Patents by Inventor Hans-Dieter BÜHRLE

Hans-Dieter BÜHRLE 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).

  • Clamping device with a work-piece adapter apparatus and a holding apparatus
    Patent number: 11541492
    Abstract: A holding apparatus/workpiece adapter apparatus arrangement includes a holding apparatus and a workpiece adapter apparatus. The workpiece adapter apparatus is positioned and fixed, with a workpiece fastened thereto, by the holding apparatus. The holding apparatus has partially cylindrical positioning elements, which engage in an associated cylindrical positioning recess and a positioning slot and position the workpiece adapter apparatus in an x and a y direction. The workpiece adapter apparatus bears by mating contact surfaces against contact surfaces of the holding apparatus and is clamped by linearly displaceable clamping elements and pressed against the contact surfaces, and thus positioned in a z direction. For clamping, clamping surfaces of the clamping elements bear against mating clamping surfaces of the workpiece adapter apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: MAG IAS GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Schlegel, Hans-Dieter Bührle, Rudi Kodalle, Martin Lang
  • HOLDING APPARATUS FOR POSITIONING AND FIXING A WORKPIECE ADAPTER APPARATUS AND WORKPIECE ADAPTER APPARATUS FOR POSITIONING AND FIXING A WORKPIECE BY MEANS OF SUCH A HOLDING APPARATUS, AND HOLDING APPARATUS/WORKPIECE ADAPTER APPARATUS ARRANGEMENT
    Publication number: 20190232442
    Abstract: A holding apparatus/workpiece adapter apparatus arrangement includes a holding apparatus and a workpiece adapter apparatus. The workpiece adapter apparatus is positioned and fixed, with a workpiece fastened thereto, by the holding apparatus. The holding apparatus has partially cylindrical positioning elements, which engage in an associated cylindrical positioning recess and a positioning slot and position the workpiece adapter apparatus in an x and a y direction. The workpiece adapter apparatus bears by mating contact surfaces against contact surfaces of the holding apparatus and is clamped by linearly displaceable clamping elements and pressed against the contact surfaces, and thus positioned in a z direction. For clamping, clamping surfaces of the clamping elements bear against mating clamping surfaces of the workpiece adapter apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas SCHLEGEL, Hans-Dieter BÜHRLE, Rudi KODALLE, Martin LANG
  • WORKPIECE ADAPTER APPARATUS, COMBINATION OF WORKPIECE HOLDING APPARATUS AND WORKPIECE ADAPTER APPARATUS, AND MACHINE TOOL
    Publication number: 20170021464
    Abstract: The invention relates to a workpiece adapter apparatus for a machine tool to which at least one workpiece can be fixed and which can be fixed to a workpiece holding apparatus of the machine tool, comprising a holding body having a first side on which is arranged a first fixing device for the at least one workpiece and having a second side, opposite the first side, on which is arranged a second fixing device for fixing the holding body to the workpiece holding apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Tilmann Traub, Hans-Dieter Buehrle