Patents by Inventor Peter Bruggmueller

Peter Bruggmueller 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: 12059785
    Abstract: A setting tool for driving fastening elements into a substrate is provided, the tool comprising a holder for holding a fastening element, a drive-in element, for transferring a fastening element held in the holder into the substrate along a setting axis, and a drive, for driving the drive-in element toward the fastening element along the setting axis, wherein the drive comprises an electrical capacitor, a squirrel-cage rotor arranged on the drive-in element and an excitation coil, which during rapid discharge of the capacitor is flowed through by current and generates a magnetic field that accelerates the drive-in element toward the fastening element, and wherein the setting tool has a means for detecting a temperature of the excitation coil and a control unit which is suitable for controlling an operating sequence of the setting tool in dependence on the detected temperature of the excitation coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: HILTI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Tilo Dittrich, Chafic Abu Antoun, Peter Bruggmueller
  • Patent number: 11738429
    Abstract: A tool comprising a drive-in element, transferring a fastening element into a substrate along setting axis by a setting energy Ekin, a drive for driving the drive-in element along the setting axis, the drive comprising a capacitor, a rotor, and a coil, wherein current flows through the coil generating a magnetic field accelerating the drive-in element toward the fastening element, wherein a current intensity Acoil of current flowing through the excitation coil while discharging the capacitor has a time profile with a rising edge, a maximum current intensity Amax and a falling edge, Acoil rising during current rise time ?trise from 0.1 to 0.8 times Amax and during impact time ?timpact is more than 0.5 times the Amax, wherein ?trise is at least 0.020 ms and at most 0.275 ms and/or the impact time ?timpact is at least 0.15 ms and at most 2.0 ms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tilo Dittrich, Peter Bruggmueller, Chafic Abu Antoun
  • Patent number: 11590640
    Abstract: A setting tool driving fastening elements, comprising a holder for a fastening element; a drive-in element transferring a fastening element in the holder into a substrate along a setting axis by a setting energy Ekin of at least 30 J and at most 600 J; a drive for driving the drive-in element toward the fastening element along the setting axis, the drive comprising a capacitor, a rotor on the drive-in element; and, an excitation coil, which during discharge of the capacitor is flowed through by current and generates a magnetic field accelerating the drive-in element toward the fastening element, the drive-in element having a piston diameter dK and a piston mass mK, and wherein, for dK, 2 3 ? ( a + b ? E k ? i ? n n ) ? d K ? 4 3 ? ( a + b ? E k ? i ? n n ) where a=33 mm, b=6 mmJ?n and n=? and/or, for mK, 2 3 ? ( c + d ? E k ? i ? n n ) ? m K ? 5 3 ? ( c + d ? E k ? i ? n n ) where c=20 g, d=30 gJ?n and n=?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: HILTI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Peter Bruggmueller, Chafic Abu Antoun, Tilo Dittrich
  • Patent number: 11204046
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel-operated firing device for driving securing elements into a substrate, comprising at least one main combustion chamber for a fuel, a driving piston that can be driven out of the main combustion chamber in a firing direction by expandable gases, and a pre-chamber with which an ignition device is associated and in which a pressure acting on the main combustion chamber can build up prior to a fuel-air mixture being ignited in said main combustion chamber. In order to improve the efficacy and/or functionality during the driving in of securing elements using the fuel-operated firing device, the pre-chamber has at least two venting connections which are mutually spaced in an axial direction and which have passages that can be exposed conjointly in order to facilitate rapid venting of the pre-chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tilo Dittrich, Daniel Jung, Dominik Schmidt, Peter Bruggmueller, Philipp Heinze, Norbert Heeb, Edwin Staudacker
  • Patent number: 11103987
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel-operated firing device for driving securing elements into a substrate, comprising at least one main combustion chamber for a fuel, a driving piston that can be driven out of the main combustion chamber in a firing direction by expandable gases, and a pre-chamber with which an ignition device is associated and in which a pressure acting on the main combustion chamber can build up prior to a fuel-air mixture being ignited in said main combustion chamber. In order to improve the efficacy and/or functionality during the driving in of securing elements, a detection system is associated with the driving piston, said detection system being connected to an electronic feedback control device for control purposes, in order to detect an initial position of the driving piston prior to a firing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: HILTI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Tilo Dittrich, Daniel Jung, Dominik Schmidt, Norbert Heeb, Peter Bruggmueller
  • Patent number: 10926388
