Patents by Inventor Manfred Lutz

Manfred Lutz 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: 10525581
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes an electric motor, a housing, and a housing cover. The housing includes an opening located in the vicinity of carbon brushes of the electric motor, such that the carbon brushes can be removed through the opening in the housing. The housing cover includes air inlets through which cooling air can flow into the interior of the housing. The opening in the housing is detachably closed by the housing cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Esenwein, Peter Stierle, Manfred Lutz, Thomas Schomisch
  • Publication number: 20190375089
    Abstract: A portable power tool, in particular an angle grinder, includes a housing that accommodates a drive and an electronic device with an interface configured to electrically connect the electronic device. The power tool further includes a housing inner part that is configured as a drive housing and supports the electronic device. The interface has at least one first electrical interface contact region and at least one second interface contact region spaced apart from the first interface contact region. At least one insulating element spaced apart from the interface contact regions is arranged between the housing inner part and the electronic device. The insulating element is configured to avoid an electrical short-circuiting connection between the first interface contact region and the second interface contact region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Cornelius Boeck, Daniel Barth, Rainer Vollmer, Sinisa Andrasic, Manfred Lutz, Andreas Wolf, Peter Stierle
  • Patent number: 10492562
    Abstract: A work shoe, in particular a safety shoe, includes at least one passive protection unit which is intended to passively protect a shoe wearer at least against mechanical and/or electrical loads, and includes at least one active protection unit which has at least one sensor unit which is intended to detect at least one characteristic variable at least in order to enable a protection function and/or a comfort function. The sensor unit is configured at least for detecting at least one person-related characteristic variable and/or at least one environmental characteristic variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Cornelius Boeck, Daniel Barth, Joachim Schadow, Joerg Maute, Joern Stock, Florian Esenwein, Manfred Lutz
  • Publication number: 20190358802
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool, in particular an angle grinder, includes a drive unit, a machine housing, and a user interface unit. The machine housing surrounds the drive unit. The drive unit is configured to transmit a motion to an output unit. The user interface unit is configured to operate the hand-held power tool, and is either (i) positioned on an inner element of the hand-held power tool, in particular a flat outer surface of the inner element, or (ii) connected to the inner element, in particular the flat outer surface of the inner element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Achim Trick, Elmar Feder, Manfred Lutz, Peter Stierle, Thomas Schomisch
  • Patent number: 10418828
    Abstract: A particular embodiment of a storage system includes at least one storage device. The storage device can store working clothing. The storage system further includes a wired and/or wireless charging device. The wired and/or wireless charging device can transmit electrical energy to an energy storage unit of the work clothing. The wired and/or wireless charging device can charge different work-clothing items of the work clothing. The work clothing can be disposed in the storage device. The storage system further includes a sensor device that can sense a characteristic variable of the work clothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Schadow, Manfred Lutz, Joern Stock, Florian Esenwein, Daniel Barth, Cornelius Boeck, Joerg Maute
  • Patent number: 10331088
    Abstract: A machine tool device includes at least one open and/or closed-loop control unit and at least one drive unit sensor unit configured to determine at least one drive unit characteristic variable that can be processed at least for the purpose of open and/or closed-loop control of a drive unit of a machine tool and/or for issuing information to an operator of said open and/or closed-loop control unit. The machine tool device further includes at least one environment sensor unit configured to determine at least one environment characteristic variable that can be processed at least for the purpose of open and/or closed-loop control of the drive unit and/or for issuing information to an operator of said open and/or closed-loop control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Cornelius Boeck, Daniel Barth, Joachim Schadow, Joerg Maute, Joern Stock, Florian Esenwein, Manfred Lutz
  • Publication number: 20190134802
    Abstract: A handheld power tool includes an output shaft, a drive unit, a securing ring, and a securing element. The output shaft is configured to be releasably connected to an insert tool of the handheld power tool. The drive unit is configured to transmit a movement to the output shaft. The securing element is configured to secure the securing ring. The securing element has a recess which is provided to surround the securing ring in the radial direction in at least one operating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Daniel Barth, Manfred Lutz, Metin Tuerk, Peter Stierle, Thomas Schomisch
  • Patent number: 10279450
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes a housing, a motor, a cooling unit, and a plurality of electronics. The housing includes a first housing part and an air intake opening. The motor is assigned to a drive train of the hand-held power tool. The cooling unit is configured to cool the motor. The plurality of electronics is located in the housing. The first housing part includes at least one air channel that is integral with the first housing part. The air intake opening is configured to conduct a cooling air flow directly to the motor via the at least one air channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Lutz, Peter Stierle
  • Patent number: 10253294
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing dendritic cells with increased capability to activate T cells, to dendritic cells obtainable by such a method, and to a pharmaceutical composition comprising such dendritic cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITÄT WÜRZBURG
    Inventors: Marion Heuer, Manfred Lutz, Andreas Beilhack
  • Publication number: 20190080857
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool, in particular an angle grinder, includes a tool receiver, a tool housing, and a drive motor arranged in the tool housing. The drive motor is configured to be switched on and off via an electric On/Off switch for driving the tool receiver. The hand-held power tool also includes an actuating device configured to actuate the On/Off switch. The actuating device has a pivotably mounted actuating element and a pivotably mounted pawl that is configured to be coupled to the actuating element. The pawl is further configured, in a free-running state, to move pivotably relative to the actuating element and, in an actuation state, to exert upon the actuating element an actuating force that actuates the actuating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Manfred Lutz, Peter Stierle
