Patents by Inventor Heinz Schnerring

Heinz Schnerring 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).

  • Publication number: 20050161242
    Abstract: A hand power tool, in particular a drill hammer or jackhammer, is disclosed, which has a guide tube (11), a tool holder (24) that can be attached interchangeably to the guide tube (11), and a locking device (23) that locks the tool holder (24) to the guide tube (11), the locking device being manually releasable by means of an axial displacement of a slide sleeve (34) oriented away from the tool holder (24). To achieve a compact connection construction, which is economical in production terms, between the interchangeable tool holder (24) and the hand power tool, the tool holder (24) is embodied as insertable by an end portion (241) into a guide portion (111) embodied on the front end of the guide tube (11), in the inner wall thereof (FIG. 1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Gerhard Meixner, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
  • Patent number: 6918728
    Abstract: A snap ring for shafts or bores is proposed, which is able to be axially fixed in position by snapping into place in a circumferential groove. The snap ring is provided with a centering ring which, when the case of the snap ring is installed in the circumferential groove, extends with radial clearance to an annular clip of the snap ring, which is disposed approximately concentrically to the circumferential groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Manfred Hellbach, Frank Mueller, Heinz Schnerring, Joerg Friedrich, Andreas Strasser
  • Publication number: 20040245731
    Abstract: A hand power tool selected from the group consisting of a drill hammer and an impact hammer has an exchangeable tool holder, a guide pipe which receives the tool holder at its free end, a locking device arranged on the guide pipe and operative manually for fixing the tool holder on the guide pipe in a defined locking position assumed by the tool holder on the guide pipe, so that the locking position is arranged before a mounting position in a displacement direction of the tool holder, in which mounting position the tool holder is held unlocked on the guide pipe, the locking device being provided with means activatable by a release of the locking device and providing a displacement of the tool holder to the mounting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Heinz Schnerring, Willy Braun, Axel Kuhnle
  • Patent number: 6766868
    Abstract: An electric combination hammer for use either as a drilling hammer or as a chisel hammer has a housing and a handle arranged on it. The housing has arranged on it an on-off switch having a pawl and a switch element for manually switching from drilling operation to chisel operation and vice versa. Also arranged is a catch device by which the pawl may be engaged in chisel operation and which also prevents a latched position from being engaged in drilling operation. The catch device has a catch bracket having two legs which are connected by a joint and may be brought into operative connection with a blocking element that blocks the joint in at least one pivot direction to establish the catch function. The catch device also has at least one catch element which may be brought into operative connection with another catch element that is in operative connection with the pawl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Heinz Schnerring
  • Patent number: 6675908
    Abstract: A drill hammer or riveter, includes a housing (11), in which a hammering mechanism (12) is accommodated that in an axially displaceably supported guide tube (13) has a reciprocating piston (16) and a striker (17), drivable by the piston (16) via an air cushion; the hammering mechanism (12) can be moved out of an idling position into a hammering position by an axial displacement of the guide tube (13); the guide tube (13) is urged by a restoring spring (27) in the direction of the idling position with a restoring force: and between the guide tube (13) and the housing (11), at least one damping and/or spring member (30, 36, 37) is provided, which in the hammering position of the guide tuber (13) has a spring or damping characteristic between the guide tube (13) and the housing (11) that deviates from the restoring spring (27) in the region of the idling position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Frank Mueller, Gerhard Meixner, Heinz Schnerring
  • Patent number: 6666283
    Abstract: A hand power tool has at least one safety coupling arranged in a drive train, the safety coupling having at least two coupling elements for transmitting a torque around a rotary axis, at least one arresting element which is spring loaded and held in a guiding passage for connecting the coupling elements with one another, a guiding element, a spring providing spring-loading of the arresting element and supported in direction of the arresting element by the guiding element, the guiding element being non rotatably guided relative to an axis extending parallel to the rotary axis by guiding surfaces in the guiding passage, and the arresting element unlatching and keeping in contact with a surface toward which the arresting element is urged by the spring in response to exceeding of predetermined torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Frank Mueller, Karl Treyz, Heinz Schnerring, Joerg Friedrich, Andreas Strasser, Hubert Steinke
  • Publication number: 20030098168
    Abstract: A hand power tool has a tool, a hammer tube, a striking mechanism having a striker and an anvil with an integrated receptacle for the tool which is strikingly drivable in the receptacle, and a blocking element which connects the tool and the anvil in an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Gerhard Meixner, Heinz Schnerring
  • Patent number: 6527280
