Patents by Inventor Franz Haimer

Franz Haimer 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: 9616541
    Abstract: A shrink-fit chuck having a receiving body, a receiving opening for a tool shank, arranged in the receiving body, an accumulation and collection chamber arranged in the front region of the receiving opening and at least one coolant supply channel leading to the accumulation and collection chamber. The accumulation and collection chamber is delimited to the front by a ring bar arranged at the front end of the receiving opening. The internal diameter of the ring bar is adjusted to the internal diameter of the receiving opening in such a manner that as small an annular gap as possible exists between the ring bar and the tool shank. A plurality of outlet openings are provided in the ring bar for discharging to the outside a coolant routed via the coolant supply channel into the accumulation and collection chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: HAIMER GMBH
    Inventors: Franz Haimer, Josef Haimer
  • Publication number: 20170072475
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tool holding device comprising a tool holding body for securing, in a fixed manner, a rotary tool comprising a shaft, provided with a clamping section and a receiving opening for the shall of the tool, a coolant feeding device for pressurized fluid, at least one coolant guiding device for guiding the coolant into a clamped tool shaft. The coolant guiding device is designed as at least one flat groove on an inner side of the receiving opening, joining to the front side on a free end of the tool holding body and directly adjacent to the tool shaft in the surroundings of the tool holding device or a coolant storing chamber and or collecting chamber is provided in the region of the free end of the tool holding body, to which the at least one coolant guiding device joins. The coolant storing chamber and or collecting chamber is connected by means of an annular gap to the surroundings of the tool holder device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Patent number: 9586267
    Abstract: An apparatus for clamping a component on a rotating machine part, in particular a balancing machine, having a basic body, having a clamping mandrel, which is arranged in an axially displaceable manner within the basic body, and having a plurality of clamping devices, which can be moved between a release position and a clamping position by axial displacement of the clamping mandrel. In order to make it possible for components to be clamped centrally with repeated accuracy, the clamping devices are designed as clamping segments which can be displaced radially in relation to the center axis of the basic body above the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Franz Haimer Maschinenbau KG
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Publication number: 20170036275
    Abstract: A collet chuck with a chuck body, a collet, and a clamping nut in which the chuck body has a coupling section for coupling the collet chuck to the working spindle of a machine tool and has a collet holder embodied in the form of an inner cone and at least one thread groove for the screwing-on of the clamping nut; the collet has an outer cone, which is complementary to this inner cone, as well as a cylindrical tool holder; the collet chuck is embodied so that by tightening the clamping nut, the collet can be driven far enough into the collet holder that the tool shaft is held in a rotationally secured fashion; and the clamping nut has at least one thread groove; where rolling elements are inserted between the thread grooves of the chuck body and the clamping nut so that the clamping nut and the chuck body constitute a rolling element screw drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Publication number: 20170028479
    Abstract: A rotatable cutting tool, which extends along a tool axis defining an axial direction, includes a cutting formation in a first axial longitudinal end region, which is configured for material ablation on a workpiece, and includes a screw-connection formation in a second axial longitudinal end region opposing the first, which is configured for screw connection with a coupling unit. The cutting tool includes key-contact surface formations diametrically opposing each other with respect to the tool axis, which are configured for torque-transmitting abutting engagement with key surfaces of a key. Each of the key-contact-surface formations includes at least two key-contact surface regions provided with spacing from each other in the circumferential direction about the tool axis, which key-contact surface regions are inclined away from each other such that they form a vertex projecting away from the tool axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: Franz Haimer Maschinenbau KG
    Inventor: Franz HAIMER
  • Patent number: 9533393
    Abstract: A tool arrangement with a tool receptacle and a tool, with at least one fluid channel for supplying a fluid to the tool provided in the tool arrangement. In order to allow an improved supply of alternative fluids to the tool, the fluid channel has at least one throttle point for maintaining the pressure in the fluid channel upstream of the throttle point, and the throttle point is suitable for keeping the pressure on the fluid sufficiently high such that no excessive premature evaporation of the fluid takes place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: FRANZ HAIMER MASCHINENBAU KG
