Patents by Inventor Peter Wiesner

Peter Wiesner 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).

  • Publication number: 20230286067
    Abstract: A method cuts slices from workpieces using a wire saw having a wire array, which is tensioned in a plane between two wire guide rollers supported between fixed and floating bearings and having a chamber and a shell. The workpiece is fed through the wire array along a feed direction perpendicular to a workpiece axis, while simultaneously changing the shells' lengths by adjusting a temperature of the chambers with a first cooling fluid in accordance with a first correction profile specifying a change in the shells' lengths based on the depth of cut. The floating bearings are simultaneously axially moved by adjusting a temperature of the fixed bearings with a second cooling fluid in accordance with a second correction profile, which specifies a travel of the floating bearings based on the depth of cut. The first correction profile and the second correction profile are opposed to a shape deviation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Wiesner, Wolfgang Gmach, Robert Kreuzeder
  • Publication number: 20230234261
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for separating a plurality of slices from workpieces (4) by means of a wire saw, wherein a wire grating (2) is tensioned in a plane between two wire-guiding rollers (1), wherein each of the two wire-guiding rollers (1) is mounted between a fixed bearing (5) and a floating bearing (6). The method involves delivering the workpiece (4) via the wire grating (2) by controlling the temperature of the workpiece (4) by wetting the workpiece (4) with a cooling medium, while simultaneously axially shifting the floating bearing (6) by controlling the temperature of the fixed bearing (5) with a cooling fluid according to the specification of a first temperature profile, and while simultaneously shifting the workpiece (4) along the workpiece axis by means of a control element (15) according to the specification of a second correction profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Axel Beyer, Patrick Berger, Carl Frintert, Matthias Guenther, Peter Wiesner
  • Publication number: 20230234149
    Abstract: Slices are cut from workpieces using a wire saw having a wire array tensioned in a plane between two wire guide rollers each supported between fixed and floating bearings and comprising a chamber and a shell enclosing a core and having guide grooves for wires. During a cut-off operation, a workpiece is fed through the wire array perpendicular to a workpiece axis and the wire array plane. The workpiece is fed through the wire array while simultaneously: changing shell lengths by adjusting chamber temperatures in dependence on a depth of cut and a first correction profile; and moving the workpiece along the workpiece axis in accordance with a second correction profile. The correction profiles are opposed to a shape deviation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Wiesner, Wolfgang Gmach, Robert Kreuzeder
  • Publication number: 20230226629
    Abstract: A method uses a wire saw to cut slices from a workpiece. The wire saw has an array of saw wire tensioned in a plane between two rollers supported between fixed and floating bearings. During a cut-off operation, the workpiece is fed through the wire array with simultaneous axial movement of the floating bearings by adjusting the temperature of the fixed bearings with a cooling fluid in accordance with the temperature of the cooling fluid being in dependence on a depth of cut and correlating with a first correction profile, which specifies the travel of the floating bearings in dependence on the depth of cut. Also, the workpiece is fed through the wire array while simultaneously moving the workpiece along the workpiece axis in accordance with a second correction profile, specifying the travel of the workpiece. The first and second correction profiles are opposed to a shape deviation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Axel Beyer, Carl Frintert, Peter Wiesner
  • Publication number: 20230050459
    Abstract: Wafers are sliced from a workpiece using a wire saw during slicing operations. The wire saw has a wire web of sawing wire and a setting device. The wire web is stretched in a plane between wire guide rollers that are mounted between fixed and moveable bearings. During each of the slicing operations, the setting device feeds the workpiece through the wire web along a feed direction perpendicular to a workpiece axis and perpendicular to the plane of the wire web. During each of the slicing operations, the movable bearings move oscillatingly axialy. The feeding of the workpiece through the wire web includes a simultaneous displacement of the workpiece along the workpiece axis using the setting element in accordance with a correction profile, which includes an oscillating component that is opposite to the effect which the axial moving of the movable bearings has on the shape of the sliced-off wafers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Georg Pietsch, Peter Wiesner
  • Publication number: 20220234250
    Abstract: Wafer shape parameters from prior runs of simultaneously slicing a plurality of wafers from a workpiece in a wire saw having a sawing wire tensioned between wire guide rolls are used to alter the temperature profile of fixed and a moveable bearings at the ends of at least one wire guide roll, resulting in wafers with low waviness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: SILTRONIC AG
    Inventors: Georg PIETSCH, Peter WIESNER
  • Publication number: 20220040883
    Abstract: Semiconductor wafers with improved geometry are produced from a workpiece by processing the workpiece by means of a wire saw, by feeding the workpiece through an arrangement of wires which are tensioned between wire guide rollers and move in a running direction; producing kerfs when the wires engage into the workpiece; determining a placement error of the kerfs; and inducing a compensating movement of the workpiece as a function of the determined placement error along a longitudinal axis of the workpiece during the feeding of the workpiece through the arrangement of wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: SILTRONIC AG
