Patents by Inventor Peter Imgrut

Peter Imgrut 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: 8967594
    Abstract: A fitting apparatus for fitting a wire with an elastic wire element has a needle, which has a receptacle. An external diameter at a first end of the needle is smaller than at a second end. Centering jaws are configured to fix the needle and to form in a closed state an orifice, which serves as access to the receptacle of the needle. To push the elastic wire element on, a pusher-on is used. A gripping element holds the needle in an area of the first end. Drives enable relative movements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Komax Holding AG
    Inventor: Peter Imgrut
  • Publication number: 20110239437
    Abstract: A fitting apparatus for fitting a wire with an elastic wire element has a needle, which has a receptacle. An external diameter at a first end of the needle is smaller than at a second end. Centering jaws are configured to fix the needle and to form in a closed state an orifice, which serves as access to the receptacle of the needle. To push the elastic wire element on, a pusher-on is used. A gripping element holds the needle in an area of the first end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventor: Peter Imgrut
  • Publication number: 20070062237
    Abstract: A crimping device has for each crimper an anvil including a conductor anvil provided with a force sensor on which the force that arises in the conductor anvil during the crimping operation acts. The conductor anvil rests on a sensor body which in turn rests on a supporting part of the crimping device. The force sensor measures the force that is required to manufacture the conductor crimp, the quality of the crimped fastening being assessable by reference to the force curve generated by the force sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: INVENTIO AG
    Inventor: Peter Imgrut
  • Publication number: 20070062034
    Abstract: In this crimping device, a press slide (5) is provided with a crimp-height adjuster (20) for the insulation crimper (9). The crimp-height adjuster (20) arranged on the press slide (5) above an upper tool (7) consists essentially of a rotationally hindered eccentric disk (21), a lever (22), and a magnet (23) with plunger (24). The eccentric disk (21) is mounted rotatably on an axle (25). During production of crimp connections, the plunger (24) is at rest outside an elongated hole (28) of the lever (22). The press slide (5) with the upper tool (7) can be moved up and down without hindrance. With the plunger (24) inserted into the elongated hole (28) and with an upward motion of the press slide (5), after overcoming the friction of a disk-spring assembly the eccentric disk (21) executes rotational motion in clockwise direction. The lever (22) that is rigidly connected to the axle (25) turns the eccentric disk (21) about the axle (25).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: Komax Holding AG
    Inventors: Peter Imgrut, Enrico Gasparini, Marc Speck
  • Publication number: 20070062246
    Abstract: A crimping device has a contact advancer provided with an exchangeable anvil part. A first pulley, a belt and an advancing motor drive a first carriage. A gripper for advancing the contact belt is guided in a direction crosswise to a direction of the first carriage. The distance between the gripper and the first carriage is determined by a second carriage and a roller of the gripper rolling in a fifth linear guide of the second carriage. The distance from the gripper is predetermined by the exchangeable anvil part and depends on the width of the contact belt. The gripper operates independent of the distance between the transport holes and independent of the width of the contact belt. The anvil part including the belt guide is an exchangeable part and only fits one type of crimp contact and is executed crimp-contact specifically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Peter Imgrut, Marc Speck
  • Publication number: 20060174479
    Abstract: A sleeve-fitter includes a sleeve module, a fitting module, a control and a base module. The fitting module and control are part of the base module. In operation, a centering pin and a round hole cooperate when the sleeve module is in contact with the base module and the sleeve module can be separated from the base module by a lever. The sleeve module includes a sleeve container with a drum, a filling funnel with a cover, a support for accommodating sleeve-specific machine parts and/or tools, and a feeder rail arranged on a linear vibratory feeder. A drive arranged on the base module imparts rotational movement to the drum which then feeds sleeves onto the feeder rail. This sleeve-fitter results in short retooling times and therefore short downtimes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Inventor: Peter Imgrut
  • Publication number: 20040007041
    Abstract: A crimping press has a tool receptacle arranged at a lower end of a pressing slider provided with a force-sensing device. The forces arising during the crimping operation are transmitted from the supporting surfaces of an upper tool to several points on the force-sensing device. Provided on each side of an upper fork and held by screws are two collars to which are transmitted, the crimping forces on either side of the supporting surface. With their heads, the screws hold the collars, while with their other ends the screws are engaged with the pressing slider. The collars transmit the crimping forces to the sensor elements of the force-sensing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Peter Imgrut, Claudio Meisser
  • Publication number: 20040007042
    Abstract: A crimping press has a cassette that can be inserted from the rear of the press and carries a contact roll containing a supply of belted crimp contacts. A contact belt passes over a tension pulley and, twisting through 90°, is guided onto a lower tool. A paper tape reel is driven over a toothed pulley by a mating gear located in the crimping press.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Inventors: Peter Imgrut, Claudio Meisser
  • Patent number: 5761796
    Abstract: The connector housings (1) to be fitted out are fed in succession along a feed track, and are then moved, by means of at least two grippers (19, 20), which are spaced apart in the advance direction and can be moved synchronously with one another, stepwise and individually in succession from a take-over position (FIG. 6b), along a connector housing guide and clamping track (12) into a fitting-out position (FIG. 6g, 6h), and are fitted out there with an electrical conductor, and are then moved by means of the respectively associated gripper along the guide and clamping track (12) into a release position (FIG. 6c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Komax Holding AG
    Inventors: Peter Imgrut, Guido Korner
  • Patent number: 5432996
    Abstract: An apparatus for the assembly of grommets on electrical cables for use in an automatic cable-processing machine, which is simple and cost effectively constructed so as to achieve a shorter assembly time, per grommet, and utilizes a step-wise rotatable turning device which includes several mandrels whereby, in a first setting (I), always one grommet is pushed onto a mandrel while in a second setting (II) of the turning device, the grommet is pushed, via a slip-on unit, onto a thicker portion of the mandrel for the purpose of expansion, with an assembly head including a grommet-receiving portion and an expanding portion by means of which, in a further setting (IV) of the turning device, the grommet is pulled from the mandrel, whereby the grommet is held in an expanded state, using the expanding portion and pushed onto the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: Komax Holding AG
    Inventors: Peter Imgrut, Claudio Meisser, Arthur Baumann
  • Patent number: 5315757
    Abstract: An apparatus for fitting of grommets onto ends of electric cables. The shape of the grommet is independent of the manner in which it is fitted, by which it is pushed onto an electrical cable, and the characteristics of the electrical cable is not important for the exact positioning of the grommet. For this purpose, a conveying rail of a feed apparatus includes a buffer, in which the grommets are stored in correct position. In alignment with the axis of a vertical bore arranged below the first grommet in the buffer, a singling cylinder with a punch, which is movable up and down, is arranged above the conveying rail and a pivotable fitting cylinder with a grommet-receiving part positioned on a piston rod is arranged beneath the conveying rail, wherein the grommet is pushed by means of the punch through the vertical bore into the grommet-receiving part and the fitting cylinder is pivoted into a horizontal position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1994
    Assignee: Komax Holding AG
    Inventors: Max Koch, Peter Imgrut