Patents by Inventor Oliver Simmonds
Oliver Simmonds 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).
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Patent number: 12179330Abstract: A setting tool used in a method for percussively driving an anchor rod into a borehole in a substrate has a drive-side end and, in an opposite tool direction, an end facing away from the drive. The setting tool has a tool adapter that forms the drive-side end and is arranged to interact with a driven impact tool. The end facing away from the drive is formed by a receiving element that has a recess arranged to receive part of an anchor rod. The tool adapter and the receiving element are coupled together by a coupling element such that an impact force introduced via the tool adapter is transmitted to an anchor rod arranged in the recess of the receiving element. The coupling element, in particular a coil spring, is arranged to allow for a displacement of at least part of the receiving element transversely to the tool direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: INVENTIO AGInventors: Andrea Cambruzzi, Eliza Olczyk, Oliver Simmonds, Philipp Zimmerli
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Patent number: 11858778Abstract: A method and construction site device for vertical transportation during a building construction phase include a climbing formwork platform arranged in a currently uppermost region of the building for concreting at least part of the building core, an elevator car intermittently adjusted to a current building height in a first elevator shaft by hoisting a mechanical platform to a higher level and fixing it there, a construction elevator temporarily installed in a second elevator shaft and attached to the climbing formwork platform with a construction elevator car vertically movable in a construction elevator frame, and wherein people and/or material are transported to a floor associated with an access opening of the construction elevator by the elevator system and then are transported from this floor to a floor situated in the currently uppermost region of the building or to the climbing formwork platform by the construction elevator.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: INVENTIO AGInventors: Christian Studer, Gabriele Bizzozero, Oliver Simmonds, Stefan Weber
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Patent number: 11772934Abstract: A mounting frame for being displaced and fixed in a shaft has a main frame, a first primary fixing component for supporting the mounting frame on a first shaft wall of the shaft and a secondary fixing component for supporting the mounting frame on a second shaft wall of the shaft opposite the first shaft wall in a fixing direction during fixing of the mounting frame in the shaft. The first primary fixing component and the secondary fixing component are arranged on the main frame. The first primary fixing component and/or the main frame can assume a transport position and a working position. A change of the first primary fixing component and/or the main frame from its working position to its transport position leads to a reduction in an extension of the mounting frame in an extension direction that differs from the fixing direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: INVENTIO AGInventors: Andrea Cambruzzi, Oliver Simmonds, Philipp Zimmerli
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Patent number: 11767196Abstract: An assembly device for carrying out assembly steps on a wall and a method for arranging a magazine component on a magazine housing device include a mobile assembly frame, a mechatronic installation component, the magazine housing device, magazine components and a securing device. The magazine housing device houses the magazine components with assembly means housed therein. The securing device, in a securing state, establishes a connection between the magazine components and the assembly frame to secure the magazine components against displacement relative to the assembly frame. The magazine components each have a first coupling element and the securing device has a second coupling element. The first coupling element and the second coupling element are arranged such that the securing device can be detachably coupled to the magazine components by the two coupling elements.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: INVENTIO AGInventors: Andrea Cambruzzi, Oliver Simmonds, Philipp Zimmerli
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Patent number: 11760607Abstract: A mounting system for performing an installation operation in an elevator shaft of an elevator system has a mounting apparatus that includes a carrier component with a mechatronic installation component, a displacement component, a suspension cable and a deflection roller deflecting the suspension cable between the displacement component and the carrier component. The carrier component is supported against a supporting wall of the elevator shaft by an upper support roller, at least during displacement in the elevator shaft. The suspension cable has, between the deflection roller and the carrier component, a diagonal pull relative to the vertical in the direction of the supporting wall and is guided via the deflection roller such that the diagonal pull can be varied by displacing the deflection roller. The deflection roller is arranged via a holding apparatus on a surface of the supporting wall such that the deflection roller protrudes into the elevator shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: INVENTIO AGInventors: Andrea Cambruzzi, Eliza Olczyk, Oliver Simmonds, Philipp Zimmerli, Raphael Bitzi
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Patent number: 11708244Abstract: A method for planning and at least partially installing an elevator system in an elevator shaft includes automated installation steps carried out by an automated mounting device. The method steps include: deriving a target layout of the elevator system from target dimensions of the elevator shaft, establishing the installation steps to be carried out by the automated mounting device, checking that the automated installation steps can be carried out by the mounting device, detecting several actual dimensions of the elevator shaft, deriving an actual layout of the elevator system from the target layout and the detected actual dimensions, planning the automated installation steps based upon the actual layout and carrying out the automated installation steps with the mounting device.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: INVENTIO AGInventors: Andrea Cambruzzi, Christian Studer, Eliza Olczyk, Oliver Simmonds, Philipp Zimmerli, Raphael Bitzi
