Patents Examined by Erin Saad
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Patent number: 9371100Abstract: Provided are a vehicle body assembling method and a vehicle body assembling device that are space-saving and economical. The vehicle body assembling method includes: a first holding step (S2) for holding a floor complete 1 by a first jig 9; a second holding step (S3) for holding a roof arch by a second jig; a jig connecting step (S4) for connecting the first jig and the second jig; a third holding step (S5) for holding side inner completes by the first jig and the second jig; and welding steps (S6 to S9) for forming an inner frame by welding.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Akio Fujisaki, Hideto Kojima, Yoshio Ishikawa, Yoshitaka Matsukami
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Patent number: 9370795Abstract: A method for applying a wear protection layer to a continuous flow machine component which has a base material comprising titanium is provided. The method includes the following steps: mixing a solder which comprises an alloy comprising titanium and particles which are distributed in the alloy and have a reaction agent; applying the solder to predetermined points of the continuous flow machine component; introducing a heat volume into the solder and the continuous flow machine component so that the alloy becomes liquid and the reaction agent changes through diffusion processes with the solder and undergoes a chemical reaction with the alloy, forming a hard aggregate; and cooling the solder so that the alloy becomes solid.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jochen Barnikel, Susanne Gollerthan, Harald Krappitz, Ingo Reinkensmeier
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Patent number: 9364923Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of a piston (1), composed of a piston upper part (2) and a piston lower part (3), of an internal combustion engine, in which the piston upper part (2) is welded with the piston lower part (3) via a contact surface (4) and thereby a cooling duct (5), delimited therebetween, is formed. It is essential to the invention here that for the production or keeping free of an net opening (6) and/or of an outlet opening (7) of the cooling duct (5) during or immediately after the welding of the piston upper part (2) with the piston lower part (3) at least one pin (8) is held out from the piston lower part (3) in the cooling duct (5) or is pushed therein and is drawn out again after the welding process, so that a welding bead (9) occurring on the welding process does not constrict a cross-section of the net opening (6) and/or of the outlet opening (7). Hereby, the piston (1) can be produced at a comparatively favorable cost.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventor: Sascha-Oliver Boczek
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Patent number: 9352425Abstract: A system and method for modifying a work piece surface of high melting temperature materials such as Advanced High Strength Steels, wherein a friction stir welding tool may include cutting elements located on the outside diameter of a collar assembly, wherein the collar assembly may be retrofitted for existing friction stir welding tools, or may be designed as a custom attachment for a new hybrid friction stir welding tool, wherein the surface of the work piece may be modified by removing detrimental flash and burr created during operation of the friction stir welding tool.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2014Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: MegaStir Technologies LLCInventors: David Rosal, Paul T. Higgins, Russell J. Steel, Scott M. Packer, Jeremy Peterson, Steve W. Larsen, Samuel C. Sanderson, Jonathan A. Babb
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Patent number: 9346120Abstract: An ultrasonic welding apparatus that includes a full-wave sonotrode that further includes a first horn, a first nodal region, a welding surface, a second nodal region, and a second horn; first and second bearing assemblies that support the sonotrode at the first and second nodal regions respectively, wherein each bearing assembly further includes a first bearing housing portion; a first low friction bearing disposed within the first bearing housing portion; a second bearing housing portion connected to the first bearing housing portion; and a second low friction bearing disposed within the second bearing housing portion; a first centering apparatus that exerts laterally-acting force on the horn of the full-wave sonotrode; and a second centering apparatus that exerts laterally-acting force on the second horn of the full-wave sonotrode.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: EDISON WELDING INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Karl F. Graff, Cameron Benedict, Justin Wenning
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Patent number: 9346121Abstract: A method for the friction stir welding of two components, in particular of two shell components of a fuselage structure of an aircraft and spacecraft, said method comprising the following method steps: positioning the two components relative to one another in such a way that a connection region is formed between the two components; friction stir welding the two components by means of a friction stir welding tool which penetrates the connection region in order to produce a weld which permeates the connection region with the formation of an unpenetrated weld edge portion of the connection region; and introducing internal compressive stresses, at least in the weld edge portion of the connection region. Further a device for the friction stir welding of two components, in particular of two shell components of a fuselage structure of an aircraft and spacecraft is provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2015Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Domenico Furfari, Marco Pacchione
