Patents by Inventor Werner Kuttruf

Werner Kuttruf 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: 7344009
    Abstract: In a hydraulic circuit for controlling a clutch/brake system having a clutch that is disposed separately from the brake in a main drive of a mechanical press, wherein the brake is spring-loaded in a direction opposite to an engagement direction of the clutch, a piston/cylinder unit is provided that moves the clutch and the brake into a coupling position or a braking position, respectively. A pressure line connects a press safety valve to the piston/cylinder unit for generating torque at the clutch. A bidirectionally passable hydraulic connection connects a metering piston unit to the piston/cylinder unit in parallel to the press safety valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Ortlinghaus-Werke GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Kuttruf, Herbert Seeger
  • Publication number: 20060124423
    Abstract: In a hydraulic circuit for controlling a clutch/brake system having a clutch that is disposed separately from the brake in a main drive of a mechanical press, wherein the brake is spring-loaded in a direction opposite to an engagement direction of the clutch, a piston/cylinder unit is provided that moves the clutch and the brake into a coupling position or a braking position, respectively. A pressure line connects a press safety valve to the piston/cylinder unit for generating torque at the clutch. A bidirectionally passable hydraulic connection connects a metering piston unit to the piston/cylinder unit in parallel to the press safety valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2004
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Applicant: Ortlindhaus-Werke GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Kuttruf, Herbert Seeger
  • Patent number: 5237905
    Abstract: A device for limiting a working stroke of a hydraulic cylinder has a working cylinder and a working piston comprising a hollow piston rod connected to its top portion. A pressure reservoir is connected to a first working chamber for constantly supplying a pressure medium thereto, and a pressure source is connected via an inlet line to a second working chamber for supplying a pressure medium thereto. A shut-off valve comprises a push piston and a return spring for holding the push piston in its closed position. A drag link is slidably connected inside the push piston and extends through the working piston into the interior of the hollow piston rod. One end of the drag link has a first abutment that comes into contact with the working piston before the working piston reaches its end position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: BW Hydraulik GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Kuttruf
  • Patent number: 5058484
    Abstract: An electrohydraulic control arrangement for controlling a hydraulic cylinder having a double-acting working piston. At least one control valve having a control slide unit that is spring-loaded at one end and can be shifted by a servomotor against the spring force is provided. A valve housing having at least one section is provided with at least one control valve for alliance with each of the pressure chambers of the hydraulic cylinder, with the control slide units of the control valves being spaced from one another and being coaxially disposed in a mirror symmetrical manner relative to one another. A common control element of the servomotor is disposed between the inner ends of the control slide units for moving the same in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1991
    Assignee: BW Hydraulik GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Kuttruf
  • Patent number: 4977816
    Abstract: A hydraulic control mechanism to control operating elements, such as a hydraulic motor, or hydraulic cylinder, employing presetting of a set point, for example via a stepping motor, and mechanical feedback of an actual value. Functional elements are provided in the form of rotary pistons that fit inside one another, rotating relative to one another, and serving for the sensitive regulation of the direction and quantity of a pressure medium stream that is supplied from a pressure medium source to the operting element and flows back therefrom to the tank. One rotary piston is positively connected with the presetting of the set point, and the other rotary piston is positively connected with the operating element for the mechanical actual value feedback. In this way, in contrast to known control mechanisms where a slide or seat valve is actuated by a longitudinal movement, the rotational movement of the set point and actual value are directly compared with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: BW Hydraulik GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Kuttruf
  • Patent number: 4825745
    Abstract: An electrohydraulic control system for a hydraulic working cylinder, for example of a press, the piston of which has a main working surface and a smaller working surface on the rod side. A low-pressure circuit is provided for the feed or retraction movement of the piston, and a high-pressure circuit is provided for the loading movement at increased feed force and reduced speed. The connection or disconnection of these two circuits, when required, is produced with two 3/2 way valves that are coupled together. To control these control valves, there is provided an electrical reference motor that drives a cam disk which brings about the deflection of the coupled control slide valves of the control valves against a spring. A mechanical feedback is provided via the power piston, so that altogether a closed hydromechanical position control circuit is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: BW Hydraulik GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Kuttruf
  • Patent number: 4398657
    Abstract: Feeding device for the cycled feeding of rod or tape-like material into a press, cutter or the like, which includes a metering wheel which rolls off directly or indirectly on the material being fed, serving as a true value indicator. The metering wheel is coupled with a true value input metering spindle which acts upon a hydraulic control valve device. The exactly maintained feeding path is made possible by the mechanical coupling of the true value feeding with the true value input on the control hydraulic valve device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Assignee: Hartmann & Lammle GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Eckehart Schulze, Werner Kuttruf