Patents Assigned to Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
  • Patent number: 10569349
    Abstract: The present invention shows a process for gear manufacturing machining a workpiece by a tool on a gear manufacturing machine, wherein the workpiece is machined by a generating machining process in which the tool for gear manufacturing machining rolls off on the workpiece at a predefined center distance and axial cross angle, wherein the gear manufacturing machining preferably takes place on two flanks, with a desired tooth trace shape and/or tooth thickness of the gearing being generated by the generating machining process. The process is characterized in that an additional condition is predefinable and in that the center distance and the axial cross angle are determined in dependence on the desired tooth trace shape and/or tooth thickness of the gearing and on the additional condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Wuerfel
  • Patent number: 10512996
    Abstract: A gantry loader having at least one carriage travelable at a horizontal guide rail, in particular for the transport of workpieces between stations of a production system, wherein the carriage has at least one drive. The present energy is characterized in that the carriage has an energy store for the at least partial energy supply of the drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventors: David Haenschke, Christof Porsche, Thomas Mattern
  • Patent number: 10507989
    Abstract: The present disclosure shows an apparatus for the automated removal of workpieces arranged in a bin, said apparatus having a first object recognition device for detecting the workpieces in the bin; a first picker for picking and removing the workpieces from the bin; a controller for evaluating the data of the first object recognition device, for path planning and for controlling the first picker; a buffering station on which the first picker places the workpieces after the removal from the bin and a positioning apparatus that more accurately positions and/or isolates the workpieces starting from the buffering station. Provision is made that the buffering station has at least one tiltable placement area that is tiltable into a slanted position via a tilting mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Zollitsch, David Haenschke, Bernhard Riedmiller, Thomas Mattern
  • Patent number: 10500657
    Abstract: One or more workpieces having a desired gear geometry may be produced by means of a suitably dressed tool which is respectively dressed by a dresser after the carrying out of one or more machining steps before further machining steps are carried out at the same workpiece or at further workpieces. A relative position between the dresser and the tool may be changed by a corresponding additional adjustment of the axes of movement of the dressing machine in a later dressing process with respect to an earlier dressing process in addition to the smaller center distance resulting from the smaller tool diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Wuerfel
  • Patent number: 10500659
    Abstract: A toothed workpiece having a modified surface geometry may be produced by a diagonal machining method by means of a modified tool. The modification of the tool can be described at least approximately at least locally in the generating pattern in a first direction of the tool by a linear and/or quadratic function; the coefficients of this linear and/or quadratic function are formed in a second direction of the tool which extends perpendicular to the first direction. A pitch and/or crowning of the modification varies in dependence on the angle of rotation of the tool and/or on the tool width position, and a tooth thickness of the modified tool varies in a non-linear manner in dependence on the angle of rotation of the tool and/or on the tool width position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Wuerfel
  • Patent number: 10493546
    Abstract: A toothed workpiece having a modified surface geometry may be produced by a diagonal generating method by means of a modified tool whose surface geometry comprises a modification. The modification may be described by a linear and/or quadratic function, with the coefficients of this linear and/or quadratic function. Pitch and/or crowning of the modification may vary in dependence on the angle of rotation of the tool and/or on the tool width position. The specific modification of the tool produces a corresponding modification on the surface of the workpiece by the diagonal generating method, with a desired modification of the surface geometry of the workpiece being specified and a modification of the surface geometry of the tool suitable for producing this desired modification being determined in combination with a diagonal ratio of the diagonal generating method suitable for producing the desired modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Wuerfel
  • Patent number: 10421136
    Abstract: A method for deburring a gear blank includes correcting chamfer sizes, chamfer shapes and chamfer symmetry at tooth edges which were produced with a deburring cutter with a strongly asymmetric tooth shape (ChamferCut). The chamfers are semi-automatically corrected by coupling the movement of several axes of a gear cutting machine, including a workpiece axis of rotation C1, spatial shifting axes of a machine column Z1, X1, and Y1, and a V1-axis corresponding to the tool axis. The method further includes specifying a correction in the axial direction in one of the axes Z1, V1 and C1, and calculating the correction amount of further axes by the controller depending on the specified axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Oliver Winkel
  • Patent number: 10343256
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of dressing a tool which can be used for the gear manufacturing machining of a workpiece on a dressing machine, wherein the dressing takes place with line contact between the dresser and the tool; wherein a specific modification of the surface geometry of the tool is produced in that the position of the dresser with respect to the tool during dressing is varied in dependence on the tool width position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Wuerfel
  • Publication number: 20190185267
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a picking cell for a job-related automated picking of goods that can remove different goods from supply bins and can transfer them into an output bin in an automated manner, said picking cell comprising: an object detection device for detecting the goods in a supply bin; a gripper for removing the goods from a supply bin; and a cell control for evaluating the data of the object detection device and for a path planning and a control of the gripper, wherein the cell control controls the gripper such that different goods of a job or of a partial job are placed at a predefined position and/or with a predefined orientation in the output bin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas MATTERN, David HÄNSCHKE, Michael KLUGE, Regina KRAUSE
