Patents by Inventor Heinrich Strackbein

Heinrich Strackbein 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: 7791863
    Abstract: A switchgear cabinet assembly or rack assembly including an electric supply device that can be or is connected to a primary power supply. Equipment that is housed in at least one switchgear cabinet or rack on the user side, or equipment that is to be supplied with electricity can be or is connected to the electric supply device. To achieve simple and reliable connection options, a sub-distribution device is located in the switchgear cabinet or rack or in a separate cabinet or rack. The device has at least one sub-distribution unit that can be or is connected to the primary power supply, having a housing or frame and being retained and secured by a mounting unit. According to this invention, the sub-distribution unit can be or is connected to primary supply lines that lead to the primary power supply and to pre-fabricated connection lines that lead to the rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Strackbein, Ralf Dahmer, Markus Hain, Jörg Kreiling, Hartmut Lohrey
  • Patent number: 7559209
    Abstract: A liquid cooling system having cooling units individually assigned to electronic component groups housed in a rack or a switchgear cabinet, which are to be cooled, and having a monitoring and control arrangement for monitoring a cooling temperature. Effective cooling and temperature monitoring is obtained because the cooling units are liquid cooling units and are connected via branch points to a common central liquid line system integrated into the rack or the switchgear cabinet. The control and monitoring arrangement is for monitoring the cooling temperature in the central liquid line system and for emitting an error signal when a predetermined or a predeterminable threshold temperature in a liquid return branch is exceeded, or when a predetermined or predeterminable threshold temperature difference between a temperature in an inlet branch and a temperature in the return branch is exceeded, or when the liquid flow falls below a predetermined or predeterminable threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Nicolai, Martin Dörrich, Heinrich Strackbein, Markus Hain, Jörg Kreiling
  • Publication number: 20090116174
    Abstract: A switchgear cabinet assembly or rack assembly including an electric supply device that can be or is connected to a primary power supply. Equipment that is housed in at least one switchgear cabinet or rack on the user side, or equipment that is to be supplied with electricity can be or is connected to the electric supply device. To achieve simple and reliable connection options, a sub-distribution device is located in the switchgear cabinet or rack or in a separate cabinet or rack. The device has at least one sub-distribution unit that can be or is connected to the primary power supply, having a housing or frame and being retained and secured by a mounting unit. According to this invention, the sub-distribution unit can be or is connected to primary supply lines that lead to the primary power supply and to pre-fabricated connection lines that lead to the rack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Heinrich Strackbein, Ralf Dahmer, Markus Hain, Jorg Kreiling, Hartmut Lohrey
  • Publication number: 20080243311
    Abstract: A switchgear cabinet control system and a monitoring system including at least one switchgear cabinet, a control and monitoring device and an operating and information system including user components and data processing, data transferring and storage components which can be remote controlled, in addition to a user guiding device and a configuration device. An individually adapted, simple to operate system is obtained when the operating and information system includes a planning device which is used to selectively combine at least one switchgear cabinet having switchgear cabinet components to an individual user system in a provider device, wherein offer-related data of various switchgear cabinets and switchgear cabinet components are contained. A selected arrangement of planned data which is related to at least one switchgear cabinet and switchgear cabinet components can be extracted therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Ralf Dahmer, Timo Prommersperger, Heinrich Strackbein, Sven Laurosch, Daniel Rosenthal, Jorg Kreiling
  • Patent number: 7042235
    Abstract: A method and a device for detecting leaks in components conducting liquids by a sensor reacting to leaks. The component to be monitored is inserted into a closable envelope containing the leaked liquid. Electrodes are embedded into the envelope. The resistance and/or the capacitance between the electrodes is changed if leaking liquid enters the closed envelope. With a sensor connected to the electrodes, which reacts to the resistance and/or capacitance changes, a display and/or alarm signal is triggered. It is possible to monitor the entire component for leaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Strackbein, Markus Hain, Jörg Kreiling
  • Publication number: 20060037331
