Patents Assigned to Soudronic AG
  • Patent number: 11628457
    Abstract: A device for interruption-free coating of can bodies with a coating liquid comprises an inlet container for providing the coating liquid to be applied, a pressurized air source for supplying pressurized air, an application nozzle for spraying the coating liquid with an application pressure onto the container body. An intermediary container is provided, which is connected on the inlet side to the inlet container by means of the inlet pipe and which is connected on the outlet side to the application nozzle by means of an outlet pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: SOUDRONIC AG
    Inventors: Peter Taiana, Pascal Gauch
  • Patent number: 11142369
    Abstract: A tear-off lid with a curled edge of the removal opening is formed such that before the edge is curled, a plastics layer provided as a band of low thickness and preferably only 0.1 mm thickness is applied to the collar of the lid ring. In this way, a good seal of the cut edge of the tear-off lid is produced economically and with the possibility for production at a high rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Soudronic AG
    Inventors: Pascal Gauch, Peter Taiana
  • Patent number: 10730097
    Abstract: The procedure followed for aligning a metal sheet in the correct position for inserting it into a punch press is that the aligned position in the feed direction is adjusted by means of stops. The alignment in the second direction orthogonal to the feed direction is such that the position of the metal sheet in the second direction is determined by a sensor and a control unit, and the deviation of the metal sheet from the predetermined aligned position in the second direction from the control unit is determined. Next, the alignment in the second direction is controlled by means of the gripping arrangement which is provided for the feed of the metal sheet to the punch press by controlling the gripping arrangement in such a way that the deviation is compensated and the metal sheet is aligned correctly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SOUDRONIC AG
    Inventors: Reto Walti, Roland Dietschi
  • Patent number: 10610918
    Abstract: To manufacture a metal can having a tear-open lid and having a storage space for an object above the tear-open lid, the following procedure is used: first, a top edge of the can which has a smaller diameter than the inside diameter of the can body is formed, wherein a transition region (6) is formed. After the tear-open lid has been attached, this transition region is deep drawn so that the tear-open lid (2) is displaced towards the bottom (5) of the can. This produces the storage space. This procedure allows previously formed tear-open lids to be used, which safely guarantees the imperviousness of the seal of the tear-open lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SOUDRONIC AG
    Inventor: Marcel Oberholzer
  • Patent number: 10494139
    Abstract: A tear-off lid with a curled edge of the removal opening is formed such that before the edge is curled, a plastics layer provided as a band of low thickness and preferably only 0.1 mm thickness is applied to the collar of the lid ring. In this way, a good seal of the cut edge of the tear-off lid is produced economically and with the possibility for production at a high rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SOUDRONIC AG
    Inventors: Pascal Gauch, Peter Taiana
  • Patent number: 10479620
    Abstract: In a destacking device comprising a stacking magazine (2), the respective lowest sheet of a stack (1) of metal sheets is destacked by way of a suction element (5, 15). This element can be moved upward and downward by way of a drive (6). At the end of the upward movement, the respective lowest metal sheet (4) of the stack (1) is gripped by suction power and pulled from the stack. A second suction element (5?, 15?) is provided, which can be moved upward and downward by way of a drive (6?) and by way of which the lowest sheet (4) of the stack (1) can be gripped at the end of the upward movement. The second suction element is driven so as to be leading with respect to the first suction element, so that the respective lowest sheet (4) of the stack (1) can first be pulled from the stack by the second suction element (5?), and subsequently by the first suction element (5). In this way, it becomes possible to destack thin sheets having a thickness of only 0.12 mm and a square shape without disruption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: SOUDRONIC AG
    Inventor: Peter Taiana
  • Patent number: 10421594
    Abstract: In a package having a dosing spoon for removing a filling material from the package, a container of the package is sealed with a peel-off lid that has a peel-off lid ring and a peel-off film. A leveling bar is provided that may be attached to the edge of the peel-off lid ring after the peel-off film has been removed. The leveling bar may be present in the package especially in combination with the dosing spoon, so that after the package is opened the leveling bar may be detached from the dosing spoon and may be attached to the edge of the peel-off lid ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SOUDRONIC AG
