Patents by Inventor Martin Richter

Martin Richter 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).

  • Publication number: 20030010535
    Abstract: A support for supporting a power tool (3) on a displacement carriage (2) and including an attachment element (7) for connecting the power tool (3) with the carriage (2), and a bolt insertable into an eyelet (8) of the power tool (9) for releasably connecting the attachment element (7) with the power tool (3) with the bolt (6) having axial and radial conduits (12, 13) communicating with an outer cylindrical surface of the bolt (6), so that predetermined position of the bolt (6) in the eyelet (8), a drilling fluid can be delivered through the bolt (6) to fluid conduits (4) of the power tool (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Tim Prols, Konrad Artmann, Martin Richter
  • Publication number: 20020189865
    Abstract: A rock drill including a drilling rod (2), a cup-shaped drilling head (5) secured to the drilling rod (2) at one of its ends, and connection elements including at least one radially projecting, entraining web (8) associated with the drilling rod (2) and received in at least one axially extending entrain slot (9) which is formed in an entrain surface of the cup-shaped drilling head (5) for securing the drilling head (5) to the drilling rod (2) for joint rotation therewith and for a limited axial displacement relative thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: Werner Kleine, Hans-Werner Bongers-Ambrosius, Udo Hauptmann, Martin Richter
  • Publication number: 20020185287
    Abstract: A functional unit for a percussion power tool and formed of a flush head (4) connectable with a chuck (3) of the power tool (1) for receiving a working tool, and a carrying handle (5) formed as a stirrup, closed carrying handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventors: Tim Prols, Konrad Artmann, Martin Richter
  • Patent number: 6467555
    Abstract: A percussion mechanism for an electrical hand-held power tool including a guide tube, a percussion piston (4) axially displaceable in the guide tube (2), an anvil (5) for impacting a working tool and axially displaceable together with the percussion piston (4), a gas spring (1) provided on an axial side of the percussion piston (4) remote from the anvil (5), an air channel (9) for aeration of the gas spring (1) and extending between an axial region of the gas spring (1) and an axial region of the anvil (5) outwardly of the inner surface of the guide tube (2), and a ventilation opening (8) for communicating the air channel (9) with a surrounding environment and which is closed by the anvil (5) in its operational position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Uto Plank, Martin Richter
  • Patent number: 6460627
    Abstract: A drilling and/or chiseling device has a drive spindle (19) for a drilling and/or chiseling tool with two ring gears (17, 18) of different sizes, a countershaft (1) with a drive pinion (15), a wobble drive (7) for a striking mechanism, mounted on the countershaft (1), and a switching sleeve (9), mounted on the countershaft (1) so that it can be shifted axially by a switching element (20). The switching element displaces the switching sleeve (9) into four different modes of operation of the drilling and/or chiseling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Armin Below, Hans-Werner Bongus-Ambrosius, Martin Richter, Thomas Hofbrucker, Kent Karlsson
  • Publication number: 20020121391
    Abstract: A rock drilling tool including a tip (3) formed of a hard material and provided at one end of the tool stem and a shank (4) provided at an opposite end of the stem (2) and having a plurality of entrain grooves (5) extending up to a free end surface of the shank (4), with an entire recessed surface (11) of an entrain groove (5) being larger than an entire outer surface (10) of a groove-forming rest web (6), and with a mean rest cross-sectional area (A′), which is measured within an axial section of the drilling tool having a length at least equal to a product of a natural logarithm base and a stem diameter (e×D), deviating from a mean rest cross sectional area (A) along the entire tool length maximum by 20%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2002
    Publication date: September 5, 2002
    Inventors: Werner Kleine, Hans-Werner Bongers-Ambrosius, Udo Hauptmann, Martin Richter
  • Patent number: 6443014
    Abstract: In a proportioner for proportioning a fluid flow (&phgr;) from an input side of a first proportioning element (10) to an output side of a second proportioning element (10), the first and second proportioning elements comprise a membrane (12) provided with at least one opening (16) acting as a flow resistor for a medium to be proportioned, and a pressure sensor (14) integrated in the membrane (12) and used for detecting a pressure difference between the input side and the output side of the proportioning element (10). The proportioner comprises a pressure transducer for input-side application of a pressure to the medium to be proportioned. The first and the second proportioning element (10) are arranged in succession so as to permit, on the basis of the pressure drop across the membranes (12) of the two proportioning elements (10), the detection of clogging or blocking of the respective flow resistor provided in these membranes (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E. V.
