Patents by Inventor Hans Wagener

Hans Wagener 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: 8319106
    Abstract: A carrying device for busbars, having at least one holding device to be fixed on a base unit. The device has a receiving opening for feeding through at least one busbar, and a clamping device for fixing the same. Expanded installation possibilities of busbars result if there is a receiving part that is inserted, or that can be inserted, in the receiving opening. The part can have at least one recess that is adjusted to the cross-section of a busbar, and the respective busbar can be selectively disposed in the holding device in at least two installation positions pivoted about the longitudinal axes thereof, by the receiving part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hans Wagener
  • Publication number: 20100025078
    Abstract: A carrying device for busbars, having at least one holding device to be fixed on a base unit. The device has a receiving opening for feeding through at least one busbar, and a clamping device for fixing the same. Expanded installation possibilities of busbars result if there is a receiving part that is inserted, or that can be inserted, in the receiving opening. The part can have at least one recess that is adjusted to the cross-section of a busbar, and the respective busbar can be selectively disposed in the holding device in at least two installation positions pivoted about the longitudinal axes thereof, by the receiving part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2007
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Inventor: Hans Wagener
  • Patent number: 7655865
    Abstract: An apparatus for mounting bus bars having at least one bus bar holder which can be attached to a loadbearing structure and which has at least one foot receptacle for introducing a foot section of a bus bar and fixing the latter by a holding piece. Simple, stable mounting of bus bars can be achieved if the holding piece is configured as a separate part which can be attached releasably or which is attached releasably to a base part of the bus bar holder and which has a connecting section for attachment to an adapted holding piece receptacle of the base part and a head part which engages over the former for fixing the foot section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hans Wagener
  • Patent number: 7638711
    Abstract: A bus bar system with an assembly unit having a base plate with side limbs and fixing items which are connected to the assembly unit. The assembly unit forms a receiving element for a bus bar holder and bus bars which are covered with cover elements and/or adapters for peripheral devices. The covers and/or adapters are mechanically connected to the bus bars by plug-in receiving elements and/or locking receiving elements and the adapters are also electrically connected to the bus bars. An assembly unit, which can be produced and mounted at low cost without impeding functional requirements, is provided and the assembly unit forms locking receiving elements together with retaining flanges, which protrude at a distance on the outer sides of the side limbs, and fixing flanges, wherein bar-shaped fixing items can be inserted into and/or locked inside the receiving elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hans Wagener
  • Patent number: 7601013
    Abstract: A connection or device adapter, which can be placed on a mounting unit at right angles with respect to a longitudinal direction of busbars and mechanically connected, one contact element being electrically conductively connected to the facing busbar in a connection or device adapter per busbar and the contact elements in the connection or device adapter being led up to connection receptacles in the region of a narrow side of the connection or device adapter. If the contact elements are formed as contact bars and are electrically conductively connected to one another by the associated connection receptacles and form connection units and for the connection or device adapter to have receptacles for the connection units in the region of a narrow side and to accommodate the contact elements with contact points positioned in relation to the busbars, the complexity in terms of parts and assembly, in particular for the connection or device adapter, is substantially reduced and simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hans Wagener, Dirk Hecker, Ulrich Haubach
  • Patent number: 7520776
    Abstract: A device adapter including a base part, the bottom side of which has busbar fixtures to be mounted on and contacted with busbars while the top side thereof supports a mounting device that is removably fixed and has two parallel spaced-apart longitudinal rails for coupling electric devices or house wiring units. In order to keep the design simple while offering variable mounting possibilities, the connecting device includes protruding, hook-type hanging elements which are molded onto the bottom side of the longitudinal rails, which can be vertically inserted into receiving holes that are adjusted thereto and are located on the top side of the base part, and which can be hung on the side of the receiving holes facing away from the top side in the area behind the receiving holes by performing a movement in the longitudinal direction. A releasable locking element can lock the hung position of the longitudinal rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hans Wagener
  • Patent number: 7448885
    Abstract: A device or connection adapter having a base part, in which contact-making units with connection contacts are accommodated for making electrical contact with busbars of a busbar system, and having a holding apparatus for detachably fixing the device adapter with respect to the busbar system. Given a simple design and simple operation, variable coupling options are provided if the holding apparatus has different, modular connections and clamping feet, at least some of which can be fitted detachably to the base part, in order to mechanically fix the device adapter either to a supporting apparatus of the busbar system or directly to at least one busbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hans Wagener
