ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,696, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BRANSON Ultraschall Niederlassung der Emerson Technologies GmbH & Co. OHG (Dietzenbach, Germany).
"Vibration welding device and vibration welding method" was invented by Silvio Fuchs (Hasselroth-Neuenhasslau, Germany), Bruno Collatz (Dietzenbach, Germany) and L'udovit Sipos (Nove Mesto nad Vahom, Slovak Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration welding device has a first tool with a vibration welding head arranged at a first support, wherein the vibration welding head vibrates in use in a first plane, and the first tool receives a first component, a second tool arranged at a second su...