Patents by Inventor Edgar Weppelmann

Edgar Weppelmann 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: 11504721
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the chip-removing production or machining of a workpiece by means of a tool, in which method a liquid, which mixes and accumulates with the chips produced during the machining process, is used for lubricating and/or cooling the machining process, and the chips are discharged from the accumulation counter to the downhill force along a discharge path by means of a magnetic force, wherein a return flow of the liquid carried by the discharged chips occurs due to the downhill force, and the return flow is deflected out of the discharge path and/or the discharge path has at least one point at which the supporting surface is temporarily withdrawn from the discharged chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: GLEASON-PFAUTER MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH
    Inventor: Edgar Weppelmann
  • Patent number: 11358233
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating a workpiece (3) having a second tooth system (2) incorporated into a first tooth system (1) having a specified tooth system geometry, wherein a first generative processing engagement, intersecting the second tooth system in the kinematics of the generating skiving, is made on the workpiece, which is in particular oversized in relation to the specified tooth system geometry, in particular on a transition from the first to the second tooth system, and then a second processing engagement, matching the specified tooth system geometry, in the kinematics of the generating skiving is carried out on the transition and a remaining oversize is in particular removed while doing so. The invention further relates to tools and to tooth-cutting machines suitable therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: GLEASON-PFAUTER MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH
    Inventor: Edgar Weppelmann
  • Publication number: 20210178499
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for machining toothings, which method uses a disk-shaped, toothed tool that is rotationally driven about its axis of rotation and has a geometrically defined cutting edge. The tool teeth are produced from a base material, are provided, at least on the tooth flanks, with a coating that improves wear resistance, and have machining surfaces facing an end face of the tool, said machining surfaces being re-ground from time to time when the tool is reconditioned, wherein after at least one regrinding, use of the tool is resumed and continued with regions of the machining surfaces formed along the cutting edges from the base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Edgar Weppelmann, Jürgen Kreschel
  • Publication number: 20210129157
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the chip-removing production or machining of a workpiece by means of a tool, in which method a liquid, which mixes and accumulates with the chips produced during the machining process, is used for lubricating and/or cooling the machining process, and the chips are discharged from the accumulation counter to the downhill force along a discharge path by means of a magnetic force, wherein a return flow of the liquid carried by the discharged chips occurs due to the downhill force, and the return flow is deflected out of the discharge path and/or the discharge path has at least one point at which the supporting surface is temporarily withdrawn from the discharged chips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventor: Edgar Weppelmann
  • Publication number: 20200171591
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for generating a workpiece (3) having a second tooth system (2) incorporated into a first tooth system (1) having a specified tooth system geometry, wherein a first generative processing engagement, intersecting the second tooth system in the kinematics of the generating skiving, is made on the workpiece, which is in particular oversized in relation to the specified tooth system geometry, in particular on a transition from the first to the second tooth system, and then a second processing engagement, matching the specified tooth system geometry, in the kinematics of the generating skiving is carried out on the transition and a remaining oversize is in particular removed while doing so. The invention further relates to tools and to tooth-cutting machines suitable therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: Edgar Weppelmann
  • Patent number: 10583507
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for machining a workpiece, wherein, in particular in the skiving process, a toothing is produced on the workpiece in a first machining operation, in which a toothed cutting wheel, which rotates about the axis of rotation thereof and, on a first end face, comprises cutting edges on the toothing thereof, is coupled in a rolling manner to the workpiece which rotates about the axis of rotation thereof, and a cutting movement of the cutting edges, which has directional components in parallel with the workpiece axis, ends at an axial side of the workpiece toothing, the cutting edges of the cutting wheel forming a first operating region which can be positioned with respect to the workpiece by means of movement axes, and in which, in a second machining operation using a second operating region, the workpiece is machined on the side of the workpiece toothing at which the movement ends, wherein the second operating region can be positioned with respect to the workpiece by means of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: GLEASON-PFAUTER MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH
    Inventors: Edgar Weppelmann, Juergen Kreschel, Steffen Fischer
  • Patent number: 9878383
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for the machining of the tooth edges between an axially facing surface and the tooth flanks of a gear with a machining tool that has a toothed contour. For the material-removing cutting operation, the machining tool, rotating about the axis of its toothed contour, is brought into rolling engagement with the toothed workpiece under a crossing angle different from zero between the rotary axes of the machining tool and the toothed workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: GLEASON-PFAUTER MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH
    Inventors: Kurt Kleinbach, Juergen Kreschel, Matthias Philippin, Edgar Weppelmann
  • Publication number: 20170072485
