Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Effenberger

Wolfgang Effenberger 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).

  • Patent number: 5509763
    Abstract: A coupling system between a tool system module, such as, for example, a tool receptacle, and a machine tool, such as, for example, a spindle. In order to provide for rapid initiation and release of the connection between these components while making large axial forces available, this incorporates a clamping system with an operating rod, by means of which a wedge drive is controlled, with which clamping elements that are provided in one of the parts that are to be coupled can be forced essentially radially outwards into suitably configured recesses in the other part that is to be coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Assignee: Gottlieb Guhring KG
    Inventors: Josef Reinauer, Wolfgang Effenberger, Franz Friedl
  • Patent number: 5443340
    Abstract: A coupling system between a tool system module, such as, for example, a tool receptacle, and a machine tool, such as, for example, a spindle. In order to provide for rapid initiation and release of the connection between these components while making large axial forces available, this incorporates a clamping system with an operating rod, by means of which a wedge drive is controlled, with which clamping elements that are provided in one of the parts that are to be coupled can be forced essentially radially outwards into suitably configured recesses in the other part that is to be coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: Gottlieb Guhring KG
    Inventors: Josef Reinauer, Wolfgang Effenberger, Franz Friedl
  • Patent number: 5052436
    Abstract: The device for feeding a fluid to a rotating machine part (6), in particular a machine tool spindle, has a housing (1) arranged to be fixed against rotation and a hollow shaft (2) mounted rotatably therein, one end of which, the inner end (2a) is connected by way of a sliding ring seal (5) to an inlet duct (4) in the housing (1). At the other, the outer, end (2b) of the hollow shaft (2, 2') there is provided a coupling tube (7, 7') coaxial with the hollow shaft and which is axially slidable with respect to the rotating machine part (6) and can be engaged with it with a sealing arrangement (8) interposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Assignee: Ott Maschinentechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Bauch, Wolfgang Effenberger
  • Patent number: 4726721
    Abstract: For the attachment of a tool provided with a cylindrical or frusto-conical shank to a rotating machine spindle at one end of the machine spindle a complementary reception opening for the shank is provided. The shank contains a coaxial bore and a plurality of slots distributed in the circumferential direction and extending through radially to the bore, which divide the shank within the reception opening into segments. In the region of the slots the shank widens out under the influence of centrifugal forces more than does the region of the spindle surrounding the shank. Thus the radial guidance of the tool is not lost even at very high rotation rates of 10,000 r.p.m. and above. A support shoulder on an annular collar of the tool prevents axial reshifting of the shank by reason of the axial stress of a clamping device and improves the rigidity of the tool-spindle connection. The bore extends through the annular collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1988
    Assignee: A. Ott GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Heel, Wolfgang Effenberger