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Patent number: 9346132Abstract: A metal chemistry includes an amount of chromium weight of between about 9.0% and about 16% by weight, an amount of cobalt of between about 7.0% and about 14% by weight, an amount of molybdenum of between about 10% and about 20% by weight, an amount of iron of between about 1.0% and about 5.0% by weight, an amount of aluminum of between about 0.05% and about 0.75% by weight, an amount of titanium of between about 0.5% and about 2.0% by weight, an amount of manganese not to exceed about 0.8% by weight, an amount of carbon of between about 0.02% and about 0.10% by weight, an amount of a titanium+aluminum alloy of between about 0.55% and about 2.75% by weight, and an amount of nickel.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2015Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Yan Cui, Srikanth Chandrudu Kottilingam, Dechao Lin, Brian Lee Tollison
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Patent number: 9333579Abstract: Arms serve as utility accessories to a tip of a soldering iron or a soldering gun. Preferably, the arms are held in a substantially fixed orientation relative to the heated tip or working end of the soldering device. Components are placed against the heating element and held in place by working ends such as clamp-like or tapered claws, jaws or forks on ends of the arms or rods. This arrangement allows the operator to hold the soldering device in one hand and to apply solder while the components remain fixed to the heating element or tip. Arms may be attached to a conventional soldering device or may be integrated with soldering device components to create a new form of soldering device for manual use. Arms serve as a safety mechanism to prevent a hot soldering tip from needlessly contacting proximate surfaces and encourages heat transfer to components receiving solder.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2015Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Inventor: Erik J Tostengard
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Patent number: 9333594Abstract: The present invention provides a lead-free solder composition for glass. The lead-free solder composition for glass includes indium, zinc, and tin. The indium (In) ranges from about 30.0 wt % to about 60 wt %. The zinc (Zn) ranges from about 0.01 wt % to about 11.0 wt %. The tin (Sn) is included as a remaining component.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2012Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Korea Autoglass Corporation, Heesung Material Ltd.Inventors: Hae Won Jeong, Hyun Dal Park, Tae Seung Lee, Seung Kyu Kim, Hong Nho Joo, Ho June Yoon, Min Ho Bak, Joo Dong Lee, Hyun Chae Jung, Sun Myung Lee
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Patent number: 9333593Abstract: A first joining object and a second joining object are joined to each other using an insert material. The first joining object and/or the second joining object has a first metal composed of Sn or an alloy containing Sn. The insert material contains, as a main component, a second metal which is an alloy containing at least one selected from among Ni, Mn, Al and Cr, and Cu, and is located between the first joining object and the second joining object. When subjected to heat treatment to produce an intermetallic compound of the first metal and the second metal, the first joining object and the second joining object are joined to each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Kosuke Nakano, Hidekiyo Takaoka
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Patent number: 9327361Abstract: An intelligent soldering cartridge that includes: a housing; a solder tip; a heater for heating the solder tip; a storage device for storing information about characteristics of the cartridge; a processor for retrieving the information about characteristics of the cartridge, monitoring the power level delivered to the solder tip to detect liquidus occurrence at a solder joint, determining a thickness of an intermetallic compound (IMC) of the solder joint using some of the retrieved information, determining whether the thickness of the IMC is within a predetermined range, and generating an indication signal indicating that a reliable solder joint connection is formed when the thickness of the IMC is within the predetermined range; and an interface for transmitting the indication signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: OK INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Kenneth D. Marino, Hoa Nguyen
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Patent number: 9327437Abstract: A method of providing a mould with a conformal cooling passage includes rough machining a mould cavity generally corresponding to a moulded part shape using CAD data. Conformal cooling slots are cut in the mould cavity using the CAD data. The conformal cooling slots are welded shut using the CAD data to provide conformal cooling passages. A class A surface is machined over the conformal cooling passage and corresponds to a finished mould part shape using the CAD data.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2015Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Inventor: Ariel Andre Waitzman
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Patent number: 9327364Abstract: A solder piece that has a rectangular parallelepiped shape formed by a punching process. Any one of the four surfaces of the rectangular parallelepiped other than the surface on which the shear droop portion generated by the punching process is formed and a surface opposite to the surface on which the shear droop portion is formed is a vacuum pickup surface. Each vacuum pickup surface is a sheared surface and extends along a longitudinal direction of the rectangular parallelepiped solder piece. The solder piece may be located in an open cavity in a supply tape with one of only the four vacuum pickup surfaces exposed to be available for vacuum pickup.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2015Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: Senju Metal Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiko Abe, Koji Watanabe, Hideaki Takahashi, Masahiko Kanno, Masaya Ito
