Patents by Inventor Richard Hack

Richard Hack 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: 7896685
    Abstract: An installation switching device comprises a housing having a front and a rear face, a mounting side, at least one front and rear narrow side, two wide sides and having an opening at least on the rear face. The installation switching device further comprises a screwless terminal connection including a clamping spring disposed in a terminal connection space and configured to connect a plurality of connecting conductors and a terminal cover part swivelably connected to the housing and configured to cover the opening, the terminal cover part having a terminal face with a plurality of terminal openings, each corresponding to one of the plurality of connecting conductors to be connected and a guide device molded onto each of the at least one terminal openings and configured to guide the connecting conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: ABB AG
    Inventors: Klaus-Peter Eppe, Carola Thielen, Albert Stieger, Richard Hack
  • Publication number: 20100081316
    Abstract: An installation switching device comprises a housing having a front and a rear face, a mounting side, at least one front and rear narrow side, two wide sides and having an opening at least on the rear face. The installation switching device further comprises a screwless terminal connection including a clamping spring disposed in a terminal connection space and configured to connect a plurality of connecting conductors and a terminal cover part swivelably connected to the housing and configured to cover the opening, the terminal cover part having a terminal face with a plurality of terminal openings, each corresponding to one of the plurality of connecting conductors to be connected and a guide device molded onto each of the at least one terminal openings and configured to guide the connecting conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2007
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: Abb AG
    Inventors: Klaus-Peter Eppe, Carola Thielen, Albert Stieger, Richard Hack
  • Patent number: 7625253
    Abstract: The invention relates to an installation switching device comprising a housing, with a front and rear face, a mounting side, front and rear narrow sides and wide sides, and with two screwless terminal connections with in each case at least one clamping spring for the connection of connecting conductors which are fixed in position in a terminal connection space of the housing. The terminal connection space is open towards the housing wide sides and towards the face. Each terminal connection is covered by an associated terminal cover part connected pivotably to the housing, which has a terminal face with a number of terminal openings corresponding to the number of connecting conductors to be connected, and guide means moulded onto each terminal opening for the connecting conductors, which also has two side areas which cover the terminal connection laterally in the direction of the wide sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus-Peter Eppe, Carola Thielen, Albert Stieger, Richard Hack
  • Patent number: 7510448
    Abstract: Clamping connection for connecting a conductor to an installation switching device, comprising a clamping spring, acting on the conductor end as compression spring, for clamping tight the conductor end at an abutment, wherein the clamping connection comprises a conductor bar with a connecting end and an adjoining discharge area, the conductor bar has at the connecting end a window-like opening with a support edge and a clamping edge, opposite the support edge, at the transition of the connecting end into the discharge area, the clamping spring has a support leg by means of which it is supported on the support edge of the conductor bar, and the support leg is adjoined by an arc piece which is adjoined by a clamping leg, so that the conductor end can be clamped tight between the clamping leg and the clamping edge as abutment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus-Peter Eppe, Carola Thielen, Albert Stieger, Richard Hack
  • Publication number: 20080256843
    Abstract: A device for controlling insects, especially flying insects. The device has two screens joined by a series of seams to form pockets. Pellets containing attractants and poison are placed in the pockets and insects come to feed on the poison. The screen openings are large enough to permit the insects to feed on the pellets, but not so large that the pellets fall out of the pockets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: BAYER HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Richard Hack, Stuart Allen Volby
  • Publication number: 20080180199
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electrical installation device, e.g., a circuit-breaker, motor protecting switch, and similar, comprising a housing that is formed from shell-type housing parts, an electromagnetic trigger, a thermal trigger, a breaker mechanism with a latching point, a slide which transmits the movements of the thermal trigger and the magnetic trigger to the breaker mechanism in order to unlatch the same, and a striker that is connected to the armature of the electromagnetic trigger and acts upon a movable contact piece of a contact point in case of a short-circuit so as to open the contact point. The shell-type housing parts, the slide, and the striker are made of plastic. At least the slide is formed from radiation-crosslinked thermoplastic to which an additive has been added as a crosslinking promoter before the radiation process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicant: ABB AG
    Inventors: Patrick Claeys, Jurgen Hofmann, Richard Hack
  • Publication number: 20080108254
    Abstract: The invention relates to an installation switching device comprising a housing, with a front and rear face, a mounting side, front and rear narrow sides and wide sides, and with two screwless terminal connections with in each case at least one clamping spring for the connection of connecting conductors which are fixed in position in a terminal connection space of the housing. The terminal connection space is open towards the housing wide sides and towards the face. Each terminal connection is covered by an associated terminal cover part connected pivotably to the housing, which has a terminal face with a number of terminal openings corresponding to the number of connecting conductors to be connected, and guide means moulded onto each terminal opening for the connecting conductors, which also has two side areas which cover the terminal connection laterally in the direction of the wide sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: ABB Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus-Peter Eppe, Carola Thielen, Albert Stieger, Richard Hack
  • Publication number: 20080085639
    Abstract: Clamping connection for connecting a conductor to an installation switching device, comprising a clamping spring, acting on the conductor end as compression spring, for clamping tight the conductor end at an abutment, wherein the clamping connection comprises a conductor bar with a connecting end and an adjoining discharge area, the conductor bar has at the connecting end a window-like opening with a support edge and a clamping edge, opposite the support edge, at the transition of the connecting end into the discharge area, the clamping spring has a support leg by means of which it is supported on the support edge of the conductor bar, and the support leg is adjoined by an arc piece which is adjoined by a clamping leg, so that the conductor end can be clamped tight between the clamping leg and the clamping edge as abutment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Applicant: ABB PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus-Peter Eppe, Carola Thielen, Albert Stieger, Richard Hack