Patents by Inventor Thomas Sperrfechter

Thomas Sperrfechter 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: 11813726
    Abstract: A setting tool for driving fastening elements into a substrate is provided, the setting tool comprising a holder, which is provided for holding a fastening element, a drive-in element, which is provided for transferring a fastening element held in the holder into the substrate along a setting axis, a drive, which is provided for driving the drive-in element toward the fastening element along the setting axis, wherein the drive comprises an electrical capacitor, which is arranged on the setting axis or around the setting axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tilo Dittrich, Chafic Abu Antoun, Thomas Sperrfechter
  • Patent number: 11712792
    Abstract: A setting tool for driving fastening elements into a substrate, comprising a holder for holding a fastening element; a drive-in element for transferring a fastening element held in the holder into the substrate along a setting axis; and a drive for driving the drive-in element toward the fastening element along the setting axis, wherein the drive comprises an electrical capacitor; a squirrel-cage rotor arranged on the drive-in element; and an excitation coil; which during discharge of the capacitor is flowed through by current and generates a magnetic field that accelerates the drive-in element toward the fastening element, wherein the setting tool further comprises a soft-magnetic frame, in which the excitation coil is embedded; and a supporting structure; wherein, at least during the discharge of the capacitor, the supporting structure exerts on the soft-magnetic frame a pretensioning force directed radially inward with respect to the setting axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tilo Dittrich, Thomas Sperrfechter, Norbert Heeb
  • Publication number: 20210220981
    Abstract: A setting tool for driving fastening elements into a substrate is provided, the setting tool comprising a holder, which is provided for holding a fastening element, a drive-in element, which is provided for transferring a fastening element held in the holder into the substrate along a setting axis, a drive, which is provided for driving the drive-in element toward the fastening element along the setting axis, wherein the drive comprises an electrical capacitor, which is arranged on the setting axis or around the setting axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Tilo DITTRICH, Chafic ABU ANTOUN, Thomas SPERRFECHTER
  • Publication number: 20210060750
    Abstract: A setting tool for driving fastening elements into a substrate, comprising a holder for holding a fastening element; a drive-in element for transferring a fastening element held in the holder into the substrate along a setting axis; and a drive for driving the drive-in element toward the fastening element along the setting axis, wherein the drive comprises an electrical capacitor; a squirrel-cage rotor arranged on the drive-in element; and an excitation coil; which during discharge of the capacitor is flowed through by current and generates a magnetic field that accelerates the drive-in element toward the fastening element, wherein the setting tool further comprises a soft-magnetic frame, in which the excitation coil is embedded; and a supporting structure; wherein, at least during the discharge of the capacitor, the supporting structure exerts on the soft-magnetic frame a pretensioning force directed radially inward with respect to the setting axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Tilo DITTRICH, Thomas SPERRFECHTER, Norbert HEEB
  • Patent number: 10639777
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drive-in device, comprising a drive-in piston, guided in a cylinder, for driving a nail member into a workpiece, and a combustion chamber arranged above the drive-in piston, said combustion chamber being Tillable with a combustion gas, wherein the combustion chamber has a bottom that is adjustable along an axis, wherein the bottom has a groove that extends in the circumferential direction and has an inserted seal which bears in a radial direction against a rigid combustion-chamber wall, wherein a front surface, in the axial direction, of the seal protrudes in the direction of the axis from a terminating plane of the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: HILTI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Peter Stauss-Reiner, Norbert Heeb, Thomas Sperrfechter, Markus Woerner, Tilo Dittrich
  • Publication number: 20190047129
    Abstract: A combustion chamber has a combustion chamber wall formed as a hollow cylinder defining a cylinder axis, a bottom that is adjustable along the cylinder axis within the hollow cylinder, relative to the combustion chamber wall, and a seal, which lies against the bottom on the one side and against the combustion chamber wall on the other side, in a radial direction with reference to the cylinder axis. The seal comprises a first seal ring extending in the circumferential direction with reference to the cylinder axis and has a first interruption, and a second seal ring extending in the circumferential direction with reference to the cylinder axis and has a second interruption. The first interruption has a first angular position along the circumferential direction, and the second interruption has a second angular position along the circumferential direction, wherein the first angular position and the second angular position form an angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas SPERRFECHTER, Thorsten BARTZ, Peter STAUSS-REINER, David MEIER
  • Publication number: 20180243891
