Patents by Inventor Andreas Matt

Andreas Matt 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: 20240305039
    Abstract: A strain relief device. The strain relief device includes: a lamella element with a base element with a through-opening, set up for feeding through a strand-shaped element substantially parallel to an axial direction, and a lamella which projects from the base element along the axial direction; a clamping body, annular in shape and arranged rotatably on the lamella element radially outside the lamella; wherein the lamella, in a front portion facing away from the base element, is ramp-shaped on its outer side facing the clamping body in the direction of rotation, with a distance to the through-opening that increases along the direction of rotation, and the clamping body has at least one projection projecting radially inward, couples with the front portion of the lamella when there is a rotation of the clamping body and displaces the lamella in a direction away from the clamping body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Andreas Mattes, Henrique Stela Ferrari, Sanganagouda Mallanagouda Hadagali, Thorsten Kremer, Yongfeng WU
  • Patent number: 11369257
    Abstract: An endoscope having an endoscope shaft and a main body, which is connected to the endoscope shaft and on which a first dial that has a first contact surface is mounted in a rotatable manner, is provided. The main body has a second contact surface against which the first contact surface bears. The contact surfaces move against one another when the first dial is rotated. A first setting unit is provided, using which a pressure force with which the first contact surface is pressed against the second contact surface is settable in order to set a minimum torque that is necessary in order to rotate the first dial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Mattes, Sabine Pauli
  • Patent number: 11209640
    Abstract: A lens for a distal end of an optical channel of an endoscope shaft is provided, wherein the lens defines an outer side and an inner side as well as a circumferential surface connecting the two sides, wherein a light-absorbing coating is applied to the circumferential surface and an area of the inner side connected thereto, and wherein a solderable layer is applied to the light-absorbing coating in the area of the circumferential surface with the result that the lens can be soldered in the distal end such that the distal end is sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Rehe, Andreas Mattes
  • Patent number: 10870144
    Abstract: A ring rolling device for enlarging a ring blank includes a press element, a rotatably mounted mandrel and an advancing arrangement in which the mandrel is rotatably mounted with a first end part in a first rolling bearing and with a second end part in a second rolling bearing. The ring blank can be mounted around the mandrel. By means of the advancing arrangement, the mandrel is movable towards the press element and away from the latter again, wherein a roll gap which decreases in size, and in which the ring blank is rolled, is formed between the mandrel and the press element. The two rolling bearings are arranged axially fixed in the advancing arrangement, and the mandrel is mounted so as to be axially movable relative to these two rolling bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Hatebur Umformmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Andreas Maritz, Andreas Matt, Thomas Christoffel
  • Patent number: 10737313
    Abstract: A transport apparatus for transferring workpieces in a processing device includes at least two stations having at least two gripping tool units arranged on a gripping tool support which is movable back and forth between the stations of the processing device. The gripping tool support is movably mounted so as to be linearly guided and mounted by a parallelogram guide arrangement so as to be displaceable transversely with respect to its linearly guided movability. The gripping tool support is movable by a gripping tool support drive with two crank gear arrangements each having a gripping tool support drive motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Hatebur Umformmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Markus Moser, Simon Reimer, Andreas Maritz, Andreas Matt
  • Patent number: 10687692
    Abstract: An endoscope includes a main unit and a shaft, connected to the main unit, which extends along a longitudinal axis. The shaft includes a jacket tube, an inner tube for receiving an objective lens, and a bundle of fibre-optic light guides. The inner tube includes, at a distal end, an inner tube head which includes a first bearing section and a second bearing section, which is connected to the first bearing section by a connecting element. The first bearing section includes a first bearing surface, against which the bundle of fibre-optic light guides abuts, and the second bearing section includes a second bearing surface, against which the bundle of fibre-optic light guides abuts, wherein, to align the bundle of fibre-optic light guides at the distal end, an area of the first bearing surface and/or an area of the second bearing surface run non-parallel to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Mattes, Oliver Rehe
  • Patent number: 10537932
    Abstract: In a transport method for transferring workpieces between a plurality of successive stations of a processing device, especially a forming device, workpieces are in each case transported from one station to the respective next station of the processing device simultaneously by means of a plurality of gripping tools which are movable jointly in a transport cycle. In the event of a process disturbance, the transport cycle is suspended and the gripping tools with the workpieces are moved into a waiting position in which the workpieces are outside the operating range of processing tools of the stations of the processing device. Once the process disturbance has been eliminated, the transport cycle of the workpieces is resumed. By virtue of the movement of the gripping tools into a safe waiting position outside the operating range of the processing tools of the stations, consequent damage resulting from the process disturbance can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Hatebur Umformmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Markus Moser, Stephan Leibundgut, Andreas Maritz, Andreas Matt
