Patents by Inventor Christoph Froehlich

Christoph Froehlich 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: 11953876
    Abstract: A modular wire processing center comprises a plurality of individual processing modules that are controlled by a central control unit. The plurality of processing modules includes an automatic crimper and at least two further processing modules selected from the group of an automatic cutter, a marking system, a stripping unit, a terminal feeding device, a wire feeding unit and a wire discharging/bundling unit. The processing modules are designed as independently operable individual processing units and are positioned with the control unit on a mobile platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: ZOLLER & FRÖHLICH GMBH, WEIDMÜLLER INTERFACE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Christoph Fröhlich, Hans Leupolz, Michael Mennig, Lars Brakemeier, Farhad Sarrafzadegan, Faysal Dogan, Daniel Weingart
  • Patent number: 11942745
    Abstract: A crimping machine includes a storage arrangement having a plurality of feeding bowls for separated contact elements. The crimping machine further includes a device for transporting the contact elements to a crimp head. At least some of the feeding bowls are designed with a common vibration driver and can be driven via a common control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLLER & FRÖHLICH GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Fröhlich, Hans Leupolz, Steffen Hartinger, Michael Mennig, Richard Buchner
  • Publication number: 20240004038
    Abstract: A laser scanner includes a laser head for emitting a measurement beam of a rotating deflection unit driven for deflecting the measurement beam in the direction of a measuring object. The scanner further includes a detector module for detecting the reception/measurement beam reflected by the measuring object, and a control and evaluation unit for signal processing. The deflection unit has a hollow spindle, which carries a beam guide to which a deflection mirror is associated for deflecting the reception/measurement beam in the direction of or from an outlet window held on a rotor housing. At least one pocket is formed on the beam guide, which is aligned in such a way that the deflection mirror is fixed to the beam guide or to the hollow spindle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Markus Mettenleiter, Christoph Fröhlich
  • Publication number: 20230417875
    Abstract: A 2D laser scanner measures 360° profiles. The scanner has a housing on which a rotor head is retained and in which a reference module is protected against environmental influences. A housing bottom part has a hollow spindle which supports the rotating rotor head with a deflection unit. The beam path is formed in the interior of the spindle. A laser head is arranged oriented to the axis of rotation, via which the measurement beam is coupled into the laser head in the direction of the deflection unit. A receiver/detector module detects the measurement beam reflected from the measurement object. A PC/motor board, a measurement system and a connector board are received in the housing bottom part. The reference module is configured with a reference plate between the laser head and the deflection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Christoph Fröhlich, Markus Mettenleiter
  • Publication number: 20230366987
    Abstract: A laser scanner includes a laser head for emitting a measurement beam of a rotating deflection unit driven by a drive for deflecting the measurement beam in the direction of a measuring object. The laser scanner further includes a detector module for detecting the reception/measurement beam reflected by the measuring object, and a control and evaluation unit for signal processing. The deflection unit has a hollow spindle, which carries a beam guide to which a deflection mirror is associated for deflecting the reception/measurement beam in the direction of or from an outlet window held on a rotor housing. The laser scanner includes at least one pocket formed on the beam guide, which is aligned in such a way that stray light reflected by the protective glass is deflected by the mirror in the direction of the pocket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Christoph Fröhlich, Markus Mettenleiter
  • Publication number: 20230291162
    Abstract: A wire processing center includes a plurality of processing modules located on or at a rotary table. The processing modules are driven via a common control and are configured to assemble cables with different cross-sections and/or to provide cable ends with contacts or the like and have a storage for cable cross-sections to be processed and/or the assembled cables. The processing modules are positioned on a rotary table which is provided with a driver in order to orient one processing module at a time with respect to at least one processing station arranged in the circumferential region of the rotary table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Christoph Fröhlich, Michael Mennig, Hans Leupolz, Steffen Hartinger
  • Publication number: 20230251089
    Abstract: A mobile scanning assembly and a method for driving such a scanning assembly allow a very flexible execution of a measuring procedure in a SLAM rotation mode, an MMS profile mode and/or using a static scan and an evaluation via an onboard PC to optimize the trajectory and the resulting 3D cloud of points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: Zoller & Fröhlich GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Fröhlich, Christoph Held, Markus Mettenleiter
  • Patent number: 11398709
    Abstract: Disclosed is a crimping machine for crimping contact elements comprising a conveying device via which a separated wire ferrule is guided from a transport unit towards a crimping head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: ZOLLER & FRÖHLICH GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Fröhlich, Hans Leupolz
  • Publication number: 20210311176
