Patents by Inventor Bernard Gschwend

Bernard Gschwend 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).

  • Method and device for machining workpieces
    Patent number: 8790157
    Abstract: A method for grinding the surface of non-round workpieces. The method includes the steps of clamping a workpiece within a machining unit; machining the workpiece; without unclamping the workpiece, contactlessly measuring the workpiece using an optical measuring device having a conoscopic holography sensor with a characteristic measuring range; and machining and measuring the workpiece in an alternating manner to iteratively approach the desired measurements of a specified form by adjusting the distance between the optical measuring device and the surface of the workpiece depending on there being a deviation of the surface from the specified form so that a respectively measured area of the surface of the workpiece remains within the measuring range of the optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: L. Kellenberger & Co.
    Inventors: Daniel Honegger, Hugo Thurnherr, Claus P. Keferstein, Bernard Gschwend, Markus Ritter
  • Method and device for machining workpieces
    Patent number: 8403725
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for machining workpieces is provided, in particular, for grinding the surface of non-round workpieces. The workpiece is clamped within a machining unit and the surface of this workpiece is contactlessly measured by means of a measuring device while the workpiece is clamped within the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: L. Kellenberger & Co. AG
    Inventors: Daniel Honegger, Hugo Thurnherr, Claus P. Keferstein, Bernard Gschwend, Markus Ritter