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel-powered setting device for driving securing elements into a substrate, comprising at least one main combustion chamber for a fuel, a drive piston that can be driven out of the main combustion chamber in a setting direction by expandable gases, and a prechamber with which an ignition device is associated and in which a pressure acting on the main combustion chamber can build up prior to a fuel-air mixture being ignited in said main combustion chamber. To improve efficiency and/or functionality when driving in securing elements, the setting device can be operated in different energy classes by an energy adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dominik Schmidt, Norbert Heeb, Tilo Dittrich, Peter Bruggmueller
  • Patent number: 10898996
    Abstract: A combustion-powered placing tool for driving fastening elements into a subsurface comprises a main combustion chamber for a compressible fuel, a driving piston, which in a starting position is retracted, and which can be driven from the main combustion chamber in the placing direction via expandable gases, a prechamber to which an ignition device is assigned, and in which a pressure acting upon the main combustion chamber can be build up prior to ignition of a fuel-air mixture in the main combustion chamber, wherein an additional ignition device is assigned to the main combustion chamber. In order to improve the effectiveness and/or the functionality during driving-in of a fastener, the placing tool comprises a selector device, allowing a selection between a reduced energy operation having an ignition in the main combustion chamber and a high-energy operation having an ignition in the prechamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Norbert Heeb, Peter Bruggmueller, Dominik Schmidt, Tilo Dittrich
  • Patent number: 10759032
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drive-in device comprising a drive-in piston guided in a cylinder for driving a nail component into a work piece, a combustion chamber arranged on the drive-in piston, and which can be filled with an incendive gas mixture, a charge component for producing an over-pressure of the gas mixture, and a touch component for recognising a pressing of the drive-in device on a work piece, wherein the combustion chamber is connected to an outer space via a valve component, wherein the valve component is controlled in accordance with a position of the touch component, such that, in the event of a non-ignition, the over-pressure of the gas mixture can escape via the valve component after a removal of the drive-in device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: HILTI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Dominik Schmidt, Tilo Dittrich, Peter Bruggmueller, Norbert Heeb
  • Patent number: 10391618
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pull-out tester (1) for a setting tool used for setting a setting bolt (3), comprising a retaining part (4) for holding the setting bolt (3), an elastic element (7), at least one means (9) for transmitting a pull-out force acting on the setting bolt (3) onto the elastic element (7) such that if a pull-out testing force acting on the setting bolt (3) is exceeded, the connection between the setting bolt (3) and the pull-out tester (1) can be detached due to a deformation of the elastic element (7). The problem addressed by the invention is that of being able to provide a substantially constant pull-out testing force, even in different temperatures and with a different pull-out speed of the pull-out tester (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: HILTI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Wolfram Schwertner, Matthias Von Monkiewitsch, Stefan Boenig, Peter Bruggmueller
  • Patent number: 10259110
    Abstract: A drive-in tool comprises a hand-held housing having an energy-transmitting element accommodated therein for transmitting energy to a fastener to be driven in; and a drive apparatus for driving the energy-transmitting element; wherein the drive apparatus comprises an energy accumulator having a gas chamber, which gas chamber can be filled with a driving gas at a defined overpressure, wherein the overpressure in the gas chamber is present as stored driving energy before a drive-in process is triggered, and wherein a piston of the energy-transmitting element forms a variable wall segment of the gas chamber, wherein the gas chamber has at least one further variable wall segment for changing the chamber volume, wherein a movement of the variable wall segment that enlarges the chamber volume charges a mechanical energy accumulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: HILTI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Peter Bruggmueller, Nikolaus Hannoschoeck, Christoph Boehm
  • Patent number: 10201892
    Abstract: A driving-in apparatus comprises a hand-held housing having an energy transmission element accommodated therein for transmitting energy to a fastening element to be driven in, and a drive device for driving the energy transmission element, wherein the drive device comprises an energy accumulator having a gas chamber which is fillable with a driving gas at a defined overpressure, wherein the overpressure is present in the gas chamber as stored driving energy prior to initiation of a driving-in operation, and wherein a piston of the energy transmission element forms a variable wall section of the gas chamber. The apparatus also includes a heating member providing thermal energy that is transferable into the driving gas enclosed in the gas chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bruggmueller, Nikolaus Hannoschoeck, Christoph Boehm
