Patents by Inventor Michael Joseph Lamping
Michael Joseph Lamping 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).
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Patent number: 9340386Abstract: Processes for initiating a web winding process, more particularly a processes for initiating a web winding process that doesn't require the use of a threading rope or manually threading a tail of the web like known processes are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Brian Christopher Schwamberger, Michael Joseph Lamping, David Stuart Howell, II, Mark Levandoski
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Publication number: 20150239696Abstract: Processes for initiating a web winding process, more particularly a processes for initiating a web winding process that doesn't require the use of a threading rope or manually threading a tail of the web like known processes are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Brian Christopher Schwamberger, Michael Joseph Lamping, David Stuart Howell, II, Mark Levandoski
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Patent number: 9056742Abstract: Processes for initiating a web winding process, more particularly a processes for initiating a web winding process that doesn't require the use of a threading rope or manually threading a tail of the web like known processes are provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2011Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Brian Christopher Schwamberger, Michael Joseph Lamping, David Stuart Howell, II, Mark Levandoski
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Publication number: 20130068874Abstract: Processes for initiating a web winding process, more particularly a processes for initiating a web winding process that doesn't require the use of a threading rope or manually threading a tail of the web like known processes are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Inventors: Brian Christopher Schwamberger, Michael Joseph Lamping, David Stuart Howell, II, Mark Levandoski
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Patent number: 7062983Abstract: A simulation apparatus is provided comprising a fixed main body; a carriage associated with the main body for movement relative to the main body; a first device coupled to the fixed main body for engaging a workpiece; a second device coupled to the carriage for movement with the carriage and for engaging the workpiece; at least one motor apparatus coupled to the fixed main body and the carriage for effecting movement of the carriage and the second device relative to the main body such that a tensile load is applied to the workpiece; sensor apparatus comprising at least one force sensor for sensing the tensile load applied to the workpiece during the movement of the second device; and a drive controller.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2003Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Barry Jay Anderson, Michael Joseph Lamping, Eugene Paul Daut
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Patent number: 7024939Abstract: A method for inducing strain on a workpiece includes the step of providing a testing apparatus having a first set of teeth and a second set of teeth. The workpiece is placed adjacent to the first or second set of teeth. The second set of teeth is disposed on a movable carriage which linearly reciprocates thereby allowing the first and the second sets of teeth to engage and disengage each other. A commanded position by time is provided to the carriage while the actual position by time of the carriage is measured. The first set of teeth are in communication with at least one load cell such that when the first set of teeth engage the second set of teeth, the load applied by the carriage is measured. The actual position by time data and the load data are manipulated to produce vast information pertaining to the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2004Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Barry Jay Anderson, Michael Joseph Lamping, Eugene Paul Daut, Randall Allen Myers, George Stephen Reising, Anand Rudra Venkitaraman
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Patent number: 6990715Abstract: A flexible manufacturing system having a feature section including at least one module, at least one operational unit mounted to the module and a local controller operatively connected to the operational unit. The local controller is adapted to receive a reference signal and to control the operation of the operational unit based upon the reference signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2001Date of Patent: January 31, 2006Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Vincent Bardina Liu, Donald Louis Wires, Michael Joseph Lamping, Albert Michael Fischer, Gary Lee Miller
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Patent number: 6955733Abstract: A new machine control method and system for registering pro-produced webs into a converting line producing disposable absorbent articles such as diapers, pants, feminine hygiene articles or a component thereof. The pre-produced web can include a multiplicity of pre-produced objects spaced on the web at a pitch interval in the web direction. The pre-produced web being manipulated in order for the pre-produced object of the web to be registered in relation to a target position constant. The present invention includes three embodiments, where the first embodiment is expressed as a generic claim. The first embodiment includes a closed-loop feedback registration system; the second and third embodiments, in addition, include an open-loop feedforward phasing system. In addition, the third embodiment uses a machine vision system to recognize any element of a complex pre-produced object (e.g., colorful graphics).Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2002Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Charles Phillip Miller, Michael S. Kolodesh, Douglass Scott Henry, Michael Joseph Lamping, Jon Kevin McLaughlin, Terry Howard Thomas
