Patents by Inventor Dietmar Saur

Dietmar Saur 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).

  • 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: 20080016983
    Abstract: The invention relates to an intermediate flange for a machine tool, which serves to support machine parts and includes an outer wall (22). According to the invention, the outer wall (22) has a latticed support structure (10), which provides the inventive intermediate flange with good torsional and bending resistance while requiring only a small amount of material. The latticed support structure (10) can have a preferably honeycomb or diamond-shaped design with solid, intersecting segments (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventor: Dietmar Saur
  • Publication number: 20080011499
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hand-held tool, in particular a hammer drill (10a, 10b), comprising a shaft (12) and a lifting control bearing (14a, 14b) which is mounted on the shaft (12a, 12b) and which is used to translate a rotational movement into a lifting movement. According to the invention, a percussion drive connection is arranged between the shaft (12) and the lifting control bearing (14) in at least one of the first switch configurations and the percussion drive connection is interrupted in at least one of the second switch configurations. The hand-held machine comprises a maintaining agent (16a, 16b) which fixes the lifting control bearing (14) to the second switch configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventors: Dietmar Saur, Helmut Heinzelmann
  • 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: 7273112
    Abstract: An electric power tool has a drive mechanism switchable back and forth among a drilling, a percusion drilling, and a chiseling mode of operation; a drive shaft performing a rotary motion; a percusion mechanism provided with a drive bearing; a serrated sleeve supported axially displaceably in the drive bearing of the percussion mechanism and transmitting a rotary motion of the drive shaft to the drive bearing of the percusion mechanism when it is in an axial position corresponding to the chiseling or percusion drilling modes of operation; and an axially displaceable serrated shaft supported in the drive bearing, so that the serrated sleeve transmits to the serrated shaft the rotary motion of the drive shaft when the serrated shaft is in axial position corresponding to the drilling or percussion drilling modes of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dietmar Saur, Helmut Heinzelmann
  • Publication number: 20070193756
    Abstract: A clutch device for an electric machine tool that is drivable in a fashion selected from the group consisting of a rotary fashion, a percussion fashion, and both with an impact mechanism deliberately disengageable from or engageable with a spindle that drives a plug-in tool, has an intermediate shaft arranged between the spindle and an armature shaft of a drive motor and configured for transmitting drive energy, the intermediate shaft being axially movable so that the electric machine tool is switchable between operating modes through an axial movement of the intermediate shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventor: Dietmar Saur
  • Publication number: 20070149293
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a detent disk for an overload coupling, in particular for a machine tool. A detent disk with a shape designed using powder metallurgy is provided. An overload coupling and a method for manufacturing a detent disk are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Juergen Veit, Dietmar Saur, Helmut Heinzelmann
  • 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: 7070008
    Abstract: The invention is based on a power tool having a beater mechanism (14) and a coupling device (12, 100), which can be engaged and disengaged in order to make and break a drive connection (16, 102) of the beater mechanism (14). It is proposed that the coupling device (12, 100) has a synchronizing device (18, 112), with a detent mechanism (20, 110) which transmits a drive moment and which in a synchronizing operation has at least two corresponding detent elements (22, 24, 108), at least one of the detent elements (22) being movable about its detent position upon an overlooking moment, counter to the spring force of a spring element (26, 116).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Otto Baumann, Dietmar Saur
  • Patent number: 7036607
    Abstract: An electric hand tool is disclosed which has a gt (15), received in a housing (10), with a gear shaft (20) and also has at least one radial bearing (30) for rotary support of the gear shaft (20), the inner bearing ring (301) of the radial bearing being fixed on the gear shaft (20) and the outer bearing ring (302) of the radial bearing being fixed in a bearing box (31) disposed in the housing (10), in each case being fixed axially nondisplaceably. For simple assembly of the gt (15) without tools, the outer bearing ring (302) of the radial bearing (30) rests with a sliding seat in the bearing box (31) and is fixed by means of a clamping bracket (32) fixed to the bearing box (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Lebisch, Otto Baumann, Siegfried Fehrle, Dietmar Saur, Andre Ullrich, Michael Weiss
  • Publication number: 20060054012
    Abstract: A hand power tool has a percussion bolt, a hammer barrel receiving the percussion bolt, a sealing element effecting sealing between the percussion bolt and the hammer barrel, a restraining element that retains the sealing element at a predetermined point along the hammer barrel, and a counterpart element fixing the restraining element in a longitudinal direction of the hammer barrel, wherein the restraining element is located on an outer face, toward the hammer barrel, of the sealing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Inventors: Otto Baumann, Rolf Mueller, Dietmar Saur, Helmut Heinzelmann
  • Publication number: 20060048955
    Abstract: An electric power tool has a drive mechanism switchable back and forth among a drilling, a percusion drilling, and a chiseling mode of operation; a drive shaft performing a rotary motion; a percusion mechanism provided with a drive bearing; a serrated sleeve supported axially displaceably in the drive bearing of the percussion mechanism and transmitting a rotary motion of the drive shaft to the drive bearing of the percusion mechanism when it is in an axial position corresponding to the chiseling or percusion drilling modes of operation; and an axially displaceable serrated shaft supported in the drive bearing, so that the serrated sleeve transmits to the serrated shaft the rotary motion of the drive shaft when the serrated shaft is in axial position corresponding to the drilling or percussion drilling modes of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventors: Dietmar Saur, Helmut Heinzelmann
  • Publication number: 20050232715