    Inventor: Martin Richter
  • Publication number: 20020108766
    Abstract: A percussion mechanism for an electrical hand-held power tool including a guide tube, a percussion piston (4) axially displaceable in the guide tube (2), an anvil (5) for impacting a working tool and axially displaceable together with the percussion piston (4), a gas spring (1) provided on an axial side of the percussion piston (4) remote from the anvil (5), an air channel (9) for aeration of the gas spring (1) and extending between an axial region of the gas spring (1) and an axial region of the anvil (5) outwardly of the inner surface of the guide tube (2), and a ventilation opening (8) for communicating the air channel (9) with a surrounding environment and which is closed by the anvil (5) in its operational position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2002
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventors: Uto Plank, Martin Richter
  • Patent number: 6395638
    Abstract: A method of producing a pump body having an inlet opening provided with an inlet valve (106) and an outlet opening provided with an outlet valve (108), said method comprising as a first step the step of structuring a respective first main surface of a first and of a second semiconductor disc (200) for defining a valve flap structure (202) of the inlet valve and a valve seat structure (204) of the outlet valve in the first disc and a valve flap structure of the outlet valve and a valve seat structure of the inlet valve in the second disc. Following this, a valve flap well structure (206; 216) and a valve opening well structure (208; 218) are formed in a predetermined relationship with the valve flap structures and the valve seat structures in a respective second main surface of the first and of the second semiconductor disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Reinhard Linnemann, Martin Richter, Stefan Kluge, Peter Woias
  • Publication number: 20020056558
    Abstract: A percussion electrical hand-held tool including a housing (10), a percussion element (2) located in the housing, and a planetary gear unit (5) located in the housing (10) for converting a rotational movement (&ohgr;) of the drive shaft (1) of the hand-held tool (8) into a reciprocating movement (&ugr;) of the percussion element (2), with the planetary gear unit (5) including a sun gear (6) changing of a setting (&agr;) of which provides for adjusting of an impact amplitude of the reciprocating movement (&agr;) of the percussion element (2), and control unit located in the housing (10) for adjusting the impact amplitude in accordance with a manual axial force applied to the handle of the hand-held tool (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2001
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Inventors: Hans-Werner Bongers-Ambrosius, Martin Richter, Konrad Artmann
  • Publication number: 20020020566
    Abstract: A working tool for use with a percussion power tool and including a cushioning elongate stem (3), and a head (4) connected with the stem (3) for joint rotation therewith and for a limited axial displacement relative thereto, with the tool head (4) being adapted, with respect to its resistance associated with its cushioning properties, to characteristics of the percussion piston (5) of the power tool and with the tool stem (3) and the tool head (4) having mutually abutting each other end surfaces (10) which form at least a partially flat contact upon abutting each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventors: Udo Hauptmann, Hanspeter Schad, Martin Richter, Franz Popp, Josef Funfer, Konrad Artmann, Josef Bauer
  • Publication number: 20020007956
    Abstract: An electrical hand operated tool driving device (1), such as a hammer drill, a combination hammer or a chipping hammer, has an electropneumatic striking mechanism (2), for which a cooling medium (8), for cooling the striking mechanism (2), flows through a liquid-tight cooling medium duct (10, 11, 12, 13), which is disposed in a housing (7) of the tool driving device (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Hans-Werner Bongers-Ambrosius, Martin Richter, Konrad Artmann
  • Patent number: 6261066
    Abstract: A micromembrane pump comprises a pump membrane which is adapted to be moved to a first and a second position with the aid of a drive means and a pump body connected to the pump membrane so as to define a pump chamber between these two components, the pump body being defined by two semiconductor plates having each formed therein a valve seat and a valve flap which are formed integrally with the respective semiconductor plate, the two semiconductor plates being connected in such a way that a respective passive non-return valve is defined by a valve seat of one semiconductor plate and by a valve flap of the other semiconductor plate, one of the passive non-return valves being arranged in an inlet opening penetrating both semiconductor plates, whereas the other of the non-return valves is arranged in an outlet opening penetrating both semiconductor plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Reinhard Linnemann, Martin Richter, Stefan Kluge, Peter Woias
  • Patent number: 6253605
