US Patent Issued to Schunk Sonosystems on Oct. 21 for "Multistage welding of splices by means of an ultrasonic welding device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,621, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Schunk Sonosystems GmbH.

"Multistage welding of splices by means of an ultrasonic welding device" was invented by Dennis Tobias Kaemmerer (Wettenberg, Germany), Andreas Schary (Hohenahr, Germany) and Bjorn Kleespiess (Solms, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for welding a splice by way of an ultrasonic welding device, the ultrasonic welding device having a sonotrode for generating ultrasonic vibrations, an anvil, a first lateral element, a second lateral element and a compaction chamber, the height of which is adjustable by varying a distance between the sonotrode and...