    Abstract: The tool and the tool holder each have two sections (18, 19, 20, 21) with different cross-sectional sizes arranged axially one behind the other. These sections (18, 19, 20, 21) on the tool shaft (3) and in the tool holder (1, 2) form reciprocal bearing surfaces. The first section (18) on the tool shaft (3) and the first section (20) of the tool holder (1, 2) have rotationally driving and locking means (5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) which are operatively connected in a reciprocal manner. A tool and a tool holder are provided which are very compact and wear-resistant. To this end, the rotationally driving and locking means (5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16) are arranged in parallel in the axial direction of the shaft (3) and/or the tool holder (1), and they are arranged in series relative to each other in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Otto Baumann, Dietmar Saur, Michael Knuth
  • Publication number: 20050224243
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tool receptacle for a hand power tool, in particular for a drill hammer, having a receiving opening (12) for receiving a tool shaft (14) and having a hammering bolt (16), and the tool shaft (14) and/or the hammering bolt (16) has a ready position located between an idling position and a hammering position, and having a lubricant opening (56) for delivering lubricant, which lubricant opening is fixed relative to the hammering bolt (16), and having a lubricant valve (16, 56) with a variable valve position for metering lubricant. It is proposed that the valve position of the lubricant valve (16, 56) be dependent on the ready position of the hammering bolt (16) and/or of the tool shaft (14), between the idling position and the hammering position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventors: Otto Baumann, Rolf Mueller, Dietmar Saur, Helmut Heinzelmann, Thomas Bernhardt, Hardy Schmid
  • Patent number: 6930431
    Abstract: The invention is based on an electrical machine with a rotatable brush plate (10, 12), which is held in its end positions by means of at least one holding mechanism (16, 18) that acts in the circumference direction (14). The invention proposes that the holding mechanism (16, 18) have at least one device (20, 22) that loads the brush plate (10, 12) in the circumference direction (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Buck, Otto Baumann, Siegfried Fehrle, Dietmar Saur, Andre Ullrich, Michael Weiss
  • Patent number: 6918450
    Abstract: An electric hand power tool formed as a hammer drill or an impact hammer drill has a housing, a drive transmission received in the housing and having an intermediate transmission for turning a tool, an impact mechanism with a swinging drive for delivering axially oriented impacts to the tool, and a drive shaft, a transmission toothed wheel fixed on the transmission shaft for turning the latter, a drive bearing provided on the swinging drive and loosely arranged on the transmission shaft, a manually releasable coupling provided for switching off the impact mechanism and connecting the drive bearing with the transmission shaft for a rotation transmission, a crank-shaped flat switching plate provided for releasing the coupling and turnably supported on a receiving dome arranged above the transmission shaft, a drive pin operative for turning the switching plate under the receiving dome and engaging the switching plate, and a handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Lebisch, Otto Baumann, Dietmar Saur, Michael Weiss
  • Publication number: 20050126801
    Abstract: An electric hand tool is disclosed which has a gt (15), received in a housing (10), with a gear shaft (20) and also has at least one radial bearing (30) for rotary support of the gear shaft (20), the inner bearing ring (301) of the radial bearing being fixed on the gear shaft (20) and the outer bearing ring (302) of the radial bearing being fixed in a bearing box (31) disposed in the housing (10), in each case being fixed axially nondisplaceably. For simple assembly of the gt (15) without tools, the outer bearing ring (302) of the radial bearing (30) rests with a sliding seat in the bearing box (31) and is fixed by means of a clamping bracket (32) fixed to the bearing box (31).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2003
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Helmut Lebisch, Otto Baumann, Siegfried Fehrle, Dietmar Saur, Andre Ullrich, Michael Weiss
  • Publication number: 20040188117
    Abstract: An electric hand power tool formed as a hammer drill or an impact hammer drill has a housing, a drive transmission received in the housing and having an intermediate transmission for turning a tool, an impact mechanism with a swinging drive for delivering axially oriented impacts to the tool, and a drive shaft, a transmission toothed wheel fixed on the transmission shaft for turning the latter, a drive bearing provided on the swinging drive and loosely arranged on the transmission shaft, a manually releasable coupling provided for switching off the impact mechanism and connecting the drive bearing with the transmission shaft for a rotation transmission, a crank-shaped flat switching plate provided for releasing the coupling and turnably supported on a receiving dome arranged above the transmission shaft, a drive pin operative for turning the switching plate under the receiving dome and engaging the switching plate, and a handle which is available outside of the housing and displacing the drive pin in a longit
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Helmut Lebisch, Otto Baumann, Dietmar Saur, Michael Weiss
  • Patent number: 6739406
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a machine tool, in particular to a hand-operated hammer drill, having a compartment (10) containing lubricant in which at least one rotationally drivable component (12) is mounted and having a device (14) for compensating the pressure in the compartment (10), the device having a rotationally drivable centrifugal component (16) which shields at least one pressure-compensation channel (18) disposed downstream from it, in terns of fluid mechanics, in the venting direction of the compartment (10). It is proposed that the centrifugal component (16) be mounted in a torsionally fixed manner on the rotationally drivable component (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Lebisch, Otto Baumann, Rolf Mueller, Dietmar Saur
  • Publication number: 20040084991
    Abstract: The invention is based on an electrical machine with a rotatable brush plate (10, 12), which is held in its end positions by means of at least one holding mechanism (16, 18) that acts in the circumference direction (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2003
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Inventors: Manfred Buck, Otto Baumann, Siegfried Fehrle, Dietmar Saur, Andre Ullrich, Michael Weiss