    Inventors: Axel BEYER, Carl FRINTERT, Peter WIESNER, Wolfgang GMACH, Robert KREUZEDER
  • Patent number: 10756370
    Abstract: A method for power control of a fuel cell system in a vehicle is disclosed. The requested fuel cell system power by the vehicle is converted into a power request made of the fuel cell by an expected power of auxiliary drives of the fuel cell system at the requested fuel cell system power being added to the requested fuel cell system power. A media supply of the fuel cell which corresponds to the power request made of the fuel cell is requested. The electrical loading of the fuel cell with current is performed in accordance with a model of the cathode dynamics such that a control variable of the control operation is matched to the media dynamics, and the power release is performed such that the fuel cell is loaded only when the adequate media supply is ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Peter Wiesner, Sven Schmalzriedt
  • Patent number: 10518377
    Abstract: A method for producing a ready-for-use camshaft for controlling valves of an internal combustion engine may be directed towards camshafts that include a carrier shaft on which an end component, for example, a drive wheel, a phase adjuster, or a part of a phase adjuster, is arranged and cam elements that are attached in a positionally fixed manner to the carrier shaft. In some examples, the method comprises providing a carrier shaft and an end component, joining the end component to the carrier shaft, grinding at least the carrier shaft to form cam seats so as to establish readiness for use, introducing a surface profile into a first cam seat, providing a cam element with ready-for-use characteristics, seating the cam element on the cam seat with the surface profile, and repeating certain steps for additional cam elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA TECCENTER AG
    Inventors: Manfred Muster, Marko Curlic, Aaron Pfitscher, Peter Wiesner, Nicolas Hollweque, Jörg Schätzle, Martial Danthois, Raphael Höber
  • Patent number: 10245661
    Abstract: A wire guide roll for use in wire saws for simultaneously slicing a multiplicity of wafers from a cylindrical workpiece is provided with a coating having a thickness of at least 2 mm and at most 7.5 mm of a material which has a Shore A hardness of at least 60 and at most 99, and which contains a multiplicity of grooves through which the sawing wire is guided, the grooves each having a curved groove base with a radius of curvature which is 0.25-1.6 times the sawing wire diameter, and an aperture angle of 60-130°. A multiplicity of wafers are simultaneously sliced from a cylindrical workpiece by a wire saw using such wire guide rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Siltronic AG
    Inventors: Anton Huber, Engelbert Auer, Manfred Schoenhofer, Helmut Seehofer, Peter Wiesner
  • Patent number: 9981304
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for assembling a module for a motor vehicle engine, which module comprises at least one supporting structure with bearing seats and at least one camshaft which is mounted rotatably in the bearing seats, the camshaft being constructed during the assembly of the module from a support shaft which is configured at least in sections as a hollow shaft and components which are to be connected to the support shaft at predefined joining positions. The method includes providing a supporting structure having bearing seats, positioning components to be affixed to a support shaft in a preliminary position with respect to the bearing seats, pushing the support shaft through the bearing seats and through-openings of the components, enlarging portions of the outer diameter of the support shaft at defined joining positions thereof, and axially moving the components on the support shaft onto the joining positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA TECCENTER AG
    Inventor: Peter Wiesner
  • Publication number: 20180108928
    Abstract: A method for power control of a fuel cell system in a vehicle is disclosed. The requested fuel cell system power by the vehicle is converted into a power request made of the fuel cell by an expected power of auxiliary drives of the fuel cell system at the requested fuel cell system power being added to the requested fuel cell system power. A media supply of the fuel cell which corresponds to the power request made of the fuel cell is requested. The electrical loading of the fuel cell with current is performed in accordance with a model of the cathode dynamics such that a control variable of the control operation is matched to the media dynamics, and the power release is performed such that the fuel cell is loaded only when the adequate media supply is ensured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Peter WIESNER, Sven SCHMALZRIEDT
  • Patent number: 9757822
    Abstract: A method for assembling a camshaft from a support shaft and components to be connected to the support shaft, the components having through-openings for receiving the support shaft. In this method, a support shaft is provided, having first diametrical enlargements in first regions, in which the components are to be secured, and second diametrical enlargements in second regions, in which the components are to be pre-positioned. A diameter (D2) in the second regions is smaller than a diameter (D1) in the first regions The support shaft is cooled and/or the components are heated up, so that the support shaft can be pushed with its first and second diametrical enlargements through the through-openings of the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA TECCENTER AG
    Inventors: Andreas Stappelmann, Peter Wiesner, Falk Muhsfeldt
  • Publication number: 20170157729
