Patents by Inventor Rainer Glauning

Rainer Glauning 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: 8033344
    Abstract: A power supply module for interchangeable attachment to an electric tool has a module housing, which receives a battery and an introduction dome, formed integrally onto the module housing, for guiding the tool, on which dome there is an electrical interface with the electric power tool and at least one form-locking element for making a form lock with the tool housing is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Glauning, Marcin Rejman, Wolf Matthias
  • Publication number: 20110221396
    Abstract: An energy consumption output device for outputting the still remaining usability of an electrical consumer which may be connected to an energy storage. The energy consumption output device has the following features: a unit for providing a residual capacity of the electrical energy storage; a power consumption ascertainment unit which is configured to ascertain a power consumption rate in an instantaneous operating mode of the electrical consumer; and an output unit which is configured to determine information concerning the maximum usability for a user of the energy consumption output device with regard to the instantaneous operating mode, using the provided residual capacity and the ascertained power consumption rate, and to output this information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GMBH
    Inventor: Rainer Glauning
  • Publication number: 20110147031
    Abstract: In an electric machine tool having an interface (14) via which the electric machine tool can be mechanically and electrically connected to a battery pack (20), a coupling apparatus (30) is provided, which can be mechanically and electrically connected to the electric machine tool via the interface (14), wherein the coupling apparatus (30) has at least one first battery interface (40) for connection to a first battery pack (60) and at least one second battery interface (50) for connection to a second battery pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GMBH
    Inventors: Wolf Matthias, Rainer Glauning
  • Publication number: 20110143561
    Abstract: The invention is based on a spare handheld power tool module, having at least one interface that has at least one contact region and at least one electrical contact that is disposed at least partly in the contact region. It is proposed that the interface has at least one closure unit, which is provided for covering the contact region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Wolf MATTHIAS, Gunter Flinspach, Alexander Osswald, Rainer Glauning
  • Publication number: 20110140654
    Abstract: A handheld power tool charger, having at least one battery contact device is proposed, which is provided for charging at least one nondiscretely positioned handheld power tool battery. According to the invention, the battery contact device has at least one contact region which is embodied as elongated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Alexander OSSWALD, Rainer Glauning
  • Publication number: 20110092102
    Abstract: An electric device has an electric unit having a receiving region, a power supply unit received by the receiving region of the electric unit in a receiving direction, contact units for making an electrical connection between the power supply unit and said electric unit, unit for counteracting a motion of the contact units, which is movable relative to the electric unit in the receiving direction, relative to the power supply unit located on the receiving region, and within a region intended for the motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventors: Rainer Glauning, Marcin Rejman, Wolf Matthias
  • Publication number: 20110042117
    Abstract: The invention is based on an energy storage module, in particular a battery pack for supplying power to a power tool. According to the invention, a plurality of cells are interconnected electrically for energy storage. It is proposed that the cells are electrochemical storage cells having a flexible cell casing that is dimensionally unstable. The invention further relates to a power tool having at least one such energy storage module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Inventors: Volker Doege, Cornelius Liebenow, Rainer Glauning
  • Patent number: 7883355
    Abstract: An electric device has an electric unit having a receiving region, a power supply unit received by the receiving region of the electric unit in a receiving direction, contact units for making an electrical connection between the power supply unit and said electric unit, unit for counteracting a motion of the contact units, which is movable relative to the electric unit in the receiving direction, relative to the power supply unit located on the receiving region, and within a region intended for the motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Glauning, Marcin Rejman, Wolf Matthias
  • Publication number: 20110006729
    Abstract: The invention is based on a rechargeable battery charging case, in particular a cordless handheld power tool case, having at least one battery attachment device and a case body. It is proposed that the rechargeable battery charging case has an electrical energy output and a supply unit, which in at least one operating state is connected to the energy output and to the battery attachment device for supplying the energy output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventors: Wolf MATTHIAS, Juergen Mack, Florian Schmehl, Alexander Osswald, Rainer Glauning
  • Publication number: 20100237831
    Abstract: Charging devices which can be operated in a plurality of manually selectable charging modes and which have a discharging device are known. According to the invention, a storage charge mode which is optimized for storage of the accumulator is proposed. For this purpose, a device for determining the charge state of the accumulator is provided. When the storage charge mode is activated, the accumulator is charged only up to a predefined, optimized partially charged state, in which case the discharging device discharges the accumulator as far as the predefined partially charged state if the charge state which is determined at the start of the storage charge mode is higher than the predefined partially charged state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Inventors: Alexander Osswald, Rainer Glauning
