Patents by Inventor Michael WETTSTEIN
Michael WETTSTEIN 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).
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Publication number: 20260217401Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping device including a support, a tensioning assembly movable relative to the support between a tensioning position and a strap-insertion position, a motor, and an offset coupling. The tensioning assembly includes a tensioning wheel and a driven shaft operably connected to the tensioning wheel to drive the tensioning wheel. The offset coupling an offset coupling operably connects the motor to the driven shaft to transmit output of the motor to the driven shaft to rotate the driven shaft when the tensioning assembly is in the tensioning position and when the tensioning assembly is in the strap-insertion position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2024Publication date: July 30, 2026Inventors: Benjamin Hubschmid, Josef Blum, Michael Wettstein
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Patent number: 12606333Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping tool configured to tension metal strap around a load and, after tensioning, attach overlapping portions of the strap to one another by cutting notches into a seal element positioned around the overlapping portions of the strap and into the overlapping portions of the strap themselves.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 21, 2026Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLCInventors: Andreas Keller, Guido Leine, Kurt Bolliger, Michael Wettstein, Samuel Hochstrasser, Mirco Neeser
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Publication number: 20250353154Abstract: A stapling device has a housing including a contact surface and defining an ejection channel terminating in an ejection opening defined in the contact surface. An ejector is movable in the ejection channel between an upper position and a lower position. A magazine is removably attached to the housing and configured to, when attached to the housing and when storing one or more staples, position a first staple in the ejection channel. The magazine is removable from the housing via movement in a first direction followed by movement in a second direction. A drive is operably connected to the ejector and configured to move the ejector from the upper position to the lower position to, when the magazine is attached to the housing and storing the one or more staples, engage the first staple in the ejection channel and eject the first staple out of the ejection opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2025Publication date: November 20, 2025Inventors: Dimitrios TAKIDIS, Benjamin HUBSCHMID, Samuel HOCHSTRASSER, Michael WETTSTEIN
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Patent number: 11865686Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a battery-powered stapling tool. A stapling tool includes a drive wheel, a slide comprising a first slide segment and a second slide segment, and a drive shaft receivable by the slide, wherein the drive shaft is coupled to and drivable by the drive wheel such that rotation of the drive wheel in a first rotational direction moves the drive shaft from the first slide segment to the second slide segment back to the first slide segment. The stapling tool further includes a lifting element, wherein the lifting element defines the slide and is drivable by the drive shaft, and an ejector coupled to the lifting element and drivable by the drive shaft.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLCInventors: Benjamin Hubschmid, Dimitrios Takidis, Michael Wettstein
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Patent number: 11524801Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping tool configured to tension metal strap around a load and, after tensioning, attach overlapping portions of the strap to one another by cutting notches into a seal element positioned around the overlapping portions of the strap and into the overlapping portions of the strap themselves.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLCInventors: Andreas Keller, Guido Leine, Kurt Bolliger, Michael Wettstein, Samuel Hochstrasser, Mirco Neeser
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Publication number: 20220250223Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a battery-powered stapling tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Benjamin Hubschmid, Dimitrios Takidis, Michael Wettstein
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Patent number: 11352153Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping tool configured to tension metal strap around a load and, after tensioning, attach overlapping portions of the strap to one another by cutting notches into a seal element positioned around the overlapping portions of the strap and into the overlapping portions of the strap themselves.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLCInventors: Andreas Keller, Guido Leine, Kurt Bolliger, Michael Wettstein, Samuel Hochstrasser, Mirco Neeser
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Patent number: 11311995Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a battery-powered stapling tool. In one embodiment, the stapling tool includes a drive wheel, a cam drivable by the drive wheel in a first rotational direction from a first position to a second position and back to the first position to carry out a staple-driving process, a motor operably connected to the drive wheel to drive the drive wheel, a lifting element defining a slide in which the cam is received, and an ejector connected to the lifting element and drivable by the lifting element between an ejector home position and an ejector ejection position. The slide has first and second slide segments that are transverse to one another. The lifting element is movable between a lifting-element home position and a lifting-element ejection position.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLCInventors: Benjamin Hubschmid, Dimitrios Takidis, Michael Wettstein
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Publication number: 20220063850Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping tool configured to tension metal strap around a load and, after tensioning, attach overlapping portions of the strap to one another by cutting notches into a seal element positioned around the overlapping portions of the strap and into the overlapping portions of the strap themselves.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Andreas Keller, Guido Leine, Kurt Bolliger, Michael Wettstein, Samuel Hochstrasser, Mirco Neeser
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Publication number: 20220024621Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping tool configured to tension metal strap around a load and, after tensioning, attach overlapping portions of the strap to one another by cutting notches into a seal element positioned around the overlapping portions of the strap and into the overlapping portions of the strap themselves.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Andreas Keller, Guido Leine, Kurt Bolliger, Michael Wettstein, Samuel Hochstrasser, Mirco Neeser
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Publication number: 20200354094Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping tool configured to tension metal strap around a load and, after tensioning, attach overlapping portions of the strap to one another by cutting notches into a seal element positioned around the overlapping portions of the strap and into the overlapping portions of the strap themselves.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Andreas Keller, Guido Leine, Kurt Bolliger, Michael Wettstein, Samuel Hochstrasser, Mirco Neeser
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Publication number: 20200094389Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a battery-powered stapling tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2019Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Benjamin HUBSCHMID, Dimitrios TAKIDIS, Michael WETTSTEIN
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Publication number: 20200039046Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a portable battery-operated stapler.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Dimitrios TAKIDIS, Benjamin HUBSCHMID, Samuel HOCHSTRASSER, Michael WETTSTEIN