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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:
Oct. 28, 2008

Filed:

Jul. 14, 2004
Applicant:

Thomas Sturm, Wiedenzhausen, DE;

Inventor:

Thomas Sturm, Wiedenzhausen, DE;

Assignee:

KUKA Systems GmbH, Augsburg, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 37/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A clamping device or system () is provided for body parts (), which have a component clamping contour (), especially a component flange. The clamping device or system () has one or more clamping devices (), which have each a frame-like structure () with fixed and mobile clamping units () arranged therein, which are present in a plurality of pairs. The clamping units () have a strip-shaped design and are adapted to the course of the component clamping contour. Furthermore, the clamping device or system () has an adjusting device (), which feeds the mobile clamping units () to the component clamping contour and actuates them together or in a controllable sequence.


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