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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Goetz Kuehnle, Hemmingen, DE;
Norbert Streibl, Leonberg, DE;
Assignee:
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 2/638 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 2/638 ;
Abstract
An optical drilling device using a laser beam ( ), having an optical arrangement located in the beam path for guiding the laser beam ( ) along a circular cutting path and a focusing lens system ( ) located downstream from the arrangement and focusing the laser beam ( ) onto a workpiece ( ). Maintaining a simple design, the various parameters can be easily set by providing the optical arrangement with a separately rotatable image rotator ( ) which guides the beam along the cutting path.