Patents by Inventor Martin Ganz

Martin Ganz 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: 20110248427
    Abstract: The invention relates to a plasticizing and injection unit (1) of an injection moulding machine To inject especially smallest amounts of plastic melt in an injection moulding tool for injection moulding of small and smallest parts in a process optimized way the unit comprises a screw cylinder (2) in which a plasticizing screw is arranged rotatable and axially movable and an injection element (4) comprising a piston-cylinder system (5, 6), wherein a metered amount of plastic melt, which is deposited in a section (7) of a cylinder (6), is expelled via an injection nozzle (8) into an injection moulding tool by an axial movement of a piston (5) in the cylinder (6), wherein a flow path (9) is arranged between the end of the screw cylinder (2) and the section (7) of the cylinder (6) and wherein the flow path (9) is free from valve elements. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for injection moulding of a part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: WITTMANN BATTENFELD GMBH
    Inventor: Martin GANZ
  • Patent number: 6824382
    Abstract: A closing unit with rigidly mounted supporting rails (2), a stationary (6) and a movable (12) clamping plate, has a pivot bearing (14, 15) behind each of these clamping plates (6, 12). A closing drive (23) is hinged in these pivot bearings (14, 15) so that it can freely move between said pivot bearings (14, 15) and the closing forces exercised by the closing drive (23) can exercise no bending moment on the machine frame (2, 3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Ettlinger Kunststoffmaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Ganz
  • Patent number: 6530777
    Abstract: An injection moulding machine for producing small plastic components with a drive unit (6, 84), a plasticizing device (4, 42) and a hot channel nozzle (1) having a collection chamber (10) for the molten plastic. An injection ram (35) projects into the hot channel nozzle (1) and can push the collected plastic out. In an embodiment, the plasticizing device (4, 42) and the drive unit (6, 84) are secured to a movable bearing housing (85) and can move the injection ram (35).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Ettlinger Kunststoffmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Ganz, Paul Sillman
  • Publication number: 20020119214
    Abstract: A closing unit with rigidly mounted supporting rails (2), a stationary (6) and a movable (12) clamping plate, has a pivot bearing (14, 15) behind each of these clamping plates (6, 12). A closing drive (23) is hinged in these pivot bearings (14, 15) so that it can freely move between said pivot bearings (14, 15) and the closing forces exercised by the closing drive (23) can exercise no bending moment on the machine frame (2, 3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2002
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Inventor: Martin Ganz
  • Patent number: 6413465
    Abstract: An apparatus to actuate an injection element (1) for injecting a defined quantity of plasticized plastic or the like into an injection molding tool. The injection element (1) is designed as a piston or as a screw and is guided in a guide (2) and moved by an actuation element. The actuation element (3) has a tappet (4), which is guided on a crank plate (5), the crank plate (5) being turned with positional accuracy by a controlled or regulated servomotor (6). The invention provides that, for the return stroke of the injection element (1), a second tappet (7) is present, which is actuated by a second crank plate (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Battenfeld GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Gruber, Harald Bleier, Martin Ganz
  • Patent number: 6403010
    Abstract: A method for injecting plastic material or another injectable material into an injection molding tool comprises the following steps: plasticizing the plastic or other injectable material in a plasticizing apparatus (2); transporting the plasticized plastic or the plasticized other injectable material into a dosing apparatus (3), which has a fluidic connection (4) to the plasticizer apparatus (2), and specifically in essentially precisely the quantity that is to be introduced into the injection molding tool (1); transporting the plasticized plastic or the plasticized other injectable material, essentially in that quantity which is to be introduced into the injection molding tool (1), from the metering apparatus (3) into an injection apparatus (5), via a fluidic connection (6), while at the same time preventing the plastic or other injectable material from backflowing from the metering apparatus (3) into the plasticizing apparatus (2); injecting the entire quantity of plastic or the entire quantity of another i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Battenfeld GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Ganz, Harald Bleier
  • Patent number: 5560882
    Abstract: A machine for overmolding an equipment of an underwater cable includes a heated mold. The mold has a fixed half-mold with two side injection molding inlets and a mobile half-mold on a machine frame. These are coupled to a high-pressure injection molding press through an overmolding material distribution chamber and to the ends of the mold cavity. The machine finds an application in overmolding joint boxes and repeater housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Assignees: Alcatel Cable, Intron Engineering AG
    Inventors: Bruno Daguet, Martin Ganz, Jean-Francois Libert
  • Patent number: 5407340
    Abstract: A machine for overmolding an equipment of an underwater cable includes a heated mold. The mold has a fixed half-mold with two side injection molding inlets and a mobile half-mold on a machine frame. These are coupled to a high-pressure injection molding press through an overmolding material distribution chamber and to the ends of the mold cavity. The machine finds an application in overmolding joint boxes and repeater housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Assignees: Alcatel Cable, Intron Engineering AG
    Inventors: Bruno Daguet, Martin Ganz, Jean-Francois Libert
  • Patent number: 5271457
    Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus for mixing and/or kneading materials comprising a housing defining a mixing and kneading chamber, a mixing and kneading member located in the interior of the mixing and kneading chamber, means for driving the mixing and kneading member in a rotating and/or oscillating motion, and means for cooling the housing and, thereby, the materials processed in the mixing and kneading chamber.The means for cooling the housing comprise cooling channels provided in the housing and a cooling medium circulating through the cooling channels. The cooling channels are provided with hollow pipe- or tube-like inserts containing the cooling medium circulating through said cooling channels, and only a part of the outer surface of the pipe- or tube-like inserts is in direct thermal contact with the walls limiting the cooling channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Buss AG
    Inventor: Martin Ganz