  • Patent number: 10322461
    Abstract: A tool which can be used for gear manufacturing machining of a workpiece may be dressed on a dressing machine, and the dressing may take place with line contact between the dresser and the tool. A specific modification of the surface geometry of the tool is produced by the suitable selection of the position of the dresser with respect to the tool during dressing. The specific modification of the surface geometry of the workpiece is specifiable with regard to various parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik Gmbh
    Inventor: Robert Wuerfel
  • Patent number: 10293423
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for the gear manufacturing machining of a workpiece by a diagonal-generating method, in which the workpiece is subjected to gear tooth machining by the rolling off of a tool, wherein an axial feed of the tool takes place during the machining with a diagonal ratio given by the ratio between the axial feed of the tool and the axial feed of the workpiece. According to the present disclosure, the tool has a conical basic shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Wuerfel
  • Patent number: 10286469
    Abstract: A method for production of a workpiece having a corrected gear tooth geometry and/or a modified surface structure by a diagonal generating method with a modified tool, wherein a modification in the generating pattern has a constant value in a first direction of the tool and is given by a function FFt1 in a second direction of the tool, which extends perpendicular to the first direction, and/or wherein the modification is produced in that the position of the dresser to the tool is varied during dressing in dependence on the angle of rotation of the tool and/or on the tool width position, wherein the modification of the tool produces a corresponding modification on the surface of the workpiece, and wherein the modification of the workpiece produced by the modification is superposed by a profile modification and/or a modification caused by a change of the machine kinematics during the machining process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Wuerfel
  • Patent number: 10183350
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a machining head for a gear manufacturing machine having at least one driven motor spindle and at least one counter-spindle, wherein a tool arbor having at least one tool arranged thereon is mounted between the motor spindle and the counter-spindle, and wherein at least one balancing device is integrated within the driven motor spindle and at least one balancing device is integrated within the counter-spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Plessing
  • Patent number: 10173278
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for the manufacture of a workpiece having a corrected gear geometry and/or a modified surface structure, in particular by a hard finishing process, in particular generation grinding or honing. Provision is made in this respect that it is achieved by a direct generation of a wobble movement and/or of an eccentricity of the tool that a modification, in particular a profile modification or profile waviness, and/or a defined periodic flank waviness is generated on the active surface of the workpiece machined therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Hansjoerg Geiser, Robert Wuerfel
  • Patent number: 10156838
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a gear cutting machine having a machine control as well as having at least one display for displaying machine-relevant parameters, wherein the display is multitouch-operable and allows an operator input for controlling the gear cutting machine by multifinger gestures over the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Karl, Marco Heider, Tobias Heilmannseder
  • Patent number: 10061297
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of setting up a gear cutting machine, wherein the gear cutting machine is equipped with at least one machine part which can be set up and the parameters relating to the set-up machine part are input into the machine control for the subsequent gear cutting process, wherein a graphical model of the machine part is virtually composed on a display element of the gear cutting machine in a user-controlled manner from one or more graphical part components and the required parameters for the following gear cutting process are derived from the graphical modeling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Karl, Marco Heider
  • Patent number: 10016829
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for dressing a multithread grinding worm, in which a flight of the multithread grinding worm is machined by means of a dressing tool. During machining of the multithread grinding worm, one of several flights of the grinding worm is eliminated, so that the number of flights of the grinding worm is reduced, thereby increasing the service life of the dressing tool and reducing the number of dressing tools to be kept in stock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Alois Mundt
  • Patent number: 9993887
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and to an apparatus for chamfering and deburring gear cut workpieces, especially of large-volume gear cut workpieces, using a deburring apparatus which is arranged on or at the cutting head of a gear cutting machine and which at least partially utilizes the machine axes of the gear cutting machine to chamfer and to deburr gear teeth along a tooth contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Zeller
  • Patent number: 9983561
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling a gear cutting machine having at least one tool for cutting gears into a workpiece clamped in a workpiece mount, wherein the machine control carries out a three-dimensional collision monitoring during the gear cutting machining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Florian Schuon
  • Patent number: 9975181
    Abstract: This present disclosure relates to a device for rotary entrainment of a workpiece clamped between two tips, which is mounted on a machine table of a machine tool, consisting of a base body with a centrically arranged tip and a plurality of concentrically arranged, axially shiftable driver elements which for the rotary entrainment of the workpiece are pressed against or into an end-face surface, wherein an axial position of the driver elements can be defined by active fixation after a centering operation of the workpiece, and to a receptacle opposite the base body, for example a tip or hollow tip, which serves a guidance of an opposite side of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Johannes Weixler