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Patent number: 6915700Abstract: A simulation press is provided comprising a fixed main body; a carriage associated with the main body for movement relative to the main body; a first plate coupled to the fixed main body and being adapted to engage a workpiece; and a second plate coupled to the carriage for movement with the carriage. The second plate is also adapted to engage the workpiece. One or more motor apparatus are coupled to the fixed main body and the carriage for effecting movement of the carriage relative to the main body. A drive controller is coupled to the motor apparatus for controlling the operation of the motor apparatus in response to feedback from one or more feedback sensors so as to cause the second plate to move relative to the first plate such that the first and second plates engage at least one point site on the workpiece so as to simulate compression loading of a point site on a workpiece in a nip type process.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2003Date of Patent: July 12, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Barry Jay Anderson, Michael Joseph Lamping, Eugene Paul Daut
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Patent number: 6869386Abstract: Method for manufacturing discrete articles from a material web using a cyclic master reference signal to synchronize the servo actuation of multiple operational units in a manufacturing apparatus to perform periodic operations on successive product segments of the material web and thereby form the articles, without the need for ongoing external phasing or registration to maintain synchronization of the operational units relative to the articles being made. The method is particularly suited for application in the manufacture of disposable absorbent articles and other products formed from web materials. Because of the coordination by a common reference signal, the execution by each of the individual servo systems of its programmed actuation instructions results in its actuation being synchronous with that of the other servo systems.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2002Date of Patent: March 22, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Michael Joseph Lamping, Mark Wayne Morrow
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Patent number: 6843134Abstract: A simulation press is provided comprising a fixed main body; a carriage associated with the main body for movement relative to the main body; a first plate coupled to the fixed main body and being adapted to engage a workpiece; and a second plate coupled to the carriage for movement with the carriage. The second plate is also adapted to engage the workpiece. One or more motor apparatus are coupled to the fixed main body and the carriage for effecting movement of the carriage relative to the main body. A drive controller is coupled to the motor apparatus for controlling the operation of the motor apparatus in response to feedback from one or more feedback sensors so as to cause the second plate to move relative to the first plate such that the first and second plates engage the workpiece and simulate a ring rolling operation on the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2003Date of Patent: January 18, 2005Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Barry Jay Anderson, Michael Joseph Lamping, Eugene Paul Daut
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Patent number: 6814217Abstract: Method and apparatus for receiving parts traveling at a first speed through a receiving zone and applying the parts onto a carrier traveling at a second speed through an application zone. Transferring devices transport the parts between the zones. The transferring devices are coupled to programmable servo motors capable of varying the speed of the transferring devices to accommodate the receiving and application processes. The receiving and application operations may be performed at matched or mismatched surface speeds. The parts to be received and applied may be formed by a rotating knife, which may vary in speed. Adhesive may be used to hold the parts on the carrier web. In some embodiments, the transferring devices transfer the parts to a bonding anvil roll and the parts and a carrier web are compressed between the bonding anvil roll and a bonding pattern roll to bond the parts to the carrier web.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2002Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Assignee: The Procter and Gamble CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Hale Blumenthal, Michael Joseph Lamping, Donald Louis Wires
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Publication number: 20040177709Abstract: A simulation press is provided comprising a fixed main body; a carriage associated with the main body for movement relative to the main body; a first plate coupled to the fixed main body and being adapted to engage a workpiece; and a second plate coupled to the carriage for movement with the carriage. The second plate is also adapted to engage the workpiece. One or more motor apparatus are coupled to the fixed main body and the carriage for effecting movement of the carriage relative to the main body. A drive controller is coupled to the motor apparatus for controlling the operation of the motor apparatus in response to feedback from one or more feedback sensors so as to cause the second plate to move relative to the first plate such that the first and second plates engage at least one point site on the workpiece so as to simulate compression loading of a point site on a workpiece in a nip type process.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2003Publication date: September 16, 2004Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Barry Jay Anderson, Michael Joseph Lamping, Eugene Paul Daut
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Publication number: 20040173036Abstract: A simulation apparatus is provided comprising a fixed main body; a carriage associated with the main body for movement relative to the main body; a first device coupled to the fixed main body for engaging a workpiece; a second device coupled to the carriage for movement with the carriage and for engaging the workpiece; at least one motor apparatus coupled to the fixed main body and the carriage for effecting movement of the carriage and the second device relative to the main body such that a tensile load is applied to the workpiece; sensor apparatus comprising at least one force sensor for sensing the tensile load applied to the workpiece during the movement of the second device; and a drive controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2003Publication date: September 9, 2004Inventors: Barry Jay Anderson, Michael Joseph Lamping, Eugene Paul Daut