    Abstract: The invention relates to a driving-in tool, comprising a driving-in piston, guided in a cylinder, for driving a nail element into a workpiece, and a combustion chamber which is arranged at the driving-in piston and can be filled with an ignitable fuel-gas mixture. A positive pressure of the fuel-gas mixture in the combustion chamber can be generated particularly by means of a charging element. The combustion chamber comprises at least a first sub-housing and a second sub-housing that can be moved in an axial direction relative to the first sub-housing, the two sub-housings being sealed from each other by means of at least one first seal. A contact force can be applied to the seal in the axial direction, said contact force increasing monotonically with the positive pressure in the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Tilo DITTRICH, Norbert HEEB, Peter BRUGGMUELLER, Thomas SPERRFECHTER, Dominik SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20170341210
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drive-in device, comprising a drive-in piston, guided in a cylinder, for driving a nail member into a workpiece, and a combustion chamber arranged above the drive-in piston, said combustion chamber being Tillable with a combustion gas, wherein the combustion chamber has a bottom that is adjustable along an axis, wherein the bottom has a groove that extends in the circumferential direction and has an inserted seal which bears in a radial direction against a rigid combustion-chamber wall, wherein a front surface, in the axial direction, of the seal protrudes in the direction of the axis from a terminating plane of the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Peter STAUSS-REINER, Norbert HEEB, Thomas SPERRFECHTER, Markus WOERNER, Tilo DITTRICH
  • Publication number: 20160325419
    Abstract: A work tool for driving a securing element into a substructure is disclosed. The work tool includes a guide channel for the securing element, a piston that is pushable towards the securing element proceeding from a starting position in which the piston is at rest, so as to transmit energy to the securing element arranged in the guide channel, a feed device for conveying the securing element into the guide channel, and a feed-delay device for delaying the securing element being conveyed into the guide channel until the piston has returned into the starting position following a driving process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas SPERRFECHTER, Markus WOERNER
  • Publication number: 20130270320
    Abstract: The invention relates to a driving tool comprising a tank for storing a fuel, a combustion chamber connected to the tank, a movable piston for driving a driving ram, and a ventilator that acts on the combustion chamber and rotates around an axis, with several blades extending radially to the axis, wherein at least one of the blades has a section of at least one third of a radial length of the blade, whose width projected in the axial direction does not increase radially toward the outside, and/or at least one of the blades has a section of at least one third of a radial length of the blade, whose angle of inclination (A, B) around a blade axis increases from the outside toward the inside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas Sperrfechter, Peter Bruggmueller
  • Publication number: 20120144827
    Abstract: The invention concerns a fastener-driving apparatus comprising a tank (8) for storage of a fuel, in particular a liquefied gas, a combustion chamber (4, 5) connected to the tank (8) via a valve element (9), where the combustion chamber (4, 5) has a movable piston (3) to advance a driving ram (2), and an ignition device for ignition of an air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber, where an injection line (10, 11, 12) is provided between the tank (8) and the combustion chamber (4, 5), where the injection line (10, 11, 12) has optimization with regard to an expansion and/or transport time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Iwan WOLF, Dierk Tille, Thomas Sperrfechter
  • Publication number: 20120132689
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fastener driving tool comprising a tank (5) for storing a fuel, in particular liquefied petroleum gas, a combustion chamber (2) connected to the tank (5), wherein the combustion chamber (2) has a movable piston for powering a driving plunger, and a metering device (4) arranged between the tank (5) and the combustion chamber (2) wherein a defined quantity of fuel can be transported by means of the metering device (4) from a metering space (12) into the combustion chamber (2), and wherein the metering device (4) comprises a movable displacement member (16) for ejecting the fuel out of the metering space (12), wherein the movement of the displacement member (16) is supplied by the pressure of the fuel as the energy source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: HILTI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Tilo Dittrich, Thomas Sperrfechter, Heeb Norbert, Peter Stauss
  • Patent number: 7967177
    Abstract: A combustion-operated setting tool (10) for driving in fastening elements, includes a combustion chamber (15), a ventilator (16), and a motor (17) for driving the ventilator (16). The motor (17) is mounted in a receptacle (20) of a motor-supporting member (21) and is supported at least at one of its axial ends (24, 25) by an annular damping element (30) at a wall portion (22, 23) defining the receptacle (20), with an annular recess (33) arranged at the circumference of the annular damping element (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Sperrfechter, Tilo Dittrich, Riccardo Morel
  • Publication number: 20090159635
    Abstract: A combustion-operated setting tool (10) for driving in fastening elements, includes a combustion chamber (15), a ventilator (16), and a motor (17) for driving the ventilator (16). The motor (17) is mounted in a receptacle (20) of a motor-supporting member (21) and is supported at least at one of its axial ends (24, 25) by an annular damping element (30) at a wall portion (22, 23) defining the receptacle (20), with an annular recess (33) arranged at the circumference of the annular damping element (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas Sperrfechter, Tilo Dittrich, Riccardo Morel