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining and compensating a proportion of stray light of a measuring beam of a 3D laser scanner by which a 3D point cloud of an object to be detected can be generated via phase-based distance measurement including a first sequence by which first parameters of a proportion of stray light can be determined independently of the 3D point cloud and/or a second sequence by which second parameters of the proportion of stray light dependent on the generated 3D point cloud and a step can be determined. The proportion of stray light can be compensated as a function of the first parameters and/or the second parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Christoph Fröhlich, Markus Mettenleiter
  • Patent number: 11121516
    Abstract: A crimping machine having a multiplicity of magazines for contact elements which are transportable to a transfer position via a conveyor device. A component to be crimped is then brought from the transfer position into a crimping position by means of a transport device. This transport device is assigned to all of the storage arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: ZOLLER & FRÖHLICH GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Fröhlich, Steffen Hartinger, Hans Leupolz
  • Publication number: 20210210918
    Abstract: A crimping machine includes a storage arrangement having a plurality of feeding bowls for separated contact elements. The crimping machine further includes a device for transporting the contact elements to a crimp head. At least some of the feeding bowls are designed with a common vibration driver and can be driven via a common control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: ZOLLER & FRÖHLICH GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph FRÖHLICH, Hans LEUPOLZ, Steffen HARTINGER, Michael MENNIG, Richard BUCHNER
  • Publication number: 20210181704
    Abstract: A modular wire processing center comprises a plurality of individual processing modules that are controlled by a central control unit. The plurality of processing modules includes an automatic crimper and at least two further processing modules selected from the group of an automatic cutter, a marking system, a stripping unit, a terminal feeding device, a wire feeding unit and a wire discharging/bundling unit. The processing modules are designed as independently operable individual processing units and are positioned with the control unit on a mobile platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Christoph Fröhlich, Hans Leupolz, Michael Mennig, Lars Brakemeier, Farhad Sarrafzadegan, Faysal Dogan, Daniel Weingart
  • Patent number: 10983214
    Abstract: A laser scanner in which scanning data and logging data are only stored in an internal data memory which can be exchanged in a simple manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: ZOLLER & FRÖHLICH GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Fröhlich, Markus Mettenleiter
  • Patent number: 10901088
    Abstract: A laser scanner having a rotor that is rotatably held on a housing which in turn is rotatable about an axis of rotation, wherein a lens system is arranged in the rotor in order to direct a measuring beam emitted by a transmitter onto a measurement object or to direct a beam reflected by the measurement object onto a detector, wherein a camera for acquiring image information of the measurement object is arranged in the rotor. Also, a lighting unit, by which an image field of the camera can be illuminated depending on a camera position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: ZOLLER & FRÖHLICH GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Fröhlich, Markus Mettenleiter
  • Publication number: 20200241116
    Abstract: A laser scanner in which scanning data and logging data are only stored in an internal data memory which can be exchanged in a simple manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: ZOLLER & FRÖHLICH GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph FRÖHLICH, Markus METTENLEITER
  • Publication number: 20200174125
    Abstract: A laser scanner having a rotor that is rotatably held on a housing which in turn is rotatable about an axis of rotation, wherein a lens system is arranged in the rotor in order to direct a measuring beam emitted by a transmitter onto a measurement object or to direct a beam reflected by the measurement object onto a detector, wherein a camera for acquiring image information of the measurement object is arranged in the rotor. Also, a lighting unit, by which an image field of the camera can be illuminated depending on a camera position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: ZOLLER & FRÖHLICH GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph FRÖHLICH, Markus METTENLEITER
  • Publication number: 20200169053
    Abstract: Disclosed is a crimping machine for crimping contact elements comprising a conveying device via which a separated wire ferrule is guided from a transport unit towards a crimping head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Christoph Fröhlich, Hans Leupolz
  • Patent number: 10393513
    Abstract: A laser scanner is designed to include a GPS signal-independent navigation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: ZOLLER + FRÖHLICH GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph Fröhlich, Markus Mettenleiter
  • Publication number: 20180038684
    Abstract: A laser scanner is designed to include a GPS signal-independent navigation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: ZOLLER + FRÖHLICH GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph FRÖHLICH, Markus METTENLEITER
  • Publication number: 20180034225
    Abstract: A crimping machine having a multiplicity of magazines for contact elements which are transportable to a transfer position via a conveyor device. A component to be crimped is then brought from the transfer position into a crimping position by means of a transport device. This transport device is assigned to all of the storage arrangements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: Zoller & Fröhlich GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph FRÖHLICH, Steffen HARTINGER, Hans LEUPOLZ