  • Patent number: 10195705
    Abstract: An electric power tool includes an output shaft, drivable by an associated drive motor, and a brake apparatus for braking the output shaft rotating in the unpowered state of the associated drive motor. The output shaft is mounted in a rotatable manner in an associated housing and the brake apparatus has a magnetic-field brake unit with at least one first and one second brake element. The first brake element is arranged radially with respect to the output shaft in a rotationally fixed manner in the associated housing and includes at least one first and one second magnetic pole configured to generate a magnetic field that alternates in the circumferential direction of the output shaft. The second brake element is magnetically conductive and rotationally connected to the output shaft via an activatable coupling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Laber, Heiko Bayer, Florian Esenwein, Manfred Lutz
  • Patent number: 10189140
    Abstract: A hand-held machine tool has an electric-motor drive and a machining tool. The electric-motor drive has an electronically commutated electric motor, and the electric-motor drive is provided to drive the machining tool. The electronically commutated electric motor has an outer diameter, and a ratio of the outer diameter of the electronically commutated electric motor to a diameter of the machining tool is a maximum of 0.42.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Cornelius Boeck, Daniel Barth, Florian Esenwein, Manfred Lutz, Joachim Schadow, Joerg Maute, Joern Stock
  • Publication number: 20180326337
    Abstract: A filter support for a handheld power tool includes at least one filter support element, a first fastening element, and a second fastening element. The filter support element includes at least one receiving opening configured to receive a filter element. The filter elements of the filter support are preferably associated with air inlet openings of the handheld power tool and are configured to filter dust particles and/or material particles from a cooling air flow. The filter support can be fastened to a handheld power tool via the first and second fastening elements. The first and the second fastening elements of the filter support can be connected to each other. Advantageously, no fastening elements are provided on the handheld power tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Florian Esenwein, Peter Stierle, Manfred Lutz, Thomas Schomisch
  • Publication number: 20180319002
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes an electric motor, a housing, and a housing cover. The housing includes an opening located in the vicinity of carbon brushes of the electric motor, such that the carbon brushes can be removed through the opening in the housing. The housing cover includes air inlets through which cooling air can flow into the interior of the housing. The opening in the housing is detachably closed by the housing cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Florian Esenwein, Peter Stierle, Manfred Lutz, Thomas Schomisch
  • Publication number: 20180264638
    Abstract: In one embodiment a power-tool operating device includes an operating unit that can be actuated by an operator. The power-tool operating device further includes an electronic unit to switch at least one energy supply of a drive unit based on the actuation of the operating element. The electronic unit has a locking switching function and a dead-man's switching function that can be selected at least partly automatically based on at least one of an actuation characteristic quantity of the operating element and sensed sensor characteristic quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Cornelius Boeck, Daniel Barth, Joachim Schadow, Joerg Maute, Florian Esenwein, Manfred Lutz
  • Publication number: 20180221572
    Abstract: A piercing part for a medical infusion system includes a piercing mandrel through which at least one channel extends and which has a mandrel tip whose first jacket surface part is tapered, relative to a central longitudinal axis, towards a front end. An opposite second jacket surface part has an inclined cutting face interrupted towards the front end. The piercing part can be used for medical transfusion and infusion appliances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Christof Schlitt, Manfred Lutz
  • Publication number: 20180216642
    Abstract: A fastening unit for a radio and/or a sensor module includes at least one of a radio and a sensor module that is configured to connect with an external application unit. The fastening unit is detachably connectable to the at least one of the radio and sensor module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Cornelius Boeck, Michael Mayer, Andreas Riedel, Joachim Schadow, Joern Stock, Steffen Tiede, Manfred Lutz, Joerg Maute, Florian Esenwein, Daniel Barth
  • Publication number: 20180193972
    Abstract: A battery-operated grinder, in particular an angle grinder, includes an electronically commutated electric motor and a working shaft. The electric motor is configured to act on a motor shaft. The motor shaft and the electric motor define a motor axis which is coaxial with the motor shaft. The working shaft carries a machining tool and defines a working axis which is coaxial with the working shaft. The motor axis and the working axis are arranged in a parallel manner, spaced apart from one another, and are connected together via a belt drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Joachim Schadow, Florian Esenwein, Achim Trick, Manfred Lutz
  • Publication number: 20180161949
    Abstract: An electric power tool includes an output shaft, drivable by an associated drive motor, and a brake apparatus for braking the output shaft rotating in the unpowered state of the associated drive motor. The output shaft is mounted in a rotatable manner in an associated housing and the brake apparatus has a magnetic-field brake unit with at least one first and one second brake element. The first brake element is arranged radially with respect to the output shaft in a rotationally fixed manner in the associated housing and includes at least one first and one second magnetic pole configured to generate a magnetic field that alternates in the circumferential direction of the output shaft. The second brake element is magnetically conductive and rotationally connected to the output shaft via an activatable coupling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Sebastian Laber, Heiko Bayer, Florian Esenwein, Manfred Lutz
  • Patent number: 9919409
    Abstract: An electric power tool has a tool housing and a drive motor configured to drive an insert tool. The drive motor is switched on and off by an electric switch actuated by a switching device. The switching device has at least one switching slide with a first end and a second end. The first end has a receiver configured to receive an operating element. The second end is connected to an actuating element configured to actuate the electric switch. The receiver has a first region that tapers into a second region. The operating element has a connecting web connected to a holding element. The holding element has an extent that is less than or equal to an assigned extent of the first region. The connecting web has an extent that is less than or equal to an assigned extent of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Schomisch, Manfred Lutz