Patents by Inventor Jörg Elfner

Jörg Elfner 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: 20220151148
    Abstract: A blade for a mowing unit for a lawnmower and/or a motor scythe is substantially parallelogram-shaped. The blade has a slot, wherein the slot is designed to receive a blade-holding element of the mowing unit such that the blade can rotate about the blade-holding element and move in translation relative to the blade-holding element for one cutting position of the blade defined by one end of the slot having one cutting orientation of the blade and another cutting position of the blade defined by another end of the slot having another cutting orientation of the blade. A line segment delimited by the ends of the slot does run non-parallel to sides of the parallelogram, and the parallelogram has an obtuse internal angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Joerg Elfner, Simon Schulte Strotmes, Markus Gassner, Marko Fiebig, Philip Wolf
  • Patent number: 9221111
    Abstract: A hand-guided power tool has a support arm and a tool member supported on the support arm. A drive motor is provided and a drive belt is rotatably driven by the drive motor and drives in turn the tool member. The support arm has a belt chamber in which the drive belt is arranged. The belt chamber is closed off relative to the environment and sealed off relative to the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jörg Elfner, Tobias Deigendesch, Florian Hoche
  • Publication number: 20150038064
    Abstract: A hand-guided power tool has a support arm and a tool member supported on the support arm. A drive motor is provided and a drive belt is rotatably driven by the drive motor and drives in turn the tool member. The support arm has a belt chamber in which the drive belt is arranged. The belt chamber is closed off relative to the environment and sealed off relative to the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Jörg Elfner, Tobias Deigendesch, Florian Hoche
  • Patent number: 8746191
    Abstract: A two-stroke engine has an intake arrangement including a carburetor. An intake channel divides into a mixture channel and an air channel. An intermediate flange is mounted between the carburetor and the cylinder. This flange has a carburetor connecting surface, which faces toward the carburetor, and a cylinder connecting surface which faces toward the cylinder. Referred to the flow direction in the intake channel, the air channel divides upstream of the cylinder connecting surface into two branches. The first branch has a first longitudinal center axis and the second branch has a second longitudinal center axis. The intersect points of the center axes with the connecting surfaces are mutually connected via an imaginary connecting line in the carburetor connecting surface or the cylinder connecting surface. The two connecting lines conjointly define an angle ? in the carburetor connecting surface with this angle being greater than 0°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jörg Elfner, Fevronia Konstantinidou, Karsten Schmidt, Michael Raffenberg
  • Publication number: 20130228159
    Abstract: A two-stroke engine has an intake arrangement including a carburetor. An intake channel divides into a mixture channel and an air channel. An intermediate flange is mounted between the carburetor and the cylinder. This flange has a carburetor connecting surface, which faces toward the carburetor, and a cylinder connecting surface which faces toward the cylinder. Referred to the flow direction in the intake channel, the air channel divides upstream of the cylinder connecting surface into two branches. The first branch has a first longitudinal center axis and the second branch has a second longitudinal center axis. The intersect points of the center axes with the connecting surfaces are mutually connected via an imaginary connecting line in the carburetor connecting surface or the cylinder connecting surface. The two connecting lines conjointly define an angle ? in the carburetor connecting surface with this angle being greater than 0°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Inventors: Jörg Elfner, Fevronia Konstantinidou, Karsten Schmidt, Michael Raffenberg
  • Patent number: 8469167
    Abstract: A centrifugal clutch, especially in a hand held work apparatus, such as a cut-off machine (1), a brush cutter or the like, having a rotational axis (20), at least one movably mounted centrifugal weight (25) arranged at the drive end and a clutch drum (16) arranged at the output end. The centrifugal clutch (15) includes a brake device (18) which is released by the centrifugal weight (25) when the centrifugal weight (25) moves radially outward in relation to the rotational axis (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sebastian Hanussek, Jörg Elfner, Tim Gegg
  • Publication number: 20110073435
    Abstract: A centrifugal clutch, especially in a hand held work apparatus, such as a cut-off machine (1), a brush cutter or the like, having a rotational axis (20), at least one movably mounted centrifugal weight (25) arranged at the drive end and a clutch drum (16) arranged at the output end. The centrifugal clutch (15) includes a brake device (18) which is released by the centrifugal weight (25) when the centrifugal weight (25) moves radially outward in relation to the rotational axis (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Sebastian Hanussek, Jörg Elfner, Tim Gegg