Patents by Inventor Patrick Levien

Patrick Levien 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: 20250260983
    Abstract: A method unlocks a mobile device in the form of a motor-driven user-controlled handheld gardening, forestry, construction, and/or cultivating device and/or a battery pack for such a device, for a limited unlocked period of time, unlocked operating period of time, unlocked number of operating cycles, and/or unlocked amount of operating energy for an operation of the device outside a bounded position area. The method includes: detecting the device inside the bounded position area, and triggering, when the device is detected inside the position area, the unlocking of the device for the limited unlocked period of time, unlocked period of operating time, unlocked number of operating cycles, and/or unlocked amount of operating energy, for the operation of the device outside the bounded position area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2025
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventors: Patrick LEVIEN, Kerstin WEISS, Sebastian LEHMANN, Hyun-Young KIM, Simon TRINKLE
  • Patent number: 10920901
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electromagnetic valve having a valve housing (2) and a valve opening (29) with a valve seat (8) and an electric drive coil (3) and a magnetic yoke (11) and a longitudinal centre axis (14). The magnetic yoke (11) is assigned a metallic plate armature (5) which is mounted movably and has an armature disc (48). The armature disc (48) lies sealingly with a sealing surface (9) against the valve seat (8) in a first switching position of the valve, and opens the valve seat (8) in a second switching position of the valve. According to the invention, the valve seat (8) is configured on a valve component (18), wherein the valve component (18) has at least one valve opening (29) which lies at a radial spacing (r) from the longitudinal centre axis (14). The valve seat (8) of the valve opening (29), which valve seat (8) corresponds with direct body contact with the sealing surface (9) of the armature disc (48) of the plate armature (7), consists of metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG, Staiger GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jens Peter Ramler, Patrick Levien, Patrick Schlauch, Peter Kofink, Wolfgang Layher, Bruno Staiger, Marc Staiger, Stefan Waldinsperger, Marcus Wieduwilt
  • Patent number: 10703006
    Abstract: A handheld work apparatus has a tool and a brake assembly for the tool. The brake assembly has an actuating element which acts on a brake element of the brake assembly. The actuating element is movable between a fixed position wherein the tool is not braked, and a released position, wherein the brake element brakes the tool. To fix the actuating element in the fixed position, an electromagnet is provided. The electromagnet interacts with an anchor on the actuating element. The anchor is mounted via a pivot joint on an anchor pin to be pivotable about a pivot axis. A guide includes a guide part connected to the anchor and a guide part connected to the yoke, wherein, in the fixed position of the actuating element, the guide parts guide the anchor relative to the yoke in a transverse direction of an outrigger of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Patrick Levien, Tobias Deigendesch, Alexander Klein, Georg Maier, Sebastian Hanussek
  • Patent number: 10533678
    Abstract: An electromagnetic valve has a valve chamber which has an inflow opening for supplying a liquid and an outlet for discharging the liquid. The valve includes a valve seat and a valve member that is assigned to the valve seat. The fluidic connection between the inflow opening and the outlet of the valve is interrupted when a valve seat is closed by the valve member. The valve member is held on an armature plate which is moved by an electromagnetic drive unit toward an end stop which is formed by a first stop surface. In order for the operative capability of the valve to be guaranteed in the case of wear on the end stop, the armature plate is assigned a second stop surface which upon a predefined wear on the first stop surface forms a downstream end stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Patrick Levien, Felix Mayer, Georg Maier
  • Publication number: 20190383415
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electromagnetic valve having a valve housing (2) and a valve opening (29) with a valve seat (8) and an electric drive coil (3) and a magnetic yoke (11) and a longitudinal centre axis (14). The magnetic yoke (11) is assigned a metallic plate armature (5) which is mounted movably and has an armature disc (48). The armature disc (48) lies sealingly with a sealing surface (9) against the valve seat (8) in a first switching position of the valve, and opens the valve seat (8) in a second switching position of the valve. According to the invention, the valve seat (8) is configured on a valve component (18), wherein the valve component (18) has at least one valve opening (29) which lies at a radial spacing (r) from the longitudinal centre axis (14). The valve seat (8) of the valve opening (29), which valve seat (8) corresponds with direct body contact with the sealing surface (9) of the armature disc (48) of the plate armature (7), consists of metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Jens Peter Ramler, Patrick Levien, Patrick Schlauch, Peter Kofink, Wolfgang Layher, Bruno Staiger, Marc Staiger, Stefan Waldinsperger, Marcus Wieduwilt
  • Publication number: 20180354152
