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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 09, 2016
Applicant:

L&p Property Management Company, South Gate, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kelly M. Knewtson, Joplin, MO (US);

David William McCune, Carthage, MO (US);

Travis L. Brummett, Carthage, MO (US);

Tyler Kussman, Joplin, MO (US);

Assignee:

L&P PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY, South Gate, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B21F 35/04 (2006.01); B21C 51/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B21F 35/04 (2013.01); B21C 51/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Feedback-based systems and methods for bending wire are provided. The systems and methods may allow for modification of wire bending based on feedback received from one or more feedback-generating elements (e.g., image-capturing device(s), computer processing device(s), vision systems, etc.) used for monitoring one or more characteristics of a wire (e.g., shape, size, dimension, angular configuration, etc.) to determine, and provide to various wire-bending components of the system, appropriate modifications to the wire-bending process. Modifications to the wire-bending process may occur in real time without stopping the wire-bending process. Furthermore, a wire may be bent into a sinusoidal wire structure for forming springs for use in various applications.


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