Patents by Inventor Martin Hommel

Martin Hommel 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: 12337917
    Abstract: A brake disk lock includes a claw comprising a first claw section and a second claw section movable relative to each other between an open position and a closed position of the claw, wherein, in the closed position, the claw comprises a predetermined clearing width so as to engage around a section of a brake disk of a two-wheeled vehicle. Further, the brake disk lock comprises a locking mechanism which is configured to lock the claw in the closed position, and an adjustment device configured to adjust the predetermined clearing width of the claw to different brake disks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: ABUS August Bremicker Söhne KG
    Inventor: Martin Hommel
  • Publication number: 20240337138
    Abstract: A lock, in particular a two-wheeler lock or padlock, having a lock body including a lock housing and comprising at least one locking element receiver, a locking element which can be brought into a locked state in which it is inserted with a locking section into the locking element receiver, and a locking mechanism which is at least partially accommodated in the lock housing and is configured to selectively block the locking element in its locked state from leaving the locking element receiver or to release it for leaving the locking element receiver, the lock housing comprising a cup element having a base and a circumferential wall projecting from the base and a cover element for closing the cup element. The cup element comprises a through-opening through which the locking section of the locking element can be inserted into the locking element receiver and an engaging section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventor: Martin HOMMEL
  • Publication number: 20240337136
    Abstract: A joint bar arrangement for a joint bar lock comprises a plurality of joint bars connected to one another in series according to a defined sequence, including a first joint bar and a last joint bar according to the sequence, each extending along a longitudinal extent from a first end section to a second end section, and each joint bar, with the exception of the last joint bar, is coupled with its second end section via a respective joint connection to the first end section of the subsequent joint bar according to the sequence, in such a way that it can be pivoted relative to the subsequent joint bar about a joint axis of the respective joint connection which is orthogonal to its longitudinal extent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventor: Martin HOMMEL
  • Patent number: 11732509
    Abstract: A ring hoop padlock comprises a ring hoop rotatable about an axis of rotation; a lock cylinder that has a cylinder housing and a rotatable cylinder core; an entrainer coupled to the cylinder core for driving the ring hoop; a housing that has a front housing part and a rear housing part; and an insertion part in which the lock cylinder is held, with the insertion part being integrally formed in one piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ABUS AUGUST BREMICKER SÖHNE KG
    Inventors: Martin Hommel, Michael Diesing, Manuel Thomas
  • Publication number: 20220396325
    Abstract: A brake disk lock includes a claw comprising a first claw section and a second claw section movable relative to each other between an open position and a closed position of the claw, wherein, in the closed position, the claw comprises a predetermined clearing width so as to engage around a section of a brake disk of a two-wheeled vehicle. Further, the brake disk lock comprises a locking mechanism which is configured to lock the claw in the closed position, and an adjustment device configured to adjust the predetermined clearing width of the claw to different brake disks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventor: Martin HOMMEL
  • Publication number: 20210071445
    Abstract: A ring hoop padlock comprises a ring hoop rotatable about an axis of rotation; a lock cylinder that has a cylinder housing and a rotatable cylinder core; an entrainer coupled to the cylinder core for driving the ring hoop; a housing that has a front housing part and a rear housing part; and an insertion part in which the lock cylinder is held, with the insertion part being integrally formed in one piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Martin HOMMEL, Michael DIESING, Manuel THOMAS
  • Patent number: 10466670
    Abstract: A field bus module for the operation of actuators and/or sensors with at least one device interface for the connection of a sensor and/or actuator, with at least one field bus interface for connection to a field bus system, and with a processing device for receiving and processing and sending field bus telegrams and also for making available control commands, especially safety-oriented control commands, to the device interface depending on incoming field bus telegrams wherein the processing device is configured to process in different operating modes sensor data that can be made available at the device interface and/or field bus telegrams that can be made available at the field bus interface, wherein an operating mode memory is allocated to the processing device for the optional provision of one of at least two different operating mode data sets at the processing device depending on an incoming field bus telegram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Festo AG & Co., KG
    Inventors: Roland Kalberer, Martin Hommel, Colin Leitner, Martin Gehrke, Martin Maier
  • Patent number: 10101384
    Abstract: A signal converter circuit includes a sensor connection, two comparator circuits, each having a signal input for an electric connection to the sensor connection, a reference input for an electric connection to a respectively assigned reference signal source and a signal output for a provision of an output signal, with a feedback line being formed between the respective signal output and the respective reference input, and further including two reference signal sources, each of the comparator circuits being configured for comparing a signal level at the signal input to a signal level at the reference input and for outputting a digital output signal as a function of a comparison result between the signal levels, wherein the two reference signal inputs are connected to one another via a coupling line being configured to transmit a presettable fraction of the respective signal level present at one reference input to the other reference input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: FESTO AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Roland Kalberer, Martin Hommel
