Patents by Inventor Fritz Helmut Fuss

Fritz Helmut Fuss 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: 6138485
    Abstract: A safety lock, particularly a self-locking lock, including at least one l catch and a bolt operable by a lock cylinder and a split latch nut. For creating a particularly inexpensively manufacturable and relatively narrow safety lock, a coupling device of the lock is provided with two congruent racks which have a panic or freewheel function. The racks are superimposed and mesh with the teeth of the inner and outer nut. An electromagnetic coupling is achieved with the aid of a coupling lever, which is fixable to each rack directly or indirectly subjects to the function of the particular rack and engageable with a detent of the racks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: eff-eff Fritz Fuss GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Fritz Helmut Fuss, Gerhard Gonser
  • Patent number: 6125670
    Abstract: A self-locking lock with a bolt, a lock swing catch and an auxiliary swing atch, in which the bolt and lock swing catch move out in a locking position in spring-loaded manner with the door closed and move out in a locking position are lockable by a slide plate, while the auxiliary swing catch pressed on a locking plate and in which the bolt, with the door open, is held back in the lock housing and is arrestable by the auxiliary swing catch by means of the slide plate. In order to provide a lock secure against manipulation and reliable in operation, where an uncontrollable extension of the bolt is particularly effectively prevented even in intermediate states of the opening and closing process, on opening the bolt leads compared with the lock swing catch and is arrestable completely retracted in the lock and the lock swing catch is provided with a widening, e.g., with a pivotable, springloaded swing catch part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: eff-eff Fritz Fuss GmbH & Co., Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Fritz Helmut Fuss, Gerhard Gonser
  • Patent number: 6092846
    Abstract: An electrically actuable furniture locking device includes a locking housing, a locking pin and an indicator element. The locking housing is provided with two introduction openings for a locking pin. In the locking housing, a locking slide is arranged to be actuated electromagnetically and adjusted from a locking position into an unlocking position. A lever armature, which can be connected to the locking slide, can be connected to the locking slide such that it can be optionally switched over for closed-circuit or open-circuit operation. The locking device permits an arrangement adaptable to various installations, as well as monitoring of the open and closed states and optionally closed- and open-circuit operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: EFF-EFF Fritz Fuss GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Fritz Helmut Fuss, Augustin Toma
  • Patent number: 5924750
    Abstract: A door opener wich can be used for closed-circuit current operation as well s for working current operation, includes a door latch and a trimmer which can be moved for blocking and releasing the door latch, an armature which can be displaced for blocking or releasing the trimmer, an electromagnet for displacing the armature, whereby the armature can be moved between three consecutive armature positions, namely a first armature position, a second armature position, and a third armature position. The armature positions alternately provide a locking and releasing of the door latch. The door opener also includes a stop element, which can be displaced for delimiting the displacement path of the armature between a first stop position and a second stop position such that the first or third armature position is blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: eff-eff Fritz Fuss GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Fritz Helmut Fuss, Michael Holzer, Augustin Toma
  • Patent number: 5788295
    Abstract: An electric door opener with a trimmer actuatable by an armature and a mat coil. The trimmer is adjustably positioned for the release or locking of a door opener latch. The door opener is useable as an electric no-load current door opener and as an operating current door opener because a selector device is provided to switch the armature-trimmer system between no-load current movement positions and operating current movement position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: eff-eff Fritz Fuss GmbH & Co. Kommandit-gesellschaft auf Aktien
    Inventors: Fritz Helmut Fuss, Michael Holzer