Patents by Inventor Matthias Hucker

Matthias Hucker 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: 11563390
    Abstract: A braking device for a movable door leaf according to the invention comprises at least one generator, at the output terminals of which, a generator voltage can be generated, by means of which a charging circuit for supplying an open-loop and/or closed-loop control unit may be charged, by means of which an electric braking device, such as, in particular, a braking motor or the like, is controllable, which generates an effective braking force for damping the movement of the door leafs. Therein, the generator shaft of the generator is rotatable for generating the generator voltage with the discharging of a mechanical generator energy storage specifically associated with the generator, which is charged by a respective opening or closing movement of the door, and, during a respective closing or opening movement of the door, is mechanically decoupled from the same or its axis of rotation, and discharges in the state mechanically decoupled from the door leaf or its axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: GEZE GMBH
    Inventor: Matthias Hucker
  • Patent number: 11512516
    Abstract: A braking device for a movable door leaf comprises an electric braking motor to damp movement of the door leaf; a motor shaft coupleable with an axis of rotation of the door leaf; and a control unit to control the electric braking motor. A generator provides power to the control unit. A continuously variable transmission unit between the axis of rotation of the door leaf and either the motor shaft of the electric braking motor or the separate generator is controlled by a mechanical control such that the motor shaft of the electric braking motor and/or the separate generator, can be driven at a rotational speed independent of the rotational speed of the rotational axle of the door leaf. Also included is a door closer, having a rotatable door closer axis, coupleable with a door leaf, cooperating with a mechanical energy storage device, and a correspondingly designed braking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: GEZE GMBH
    Inventor: Matthias Hucker
  • Patent number: 11085219
    Abstract: A drive for a leaf of a door, window, or the like, including a mechanical energy store (16) configured to store energy during an opening movement of the leaf and expend energy during a closing movement of the leaf, an electric motor (18) operatively connected to the leaf via a motor shaft (20), the electric motor (18) operated as a generator to dampen the opening movement and the closing movement. The electric motor including a control unit configured to control the electric motor, wherein a drive behavior of the control unit is repeatedly and variably adaptable to a current need of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Geze GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Hucker, Simon Burghard, Dirk Huber, Thomas Schüler, Jörg Evertz, Simon Thomas Hasenfratz, Remo Sommer
  • Patent number: 10961767
    Abstract: A system for fixing and/or emergency opening of a leaf of a door, a window or other closure comprises a drive having at least one mechanical energy storage device, at least one electric motor having a motor shaft operatively connected to the leaf, and control electronics for controlling the electric motor. The electric motor can be actuated by the control electronics both for damping of the leaf movements and for fixing of the leaf against a force of the mechanical storage device and/or for electric motor-driven emergency opening of the leaf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Geze GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Hucker, Florian Birkenmayer
  • Patent number: 10876346
    Abstract: A braking device for a moveable door leaf includes an electrical brake motor operated as a generator. The motor shaft of which is rotatable by a movement of the door leaf and which can be controlled for regulating the closing speed of the door leaf by an electronic evaluation and control unit, which is at least partially provided with electrical energy by an electric motor operated as a generator and/or by an additional generator unit. The electronic evaluation and control unit is operable in a sleep mode and is cyclically displaceable into a waking state depending on the closing speed of the door leaf. A door closer with a mechanical energy storage and a braking device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Geze GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Hucker, Erhard Hahn
  • Patent number: 10851574
    Abstract: A braking device for a movable door wing comprises an electric motor operated as a generator with a motor shaft which is rotatable by a movement of the door wing and which expends motion-dependent motor voltage at a contact pair, as well as a braking circuit upon which the motor voltage is applied or applicable and via which, the contact pair is short-circuitable in order to dampen a movement of the door wing. It is provided that the braking circuit comprises two anti-serially arranged field-effect transistors wherein their drain terminals are connected each to another contact of the contact pair and wherein their source terminals are connected to each other and preferably also connected to earth or a zero line, so that the contact pair is short-circuited depending on the switching state of the field effect transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: GEZE GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Hucker, André Sebastiaan Maria Jansen
  • Patent number: 10837212
    Abstract: A drive unit for closing a leaf of a door or a window comprises an energy accumulator for providing a closing force for closing the leaf, a damping device which counteracts the closing force and has an electric motor which can be operated as a generator and can be coupled to an actuating element of the drive unit, and a control device for controlling the electric motor. The control device is designed to determine a nominal path curve which indicates a position of the leaf or a closing speed of the leaf in dependence upon time, and to perform the control of the electric motor in order to damp the closing movement of the leaf on the basis of the established target path curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Geze GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Hucker, Jörg Evertz, Oliver Baur, Simon Thomas Hasenfratz, Remo Sommer
