Patents by Inventor Iker LOPETEGI
Iker LOPETEGI 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).
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Patent number: 11963650Abstract: A sliding-pivoting mechanism for a rack includes two pivot arms pivotably secured to the carcass, arranged parallel to one another, and forming a parallel guide for a pull-out guide having a guide rail and a running rail to which the rack is fastened. A locking mechanism is arranged on the guide rail and on one of the pivot arms to prevent a simultaneous pivoting and sliding movement. The locking mechanism has a locking pin arranged movably on one of the pivot arms and a locking plate mounted in a positionally fixed manner with respect to the guide rail and which interacts with the locking pin to block a pivoting movement of the pivot arms if the rack is lifted into an upper loading and unloading position. An unlocking device, coupled to the locking mechanism, has an actuating element and an unlocking element to move the locking pin from a blocking position into a release position.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Oscar Garcia, Iker Lopetegi, Ander Martinez, Patrick Bon, Thomas Wieder
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Publication number: 20240059227Abstract: A storage element which can be installed in a vehicle interior, in particular in a dashboard, has a tray and a lifting and lowering pull-out device with a body rail which is fixable in a stationary manner to a side wall of the vehicle interior, a tray rail with the tray arranged thereon, and two center rails which are arranged displaceably and pivotably with the body rail and the tray rail and are coupled to one another displaceably relative to one another in the direction of their longitudinal axis. The body rail is pivotably coupled to a first center rail via a first pivot guide web and the tray rail is pivotably coupled to a second center rail via a second pivot guide web. A stabilizing unit with a guide slot stabilizing the lifting and lowering movement of the tray rail and a guide element guided in the guide slot at least in a partial section of a lifting and lowering movement of the tray rail is arranged on the tray or the tray rail and the side wall of the vehicle interior or the body rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2021Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Oscar GARCIA, Iker LOPETEGI, Benjamin BEXTERMOELLER, Arnold GURR, Ander MARTINEZ
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Patent number: 11800930Abstract: A pull-out guide has a guide rail, a running rail, which is mounted in a displaceable manner on the guide rail, and a braking device disposed between the guide rail and the running rail for braking the movement of the running rail relative to the guide rail. The braking device has at least one friction element, which is arranged between the running rail and the guide rail and can be displaced along a sliding surface by way of a contact pressure. The pull-out guide can thus be braked with continuous forces over a long period of time.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Oscar Garcia, Iker Lopetegi
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Patent number: 11497311Abstract: A runner for drawer elements, in particular drawers or trays, that are movable relative to a carcass of a piece of furniture or a household appliance is provided. The runner includes a carcass rail that can be secured directly or via a carcass bracket to a carcass of the piece of furniture or the household appliance, a running rail that can be secured to the movable drawer element, and electric conductors for transmitting electrical energy to a power consumer positioned on the movable drawer element. Positioned on the carcass rail or the carcass bracket is a printed circuit board extending over the length of the carcass rail, and positioned on the running rail is a contact apparatus that has at least one electrically conductive contact element which, when mounted, makes permanent electrical contact with the printed circuit board, and has a connecting element that is electrically connected to the contact element for connecting to the movable drawer element.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Oscar Garcia, Iker Lopetegi
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Publication number: 20220160205Abstract: A sliding-pivoting mechanism for a rack includes two pivot arms pivotably secured to the carcass, arranged parallel to one another, and forming a parallel guide for a pull-out guide having a guide rail and a running rail to which the rack is fastened. A locking mechanism is arranged on the guide rail and on one of the pivot arms to prevent a simultaneous pivoting and sliding movement. The locking mechanism has a locking pin arranged movably on one of the pivot arms and a locking plate mounted in a positionally fixed manner with respect to the guide rail and which interacts with the locking pin to block a pivoting movement of the pivot arms if the rack is lifted into an upper loading and unloading position. An unlocking device, coupled to the locking mechanism, has an actuating element and an unlocking element to move the locking pin from a blocking position into a release position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2020Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Oscar GARCIA, Iker LOPETEGI, Ander MARTINEZ, Patrick BON, Thomas WIEDER
