Patents by Inventor Willi Diemer

Willi Diemer 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).

  • Machine tool having a tool checking device
    Patent number: 8151659
    Abstract: A machine tool for chip removing machining operations on workpieces using tools comprises a tool checking device for checking a tool of the machine tool as regards damage or fracture by means of a sensor. There is a provision on the machine tool such that sensor is a contact-free sensor arranged on a movably disposed sensor holder, that the tool checking device possesses a drive for the sensor holder to shift the sensor toward and away from the tool to be checked and that the machine tool or the tool checking device possesses a control module for the control of the drive to perform a measuring excursion so that the drive shifts the sensor for a measurement of a tool to be checked for a measurement toward the tool and after the measurement shifts it away from the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Alfing Kessler Sondermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Willi Diemer, Simon Ellinger
  • Machine tool having a tool checking device
    Publication number: 20090043418
    Abstract: A machine tool for chip removing machining operations on workpieces using tools comprises a tool checking device for checking a tool of the machine tool as regards damage or fracture by means of a sensor. There is a provision on the machine tool such that sensor is a contact-free sensor arranged on a movably disposed sensor holder, that the tool checking device possesses a drive for the sensor holder to shift the sensor toward and away from the tool to be checked and that the machine tool or the tool checking device possesses a control module for the control of the drive to perform a measuring excursion so that the drive shifts the sensor for a measurement of a tool to be checked for a measurement toward the tool and after the measurement shifts it away from the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Willi Diemer, Simon Ellinger