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Patent number: 9302428Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for welding at least one foil in a packaging process using a welding assembly, comprising the steps of directing the foil into the welding assembly, holding the foil in at least one holding point of the welding assembly, welding the foil in at least one welding point of the welding assembly, and where a part of the foil is accumulated between the at least one holding point and the at least one welding point prior to welding the foil in the welding point. The present invention further relates to a welding assembly employing this method.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2010Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: SEELEN A/SInventor: Henrik Mundbjerg Hansen
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Patent number: 9296065Abstract: In a method for ultrasonic bonding, two longitudinal ultrasonic waves propagating in a common working plane oriented parallel to a substrate are induced in one or more ultrasonic transducers and are passed through ultrasound-conducting arms from different spatial directions onto a common connection point of the arms. At the connection point the ultrasonic waves cause an ultrasonic tool arranged directly or indirectly at said connection point to oscillate in two or three dimensions. At least one of the ultrasonic transducers induces an ultrasonic wave with a first harmonic oscillation component and a second oscillation component.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2012Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: HESSE GMBHInventors: Hans-Juergen Hesse, Michael Broekelmann
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Patent number: 9293636Abstract: A process for dressing a solder pad removes excess solder from locations that should be free of solder, such as circuit traces, other solder pads, and components near the solder pad being dressed. A first area of a substrate comprises solder to be removed and is heated to a first temperature. A second area of the substrate is heated to a second temperature. A vacuum nozzle is heated to a third temperature sufficient to melt the solder and is scanned across the area to be dressed, melting and vacuuming away the excess solder. The scanning process is controlled using a computer numerical controlled (CNC) machine.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2013Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLCInventors: Dason Cheung, Murad Kurwa, Richard Loi, Tor Krog
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Patent number: 9289816Abstract: A production method uses ultrasonic forming but does not leave a bonding face exposed to the exterior in a final product. The production method of a leading edge member of a fan blade comprises the steps of causing superplastic forming by using a combination of a first mold having a flow path for gas and a second mold having a female mold to pressurize a plate member with the gas through the flow path to fit the plate member onto the female mold; bonding a backing with the plate member processed with the superplastic forming; and cutting out a periphery of the plate member to obtain a product shape.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2010Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: IHI CorporationInventor: Takayuki Iwasaki
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Patent number: 9289847Abstract: A manufacturing method for a module having a hollow region, including: making an assembly including at least one recessed plate having a recess open at one face, defining thereon a recess outline and, between the face and the immediately adjacent plate of the assembly, a strand of material lying along the recess outline; treating the assembly, aiming to obtain diffusion bonding of the strand to the plate(s) with which it is in contact, to constitute, along its associated recess outline, a gas-tight connection of the two plates between which it is placed; and consolidating the assembly by hot isostatic pressing.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2010Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternativesInventors: Emmanuel Rigal, Philippe Bucci
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Patent number: 9272361Abstract: A method for joining metal materials, which joins a first member with at least a joining face made of Metal A, the Metal A being mainly composed of at least one selected from the group consisting of Al, Cu, Ag and Au, to a second member with at least a joining face made of Metal B, the Metal B being mainly composed of at least one selected from the group consisting of Al Cu, Ag and Au, includes interposing an insert between the joining faces of the first and second members, wherein the insert contains Zn as a metal capable of causing an eutectic reaction with at least one metal except for Au in Metal A as well as at least one metal except for Au in Metal B.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeyuki Nakagawa, Kenji Miyamoto, Toshikazu Nanbu
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Patent number: 9272351Abstract: This invention relates to for devices, systems, and methods for separating dross, carried by molten solder, into solder and residue.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2012Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventor: Lambertus Petrus Christinus Willemen