Patents by Inventor Gary Töpfer

Gary Töpfer 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: 11161188
    Abstract: Method for deburring gear wheels, for example, bevel gears, using a deburring brush, comprising at least N=1 brush bundles, having the following steps: rotationally driving the deburring brush about a spindle axis, rotationally driving a gear wheel or a bevel gear about a workpiece spindle axis, wherein the rotational driving of the deburring brush and the rotational driving of the gear wheel or the bevel gear take place in a coupled manner at a coupling transmission ratio, the method is a continuous method in which the at least N=1 brush bundle executes a relative flight movement in relation to the gear wheel or the bevel gear, the relative flight movement is defined by a hypocycloid or an epicycloid, and wherein a burr is removed at least on one tooth edge of a tooth gap by a contact of the at least N=1 brush bundle with the tooth edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Inventor: Gary Töpfer
  • Patent number: 10695851
    Abstract: A method for deburring bevel gears using a deburring tool, which comprises at least one cutting edge, having the following steps: rotationally driving the deburring tool around a deburring spindle axis, rotationally driving a bevel gear around a workpiece spindle axis, wherein the rotational driving of the deburring tool and the rotational driving of the bevel gear take place in a coupled manner with an inverse coupling transmission ratio, it is a continuous method for deburring, in which the cutting edge executes a relative flight movement in relation to the bevel gear, the relative flight movement is defined by a hypocycloid, and wherein a burr is removed at least on one tooth edge of a tooth gap in the region of the bevel gear toe and/or the bevel gear heel by a cutting contact of the cutting edge with the tooth edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: KLINGELNBERG GMBH
    Inventors: Karl-Martin Ribbeck, Gary Töpfer, Jürgen Weber
  • Publication number: 20190314912
    Abstract: Method for deburring gear wheels, for example, bevel gears, using a deburring brush, comprising at least N=1 brush bundles, having the following steps: rotationally driving the deburring brush about a spindle axis, rotationally driving a gear wheel or a bevel gear about a workpiece spindle axis, wherein the rotational driving of the deburring brush and the rotational driving of the gear wheel or the bevel gear take place in a coupled manner at a coupling transmission ratio, the method is a continuous method in which the at least N=1 brush bundle executes a relative flight movement in relation to the gear wheel or the bevel gear, the relative flight movement is defined by a hypocycloid or an epicycloid, and wherein a burr is removed at least on one tooth edge of a tooth gap by a contact of the at least N=1 brush bundle with the tooth edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventor: Gary Töpfer
  • Publication number: 20190224767
    Abstract: A method for deburring bevel gears using a deburring tool, which comprises at least one cutting edge, having the following steps: rotationally driving the deburring tool around a deburring spindle axis, rotationally driving a bevel gear around a workpiece spindle axis, wherein the rotational driving of the deburring tool and the rotational driving of the bevel gear take place in a coupled manner with an inverse coupling transmission ratio, it is a continuous method for deburring, in which the cutting edge executes a relative flight movement in relation to the bevel gear, the relative flight movement is defined by a hypocycloid, and wherein a burr is removed at least on one tooth edge of a tooth gap in the region of the bevel gear toe and/or the bevel gear heel by a cutting contact of the cutting edge with the tooth edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Karl-Martin Ribbeck, Gary Töpfer, Jürgen Weber
  • Patent number: 9776266
    Abstract: Bevel gear having a main body comprises a heel-side skin surface. The bevel gear has at least one tooth gap, which exits from the main body in the region of the skin surface. The tooth gap has a tooth base, the profile of which is defined by a base cone angle in relation to the workpiece axis of rotation. A concentric circumferential ring structure is provided on the skin surface, which is raised in relation to the skin surface, and which results in a heel-side exit angle between the tooth base and the ring structure, which is in the range between 125° and 160°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: KLINGELNBERG AG
    Inventor: Gary Töpfer
  • Publication number: 20160040769
    Abstract: Bevel gear having a main body comprises a heel-side skin surface. The bevel gear has at least one tooth gap, which exits from the main body in the region of the skin surface. The tooth gap has a tooth base, the profile of which is defined by a base cone angle in relation to the workpiece axis of rotation. A concentric circumferential ring structure is provided on the skin surface, which is raised in relation to the skin surface, and which results in a heel-side exit angle between the tooth base and the ring structure, which is in the range between 125° and 160°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventor: Gary Töpfer
  • Patent number: 8402550
    Abstract: Machine tool (2, 2a) protected against improper activation, which has an open-loop and/or closed-loop control device for the activation of machine functions, preferably machine axes, and means for reading in machine control parameters for the open-loop and/or closed-loop control device from a data carrier or electronic carrier signal (3), and which has an improper-activation safety module, preferably an improper-activation safety software module, which decodes the machine control parameters that are intended for the machine tool and are encoded by means of an asymmetric encryption method, using an encryption key which is assigned to the machine tool (2, 2a) and provided for the encryption, with the aid of a decryption key which is likewise assigned to the machine tool (2, 2a), is different from the encryption key and is provided for the decryption, and which module enables the machine control parameters for controlling the machine tool (2, 2a) only in the case of successful decryption, with an associated meth
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Trinary Anlagenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Blumberg, Stefan Dirrichs, Wolfgang London, Gary Töpfer
  • Patent number: 7983786
    Abstract: Neutral data computer control system for a multiaxis machine tool for producing workpieces having a helicoidal generated surface with an optional computer system (1) for generating machine control parameters for a multiaxis machine tool (2, 2a) in which there is provided at least one virtual axis, which can be parameterized as a guiding axis for other axes and then serves only for the synchronization of these other axes, and with at least one data processing unit and at least one memory, the data processing unit being set up in programming terms in such a way that it generates at least one data carrier or an electronic carrier signal (3) with machine control parameters for the machine (2, 2a), or an optional computer program or a computer program product for this and at least one such multiaxis machine tool (2, 2a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Trinary Anlagenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Blumberg, Stefan Dirrichs, Wolfgang London, Gary Töpfer
  • Patent number: 7925372
    Abstract: Neutral data computer control system for a multiaxis machine tool for producing workpieces having a helicoidal generated surface with an optional computer system (1) for generating machine control parameters for a multiaxis machine tool (2, 2a) in which there is provided at least one virtual axis, which can be parameterized as a guiding axis for other axes and then serves only for the synchronization of these other axes, and with at least one data processing unit and at least one memory, the data processing unit being set up in programming terms in such a way that it generates at least one data carrier or an electronic carrier signal (3) with machine control parameters for the machine (2, 2a), or an optional computer program or a computer program product for this and at least one such multiaxis machine tool (2, 2a).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Trinary Anlagenbau GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Blumberg, Stefan Dirrichs, Wolfgang London, Gary Töpfer