    Abstract: A method for producing a ready-for-use camshaft for controlling valves of an internal combustion engine may be directed towards camshafts that include a carrier shaft on which an end component, for example, a drive wheel, a phase adjuster, or a part of a phase adjuster, is arranged and cam elements that are attached in a positionally fixed manner to the carrier shaft. In some examples, the method comprises providing a carrier shaft and an end component, joining the end component to the carrier shaft, grinding at least the carrier shaft to form cam seats so as to establish readiness for use, introducing a surface profile into a first cam seat, providing a cam element with ready-for-use characteristics, seating the cam element on the cam seat with the surface profile, and repeating certain steps for additional cam elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Presta TecCenter AG
    Inventors: Manfred Muster, Marko Curlic, Aaron Pfitscher, Peter Wiesner, Nicolas Hollweque, Jörg Schätzle, Martial Danthois, Raphael Höber
  • Patent number: 9662804
    Abstract: A method for sawing a multiplicity of wafers from a workpiece by means of a wire web of a wire saw includes providing a wire web consisting of a plurality of parallel wire sections. The wire web is spanned by at least two wire guide rollers where each wire guide rollers comprises a core having two side surfaces and a lateral surface. The core is composed of a first material. Each core is rotatably mounted along its longitudinal axis and comprises at least two separate cavities. The lateral surface of each core is enclosed by a jacket composed of a second material. Parallel groves are cut into the jacket for guiding the wire sections of the web. The length of the jacket is altered thermally by means of at least one cavity being filled with a temperature regulating medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SILTRONIC AG
    Inventors: Peter Wiesner, Robert Kreuzeder
  • Patent number: 9534674
    Abstract: A camshaft includes a carrier shaft which can be mounted rotatably along a shaft axis and at least one cam pack disposed axially displaceably on the carrier shaft. The cam pack includes at least two cams and at least one adjusting member for axial adjustment of the cam pack. The cams and the at least one adjusting member are connected to one another in an axially adjacent configuration and can be mounted axially displaceably as a composite structure in a direct configuration on the carrier shaft. A method for producing a camshaft and a cam pack are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Thyssenkrupp Presta Teccener AG
    Inventors: Thomas Binder, Peter Wiesner
  • Patent number: 9427888
    Abstract: A method resumes an interrupted process for sawing a workpiece into wafers using a wire saw that includes advancing a wire web into existing sawing kerfs of the workpiece with a forward movement of the sawing wire with a first speed in the presence of a liquid sawing medium until the wire web or workpiece has reached a position corresponding to the interruption of the wire sawing process. The sawing wire is moved in defined time intervals by a forward movement of a particular length with a second speed and a backward movement of another length with a third speed, where the backward length is less than the forward length and the forward and backward movement correspond to a cycle. The wire length that is unwound during the forward movements is increased until the length during the forward movement corresponds to the length of the forward movement before the interruption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: SILTRONIC AG
    Inventor: Peter Wiesner
  • Patent number: 9400038
    Abstract: A camshaft includes a carrier shaft to be mounted rotatably along a shaft axis and at least one cam pack or package axially displaceably disposed on the carrier shaft. The cam pack includes at least two cams and at least one adjusting member for axial adjustment of the cam pack. The cams and the at least one adjusting member are connected to one another in an axially adjacent configuration and can be mounted axially displaceably as a composite structure in a direct configuration on the carrier shaft by a rolling element guide with rolling elements. A cam pack or package and a method for producing a camshaft are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Presta TecCenter AG
    Inventors: Thomas Binder, Peter Wiesner
  • Patent number: 9273765
    Abstract: A camshaft includes a carrier shaft to be mounted rotatably in a shaft axis and at least one cam pack axially displaceable on the carrier shaft. The cam pack includes at least two cams and at least one adjusting member for axial adjustment of the cam pack. The cams and adjusting member are interconnected in an axially adjacent configuration by an integrally molded body. The body is integrally molded on at least one cam and the adjusting member by an original molding process and a composite structure is formed by the integrally molded body. The composite structure can be mounted in a direct configuration on the carrier shaft to be axially displaceable thereon. The cams and the adjusting member include inner toothing engaging in an axially displaceable manner with outer toothing of the carrier shaft. A cam pack and a method for producing a camshaft are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Thyssenkrupp Presta Teccenter AG
    Inventors: Thomas Binder, Peter Wiesner
  • Patent number: 9261177
    Abstract: A camshaft includes a carrier shaft which can be mounted rotatably along a shaft axis and at least one cam pack or package axially displaceably disposed on the carrier shaft. The cam pack includes at least two cams and at least one adjusting member for axial adjustment of the cam pack. The cams and the at least one adjusting member are cast integrally with a carrier body in an axially adjacent configuration and are connected to one another by the carrier body. The cams and/or the adjusting member include an inner toothing which engages in an axially displaceable manner with an outer toothing of the carrier shaft. A cam pack and a method for producing a camshaft are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA TECCENTER AG
    Inventors: Thomas Binder, Peter Wiesner