Accuride International Inc.

Thomas Quirein

Christoph Neuhaus

Patrick Neidhöfer

Christian Satony

Reinhold Traiser

Laurent Tremolieres

Robert Braun

A carriage for a linear guide system includes a rail element including two running surfaces facing each other and the carriage being movable relative to the rail element in and against a pull-out direction. The carriage includes a base body, a pair of first and second sliders having sliding surfaces facing away from each other, wherein the sliding surface of the first and second slider is frictionally engageable with a respective one of the running surfaces, and wherein the first slider is mounted on the base body for movement relative to the base body in an upward direction perpendicular to the pull-out direction, and a spring member, wherein the spring member is mounted on the base body such that the spring member biases the first slider in the upward direction away from the second slider.

Carriage for a linear guide system and a linear guide system comprising such a carriage

A carriage for a linear guide system. The linear guide system includes a rail member including two running surfaces facing each other, and the carriage movable relative to the rail member in and against a pull-out direction. The carriage has a base body, a first pair of support elements and a second pair of support elements in the form of sliders and at least one first support spring element and at least one second support spring element. The second pair support elements is arranged spaced apart from the first pair of support element in the pull-out direction. Thereby, each of the sliders of the first pair of support elements and each of the support elements of the second pair of support elements is movably mounted on the base body in an upward direction perpendicular to the pull-out direction, such that each of the sliders is frictionally engageable with a respective one of the running surfaces. The at least one first support spring element is mounted on the base body such that the at least one first support spring element biases the sliders of the first pair of support elements away from each other in the upward direction. The at least one second support spring element is mounted on the base body such that the at least one second support spring element biases the support elements of the second pair of support elements away from each other in the upward direction.

Carriage for a linear guide system and linear guide system comprising such a carriage

The invention relates to a slide for a linear guide which has the slide and a rail element with two running surfaces facing each other. The slide has a main part and a plurality of rolling bodies, and the plurality of rolling bodies are received on the main part such that the plurality of rolling bodies can roll at least on the two running surfaces or carry out a sliding movement relative to the two running surfaces. The main part defines the position of each one of the plurality of rolling bodies in a pull-out direction relative to the main part, wherein the slide additionally has two slide elements and a spring element, and each of the two slide elements is mounted on the main part such that it can move in a vertical direction perpendicular to the pull-out direction so that each of the two slide elements can be brought into frictional engagement with a respective running surface, the spring element being supported on the main part such that the spring element biases the two slide elements away from each other in the vertical direction.

Slide for a linear guide, and linear guide comprising such a slide

A linear guide system having a first rail element, a second rail element, and a third element. The first rail element and the second rail element are borne such that the first rail element and the second rail element are linearly displaceable in relation to one another in and counter to an extraction direction, and the third element and the first rail element as well as the third element and the second rail element are borne together such that the third element and the first rail element as well as the third element and the second rail element are linearly displaceable in relation to one another in and counter to the extraction direction. The linear guide system in this case additionally includes an electrical conductor.

Linear guide system

A roller carriage for displaceable linear guidance in a longitudinal direction on a rail element is disclosed. The roller carriage includes a carrier and a first, second, and third roller. The first, second, and third rollers are each mounted on the carrier such that each can rotate about a rotating axle. The rotating axles are substantially parallel to one another and the first, second, and third rollers are disposed on the roller carriage such that the first roller can be brought into engagement with a first track of the rail element and the second and third rollers can be brought into engagement with a second track of the rail element. The first roller is mounted such that it can move in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction relative to the carrier and is resiliently pretensioned in transverse direction by a first spring element.

Roller carriage

The invention concerns a telescopic rail comprising a first rail element with two running surfaces, a second rail element with two running surfaces, at least one rolling body cage for positioning a plurality of rolling bodies. Such telescopic rails are found to suffer from the disadvantage that the rail elements and the rolling body cages all have to be designed to be moveable relative to each other. Accordingly, the invention proposes providing a telescopic rail in which the rolling body cage is secured to the first rail element so that the rolling bodies perform a sliding movement with respect to the running surfaces of the first rail element and the rolling bodies perform a sliding movement with respect to the running surfaces of the second rail element or roll on the running surfaces of the second rail element.

Telescopic rail

The present invention concerns a rolling body cage for a linear guide or telescopic rail having rail elements which are displaceable relative to each other, wherein the rolling body cage has at least one bottom portion extending in a longitudinal direction of the rolling body cage, side wall portions which are arranged parallel and which extend on mutually opposite sides of the bottom portion substantially perpendicularly therefrom and in which there are provided rolling body holding recesses for receiving and holding rolling bodies between the raceways of rail elements and at at least a first end of the rolling body cage a connecting bridge which extends between the side wall portions substantially perpendicularly thereto, wherein the bottom portion, the side wall portions and the connecting bridge are produced in one piece from a first plastic. It has been found that both abutment of the inner rail against the rolling body cage and also abutment of the rolling body cage against the end abutment of the outer rail can generate noise which is perceived to be annoying. Therefore an object of the present invention is to further reduce those abutment noises. To attain that object it is proposed according to the invention that a rolling body cage of the kind set forth in the opening part of this specification is provided, in which the connecting bridge at least on two mutually opposite end faces is surrounded by a damping element comprising a second plastic, wherein the second plastic is softer than the first plastic.

Rolling body cage for a telescopic rail or a linear guide

Telescopic rail includes first rail and second rail supported against each other to be linearly slidable in relation to each other in an extending direction from a first position into a second position, and locking device. The locking device includes stop element on first rail, mass element held on second rail and movable in relation to second rail in the extending direction or against the extending direction, spring element resiliently pretensioning mass element with a spring force, and locking element. The spring force has a force direction in the extending direction or against the extending direction. Mass element is movable against the spring force from an idle position into a triggering position, and, through a movement of mass element against the spring force, locking element is movable from an unlocked position into a locking position such that locking element in the locking position can be brought into engagement with stop element.

Crash locking device

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Linear guide

An apparatus is provided for releasably locking two rail elements (), which are supported displaceably relative to each other, of a telescopic rail or a linear guide and for adjusting the motivity to be applied for the displacement, comprising a housing () which is fastened to a first one of the rail elements () which are supported displaceably relative to each other, at least one locking element () and at least one locking force spring () which is supported against the housing and biases the locking element () against the second of the rail elements () which are supported displaceably relative to each other, at least one friction element () and at least one friction force spring () which is supported against the housing and which presses the friction element () in biased relationship against the second of the rail elements () which are supported displaceably relative to each other.

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Diez, Germany

Thomas Quirein