  • Patent number: 10053890
    Abstract: A holder for a two-wheeler lock, in particular of the type of a folding lock, has a support region for contacting a tube section of a two-wheeler, and a mount which comprises at least one first holding section and one second holding section, wherein the first holding section and the second holding section are spaced apart from one another and define a reception opening for the two-wheeler lock, and wherein the first holding section includes an angle with the second holding section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: ABUS AUGUST BREMICKER SÖHNE KG
    Inventor: Martin Hommel
  • Patent number: 9709616
    Abstract: A monitoring device for monitoring safety components including monitoring electronics which include a plurality of clock generators and evaluation means and on which at least two interfaces to be monitored for electric coupling to safety components are formed, wherein each of the interfaces includes at least two output ports and at least two input ports, wherein each of a first output port and a second output port is connected to a clock generator designed for providing clocked electric monitoring signals, wherein a first input port and a second input port are connected to the evaluation means, and wherein a number of clock generators greater than two and less than a number of all output ports of the interfaces to be monitored is chosen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: FESTO AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Roland Kalberer, Martin Hommel, Colin Leitner
  • Publication number: 20170185059
    Abstract: A field bus module for the operation of actuators and/or sensors with at least one device interface for the connection of a sensor and/or actuator, with at least one field bus interface for connection to a field bus system, and with a processing device for receiving and processing and sending field bus telegrams and also for making available control commands, especially safety-oriented control commands, to the device interface depending on incoming field bus telegrams wherein the processing device is configured to process in different operating modes sensor data that can be made available at the device interface and/or field bus telegrams that can be made available at the field bus interface, wherein an operating mode memory is allocated to the processing device for the optional provision of one of at least two different operating mode data sets at the processing device depending on an incoming field bus telegram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Roland Kalberer, Martin Hommel, Colin Leitner, Martin Gehrke, Martin Maier
  • Publication number: 20170010319
    Abstract: A signal converter circuit includes a sensor connection, two comparator circuits, each having a signal input for an electric connection to the sensor connection, a reference input for an electric connection to a respectively assigned reference signal source and a signal output for a provision of an output signal, with a feedback line being formed between the respective signal output and the respective reference input, and further including two reference signal sources, each of the comparator circuits being configured for comparing a signal level at the signal input to a signal level at the reference input and for outputting a digital output signal as a function of a comparison result between the signal levels, wherein the two reference signal inputs are connected to one another via a coupling line being configured to transmit a presettable fraction of the respective signal level present at one reference input to the other reference input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Roland Kalberer, Martin Hommel
  • Publication number: 20160369531
    Abstract: A holder for a two-wheeler lock, in particular of the type of a folding lock, has a support region for contacting a tube section of a two-wheeler, and a mount which comprises at least one first holding section and one second holding section, wherein the first holding section and the second holding section are spaced apart from one another and define a reception opening for the two-wheeler lock, and wherein the first holding section includes an angle with the second holding section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventor: Martin HOMMEL
  • Patent number: 9217265
    Abstract: A joint lock comprises a lock body and a joint bar hoop, wherein the lock body accommodates a lock cylinder and a latch which is selectably movable by the lock cylinder from a locked position into a release position and wherein the joint bar hoop comprises a plurality of joint bars pivotally linked to one another, wherein a first end of the joint bar hoop has an elongate closing bar which can be introduced into an introduction opening of the lock body and which can be locked in the lock body by means of the latch. The joint lock is characterized in that the lock body furthermore accommodates a preloading device which preloads the latch into the locking position, with the latch being temporarily movable against the preloading from the locking position into the release position by introduction of the locking bar into the lock body, with the preloading device being adapted to move the latch back into the locking position again when the locking bar is completely introduced into the lock body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: ABUS August Bremicker Söhne KG
    Inventors: Thomas Muller, Martin Hommel
  • Publication number: 20150168475
