Patents by Inventor Manfred KRIMPMANN

Manfred KRIMPMANN 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: 20170267402
    Abstract: An apparatus for storing and/or for transporting, in particular, flat parts, including a storage device, which has a floor or floor sections, and a dividing structure, through which individual compartments lying alongside each other can be formed inside of the storage device where the floor or floor sections can be adjusted in height relative to the dividing structure and, for this purpose, the dividing structure has preferably delimiting elements between individual compartments of the storage device, where openings are configured in the delimiting elements and a lifting device is, for instance, provided for raising and/or lowering the floor, so that the parts between the delimiting elements are raised or lowered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Brodhäcker, Ernst Hotz, Arnd Lüdke, Manfred Krimpmann
  • Patent number: 9156633
    Abstract: A manipulator for flat objects has a robot arm having an outer end, a support on the outer end, and a magazine holding a stack of the flat objects carried on the support. A grab is movable on the support adjacent the magazine between a pickup position facing the stack and engageable with an uppermost flat object of the stack of flat objects in the magazine so as to pull the uppermost flat object off the stack and a transfer position offset from the stack with the picked-up flat object turned away from the magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: ALPHA-TEC KRIMPMANN GMBH
    Inventor: Manfred Krimpmann
  • Publication number: 20140079525
    Abstract: A manipulator for flat objects has a robot arm having an outer end, a support on the outer end, and a magazine holding a stack of the flat objects carried on the support. A grab is movable on the support adjacent the magazine between a pickup position facing the stack and engageable with an uppermost flat object of the stack of flat objects in the magazine so as to pull the uppermost flat object off the stack and a transfer position offset from the stack with the picked-up flat object turned away from the magazine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventor: Manfred KRIMPMANN