IP Library Granted Patent US 12690677
Granted Patent B2
US 12690677 · App. 18/944,723 · Granted Jul 28, 2026

Retrofittable drawer slide acceleration and deceleration system

Inventors: Günther Zimmer (Rheinau, DE); Martin Zimmer (Rheinau, DE)
A47B88/46A47B88/467A47B2210/0094
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Patent No.
US 12690677
App. No.
18/944,723
Granted
Jul 28, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A combined acceleration and deceleration system for use on a drawer system has a C-shaped drawer guide rail and a drawer guided therein. A housing in which a driving element loaded by means of a deceleration apparatus and an energy storage device can be moved between a non-positively and/or positively secured parking position and an end position. The housing has a first adapter and a second adapter. Each adapter has an engagement arm and a reach-around arm, which each have a free end. The free end of the engagement arm is orientated normal to the free end of the reach-around arm. The first adapter is a locking adapter, the engagement arm of which is at least twice as long in at least two mutually orthogonal directions as the engagement arm of the second adapter forming a guide adapter.

Claims (48)

1 . A combined acceleration and deceleration system ( 40 ; 140 ) for use on a drawer system having a C-shaped drawer guide rail and a drawer ( 11 ) guided therein, the system ( 40 ; 140 ) comprising:

a housing ( 41 ); and

a driving element ( 42 ) arranged in the housing ( 41 ),

wherein the driving element ( 42 ) is loaded by a deceleration apparatus ( 45 ) and an energy storage device ( 44 ) and

wherein the driving element ( 42 ) can be moved between

a secured parking position ( 49 ) and

an end position,

wherein the housing ( 41 ) supports a first adapter ( 50 ) and a second adapter ( 90 ),

wherein the first adapter ( 50 ) and the second adapter ( 90 ) each have

an engagement arm ( 71 ; 171 ; 101 ) having a free end ( 78 ; 105 ) and

a reach-around arm ( 51 ; 91 ) having a free end ( 57 ),

wherein the free end ( 78 ; 105 ) of the engagement arm ( 71 ; 171 ) is orientated normal to the free end ( 57 ) of the reach-around arm ( 51 ; 91 ),

wherein the first adapter ( 50 ) is a locking adapter ( 50 ),

wherein the second adapter ( 90 ) forms a guide adapter ( 90 ),

wherein the engagement arm ( 71 ; 171 ) of the locking adapter ( 50 ) is at least twice as long in at least two mutually orthogonal directions as the engagement arm ( 101 ) of the second adapter ( 90 ).

2 . The combined acceleration and deceleration system ( 40 ; 140 ) according to claim 1 ,

wherein each reach-around arm ( 51 ; 91 ) has

a receiver support ( 52 ),

a bearing web ( 54 ) adjacent to the receiver support ( 52 ),

a reach-under web ( 58 ) orientated normal to the bearing web ( 54 ), and

a holding web ( 64 ) orientated normal to the reach-under web ( 58 ) and parallel to the bearing web ( 54 ).

3 . The combined acceleration and deceleration system ( 40 ; 140 ) according to claim 2 ,

wherein a curved section ( 61 ) is formed between a contact surface ( 59 ), in a contact plane, of the bearing web ( 54 ) and a reach-under surface, in a reach-under plane, of the reach-under web ( 58 ), and

wherein a radius center line of the curved section ( 61 ) lies on or outside of an imaginary intersection line of the contact plane and the reach-under plane.

4 . The combined acceleration and deceleration system ( 40 ; 140 ) according to claim 1 ,

wherein the reach-around arms ( 51 ; 91 ) of both adapters ( 50 , 90 ) have an identical design.

5 . The combined acceleration and deceleration system ( 40 ; 140 ) according to claim 2 ,

wherein each engagement arm ( 71 ; 171 ; 101 ) has

an outer web ( 72 ) and

a cantilever web ( 74 ; 104 ) that is orientated normal to the outer web ( 72 ) and that has the free end ( 78 ; 105 ).

6 . The combined acceleration and deceleration system ( 40 ; 140 ) according to claim 5 ,

wherein the cantilever web ( 74 ) of the locking adapter ( 50 ) is wedge-shaped in a longitudinal direction ( 5 ).

7 . The combined acceleration and deceleration apparatus ( 40 ; 140 ) according to claim 1 ,

wherein a wedge element ( 180 ) is molded on the locking adapter ( 50 ) by a tear-off web.

8 . A guide system ( 10 ), comprising:

a C-shaped guide rail ( 21 ; 121 ); and

the combined acceleration and deceleration system ( 40 ; 140 ) according to claim 5 ,

wherein the C-shaped guide rail has an upper web ( 24 ), a rear web ( 26 ) and a lower web ( 27 ),

wherein the cantilever webs ( 74 , 104 ) of both engagement arms ( 71 ; 101 ) reach under the upper web ( 24 ),

wherein the bearing webs ( 54 ) of both reach-around arms ( 51 ; 91 ) bear on the rear web ( 26 ), and

wherein the reach-under webs ( 58 ) and the holding webs ( 64 ) together with the bearing webs ( 54 ) reach around the lower web ( 27 ) in a clamping manner.

9 . The guide system according to claim 8 ,

wherein a wedge element ( 180 ) secures the engagement arm ( 71 ; 171 ) of the locking adapter ( 50 ) in the guide rails ( 21 ; 121 ), and

wherein a catch toothing ( 182 ) of the wedge element ( 180 ) engages into a catch toothing ( 83 ) of the cantilever web ( 74 ) of the first adapter ( 50 ).

10 . A system, comprising:

two guide systems ( 10 ) according to claim 8 ; and

a drawer ( 11 ) guided in the guide rails ( 21 , 121 ) of the guide systems ( 10 ),

wherein the drawer ( 11 ) has a driver ( 17 ) on each of its longitudinal side which in each case can be brought into contact with the driving element ( 42 ) of one of the guide systems ( 10 ).