  • Publication number: 20080266760
    Abstract: A bus bar system with an assembly unit having a base plate with side limbs and fixing items which are connected to the assembly unit. The assembly unit forms a receiving element for a bus bar holder and bus bars which are covered with cover elements and/or adapters for peripheral devices. The covers and/or adapters are mechanically connected to the bus bars by plug-in receiving elements and/or locking receiving elements and the adapters are also electrically connected to the bus bars. An assembly unit, which can be produced and mounted at low cost without impeding functional requirements, is provided and the assembly unit forms locking receiving elements together with retaining flanges, which protrude at a distance on the outer sides of the side limbs, and fixing flanges, wherein bar-shaped fixing items can be inserted into and/or locked inside the receiving elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2005
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventor: Hans Wagener
  • Publication number: 20080257602
    Abstract: An apparatus for mounting bus bars having at least one bus bar holder which can be attached to a loadbearing structure and which has at least one foot receptacle for introducing a foot section of a bus bar and fixing the latter by a holding piece. Simple, stable mounting of bus bars can be achieved if the holding piece is configured as a separate part which can be attached releasably or which is attached releasably to a base part of the bus bar holder and which has a connecting section for attachment to an adapted holding piece receptacle of the base part and a head part which engages over the former for fixing the foot section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventor: Hans Wagener
  • Publication number: 20080220635
    Abstract: A connection or device adapter, which can be placed on a mounting unit at right angles with respect to a longitudinal direction of busbars and mechanically connected, one contact element being electrically conductively connected to the facing busbar in a connection or device adapter per busbar and the contact elements in the connection or device adapter being led up to connection receptacles in the region of a narrow side of the connection or device adapter. If the contact elements are formed as contact bars and are electrically conductively connected to one another by the associated connection receptacles and form connection units and for the connection or device adapter to have receptacles for the connection units in the region of a narrow side and to accommodate the contact elements with contact points positioned in relation to the busbars, the complexity in terms of parts and assembly, in particular for the connection or device adapter, is substantially reduced and simplified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hans Wagener, Dirk Hecker, Ulrich Haubach
  • Publication number: 20080038947
    Abstract: A device or connection adapter having a base part, in which contact-making units with connection contacts are accommodated for making electrical contact with busbars of a busbar system, and having a holding apparatus for detachably fixing the device adapter with respect to the busbar system. Given a simple design and simple operation, variable coupling options are provided if the holding apparatus has different, modular connections and clamping feet, at least some of which can be fitted detachably to the base part, in order to mechanically fix the device adapter either to a supporting apparatus of the busbar system or directly to at least one busbar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventor: Hans Wagener
  • Publication number: 20080002338
    Abstract: A device adapter including a base part, the bottom side of which has busbar fixtures to be mounted on and contacted with busbars while the top side thereof supports a mounting device that is removably fixed and has two parallel spaced-apart longitudinal rails for coupling electric devices or house wiring units. In order to keep the design simple while offering variable mounting possibilities, the connecting device includes protruding, hook-type hanging elements which are molded onto the bottom side of the longitudinal rails, which can be vertically inserted into receiving holes that are adjusted thereto and are located on the top side of the base part, and which can be hung on the side of the receiving holes facing away from the top side in the area behind the receiving holes by performing a movement in the longitudinal direction. A releasable locking element can lock the hung position of the longitudinal rails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventor: Hans Wagener
  • Patent number: 7244143
    Abstract: A busbar system having an assembly unit for receiving a pluralilty of conductor busbars in electrically insulating busbar supports, and at least one connecting or appliance adapter which includes a receiving bridge for receiving terminals or appliances, and is embodied to electrically connect the same to the conductor busbars. The system of this invention has a simple structure, favoring the operation of the system because the assembly unit includes holding sections located on lateral, parallel longitudinal edge sections, and at least one adapter has a first fixing section and a second fixing section on the two narrow end sections thereof, and the fixing sections are adapted to the associated edge sections and have holding elements which co-operate with the holding sections for fixing the adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hans Wagener
  • Publication number: 20060035517