    Abstract: A hand held power tool formed as a hammer drill has a strikingly drivable tool holder having a base body, at least one locking body with which the base body is form-lockingly connectable and through which the base body is fixable in a rotary direction in at least two positions, the locking body being formed as a ring-shaped component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Manfred Hellbach, Gerhard Meixner, Heinz Schnerring, Andreas Strasser
  • Publication number: 20030037937
    Abstract: An electric combination hammer for use either as a drilling hammer or as a chisel hammer has a housing (10) and a handle (12) arranged on it, in which is arranged an on-off switch (16) having a pawl (14) and having a switch element (18) for manually switching from drilling operation to chisel operation and vice versa and having a catch device (20, 22) by which the pawl (14) may be engaged in chisel operation and which prevents a latched position from being engaged in drilling operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Heinz Schnerring
  • Patent number: 6464234
    Abstract: The machine tool, especially a hammer drill or chisel, has a rotatable and/or axially movable tool holder (10,12) for a tool (16) having a grooved shaft. The tool holder (10,12) includes a base body (22); two radially movable locking bodies (18,20) held in the base body and movable into respective locking positions engaged in two closed grooves (26,28) in the tool shaft; a bearing member (32) movable between a bearing position for holding the locking bodies (18,20) in the locking position and a releasing position in which the locking bodies are movable out of the grooves; an operating member (36,38) connected with the bearing member (32) for moving the bearing member (32) and a resilient plastic guiding member (42,44) arranged to guide the locking bodies (18,20) radially outward during motion from the locking to unlocking position and to act on the locking bodies (18,20) with a radially inwardly directed spring force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Manfred Hellbach, Heinz Schnerring, Karsten Blaier
  • Publication number: 20010013682
    Abstract: The machine tool, especially a hammer drill or chisel, has a rotatable and/or axially movable tool holder (10,12) for a tool (16) having a grooved shaft. The tool holder (10,12) includes a base body (22); two radially movable locking bodies (18,20) held in the base body and movable into respective locking positions engaged in two closed grooves (26,28) in the tool shaft; a bearing member (32) movable between a bearing position for holding the locking bodies (18,20) in the locking position and a releasing position in which the locking bodies are movable out of the grooves; an operating member (36,38) connected with the bearing member (32) for moving the bearing member (32) and a resilient plastic guiding member (42,44) arranged to guide the locking bodies (18,20) radially outward during motion from the locking to unlocking position and to act on the locking bodies (18,20) with a radially inwardly directed spring force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2001
    Publication date: August 16, 2001
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Manfred Hellbach, Heinz Schnerring, Karsten Blaier
  • Publication number: 20010009190
    Abstract: A hand power tool has at least one safety coupling arranged in a drive train and having at least two coupling elements for transmitting a torque around a rotary axis, at lest one arresting element which is spring loaded and held in a guiding passage for connecting the coupling elements with one another, so that the coupling elements are at least disconnected in response to exceeding of predetermined torque, a spring providing spring-loading of the arresting element and supported in direction of the arresting element by the guiding element, and the guiding element being non rotatably guided relative to an axis extending parallel to the rotary axis by guiding surfaces in the guiding passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2001
    Publication date: July 26, 2001
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Frank Mueller, Karl Treyz, Heinz Schnerring, Joerg Friedrich, Andreas Strasser, Hubert Steinke
  • Publication number: 20010008186
    Abstract: A hand held power tool formed as a hammer drill has a strikingly drivable tool holder having a base body, at least one locking body with which the base body is form-lockingly connectable and through which the base body is fixable in a rotary direction in at least two positions, the locking body being formed as a ring-shaped component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2001
    Publication date: July 19, 2001
    Inventors: Karl Frauhammer, Manfred Hellbach, Gerhard Meixner, Heinz Schnerring, Andreas Strasser
  • Patent number: 5996707
    Abstract: A hand power tool has a machine housing, a drive motor accommodated in the machine housing, a drive train connected with the drive motor and provided with a tool receptacle for rotation of a tool insertable in the tool receptacle, a detecting device for detecting an uncontrolled operation of the hand power tool by detecting a blocking of the tool in a workpiece with a resulting impact-like turning of the machine housing, a blocking device provided for the drive train and releasable by the detecting device, the locking device having a locking toothing arranged in the drive train and a blocking member movably supported in the machine housing and form-lockingly engagable in the locking toothing so as to non-rotatably fix the drive train relative to the machine housing, the detecting device being formed so that it produces an electrical release signal in an uncontrolled operation, the blocking device being releasable by the electrical release signal, and further has electromagnet device actuatable by the release
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Thome, Karl Frauhammer, Manfred Hellbach, Gerhard Meixner, Heinz Schnerring, Manfred Klein