Patents by Inventor Torsten Halbmeyer

Torsten Halbmeyer 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).

  • Apparatus and method for realizing a plurality of riveted connections along the surface of a workpiece
    Patent number: 9579712
    Abstract: A riveting apparatus for creating a plurality of rivet joints along the surface of a workpiece includes a tool device controllable by tool control data in order to create countersunk holes on the workpiece and to set countersunk rivets in the created countersunk holes. The riveting apparatus also includes a programmable control device to generate the tool control data for the tool device and an optical sensing device for optically sensing the workpiece surface and for supplying sensing data. The control device evaluates the sensing data in order to obtain geometric data that represent at least one geometric parameter of a countersunk hole that has already been created, and to correct as required the tool control data for a countersunk hole that is subsequently to be created based on the result of an evaluation of the obtained geometric data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Premium AEROTEC GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schneider, Juergen Morisse, Torsten Halbmeyer, Fredo Eisenhauer
  • Apparatus and Method for Realizing a Plurality of Riveted Connections Along the Surface of a Workpiece
    Publication number: 20140325810
    Abstract: A riveting apparatus for creating a plurality of rivet joints along the surface of a workpiece includes a tool device controllable by tool control data in order to create countersunk holes on the workpiece and to set countersunk rivets in the created countersunk holes. The riveting apparatus also includes a programmable control device to generate the tool control data for the tool device and an optical sensing device for optically sensing the workpiece surface and for supplying sensing data. The control device evaluates the sensing data in order to obtain geometric data that represent at least one geometric parameter of a countersunk hole that has already been created, and to correct as required the tool control data for a countersunk hole that is subsequently to be created based on the result of an evaluation of the obtained geometric data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Michael Schneider, Juergen Morisse, Torsten Halbmeyer, Fredo Eisenhauer