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Patent number: 9506694
    Abstract: A device for drying a work piece, preferably in the form of a shrink fit chuck, that previously been subjected to an application of a liquid and is essentially rotationally symmetrical around a longitudinal axis of the work piece; the device has at least one air-conducting device that encompasses the work piece in order to convey an air flow in the direction along the longitudinal axis of the work piece and has at least one blower device that directs a radial air flow at the work piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Haimer GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Haimer, Wolfgang Kuegle
  • Publication number: 20160221086
    Abstract: A chucking device for a tool includes a tool receiving element; a collet for clamping the tool, the collet being inserted in an opening in the tool receiving element; a clamping nut for axially displacing the collet in relation to the tool receiving element; and a pressure piece which is arranged between the clamping nut and the collet and is rotatably mounted in relation to the clamping nut, by means of which piece the collet can be axially displaced in relation to the tool receiving element by the clamping nut. To permit a tool shank to be securely clamped in and released from the collet, even under extremely high clamping forces, the pressure piece has coupling elements for a torsion-proof connection to corresponding mating elements of the tool receiving element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Franz HAIMER, Wolfgang KÜGLE
  • Publication number: 20160193666
    Abstract: A tool holder having a main body for coupling the tool holder to the spindle of a machine tool and having a clamping surface connected thereto for clamping a tool, characterized in that the tool holder has at least one portion shaped in one piece by primary shaping, which in its interior has one or more cavities that form an enclave in the portion shaped by primary shaping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Publication number: 20160113069
    Abstract: According to the invention, for shrinking and expanding a tool in the bush part (3) of a tool holder, an induction coil unit (1), in which several polar parts (25) made of a soft magnetic material are radially adjusted in the yoke ring made of a soft magnetic material, is provided. Said polar parts have end faces (29) which are inclined in relation to the axis of rotation (7) of the bush part (3) and can be kept in a linear contact with a conical peripheral surface (31) of the bush part (3) which holds a the tool (11) in a press fit manner. In order to avoid possible local overheating of the bush part (3), the area (39) of the end face (29) parallel to the axis is connected on the output side of the tool to an area (33) of the end face (29) inclined in relation to the axis of rotation (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2006
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: Haimer GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Publication number: 20160107284
    Abstract: A tool holder has a main body and a holding pin onto which a rotary tool having a corresponding holding bore can be placed. At least one channel for transporting coolant or lubricant, the channel leading to the outer circumference of the holding pin, is arranged in the tool holder. In order to enable cooling of the cutting edges of the rotary tool without great production complexity, at least one longitudinal groove for conducting the coolant or lubricant in a longitudinal direction of the holding pin is arranged on the outer circumference of the holding pin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventor: Franz HAIMER
  • Publication number: 20160096247
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tool receptacle 1 comprising a receiving body 3, which has a receiving opening 5 for a tool shaft 6 of a tool and a first fluid supply structure 22, 33 and 35 for supplying fluid to the tool, said fluid supply structure extending through the receiving body 3. In order to allow a diversified supply of working fluids to the tool, a second fluid supply structure 23, 34 and 41. Which is not connected with the first fluid supply structure 22, 33 and 35, extends through the receiving body 3, hereby allowing a fluid supply to the tool which is separate from the first fluid supply structure 22, 33 and 35.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: Haimer GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Patent number: 9278414
    Abstract: The induction coil unit for heating a sleeve section of a tool holder holding the shaft of a rotation tool in a receiver opening in press fit comprises two coil units, whose distance can be changed selectively through at least one slanted surface cam assembly. A magnetic flux concentrator assembly with several concentrator elements distributed in circumferential direction is associated with the coil unit adjacent to the free end of the sleeve section. The width of a pass through opening defined by the concentrator elements for the tool shaft is also changeable through a control cam, to which the concentrator elements are coupled through a slanted surface cam assembly. The two slanted surface cam assemblies are coupled amongst each other in a useful manner in order to simplify the operation of the unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: FRANZ HAIMER MASCHINENBAU KG
