Patents by Inventor Jörg Inhelder

Jörg Inhelder 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: 11975934
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (20) for winding a longitudinally cut material web having multiple longitudinal strips (12) on a plurality of winding tubes (16) to form in each case a wound roll. The device comprises an axle (24) and, mounted on the axle, a plurality of ring-shaped winding drives (22) that are individually controllable in their operating position. Each winding drive (22) forms an external-rotor electric motor and comprises a static interior tube (40) and a rotatable external tube (50). The external tube (50) that is rotatable on the rolling bearings (48) bears, on its interior, a device for providing an excitation magnetic field (52) that forms the external rotor of the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: FMS Force Measuring Systems AG
    Inventor: Jörg Inhelder
  • Publication number: 20230348219
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (20) for winding a longitudinally cut material web having multiple longitudinal strips (12) on a plurality of winding tubes (16) to form in each case a wound roll. The device comprises an axle (24) and, mounted on the axle, a plurality of ring-shaped winding drives (22) that are individually controllable in their operating position. Each winding drive (22) forms an external-rotor electric motor and comprises a static interior tube (40) and a rotatable external tube (50). The external tube (50) that is rotatable on the rolling bearings (48) bears, on its interior, a device for providing an excitation magnetic field (52) that forms the external rotor of the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventor: Jörg INHELDER
  • Publication number: 20230152171
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a force measuring device (20) for measuring web tensions of a running material web (10) that comprises a longitudinal direction defined by the running direction, and a transverse direction, the force measuring device (20) comprising an axle (22) and, supported on the axle, a measuring roll (30) wrapped around by the material web. Here, according to the present invention, it is provided that the measuring roll is formed as a segmented measuring roll (30) having two or more measuring segments (32) that are slidable separately on the axle (22) and are lockable in a measuring position on the axle in order to position the measuring segments (32) in the transverse direction of the material web (10) in accordance with desired measuring positions such that longitudinal sections (12) of the material web wrap around one measuring segment (32) each.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventor: Jörg INHELDER
  • Publication number: 20220355357
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a force measuring device (10) for measuring drawing forces on a drawing stock (30) in three dimensions, having a force application element (12) and, arranged spaced apart therefrom, a support element (14), each of which comprises a passage opening for the drawing stock (30), one or more connecting elements (16) that are deformable in three dimensions and that connect the force application element (12) and the support element (14), and arranged on the connecting elements (16), a plurality of measuring elements (18) for measuring the deformations of the connecting elements (16), produced by the drawing forces, in three dimensions. The present invention also relates to a system (100) for wire drawing, having an inclined wire outlet having such a force measuring device, the use of the force measuring device, and a method for measuring drawing forces on a drawing wire in three dimensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventor: Jörg INHELDER
  • Patent number: 7202492
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a substantially longitudinally extending feature of a running material web, especially the side edge of the web or an applied marker line, comprises a plurality of individually addressable light sources (22-1, to, 22-n) for illuminating, in one of multiple different lighting configurations, a section of the material web (10) containing the feature (12) to be detected; a spatially resolving detection unit (24) for recording the light emitted by the illuminated section as an optical response and for transmitting to an analysis unit (30) a data signal corresponding to the recorded light; an analysis unit (30) for determining, from the transmitted data signal, one or more characteristic parameters of the feature (12) to be detected; and a selection unit (32) for automatically selecting an optimal lighting configuration, which unit is arranged and adapted to address the light sources (22-1, to, 22-n) in different lighting configurations, to rate according to a pre-selected criterion the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: FMS Force Measuring System AG
    Inventors: Jörg Inhelder, Roland Steininger