US Patent Issued to SILTRONIC on April 15 for "Method for separating a plurality of slices from workpieces by means of a wire saw during a sequence of separation processes" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,079, issued on April 15, was assigned to SILTRONIC AG (Munich).

"Method for separating a plurality of slices from workpieces by means of a wire saw during a sequence of separation processes" was invented by Peter Wiesner (Reut, Germany), Wolfgang Gmach (Emmerting, Germany) and Robert Kreuzeder (Wurmannsquick, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method cuts slices from workpieces using a wire saw having a wire array, which is tensioned in a plane between two wire guide rollers supported between fixed and floating bearings and having a chamber and a shell. The workpiece is fed through the wire array along a feed direction perpendic...