Patents Examined by Debra M Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11731140
    Abstract: A dedicated device for shattering phenolics with mechanochemical synthesis and a shattering method thereof. The dedicated device includes a supporting frame, a primary shattering device, a secondary shattering device, a three-stage shattering device and an automatic regulating device. The primary shattering device includes a shattering box, a first motor, a first transmission rod, a plurality of tool frames, a plurality of blades, at least one screen mesh, a plurality of fixed cutters and a guide hopper. The secondary shattering device includes a first roller, a second roller, a second transmission rod and a set of helical gears. The three-stage shattering device includes a second motor, a set of tapered blade sets and a plurality of strain sensors. This realizes the regeneration of new mixed materials and the chemical properties of materials control of some micro changes such as material morphology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Intelligent Manufacturing Institute of Hefei University of Technology
    Inventors: Xinyu Li, Leilei Zhao, Di Hu, Hui Luo, Wenxing Zhai
  • Patent number: 11725405
    Abstract: A binding machine includes: a wire feeding unit configured to feed a wire; a curl guide configured to curl the wire fed in a forward direction by the wire feeding unit; and a binding unit configured to twist the wire fed in a reverse direction by the wire feeding unit and wound on an object. The binding unit includes a wire engaging body configured to engage a tip end-side of the wire fed in the forward direction by the wire feeding unit, curled by the curl guide and wound around the object. The binding machine includes a pulling unit for pulling, toward the object, a wire on a second side positioned on an opposite side to the curl guide with respect to the object earlier than a wire on a first side positioned on the curl guide of the wire wound around the object and engaged at its tip end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichirou Morimura, Yusuke Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11724295
    Abstract: A section mill (10) for the rolling of steel sections is disclosed. The section mill includes a universal mill stand (12) and an edger mill stand (14) for rolling a workpiece (18) in a plurality of back-and-forth passes into a steel section having a web and one or more flanges. The section mill further includes a cooling arrangement (16) for cooling the workpiece while it undergoes rolling during one or more of the passes. The cooling arrangement includes a cooling box (20) having a spray head (21) with spray openings (22) for spraying jets of pressurized cooling liquid against the workpiece. The cooling arrangement further includes an actuator (38, 34) configured to move the cooling box relative to the stand frame (58) of the universal mill stand and/or of the edger mill stand for adjusting a distance between the spray openings and the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: ARCELORMITTAL
    Inventors: Romain Houot, Francois Mary, Patrick Mas, Gilles Brosius, Pierre Didier, Stephane Boul
  • Patent number: 11724302
    Abstract: An expansion tool for expanding an article. The expansion tool includes a lead-in portion extending outwardly from a first end of the expansion tool and a first pilot portion extending from the lead-in portion. The first pilot portion has a first diameter. The expansion tool further includes a second pilot portion being generally parallel with the first pilot portion. The second pilot portion has a second diameter larger than the first diameter. The expansion tool further includes a forming portion bridging the first pilot portion and the second pilot portion. The forming portion is generally sloped. The expansion tool further includes an expansion portion extending from the second pilot portion toward a second end of the expansion tool. The expansion portion has a third diameter larger than the second diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: BELVAC PRODUCTION MACHINERY, INC.
    Inventor: Gerald Meador
  • Patent number: 11717874
    Abstract: A precision compensation mechanism of a full-automatic bidirectional flanging machine comprises an upper die X-direction fine adjustment assembly, an upper die Y-direction fine adjustment assembly, a lower die X-direction fine adjustment assembly and a lower die Y-direction fine adjustment assembly, wherein the fine adjustment assemblies each comprise N adjusting threaded sleeves, N adjusting screws and a threaded sleeve rotation driving device; wherein the N adjusting threaded sleeves are threaded into an upper opening or a lower opening of a C-shaped flanging beam along the length direction of an upper die or a lower die; the outer wall surfaces of the N adjusting threaded sleeves are threaded into the upper opening or the lower opening of the C-shaped flanging beam to form N screw thread pairs I with the thread pitch of P1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NANJNG NANYOU INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOVATION CO., LTD
    Inventors: Fengyu Xu, Sen Yang, Jingjin Shen, Zixin Chen, Guoping Jiang
  • Patent number: 11712728
    Abstract: An automatic machine for producing reinforcement blanks, in particular of the type of reinforcement chairs, the automatic machine comprising two outer moulding units (A, A?) and two inner moulding units (B, B?), wherein each of the moulding units (A, A? and B, B?) comprises a pair of mandrels—a movable mandrel (8, 5) and a stationary mandrel (7, 6) connected to a power mechanism (11, 2). A method for producing reinforcement chairs from reinforcement sections comprising simultaneously forming the two support legs of the reinforcement chair in mutually opposite directions by the two outer moulding units (A, A?) and then simultaneously forming the two vertical supports of the reinforcement chair by the two inner moulding units (B, B?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventor: Valentin Todorov Kirov
  • Patent number: 11713144
    Abstract: A wire release mechanism for securing an end of a wire during a wire tying cycle. The wire release mechanism may include a wire release portion having an engaging surface and the wire release portion may be movable between an open and closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Accent Wire Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Mark Vaughn
  • Patent number: 11707775
    Abstract: A stock lifter for metal forming dies includes a self-contained assembly. The assembly includes a guide pin that reciprocates within a base. A hardened end cap, which contacts the stock, is attached to the guide pin. A spring is located on the exterior surface of a portion of the base and surrounds the guide pin body. One end of the spring contacts a surface on the cap, while the other end of the spring contacts a surface on the base or an optional mounting flange that is attached above the base. Thus, the stock lifter assembly has a hardened cap for the stock to slide on and a larger, externally mounted spring that provides longer life for the stock lifter. The stock lifter assembly can be made of several different lengths and sizes by using longer or wider guide pins and springs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: STANDARD LIFTERS, INC.
