Patents by Inventor Kilian Klages

Kilian Klages 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: 12202248
    Abstract: A device for arranging a marking around a prolate object includes: a material interface for receiving a printed product provided by a printer; a printing signal interface for acquiring a control signal indicative of the provision of the printed product; a stop for limiting a longitudinal motion of the prolate object along a longitudinal axis in an end position of the prolate object relative to the device; and at least one actuator for, depending on the control signal indicative of the provision of the printed product, arranging the marking in a circumferentially closed manner on the prolate object using the printed product provided by the printer. The prolate object is arranged in the end position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Kilian Klages, Bianca Hanselle, Benjamin Pradel
  • Patent number: 12199394
    Abstract: A magazine (1) for processing wire terminations (2), which are connected to one another via connecting bridges (3) to form a wire termination strip (4), wherein the magazine (1) has a housing (5). The housing (5) has a magazine level in which the wire terminations (2) can be separated from the wire termination strip (4) by a cutting device (6) provided in the magazine level. A feed mechanism (7) is provided in the magazine level, by which mechanism the wire termination strip (4) can be transported in the magazine level, so that the separated wire terminations (2) can be conveyed into a depression level for processing, the magazine level and the depression level being different from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jonas Korsmeier, Kilian Klages, Jens Frischemeier, Tobias Oldenburger
  • Patent number: 12157325
    Abstract: A printer having a housing with a printing chamber, a printing device, a holding device for an exchangeable magazine for holding an object to be printed on, a control and evaluation unit, a memory, and at least one optical sensor in the housing for detection of an identification located on a magazine inserted into the receiving device. The control and evaluation unit is able to compare the identification on the inserted magazine which has been detected by the at least one optical sensor to an identification stored in the memory for a magazine which is allowable for the print object to be printed upon, and for outputting an error message when the comparison establishes a difference between the detected identification and the stored identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Sandra Klocke, Albrecht Schierholz, Kilian Klages
  • Patent number: 12151492
    Abstract: A printer for outputting a printed product includes: a print head for printing on a print medium moving in a longitudinal direction, the print medium including a plurality of separate or separable labels detachably arranged on a carrier along the longitudinal direction; and a material interface for outputting the print medium printed by the printer as a printed product, the material interface including a dispensing edge and a support, which deflect the carrier over the dispensing edge and the support downstream of the print head in the longitudinal direction. The dispensing edge is arranged relative to the support in a first position to induce a detaching deflection of the carrier for detaching the respective label. The dispensing edge and the support are arranged in a second position relative to each other to induce an entraining deflection for entraining the respective label on the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Kilian Klages, Alexander Hofmann, Michael Peter, Albrecht Schierholz
  • Patent number: 12142886
    Abstract: A magazine for processing wire end ferrules, which are connected to one another via connection pieces to form a wire end ferrule strip, having a housing with at least one housing base and an inlet opening for introducing the wire end ferrule strip. A transport wheel is rotatably mounted in the housing and has multiple recesses for receiving individual wire end ferrules of a wire end ferrule strip, neighboring recesses separated from one another by a rim. An opening is formed in the housing base and the wire end ferrules can be successively brought into an assembly position via a rotation of the transport wheel to a position in which a wire end ferrule is arranged above the opening and a connection piece between the wire end ferrule and the neighboring wire end ferrule is at least partially cut through by the rim of the corresponding recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jonas Korsmeier, Jens Frischemeier, Kilian Klages, Danny Siriboe
  • Patent number: 12128696
    Abstract: A device for arranging a marking circumferentially closed around a prolate object, or for providing a marking arrangeable circumferentially closed around a prolate object, includes: a material interface for receiving a print medium printed by a printer as a printed product; a data interface for communicating with the printer for arranging or providing the marking; at least one sensor for acquiring control signals that imply or indicate at least one measurand of the object to be marked, the at least one sensor being in data communication with the data interface; and at least one actuator for arranging the marking on the object in a circumferentially closed manner or providing the marking for circumferentially closed arrangement in accordance with the communication via the data interface and by the printed product output by the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Kilian Klages, Alexander Hofmann, Markus Traenkle, Markus Kiefer, Benjamin Pradel, Bianca Hanselle
  • Patent number: 12008928
    Abstract: Labeling material for marking electrical installations, comprising a top layer, the top layer having a top surface which is designed for printing and a joining surface facing away from the top surface, comprising a foam layer, comprising at least one shaped element for form-fitting attachment to a receptacle, the foam layer comprising a foamed material, the foam layer being integrally bonded to the top layer in the region of the joining surface, and the shaped element being arranged at a spacing from the top layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kilian Klages, Alexander Hofmann
