Patents by Inventor Hans Undin

Hans Undin 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: 8279414
    Abstract: The invention refers to a device and a method for monitoring a delimited area in order to detect if an undesired object is present within the area. The invention also refers to a use of the device. A first laser is adapted to emit a laser pulse (B) of a determined wavelength over the area. A first photo sensor is arranged to receive a reflected part of the laser pulse (B). An evaluation unit is connected to the laser and the photo sensor. The evaluation unit is arranged to measure the reflected part of the laser pulse (B) during a predetermined time period after the laser pulse has been emitted from the laser, to generate a signal depending on the measured reflected part and to process the generated signal in order to determine if an undesired object is present within the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Avalon Innovation AB
    Inventors: Börje Eklund, Hans Undin, Örjan Altebro
  • Publication number: 20090201489
    Abstract: The invention refers to a device and a method for monitoring a delimited area in order to detect if an undesired object is present within the area. The invention also refers to a use of the device. A first laser is adapted to emit a laser pulse (B) of a determined wavelength over the area. A first photo sensor is arranged to receive a reflected part of the laser pulse (B). An evaluation unit is connected to the laser and the photo sensor. The evaluation unit is arranged to measure the reflected part of the laser pulse (B) during a predetermined time period after the laser pulse has been emitted from the laser, to generate a signal depending on the measured reflected part and to process the generated signal in order to determine if an undesired object is present within the area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: Avalon Innovation AB
    Inventors: Borje Eklund, Hans Undin, Orjan Altebro
  • Patent number: 5758729
    Abstract: Pliers (1) have a pliers housing (2), a handle (6) which is articulated on the pliers housing (2), a pliers mouth (3) which accommodates processing elements, and a drive device, which can be operated by pivoting the handle (6), in order to drive the processing elements. An electric motor (18) is arranged in the pliers housing (2) in order to exert a further drive force on the processing elements during pivoting of the handle (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Weidmuller Interface GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Hans Undin
  • Patent number: 5735353
    Abstract: Pliers (1) have a pliers housing (2), a handle (6) which is articulated on the pliers housing (2), a pliers mouth (3) which accommodates processing elements, and a drive device, which can be operated by pivoting the handle (6), in order to drive the processing elements. An electric motor (18) is arranged in the pliers housing (2) in order to exert a further drive force on the processing elements during pivoting of the handle (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Weidmuller Interface GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Hans Undin
  • Patent number: 5345681
    Abstract: A tool according to the invention for stripping a conductor contains a handle element, a cutter piece, which is in the form of a rod, is supported on the handle element side and has a tip, in the form of a blade, which can be moved around a rotation axis at a distance, and an opposing bearing, which is arranged on the handle element, for holding the conductor. A supporting body is supported on the handle element, which supporting body can rotate about the rotation axis and in which the cutter piece extends with its longitudinal direction inclined with respect to the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1994
    Assignee: Weidmuller Interface GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Hans Undin
  • Patent number: 5245894
    Abstract: In a pair of pliers for stripping the insulation from the ends of electrical conductors, comprising i.a. a two-members aggregate for carrying and longitudinally moving a pair of cutting and stripping jaws accommodate with a pair of clamping jaws, comprises a first member of said the two cutting and stripping jaws and a longitudinal rod part at the forward end of which is a plastics joint means in the shape of a forwardly open arc provided which is resilient at least along a portion of its circumference and carries both cutting and stripping jaws.The second member embodies a resiliently biassed driving lever which is with the aid of pivot means pivotally attached to a handle of the tool. Each of the two members inclusive of their mounting means is integrally made of plastics material so as to embody one single component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1993
    Assignee: Weidmuller Interface GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Hans Undin
  • Patent number: 5228325
    Abstract: Pliers having a pair of handles and a pair of shank members have one member of a die pair for treating a workpiece on each of the shank members. The die members are attached to the inner sides of the shank members rotatably about an axis situated in the tool plane, and a follower is provided to ensure their corotation. The workpiece may be introduced into the die pair frontally or laterally, depending on the rotational position of the die pair. In one embodiment, the die members are also pivotable about axes extending at right angles to the tool plane. The pliers may be used in many applications such as crimping electrical terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Assignee: C. A. Weidmuller Interface GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Ulrich Wiebe, Hans Undin, Gerd Weber