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Publication number: 20040099158Abstract: A simulation press is provided comprising a fixed main body; a carriage associated with the main body for movement relative to the main body; a first plate coupled to the fixed main body and being adapted to engage a workpiece; and a second plate coupled to the carriage for movement with the carriage. The second plate is also adapted to engage the workpiece. One or more motor apparatus are coupled to the fixed main body and the carriage for effecting movement of the carriage relative to the main body. A drive controller is coupled to the motor apparatus for controlling the operation of the motor apparatus in response to feedback from one or more feedback sensors so as to cause the second plate to move relative to the first plate such that the first and second plates engage the workpiece and simulate a ring rolling operation on the workpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2003Publication date: May 27, 2004Inventors: Barry Jay Anderson, Michael Joseph Lamping, Eugene Paul Daut
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Publication number: 20040005974Abstract: Method for manufacturing discrete articles from a material web using a cyclic master reference signal to synchronize the servo actuation of multiple operational units in a manufacturing apparatus to perform periodic operations on successive product segments of the material web and thereby form the articles, without the need for ongoing external phasing or registration to maintain synchronization of the operational units relative to the articles being made. The method is particularly suited for application in the manufacture of disposable absorbent articles and other products formed from web materials. Because of the coordination by a common reference signal, the execution by each of the individual servo systems of its programmed actuation instructions results in its actuation being synchronous with that of the other servo systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2002Publication date: January 8, 2004Inventors: Michael Joseph Lamping, Mark Wayne Morrow
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Publication number: 20030136495Abstract: A new machine control method and system for registering pre-produced webs into a converting line producing disposable absorbent articles such as diapers, pull-ups, feminine hygiene articles or a component thereof. The pre-produced webs can include a multiplicity of pre-produced objects spaced on the web at a pitch interval in the web direction. The pre-produced web being manipulated in order for the pre-produced object of the web to be registered in relation to a target position constant. The present invention includes three embodiments, where the first embodiment is expressed as a generic claim. The first embodiment includes a closed-loop feedback registration system; the second and third embodiments, in addition, include an open-loop feedforward phasing system. In addition, the third embodiment uses a machine vision system to recognize any element of a complex pre-produced object (e.g., colorful graphics).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Charles Phillip Miller, Michael S. Kolodesh, Douglass Scott Henry, Michael Joseph Lamping, Jon Kevin McLaughlin, Terry Howard Thomas
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Publication number: 20030004594Abstract: A flexible manufacturing system having a feature section including at least one module, at least one operational unit mounted to the module and a local controller operatively connected to the operational unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2002Publication date: January 2, 2003Inventors: Vincent Bardina Liu, Donald Louis Wires, Michael Joseph Lamping, Albert Michael Fischer, Gary Lee Miller
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Publication number: 20020175047Abstract: Method and apparatus for receiving parts traveling at a first speed through a receiving zone and applying the parts onto a carrier traveling at a second speed through an application zone. Transferring devices transport the parts between the zones. The transferring devices are coupled to programmable servo motors capable of varying the speed of the transferring devices to accommodate the receiving and application processes. The receiving and application operations may be performed at matched or mismatched surface speeds. The parts to be received and applied may be formed by a rotating knife, which may vary in speed. Adhesive may be used to hold the parts on the carrier web. In some embodiments, the transferring devices transfer the parts to a bonding anvil roll and the parts and a carrier web are compressed between the bonding anvil roll and a bonding pattern roll to bond the parts to the carrier web.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2002Publication date: November 28, 2002Inventors: Jeffrey Hale Blumenthal, Michael Joseph Lamping, Donald Louis Wires
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Patent number: 6450321Abstract: A method and apparatus for receiving parts traveling at a first speed through a receiving zone and applying the parts to a carrier traveling at a second speed through an application zone. The method and apparatus utilizes transferring devices for transporting the parts between the zones. The transferring devices are coupled to programmable servo motors capable of varying the speed of the transferring devices to accommodate the receiving and application processes.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2000Date of Patent: September 17, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Jeffrey Hale Blumenthal, Michael Joseph Lamping