Patents by Inventor Frank WEIBLEN

Frank WEIBLEN 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).

  • Publication number: 20230114519
    Abstract: A collision-proof spring transfer takes place in the process, which comprises a continuous transfer of coil springs from the pipeline through an exit opening of the pipeline into assigned spring receptacles, and an automatic prevention of any re-entry of coil springs that have passed through the exit opening in the direction of the spring receptacle and rebound from the region of the spring receptacle back into the pipeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Bernd Walz, Frank Weiblen, Stefan Fries, Michael Sosnowski, Felix Meyer
  • Patent number: 11179760
    Abstract: A method produces a bent part from an elongate workpiece, in particular from a wire or a tube from round, flat, or profiled material, by a bending machine, the workpiece is fed to a bending unit of the bending machine, wherein the bending unit has a bending head which by a Z-drive is displaceable in a manner parallel with a bending head axis and has a bending tool which by a bending drive is rotatable about a bending axis. A fed portion of the workpiece by operating movements of the bending head is formed to a two-dimensionally or three-dimensionally bent part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: WAFIOS Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jörg Möck, Frank Weiblen, Harry Schweikardt, Ralf Schneider
  • Publication number: 20200130038
    Abstract: A method produces a bent part from an elongate workpiece, in particular from a wire or a tube from round, flat, or profiled material, by a bending machine, the workpiece is fed to a bending unit of the bending machine, wherein the bending unit has a bending head which by a Z-drive is displaceable in a manner parallel with a bending head axis and has a bending tool which by a bending drive is rotatable about a bending axis. A fed portion of the workpiece by operating movements of the bending head is formed to a two-dimensionally or three-dimensionally bent part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: Jörg Möck, Frank Weiblen, Harry Schweikardt, Ralf Schneider
  • Patent number: 9468963
    Abstract: In a bending head for bending rod-shaped and tubular workpieces, with a retainer that can be rotated about a rotational axis and that carries a bending mandrel at one axial end, and with at least two further tools, which each comprise a retaining body with, at its axial end facing the bending mandrel, a bending pin and which can each be rotated—in each case independently of the other tools—the retaining bodies of the tools are arranged concentrically to the retainer of the bending mandrel and pivotable about its rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: WAFIOS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stefan Fries, Jörg Möck, Frank Weiblen, Carina Baier
  • Patent number: 9067255
    Abstract: A bending device for rod-shaped workpieces having a bending head with a mandrel rotatable about a rotation axis, a cutting device for cutting the respective workpiece in a cutting plane, and a feed and straightening device for feeding the workpieces to the bending head, the cutting device capable of being moved along a travel path in the feed direction of the workpieces, with the bending head capable of being shifted between an operating position in which it is moved towards the workpiece and an inactive end position remote therefrom, the bending head, in order to assume its operating position, can be moved into the travel path of the cutting device, whereas, when assuming its inactive end position, it is positioned outside the travel path of the cutting device, and, when the bending head is situated in its inactive end position, the cutting device can be moved downstream on its travel path at least partly over the area of the operating position of the bending head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Wafios Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Fries, Joerg Moeck, Frank Weiblen, Harry Schweikardt
  • Publication number: 20140000335
    Abstract: In a bending head for bending rod-shaped and tubular workpieces, with a retainer that can be rotated about a rotational axis and that carries a bending mandrel at one axial end, and with at least two further tools, which each comprise a retaining body with, at its axial end facing the bending mandrel, a bending pin and which can each be rotated—in each case independently of the other tools—the retaining bodies of the tools are arranged concentrically to the retainer of the bending mandrel and pivotable about its rotational axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: WAFIOS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stefan Fries, Jörg Möck, Frank Weiblen, Carina Baier
  • Publication number: 20130008223
    Abstract: A bending device for rod-shaped workpieces having a bending head with a mandrel rotatable about a rotation axis, a cutting device for cutting the respective workpiece in a cutting plane, and a feed and straightening device for feeding the workpieces to the bending head, the cutting device capable of being moved along a travel path in the feed direction of the workpieces, with the bending head capable of being shifted between an operating position in which it is moved towards the workpiece and an inactive end position remote therefrom, the bending head, in order to assume its operating position, can be moved into the travel path of the cutting device, whereas, when assuming its inactive end position, it is positioned outside the travel path of the cutting device, and, when the bending head is situated in its inactive end position, the cutting device can be moved downstream on its travel path at least partly over the area of the operating position of the bending head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: WAFIOS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stefan FRIES, Joerg MOECK, Frank WEIBLEN, Harry SCHWEIKARDT