Patents by Inventor Eric Angue

Eric Angue 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: 10060515
    Abstract: A linear drive, which has an output slide, which is guided on a drive housing in a linearly movable manner. The output slide contains a one-piece slide body, which is designed as a bent sheet-metal part. The slide body includes a plate-shaped central segment, guide limbs, which are arranged alongside the plate-shaped central segment and bent downward, and a drive limb, which is arranged at an end face and which likewise is bent downward. The guide limbs are used to linearly guide the output slide, and the drive limb is used for the application of the driving forces that cause the reciprocating motion of the output slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: FESTO AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Simone Kopp, Ulrich Diener, Eric Angue
  • Patent number: 9548637
    Abstract: A linear actuator with an electric drive device includes a stator and a rotor, wherein the stator is arranged in a fixed location in a drive housing and the rotor is mounted for rotary motion relative to the stator and with a transmission arrangement which is arranged coaxial with an axis of rotation of the drive device to convert the rotary movement of the rotor into a linear movement, wherein a threaded spindle of the transmission arrangement is non-rotatably connected to the rotor and positively coupled to a spindle nut slidably accommodated in the drive housing and connected to a torque tube, which extends along the axis of rotation, and wherein a brake device is assigned to the rotor and/or to the threaded spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: FESTO AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Martin Rapp, Erwin Bezjak, Martin Fuss, Eric Angue, Michael Schottner
  • Publication number: 20160265563
    Abstract: A linear drive, with a drive unit containing a drive housing with a single-piece guide body, wherein guide tracks are formed on the guide body for the linear guidance of an output slide. The guide body is made in one piece as a bent sheet metal part and has several leg sections bent relative to one another at bending areas, wherein two of these leg sections bent relative to one another at bending areas, wherein two of these leg sections lie opposite one another and form guide legs which have the guide tracks. A method for the manufacture of such a linear drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Eric Angué, Simone Kopp, Ulrich Diener
  • Publication number: 20160160966
    Abstract: A linear drive, which has an output slide, which is guided on a drive housing in a linearly movable manner. The output slide contains a one-piece slide body, which is designed as a bent sheet-metal part. The slide body includes a plate-shaped central segment, guide limbs, which are arranged alongside the plate-shaped central segment and bent downward, and a drive limb, which is arranged at an end face and which likewise is bent downward. The guide limbs are used to linearly guide the output slide, and the drive limb is used for the application of the driving forces that cause the reciprocating motion of the output slide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Simone Kopp, Ulrich Diener, Eric Angue
  • Publication number: 20140300253
    Abstract: A linear actuator with an electric drive device includes a stator and a rotor, wherein the stator is arranged in a fixed location in a drive housing and the rotor is mounted for rotary motion relative to the stator and with a transmission arrangement which is arranged coaxial with an axis of rotation of the drive device to convert the rotary movement of the rotor into a linear movement, wherein a threaded spindle of the transmission arrangement is non-rotatably connected to the rotor and positively coupled to a spindle nut slidably accommodated in the drive housing and connected to a torque tube, which extends along the axis of rotation, and wherein a brake device is assigned to the rotor and/or to the threaded spindle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: FESTO AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Rapp, Erwin Bezjak, Martin Fuss, Eric Angue, Michael Schottner
  • Patent number: 7290477
    Abstract: A linear drive has a drive housing and a carriage guide for relative motion in the direction of a principal axis. The carriage possesses a row of openings on it with several first carriage openings, whereas the drive housing has a row of openings on the housing side with mutually spaced first housing openings. Given suitable positioning of the carriage it is possible for attachment screws to be inserted right through the first carriage openings and inserted into the first housing openings. Second carriage openings belonging in addition to the row of openings on the carriage side are designed in the form of threaded openings, which render possible screwing in of attachment screws, that are inserted in the first housing openings of a further similar linear drive directly fitted to the carriage in a piggy-back fashion, through the first carriage openings thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Festo AG & Co.
    Inventors: Eric Angué, Simone Kopp, Ulrich Diener
  • Patent number: 7225722
    Abstract: A linear drive has a drive housing on which a carriage is able to run. For guiding the carriage two guide units are provided, which jointly lie in a guide plane extending perpendicularly to the upright axis of the drive housing. The guide units flank the carriage on the longitudinal side, the guide plane being arranged offset in the direction of the upright axis in relation to a drive space formed in the drive housing, drive means for the carriage being located in the drive space. At an edge section on the longitudinal side the carriage overlaps at least a part of the drive space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Festo AG & Co.
    Inventors: Eric Angué, Simone Kopp
  • Patent number: 7207262
    Abstract: A linear drive having a drive housing on which a carriage runs to an adjustable extent. The carriage covers over a channel-like housing recess, which is delimited by two mutually side wall. For limiting the stroke of the carriage a first abutment is provided on it within the housing recess, such first abutment cooperating is with a first counter abutment, that is so inserted from the outside into an opening in the one side that it extends into the housing recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Festo AG: & Co.