  • Publication number: 20100221592
    Abstract: The invention describes a battery pack for a handheld power tool, which can be connected replaceably to a handheld power tool and has a housing, in which a single battery cell is received in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Inventors: Marcin REJMAN, Alexander Osswald, Rainer Glauning
  • Publication number: 20100209759
    Abstract: The invention describes a battery pack having a housing and at least one battery cell. According to the invention, also provided are elements which compensates for tolerance variations of the battery cell(s). The tolerance compensation elements include at least one spreading element which is arranged in an intermediate space between at least two battery cells and/or between one battery cell and the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Marcin Rejman, Wolf Matthias, Josef Baumgartner, Jan Breitenbach, Thorsten Seidel, Rainer Glauning
  • Publication number: 20100209751
    Abstract: The invention describes a battery pack for an electrical appliance, in particular for a handheld machine tool, having mechanical coding elements for interaction with corresponding coding elements on an electrical appliance. The coding elements are arranged in relation to one another with respect to a first axis in the insertion direction, a second axis transverse to the insertion direction, and a third axis transverse to the insertion direction and transverse to the second axis in such a way that they form a three-dimensional coding system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Wolf Matthias, Rainer Glauning
  • Publication number: 20100186975
    Abstract: The effectiveness with which an electric tool having a rechargeable battery can be operated is dependant on the temperature prevailing in the electric tool. In order to increase the operation of the electric tool at low temperatures, a cold start function that can be activated is provided in the electric tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventor: Rainer Glauning
  • Publication number: 20100175902
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, with which an electric power tool is operated, which comprises a drive motor, a drive unit as well as a tool, the tool being operated by means of the drive unit and the drive motor. Said tool can be operated in at least two operating modes, said operating modes varying due to the properties of the drive motor and/or the drive unit. The setting of at least one of the two operating modes occurs automatically. The present invention furthermore relates to an electric power tool, which particularly can be operated with the one method according to the invention, having a drive motor, a drive unit as well as a tool, said tool being operable in at least two operating modes by means of the drive unit and the drive motor. The operating modes vary due to the properties of the drive motor and/or the drive unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GMBH
    Inventors: Marcin Rejman, Wolf Matthias, Florian Schmehl, Thomas Heinrich, Simeon Staebler, Rainer Glauning
  • Publication number: 20100116517
    Abstract: The invention describes a hand machine tool, a battery pack, or a charger for at least one battery, or for a battery pack, having a housing, or part of a housing, made of at least one plastic, and having at least one indicator component mixed in with the at least one plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Steffen Katzenberger, Rainer Glauning
  • Publication number: 20100085013
    Abstract: An equipment system includes a battery unit (10) having a monitoring circuit (14), which detects at least one operating parameter of the battery unit (10) and furnishes a control signal, dependent on the operating parameter, for switching means (25, 31). The switching means control the charging and discharging process of the battery unit (10) and are located in the electrical device (20) and in the charger (30), respectively. From the battery unit (10), the control signal is transmitted to the switching means (25, 31) in the electrical device (20) and in the charger (30), respectively. By this provision of shifting the switching means (25, 31) out of the battery unit (10) into the electrical device (20) and into the charger (30), respectively, the heat development in the battery unit (10) and also its structure size are reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Arnim FIEBIG, Hans-Joachim Baur, Guenther Lohr, Stefan Roepke, Rainer Glauning, Volker Bosch
  • Patent number: 7671563
    Abstract: An electrical device has an electrical device body, a rechargeable battery pack that can be removed from the electrical device body, and a fastening unit for attaching the rechargeable battery pack to the electrical device body. It is provided that the fastening unit is designed such that electrical contact between the electrical device body and the rechargeable battery pack is established during an attaching motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Glauning, Jan Breitenbach, Wolf Matthias, Marcin Rejman, Josef Baumgartner, Thorsten Seidel
  • Patent number: 7597993
    Abstract: A pronounced heat-diffusing action for a battery pack, which has a plurality of battery cells (2) located in a housing (1), is created by shaping the wall of the housing (1) surrounding the battery cells (2) such that this wall forms at least one duct (3, 4) for a heat-diffusing medium, which duct is closed off from the interior of the housing (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Glauning, Stephan Keller, Marcin Rejman, Wolf Matthias
  • Publication number: 20090202895
    Abstract: A power supply module for interchangeable attachment to an electric tool has a module housing, which receives a battery and an introduction dome, formed integrally onto the module housing, for guiding the tool, on which dome there is an electrical interface with the electric power tool and at least one form-locking element for making a form lock with the tool housing is located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventors: Rainer Glauning, Marcin Rejman, Wolf Matthias