Patents by Inventor Udo Munch

Udo Munch 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: 6883883
    Abstract: A housing with paneling elements, at least one of which is embodied as a door panel and can be fixed on the housing in a closed position and an opened position. If threaded receivers, which are oriented toward each other, are positioned on two oppositely located panel elements at least in the connecting area with a vertically adjoining panel element, and fastening elbows are connectible with the bearing receivers in adjustable angular positions by clamping screws having an adjustment knob and can be fixed in place, then the housing can be easily attached to a fastening surface and its angular position can be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Udo Münch, Paul Root, Heinz Schmitt, Matthias Müller, Markus Neuhof
  • Publication number: 20030214777
    Abstract: A housing with paneling elements, at least one of which is embodied as a door panel and can be fixed on the housing in a closed position and an opened position. If threaded receivers, which are oriented toward each other, are positioned on two oppositely located panel elements at least in the connecting area with a vertically adjoining panel element, and fastening elbows are connectible with the bearing receivers in adjustable angular positions by clamping screws having an adjustment knob and can be fixed in place, then the housing can be easily attached to a fastening surface and its angular position can be adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Inventors: Udo Munch, Paul Root, Heinz Schmitt, Matthias Muller, Markus Neuhof
  • Patent number: 6497437
    Abstract: A slide rod locking system, especially for locking the door of a switchgear cabinet, having a handle which is coupled to a control element by a control mechanism. The handle can move around a pivotal axis running perpendicular to the plane of the cabinet door. The control element can move in a parallel position relative to the plane of the cabinet door as a result of the movement of the handle. The slide rod locking system transmits powerful locking forces and at the same time can have a low-height design structure by arranging a lever on an articulated joint of the handle at a distance from the pivotal axis. The lever enables the force introduced into the handle to be transmitted to the control element and can modify its angle position with respect to the handle when moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Udo Münch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6418762
    Abstract: A switchgear cabinet closing device for locking a cabinet door on a switchgear cabinet. The closing device has a handle on which a closing mechanism is connected via an adjusting mechanism, whereby the handle is held on a housing mounted on an outer side of the cabinet door, and whereby the handle is secured in the lock position by a closing device. In order to adapt such a switchgear cabinet closing device to various closing systems in a simple manner, the housing has a primary housing for mounting the handle such that it can pivot, and a collar housing which can be connected to the primary housing. This invention also provides a collar housing that accommodates a lock of the closing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Udo Münch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6312068
    Abstract: In a row of adjacent switchgear cabinets with a frame, vertical frame pieces of adjacent switchgear cabinets are connected to each other and the top and bottom sides of the frame are closed by upper and lower metal sheets which have edges at least on the sides facing each other. The edges are staggered in relation to the outer sides of the adjacent frame pieces and form a type of groove with the end pieces of the edges and/or the profiled sides of the horizontal frame pieces facing each other. The grooves in an area of the top and bottom metal sheets of the adjacent switchgear cabinets are protected from water penetration because they are sealed respectively in the area of the top and/or bottom metal sheets of the switchgear cabinets by a covering strip running from the front face to the rear face of the switchgear cabinet flush with the top and bottom metal sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Wolfgang Reuter, Paul Root, Martina Köhler, Udo Münch
  • Patent number: 6273533
    Abstract: A frame piece for a rack of a switching cabinet. With minimum material an optimum result is obtained with regard to fastening planes and fastening direction as well as stability. A profile inside and a profile outside are used to form the frame piece as a closed hollow profile with one or two longitudinally directed hollow spaces. The profile outside delineates a free space to an outside corner edge of the rack. The profile inside has a profile section with several rows of fastening seats or several profile sections at an angle with respect to one another with at least one series of fastening seats. The profile inside and the profile outside form outside edges in a region of the right-angled abutting outsides of the rack. The outside edges are designed as double-layer sealing struts or connected to them in a direction to the outside corner edge connecting struts with or without receiving grooves for sealing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Nicolai, Udo Münch, Georg Vogel
  • Patent number: 6217138
    Abstract: A frame section for a switching cabinet rack having at least one inner wall which faces the inside area of the switching cabinet and is fitted with a row of regularly spaced fastening cavities. The fastening cavities do not reduce rigidity to any significant degree. At the same time fixtures can be mounted on the fastening cavities in a stable manner by designing the fastening cavities as slotted openings with clear openings larger in the longitudinal direction of the frame section than the width of the clear openings perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Köhler, Udo Münch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6213576
    Abstract: A window unit installed on a trim element of a switchgear cabinet. The window unit contains a window element that is coupled to the trim element in pivoted fashion. In order to allow a simple mounting of the window unit on the trim element, a frame is attached to and mounted on the trim element, and the window element is hinged to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Matthias Müller, Udo Münch, Heinz Schmitt, Jörg Wirbelauer
  • Patent number: 6211466
    Abstract: A switching cabinet having a cabinet door pivotably fixed by hinges. The distance between the top side of the switching cabinet and the upper horizontal edge of the cabinet door is fitted with a covering element. The visual aspect of the switching cabinet is improved simply by ensuring that the covering element is secured to a holding device on the cabinet door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Köhler, Udo Münch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6206211
    Abstract: A frame piece for a rack of a switching cabinet having fastening possibilities, torsional rigidity, material expenditure and manufacture that corresponds to requirements. The frame piece includes a section outside as a connection section between outsides of the rack that contact at right angles. Fastening sections of a section inside are connected to the connection section, which have in a longitudinal direction of the section fastening mounts and transition into section sides having second fastening mounts. The fastening sections are at a first angle to the outsides of the rack and the section sides are at a second angle to the connected fastening section. The fastening sections and the section sides form two inside edges of the section inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Nicolai, Udo Münch, Georg Vogel
