Patents by Inventor Johannes SCHÜRMANN

Johannes SCHÜRMANN 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: 20240034601
    Abstract: An emergency-operation valve block includes: a drive port for hydraulically connecting the valve block to an emergency drive of a mobile crane, at least two drive mechanism ports for hydraulically connecting the valve block to one drive mechanism of the mobile crane each, at least two closing valves which are assigned to one of the drive mechanism ports each and designed to selectively open or close a hydraulic connection between the drive port and the drive mechanism port respectively assigned to it, and an actuation valve which is designed to selectively reverse the hydraulic connection between a pressure side and return side of the drive port and corresponding sides of the drive mechanism ports. A mobile crane may include such an emergency-operation valve block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Johannes SCHÜRMANN, Thomas SCHMITHÜSEN, Verena BOHMANN, Harald WIESNER
  • Patent number: 11629034
    Abstract: A crane telescope locking device includes a control device which is hydraulically in contact with a telescoping cylinder of a crane telescope and, for the purpose of actuating, with at least one cylinder lock hydraulic cylinder and includes a valve which is open in its inactivated resting state and thus opens a fluidic connection between the telescoping cylinder and the at least one cylinder lock hydraulic cylinder. A telescoping cylinder (6) of a crane includes such a crane telescope locking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: MANITOWOC CRANE GROUP FRANCE SAS
    Inventors: Thomas Heidrich, Hasko Karge, Johannes Schuermann
  • Publication number: 20200024111
    Abstract: A crane telescope locking device includes a control device which is hydraulically in contact with a telescoping cylinder of a crane telescope and, for the purpose of actuating, with at least one cylinder lock hydraulic cylinder and includes a valve which is open in its inactivated resting state and thus opens a fluidic connection between the telescoping cylinder and the at least one cylinder lock hydraulic cylinder. A telescoping cylinder (6) of a crane includes such a crane telescope locking device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Heidrich, Hasko Karge, Johannes Schuermann
  • Patent number: 10322915
    Abstract: A locking head is configured such that it can be moved within and along the longitudinal axis of a telescope, which comprises at least two telescope sections, by means of a telescoping device, comprising a base body, at least one releasing device which is configured to release a telescope section lock and at least one coupling device which is configured to couple a telescope section with the telescoping device. The locking head comprises an operating member which mechanically acts on the releasing device and the coupling device in order to operate the releasing device and the coupling device. The operating member comprises a first link guide for the releasing device and a second link guide for the coupling device, wherein the links for the first and second link guides extend in a single plane or in parallel planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: MANITOWOC CRANE GROUP FRANCE SAS
    Inventors: Gerhard Kaupert, Bernd Backes, Johannes Schürmann
  • Patent number: 10106379
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drive device for supplying power to multiple engine pumps (4, 5), provided in the superstructure (3) of a mobile crane for superstructure functions, by way of a drive motor (2) arranged in the undercarriage (1) of the mobile crane, comprising a hydraulic motor (7) which is arranged in the superstructure (3) and hydraulically driven by the drive motor (2) and which comprises a first mechanical output which couples at least one first engine pump (4) to the hydraulic motor (7) and a second mechanical output which couples at least one second engine pump (5) to the hydraulic motor (7). The invention also relates to a mobile crane comprising this drive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MANITOWOC CRANE GROUP FRANCE SAS
    Inventors: Jann Reesing, Johannes Schuermann
  • Publication number: 20170349413
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drive device for supplying power to multiple engine pumps (4, 5), provided in the superstructure (3) of a mobile crane for superstructure functions, by way of a drive motor (2) arranged in the undercarriage (1) of the mobile crane, comprising a hydraulic motor (7) which is arranged in the superstructure (3) and hydraulically driven by the drive motor (2) and which comprises a first mechanical output which couples at least one first engine pump (4) to the hydraulic motor (7) and a second mechanical output which couples at least one second engine pump (5) to the hydraulic motor (7). The invention also relates to a mobile crane comprising this drive device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Jann Reesing, Johannes Schuermann
  • Patent number: 9085443
    Abstract: The invention relates to a locking system for a telescopic crane jib, in particular for a mobile crane, in which a lock is established between a telescoping cylinder (10, 20) and a telescopic part (1-4) by means of a locking unit (21) in order to extract and retract the telescopic parts, and the locking unit (21) is disposed on the telescoping cylinder (10, 20) in such a way that it can be moved longitudinally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Manitowoc Crane Group France SAS
    Inventors: Johannes Schuermann, Dieter Stuehrwoldt
  • Patent number: 9073517
    Abstract: A support device for a mobile lifting machine, in particular a vehicle crane, comprises a carrier support coupled to the vehicle chassis, a piston rod coupled to the carrier support and movable relative to the carrier support, and a support disc coupled to the piston rod, wherein the support device is configured such that it allows a movement of the support disc relative to the carrier support in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis (L) of the piston rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Manitowoc Crane Group France SAS
    Inventors: Johannes Schürmann, Oliver Engelbrecht
  • Publication number: 20150041422
    Abstract: A locking head is configured such that it can be moved within and along the longitudinal axis of a telescope, which comprises at least two telescope sections, by means of a telescoping device, comprising a base body, at least one releasing device which is configured to release a telescope section lock and at least one coupling device which is configured to couple a telescope section with the telescoping device. The locking head comprises an operating member which mechanically acts on the releasing device and the coupling device in order to operate the releasing device and the coupling device. The operating member comprises a first link guide for the releasing device and a second link guide for the coupling device, wherein the links for the first and second link guides extend in a single plane or in parallel planes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Gerhard KAUPERT, Bernd BACKES, Johannes SCHÜRMANN
  • Publication number: 20100187194
    Abstract: The invention relates to a locking system for a telescopic crane jib, in particular for a mobile crane, in which a lock is established between a telescoping cylinder (10, 20) and a telescopic part (1-4) by means of a locking unit (21) in order to extract and retract the telescopic parts, and the locking unit (21) is disposed on the telescoping cylinder (10, 20) in such a way that it can be moved longitudinally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Johannes Schuermann, Dieter Stuehrwoldt