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Publication number: 20160052061
    Abstract: A tool holder for non-positively holding a rotatable tool by a receiving body containing a receiving opening with slits extending radially from the inner wall towards the exterior and running in the longitudinal direction of the receiving body. To permit a simple production process, the receiving body has an insert fixed into a receiving section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: FRANZ HAIMER MASCHINENBAU KG
    Inventor: Franz HAIMER
  • Publication number: 20160008892
    Abstract: A tool chuck for clamping a tool in a machine tool, having a base body and a sleeve part protruding therefrom, which sleeve part forms a tool holder for fixing a tool shaft in a frictional, nonpositive fashion; a cavity in which a vibration damping component is accommodated is provided in the tool chuck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Patent number: 9221134
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for tensioning or de-tensioning tools, having a tool shaft in a tool chuck which has a sheath section open on the free end thereof and which is made of electrically conductive material, for receiving the tool shaft in a friction connection, having an induction coil which surrounds the sheath section of the tool chuck, to which preferably high-frequency alternating current can be applied, and which is designed as a ring or cylinder coil, wherein the device has at least one channel running between the inner peripheral surface of the induction coil and the sheath section of the tool chuck, through which flows a cooling agent which cools the sheath section of the tool chuck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Franz Haimer Machinenbau KG
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Patent number: 9205496
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tool holder comprising a tool receptacle in the form of a sleeve part, which comprises a tool receptacle opening comprising a mating surface which is concentric with the axis of rotation of the tool holder and on which the shaft of a tool inserted in accordance with the intended purpose thereof into the tool receptacle opening of the sleeve part can be fixed in a press fit, wherein the sleeve part comprises a number of circumferential recesses from the side of the mating surface, wherein the recesses divide the mating surface into several mating surface segments which are comparable to each other and which are substantially inherently rigid in the axial direction, wherein the radial depth of the recesses is selected such that the press fit releases substantially uniformly on all mating surface segments under the influence of heat applied over the outer circumference of the sleeve part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Franz Haimer Maschinenbau KG
    Inventors: Franz Haimer, Joseph Haimer, Bernhard Regau
  • Publication number: 20150336179
    Abstract: A tool holder having a tool receptacle for chucking a tool shaft by frictional engagement, in which the tool receptacle comprises a plurality of annular clamping surfaces spaced apart from one another, which are intended for retaining the tool shaft by nonpositive engagement and are embodied on the inner circumference of a tube part, and the tube part has a recess in the material for varying its clamping action; the recess in the material is embodied by a plurality of annular channels extending in the circumferential direction, which are each separated from the tool receptacle by a resilient wall portion, which on its side facing away from the channel embodies the respective clamping surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Patent number: 9180527
    Abstract: A clamping device (1a) for clamping a work piece of a rotating spindle of a machine tool, in particular a balancer, wherein the clamping device comprises a base body (2), which is configured to be fixated at the spindle and which comprises at least one change body (1) which can be coupled to and decoupled from the base body (2), wherein the change body (1) and the base body (2) are supported coaxial to one another and clamped relative to one another in radial direction by roller elements (11), wherein each of the roller elements (11) is disposed in a gap between the base body (2) and the change body (1), which is configured as a wedge shaped gap and adapted to the respective roller element (11), so that the respective roller element can be moved along the wedge shaped gap, deeper into the wedge shaped gap, when the base body (2) and the change body (1) are connected to one another, so that the desired radial clamping is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: FRANZ HAIMER MASCHINENBAU KG
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Publication number: 20150290776
    Abstract: The invention relates to a balancing or measuring device which comprises a base body (2) which can be rotated about a central axis (1) and which is used to receive a component (5) which is to be balanced or measured, and at least one centering element (6). A radial bias of the centering element (6) can be modified by a pressurized liquid for flexibly using the balancing or measuring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: FRANZ HAIMER MASCHINENBAU KG
    Inventor: Franz Haimer