Patents by Inventor Patrick Bumann

Patrick Bumann 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: 12116243
    Abstract: A sliding guide shoe for an elevator includes a guide shoe housing and a two-part insert inserted into the guide shoe housing. The insert includes a damping element and a sliding element for guiding an elevator car or a counterweight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Patrick Bumann, Volker Zapf
  • Publication number: 20240174489
    Abstract: A roller guide shoe for guiding an elevator car or a counterweight includes a support structure formed as a plastics injection-molded part, guide rollers, and lever elements arranged between the support structure and the guide rollers. The respective lever element is an integral molded body made of a plastics material, and applies a preload for the guide roller as a bending part. The lever elements inserted into associated joint cams of the support structure, wherein each joint cam engages in a recess on the associated lever element to predefine an articulation axis. Each lever element has two lever arms that define a V-shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Bumann, Volker Zapf
  • Publication number: 20230111169
    Abstract: A sliding guide shoe for an elevator includes a guide shoe housing and a two-part insert inserted into the guide shoe housing. The insert includes a damping element and a sliding element for guiding an elevator car or a counterweight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Patrick Bumann, Volker Zapf
  • Publication number: 20230113353
    Abstract: A sliding guide shoe for an elevator has a guide shoe housing and an insert inserted into the guide shoe housing for guiding an elevator car or a counterweight. In order to positionally secure the insert, the insert has profiled pins that engage in bores in the guide shoe housing. In order to form the profiling, the pins each have radially outwardly directed ribs or projections that are distributed evenly over the circumference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Patrick Bumann, Volker Zapf