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Patent number: 11703823Abstract: A method and an assembly device for automated determination of a drilling position of a drill hole for a fastener for fastening a component to a possible wall area of a wall, wherein the method steps include: determining a surface contour of the wall area; examining the surface contour and detecting first irregularities in the surface contour using a first detection rule; determining a primary possible support surface area and a primary possible drilling position area that do not have any of the detected first irregularities; examining the surface contour of the primary possible drilling position area and detecting second irregularities in the surface contour using a second detection rule; and determining the drilling position inside the primary possible drilling position area such that the surface contour at the drilling position does not have any of the detected second irregularities.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: INVENTIO AGInventors: Andrea Cambruzzi, Eliza Olczyk, Erich Butler, Oliver Simmonds, Philipp Zimmerli, Raphael Bitzi
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Publication number: 20230094665Abstract: An installation device for carrying out installation steps on a wall, and a method for exchanging a tool received by the installation apparatus, include an installation apparatus having a drive unit coupled to a tool holder. The tool holder receives a tool that extends away from the tool holder in a tool direction and which tool is driven by the drive unit. The tool holder can assume a locked state and an unlocked state, wherein a tool received by the tool holder can be removed from the tool holder in the unlocked state and is fixed in the tool holder, and therefore cannot be removed, in the locked state. The installation apparatus has an unlocking device controllable by an actuator and the tool holder can be brought from the locked state into the unlocked state by the actuator to release the tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Andrea Cambruzzi, Luciano Passoni, Oliver Simmonds, Philipp Zimmerli
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Patent number: 11603285Abstract: An elevator car load measurement system for determining a load of an elevator car includes a plurality of at least two force sensors that are daisy-chained and connected to a controller for determining the load. Each force sensor measures a force exerted by the elevator car on the respective force sensor and generates a frequency signal with a square-wave form, wherein the frequency signal is proportional to the respective measured force. At least one of the force sensors adds a first frequency signal received from the previous force sensor along the daisy chain a second frequency signal generated by the at least one force sensor to generate a frequency sum signal, the last of the force sensors in the daisy chain forwards the frequency sum signal to the controller.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: INVENTIO AGInventors: Frank Olivier Roussel, Oliver Simmonds
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Publication number: 20230041465Abstract: An assembly device for carrying out assembly steps on a wall and a method for arranging a magazine component on a magazine housing device include a mobile assembly frame, a mechatronic installation component, the magazine housing device, magazine components and a securing device. The magazine housing device houses the magazine components with assembly means housed therein. The securing device, in a securing state, establishes a connection between the magazine components and the assembly frame to secure the magazine components against displacement relative to the assembly frame. The magazine components each have a first coupling element and the securing device has a second coupling element. The first coupling element and the second coupling element are arranged such that the securing device can be detachably coupled to the magazine components by the two coupling elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2021Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Andrea Cambruzzi, Oliver Simmonds, Philipp Zimmerli
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Publication number: 20220380177Abstract: A mounting frame for displacing and fixing in a shaft includes a support component for support against a first shaft wall during displacement in the shaft and is arranged on a main frame so as to be at least partially movable in a fixing direction relative to the main frame. The support component can assume a fixing position and a displacement position, with no part of a support surface being spaced further outward in the fixing direction, i.e. toward the first shaft wall, from the main frame in the fixing position than a fixing surface of a primary fixing component that is used to fix the mounting frame in the shaft, and the support surface is spaced further outward from the main frame in the fixing direction in the displacement position than the fixing surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2020Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Andrea Cambruzzi, Oliver Simmonds, Philipp Zimmerli
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Publication number: 20220380178Abstract: A mounting frame for being displaced and fixed in a shaft has a main frame, a first primary fixing component for supporting the mounting frame on a first shaft wall of the shaft and a secondary fixing component for supporting the mounting frame on a second shaft wall of the shaft opposite the first shaft wall in a fixing direction during fixing of the mounting frame in the shaft. The first primary fixing component and the secondary fixing component are arranged on the main frame. The first primary fixing component and/or the main frame can assume a transport position and a working position. A change of the first primary fixing component and/or the main frame from its working position to its transport position leads to a reduction in an extension of the mounting frame in an extension direction that differs from the fixing direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2020Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Andrea Cambruzzi, Oliver Simmonds, Philipp Zimmerli
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Publication number: 20220168880Abstract: A setting tool used in a method for percussively driving an anchor rod into a borehole in a substrate has a drive-side end and, in an opposite tool direction, an end facing away from the drive. The setting tool has a tool adapter that forms the drive-side end and is arranged to interact with a driven impact tool. The end facing away from the drive is formed by a receiving element that has a recess arranged to receive part of an anchor rod. The tool adapter and the receiving element are coupled together by a coupling element such that an impact force introduced via the tool adapter is transmitted to an anchor rod arranged in the recess of the receiving element. The coupling element, in particular a coil spring, is arranged to allow for a displacement of at least part of the receiving element transversely to the tool direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Andrea Cambruzzi, Eliza Olczyk, Oliver Simmonds, Philipp Zimmerli
