Patents by Inventor Benjamin Menz

Benjamin Menz 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: 11980973
    Abstract: A weld analytics system and method of tracking weld quality for a group of sequential welds. In one example, a weld analytics system receives a welding plan for a plurality of welds being performed by at least one welding machine. The weld analytics system determines an overall weld quality for the plurality of welds, based at least upon weld data from the at least one welding machine; and transmits a signal indicative of the overall weld quality of the plurality of welds to an interactive user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Matteo Dariol, Benjamin Menz, Scott Hibbard, Yaozhong Chen
  • Publication number: 20230390872
    Abstract: An adaptive welding system including a plurality of welding machines, an edge computing system configured to gather weld data from a first welding machine from the plurality of welding machines, and a weld analytics system configured to build an optimized operational model for the first welding machine based at least upon the weld data. The weld analytics system is further configured to transmit the optimized operational model to the first welding machine as a firmware image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Matteo Dariol, Benjamin Menz, Scott Hibbard, Yaozhong Chen
  • Publication number: 20210316403
    Abstract: A weld analytics system and method of tracking weld quality for a group of sequential welds. In one example, a weld analytics system receives a welding plan for a plurality of welds being performed by at least one welding machine. The weld analytics system determines an overall weld quality for the plurality of welds, based at least upon weld data from the at least one welding machine; and transmits a signal indicative of the overall weld quality of the plurality of welds to an interactive user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Matteo Dariol, Benjamin Menz, Scott Hibbard, Yaozhong Chen
  • Publication number: 20210279573
    Abstract: A system for detecting material caught between a chuck and a removable tool. The system includes a sensor mounted on a surface that experiences a vibration caused by a rotating of the removable tool in the chuck. The system also includes an electronic processor configured to receive raw vibration data from the sensor, generate transformed vibration data by transforming the raw vibration data, and using a machine learning model, analyze the raw vibration data and transformed vibration data to determine whether there is a piece of material caught between the removable tool and the chuck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Mohamed-Ali Tnani, Benjamin Menz, Scott Hibbard