Patents by Inventor Frank Kuepper

Frank Kuepper 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).

  • LOAD ABSORBING DIRECT METAL DEPOSITION RACEWAY BEARING WITH ROLLING CONTACT
    Publication number: 20190040910
    Abstract: A bearing constructed in accordance to one example of the present disclosure includes at least one inner bearing ring, at least one outer bearing ring, at least one rolling element and a direct metal deposition (DMD) raceway architecture. The DMD raceway architecture is disposed between the at least one inner and outer bearing rings. The DMD raceway architecture includes an inner DMD structure that defines an inner raceway and an outer DMD structure that defines an outer raceway. The inner and outer raceways are configured to support the at least one rolling element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventor: Frank Kuepper
  • Load absorbing direct metal deposition raceway bearing with rolling contact
    Patent number: 10197098
    Abstract: A bearing constructed in accordance to one example of the present disclosure includes at least one inner bearing ring, at least one outer bearing ring, at least one rolling element and a direct metal deposition (DMD) raceway architecture. The DMD raceway architecture is disposed between the at least one inner and outer bearing rings. The DMD raceway architecture includes an inner DMD structure that defines an inner raceway and an outer DMD structure that defines an outer raceway. The inner and outer raceways are configured to support the at least one rolling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Rotek Incorporated
    Inventor: Frank Kuepper
  • Device and process for shaping workpieces with laser diode radiation
    Patent number: 6251328
    Abstract: A multiplicity of laser diodes aim laser light directly onto the surface of a workpiece and are disposed over and according to the to-be-shaped contour of a workpiece, so that a detector unit for determining the spatial shaping of the workpiece and an evaluation and control unit can determine process parameters for further illumination in dependence on a comparison of an actual state of shaping and a desired state of shaping of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellshcaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Eckhard Beyer, Volker Krause, Frank Kuepper, Hans-Georg Treusch, Konrad Wissenbach
  • Method and apparatus for heat treatment of an element by treatment devices engaging the element on both sides
    Patent number: 5693243
    Abstract: In the apparatus (10) and the method according to the invention, two temperature treatment devices (e.g., laminating rollers 14, 16) which are to be contacted with an element to be subjected to heat treatment (e.g., proof 50 with color particles 52), are temperature-controlled. One of the treatment devices (laminating roller 14) is provided with a heating means (22). For tempering the second treatment device (laminating roller 16), the second treatment device is brought into contact with the directly heated treatment device (laminating roller 14). This is carried out as soon as the temperature of the not directly heated treatment device (laminating roller 16) has dropped below a predetermined desired temperature or a predetermined desired temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1997
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Frank Kueppers, Reiner Schlickhoff