Patents by Inventor Daniel Wertz

Daniel Wertz 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).

  • METHOD FOR USING A CUTTING TOOL HAVING VARIABLE ROTATION ABOUT A Y-DIRECTION TRANSVERSELY ACROSS A WORK PIECE FOR MAKING MICROSTRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20080016992
    Abstract: A cutting tool assembly having a tool post capable of lateral movement along a work piece to be cut and an actuator with a tool tip. The actuator provides for variable control of a rotation of the tool tip about an axis parallel to a y-direction transversely across the work piece for use in making microstructures in the work piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Dale Ehnes, Alan Campbell, Daniel Wertz
  • METHOD FOR USING A CUTTING TOOL HAVING VARIABLE MOVEMENT AT TWO SIMULTANEOUSLY INDEPENDENT SPEEDS IN AN X-DIRECTION INTO A WORK PIECE FOR MAKING MICROSTRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20080016994
    Abstract: A cutting tool assembly having a tool post capable of lateral movement along a work piece to be cut and an actuator with a tool tip. The actuator provides for variable control of the movement of the tool tip in an x-direction into the work piece at two simultaneously independent speeds for use in making microstructures in the work piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Alan Campbell, Dale Ehnes, Daniel Wertz
  • METHOD FOR USING A CUTTING TOOL HAVING VARIABLE AND INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT IN AN X-DIRECTION AND Z-DIRECTION INTO AND LATERALLY ALONG A WORK PIECE FOR MAKING MICROSTRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20080016993
    Abstract: A cutting tool assembly having a tool post capable of lateral movement along a work piece to be cut and an actuator with a tool tip. The actuator provides for independent and variable control of the movement of the tool tip in an x-direction into the work piece and in a z-direction laterally along the work piece for use in making microstructures in the work piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Alan Campbell, Dale Ehnes, Daniel Wertz
  • METHOD FOR USING A CUTTING TOOL HAVING VARIABLE MOVEMENT IN A Z-DIRECTION LATERIALLY ALONG A WORK PIECE FOR MAKING MICROSTRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20080016995
    Abstract: A cutting tool assembly having a tool post capable of lateral movement along a work piece to be cut and an actuator with a tool tip. The actuator provides for variable control of the movement of the tool tip in a z-direction laterally along the work piece, while maintaining the tool tip at a substantially constant position in an x-direction into the work piece, for use in making microstructures in the work piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Dale Ehnes, Alan Campbell, Daniel Wertz
  • Cutting tool using interrupted cut fast tool servo
    Publication number: 20070144315
    Abstract: A cutting tool assembly having a tool post capable of lateral movement along a work piece to be cut and an actuator with a tool tip. The actuator provides for control of the movement of the tool tip in an x-direction into and out of the work piece in order to make discontinuous microstructures in it. The machined work piece can be used to make microstructured articles such as films having non-adjacent lenslets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Mark Gardiner, Alan Campbell, Dale Ehnes, Daniel Wertz
  • Cutting tool having variable movement in a z-direction laterally along a work piece for making microstructures
    Publication number: 20070107567
    Abstract: A cutting tool assembly having a tool post capable of lateral movement along a work piece to be cut and an actuator with a tool tip. The actuator provides for variable control of the movement of the tool tip in a z-direction laterally along the work piece, while maintaining the tool tip at a substantially constant position in an x-direction into the work piece, for use in making microstructures in the work piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Inventors: Dale Ehnes, Alan Campbell, Daniel Wertz
  • Cutting tool having variable and independent movement in an X-direction and a Z-direction into and laterally along a work piece for making microstructures
    Publication number: 20070107568
    Abstract: A cutting tool assembly having a tool post capable of lateral movement along a work piece to be cut and an actuator with a tool tip. The actuator provides for independent and variable control of the movement of the tool tip in an x-direction into the work piece and in a z-direction laterally along the work piece for use in making microstructures in the work piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Inventors: Alan Campbell, Dale Ehnes, Daniel Wertz
  • Cutting tool having variable rotation about a y-direction transversely across a work piece for making microstructures
    Publication number: 20070107566
    Abstract: A cutting tool assembly having a tool post capable of lateral movement along a work piece to be cut and an actuator with a tool tip. The actuator provides for variable control of a rotation of the tool tip about an axis parallel to a y-direction transversely across the work piece for use in making microstructures in the work piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Inventors: Dale Ehnes, Alan Campbell, Daniel Wertz
  • Cutting tool having variable movement at two simultaneously independent speeds in an x-direction into a work piece for making microstructures
    Publication number: 20070107565
    Abstract: A cutting tool assembly having a tool post capable of lateral movement along a work piece to be cut and an actuator with a tool tip. The actuator provides for variable control of the movement of the tool tip in an x-direction into the work piece at two simultaneously independent speeds for use in making microstructures in the work piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Inventors: Alan Campbell, Dale Ehnes, Daniel Wertz