has a pump cylinder 23, a pump piston 22, and an annular magnet arrangement 28, 46 around the pump cylinder 23. The pump piston 22 can move in the pump cylinder 23, along an axis 11. An axial closure 25 of the pump cylinder 23 closes off, with the pump piston 22, a pump volume 27 within the pump cylinder 23. The annular magnet arrangement 28, 46 has a magnetic coil 28, which encloses the pump cylinder 23 and which overlaps, along the axis 11, at least in part, with the magnetizable closure 25 and, in part, with the magnetizable pump piston 22.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Inventors: Chafic Abu Antoun, Peter Bruggmueller