Patents by Inventor Jost Eberbach

Jost Eberbach 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: 8021504
    Abstract: A quality control method for ultrasound welding. The method provides for the generation of a tolerance range which is adjusted to the progress of the welding process and which is generated from measured values which influence the welding process. A measured value tolerance range is determined from measured values of executed welding processes, the measured values being associated with at least one parameter which influences the welding process and/or represents the goods of the welding process. Measured values are associated with an identical parameter of a further welding process following thereafter and are considered during the quality monitoring in such a way that the measured value tolerance range is changed in its form or composition to an average value for further welding processes, in accordance with the variance between the additional measured values and the tolerance range determined from previous measured values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Schunk Sonosystems GmbH
    Inventors: Jorg Gabler, Holger Warzelhan, Jost Eberbach
  • Patent number: 7878384
    Abstract: An ultrasound welding device for welding metallic conductors for producing a junction point includes two welding surfaces, which are located on opposite sides, and two lateral delimiting surfaces, which extend transverse to the working surfaces and which, together, define a compression space. In order to eliminate longitudinal movement of the conductors during welding, at least one of the lateral delimitation surfaces is additionally structured next to the structured welding surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Schunk Ultaschalltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Jost Eberbach, Dieter Stroh, Horst Dieterle, Heiko Stroh
  • Publication number: 20090314412
    Abstract: A quality control method for ultrasound welding. The method provides for the generation of a tolerance range which is adjusted to the progress of the welding process and which is generated from measured values which influence the welding process. A measured value tolerance range is determined from measured values of executed welding processes, the measured values being associated with at least one parameter which influences the welding process and/or represents the goods of the welding process. Measured values are associated with an identical parameter of a further welding process following thereafter and are considered during the quality monitoring in such a way that the measured value tolerance range is changed in its form or composition to an average value for further welding processes, in accordance with the variance between the additional measured values and the tolerance range determined from previous measured values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: SCHUNK SONOSYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Jörg Gäbler, Holger Warzelhan, Jost Eberbach
  • Patent number: 7600665
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for welding electric conductors using ultrasound, whereby the conductors (32) are introduced into a compression chamber (30) that is bounded by at least two boundary elements and are welded after the compression chamber is closed, whereby ultrasound is applied via a sonotrode (16) and the conductors to be welded are pressurized, preferably via a counter electrode. In order to be able to check the quality of the welding site using simple measures, it is proposed that after welding (32) the conductors, the compression chamber (30) is decompressed and then an ultrasound pulse is applied to the welded conductors with simultaneous application of pressure to these, and subsequently the spacing difference between the sonotrode (16) and the counter electrode (18) is measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Schunk Ultraschalltechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Jost Eberbach
  • Publication number: 20080128471
    Abstract: An ultrasound welding device for welding metallic conductors for producing a junction point includes two welding surfaces, which are located on opposite sides, and two lateral delimiting surfaces, which extend transverse to the working surfaces and which, together, define a compression space. In order to eliminate longitudinal movement of the conductors during welding, at least one of the lateral delimitation surfaces is additionally structured next to the structured welding surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: SCHUNK ULTRASCHALLTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Jost Eberbach, Dieter Stroh, Horst Dieterle, Heiko Stroh