Patents by Inventor Rudolf Popella

Rudolf Popella 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: 9431191
    Abstract: Position switch having a pivoting-lever actuator which has a switching shaft supported in an actuating head, said switching shaft switching an actuating element in order to move a plunger of a switching element arranged in a switch housing, wherein a switch head is fastened to the switch housing, the actuating head being fixable in a locking manner to said switch head in different angular positions, for which purpose the actuating head is connectable to the switch head via a plug-in toothing, wherein the switch head and the actuating head have crown toothings which are fittable axially to one another and the teeth of which that are arranged circumferentially in a manner spaced apart from one another provide first and second planar toothings, and the teeth of the first planar toothing have tooth flanks that have a greater radial extent than the teeth of the second planar toothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: K.A. Schmersal Holding GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Yasar Cevik, Rudolf Popella, Matthias Banaszek
  • Publication number: 20150144472
    Abstract: Position switch having a pivoting-lever actuator which has a switching shaft supported in an actuating head, said switching shaft switching an actuating element in order to move a plunger of a switching element arranged in a switch housing, wherein a switch head is fastened to the switch housing, the actuating head being fixable in a locking manner to said switch head in different angular positions, for which purpose the actuating head is connectable to the switch head via a plug-in toothing, wherein the switch head and the actuating head have crown toothings which are fittable axially to one another and the teeth of which that are arranged circumferentially in a manner spaced apart from one another provide first and second planar toothings, and the teeth of the first planar toothing have tooth flanks that have a greater radial extent than the teeth of the second planar toothing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Yasar Cevik, Rudolf Popella, Matthias Banaszek