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Publication number: 20220142365Abstract: A pull-out guide has a guide rail, a running rail, which is mounted in a displaceable manner on the guide rail, and a braking device disposed between the guide rail and the running rail for braking the movement of the running rail relative to the guide rail. The braking device has at least one friction element, which is arranged between the running rail and the guide rail and can be displaced along a sliding surface by way of a contact pressure. The pull-out guide can thus be braked with continuous forces over a long period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Oscar GARCIA, Iker LOPETEGI
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Publication number: 20210267372Abstract: A runner for drawer elements, in particular drawers or trays, that are movable relative to a carcass of a piece of furniture or a household appliance is provided. The runner includes a carcass rail that can be secured directly or via a carcass bracket to a carcass of the piece of furniture or the household appliance, a running rail that can be secured to the movable drawer element, and electric conductors for transmitting electrical energy to a power consumer positioned on the movable drawer element. Positioned on the carcass rail or the carcass bracket is a printed circuit board extending over the length of the carcass rail, and positioned on the running rail is a contact apparatus that has at least one electrically conductive contact element which, when mounted, makes permanent electrical contact with the printed circuit board, and has a connecting element that is electrically connected to the contact element for connecting to the movable drawer element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Oscar GARCIA, Iker LOPETEGI
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Patent number: 10051963Abstract: The invention relates to a sliding/pivoting mechanism of a shelf of a piece of furniture or of a domestic appliance for pulling out and raising the shelf from a body of the piece of furniture or of the domestic appliance, which sliding/pivoting mechanism has at least two pivoting arms, which are fastened by means of a first end to at least one of the side walls of the body in such a way that said pivoting arms can be rotated parallel to the plane of the side walls and which are arranged parallel to each other at a distance from each other, wherein at respective second ends of the pivoting arms, a guide rail is fastened in such a way that the guide rail can be pivoted parallel to the plane of the side walls and in such a way that the guide rail can be pivoted from a lower position inside the body to a raised upper position at least partially outside the body, and at least one running rail, which is linearly displacable in the guide rail and to which the shelf is fastened, wherein a damping unit that damps theType: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Mikel Azkue, Oscar Garcia, Eñaut Arriaga, Iker Lopetegi, Unai Laskibar
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Patent number: 9993072Abstract: A sliding-pivoting mechanism of a shelf includes a first pivot arm and a second pivot arm. The pivot arms are arranged attached to sidewalls of a body and parallel to each other at a distance from each other. A guide rail is fastened to second ends of the pivot arms in such a way that the guide rail can be pivoted parallel to the plane of the side walls and that the guide rail can be pivoted from a lower position space to a raised, upper position. The mechanism also includes at least one running rail, which can be moved linearly in the guide rail and to which the shelf is fastened. The sliding-pivoting mechanism includes a locking mechanism for preventing a pivoting motion of the sliding-pivoting mechanism in a raised and a lowered end position. The locking mechanism is arranged on the guide rail and on one of the pivot arms and can be actuated by means of an activator fastened to the running rail.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO, KG.Inventors: Mikel Azkue, Oscar Garcia, Eñaut Arriaga, Iker Lopetegi, Unai Laskibar
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Patent number: 9854905Abstract: A sliding-pivoting mechanism of a shelf includes a first pivot arm and a second pivot arm. The pivot arms are attached to side walls of a body and arranged parallel to each other at a distance from each other. A guide rail is fastened to second ends of the pivot arms in such a way that the guide rail can be pivoted parallel to the plane of the side walls and that the guide rail can be pivoted from a lower position to a raised, upper position. The mechanism also includes at least one running rail, which can be moved linearly in the guide rail and to which the shelf is fastened. The sliding-pivoting mechanism includes a locking mechanism for preventing a pivoting motion of the sliding-pivoting mechanism in a raised and a lowered end position. The locking mechanism is arranged on the guide rail and on one of the pivot arms and can be actuated by means of an activator fastened to the running rail.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & Co. KGInventors: Mikel Azkue, Oscar Garcia, Eñaut Arriaga, Iker Lopetegi, Unai Laskibar
