Patents by Inventor Karl-Martin Ribbeck

Karl-Martin Ribbeck 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).

  • Publication number: 20160199963
    Abstract: Method for compensating temperature-induced deviations in a grinding machine includes controlling the movements of the dressing tool relative to the grinding tool in order to relatively move the dressing tool towards the grinding tool; checking whether a first-cut detection signalizes a contact of the grinding tool and the dressing tool; repeating the controlling and checking steps until a contact between the grinding tool and the dressing tool is detected, and when the contact is detected, then (i) recording the Current Position, and (ii) carrying out a compensation calculation using the Current Position and a reference position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventor: Karl-Martin Ribbeck
  • Publication number: 20140256224
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for ascertaining topography deviations of a dressing tool. The method includes executing a predefined relative movement of a dressing tool in relation to a dressable grinding tool, wherein during the execution of the relative movement, at least one contour region of the dressing tool is transferred into a transfer region of the grinding tool. A plunging body made of material which can be ground in the machine is provided. The transfer region of the grinding tool is moved into the vicinity of the plunging body by a relative infeed movement. A rotational movement of the grinding tool around an axis of rotation is executed. Plunging the transfer region of the grinding tool into the material of the plunging body, to thus perform a transfer of the topography of the transfer region into an imaging region of the plunging body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Klingelnberg AG
    Inventor: Karl-Martin Ribbeck
  • Patent number: 8506214
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for machining bevel gears in an indexing method and method for machining the pitch of gears, wherein the production-related pitch error is compensated. The apparatus (20) comprises an interface (11, 12) and can be connected to a measurement system (10) by means of this interface (11, 12). The interface is designed such that the apparatus (20) can take correction values or correction factors from the measurement system (10) in a form in order to be able to adapt master data or neutral data. The data, which was originally present in a memory (51) of the apparatus (20), is corrected on the basis of these correction values or correction factors before production of one or more bevel gears (31) is initiated on the apparatus (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Klingelnberg GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Martin Ribbeck, Torsten König
  • Patent number: 8454275
    Abstract: The invention relates to a form blade (10) for the milling of bevel gears, with a base body (11) which has a receiving area and with at least two cutting strips (13.1, 13.2) with a cutting edge (18.1). The cutting strips (13.1, 13.2) are detachably fixed in corresponding receiving areas (12.1, 12.2) of the base body (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Klingelnberg AG
    Inventors: Karl-Martin Ribbeck, Thomas Reiter
  • Publication number: 20120321404
    Abstract: Soft milling bevel gear teeth on multiple similar bevel gears using a universal hobbing tool with a set of bar cutters comprising a plurality of pairs of inner and outer cutting edges, having four machining phases: 1) simultaneous milling machining a first bevel gear's convex inner and concave outer flanks with the pairs; 2) milling finishing pre-machining either the concave outer flanks with the outer cutting edges the convex inner flanks with the inner cutting edges without employing respective other cutting edges; 3) using the same tool with the same set of cutter bars to pre-tooth a second similar bevel gear, including simultaneous milling machining the gear's convex inner and concave outer flanks; 4) milling finishing pre-machining on the second gear either the concave outer flanks with the outer cutting edges or the convex inner flanks with the inner cutting edges without employing respective other cutting edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventor: Karl-Martin Ribbeck
  • Patent number: 8151437
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for green machining bevel gears, including a CNC machining station for gear cutting a wheel blank (K2). The machining station includes a tool spindle which is used to receive a gear cutting tool and a work piece spindle which is used to receive the gear blank (K2). The machining station also relates to a machining station which operates in a vertical manner. The device also comprises a vertical processing station having a tool holder and a work piece spindle which is used to receive a work piece blank (K1). The machining station mechanically forms a functional unit together with the pre-machining station, wherein the work piece blank (K1) undergoes green machining in the pre-machining station, and is transferred as a gear blank (K2) to the first machining station after the first green machining where it is cut into a gear. The machining station and the pre-machining station are linked together in terms of data and control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Klingelnberg GmbH
    Inventors: Hartmuth Müller, Joachim Thomas, Karl-Martin Ribbeck, Burkhard Schneider, Dietmar Loh
  • Patent number: 7775749
    Abstract: In a method and a bar blade for milling spiral bevel gears and hypoid gears, a shaft of the bar blade has a blade profile that is formed by the cross-section of at least one cutting area, at least two free areas, and at least one top area. The blade profile is provided with a first cutting edge for a first flank, a second cutting edge for a second flank that faces the first flank, and a top cutting edge for the bottom of a tooth space. The first and the second cutting edge are embodied as principal cutting edges for completely cutting the first or second flank. The top cutting edge is configured for completely cutting the bottom of the tooth space such that the tooth space comprising the complete final geometry is created in one milling process by means of one and the same bar blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Klingelnberg GmbH
    Inventor: Karl Martin Ribbeck
  • Publication number: 20100196107
    Abstract: The invention relates to a form blade (10) for the milling of bevel gears, with a base body (11) which has a receiving area and with at least two cutting strips (13.1, 13.2) with a cutting edge (18.1). The cutting strips (13.1, 13.2) are detachably fixed in corresponding receiving areas (12.1, 12.2) of the base body (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Klingeinberg AG
    Inventors: Karl Martin Ribbeck, Thomas Reiter
  • Publication number: 20090028655