    Abstract: A liquid cooling system having cooling units individually assigned to electronic component groups housed in a rack or a switchgear cabinet, which are to be cooled, and having a monitoring and control arrangement for monitoring a cooling temperature. Effective cooling and temperature monitoring is obtained because the cooling units are liquid cooling units and are connected via branch points to a common central liquid line system integrated into the rack or the switchgear cabinet. The control and monitoring arrangement is for monitoring the cooling temperature in the central liquid line system and for emitting an error signal when a predetermined or a predeterminable threshold temperature in a liquid return branch is exceeded, or when a predetermined or predeterminable threshold temperature difference between a temperature in an inlet branch and a temperature in the return branch is exceeded, or when the liquid flow falls below a predetermined or predeterminable threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Inventors: Michael Nicolai, Martin Dorrich, Heinrich Strackbein, Markus Hain, Jorg Kreiling
  • Publication number: 20050062487
    Abstract: A method and a device for detecting leaks in components conducting liquids by a sensor reacting to leaks. The component to be monitored is inserted into a closable envelope containing the leaked liquid. Electrodes are embedded into the envelope. The resistance and/or the capacitance between the electrodes is changed if leaking liquid enters the closed envelope. With a sensor connected to the electrodes, which reacts to the resistance and/or capacitance changes, a display and/or alarm signal is triggered. It is possible to monitor the entire component for leaks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventors: Heinrich Strackbein, Markus Hain, Jorg Kreiling
  • Patent number: 6744363
    Abstract: A switchgear cabinet monitoring arrangement with a control device for monitoring switchgear cabinet functions, including a door position, and for generating monitoring signals for signaling to and/or controlling components relating to the switchgear cabinet functions and installed in the switchgear cabinet or on the switchgear cabinet. A simple and compact design is achieved because the control device is limited to monitoring preselectable threshold values, a door position switch is installed on or in the device housing, and the device housing has one or several indicator elements which react with a visual or acoustic indication when at least one threshold value is upwardly or downwardly exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Nicolai, Heinrich Strackbein, Jörg Kreiling, Michael Seelbach, Markus Hain
  • Patent number: 6720886
    Abstract: A switchgear cabinet including a smoke indicator which has an intake pipe and, in a housing, a smoke sensor as well as a fan or ventilator, which draws air from the interior of the switchgear cabinet into the housing via an inlet aperture in a housing wall and discharges the air via an outlet into the space outside the housing. A sensitive smoke indicator, which is also usable with the switchgear cabinet partially open, has the intake pipe communicating by its upper end region with the inlet aperture. The housing which is enclosed in a sealing manner apart from the intake pipe and the outlet, is disposed in the interior of the switchgear cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Seelbach, Heinrich Strackbein, Markus Hain, Edgar Nickel
  • Patent number: 6549127
    Abstract: A switchgear cabinet monitoring arrangement having a base monitoring device which is arranged or intended to be arranged in a switchgear cabinet and has at least one bus connection, several sensor connections and at least one triggering connection, for monitoring, controlling and/or regulating switchgear cabinet functions. Various monitoring and control functions of several different switchgear cabinets, along with a relatively simple construction, are achieved because a further monitoring device arranged or to be arranged in a respective further switchgear cabinet is assigned to the base monitoring device, which is connected to the base monitoring device by a field bus. The further monitoring device also has several sensor connections and at least one triggering connection and is designed for monitoring, controlling and/or regulating switchgear cabinet functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Strackbein, Markus Hain, Jörg Kreiling, Michael Seelbach
  • Publication number: 20030063007
    Abstract: A switchgear cabinet including a smoke indicator which has an intake pipe and, in a housing, a smoke sensor as well as a fan or ventilator, which draws air from the interior of the switchgear cabinet into the housing via an inlet aperture in a housing wall and discharges the air via an outlet into the space outside the housing. A sensitive smoke indicator, which is also usable with the switchgear cabinet partially open, has the intake pipe communicating by its upper end region with the inlet aperture. The housing which is enclosed in a sealing manner apart from the intake pipe and the outlet, is disposed in the interior of the switchgear cabinet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Inventors: Michael Seelbach, Heinrich Strackbein, Markus Hain, Edgar Nickel
  • Patent number: 6348745
    Abstract: A switchgear cabinet monitoring arrangement with a central control arrangement for monitoring, controlling and/or regulating switchgear cabinet functions, and having a base device with inputs and outputs, in which monitoring and control components and a voltage supply device are arranged. Adaptation to different requirements is achieved because the base device has several function card insertion slots. Several function cards with different monitoring, control, regulation and/or switching functions are provided with an appropriate identification and for selective insertion in the function card insertion slots. An identification device determines which function card insertion slots (2.1, . . . 2N) are occupied and of what type is the possibly inserted function card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sven Laurösch, Markus Hain, Heinrich Strackbein