  • Patent number: 12005722
    Abstract: A printing system includes: a printer for outputting a printed product; and a device for providing a marking arranged or arrangeable in a closed circumferential manner around a prolate object. The device includes a mechanical interface and the printer includes a mechanical interface, which are positively and/or by force-locking connected in a mounted state and which release the positive and/or force-locked connection by a planar motion, a partial rotation, and/or a current change to a released state. The device further includes: a material interface for receiving printed material output by the printer in the mounted state of the device, and at least one actuator for arranging the marking on the prolate object in a circumferentially closed manner by the printed product output by the printer or for providing the marking for circumferentially closed arrangement in the mounted state of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Kilian Klages, Alexander Hofmann, Benjamin Pradel, Juergen Gretscher, Michael Peter
  • Patent number: 12008927
    Abstract: Marking profile for identifying electrical installations, comprising a marking region which has a cover surface to be labeled, comprising a support region which adjoins the marking region on the opposite side of the cover surface, comprising at least one shaped element for interlockingly securing to a receiving section, wherein the marking profile has an extruded plastic profile or consists of an extruded plastic profile and wherein the plastic profile has a constant cross-section when viewed along its longitudinal extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sandra Klocke, Kilian Klages, Thomas Pölker, Manuela Paus, Nicole Probach
  • Patent number: 11938744
    Abstract: A device for providing a marking arranged or arrangeable around an object includes: a mechanical interface for releasably or irreversibly mounting the device to a printer; a material interface for receiving a print medium, which is printed by the printer using a print head, as a printed product in a longitudinal direction; at least one eccentric supported at the material interface to be pivotable about a pivot axis; and at least one print head actuator for moving the at least one eccentric to a first pivot position and to a second pivot position different from the first pivot position to provide the marking originating from the printed product. The eccentric, in a state of the device mounted to the printer using the mechanical interface, moves the print head and the print medium towards each other into a printing position for printing the print medium when the eccentric moves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Kilian Klages
  • Publication number: 20230387639
    Abstract: A tool set for cutting, stripping and/or crimping an electrical conductor includes: a hand-operated machine handleable manually by a user; a tool interface; a drive; and at least one tool head for carrying out a function, is connectable to the hand-operated machine via the tool interface, and is drivable in a connected position via the drive. The hand-operated machine has a force determiner for determining a displacement force caused by the drive on the at least one tool head connectable to the hand-operated machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Jonas Korsmeier, Danny Siriboe, Jens Frischemeier, Sandra Klocke, Kilian Klages
  • Publication number: 20230278327
    Abstract: A device for providing a marking arranged or arrangeable in a circumferentially closed manner around a prolate object includes: a material interface for receiving a printed product output from a printer; a data interface for communicating with the printer for a providing or arranging of the marking as a communication; at least one actuator, using the printed product output from the printer, for arranging the marking on the object in a circumferentially closed manner or to provide the marking for circumferentially closed arrangement according to the communication with the printer via the data interface; and a memory readable by the printer via the data interface, the memory storing operational data of the providing or arranging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Kilian Klages, Alexander Hofmann, Markus Traenkle, Benjamin Aberle, Markus Kiefer
  • Publication number: 20230241882
    Abstract: A device for arranging a marking around a prolate object includes: a material interface for receiving a printed product provided by a printer; a printing signal interface for acquiring a control signal indicative of the provision of the printed product; a stop for limiting a longitudinal motion of the prolate object along a longitudinal axis in an end position of the prolate object relative to the device; and at least one actuator for, depending on the control signal indicative of the provision of the printed product, arranging the marking in a circumferentially closed manner on the prolate object using the printed product provided by the printer. The prolate object is arranged in the end position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Kilian Klages, Bianca Hanselle, Benjamin Pradel
  • Publication number: 20230158818
    Abstract: A device for providing a marking arranged or arrangeable around an object includes: a mechanical interface for releasably or irreversibly mounting the device to a printer; a material interface for receiving a print medium, which is printed by the printer using a print head, as a printed product in a longitudinal direction; at least one eccentric supported at the material interface to be pivotable about a pivot axis; and at least one print head actuator for moving the at least one eccentric to a first pivot position and to a second pivot position different from the first pivot position to provide the marking originating from the printed product. The eccentric, in a state of the device mounted to the printer using the mechanical interface, moves the print head and the print medium towards each other into a printing position for printing the print medium when the eccentric moves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventor: Kilian Klages