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Publication number: 20170181538Abstract: A sliding-pivoting mechanism of a shelf includes a first pivot arm and a second pivot arm. The pivot arms are arranged attached to sidewalls of a body and parallel to each other at a distance from each other. A guide rail is fastened to second ends of the pivot arms in such a way that the guide rail can be pivoted parallel to the plane of the side walls and that the guide rail can be pivoted from a lower position space to a raised, upper position. The mechanism also includes at least one running rail, which can be moved linearly in the guide rail and to which the shelf is fastened. The sliding-pivoting mechanism includes a locking mechanism for preventing a pivoting motion of the sliding-pivoting mechanism in a raised and a lowered end position. The locking mechanism is arranged on the guide rail and on one of the pivot arms and can be actuated by means of an activator fastened to the running rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2015Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Mikel AZKUE, Oscar GARCIA, Eñaut ARRIAGA, Iker LOPETEGI, Unai LASKIBAR
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Publication number: 20170164733Abstract: A sliding-pivoting mechanism of a shelf includes a first pivot arm and a second pivot arm. The pivot arms are attached to side walls of a body and arranged parallel to each other at a distance from each other. A guide rail is fastened to second ends of the pivot arms in such a way that the guide rail can be pivoted parallel to the plane of the side walls and that the guide rail can be pivoted from a lower position to a raised, upper position. The mechanism also includes at least one running rail, which can be moved linearly in the guide rail and to which the shelf is fastened. The sliding-pivoting mechanism includes a locking mechanism for preventing a pivoting motion of the sliding-pivoting mechanism in a raised and a lowered end position. The locking mechanism is arranged on the guide rail and on one of the pivot arms and can be actuated by means of an activator fastened to the running rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2015Publication date: June 15, 2017Applicant: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Mikel AZKUE, Oscar GARCIA, Eñaut ARRIAGA, Iker LOPETEGI, Unai LASKIBAR
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Publication number: 20170143118Abstract: The invention relates to a sliding/pivoting mechanism of a shelf of a piece of furniture or of a domestic appliance for pulling out and raising the shelf from a body of the piece of furniture or of the domestic appliance, which sliding/pivoting mechanism has at least two pivoting arms, which are fastened by means of a first end to at least one of the side walls of the body in such a way that said pivoting arms can be rotated parallel to the plane of the side walls and which are arranged parallel to each other at a distance from each other, wherein at respective second ends of the pivoting arms, a guide rail is fastened in such a way that the guide rail can be pivoted parallel to the plane of the side walls and in such a way that the guide rail can be pivoted from a lower position inside the body to a raised upper position at least partially outside the body, and at least one running rail, which is linearly displacable in the guide rail and to which the shelf is fastened, wherein a damping unit that damps theType: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2015Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Mikel AZKUE, Oscar GARCIA, Eñaut ARRIAGA, Iker LOPETEGI, Unai LASKIBAR
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Patent number: 9420882Abstract: A sliding and pivoting mechanism of a rack of an item of furniture or domestic appliance for extending and raising the rack out of a body of the item of furniture or domestic appliance, having at least two pivoting arms which are fixed rotatably to at least one of the side walls of the body with a first end parallel to the plane of the side walls, and are arranged spaced apart parallel to each other, wherein a guide rail is fixed pivotably to respective second ends of the pivoting arms parallel to the plane of the side walls in such a manner that the guide rail can be pivoted out of a lower position within the body into a raised, upper position at least partially outside the body, and at least one running rail which is displaceable linearly in the guide rail and to which the rack is fastened, wherein the sliding and pivoting mechanism has a locking mechanism which is arranged on the guide rail and on one of the pivoting arms and is actuable by an activator fixed on the running rail in order to prevent a simulType: GrantFiled: August 26, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: PAUL HETTICH GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Oscar Garcia, Enaut Arriaga, Iker Lopetegi, Mikel Azkue
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Publication number: 20150305493Abstract: A sliding and pivoting mechanism of a rack of an item of furniture or domestic appliance for extending and raising the rack out of a body of the item of furniture or domestic appliance, having at least two pivoting arms which are fixed rotatably to at least one of the side walls of the body with a first end parallel to the plane of the side walls, and are arranged spaced apart parallel to each other, wherein a guide rail is fixed pivotably to respective second ends of the pivoting arms parallel to the plane of the side walls in such a manner that the guide rail can be pivoted out of a lower position within the body into a raised, upper position at least partially outside the body, and at least one running rail which is displaceable linearly in the guide rail and to which the rack is fastened, wherein the sliding and pivoting mechanism has a locking mechanism which is arranged on the guide rail and on one of the pivoting arms and is actuable by an activator fixed on the running rail in order to prevent a simulType: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2013Publication date: October 29, 2015Inventors: Oscar GARCIA, Enaut ARRIAGA, Iker LOPETEGI, Mikel AZKUE