    Inventors: Scott M. Breen, Joel T. Pyper
  • Patent number: 11701702
    Abstract: Machine (1) for the assembly of profiles (2) formed of at least a first profile section (3) and a second profile section (4) connected by means of one or several thermally insulating sections (5,6), whereby the machine (1) is provided with press means (58) exerting an adjustable pressure on press tools (48) in a lateral direction (HH?) and towards the profile sections (3,4) to be assembled so as to be able to exert an adjustable force on corresponding walls (18) of grooves (17, 20, 31, 33, 82, 90) of the profile sections (3,4) in order to achieve a plastic deformation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: ALURO NV
    Inventor: Peter De Roovere
  • Patent number: 11684962
    Abstract: A stamping apparatus that includes an upper die, a blank-holding binder, and fixed lower die. The fixed lower die features a drawing punch and the upper die features a corresponding cavity. The fixed lower die includes a stake bead and a corresponding depression is present on the upper die. The blank-holding binder includes a draw bead and a corresponding depression is present on the upper die. In the stamping process, the draw bead engages a blank in a first stage, causing the blank to begin to stretch into the shape of the drawing punch with a greater tightened partially finished panel shape. In a second stage, the draw bead disengages the blank as the blank is drawn towards the drawing punch. In a final stage, the stake bead engages the blank to tighten the blank around the drawing punch into a final shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Dajun Zhou, Chunlei Wang, Robert D Miller, Kaiping Li, Yongjun Zhou, Richard J Siemen
  • Patent number: 11679432
    Abstract: A clampable pipe bender is provided having a pivotable base plate coupled to a clamp. Atop the pivotable base plate is a pipe bending assembly with a pivotable holding clamp. The pivotable holding clamp is locked in place by way of a pull pin. The pipe bending assembly is comprised of at least one but preferably a plurality of channels into any of which a pipe can be inserted for bending purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventor: Sebastien Savard
  • Patent number: 11679433
    Abstract: A press mold includes: a lower die; an upper die; a lower holding unit including lower main pads and lower sub-pads respectively installed to be movable in an upper-lower direction on the lower body through first and second cushion springs, respectively, at an edge of a lower forming steel; an upper holding unit including upper main pads integrally connected to an edge of an upper forming steel in correspondence with the lower main pads and upper sub-pads installed to be respectively movable in the upper body in the upper-lower direction through third cushion springs at the edge of the upper forming steel in correspondence with the lower sub-pads; and a gap control assembly installed in a lower main block connected to the lower main pads to form a gap set between the lower main blocks and the upper sub-blocks connected to the upper sub-pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Sang Dong Kim, Daero Lee
  • Patent number: 11679431
    Abstract: Pressure die systems configured to be used in a tube bending machine having a machine frame. The pressure die systems include a system frame, a first pressure die, a second pressure die, and a pivot assembly. The first pressure die is supported on the system frame. The second pressure die is spaced from the first pressure die and supported on the system frame. The pivot assembly is moveably mounted to the system frame between the first pressure die and the second pressure die. The system frame pivots about the pivot assembly. The pivot assembly is configured to move relative to the system frame to different positions between the first pressure die and the second pressure die to define different pivot positions for the system frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Rogue Fabrication, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Gambino
  • Patent number: 11673173
    Abstract: A special roller machine for a metal polar plate. A box body is a square with a circular through hole in the middle part. Upper and lower pressing rollers are mounted in the circular through hole; the upper and lower pressing rollers are mounted in grooves formed in the lower sides of upper and lower sector rotating bodies through bearing seats and are connected with upper and lower rotating blocks respectively; the rotating blocks are symmetrically arranged and are connected with upper and lower servo electric cylinders through connecting rod mechanisms respectively, then the pressing rollers are finely adjusted; four identical arch-shaped plates are mounted on the inner surface of the circular through hole for locating the rotating blocks; and main transmission is implemented in such a way that a servo motor drives the lower pressing roller to move through a safety coupling, a reduction gearbox and a cross coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Taiyuan University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Fuqiang Zhao, Hugang Tian, Qingxue Huang, Lun Zhao, Hongquan Dong, Xiaodong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11660651