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for machining a workpiece, wherein, in particular in the skiving process, a toothing is produced on the workpiece in a first machining operation, in which a toothed cutting wheel, which rotates about the axis of rotation thereof and, on a first end face, comprises cutting edges on the toothing thereof, is coupled in a rolling manner to the workpiece which rotates about the axis of rotation thereof, and a cutting movement of the cutting edges, which has directional components in parallel with the workpiece axis, ends at an axial side of the workpiece toothing, the cutting edges of the cutting wheel forming a first operating region which can be positioned with respect to the workpiece by means of movement axes, and in which, in a second machining operation using a second operating region, the workpiece is machined on the side of the workpiece toothing at which the movement ends, wherein the second operating region can be positioned with respect to the workpiece by means of the
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Edgar Weppelmann, Juergen Kreschel, Steffen Fischer
  • Patent number: 9573234
    Abstract: A coolant delivery system which serves to deliver a cooling agent whose purpose is to carry away the heat that is generated in the process of machining a toothed profile by means of a skiving wheel rotating about its rotary axis. The coolant delivery system provides for a delivery path section which, seen in a projection onto a plane extending orthogonal to the rotary axis, is arranged closer to the axis than the toothed profile of the skiving wheel and has a dimensional component in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Gleason-Pfauter Maschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Liepelt, Edgar Weppelmann
  • Patent number: 9575483
    Abstract: A profile gauge that embodies a measurement geometry for a tool that has a toothed profile designed in particular for the skiving of toothed work pieces, wherein the profile gauge serves to determine at least one measurement quantity which can be used for a machining process, specifically a skiving process, that is to be performed with the tool and wherein, in a phase of said process, the toothed profile of the work piece that is to be generated is formed by a meshing engagement with the teeth of the tool, wherein the profile gauge is distinguished by having a toothed profile section with which, for determining the measurement quantity, the teeth of the tool are brought into a meshing engagement that corresponds to the tooth engagement between the tool and the work piece during the profile-forming phase. The invention further concerns a measuring device and a measurement method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Gleason-Pfauter Maschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Kreschel, Edgar Weppelmann
  • Patent number: 9517517
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method of grinding a toothed workpiece in which a central axis of the toothed contour profile is defined, wherein the method encompasses at least two work operations. In a first work operation a grinding zone of a grinding tool whose selection is determined by the grinding process to be performed, which rotates about an axis of rotation and is set up for an infeed in the direction of the shortest distance between said central axis and the rotation axis, is brought into grinding engagement with a tooth flank of the workpiece. In a later, second work operation, the tooth flank is brought into grinding engagement with a grinding zone of a grinding tool whose selection is determined by the grinding process to be performed and which is advanced in the infeed direction of the first operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Gleason-Pfauter Maschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventor: Edgar Weppelmann
  • Publication number: 20160158861
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for the machining of the tooth edges between an axially facing surface and the tooth flanks of a gear with a machining tool that has a toothed contour. For the material-removing cutting operation, the machining tool, rotating about the axis of its toothed contour, is brought into rolling engagement with the toothed workpiece under a crossing angle different from zero between the rotary axes of the machining tool and the toothed workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Kurt Kleinbach, Juergen Kreschel, Matthias Philippin, Edgar Weppelmann
  • Publication number: 20150081083
    Abstract: A profile gauge that embodies a measurement geometry for a tool that has a toothed profile designed in particular for the skiving of toothed work pieces, wherein the profile gauge serves to determine at least one measurement quantity which can be used for a machining process, specifically a skiving process, that is to be performed with the tool and wherein, in a phase of said process, the toothed profile of the work piece that is to be generated is formed by a meshing engagement with the teeth of the tool, wherein the profile gauge is distinguished by having a toothed profile section with which, for determining the measurement quantity, the teeth of the tool are brought into a meshing engagement that corresponds to the tooth engagement between the tool and the work piece during the profile-forming phase. The invention further concerns a measuring device and a measurement method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: GLEASON-PFAUTER MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH
    Inventors: Juergen Kreschel, Edgar Weppelmann
  • Publication number: 20150078851
    Abstract: A coolant delivery system which serves to deliver a cooling agent whose purpose is to carry away the heat that is generated in the process of machining a toothed profile by means of a skiving wheel rotating about its rotary axis. The coolant delivery system provides for a delivery path section which, seen in a projection onto a plane extending orthogonal to the rotary axis, is arranged closer to the axis than the toothed profile of the skiving wheel and has a dimensional component in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Ralf Liepelt, Edgar Weppelmann
  • Publication number: 20140308877
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method of grinding a toothed workpiece in which a central axis of the toothed contour profile is defined, wherein the method encompasses at least two work operations. In a first work operation a grinding zone of a grinding tool whose selection is determined by the grinding process to be performed, which rotates about an axis of rotation and is set up for an infeed in the direction of the shortest distance between said central axis and the rotation axis, is brought into grinding engagement with a tooth flank of the workpiece. In a later, second work operation, the tooth flank is brought into grinding engagement with a grinding zone of a grinding tool whose selection is determined by the grinding process to be performed and which is advanced in the infeed direction of the first operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventor: Edgar Weppelmann