  • Patent number: 10808445
    Abstract: The invention relates to a braking device (20) for a moving door leaf (5) comprising a generator (22), the at least one generator shaft (24) of which can be rotated via a movement of the door leaf (5), and at the connection terminals of which a movement-dependent first output voltage occurs, which is applied to an evaluation and control electronics system (10) having an evaluation and control unit and a braking circuit. The braking circuit generates an effective braking force for damping the movement of the door leaf (5), wherein the braking circuit (18) has at least one switch element, via which the connection terminals can be short-circuited, as well as a door closer (1) having a braking device of this type. According to the invention, a second output voltage of the generator (22) is applied to a charging circuit (12), which stores electrical energy for supplying the evaluation and control electronics system (10) with power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Geze GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Hucker
  • Patent number: 10781620
    Abstract: A system for monitoring safety-relevant functions of a door closer for the leaf of a door being used in particular as a fire protection barrier, of a window, or the like comprises a sensor system associated with the door closer for detecting predefinable operating variables of the door closer and a control and/or evaluation device connected to the sensor system for monitoring compliance with predefinable safety functions of the door closer on the basis of the operating variables detected by the sensor system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Geze GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Hucker
  • Patent number: 10767410
    Abstract: A braking device for a movable door wing comprising an electric motor operated as a generator wherein its motor shaft is rotatable by a movement of the door wing and which outputs a motion-dependent motor voltage, and a braking circuit to which the motor voltage is applied or can be applied and via which the electric motor can be short-circuited in order to dampen a movement of the door wing. In addition, it is provided that the braking device comprises a safety device with a current sensor which is designed to detect amperage generated by the electric motor. The safety device is designed to modify the braking circuit depending on the detected amperage in such a way that upon reaching or exceeding a predetermined or predeterminable overload amperage, the current in the braking circuit is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Geze GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Hucker, André Sebastiaan Maria Jansen
  • Patent number: 10633901
    Abstract: A braking device for a movable door wing comprising an electric motor operated as a generator wherein its motor shaft is rotatable by a movement of the door wing and which outputs a motion-dependent motor voltage, and a braking circuit to which the motor voltage is applied or can be applied and via which the electric motor can be short-circuited in order to dampen a movement of the door wing. In addition, it is provided that the braking device comprises a safety device with a current sensor which is designed to detect amperage generated by the electric motor. The safety device is designed to modify the braking circuit depending on the detected amperage in such a way that upon reaching or exceeding a predetermined or predeterminable overload amperage, the current in the braking circuit is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Geze GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Hucker, André Sebastiaan Maria Jansen
  • Patent number: 10626655
    Abstract: A braking device for a movable door leaf comprises an electric motor operated as a generator, whose shaft is rotatable through a movement of the door leaf and at whose terminals a movement-dependent motor voltage is created and a brake circuit to which the motor voltage is applied or could be applied and which can be short-circuited via the motor terminals to dampen movement of the door leaf. In addition, the braking device comprises an emergency brake circuit to which the motor voltage is applied or applicable and via which the motor terminals can be short-circuited to dampen a movement of the door leaf. In doing so, means are provided which are designed to detect the presence of a malfunction of the brake circuit and to short-circuit the motor terminals via the emergency brake circuit when the presence of a malfunction of the brake circuit is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Geze GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Hucker
  • Patent number: 10626653
    Abstract: In a method for the commissioning of a door or window closer which comprises an energy accumulator, a damping device with an electric motor being operable as a generator and a transmission element, the leaf is opened and/or closed at least once in a teach-in process, the angular position of the motor shaft is detected during opening and/or closing, a functional relationship is determined between the angular position of the motor shaft and an angular position of the rotatable leaf at least over an area of the opening width of the leaf and the functional connection is automatically taken as a basis for a subsequent actuation of the electric motor for the damping of the closing movement of the leaf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Geze GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Hucker
  • Publication number: 20190242172
    Abstract: A braking device for a moveable door leaf comprises an electrical brake motor being operated as a generator, the motor shaft of which is rotatable by a movement of the door leaf and which can be controlled for regulating the closing speed of the door leaf by means of an electronic evaluation and control unit, which is at least partially providable with electrical energy by an electric motor being operated as a generator, particularly the brake motor, and/or by means of an additional generator unit. The electronic evaluation and control unit is thus operable in a sleep mode and is cyclically displaceable into a waking state depending on the closing speed of the door leaf, wherein the wake-up frequency with which the electronic evaluation and control unit is cyclically awakened during a respective closing movement of the door leaf is less at relatively lower closing speeds of the door leaf than at relatively greater closing speeds of the door leaf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Matthias Hucker, Erhard Hahn
