Patents by Inventor Kurt Handler

Kurt Handler 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).

  • Electrodynamically tilting contact system for power circuit breakers
    Patent number: 7394032
    Abstract: An electrodynamically tilting contact system for power circuit breakers includes an actuating shaft segment, a rotary contact bridge pivotally mounted therein and contact force springs that form components of a tilting snap-action mechanism, which holds the rotary contact bridge in a repulsed position after an electrodynamically effected repulsion of fixed contacts. Two rockers, while serving as an additional component of the tilting snap-action mechanism, are mounted on the rotary contact bridge in a manner that enables them to tilt. The contact force springs are supported between the actuating shaft segment and the rockers, whereby the spring longitudinal axes, the tilting axes of the rockers, and the rotational symmetry axis of the rotary contact bridge are located in the tilting point plane of the tilting snap-action mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Moeller GmbH
    Inventors: Kurt Händler, Wolfgang Kremers, Heinz Pursch, Hartwig Stammberger, Albert Zacharias
  • Electrodynamically Tilting Contact System for Power Circuit Breakers
    Publication number: 20070251809
    Abstract: An electrodynamically tilting contact system for power circuit breakers includes an actuating shaft segment, a rotary contact bridge pivotally mounted therein and contact force springs that form components of a tilting snap-action mechanism, which holds the rotary contact bridge in a repulsed position after an electrodynamically effected repulsion of fixed contacts. Two rockers, while serving as an additional component of the tilting snap-action mechanism, are mounted on the rotary contact bridge in a manner that enables them to tilt. The contact force springs are supported between the actuating shaft segment and the rockers, whereby the spring longitudinal axes, the tilting axes of the rockers, and the rotational symmetry axis of the rotary contact bridge are located in the tilting point plane of the tilting snap-action mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicant: Moeller GmbH
    Inventors: Kurt Handler, Wolfgang Kremers, Heinz Pursch, Hartwig Stammberger, Albert Zacharias
  • Mechanical switching device such as a circuit breaker and a safety device for the circuit breaker
    Patent number: 5719363
    Abstract: A safety device for mechanical switching devices such as circuit breakers which can be mounted on mounting surfaces or plugged into plug-in pin bases. The safety device ensures that the mechanical switching device is tripped both when it is being installed, and also when it is being removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignee: Klockner-Moeller GmbH
    Inventor: Kurt Handler