Patents by Inventor Roland Hoherz

Roland Hoherz 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: 7867120
    Abstract: A linear unit having a main module unit and a drive unit in which the main module unit has a housing with a table part that a drive belt is able to move in the longitudinal direction; the drive belt is wound around a drive roller, which is connected to a drive unit, and around a freewheeling roller; and the drive belt is connected to the table part and is divided into an upper span and a lower span, and a guide element is situated on the base leg of the housing and is able to separate the upper span from the lower span.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Keller, Roland Hoherz, Sven Anhut
  • Patent number: 7607835
    Abstract: A linear guide device has a guide rail system with at least one guide rail, a guide carriage guided on the guide rail system in a guidance direction and including a base unit and legs which partially enclose the guide rail system, the guide carriage being provided with at least one preload-adjustment device via which a preload of the legs of guide carriage against the guide rail system is adjustable, the preload-adjustment device including at least one rod having one end hingedly mounted on one of the legs of the guide carriage and the other end displaceable in a displacement direction, and a displacement device for displacing the other end of the preload adjustment, device in the displacement direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Keller, Roland Hoherz
  • Publication number: 20080242522
    Abstract: A linear unit has a drive unit, a stator, a drive roller connected to the drive unit, a freewheeling roller supported on the stator adjacent to one of longitudinal ends of the stator, the drive belt being wound around the drive roller and around the freewheeling roller, a traveler movable along the stator by the drive belt, the drive belt being connected to the traveler in at least one fastening point, so that a distance between an end of the traveler which is oriented toward an end of the stator associated with the freewheeling roller, and the fastening point situated the closest to the end of the traveler is at least equal to a radius of the freewheeling roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Bernhard Keller, Roland Hoherz, Sven Anhut
  • Publication number: 20080240631
    Abstract: A movable bearing for supporting a free end of a threaded spindle of a screw drive, which spindle extends in the direction of a longitudinal axis, has a bearing bush that is accommodated in a bearing housing. The bearing bush has at least one projection protruding outward in the radial direction, which engages in an associated recess of the bearing housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Bernhard Keller, Roland Hoherz
  • Publication number: 20080237389
    Abstract: A linear unit having a main module unit and a drive unit in which the main module unit has a housing with a table part that a drive belt is able to move in the longitudinal direction; the drive belt is wound around a drive roller, which is connected to a drive unit, and around a freewheeling roller; and the drive belt is connected to the table part and is divided into an upper span and a lower span, and a guide element is situated on the base leg of the housing and is able to separate the upper span from the lower span.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Bernhard Keller, Roland Hoherz, Sven Anhut
  • Publication number: 20080236312
    Abstract: A bearing unit has a housing and a connecting element that is supported so that it is able to rotate around a rotation axis in the housing and is for producing a non-rotating connection between a drive shaft and a threaded spindle of a screw drive, in which at its end oriented toward the threaded spindle, the connecting element has a recess extending coaxial to the rotation axis for accommodating an end section of the threaded spindle, the end of the connecting element oriented toward the threaded spindle has at least one slot that is narrowable by a element; and a linear unit can be equipped with a bearing unit of this kind.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Bernhard Keller, Roland Hoherz
  • Publication number: 20070189647
    Abstract: A linear guide device has a guide rail system with at least one guide rail, a guide carriage guided on the guide rail system in a guidance direction and including a base unit and legs which partially enclose the guide rail system, the guide carriage being provided with at least one preload-adjustment device via which a preload of the legs of guide carriage against the guide rail system is adjustable, the preload-adjustment device including at least one rod having one end hingedly mounted on one of the legs of the guide carriage and the other end displaceable in a displacement direction, and a displacement device for displacing the other end of the preload adjustment, device in the displacement direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Bernhard Keller, Roland Hoherz
  • Patent number: 7070041
    Abstract: A linear guide unit has an elongated guide housing having a longitudinal axis and having walls bordering a guide cavity, with two side walls form a longitudinal opening of the guide cavity, a slider that is movably guided in the direction of the longitudinal axis on at least one guide track provided in the guide cavity and connectable with a unit to be moved by the linear guide unit through the longitudinal opening, a drive device for moving the slider in the direction of the longitudinal axis, a profiled channel attachable to the guide housing for housing functional elements, with the positive connection is additionally secured by frictional engagement or by snapping into place, wherein the profiled channel has at least one lateral mounting projection and is in holding contact via this mounting projection with the exposed end of a side wall or a part joined therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Rexroth Star GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Dirschbacher, Stefan Dorn, Roland Greubel, Roland Hoherz