Patents by Inventor Thomas Heubach

Thomas Heubach 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: 11881965
    Abstract: A gateway module includes: a module housing, an operating device arranged on the module housing, which can be put, by user actuation, into a plurality of visually distinguishable operating device states, a first communication interface for communication with field level devices, a second communication interface for communication with an external server, and a control unit configured to receive field data from the field level devices via the first communication interface and to provide the field data to the external server via the second communication interface, wherein the control unit is further configured to provide, depending on which operating device state the operating device is in, a manipulation function for influencing the operation of the gateway module and/or the field level devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Hoffmeister, Thomas Berndorfer, Achim Ziegele, Olaf Westrik, Sven Haugstetter, Thomas Heubach, Matthias Prinzen
  • Patent number: 11808312
    Abstract: A cage freewheel for installing in the clamping gap between a shaft and a hub, in particular in the drive of an e-bike, having a sprag cage which, in one embodiment, is fitted continuously in the circumferential direction with sprags arranged pivotably in the sprag cage, with the sprags being loaded resiliently in the engagement direction. Here, a bearing disk is arranged axially adjacent to the sprag cage. In a further embodiment, the cage ring is fitted consecutively in the circumferential direction both with bearing rollers and with sprags. In addition, a shaft and hub arrangement and to an e-bike drive having a cage freewheel with the abovementioned features is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: RINGSPANN GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Heubach
  • Publication number: 20230101035
    Abstract: A gateway module includes: a module housing, an operating device arranged on the module housing, which can be put, by user actuation, into a plurality of visually distinguishable operating device states, a first communication interface for communication with field level devices, a second communication interface for communication with an external server, and a control unit configured to receive field data from the field level devices via the first communication interface and to provide the field data to the external server via the second communication interface, wherein the control unit is further configured to provide, depending on which operating device state the operating device is in, a manipulation function for influencing the operation of the gateway module and/or the field level devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Hoffmeister, Thomas Berndorfer, Achim Ziegele, Olaf Westrik, Sven Haugstetter, Thomas Heubach, Matthias Prinzen
  • Publication number: 20230058799
    Abstract: A cage freewheel for installing in the clamping gap between a shaft and a hub, in particular in the drive of an e-bike, having a sprag cage which, in one embodiment, is fitted continuously in the circumferential direction with sprags arranged pivotably in the sprag cage, with the sprags being loaded resiliently in the engagement direction. Here, a bearing disk is arranged axially adjacent to the sprag cage. In a further embodiment, the cage ring is fitted consecutively in the circumferential direction both with bearing rollers (4) and with sprags (5). In addition, a shaft and hub arrangement and to an e-bike drive having a cage freewheel with the abovementioned features is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: RINGSPANN GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas HEUBACH
  • Publication number: 20190042987
    Abstract: In a system and a method for the automated design of an automation unit, multiple electronically controllable components are interconnected in a work dependency. The system includes a central web server having a database, an interface for importing technical application data for the automation unit, a processor, which applies technical application data and provided functionality data sets of the components according to interconnection rules to generate a circuit diagram for the components. The system can also include a converting unit, which converts the generated circuit diagram into control commands for the design of the automation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Heubach, Frank Benkart, Sven Haugstetter, Matthias Dreher, Michael Hoffmeister, Jan Bredau, Wolfgang Engler, Martin Fuss, Herbert Hufnagel, Norbert Machau
  • Patent number: 7870940
    Abstract: A frictionally engaged free-wheel clutch with an exterior ring, an interior ring approximately concentric in reference thereto, and several clamping bodies arranged in the circular gap between the interior and the exterior ring, which block a rotation of the interior ring relative to the exterior one in one direction and release it in the opposite direction. Here, it is essential that the clamping body and/or the running paths of the interior and/or the exterior ring are provided with a friction-increasing coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: RINGSPANN GmbH
    Inventors: Siegfried Jackwerth, Thomas Heubach
  • Publication number: 20070284208
    Abstract: A frictionally engaged free-wheel clutch with an exterior ring, an interior ring approximately concentric in reference thereto, and several clamping bodies arranged in the circular gap between the interior and the exterior ring, which block a rotation of the interior ring relative to the exterior one in one direction and release it in the opposite direction. Here, it is essential that the clamping body and/or the running paths of the interior and/or the exterior ring are provided with a friction-increasing coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: RINGSPANN GMBH
    Inventors: Siegfried Jackwerth, Thomas Heubach