    Inventor: François Chevalley
  • Patent number: 10022814
    Abstract: For the determination of the welding current to be used for the resistance welding of the overlap seam of container bodies, welding with a test body is carried out with a changing strength of welding current which in the test body produces a varying welding of the seam. The current strength varies from welding of this seam with a too high temperature to welding with a too low temperature. Along with this the welding current strength used in the welding is determined so that it is further determined at which point of the seam the welding has been accomplished and with what strength of welding current. By means of a mechanical and/or optical investigation of the welded seam it can then be easily determined where the seam has been correctly welded for the series production of container bodies from the same sheet material as the test bodies. When such a point or such a region of the seam is known the welding current used in the test welding can be taken as the welding current for serial production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Soudronic AG
    Inventor: Patrick Ziegler
  • Patent number: 9845197
    Abstract: A magnetic lifting device for bodies (Z) comprises an input transport device (10) for transporting lying bodies (4), a transport device (12) for transporting lifted bodies (9) hanging at the transport device (12) and arranged above the input transport device (10) and a control device (13). A first magnet arrangement (1) which is activated and deactivated by the control device (13) is arranged below the input transport device (10) in such a way that a body (4) lying on the input transport device (10) is magnetically held in a releasable way on the input transport device (10). A second magnet arrangement (2) is arranged above an area of the input transport device (10), in which the bodies are transported, and is formed in such a way that a body lying on the input transport device (10) is lifted by the magnetic field of the second magnet arrangement (10) when the magnetic field of the first magnet arrangement (1) is deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Soudronic AG
    Inventors: Pascal Gauch, Peter Taiana
  • Patent number: 9776761
    Abstract: To manufacture a metal can having a tear-open lid and having a storage space for an object above the tear-open lid, the following procedure is used: first, a top edge of the can which has a smaller diameter than the inside diameter of the can body is formed, wherein a transition region (6) is formed. After the tear-open lid has been attached, this transition region is deep drawn so that the tear-open lid (2) is displaced towards the bottom (5) of the can. This produces the storage space. This procedure allows previously formed tear-open lids to be used, which safely guarantees the imperviousness of the seal of the tear-open lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Soudronic AG
    Inventor: Marcel Oberholzer
  • Patent number: 9764374
    Abstract: In the area of manufacturing covers with tear-open foils, the cover blanks, or covers are always secured against an undesired take-off from the transport means during the transport and the processing. This allows a very high manufacturing cadence equally for light covers and particularly for aluminium covers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Soudronic AG
    Inventors: Peter Gysi, Peter Taiana, Rene Raas
  • Publication number: 20170183121
    Abstract: A tear-off lid with a curled edge of the removal opening is formed such that before the edge is curled, a plastics layer provided as a band of low thickness and preferably only 0.1 mm thickness is applied to the collar of the lid ring. In this way, a good seal of the cut edge of the tear-off lid is produced by economical means and with the possibility for production at a high rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: SOUDRONIC AG
    Inventors: Pascal Gauch, Peter Taiana
  • Publication number: 20170022011
    Abstract: A magnetic lifting device for bodies (Z) comprises an input transport device (10) for transporting lying bodies (4), a transport device (12) for transporting lifted bodies (9) hanging at the transport device (12) and arranged above the input transport device (10) and a control device (13). A first magnet arrangement (1) which is activated and deactivated by the control device (13) is arranged below the input transport device (10) in such a way that a body (4) lying on the input transport device (10) is magnetically held in a releasable way on the input transport device (10). A second magnet arrangement (2) is arranged above an area of the input transport device (10), in which the bodies are transported, and is formed in such a way that a body lying on the input transport device (10) is lifted by the magnetic field of the second magnet arrangement (10) when the magnetic field of the first magnet arrangement (1) is deactivated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: Soudronic AG