  • Publication number: 20230015628
    Abstract: A printing system includes: a printer for outputting a printed product; and a device for providing a marking arranged or arrangeable in a closed circumferential manner around a prolate object. The device includes a mechanical interface and the printer includes a mechanical interface, which are positively and/or by force-locking connected in a mounted state and which release the positive and/or force-locked connection by a planar motion, a partial rotation, and/or a current change to a released state. The device further includes: a material interface for receiving printed material output by the printer in the mounted state of the device, and at least one actuator for arranging the marking on the prolate object in a circumferentially closed manner by the printed product output by the printer or for providing the marking for circumferentially closed arrangement in the mounted state of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Kilian Klages, Alexander Hofmann, Benjamin Pradel, Juergen Gretscher, Michael Peter
  • Publication number: 20230019550
    Abstract: A device (100) for providing a tube arranged or arrangeable in a circumferentially closed manner around a prolate object (102), preferably around a conductor, as a marking (101) of the object (102) is described. The device (100) comprises a printer (200) for outputting a printed tube (214) in longitudinal direction (210) or a material interface (156) for receiving a printed tube (214) output from a printer (200) in longitudinal direction (210). Further, the device (100) comprises a cutting unit (120) configured to cut through the printed tube (214) at a cutting position of the tube (214) in a transverse direction (121) transverse, preferably perpendicular, to the longitudinal direction (210) of the tube. At least at the intersection, an upper half of the tube and a lower half of the tube, terminally or insidely, abut on each other or are connected to each other. Further, the device (100) comprises an opening unit (122) for opening the upper and lower halves of the tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Kilian Klages, Alexander Hofmann, Jonas Korsmeier, Markus Traenkle, Juergen Gretscher, Benjamin Aberle, Dan King
  • Publication number: 20230007907
    Abstract: A device for providing a marking arranged or arrangeable in a circumferentially closed manner around a prolate object includes: a material interface for receiving a printed product output from a printer; a print signal interface for acquiring a control signal related to the printed product output; at least one sensor for acquiring a control signal related to providing of the marking; and at least one actuator for arranging the marking on the object in a circumferentially closed manner or to provide the marking for circumferentially closed arrangement depending on the control signal related to the printed product output and the control signal related to the providing of the marking using the printed product output by the printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Kilian Klages, Alexander Hofmann, Markus Traenkle, Juergen Gretscher, Benjamin Aberle
  • Publication number: 20230001708
    Abstract: A printer for outputting a printed product includes: a print head for printing on a print medium moving in a longitudinal direction, the print medium including a plurality of separate or separable labels detachably arranged on a carrier along the longitudinal direction; and a material interface for outputting the print medium printed by the printer as a printed product, the material interface including a dispensing edge and a support, which deflect the carrier over the dispensing edge and the support downstream of the print head in the longitudinal direction. The dispensing edge is arranged relative to the support in a first position to induce a detaching deflection of the carrier for detaching the respective label. The dispensing edge and the support are arranged in a second position relative to each other to induce an entraining deflection for entraining the respective label on the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Kilian Klages, Alexander Hofmann, Michael Peter, Albrecht Schierholz
  • Publication number: 20220410587
    Abstract: A device (100) for arranging a marking (101) circumferentially closed around a prolate object (102) or for providing a marking (101) arrangeable circumferentially closed around a prolate object (102) is described. The object (102) is preferably a conductor. The device (100) comprises a material interface (156) to receive a printed medium (208) printed by a printer (200) as a printed product (214); a data interface (158) to communicate with the printer (200) to arrange or provide the marking (101); and at least one sensor (106) to acquire control signals that imply or indicate at least one measurand of the object (102) to be marked. The at least one sensor (106) is in data communication with the data interface (158).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Kilian Klages, Alexander Hofmann, Markus Traenkle, Markus Kiefer, Benjamin Pradel, Bianca Hanselle
  • Patent number: 11400732
    Abstract: A marking system (1) for marking a marking object (2) comprises a marking device (13) for attaching a marking (20) on a marking object (2), a detection device (15, 16) for detecting identification information (300) associated with the marking object (2), and a control device (10) for controlling the marking device (13), the control device (10) being designed to authenticate identification information (300) detected by the detection device (15, 16) and to control the marking device (13) on the basis of the authentication. In this way, a marking system for marking a marking object is provided, which makes reliable marking of permitted marking objects possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kilian Klages, Alexander Hofmann, Peter Isaak, Torben Rheker