Patents by Inventor Holger Wente

Holger Wente 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: 7185574
    Abstract: A device for separating disc-shaped bodies from an original body includes a separating device, a feeding device, an optical recognition device for determining the front face contour of the original body and lamps for illuminating the surroundings of the cutting surface. The recognition device detects the front face using the contrast between the surroundings of the front face and the original body in relation to the determined front face. The lamps are mounted in a tunnel and arranged in a planar manner along the longitudinal direction of the original body. The method includes the steps of guiding the source body in a tunnel, mounting a plurality of lamps in a planar fashion along the longitudinal direction of the source body in the tunnel, and illuminating the source body and the environment of the face of the source body with the plurality of lamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Inventors: Ullrich Thiedig, Holger Wente, Bernd Köster
  • Publication number: 20030205120
    Abstract: A device for separating disc-shaped bodies from an original body includes a separating device, a feeding device, an optical recognition device for determining the front face contour of the original body and lamps for illuminating the surroundings of the cutting surface. The recognition device detects the front face using the contrast between the surroundings of the front face and the original body in relation to the determined front face. The lamps are mounted in a tunnel and arranged in a planar manner along the longitudinal direction of the original body. The method includes the steps of guiding the source body in a tunnel, mounting a plurality of lamps in a planar fashion along the longitudinal direction of the source body in the tunnel, and illuminating the source body and the environment of the face of the source body with said plurality of lamps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Inventors: Ullrich Thiedig, Holger Wente, Bernd Koster
  • Patent number: 5737073
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a process for measuring the position of a first axis in relation to a second axis, in particular for measuring a bicycle frame having a steering axis which, in the desired state, lies in a main plane of symmetry and has a second axis which, in the desired state, runs at right angles to the main plane of symmetry, for example a swinging arm axis or a bottom bracket axis of a bicycle frame. The device or process includes measuring bodies being fitted to the first axis to be measured and two image recording devices, in particular CCD cameras, which are spaced apart from each other in a fixed spatial relationship to the second axis and aligned with the measuring bodies. The evaluation is carried out by means of known methods of photogrammetry and a computing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Schiebner Messtechnik
    Inventors: Holger Wente, Bernd Scheibner, Ullrich Thiedig, Bernd Koester