  • Publication number: 20190134694
    Abstract: A transport apparatus for transferring workpieces in a processing device includes at least two stations having at least two gripping tool units arranged on a gripping tool support which is movable back and forth between the stations of the processing device. The gripping tool support is movably mounted so as to be linearly guided and mounted by a parallelogram guide arrangement so as to be displaceable transversely with respect to its linearly guided movability. The gripping tool support is movable by a gripping tool support drive with two crank gear arrangements each having a gripping tool support drive motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Markus Moser, Simon Reimer, Andreas Maritz, Andreas Matt
  • Publication number: 20190134695
    Abstract: In a transport apparatus for transferring workpieces in a multi-station forming device, gripping tools are arranged on a gripping tool support which is movable back and forth between the stations of the forming device. The gripping tools are each assigned a gripping tool drive, which is arranged on the gripping tool support, for individual operation of the gripping tools for gripping or releasing a workpiece. The gripping tools each have two tong arms which are movable linearly towards one another and away from one another by means of the respective gripping tool drive. The gripping tool drives are each configured to be electrically or hydraulically servo-controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Markus Moser, Simon Reimer, Andreas Maritz, Andreas Matt
  • Publication number: 20190118241
    Abstract: In a transport method for transferring workpieces between a plurality of successive stations of a processing device, especially a forming device, workpieces are in each case transported from one station to the respective next station of the processing device simultaneously by means of a plurality of gripping tools which are movable jointly in a transport cycle. In the event of a process disturbance, the transport cycle is suspended and the gripping tools with the workpieces are moved into a waiting position in which the workpieces are outside the operating range of processing tools of the stations of the processing device. Once the process disturbance has been eliminated, the transport cycle of the workpieces is resumed. By virtue of the movement of the gripping tools into a safe waiting position outside the operating range of the processing tools of the stations, consequent damage resulting from the process disturbance can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Markus Moser, Stephan Leibundgut, Andreas Maritz, Andreas Matt
  • Publication number: 20180297108
    Abstract: In a method for producing a ring-shaped formed part, by means of a forming device first of all a ring of smaller cross-sectional dimensions than the formed part being produced is formed from a blank in various forming stages. The ring is then expanded to the cross-sectional dimensions of the formed part being produced. The expansion of the ring is effected in an expansion stage of the forming device by means of a die and an expansion punch, where the ring is arranged in the die and the expansion punch is pressed into the ring in the axial direction and thereby expands the ring. The expansion of the ring is effected in two or more steps. In that way, excessive material stresses and any resulting material damage can be avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas MATT, Patrick STEMMELIN, Olivier RITTER
  • Publication number: 20180117663
    Abstract: A ring rolling device for enlarging a ring blank includes a press element, a rotatably mounted mandrel and an advancing arrangement in which the mandrel is rotatably mounted with a first end part in a first rolling bearing and with a second end part in a second rolling bearing. The ring blank can be mounted around the mandrel. By means of the advancing arrangement, the mandrel is movable towards the press element and away from the latter again, wherein a roll gap which decreases in size, and in which the ring blank is rolled, is formed between the mandrel and the press element. The two rolling bearings are arranged axially fixed in the advancing arrangement, and the mandrel is mounted so as to be axially movable relative to these two rolling bearings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas Maritz, Andreas Matt, Thomas Christoffel
  • Patent number: 9730574
    Abstract: An endoscope is provided with an endoscope shaft and a main body connected to the endoscope shaft. The endoscope includes a camera connection to which an optical recording device can be mechanically fixed. The main body is electrically conductive. The camera connection includes an electric insulating body that electrically insulates an optical recording device, mechanically fixed to the camera connection, from the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignees: Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH, Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Mattes, Norbert Haeckl, Stefan Rapp, Thomas Paul Weller, Hannah Lawrence, Candice Pack
  • Patent number: 9545660
