US Patent Issued to AUDI on Oct. 21 for "Process arrangement for carrying out a fully automatic setting process" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,567, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Process arrangement for carrying out a fully automatic setting process" was invented by Norbert Hornbostel (Talheim, Germany) and Frank Wrede (Oedheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process arrangement for carrying out a fully automatic setting process, in which a setting device drives a clip element into a component pilot hole. The process arrangement has a transfer unit, in particular a robot, to which the setting device is attached, and the transfer unit is adjustable between a pickup position, in which the setting device grabs the clip element, and...