Patents by Inventor Volker Haag

Volker Haag 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: 7897073
    Abstract: Displacers are used in production of concrete surfaces. The displacers are embodied, for example, as plastic balls or plastic shells and are locked in lattices that are open on one side, preferably downwardly. The modules can then be pressed into a first or second concrete layer that can already contain a first reinforcement mesh. The thus produced semi-finished product can then be covered with a concrete mass during the subsequent finishing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Cobiax Technologies AG
    Inventors: Volker Haag, Alex Hauser, Karsten Pfeffer, Dejan Krecov
  • Patent number: 7455539
    Abstract: A plug-in circuit board for insertion into and withdrawal from a rack having at least one front profile rail includes a front plate and a lever-latch handle with a gripping bar pivotably-mounted to the front of the plug-in circuit board. The gripping bar includes an elastically deflectable tongue which, in the pushed-in state of the plug-in circuit board, engages the front plate by a magnetic force between a magnetized stop on the front plate and the tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Schroff GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Günther, Volker Haag, Stefan Hauber, Michael Joist, Klaus Pfeifer
  • Publication number: 20070186506
    Abstract: Displacers are used in production of concrete surfaces. The displacers are embodied, for example, as plastic balls or plastic shells and are locked in lattices that are open on one side, preferably downwardly. The modules can then be pressed into a first or second concrete layer that can already contain a first reinforcement mesh. The thus produced semi-finished product can then be covered with a concrete mass during the subsequent finishing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Applicant: COBIAX TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventors: Volker Haag, Alex Hauser, Karsten Pfeffer, Dejan Krecov
  • Publication number: 20070149018
    Abstract: A plug-in circuit board for insertion into and withdrawal from a rack having at least one front profile rail includes a front plate and a lever-latch handle with a gripping bar pivotably-mounted to the front of the plug-in circuit board. The gripping bar includes an elastically deflectable tongue which, in the pushed-in state of the plug-in circuit board, engages the front plate by a magnetic force between a magnetized stop on the front plate and the tongue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Applicant: Schroff GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Gunther, Volker Haag, Stefan Hauber, Michael Joist, Klaus Pfeifer
  • Publication number: 20060133054
    Abstract: A top or bottom part made of sheet metal for a module chassis has a surrounding frame and guide rails that are positioned between the front and rear frame strip and aligned in the direction of insertion for the mounting of the circuit board of a plug-in module. The guide rails are U-shaped in cross section and include a bottom and two sidewalls. The sidewalls of the guide rails have at least one lateral void. The voids can be located on both sidewalls of the guide rail and can be opposite each other in pairs. The voids of the sidewalls correspond with at least one contact area at the lower edge of the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Volker Haag, Michael Joist, Andreas Lenkisch, Hans-Jorg Weiler
  • Patent number: 6915562
    Abstract: A device for the insertion and extraction of a plug-in module into a module frame which has at least one front module bar, contains a swivel-mounted lever which is located in the front area of the plug-in module and whose short lever arm has at least one lever cam and a push-off nose and a pressure piece which is fastened to the module bar. The pressure piece absorbs the forces transferred from the lever, whereby the pressure piece has at least one recess, in which the lever cam of the lever reaches into during the insertion of the plug-in module. Furthermore the pressure piece has at least one push-off shoulder against which the push-off nose of the lever pushes off during the extraction of the plug-in module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Schroff GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Joist, Volker Haag, Paul Mazura, Klaus-Michael Thalau, Hans-Jorg Weiler
  • Publication number: 20030172523
    Abstract: A device for the insertion and extraction of a plug-in module into a module frame which has at least one front module bar, contains a swivel-mounted lever which is located in the front area of the plug-in module and whose short lever arm has at least one lever cam and a push-off nose and a pressure piece which is fastened to the module bar. The pressure piece absorbs the forces transferred from the lever, whereby the pressure piece has at least one recess, in which the lever cam of the lever reaches into during the insertion of the plug-in module. Furthermore the pressure piece has at least one push-off shoulder against which the push-off nose of the lever pushes off during the extraction of the plug-in module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventors: Michael Joist, Volker Haag, Paul Mazura, Klaus-Michael Thalau, Hans-Jorg Weiler
  • Patent number: 6447082
    Abstract: The invention relates to a subrack (1) for industrial electronics. The front and/or rear edge of a cover sheet (4) and that of a base sheet (6) are formed by edge-folding for fixing a specially configured angular strip (12). This enables known module rails to be integrated with the cover or the base and means that said module rails can be produced from sheet steel, which significantly reduces the production costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Schroff GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Haag, Michael Joist, Klaus Kern, Paul Mazura
