Patents by Inventor Tobias ERDEL

Tobias ERDEL 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: 10028583
    Abstract: A closing device for closing a movably mounted drawer relative to a furniture carcass, including a catch piece releasably couplable with an entrainment mechanism of the drawer and mounted to be movable along a displacement portion, and an energy storage mechanism which is chargeable by a displacement movement of the catch piece. The catch piece includes a hold state at the end of and at the beginning of the displacement portion and the catch piece is locked in the hold state at the end of the displacement portion, holds the energy of the energy storage mechanism and allows the drawer to be decoupled. The catch piece is pivotable and carries out a pivoting movement along the displacement portion between the two holding states over a path of more than 20% of the displacement portion when the catch piece is displaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Grass GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Erdel, Rolf Mintgen
  • Publication number: 20160135595
    Abstract: A closing device for closing a movably mounted drawer relative to a furniture carcass, including a catch piece releasably couplable with an entrainment mechanism of the drawer and mounted to be movable along a displacement portion, and an energy storage mechanism which is chargeable by a displacement movement of the catch piece. The catch piece includes a hold state at the end of and at the beginning of the displacement portion and the catch piece is locked in the hold state at the end of the displacement portion, holds the energy of the energy storage mechanism and allows the drawer to be decoupled. The catch piece is pivotable and carries out a pivoting movement along the displacement portion between the two holding states over a path of more than 20% of the displacement portion when the catch piece is displaced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Tobias ERDEL, Rolf MINTGEN
  • Publication number: 20150159418
    Abstract: A device for moving a furniture flap of a piece of furniture is proposed, wherein the device has bearing means via which the furniture flap is movably accommodated on a furniture body. According to the invention, the device comprises a tension element arrangement, comprising a tension element and a drive motor for driving the tension element, in such a manner that, in the mounted state of the device, a first end of the tension element is received on a winding element and a second end of the tension element is assigned to the furniture flap, wherein the furniture flap is bringable out of a closed position relative to the furniture body into an open position by a winding-up operation of the tension element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: Tobias ERDEL, Rolf MINTGEN