  • Patent number: 7407071
    Abstract: A setting tool for driving fastening elements in a constructional component includes piston stop device for braking the setting piston, and is located at an end region of the hollow chamber of the piston guide in which the setting piston is displaceable, and has a damping element supported against a bottom, a stop element for the setting piston and adjoining the damping element in a direction of the hollow chamber, and an inertia body cooperating with the stop element and displaceable in a direction parallel to a longitudinal extent of the setting piston between first and second stops both of which are connected with the stop element and a distance between which, in a direction parallel to the longitudinal extent of the setting piston, is greater than a length of the inertia body in a same direction by length of a decoupling path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Sperrfechter, Wolfram Hahn
  • Patent number: 7308997
    Abstract: A combustion-operated setting tool for driving fastening elements in a constructional component includes a device (30) for adjusting setting energy applied to a setting piston (15) axially displaceable in a guide space (4) of a piston guide (13). The adjusting device (30) has a separation member (31) adjustably arranged between the receptacle (18) and the guide space (14) of the piston guide (13) and dividing the combustion chamber (20) in a first sub-chamber (21) arranged between the receptacle (18) and the separation member (31) and a second sub-chamber (22) arranged between the separation member (31) and the guide space (14) of the piston guide (13), the separation member (31) having a plurality of through-openings (34, 35) for controlling flow of the combustion gases into the guide space (14) of the piston guide (13), with an active opening cross-section of at least a portion of the through-openings (34, 35) changing dependent on an adjustable position of the separation member (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jens Neumann, Norbert Heeb, Tilo Dittrich, Thomas Sperrfechter
  • Publication number: 20070045375
    Abstract: A setting tool for driving fastening elements in a constructional component includes piston stop device (30) for braking the setting piston (20) and which is located at an end region of the hollow chamber (14) of the piston guide (13) in which the setting piston is displaceable, adjacent to the bolt guide (12), and has a damping element (31) supported against a bottom (15), a stop element (32) for the setting piston (20) and adjoining the damping element (31) in a direction of the hollow chamber (14), and an inertia body (33) cooperating with the stop element (32) and displaceable in a direction parallel to a longitudinal extent of the setting piston (20) between a first stop (35) and a second stop (36) both of which are connected with the stop element (32) and a distance between which, in a direction parallel to the longitudinal extent of the setting piston (20), is greater than a length of the inertia body (33) in a same direction by length of a decoupling path (38).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Thomas Sperrfechter, Wolfram Hahn
  • Publication number: 20070000458
    Abstract: A combustion-operated setting tool for driving fastening elements in a constructional component includes a device (30) for adjusting setting energy applied to a setting piston (15) axially displaceable in a guide space (4) of a piston guide (13). The adjusting device (30) has a separation member (31) adjustably arranged between the receptacle (18) and the guide space (14) of the piston guide (13) and dividing the combustion chamber (20) in a first sub-chamber (21) arranged between the receptacle (18) and the separation member (31) and a second sub-chamber (22) arranged between the separation member (31) and the guide space (14) of the piston guide (13), the separation member (31) having a plurality of through-openings (34, 35) for controlling flow of the combustion gases into the guide space (14) of the piston guide (13), with an active opening cross-section of at least a portion of the through-openings (34, 35) changing dependent on an adjustable position of the separation member (31).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Jens Neumann, Norbert Heeb, Tilo Dittrich, Thomas Sperrfechter
  • Patent number: 7086574
    Abstract: An explosion-operated power tool including a housing (1) having a cylindrical cavity (5) and a piston chamber (2) for receiving a drive piston (3) and communicating with the cavity (5), a breech bottom (8) located opposite the cavity (5) and fixedly secured at a predetermined distance from the housing (1), and a sealing sleeve (12) located in the cavity (5) of the housing (1) and displaceable axially away from the breech bottom (8) and toward the breech bottom (8) for enabling, respectively, a sidewise feeding of a catridge (10) for positioning the catridge between the breech bottom and the sealing sleeve (12) and for securing the catridge between the breech bottom (8) and the sealing sleeve (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Tilo Dittrich, Gerhard Ehmig, Thomas Sperrfechter
  • Patent number: 7028877
    Abstract: A combustion-operated working tool having a housing body (1), which has a cylindrical recess (5) and a piston chamber (2) connecting therewith for receiving a piston (3); an impact plate (8), which is arranged opposite to and at a distance to the cylindrical recess (5) and which can be displaced towards and away from the housing body (1), and a packing sleeve (12) arranged inside and elastically mounted, projecting out of the cylindrical recess (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Sperrfechter, Jens Neumann, Norbert Heeb, Gerhard Ehmig, Tilo Dittrich