Patents by Inventor Gerrit Engering

Gerrit Engering 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: 6439764
    Abstract: The thermographic examination of functional surfaces of forming tools in the forming process is important for the selection of an optimal tool material or an optimal coating material for a particular forming process and for a particular workpiece composition, and also for the optimization of process parameters of the forming process. The task of the present invention is comprised therein, to develop a device and a process, which enables the rapid and simple thermographic examination of functional surfaces of forming tools during the forming process. This task is solved by a process and a device, in which the sought after temperature distribution of the functional surfaces during the forming process are conducted, from point of origin, through a channel, in the direction of a temperature measuring device, via thermal radiation or, in certain cases, thermal conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignees: DaimlerChrysler AG, Technische Universitat Darmstadt
    Inventors: Gerrit Engering, Dirk Hortig, Michael Lahres