    Abstract: A proportioning element (10) for proportioning a fluid flow from an input side to an output side of the proportioning element (10) comprises a membrane (12) provided with at least one opening (16) acting as a flow resistor for a medium to be proportioned. The membrane (12) has additionally integrated therein a pressure sensor (14) used for detecting a pressure difference between the input side and the output side of the proportioning element (10). The proportioning element is implemented as a semiconductor chip, the membrane (12) being a semiconductor membrane and areas of the semiconductor chip which are exposed to the medium to be proportioned being provided with a passivation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventor: Martin Richter
  • Patent number: 6129702
    Abstract: A medicament dosing system comprises a replaceable unit and a permanent unit. The replaceable unit comprises a fluid reservoir for receiving therein a pressurizable liquid medicament, a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of said liquid medicament, a fluid channel which is provided with a flow resistor and which is in flow communication with the fluid reservoir, and a hose means which is connected to the fluid channel. The permanent unit comprises a squeezing valve means for squeezing the hose means together, and a control means which is coupled to the temperature sensor and the squeezing valve means so as to control a flow rate of the liquid medicament by clocked actuation of said squeezing valve means depending on the temperature detected. Alternatively, the temperatur sensor can be arranged in the permanent unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Peter Woias, Martin Richter
  • Patent number: 5911766
    Abstract: The invention concerns a lock cylinder with a cylinder core arranged rotatable in a housing and an overload coupling device, which consists of at least one radially slidable tang which is connected non-rotatable to the cylinder core, as well as of a control element cooperating with the tang in case of overload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: Valeo GmbH & Co. Schliesssysteme KG
    Inventors: Kurt Lieb, Stephan Chevalier, Martin Richter, Thomas Hering
  • Patent number: 5820312
    Abstract: A device for transmitting impulse-like blows to a continuously rotatable tool bit (6) is formed as an axially extending adapter (1) having a first chuck for the tool bit (6) and being insertable at a trailing end into a second tool bit chuck in a manually operated tool equipped with a striking mechanism. The adapter (1) has a housing (2) containing a unit for superimposing a second blow component on the first impulse blow component produced by the striking mechanism, so that an impulse-like drilling blow can be transmitted to the drill bit (6) made up of an axially directed blow component and a torsional blow component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiensellschaft
    Inventors: Maximilian Stock, Boris Koller, Martin Richter, Hans-Werner Bongers-Ambrosius
  • Patent number: 5426205
    Abstract: Novel perfluoroalkylsulphonamidoalkoxysilanes suitable as hydrophobing and oleophobing agents for textiles and stone materials of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.f represents a monovalent perfluoroalkyl group with 4 to 20 carbon atoms,R represents a monovalent organic group which is inert towards isocyanate groups at temperatures below 100.degree. C.,X,Y and Z represent identical or different organic groups which are inert towards isocyanate groups at temperatures below 100.degree. C., with the proviso that at least one of these groups is an alkoxy group,a is 1 or 2,b is 0 or 1,c is 3-a-b, but at least 1, andn is an integer from 2 to 4.and a process for their preparation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stephan Kirchmeyer, Martin Richter
  • Patent number: 4967888
    Abstract: A safety clutch for a motor-driven hand tool breaks the rotational drive train when a working tool becomes seized in a receiving material. The safety clutch includes coupling members (25) positioned in a part (22) for transmitting rotational movement to the working tool. The coupling members (25) are radially displaceable within the part (22) between a first position rotatably connecting the part and a power take-off spindle (21) and a second position releasing the connection between the part and spindle. An annular inertial mass (28) rotates with and is rotatable relative to the part (22). The mass (28) has recesses (31) in its inner surface for receiving the coupling members (25) in the second position, and it has support surfaces for holding the coupling members (25) in connecting engagement in recesses (27) in the spindle in the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Lippacher, Martin Richter
  • Patent number: 4760639
    Abstract: The invention involves apparatus for equipping circuit boards with electronic components wherein the terminal pins of the components inserted into openings in the circuit board lying on an anvil. The anvil serves the purpose of severing and bending the terminal lugs by means of suitable cutting tools each consisting of a stationary and a movable knife. Monitoring devices are provided for the terminal pin ends protruding from the openings on the side of the circuit board opposite the components. According to the invention, there is assigned to each terminal pin (26, 27) a magnetic field-dependent sensor (151, 251), whose actuating magnet (131-140, 231) is movable over monitored. Preferably the individual push rods (101 to 110) are guided at a lateral distance between the movable knifes (7, 10; 17, 20), under spring pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1988
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Martin Richter