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Publication number: 20220080546Abstract: A mounting device and a method for the automated drilling of holes in building walls includes the mounting device having a drilling device with a drill, an optical detection device for detecting a digital image of at least a part of the drill, and a control device for controlling the drilling device and the optical detection device. The control device evaluates the digital image to assess a condition of the drill.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2019Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Andrea Cambruzzi, Christian Studer, Eliza Olczyk, Oliver Simmonds, Philipp Zimmerli
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Publication number: 20220024727Abstract: A method and construction site device for vertical transportation during a building construction phase include a climbing formwork platform arranged in a currently uppermost region of the building for concreting at least part of the building core, an elevator car intermittently adjusted to a current building height in a first elevator shaft by hoisting a mechanical platform to a higher level and fixing it there, a construction elevator temporarily installed in a second elevator shaft and attached to the climbing formwork platform with a construction elevator car vertically movable in a construction elevator frame, and wherein people and/or material are transported to a floor associated with an access opening of the construction elevator by the elevator system and then are transported from this floor to a floor situated in the currently uppermost region of the building or to the climbing formwork platform by the construction elevator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Christian Studer, Gabriele Bizzozero, Oliver Simmonds, Stefan Weber
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Publication number: 20220010570Abstract: A building site device includes a climbing formwork platform for the floor-by-floor production of concreting portions of a building core having at least one elevator shaft. An elevator system has an elevator machine platform vertically movable in the elevator shaft. In order to minimize the use of lifting cranes and the manual raising of supporting structures, the elevator machine platform can be moved jointly with the climbing formwork platform.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2019Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Oliver Simmonds, Stefan Weber, Christian Studer, Gabriele Bizzozero
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Publication number: 20220009006Abstract: A method and an assembly device for automated determination of a drilling position of a drill hole for a fastener for fastening a component to a possible wall area of a wall, wherein the method steps include: determining a surface contour of the wall area; examining the surface contour and detecting first irregularities in the surface contour using a first detection rule; determining a primary possible support surface area and a primary possible drilling position area that do not have any of the detected first irregularities; examining the surface contour of the primary possible drilling position area and detecting second irregularities in the surface contour using a second detection rule; and determining the drilling position inside the primary possible drilling position area such that the surface contour at the drilling position does not have any of the detected second irregularities.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2019Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Andrea Cambruzzi, Eliza Olczyk, Erich Butler, Oliver Simmonds, Philipp Zimmerli, Raphael Bitzi
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Publication number: 20210323793Abstract: A mounting system for performing an installation operation in an elevator shaft of an elevator system has a mounting apparatus that includes a carrier component with a mechatronic installation component, a displacement component, a suspension cable and a deflection roller deflecting the suspension cable between the displacement component and the carrier component. The carrier component is supported against a supporting wall of the elevator shaft by an upper support roller, at least during displacement in the elevator shaft. The suspension cable has, between the deflection roller and the carrier component, a diagonal pull relative to the vertical in the direction of the supporting wall and is guided via the deflection roller such that the diagonal pull can be varied by displacing the deflection roller. The deflection roller is arranged via a holding apparatus on a surface of the supporting wall such that the deflection roller protrudes into the elevator shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2019Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Andrea Cambruzzi, Eliza Olczyk, Oliver Simmonds, Philipp Zimmerli, Raphael Bitzi
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Publication number: 20210300729Abstract: A method for planning and at least partially installing an elevator system in an elevator shaft includes automated installation steps carried out by an automated mounting device. The method steps include: deriving a target layout of the elevator system from target dimensions of the elevator shaft, establishing the installation steps to be carried out by the automated mounting device, checking that the automated installation steps can be carried out by the mounting device, detecting several actual dimensions of the elevator shaft, deriving an actual layout of the elevator system from the target layout and the detected actual dimensions, planning the automated installation steps based upon the actual layout and carrying out the automated installation steps with the mounting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2019Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Andrea Cambruzzi, Christian Studer, Eliza Olczyk, Oliver Simmonds, Philipp Zimmerli, Raphael Bitzi
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Publication number: 20200130989Abstract: An elevator car load measurement system for determining a load of an elevator car includes a plurality of at least two force sensors that are daisy-chained and connected to a controller for determining the load. Each force sensor measures a force exerted by the elevator car on the respective force sensor and generates a frequency signal with a square-wave form, wherein the frequency signal is proportional to the respective measured force. At least one of the force sensors adds a first frequency signal received from the previous force sensor along the daisy chain a second frequency signal generated by the at least one force sensor to generate a frequency sum signal, the last of the force sensors in the daisy chain forwards the frequency sum signal to the controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Frank Olivier Roussel, Oliver Simmonds