  • Patent number: 5107588
    Abstract: Connectors with a barrel-shaped ferrule are produced from an intermediate which is embodied by metallic strip consisting of a plurality of connector blanks linked together by interconnecting means, each blank comprising a first ferrule-forming part and a second tongue-forming part, and including a first zone which comprises all the first parts, and an adjacent second zone which comprises all the second parts and all the interconnecting means, the side edges of neighbouring first parts in the strip being separated by free interspaces and a continuous layer or cover of insulating material being adhesively applied on the first zone, on at least one obverse surface of the strip, so as to extend beyond a terminal edge of the first part, the said layer being within said interspaces cut through and bent so as to form at least one flap sufficiently large to adhere when folded back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Assignee: C. A. Weidmuller GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Hans Undin, Bernhard Boche, Bernd David, Ulrich Wiebe
  • Patent number: 5042286
    Abstract: In a manually operated pliers-type tool comprising an elongated tool body with a part defining an operative section with two carrier means for operative means such as crimping die members, and a longitudinal operating lever, which is journalled to the tool body and together therewith defines a reverse handle arrangement, projects that part of the tool body and tool, which defines the operative section, in the direction from which the operating lever is attached to the tool body, and the operating lever terminates, in its folded-down position, before that projecting part, and is level therewith. In a preferred embodiment, one of the carrier means is embodied by at least one rocker which is pivotably mounted in the operative section with the aid of a resilient means, so that the respective operative means may recede to a certain degree under the effect of predetermined load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1991
    Assignee: C.A. Weidmuller GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Ulrich Wiebe, Hartmut Schmode, Karl-Heinz Siemens, Jorg Gondermann, Hans Undin
  • Patent number: 4982630
    Abstract: In a pliers-type tool with a fixed jaw carrier (13A) and a movable jaw carrier (13B) arranged on a pivotable rocker (14) which is connected with an at least to a limited degree resiliently bendable bracket (15). The rocker (14) is with the aid of a pivot pin (14A) pivotally attached to a longitudinal tool body (11), the pivot pin (14A) passing through the rocker (14) in a hole which is larger than the diameter of the pivot pin (14A), and is anchored on one end of a short link (17), the other end of which link is attached to the said bracket (17).Thus work pieces, having a size within certain limits, may be precisely treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1991
    Assignee: C. A. Weidmuller GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Hartmut Schmode, Ulrich Wiebe, Hans Undin
  • Patent number: 4981451
    Abstract: A contact element such as an end-sleeve or a cable shoe, having a connecting portion and a contact portion, is produced from an originally plane blank which has a substantially rectangular first part, which in the finished product defines said connecting portion, and a second part, which in the finished product defines said contact portion. A plurality of such blanks is joined into a metallic punching band with an obverse face and a reverse face and comprising a first zone with all the first parts of the blanks, and a second zone with all the second parts of blanks. On at least the obverse face of the first zone is an insulating cover or coating applied before the individual blanks are removed from the punching band, so that the contact elements having a metallic connection portion with an insulating layer are obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1991
    Assignee: C.A. Weidmuller GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Hans Undin, Bernhard Boche, Bernd David, Ulrich Wiebe
  • Patent number: 4956992
    Abstract: A manual tool, drivable by a rotary motor, for treating work pieces by pressure, such as crimping contact terminals on electrical conductors, comprises in a tool body, on which a recess for the work piece is provided, a slidably mounted stamp member and a force transforming mechanism which has an input shaft drivable by the motor in rotary motion, and an output member for driving said stamp member through a tuggle linkage in a reciprocating motion toward and away from said recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1990
    Assignee: C. A. Weidmuller GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Hans Undin
  • Patent number: 4825735
    Abstract: A pliers-type tool with two handles has a parallel mechanism carrying two carrier members for working jaws. The mechanism comprises two cross-wise arranged guide lever means and one of the carrier members or one of the guide lever means is merged with one of the handles to a rigid tool body. A resilient member may be interposed, also in tools not having a parallel mechanism, between a link connecting the two handles and a counter-element in order to compensate for inaccuracies and/or to enable an extra push at the end of a closing movement of the handles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: C. A. Weidmuller GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Hans Undin
  • Patent number: 4787279
