Patents by Inventor Johannes Voit

Johannes Voit 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: 8058574
    Abstract: An auxiliary contact block is disclosed for expanding a switching device and to a switching device having at least one auxiliary contact block. A compact auxiliary contact block, i.e. a block requiring little wiring and space, for a switching device is disclosed, and a switching device having at least one auxiliary contact block. In at least one embodiment of the auxiliary contact block, the auxiliary contact block includes auxiliary contacts disposed in a plane, the contacts having contact bridges and associated fixed contact pieces, and at least one contact slider, which can be equipped with at least one auxiliary contact pair. The configuration of the auxiliary contacts in a plane as described herein allows a very small installation size and very little wiring complexity of the auxiliary contacts in a simple manner. The actuating unit can, for example, be configured as a slider that couples the contact slider and the switching device with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Josef Graf, Ludwig Niebler, Johannes Voit
  • Publication number: 20100140067
    Abstract: The invention relates to an auxiliary contact block for expanding a switching device and to a switching device having at least one auxiliary contact block according to the invention. The aim of the invention is to provide a compact auxiliary contact block, i.e. a block requiring little wiring and space, for a switching device, and a switching device having at least one auxiliary contact block according to the invention. The aim is achieved by an auxiliary contact block, wherein the auxiliary contact block comprises auxiliary contacts disposed in a plane, the contacts having contact bridges and associated fixed contact pieces, and at least one contact slider, which can be equipped with at least one auxiliary contact pair. The configuration of the auxiliary contacts in a plane as described herein allows a very small installation size and very little wiring complexity of the auxiliary contacts in a simple manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Josef GRAF, Ludwig Niebler, Johannes Voit