    Inventors: Pascal GAUCH, Peter TAIANA
  • Patent number: 9522439
    Abstract: In a welding apparatus for the longitudinal seam welding of can bodies (31?) by way of electrode rollers (8, 17), three drive stages (4, 10, 20), by means of which the wire electrode (25) is driven in addition to the drive by the electrode rollers (8, 17), are provided in the wire course. Preferably, elastic stretching is brought about in this case by the three drive stages (4, 10, 20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Soudronic AG
    Inventor: Peter Taiana
  • Patent number: 9505077
    Abstract: In the field of manufacturing container bodies by means of resistance seam welding machines, at least a disturbance variable is collected, particularly errors in cutting the metal sheet. Because of this collection of disturbance variables, at least a control variable is automatically changed in order to compensate or to diminish the influence of the disturbance variable on the welding seam quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Soudronic AG
    Inventors: Willi Mueller, Daniel Dietrich
  • Publication number: 20160200477
    Abstract: To manufacture a metal can having a tear-open lid and having a storage space for an object above the tear-open lid, the following procedure is used: first, a top edge of the can which has a smaller diameter than the inside diameter of the can body is formed, wherein a transition region (6) is formed. After the tear-open lid has been attached, this transition region is deep drawn so that the tear-open lid (2) is displaced towards the bottom (5) of the can. This produces the storage space. This procedure allows previously formed tear-open lids to be used, which safely guarantees the imperviousness of the seal of the tear-open lid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Soudronic AG
    Inventor: Marcel Oberholzer
  • Patent number: 9308712
    Abstract: In case of manufacturing tear-off lids (28) out of lid rings (20?) with a tear-off foil (25) sealed on them and with a tear-off tab (29) the tear-off tab is fixed in a folded back position onto the tear-off foil of the lid by an adhesive patch (30). For this, the adhesive patch is applied onto the foil section in such a way that individual adhesive patches are separated out of an adhesive tape with a carrier tape and an adhesive material arranged thereon by a separating means. Such an adhesive patch is arranged on the foil section of each lid in a position where the folded back tear-off tab comes to lie. By this, a fixing of the tear-off tab can be reached in an economical and secure manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Soudronic AG
    Inventors: Andreas Lanz, Oliver Schulthess, Peter Taina
  • Patent number: 9085044
    Abstract: For the determination of the welding current to be used for the resistance welding of the overlap seam of container bodies, welding with a test body is carried out with a changing strength of welding current which in the test body produces a varying welding of the seam. The current strength varies from welding of this seam with a too high temperature to welding with a too low temperature. Along with this the welding current strength used in the welding is determined so that it is further determined at which point of the seam the welding has been accomplished and with what strength of welding current. By means of a mechanical and/or optical investigation of the welded seam it can then be easily determined where the seam has been correctly welded for the series production of container bodies from the same sheet material as the test bodies. When such a point or such a region of the seam is known the welding current used in the test welding can be taken as the welding current for serial production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Soudronic AG
    Inventor: Patrick Ziegler
  • Patent number: 9055616
    Abstract: An apparatus for inductively heating an electrically conductive workpiece in the form of a closed ring includes a U-shaped magnet core with two legs, an electrically conducting coil arranged on at least one leg of the core and connectable with an alternating current source, and a magnet yoke spaced from at least one freestanding end of a leg of the core, so that a closed magnetic circuit with at least one air gap is formed, with the height of the air gap chosen such that the workpiece can be moved in a non-contacting manner into the air gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Soudronic AG
    Inventor: Patrick Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20150129561
    Abstract: With a roller head (10) of a resistance seam welding machine, which roller head has a stator (12) and a rotor (14), the bearing outer housing (18, 18?) is cooled by means of channels (2, 2?) provided in its interior. This increases the life of the roller head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Soudronic AG
    Inventor: Daniel Dieterich