    Abstract: A handheld work apparatus has a tool and a brake assembly for the tool. The brake assembly has an actuating element which acts on a brake element of the brake assembly. The actuating element is movable between a fixed position wherein the tool is not braked, and a released position, wherein the brake element brakes the tool. To fix the actuating element in the fixed position, an electromagnet is provided. The electromagnet interacts with an anchor on the actuating element. The anchor is mounted via a pivot joint on an anchor pin to be pivotable about a pivot axis. A guide includes a guide part connected to the anchor and a guide part connected to the yoke, wherein, in the fixed position of the actuating element, the guide parts guide the anchor relative to the yoke in a transverse direction of an outrigger of the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Patrick Levien, Tobias Deigendesch, Alexander Klein, Georg Maier, Sebastian Hanussek
  • Publication number: 20180180195
    Abstract: An electromagnetic valve has a valve chamber which has an inflow opening for supplying a liquid and an outlet for discharging the liquid. The valve includes a valve seat and a valve member that is assigned to the valve seat. The fluidic connection between the inflow opening and the outlet of the valve is interrupted when a valve seat is closed by the valve member. The valve member is held on an armature plate which is moved by an electromagnetic drive unit toward an end stop which is formed by a first stop surface. In order for the operative capability of the valve to be guaranteed in the case of wear on the end stop, the armature plate is assigned a second stop surface which upon a predefined wear on the first stop surface forms a downstream end stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Patrick Levien, Felix Mayer, Georg Maier
  • Patent number: 9273637
    Abstract: An adjustment safeguard for a set screw on a carburetor includes a cap held non-rotatably on the head of the set screw. The cap is surrounded by a coaxially positioned wall sleeve fixed to the housing. A rotation stop is fixed to the housing to limit the angle of rotation of the cap in the sleeve in the rotational direction of the set screw. A through-opening in the cap permits inserting a tool into an engagement opening in the head of the set screw to avoid destruction by introducing too much torque into the adjustment safeguard. The form and opening width of the through-opening is limited by the use of a metal material such that a tool larger than the adjustment tool is not able to be inserted through the through-opening into the head of the set screw. The engagement opening is flexible to limit a maximum allowable adjustment torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Patrick Levien, Achim Baumhauer, Walter Gernhard
  • Publication number: 20140093329
    Abstract: An adjustment safeguard for a set screw on a carburetor includes a cap held non-rotatably on the head of the set screw. The cap is surrounded by a coaxially positioned wall sleeve fixed to the housing. A rotation stop is fixed to the housing to limit the angle of rotation of the cap in the sleeve in the rotational direction of the set screw. A through-opening in the cap permits inserting a tool into an engagement opening in the head of the set screw to avoid destruction by introducing too much torque into the adjustment safeguard. The form and opening width of the through-opening is limited by the use of a metal material such that a tool larger than the adjustment tool is not able to be inserted through the through-opening into the head of the set screw. The engagement opening is flexible to limit a maximum allowable adjustment torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Patrick Levien, Achim Baumhauer, Walter Gernhard
  • Patent number: 8561971
    Abstract: A carburetor has a throttle element rotatably supported on a throttle shaft and a choke element rotatably supported on a choke shaft. A first coupling element is fixedly connected to the throttle shaft. A second coupling element is connected to the choke shaft. The first and second coupling elements define in a locked position a start position of throttle element and choke element. The locked position is released by rotation of the throttle shaft in opening direction of the throttle element. The locked position is released by rotation of the choke shaft in opening direction of the choke element. One of the first and second coupling elements is an at least partially elastic coupling element. Upon rotation of the choke shaft from the locked position into an open position, the elastic coupling element is elastically deformed and releases the locked position between the first and second coupling elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Patrick Levien, Alexander Kraus
  • Publication number: 20120091599
    Abstract: A carburetor has a throttle element rotatably supported on a throttle shaft and a choke element rotatably supported on a choke shaft. A first coupling element is fixedly connected to the throttle shaft. A second coupling element is connected to the choke shaft. The first and second coupling elements define in a locked position a start position of throttle element and choke element. The locked position is released by rotation of the throttle shaft in opening direction of the throttle element. The locked position is released by rotation of the choke shaft in opening direction of the choke element. One of the first and second coupling elements is an at least partially elastic coupling element. Upon rotation of the choke shaft from the locked position into an open position, the elastic coupling element is elastically deformed and releases the locked position between the first and second coupling elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: ANDREAS STIHL AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Patrick Levien, Alexander Kraus