    Abstract: A busbar system having an assembly unit for receiving a pluralilty of conductor busbars in electrically insulating busbar supports, and at least one connecting or appliance adapter which includes a receiving bridge for receiving terminals or appliances, and is embodied to electrically connect the same to the conductor busbars. The system of this invention has a simple structure, favoring the operation of the system because the assembly unit includes holding sections located on lateral, parallel longitudinal edge sections, and at least one adapter has a first fixing section and a second fixing section on the two narrow end sections thereof, and the fixing sections are adapted to the associated edge sections and have holding elements which co-operate with the holding sections for fixing the adapter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2004
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventor: Hans Wagener
  • Patent number: 6672889
    Abstract: A bus bar holder having at least one bus bar receiver formed in a support element, with a width that can be varied for receiving bus bars of different cross sections by means of an adapter element, which can be plugged or locked in a holding structure with a matched and complementary holding structure in a bottom area. There are a variety of adaptations for adapting the bus bar receiver in the depth direction, because a separate spacer is provided, which can be removably attached on the bottom area of the bus bar receiver and which has a free space in the area of the holding structure, through which the holding structure is accessible for inserting the adapter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Eberhard Biermeier, Hans Wagener
  • Patent number: 6590164
    Abstract: A device for fastening a support rail on frame legs of a rack of a switchgear cabinet, wherein the frame legs have two fastening sides oriented perpendicularly with respect to each other and each has a row of square fastening perforations. Both ends of the support rail have fastening brackets which have at least one suspension hook and are matched to a cross section of the fastening perforations in the first fastening side of the frame legs spaced apart between the fastening brackets and to the spacing of the fastening perforations of the frame legs. A clamping plate is assigned to each fastening bracket of the support rail and has retaining claws and extends with the retaining claws behind the fastening perforations in the second fastening sides of the frame legs. The clamping plates have a threaded receiver for a clamping screw for maintaining them on the support rail in an elongated hole extending in the linear direction of the support rail and can be clamped together with them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Rittal Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jürgen Zachrai, Hans Wagener
  • Publication number: 20030096515
    Abstract: A bus bar holder having at least one bus bar receiver formed in a support element, with a width that can be varied for receiving bus bars of different cross sections by means of an adapter element, which can be plugged or locked in a holding structure with a matched and complementary holding structure in a bottom area. There are a variety of adaptations for adapting the bus bar receiver in the depth direction, because a separate spacer is provided, which can be removably attached on the bottom area of the bus bar receiver and which has a free space in the area of the holding structure, through which the holding structure is accessible for inserting the adapter element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Inventors: Eberhard Biermeier, Hans Wagener
  • Patent number: 6506068
    Abstract: A kit for a bus bar system for connecting bus bars with connectors of an electric installation device, which avoids the production of special connecting rails, depending on the position of the connecting planes of the bus bars and the connectors of the installation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Rittal Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hans Wagener
  • Patent number: 6381122
    Abstract: A bus bar system having several bus bars spaced apart from each other in a first connecting plane and of an essentially square cross section and having T-shaped connecting grooves cut into all outsides for a connection with electrical installation devices having flat connectors in a second connecting plane, which is arranged perpendicular to the first connecting plane. With specially embodied connecting and insulating elements, it is possible to displace the connecting planes of the bus bars and of the flat connectors of the installations device parallel and perpendicular with respect to each other without it being necessary to perform elaborate matching assembly work at the site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Rittal Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hans Wagener
  • Publication number: 20010037894
    Abstract: A device for fastening a support rail on frame legs of a rack of a switchgear cabinet, wherein the frame legs have two fastening sides oriented perpendicularly with respect to each other and each has a row of square fastening perforations. Both ends of the support rail have fastening brackets which have at least one suspension hook and are matched to a cross section of the fastening perforations in the first fastening side of the frame legs spaced apart between the fastening brackets and to the spacing of the fastening perforations of the frame legs. A clamping plate is assigned to each fastening bracket of the support rail and has retaining claws and extends with the retaining claws behind the fastening perforations in the second fastening sides of the frame legs. The clamping plates have a threaded receiver for a clamping screw for maintaining them on the support rail in an elongated hole extending in the linear direction of the support rail and can be clamped together with them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Publication date: November 8, 2001
    Inventors: Jurgen Zachrai, Hans Wagener