    Abstract: A monitoring device for monitoring safety components including monitoring electronics which include a plurality of clock generators and evaluation means and on which at least two interfaces to be monitored for electric coupling to safety components are formed, wherein each of the interfaces includes at least two output ports and at least two input ports, wherein each of a first output port and a second output port is connected to a clock generator designed for providing clocked electric monitoring signals, wherein a first input port and a second input port are connected to the evaluation means, and wherein a number of clock generators greater than two and less than a number of all output ports of the interfaces to be monitored is chosen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Roland Kalberer, Martin Hommel, Colin Leitner
  • Publication number: 20140360233
    Abstract: A joint lock comprises a lock body and a joint bar hoop, wherein the lock body accommodates a lock cylinder and a latch which is selectably movable by the lock cylinder from a locked position into a release position and wherein the joint bar hoop comprises a plurality of joint bars pivotally linked to one another, wherein a first end of the joint bar hoop has an elongate closing bar which can be introduced into an introduction opening of the lock body and which can be locked in the lock body by means of the latch. The joint lock is characterized in that the lock body furthermore accommodates a preloading device which preloads the latch into the locking position, with the latch being temporarily movable against the preloading from the locking position into the release position by introduction of the locking bar into the lock body, with the preloading device being adapted to move the latch back into the locking position again when the locking bar is completely introduced into the lock body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: ABUS August Bremicker Söhne KG
    Inventors: Thomas Muller, Martin Hommel
  • Patent number: 8127577
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lock, in particular a hoop lock, having a lock housing, in which a locking cylinder of the lock is arranged, including a cylinder housing, a barrel rotatably mounted in the cylinder housing and a driver unit associated in a drive effective manner with the barrel, and having at least one bolt coupled to the barrel via the driver unit, so that by rotating the barrel the at least one bolt is moveable from a locked position into a release position. The lock housing has a receiving space in an axial extension of the locking cylinder, with the locking cylinder or a part thereof being able to be displaced from an operational position into the receiving space on the application of a predefined force in the axial direction of the locking cylinder, to adopt a sabotage position, in which the coupling of the at least one bolt to the barrel is taken out of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: ABUS August Bremicker Soehne KG
    Inventors: Joachim Buhl, Friedhelm Schell, Martin Hommel, Thomas Becker
  • Patent number: 7712339
    Abstract: A jointed bar lock having a lock body and a jointed bar hoop which has a first end and a second end, said first end being permanently connected to the lock body and said second end being connectable to the lock body at a latching region of the lock body, with a bolt provided at the lock body selectively being movable into a latched position in which the bolt engages it the second end of the jointed bar hoop when it is connected to the lock body or is movable into a release position in which the second end of the jointed bar hoop is released for a removal from the lock body. The lock has an actuation device which is coupled to the bolt via a connection section and by which the bolt is movable from the latched position, into which the bolt is biased, into the release position. The lock body accommodates a combination locking mechanism to selectively block or release the bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: ABUS August Bremicker Soehne KG
    Inventors: Andreas Hentschel, Martin Hommel, Hans-Theo Schafer
  • Publication number: 20090049875
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lock, in particular a hoop lock, having a lock housing, in which a locking cylinder of the lock is arranged, including a cylinder housing, a barrel rotatably mounted in the cylinder housing and a driver unit associated in a drive effective manner with the barrel, and having at least one bolt coupled to the barrel via the driver unit, so that by rotating the barrel the at least one bolt is moveable from a locked position into a release position. The lock housing has a receiving space in an axial extension of the locking cylinder, with the locking cylinder or a part thereof being able to be displaced from an operational position into the receiving space on the application of a predefined force in the axial direction of the locking cylinder, to adopt a sabotage position, in which the coupling of the at least one bolt to the barrel is taken out of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: ABUS August Bremicker Soehne KG
    Inventors: Joachim Buhl, Friedhelm Schell, Martin Hommel, Thomas Becker
  • Publication number: 20090025437
    Abstract: The invention relates to a jointed bar lock comprising a lock body and a jointed bar hoop which has a first end and a second end, said first end being permanently connected to the lock body and said second end being connectable to the lock body at a latching region of the lock body, with a bolt provided at the lock body selectively being movable into a latched position in which the bolt engages it the second end of the jointed bar hoop when it is connected to the lock body or is movable into a release position in which the second end of the jointed bar hoop is released for a removal from the lock body. The lock has an actuation device which is coupled to the bolt via a connection section and by which the bolt is movable from the latched position, into which the bolt is biased, into the release position. The lock body accommodates a combination locking mechanism to selectively block or release the bolt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: ABUS August Bremicker Soehne KG
    Inventors: Andreas Hentschel, Martin Hommel, Hans-Theo Schaefer