Patents by Inventor Josef Birzer

Josef Birzer 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: 7821364
    Abstract: A connecting system includes an electromagnetic switchgear, especially contactor, and a connector. In at least one embodiment, the system makes it easier to connect auxiliary and control lines. For this purpose, the connecting system, in at least one embodiment, includes at least one electromagnetic switchgear, especially a contactor. The switchgear includes a plurality of auxiliary contact connections and a coil connection terminal block. The coil connection terminal block is configured in such a manner that the coil connections lie in a plane with at least one auxiliary contact connection. The connecting system also includes, in at least one embodiment, a connector for simultaneously contacting the coil and auxiliary contact connections of one or more switchgears which connections lie in one plane. The connector has an internal wiring for electrically interconnecting the coil and/or auxiliary contact connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Josef Birzer, Johann Drexler, Peter Hartinger
  • Publication number: 20080150660
    Abstract: A connecting system includes an electromagnetic switchgear, especially contactor, and a connector. In at least one embodiment, the system makes it easier to connect auxiliary and control lines. For this purpose, the connecting system, in at least one embodiment, includes at least one electromagnetic switchgear, especially a contactor. The switchgear includes a plurality of auxiliary contact connections and a coil connection terminal block. The coil connection terminal block is configured in such a manner that the coil connections lie in a plane with at least one auxiliary contact connection. The connecting system also includes, in at least one embodiment, a connector for simultaneously contacting the coil and auxiliary contact connections of one or more switchgears which connections lie in one plane. The connector has an internal wiring for electrically interconnecting the coil and/or auxiliary contact connections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Inventors: Josef Birzer, Johann Drexler, Peter Hartinger
  • Patent number: 5684670
    Abstract: A control switch with a holder is to be provided which can simply and quickly be secured by one person to a variable-thickness fitting plate. To this end the rose (9) of the control switch has a longitudinal groove (11) and a transverse groove (12). The holder which can be fitted on the rose (9) consists of a lower casing (14), a securing ring (5) and an upper casing (23). The lower casing (14) and the securing ring (5) have matching pitches (20, 6) so that when the securing ring (5) is rotated via a toothed spindle (7) fitted off-center it is axially shifted. After the holder has been fitted on the rose, when the securing ring (5) is rotated, a partial thread (18) fitted thereto is rotated out of the longitudinal groove (11) into the transverse groove (12) and thus pressed by the simultaneous axial movement of the partial thread (18) against the limiting edge of the transverse groove (12) taking the form of a thread segment (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rudolf Zimmermann, Rainer Kreutzer, Reinhard Herdegen, Josef Birzer
  • Patent number: 4899252
    Abstract: An arrangement for mounting a control device in a control panel. The arrangement includes a solid flange having a cylinder which penetrates the control panel and is fixed by means of a holder. Locking bolts, arranged in the holder engage in corresponding recesses of the cylinder. Clamping bolts, screwed into the holder, support the holder against the control panel so as to effect a bracing of the solid flange with the control panel and compensate for variable thickness in the control panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1990
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Josef Birzer