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for machining bevel gears in an indexing method and method for machining the pitch of gears, wherein the production-related pitch error is compensated. The apparatus (20) comprises an interface (11, 12) and can be connected to a measurement system (10) by means of this interface (11, 12). The interface is designed such that the apparatus (20) can take correction values or correction factors from the measurement system (10) in a form in order to be able to adapt master data or neutral data. The data, which was originally present in a memory (51) of the apparatus (20), is corrected on the basis of these correction values or correction factors before production of one or more bevel gears (31) is initiated on the apparatus (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventors: Karl-Martin Ribbeck, Torsten Konig
  • Patent number: 7431544
    Abstract: Bevel gear cutting machine for chamfering and/or deburring edges on the teeth of a bevel gear. The gear-cutting machine comprises a workpiece spindle, which receives the bevel gear coaxially of a spindle axis. Furthermore, a deburring spindle is provided for the receiving of a deburring tool and several numerically controllable axes are given. A deburring blade head with several blade cutter-like blade inserts serves as deburring tool, whereby the blade inserts are insertable in recesses of the deburring blade head essentially radially oriented to a deburring spindle axis (E) and comprise edges for chamfering and/or deburring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Klingelnberg GmbH
    Inventor: Karl-Martin Ribbeck
  • Patent number: 7422397
    Abstract: A bevel gear cutting machine, which is designed for, among other things, chamfering and/or deburring edges on the teeth of a bevel gear. The gear cutting machine has a workpiece spindle which receives the bevel gear coaxially. A carriage is provided, which receives a plate-shaped cutter head having multiple bar blades. The gear cutting machine has multiple numerically controllable axes, which are activatable via a programmable controller, one of the axes forming a workpiece spindle axis of the workpiece spindle. Another axis is used as the tool spindle axis of the plate-shaped cutter head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Klingelnberg GmbH
    Inventors: Harmuth Müller, Karl-Martin Ribbeck
  • Publication number: 20080152446
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for green machining bevel gears, comprising an CNC machining station for gear cutting a wheel blank (K2). The machining station comprises a tool spindle which is used to receive a gear cutting tool and a work piece spindle which is used to receive the gear blank (K2). Said machining station also relates to a machining station which operates in a vertical manner. Said device also comprises a vertical processing station having a tool holder and a work piece spindle which is used to receive a work piece blank (K1). The machining station mechanically forms a functional unit together with the pre-machining station, wherein the work piece blank (K1) undergoes green machining in the pre-machining station, and is transferred as a gear blank (K2) to the first machining station after the first green machining where it is cut into a gear. Said machining station and the pre-machining station are linked together in terms of data and control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: Klingelnberg GmbH
    Inventors: Hartmuth Muller, Joachim Thomas, Karl-Martin Ribbeck, Burkhard Scheider, Dietmar Loh
  • Patent number: 7156718
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for machining spiral bevel gears a rotationally symmetric tool is driven about its axis of rotation as it is moved, along with a workpiece, into a respective initial starting position. The workpiece is rotated about one tooth index, and a complete tooth space is processed via a generating method to a preset generating depth. The tool and workpiece each reach first end roll positions and are then moved into respective second starting positions near the previously reached end roll position. The workpiece is once again rotated about a tooth index and another complete tooth space is generated using a roll direction reversed relative to the initial tooth generating process. The tool and workpiece reach a second end roll position near the first start position and these steps are repeated until all the tooth spaces of the workpiece have been processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Klingelnberg GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Blasberg, Torsten Koenig, Karl-Martin Ribbeck, Matthias Radermacher
  • Publication number: 20050260050
    Abstract: Bevel gear cutting machine for chamfering and/or deburring edges on the teeth of a bevel gear. The gear-cutting machine comprises a workpiece spindle, which receives the bevel gear coaxially of a spindle axis. Furthermore, a deburring spindle is provided for the receiving of a deburring tool and several numerically controllable axes are given. A deburring blade head with several blade cutter-like blade inserts serves as deburring tool, whereby the blade inserts are insertable in recesses of the deburring blade head and essentially radially oriented to a deburring spindle axis (E) and comprise edges for chamfering and/or deburring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Applicant: Klingelnberg GmbH
    Inventor: Karl-Martin Ribbeck
  • Publication number: 20050207858
    Abstract: A bevel gear cutting machine, which is designed for, among other things, chamfering and/or deburring edges on the teeth of a bevel gear. The gear cutting machine has a workpiece spindle which receives the bevel gear coaxially. A carriage is provided, which receives a plate-shaped cutter head having multiple bar blades. The gear cutting machine has multiple numerically controllable axes, which are activatable via a programmable controller, one of the axes forming a workpiece spindle axis of the workpiece spindle. Another axis is used as the tool spindle axis of the plate-shaped cutter head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Applicant: Klingelnberg GmbH
    Inventors: Hartmuth Muller, Karl-Martin Ribbeck
  • Publication number: 20050064794
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for machining spiral bevel gears a rotationally symmetric tool is used and is driven about its axis of rotation as it is moved along with a workpiece into a respective initial starting position. The workpiece is rotated about one tooth index and a complete tooth space is processed via a generating method to a preset generating depth. The tool and workpiece each reach first end roll positions and are then moved into respective second starting positions near the previously reached end roll position. The workpiece is once again rotated about a tooth index and another tooth space completed through the generating process using a roll direction reverse relative to the initial tooth generating process. The tool and workpiece reach a second end roll position near the first start position and these steps are repeated until all the tooth spaces of the workpiece have been processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Applicant: Klingelnberg GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Blasberg, Torsten Koenig, Karl-Martin Ribbeck, Matthias Radermacher