    Inventors: Eric Angué, Simone Kopp
  • Publication number: 20050193844
    Abstract: A linear drive having a drive housing on which a carriage runs to an adjustable extent. The carriage covers over a channel-like housing recess, which is delimited by two mutually side wall. For limiting the stroke of the carriage a first abutment is provided on it within the housing recess, such first abutment cooperating is with a first counter abutment, that is so inserted from the outside into an opening in the one side that it extends into the housing recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2005
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Inventors: Eric Angue, Simone Kopp
  • Publication number: 20050188837
    Abstract: A linear drive has a drive housing and a carriage guide for relative motion in the direction of a principal axis. The carriage possesses a row of openings on it with several first carriage openings, whereas the drive housing has a row of openings on the housing side with mutually spaced first housing openings. Given suitable positioning of the carriage it is possible for attachment screws to be inserted right through the first carriage openings and inserted into the first housing openings. Second carriage openings belonging in addition to the row of openings on the carriage side are designed in the form of threaded openings, which render possible screwing in of attachment screws, that are inserted in the first housing openings of a further similar linear drive directly fitted to the carriage in a piggy-back fashion, through the first carriage openings thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: Eric Angue, Simone Kopp, Ulrich Diener
  • Publication number: 20050188836
    Abstract: A linear drive has a drive housing on which a carriage is able to run. For guiding the carriage two guide units are provided, which jointly lie in a guide plane extending perpendicularly to the upright axis of the drive housing. The guide units flank the carriage on the longitudinal side, the guide plane being arranged offset in the direction of the upright axis in relation to a drive space formed in the drive housing, drive means for the carriage being located in the drive space. At an edge section on the longitudinal side the carriage overlaps at least a part of the drive space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2005
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventors: Eric Angue, Simone Kopp
  • Patent number: 6505542
    Abstract: A piston rod-less linear drive whose housing is provided with a linear guide on which a guide slide runs. The guide slide is drivingly connected by way of a dog with a drive part within the housing. The dog extends through a longitudinal slot in the housing, such slot being so arranged that its plane extends obliquely in relation to a guide plane, which is defined by the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction of the linear guide. Furthermore, a housing is proposed which is particularly suitable for the linear drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Festo AG & Co.
    Inventors: Rolf Weberruss, Eric Angué, Thomas Wagner
  • Publication number: 20020023534
    Abstract: A piston rod-less linear drive whose housing is provided with a linear guide on which a guide slide runs. The guide slide is drivingly connected by way of a dog with a drive part within the housing. The dog extends through a longitudinal slot in the housing, such slot being so arranged that its plane extends obliquely in relation to a guide plane, which is defined by the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction of the linear guide. Furthermore, a housing is proposed which is particularly suitable for the linear drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Applicant: FESTO AG & Co.
    Inventors: Rolf Weberruss, Eric Angue, Thomas Wagner
  • Patent number: 6338294
    Abstract: A linear drive comprising an elongated housing, whose interior space contains a drive part adapted to move in the longitudinal direction. The housing furthermore has a longitudinal slot, which is provided with a sealing tape extending in the interior space, said tape being lifted clear of the longitudinal slot by at least one guide face arrangement at the drive part. A guided slide is arranged outside the interior space, such slide being coupled with the drive part extending through the longitudinal slot. The guide face arrangement is provided on the drive part and furthermore the part of the entraining member fitting into the receiving socket is in the form of an entraining finger having a free end thereof directed toward the sealing tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Festo AG & Co.
    Inventors: Albrecht Wagner, Eric Angué
  • Patent number: 6196110
    Abstract: A linear drive comprising a housing, which possesses a cylinder barrel having a longitudinal slot. The interior space of such cylinder barrel is closed by closure plugs axially inserted into the interior space. At the region facing the longitudinal slot the closure plug is provided with a flat, at which it engages the internal face of a sealing tape associated with the longitudinal slot in a fashion preventing relative rotation. The closure plug is anchored by a securing pin on the cylinder barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Festo AG & Co.
    Inventor: Eric Angué
  • Patent number: 6186049
    Abstract: A rod-less linear drive whose housing (2) delimits an interior space (4), in which a drive part (5) is located. The housing (2) is provided with a slot-like longitudinal opening (24), which on either side is flanked by a housing limb (25 and 26). An entraining part (35) connected with the drive part (5) projects through the longitudinal opening (24) to the outside, where it is kinematically coupled with a slide (36). The slide is supported by means of a guide means (41) on the housing (2), one of the two housing limbs (26) being extended through and past the longitudinal opening (24) and on the side, facing the other housing limb (26), bears the guide means (41).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Festo AG & Co.
    Inventors: Kurt Stoll, Eric Angué
  • Patent number: 5568982
    Abstract: A linear drive, on which housing a longitudinally moving output drive part is provided. In the possible path of motion thereof a limiting device is arranged, with which the end or terminal position of the output drive part may be preset. The limiting device comprises at least one holder with an abutment-shock absorber unit. Along the housing a plurality of positioning points is provided, at which support element may be fixed in place, which render possible an interlocking or positive mounting of the holder. The abutment-shock absorber unit is able to be steplessly set in position in relation to the holder. It is in this manner that an exact and reliable adjustment of the path of travel of the output drive part may be undertaken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: Festo KG
    Inventors: Kurt Stoll, Albrecht Wagner, Eric Angue