  • Patent number: 6246585
    Abstract: A card-holding device for locking a printed circuit card in a guide rail of a subassembly/subrack includes a retaining element that is inserted in the guide rail at the front edge of a printing circuit card when the circuit card is inserted to retain the card. The retaining element swivels outward and away against the elastic restoring force of an activating element. The activating element is releasable from the retaining element to allow withdrawal of the printed circuit card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: Schroff GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Gunther, Volker Haag, Paul Mazura, Klaus Pfeifer, Klaus-Michael Thalau, Udo Weiss, Michael Joist
  • Patent number: 6238025
    Abstract: An assembly carrier for plug-in circuit boards has front supporting rails formed from the front end of a cover plate and base plate and has two side walls. Each of the supporting rails includes a roof that assists in insertion and removal of the plug-in circuit board. The roof includes a row holes and is formed from front edges of the cover plate and the base plate. A sectional rail of extruded aluminum is fastened on the cover plate and the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Schroff GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Kern, Michael Joist, Volker Haag
  • Patent number: 6134119
    Abstract: A shielded module support structure for printed circuit boards 2 can be inserted on guide rail 7 and having electrical or electronic components has two parallel side walls 3 and at least four module rails 4 for bearing the guide rails 7. The module rails are anodized aluminum or an anodized aluminum alloy and have, at the front side, at least one seating surface 12 for one or more front plates 9, to improve electrical conductivity, sections of the module rails 4 are freed from the anodized layer. This can be done by removal of protrusions 18 by processes such as mechanical milling. For improved contacting, resilient contact bands 19 may be snapped onto the rails 4 into engagement with the bared seating surfaces 12. The resilient contact bands include sharp-edged breakouts 22 for conductive engagement with plates 9 for effecting a shielded enclosure about the circuit boards 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Schroff GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Gunther, Paul Mazura, Volker Haag, Klaus Pfeifer, Klaus-Michael Thalau, Michael Joist, Udo Weiss
  • Patent number: 6083037
    Abstract: A contact element having at least one leaf spring 2,3 has a U-shaped contact means 6, the two U-legs 8,9 of which taper towards their ends and can be elastically deformed with respect to each other. This contact element 1 is introduced into a guide groove 22 of a guide rail 13 of a module support structure or the like. The leaf springs 2,3 thereby contact a printed circuit board which can be inserted into the module support structure and the contact means 6, together with guide rail 13, can be clamped in a positioning hole 15 of a module rail 16 of the module support structure to thereby establish electrical contact with the module rail 16. In this manner, the interfering effect of an anodized layer on the module rail 16 is circumvented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Schroff GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Gunther, Paul Mazura, Volker Haag, Klaus Pfeifer, Klaus-Michael Thalau, Michael Joist, Udo Weiss
  • Patent number: 6065614
    Abstract: A module support structure is proposed for printed circuit boards which can be inserted on guide rails. The four parallel module rails of the module support structure to which the guide rails are mounted are connected to the two parallel side walls via a special mounting technique. Specially shaped mounting bolts are used with a head bolt having a flat seating surface, a substantially cylindrical threaded shaft, as well as a transition piece disposed between the bolt head and the threaded shaft and tapering in a conical manner towards the threaded shaft. The mounting bolts are fed through cylindrical mounting holes in the module rails. During tightening, the transition piece abuts against the outer edge of the mounting holes to force the module rails against the projections disposed above or below the mounting holes. In this manner, an exact positioning of the module rails relative to the side walls is necessarily effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Schroff GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Gunther, Paul Mazura, Volker Haag, Klaus Pfeifer, Klaus-Michael Thalau, Michael Joist, Udo Weiss
  • Patent number: 5930120
    Abstract: A shielded module support structure 1 for printed circuit boards 2 which can be inserted on guide rails 7 and having electrical or electronic components is proposed comprising at least four module rails 4 for mounting the guide rails 7. The printed circuit boards 2 are assembled into plug-in modules 10, each having a front plate 9, wherein the front plates 9 are attached to a threaded-hole-strip using screws, the threaded-hole-strips seating in a groove 11, opening towards the front side of the module support structure 1, in the front module rail 4. In order to assure shielding of the module support structure 1 against interfering radio frequency fields, the front plates 9 are contacted with the module rails 4 using specially formed resilient contact bands 15 which can be snapped onto a seating surface 12 of the module rails 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Schroff GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Ulrich Gunther, Paul Mazura, Volker Haag, Klaus Pfeifer, Klaus-Michael Thalau, Michael Joist, Udo Weiss