    Abstract: In order to produce a formed part furnished with a through hole, a rod material is advanced by a defined length in the direction of its lengthwise extension into a forming die through a stationary guide and then immobilised by a clamping arrangement that engages with it circumferentially. The end portion of the rod material is then axially swaged by a swaging tool and is thus shaped into a disc, the circumference of which is defined by the forming die. The disc is then penetrated axially by a dishing tool and impact extruded at the same time, the displaced material flowing between the dishing tool and the inner circumferential wall of the forming die. The formed part located in the forming die is then rotated coaxially relative to the rest of the rod material and thereby separated from the rest of the rod material by torsion shearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Hatebur Umformmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Christian Burgin, Thomas Christoffel, Andreas Matt, Patrick Stemmelin, Mihai Vulcan
  • Patent number: 9120142
    Abstract: To produce a molded part with a through-hole, a rod-shaped blank is pushed through a guide into a cavity and fixed in place. The end region of the blank is compressed and reshaped into a disk. A disk core having the same cross-sectional shape as the blank is ejected out of the disk using a punch and pushed into the guide and moved back together with the unshaped part of the blank. The disk is severed from the disk core and the molded part is removed from the cavity. During the penetration step, the disk present in the cavity is subjected to an axial pressure in the disk core ejection direction and the blank is subjected to an axial counter-force opposite to the disk core ejection direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Hatebur Umformmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Andreas Matt, Mihai Vulcan
  • Publication number: 20150112133
    Abstract: An endoscope is provided with an endoscope shaft and a main body connected to the endoscope shaft. The endoscope includes a camera connection to which an optical recording device can be mechanically fixed. The main body is electrically conductive. The camera connection includes an electric insulating body that electrically insulates an optical recording device, mechanically fixed to the camera connection, from the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Andreas Mattes, Norbert Haeckl, Stefan Rapp, Thomas Paul Weller
  • Publication number: 20120266643
    Abstract: In order to produce a formed part furnished with a through hole, a rod material is advanced by a defined length in the direction of its lengthwise extension into a forming die through a stationary guide and then immobilised by a clamping arrangement that engages with it circumferentially. The end portion of the rod material is then axially swaged by a swaging tool and is thus shaped into a disc, the circumference of which is defined by the forming die. The disc is then penetrated axially by a dishing tool and impact extruded at the same time, the displaced material flowing between the dishing tool and the inner circumferential wall of the forming die. The formed part located in the forming die is then rotated coaxially relative to the rest of the rod material and thereby separated from the rest of the rod material by torsion shearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: HATEBUR UMFORMMASCHINEN AG
    Inventors: Christian Burgin, Thomas Christoffel, Andreas Matt, Patrick Stemmelin, Mihai Vulcan
  • Publication number: 20120131977
    Abstract: A forming machine comprises a shearing device for shearing off a section of a bar stock, a forming station for forming the sheared off bar stock section and a transport device for the bar stock. The shearing device has two shearing blades, of which one is movable transverse to the longitudinal extension of the bar stock. The shearing blades each have an assembly block and a shearing insert attached to this. For one of the shearing blades, the shearing insert is made of a heat-resistant, break-proof and thermal shock-resistant hard material and essentially has the form of a cylindrical half-shell. This shearing insert is arranged in a reception recess of the assembly block, which is adapted in shape, and is releasably clamped to the assembly block by means of screwed clamping blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: HATEBUR UMFORMMASCHINEN AG
    Inventors: Andreas Matt, Raymond Schoenenberger, Patrick Stemmelin, Heinz Stutzmann
  • Publication number: 20110193257
    Abstract: To produce a molded part with a through-hole, a rod-shaped blank is pushed through a guide into a cavity and fixed in place. The end region of the blank is compressed and reshaped into a disk. A disk core having the same cross-sectional shape as the blank is ejected out of the disk using a punch and pushed into the guide and moved back together with the unshaped part of the blank. The disk is severed from the disk core and the molded part is removed from the cavity. During the penetration step, the disk present in the cavity is subjected to an axial pressure in the disk core ejection direction and the blank is subjected to an axial counter-force opposite to the disk core ejection direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: HATEBUR UMFORMMASCHINEN AG
    Inventors: Andreas Matt, Mihai Vulcan
  • Patent number: 6286350
    Abstract: A hot-forming machine for the hot-pressing of workpieces comprises a die (5), an associated extendable and retractable ejector (7) and a forwardly and backwardly movable press ram (1). The ejector (7) is connected to a control piston (8) arranged displaceably in a pressure chamber (28). Liquid can flow out of the pressure chamber (28) via a liquid outlet bore (24) and a liquid discharge line (23). By means of a throttle (25) arranged in the liquid discharge line (23) the outflow of liquid and therefore the repulsion of the extended ejector (7) by the forwardly moving press ram (1) are delayed in such a way that a workpiece (4) arranged between ejector (7) and press ram (1) is pre-upset and descaled outside the die (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Hatebur Umformmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Raymond Schönenberger, Andreas Matt, Michael Suter