Patents by Inventor Jochen Kauffmann

Jochen Kauffmann 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: 11504946
    Abstract: A device and a method for connecting lamination parts to form a lamination stack, in which lamination parts are punched out from an electrical strip that is coated on at least one of its flat sides with a hot-melt adhesive varnish layer, the lamination parts that have been punched out are stacked, and then connected in an integrally joined manner through thermal activation of the hot-melt adhesive varnish layer to form a plurality of lamination stacks. Before the lamination parts are punched out, the electrical strip is prepared in a subregion of the hot-melt adhesive varnish layer in such a way that after the lamination part is punched out, this lamination part facilitates separation of the stacked lamination parts into lamination stacks. In the preparation of the electrical strip, the layer thickness of the hot-melt adhesive varnish layer on the electrical strip is at least reduced through removal by laser light in order to produce the subregion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: voestalpine Automotive Components Dettingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jochen Kauffmann, Heinrich Bursy
  • Patent number: 11065858
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for bonding sheet metal parts to a laminated core in which sheet metal parts are punched from an electrical steel strip, the punched sheet metal parts are stacked and bonded at least integrally to form a plurality of laminated cores, and in order to facilitate the separation of the integrally bonded sheet metal parts into laminated cores, a separating agent is provided at least between two stacked sheet metal parts in that with the punching stage for punching the sheet metal part, the separating agent is both punched from a separating agent support and provided to the sheet metal part. In order to embody the application of a geometrically accurate separating agent in a reproducible and simple way, it is proposed that the separating agent be punched from the sheet-like separating agent support that is supplied below the electrical steel strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: voestalpine Automotive Components Dettingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Bursy, Jochen Kauffmann
  • Patent number: 10854381
    Abstract: A device and a method for connecting sheet metal parts to form lamination stacks are demonstrated, in which sheet metal parts are stamped out of an electrical steel strip by means of at least one stamping stage, which has a die and a cutting edge that cooperates with the die, and the stamped-out sheet metal parts are stacked and at least integrally joined to form a plurality of lamination stacks; at least between a first sheet metal part of the stacked sheet metal parts and the subsequent second sheet metal part of the stacked sheet metal parts, a separating element is provided in order to facilitate the separation of the integrally joined sheet metal parts in lamination stacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: voestalpine Automotive Components Dettingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jochen Kauffmann, Jochen Lanksweirt, Heinrich Bursy
  • Publication number: 20200039181
    Abstract: A device and a method for connecting lamination parts to form a lamination stack, in which lamination parts are punched out from an electrical strip that is coated on at least one of its flat sides with a hot-melt adhesive varnish layer, the lamination parts that have been punched out are stacked, and then connected in an integrally joined manner through thermal activation of the hot-melt adhesive varnish layer to form a plurality of lamination stacks. Before the lamination parts are punched out, the electrical strip is prepared in a subregion of the hot-melt adhesive varnish layer in such a way that after the lamination part is punched out, this lamination part facilitates separation of the stacked lamination parts into lamination stacks. In the preparation of the electrical strip, the layer thickness of the hot-melt adhesive varnish layer on the electrical strip is at least reduced through removal by laser light in order to produce the subregion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Jochen KAUFFMANN, Heinrich BURSY
  • Publication number: 20190291403
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for bonding sheet metal parts to a laminated core in which sheet metal parts are punched from an electrical steel strip, the punched sheet metal parts are stacked and bonded at least integrally to form a plurality of laminated cores, and in order to facilitate the separation of the integrally bonded sheet metal parts into laminated cores, a separating agent is provided at least between two stacked sheet metal parts in that with the punching stage for punching the sheet metal part, the separating agent is both punched from a separating agent support and provided to the sheet metal part. In order to embody the application of a geometrically accurate separating agent in a reproducible and simple way, it is proposed that the separating agent be punched from the sheet-like separating agent support that is supplied below the electrical steel strip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Heinrich BURSY, Jochen KAUFFMANN
  • Publication number: 20190066916
    Abstract: A device and a method for connecting sheet metal parts to form lamination stacks are demonstrated, in which sheet metal parts are stamped out of an electrical steel strip by means of at least one stamping stage, which has a die and a cutting edge that cooperates with the die, and the stamped-out sheet metal parts are stacked and at least integrally joined to form a plurality of lamination stacks; at least between a first sheet metal part of the stacked sheet metal parts and the subsequent second sheet metal part of the stacked sheet metal parts, a separating element is provided in order to facilitate the separation of the integrally joined sheet metal parts in lamination stacks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Jochen Kauffmann, Jochen Lanksweirt, Heinrich Bursy
  • Patent number: 6634080
    Abstract: Method for producing parcels consisting of sheet metal pieces, wherein the sheet metal pieces are arranged next to each other and assembled with each other into a parcel. Basically, bent sheet metal piece segments of a circumferential length that corresponds to an angle &agr;=360°/n are created through a stamping process, with n corresponding to a positive integer and being larger or equal to two, with n of these sheet metal piece segments being arranged in one plane to a sheet metal piece. The sheet metal pieces that have been arranged next to each other are connected with at least one fastener and/or welded together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Schuler Pressen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Alfred Bareis, Roever Markus, Timo Drescher, Jochen Kauffmann
  • Publication number: 20010037552
    Abstract: Method for producing parcels consisting of sheet metal pieces, wherein the sheet metal pieces are arranged next to each other and assembled with each other into a parcel. Basically, bent sheet metal piece segments of a circumferential length that corresponds to an angle &agr;=360°/n are created through a stamping process, with n corresponding to a positive integer and being larger or equal to two, with n of these sheet metal piece segments being arranged in one plane to a sheet metal piece. The sheet metal pieces that have been arranged next to each other are connected with at least one fastener and/or welded together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2001
    Publication date: November 8, 2001
    Inventors: Alfred Bareis, Roever Markus, Timo Drescher, Jochen Kauffmann