Patents by Inventor Kai LÖFFLER

Kai LÖFFLER 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: 10737330
    Abstract: A material rod feeding device for feeding material rods to a machine tool, includes a magazine for stocking the material rods and a guide means into which material rods to be processed can be fed from the magazine, one at a time. The feeding direction of a material rod from the magazine into the guide means, is transversely to the longitudinal axis of the material rod in the guide means. The guide means includes a support leg and an abutment leg for providing a variably modifiable receiving channel. The support leg provides a support surface of the receiving channel that is inclined in the feeding direction and relative to the horizontal. The abutment leg is movable along the inclination relative to the support leg, so that the variably modifiable receiving channel is formed between the two legs, into which the material rod to be processed can be fed onto the support surface. The support leg together with the abutment leg is vertically movable as a whole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: FMB Maschinenbau-gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Steffen Schwab, Andreas Schwab, Kai Löffler
  • Publication number: 20190084050
    Abstract: A material rod feeding device for feeding material rods to a machine tool, which includes a magazine for stocking the material rods and a guide means into which material rods to be processed can be fed from the magazine, one at a time, wherein a feeding direction of a material rod from the magazine into the guide means is transversely to the longitudinal axis of the material rod in the guide means, wherein the guide means includes a support leg and an abutment leg for providing a variably modifiable receiving channel, wherein the support leg provides a support surface of the receiving channel, that is inclined in the feeding direction and relative to the horizontal, and wherein the abutment leg is movable along the inclination relative to the support leg, so that the variably modifiable receiving channel is formed between the two legs, into which the material rod to be processed can be fed onto the support surface, and wherein the support leg together with the abutment leg is vertically movable as a whole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Steffen SCHWAB, Andreas SCHWAB, Kai LÖFFLER
  • Patent number: 9908179
    Abstract: A balancing device for a bar loading magazine for guiding material bars on a turning machine, includes at least one mass body that can be repeatedly positioned in relation to a guiding unit that allows a rotation of an introduced material bar about a rotary axis. The mass body is, after each completed positioning, in a connection with the guiding unit and/or the material bar, so that the mass body rotates, during the rotation of an introduced material bar, together with the material bar at the same angular speed about the rotary axis. At least one positioning unit is designed to bring the mass body into a starting position in relation to the guiding unit, to detect during rotation any required repositioning because of an imbalance, and to reposition in each case the mass body in response to the detection of any required repositioning in relation to the guiding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: FMB Maschinenbau-gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kai Loeffler, Helmut Wichtlhuber
  • Publication number: 20150165526
    Abstract: A balancing device for a bar loading magazine for guiding material bars on a turning machine, wherein a mass body that can be repeatedly positioned in relation to a guiding unit that allows a rotation of an introduced material bar about a rotary axis, which mass body is, after each completed positioning, in a positive and/or non-positive connection with the guiding unit and/or the material bar, so that the mass body rotates, during the rotation of an introduced material bar, together with the material bar at the same angular speed about the rotary axis, and by a positioning unit which brings the mass body into a starting position in relation to the guiding unit, to detect during rotation any required repositioning because of an imbalance, and to reposition in each case the mass body in response to the detection of any required repositioning in relation to the guiding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Kai Loeffler, Helmut Wichtlhuber