  • Publication number: 20190218844
    Abstract: A braking device for a movable door leaf includes an electric braking motor, operated as a generator, for generative damping of the movement of the door leaf, the motor shaft is coupleable with the axis of rotation of the door leaf, and a control unit for controlling and/or regulating the electric braking motor. Between the axis of rotation of the door leaf and the motor shaft of the electric braking motor or between the axis of rotation of the door leaf and a separate generator, serving as a power supply of the control unit, there is provided a continuously variable transmission unit, which is controlled and/or regulated by means of a preferably purely mechanical control such that the motor shaft of the electric braking motor or the separate generator can be driven at a rotational speed substantially independent of the rotational speed of the rotational axle of the door leaf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventor: Matthias Hucker
  • Publication number: 20190218842
    Abstract: A braking device for a movable door leaf according to the invention comprises at least one generator, at the output terminals of which, a generator voltage can be generated, by means of which a charging circuit for supplying an open-loop and/or closed-loop control unit may be charged, by means of which an electric braking device, such as, in particular, a braking motor or the like, is controllable, which generates an effective braking force for damping the movement of the door leafs. Therein, the generator shaft of the generator is rotatable for generating the generator voltage with the discharging of a mechanical generator energy storage specifically associated with the generator, which is charged by a respective opening or closing movement of the door, and, during a respective closing or opening movement of the door, is mechanically decoupled from the same or its axis of rotation, and discharges in the state mechanically decoupled from the door leaf or its axis of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventor: Matthias Hucker
  • Patent number: 10273736
    Abstract: The invention relates to a braking mechanism (10) for a movable door wing (1) with an electric motor (14) operating as a generator, the at least one drive shaft of which can be rotated by a movement of the door wing (1), and at the terminals thereof, a movement-dependent output voltage is produced, which is applied to an evaluation and control unit (20), and a stop spring (12) which damps a manual opening movement of the door wing (1) between a predetermined opening angle and a maximum opening angle with a constant first damping, and a corresponding door with a braking mechanism of this type. In accordance with to the invention, the evaluation and control unit (20) performs a pulse width modulation (PWM) of the motor current cooperating with the output voltage and establishes an effective sequence of braking force, which generates a variable second damping of the opening movement of the door wing (1), so that the door wing (1), when released, stops upon reaching the maximum opening angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Geze GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Hucker
  • Publication number: 20190071915
    Abstract: The invention relates to a braking device (20) for a moving door leaf (5) comprising a generator (22), the at least one generator shaft (24) of which can be rotated via a movement of the door leaf (5), and at the connection terminals of which a movement-dependent first output voltage occurs, which is applied to an evaluation and control electronics system (10) having an evaluation and control unit and a braking circuit, which generates an effective braking force for damping the movement of the door leaf (5), wherein the braking circuit (18) has at least one switch element, via which the connection terminals can be short-circuited, as well as a door closer (1) having a braking device of this type. According to the invention, a second output voltage of the generator (22) is applied to a charging circuit (12), which stores electrical energy for supplying the evaluation and control electronics system (10) with power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventor: Matthias Hucker
  • Publication number: 20180313128
    Abstract: A braking device for a movable door wing comprises an electric motor operated as a generator with a motor shaft which is rotatable by a movement of the door wing and which expends motion-dependent motor voltage at a contact pair, as well as a braking circuit upon which the motor voltage is applied or applicable and via which, the contact pair is short-circuitable in order to dampen a movement of the door wing. It is provided that the braking circuit comprises two anti-serially arranged field-effect transistors wherein their drain terminals are connected each to another contact of the contact pair and wherein their source terminals are connected to each other and preferably also connected to earth or a zero line, so that the contact pair is short-circuited depending on the switching state of the field effect transistors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Matthias Hucker, André Sebastiaan Maria Jansen
  • Publication number: 20180313130
    Abstract: A drive for a leaf of a door, window, or the like, comprising at least one mechanical energy store, which is charged by an opening movement of the leaf and discharged by a closing movement of the leaf, at least one electric motor, which is operatively connected to the leaf via at least one motor shaft and can be operated as a generator in order to dampen the leaf movements, and a control and/or regulator electronics unit for controlling the electric motor. The control and/or regulator electronics unit comprises means via which the drive behaviour can be variably specified repeatedly by a respective user and/or via which the drive behaviour can be variably adjusted repeatedly in accordance with the behaviour of a respective user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Matthias Hucker, Simon Burghard, Dirk Huber, Thomas Schüler, Jörg Evertz, Simon Thomas Hasenfratz, Remo Sommer