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).

  • Publication number: 20260217401
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Publication date: July 30, 2026
    Inventors: Benjamin Hubschmid, Josef Blum, Michael Wettstein
  • Patent number: 12606333
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Keller, Guido Leine, Kurt Bolliger, Michael Wettstein, Samuel Hochstrasser, Mirco Neeser
  • Publication number: 20250353154
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2025
    Publication date: November 20, 2025
    Inventors: Dimitrios TAKIDIS, Benjamin HUBSCHMID, Samuel HOCHSTRASSER, Michael WETTSTEIN
  • Patent number: 11865686
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Hubschmid, Dimitrios Takidis, Michael Wettstein
  • Patent number: 11524801
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Keller, Guido Leine, Kurt Bolliger, Michael Wettstein, Samuel Hochstrasser, Mirco Neeser
  • Publication number: 20220250223
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a battery-powered stapling tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin Hubschmid, Dimitrios Takidis, Michael Wettstein
  • Patent number: 11352153
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Keller, Guido Leine, Kurt Bolliger, Michael Wettstein, Samuel Hochstrasser, Mirco Neeser
  • Patent number: 11311995
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Hubschmid, Dimitrios Takidis, Michael Wettstein
  • Publication number: 20220063850
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas Keller, Guido Leine, Kurt Bolliger, Michael Wettstein, Samuel Hochstrasser, Mirco Neeser
  • Publication number: 20220024621
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas Keller, Guido Leine, Kurt Bolliger, Michael Wettstein, Samuel Hochstrasser, Mirco Neeser
  • Publication number: 20200354094
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Andreas Keller, Guido Leine, Kurt Bolliger, Michael Wettstein, Samuel Hochstrasser, Mirco Neeser
  • Publication number: 20200094389
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a battery-powered stapling tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Benjamin HUBSCHMID, Dimitrios TAKIDIS, Michael WETTSTEIN
  • Publication number: 20200039046
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a portable battery-operated stapler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Dimitrios TAKIDIS, Benjamin HUBSCHMID, Samuel HOCHSTRASSER, Michael WETTSTEIN