  • Patent number: 6134109
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control box with a box body which can be closed off by a door and a cooler with an inner circuit consisting of a ventilator and an evaporator, and an outer circuit consisting of a compressor, a condenser and a ventilator. An air-conditioning door which can easily by used for both types of operation is provided by a novel casing construction and an appropriate distribution of the modules of the inner and outer circuits of the cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Norbert Muller, Heinrich Strackbein, Jurgen Bernhardt, Walter Nicolai
  • Patent number: 6123400
    Abstract: A switching cabinet having a rack with horizontal and vertical frame profiles. The horizontal frame profiles form a lower and upper frame and the vertical frame profiles are secured in the comer areas of the upper and lower frames. The vertical frame profiles are symmetrical to cross-sectional diagonals running across virtual, vertical outer edges of the rack. Greater flexibility in installing built-in fixtures inside the switch cabinet is achieved by providing the vertical frame profiles which are turned towards the inside of the switching cabinet with an open inner cavity having two inner walls extending in the longitudinal direction of the profiles so that vertical assembly rails can be mounted in the inner cavity, one profiled side standing perpendicular to the outside of the rack is joined to the inner walls. The inner walls, the assembly racks and the profiled sides can have rows of fastening cavities inserted according to a division grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Nicolai, Udo Munch, Heinrich Strackbein
  • Patent number: 6109053
    Abstract: A modular housing assembly comprises a base cabinet body having a height and four orthogonal wall elements. A fifth wall element is angled with respect to the first, second, third and fourth wall elements and a pedestal is fixed below the third wall element. First and second lateral protective walls overlay the first and second wall elements and extend along the height of the cabinet body. A double-walled door is mounted with respect to the base cabinet body and a roof housing fixed above the fourth wall element. Wall redundancy substantially increases the ability of the assembly to resist vandalism and further protect the contents of such assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Heinrich Strackbein, Bernd Georg, Walter Nicolai, Michael Diebel, Achim Edelmann
  • Patent number: 6072119
    Abstract: The invention relates to a filtering device with a filter housing which can accept a filter mat, is covered with a lamella grid on the outlet side and is fitted in an aperture in a mounting wall. RF screening is attained without altering the structure of the filtering device in that the surface of the filter housing is electrically conductive and inserted in the aperture in the mounting plate via an electrically conductive contact frame. The contact frame is electrically connected to the filter housing and the aperture in the mounting plate and there is an electrically conductive screening grid inserted or mounted in the filter housing or between the latter and a fan which can be linked thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Nicolai, Adam Pawlowski, Wolfgang Schuler, Heinrich Strackbein
  • Patent number: 6067223
    Abstract: A cooler which can be fitted on a rear wall or a side wall or a door of a switching cabinet and can be connected thereto via an intake and an inlet aperture of an internal circuit. According to the invention, rain and dustproofing is improved because alongside a central ventilation shaft open at the top, the cooler housing has vertical ventilation chambers open at the top as part of an external circuit hermetically separated from the internal circuit, the top of the switching cabinet and cooler housing is covered by a roofing component spaced therefrom which projects on all sides beyond the control box and the cooler housing and leaves a peripheral ventilation slot opening downwards. The roofing component is divided by two partitions into three chambers which communicate with the ventilation shaft and both ventilation chambers in the cooler housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Diebel, Achim Edelmann, Walter Nicolai, Heinrich Strackbein
  • Patent number: 5932843
    Abstract: A switchgear cabinet with a frame and door elements. A side of the switchgear cabinet can be closed by an angle door element or by two superimposed door elements, a type of rabbet being optional, as a result of connection elements being mounted in pairs on vertical frame legs and aligned on a horizontal center plane in conjunction with suitably aligned closing and hinge elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Horst Besserer, Udo Munch, Markus Neuhof, Walter Nicolai, Adam Pawlowski, Matthias Schuler, Heinrich Strackbein
  • Patent number: 5806946
    Abstract: A switchgear cabinet with a frame made up of frame members and corner joints. The open sides of the frame are or may be closed by side walls, a rear wall, a bottom plate, a cover plate and at least one door. A special design of the frame members in the area of their outer edges and of the corner joints makes it simple to attach a door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Walter Nicolai, Heinrich Strackbein
  • Patent number: D427454
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Udo Munch, Heinrich Strackbein, Walter Nicolai