Patents by Inventor Florian Stefan

Florian Stefan 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: 12343784
    Abstract: A method of producing shaped parts includes drawing wire from a wire stock and feeding the wire to a processing machine; straightening the wire in the wire processing machine; and separating shaped parts of a predefinable wire length from the straightened wire, wherein, to separate a shaped part from the fed wire, at a separating position provided for separation, the wire is first notched in at least one notching operation from two opposite sides by notching tools such that a tapered wire cross section remains between opposing notches at the separating position, and in a dividing operation, the notched wire is separated at the separating position in a region of the tapered wire cross section by engagement of two dividing tools on opposite sides of the wire and their synchronous feed in opposite feed directions perpendicularly to the wire axis until the wire material is severed at the separating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: WAFIOS Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Florian Stefan, Oliver Kuhnert, Jürgen Rauscher
  • Publication number: 20230080602
    Abstract: A method of producing shaped parts includes drawing wire from a wire stock and feeding the wire to a processing machine; straightening the wire in the wire processing machine; and separating shaped parts of a predefinable wire length from the straightened wire, wherein, to separate a shaped part from the fed wire, at a separating position provided for separation, the wire is first notched in at least one notching operation from two opposite sides by notching tools such that a tapered wire cross section remains between opposing notches at the separating position, and in a dividing operation, the notched wire is separated at the separating position in a region of the tapered wire cross section by engagement of two dividing tools on opposite sides of the wire and their synchronous feed in opposite feed directions perpendicularly to the wire axis until the wire material is severed at the separating position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Florian Stefan, Oliver Kuhnert, Jürgen Rauscher