  • Publication number: 20170106515
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hand-held or semi-stationary setting device for driving fastening elements into a substrate with the aid of a power piston, said device comprising an attachment device at one discharge end. In order to simplify the operation of a hand-held or semi-stationary setting device, waste gas leaving a combustion chamber is used during a setting operation to pre-stress the attachment device against the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Sprenger, Peter Bruggmueller, Julian Keller
  • Publication number: 20160214249
    Abstract: A driving-in apparatus comprises a hand-held housing having an energy transmission element accommodated therein for transmitting energy to a fastening element to be driven in, and a drive device for driving the energy transmission element, wherein the drive device comprises an energy accumulator having a gas chamber which is fillable with a driving gas at a defined overpressure, wherein the overpressure is present in the gas chamber as stored driving energy prior to initiation of a driving-in operation, and wherein a piston of the energy transmission element forms a variable wall section of the gas chamber. The apparatus also includes a heating member providing thermal energy that is transferable into the driving gas enclosed in the gas chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Bruggmueller, Nikolaus Hannoschoeck, Christoph Boehm
  • Publication number: 20130336809
    Abstract: The driving device 1, in accordance with the invention, has a ram 3, which, driven by compressed air, drives in the fastener 2. A pump device 5 produces the compressed air. The pump device 5 has a pump cylinder 23, a pump piston 22, and an annular magnet arrangement 28, 46 around the pump cylinder 23. The pump piston 22 can move in the pump cylinder 23, along an axis 11. An axial closure 25 of the pump cylinder 23 closes off, with the pump piston 22, a pump volume 27 within the pump cylinder 23. The annular magnet arrangement 28, 46 has a magnetic coil 28, which encloses the pump cylinder 23 and which overlaps, along the axis 11, at least in part, with the magnetizable closure 25 and, in part, with the magnetizable pump piston 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Chafic Abu Antoun, Peter Bruggmueller
  • Publication number: 20130270320
    Abstract: The invention relates to a driving tool comprising a tank for storing a fuel, a combustion chamber connected to the tank, a movable piston for driving a driving ram, and a ventilator that acts on the combustion chamber and rotates around an axis, with several blades extending radially to the axis, wherein at least one of the blades has a section of at least one third of a radial length of the blade, whose width projected in the axial direction does not increase radially toward the outside, and/or at least one of the blades has a section of at least one third of a radial length of the blade, whose angle of inclination (A, B) around a blade axis increases from the outside toward the inside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas Sperrfechter, Peter Bruggmueller
  • Patent number: 8381960
    Abstract: A hand-held drive-in tool (10) for fastening elements (60) includes a driving unit (30) for a drive-in ram (13) which is displaceably mounted in a guide (12), and has at least one driving element for the drive-in ram (13) formed by an elastomeric band (31) and tensioned by a tensioning device (70).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Bruggmueller, Robert Spasov
  • Patent number: 7861426
    Abstract: An optomechanical leveling device (1) has an external housing (2) with a bottom surface (4), a carrier frame (6) located inside the external housing (2) and fastened in an elastically damped manner by means of damping elements (5) elastically preloaded along respective tensioning axes (S) and an optics carrier (7) suspended at the carrier frame (6) such that it can be oriented by the gravitational field (G).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Detlef Juesten, Roman Steffen, Peter Bruggmueller, Petra Eyrich
  • Publication number: 20090193672
    Abstract: An optomechanical leveling device (1) has an external housing (2) with a bottom surface (4), a carrier frame (6) located inside the external housing (2) and fastened in an elastically damped manner by means of damping elements (5) elastically preloaded along respective tensioning axes (S) and an optics carrier (7) suspended at the carrier frame (6) such that it can be oriented by the gravitational field (G).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Detlef Juesten, Roman Steffen, Peter Bruggmueller, Petra Eyrich
  • Publication number: 20070251973
    Abstract: A hand-held drive-in tool (10) for fastening elements (60) includes a driving unit (30) for a drive-in ram (13) which is displaceably mounted in a guide (12), and has at least one driving element for the drive-in ram (13) formed by an elastomeric band (31) and tensioned by a tensioning device (70).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Inventors: Peter Bruggmuell, Robert Spasov