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (10) for the flexible roll forming of a semifinished product (12), in particular a rolled sheet, to form a profile (12?, 12?) with a cross section varying along the longitudinal axis thereof and/or with a varying longitudinal axis. The device (10) has a frame (14) and a number of supporting devices (16), which are carried by the frame (14). The supporting devices (16) are each movable in a translational manner in relation to the frame (14) and rotatably mounted. The device (10) also has a number of profiling units (18), which each have a pair (20) of rotatably mounted rollers (20?, 20?), between which a rolling gap (102) remains. According to the invention, precisely two profiling units (18) are arranged in a rotatably mounted manner on each supporting device (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: METAL ENVELOPE GMBH
    Inventor: Lars Ingvarsson
  • Patent number: 11660653
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an ultra-low pressure liquid filling forming system for a special-shaped component, including a control system, a supercharger, a driving device, a preforming unit, and a final forming unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Cong Han, Shijian Yuan, Xiaolei Cui
  • Patent number: 11654468
    Abstract: A roll bending apparatus includes: a roll pair formed by a pair of rolls disposed facing each other, the roll pair being configured to sandwich an elongated material between the rolls to perform forming on the elongated material; a slide mechanism configured to slide the roll pair in a first normal direction that is a direction normal to a conveying direction of the elongated material on a plane including the conveying direction; and a tilt mechanism configured to rotate the roll pair about a tilt axis that extends in a second normal direction that is a direction orthogonal to the conveying direction and the first normal direction. The slide mechanism further slides the roll pair to change a position of the roll pair relative to the tilt axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SANYO SEIKI CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Okada, Akiyoshi Ono
  • Patent number: 11654474
    Abstract: A wire feeding unit includes a driving motor; a driving roller which rotates by a driving force of the driving motor; a plurality of driven rollers arranged such that outer circumferential surfaces thereof are positioned on a same line; a belt which interlocks the driving roller and the plurality of driven rollers and is brought into contact with a wire, which is drawn into a side of the driven rollers, on a side of the plurality of driven rollers; and a plurality of idlers which support the wire on a side in which the wire and the belt are in contact with each other and assist feeding of the wire along a feeding direction of the belt in a free-rotation state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventors: Youn Ho Jung, Jae Woong Jung
  • Patent number: 11648599
    Abstract: Solid metal protrusions are formed by a method including: clamping and fixing the metal workpiece with a support die and a pressure die; pressing each cross section of an outer peripheral end parts of the metal workpiece fixed with the support die and the pressure die at a temperature lower than a softening point of a metal used as the metal workpiece from a direction perpendicular or oblique to an upright direction of the protrusions to be formed on one surface of the metal workpiece by press molding using a pressing die or a pressing jig; undergoing plastic flows of metal into through-holes formed as recessed parts that serve as female molds for forming the protrusions in at least one of the support die and the pressure die; and forming solid protrusions on the surface of the metal workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SEKI PRESS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masakatsu Seki
  • Patent number: 11642714
    Abstract: A progressive pressing method includes: a first bead molding step of molding a first bead having a length of a second predetermined distance extending in a longitudinal direction of the elongated metal plate, in a side part of a region which becomes a first product part of the elongated metal plate; a first conveying step of conveying the elongated metal plate in the longitudinal direction by a feed amount which is a first predetermined distance; and a second bead molding step of molding a second bead having a length of the second predetermined distance extending in the longitudinal direction of the elongated metal plate, so as to link with the first bead molded in the first bead molding step, in a side part of a region which becomes a second product part of the elongated metal plate, in which the second predetermined distance is longer than the first predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Hori, Tomotsugu Takahashi, Kei Matsumoto, Seitaro Nakamura