  • Patent number: 6206494
    Abstract: An assembly unit with assembly cavities, which can be mounted on frame sections of a switching cabinet. One or more assembly elements can be installed on at least one part of the frame sections to support the assembly rail. The assembly rail can be easily secured to a frame section if the assembly rail has at least one profiled side with at least one insert cavity by which the assembly rail can be placed on the fastening element, and the fastening element can be moved in relation to the frame section in order to attach the assembly rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Köhler, Udo Münch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6189988
    Abstract: A switching cabinet with two side walls, a back wall, a bottom side and a cover side and with frame pieces which, at least in part, are formed by multiple beveling of the side walls, the back wall, the bottom side or the cover side in the inner space of the switching cabinet, where the sections formed by beveling have a section which is inclined or parallel to the plane of the corresponding side wall, the back wall, the bottom side or the cover side and is at a distance from these. Extended mounting capabilities are offered by the fact that the inclined or parallel sections of two bordering walls standing perpendicular to one another or of a wall and a side of the switching cabinet are assigned to one another in such a way that they form a deepened inside receptacle in the inside space of the switching cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Walter Nicolai, Udo Münch, Georg Vogel
  • Patent number: 6164737
    Abstract: A switching cabinet with a rack having a base made of length and depth struts with connected vertical frame pieces. The vertical frame pieces are inserted into a cavity formed by the ends of the length and depth struts and are welded with the base to form a corner connector. It is possible to create a switching cabinet with a simple corner connector mounted on the rack. It is also possible to achieve precise alignment of the vertical frame pieces by providing them with centering pieces which are aligned with stops of the length and depth struts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Kohler, Udo Munch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6159024
    Abstract: A device for creating an electrically conducting connection for an assembly panel fitted parallel to the rear side in a switch cabinet, to which assembly panel are allocated on at least one side a frame section of a frame, an assembly track or a frame section-type edge of a side wall. Specially designed contact springs and assembly panels ensure that the assembly panel, optionally fitted with a non-conducting surface protection layer, can be fitted simply and with appropriate contacts in a switch cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Udo Munch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6155434
    Abstract: An assembly rail for a switching cabinet, designed in a form of a stamped and bent part and having an assembly wall directed towards the inside of the switching cabinet. Lateral fixing devices, bent out of the assembly wall, are fitted with an assembly plate. Hooks are stamped and bent out of the assembly plate. The hooks can be inserted into fastening cavities of the vertical frame sections of the switching cabinet. The assembly rails can be firmly and easily secured to the frame sections with slotted fastening cavities if the hooks are bent out of the assembly plate around an axis of flexion extending in the longitudinal direction of the frame sections, if a protruding section of the hook is stamped out from the bending point and if a width of the hook is determined by the material thickness of the fastening plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Kohler, Udo Munch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6149255
    Abstract: A corner connector for a switching cabinet with depth and length struts which are disposed horizontally and joined to vertical frame pieces in corner areas by corner connectors. Substantial flexibility of use is achieved with the corner connector having a compensating element enabling differently structured vertical frame pieces to be connected according to choice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Kohler, Udo Munch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6142594
    Abstract: A rack for a switching cabinet with a lower frame and an upper frame, which have horizontal length and width struts on which vertical frame sections can be arranged. The upper and lower frames are easy to produce and involve little technical complexity if the length and width struts are connected to form a continuous section in a single piece and the section is formed from a stamped and bent piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rolf Benner, Martina Kohler, Udo Munch, Wolfgang Reuter
  • Patent number: 6138843
    Abstract: A frame piece for a rack of a switching cabinet, which has a profile outside and a profile inside, the transitions of which lie at a distance from an outside corner edge of the rack and form a free space with the profile outside to the outside corner edge, for swinging a cabinet door and introducing edges of abutting paneling elements. A frame piece with many possibilities of variation with respect to fastening planes, fastening directions and stability is created according to this invention, because the frame piece is designed as having mirror image symmetry in cross-section with respect to an axis of symmetry which is at an angle of inclination to the rack diagonal. On both sides of the rack diagonal with the profile inside and profile outside, there are at least two profile sections that are at an angle with respect to one another, at least a part of which has fastening seats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Nicolai, Udo Munch, Georg Vogel
  • Patent number: 6123400
    Abstract: A switching cabinet having a rack with horizontal and vertical frame profiles. The horizontal frame profiles form a lower and upper frame and the vertical frame profiles are secured in the comer areas of the upper and lower frames. The vertical frame profiles are symmetrical to cross-sectional diagonals running across virtual, vertical outer edges of the rack. Greater flexibility in installing built-in fixtures inside the switch cabinet is achieved by providing the vertical frame profiles which are turned towards the inside of the switching cabinet with an open inner cavity having two inner walls extending in the longitudinal direction of the profiles so that vertical assembly rails can be mounted in the inner cavity, one profiled side standing perpendicular to the outside of the rack is joined to the inner walls. The inner walls, the assembly racks and the profiled sides can have rows of fastening cavities inserted according to a division grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf Loh GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Walter Nicolai, Udo Munch, Heinrich Strackbein
  • Patent number: 6118071
    Abstract: A device for electrically connecting the frame of a switching cabinet in which the cabinet housing is connected to the door by contact elements which are thereby electrically connected to the frame sections of the frame-like borders of the cabinet housing facing the door and are supported resiliently as well as electrically against the closed door. Specially designed contact springs can be used to create contacts between a subsequently fitted standard switching cabinet provided with a surface protection layer and the frame or cabinet housing in the door closure area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Rittal-Werk Rudolf GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Udo Munch, Wolfgang Reuter, Matthias Muller