Patents by Inventor Manfred Wiegand

Manfred Wiegand 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: 6170732
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a device for feeding, clamping, and processing, particularly for geometric welding of automobile body components in a work station. The invention method consists of side-section clamping frames which, after receiving a body side section with the help of portal robots which travel along an elevated four-axle portal in the X-Y axis, are brought into the geometrical welding station, positioned at both sides of the body conveyer system for geometrical welding. The device is characterized in that a four-axle portal (2) is arranged above the geometrical welding station and along which four-axle portal (2), on each side of the body conveyer system (1), at least one portal robot (3), from which side-section clamping frames (9) are hung, can travel in the X-Y axis between a position for receiving the body side sections (8) and a position for clamping and welding the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Thyssen Krupp Industries GmbH
    Inventors: Franz-Josef Vogt, Wolf Dieter Lang, Thomas Ego, Kurt J{umlaut over (a)}ck, Hans Peter Erb, Erich Zimmer, Bernd Röhling, Manfred Wiegand