    Abstract: A tool with two elongated handles and two jaws operatively connected to the handles is provided with a mechanism for preventing premature opening of the handles and jaws. The mechanism comprises a pawl operating as a bistable rocker and engaging, with one or with two engagement means, an engagement member defined by two projections delimitating an operational area, or by at least one row of teeth with which each of the two engagement means is alternately engageable, so as to prevent premature interruption of the closing movement and preferably also of the reverse opening movement of the handles and of the jaws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1988
    Assignee: C. A. Weidmuller GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Hans Undin
  • Patent number: 4766672
    Abstract: A stripping tool of a kind where first a local incision is made in the insulation layer or layers of an electrical conductor and then is extended along the entire cross-sectional periphery by relative rotation of the tool and of the conductor, is provided with a slider in a housing or tool body, which slider may be activated by an eccentric cam member so as to press the conductor against a cutting means. The cam member may be embodied by an annulus mounted on a bearing which has a central opening through which the user may slip on one finger of his hand in order to execute said rotation, and the cutting means may be defined by an exchangeable cassette provided with cutting blades settable by setting screws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1988
    Assignee: C. A. Weidmuller GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Hans Undin, Hans Wiener
  • Patent number: 4726266
    Abstract: In a pair of pliers where at least one of two shanks which carry jaws is built up of two spaced side-plates, is in at least one of the shanks a tapered section arranged rearwardly of a pivot point where the shank is attached to the other one. By the rearward location, which also allows a less steep taper, the tapered section is more spaced from the pivot point, whereby the danger of rupture upon heavy loading is diminished. Also the handles may be built up of spaced side-plates between which a stem portion of a protective grip with T-shaped cross-section is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Assignee: C. A. Weidmuller GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Hans Undin, Hans Wiener
  • Patent number: 4637242
    Abstract: A locator device for a tool with crimping dies for cable shoes has at least one track for accommodating the contact portion of the cable shoe, a stationary stop at the end of the track and a movable stop at a selected location along the track. For treating cable shoes with longer contact portions, the movable stop is lifted from the track so that the stationary stop is operative, and when treating cable shoes with shorter contact portions the movable stop is put in place. The device is preferably made as a readily mountable accessory to the crimping tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1987
    Assignee: C. A. Weidmuller GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Hans Undin, Hans Wiener
  • Patent number: 4630462
    Abstract: A tool for crimping cable shoe terminals having an affixing part and a contact part onto the ends of electrical conductors has a pair of jaws provided with at least one pair of co-operating crimping dies and hinged together by a pivot pin. On the same pivot pin is mounted a rocker arm carrying for each pair of crimping dies a chamber accommodating the contact part of a terminal to be crimped. The rocker arm is affected by a position-controlling force such as friction at the location of mounting, and by suitably located dog means so that it makes a move, after the crimping operation has been terminated, by which the terminal, now crimped on a conductor, is lifted from the crimping die so that it readily can be removed from the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: C. A. Weidmuller GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Hans Wiener, Hans Undin
  • Patent number: 4616533
    Abstract: A stripping device for coaxial cables comprises a handle member and a guiding track member for a predetermined end length of a cable, rotarily mounted in the handle member. Knife means, mounted in a knife holder which is pivotally attached to the guiding track member, are provided to perform at least two spaced incisions in the cable. A locking means connects temporarily an inserted cable non-rotarily with the handle member. By pivoting the knife holder towards the guiding track member and at the same time rotating the guiding track member with the attached knife holder about the cable locked in the handle member, a first incision is made and extended along the whole periphery of the cable by the knife means which is closest to the end of the knife holder remotest from the handle member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1986
    Assignee: C. A. Weidmuller GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Hans Wiener, Hans Undin
  • Patent number: 4602535
    Abstract: A mechanism for preventing premature opening of a tool having two elongate handles comprising a carrier having a row of teeth at one edge and a spring-affected, pivotable pawl co-operating with the row of teeth. The pawl operates as a bistable rocker swingable by end stops at both ends of the row of teeth from a first lateral position for engagement with the row through an instable middle position into a second engagement-free lateral position. The two ends of the spring affecting the pawl and a pivot pin on which the pawl is mounted lie along one straight line when the pawl passes through the instable middle position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1986
    Assignee: C. A. Weidmuller GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Hans Wiener, Hans Undin