Patents Examined by Katie L Parr
  • Patent number: 11590546
    Abstract: A shaped part and a method for forming the shaped part from a lightweight metal or alloy by extrusion of a slug performed along a pressing axis. The shaped part is formed in at least one region with a deviation from a basic form that is rotationally symmetrical with respect to the pressing axis. The symmetry-deviating region extends over a wall portion of the shaped part that is formed by backward cup extrusion with a normal vector extending predominantly orthogonally in relation to the pressing axis. The same extruding operation forms a structure that surrounds the pressing axis, on a sheet-like base of the shaped part that adjoins the wall portion and has a normal vector extending predominantly in the direction of the pressing axis on the side thereof opposite from the wall portion. In a region of lowest wall thickness of the wall portion at the transition to the base, the quotient of this wall thickness in mm and an average curvature (1/r) in mm?1, formed at the transition, is greater than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: NEUMAN ALUMINIUM FLIESSPRESSWERK GMBH
    Inventor: Johann Willdonner
  • Patent number: 11491633
    Abstract: Power tool for crimping or cutting and object, the tool having vents in the tool housing for enabling airflow wherein such vents have a partition member extending across them for restricting liquid water and dust ingress, and method of assembly. Power tool for crimping or cutting an object, the tool having a switch wherein the switch is provided on a support that is clamped between opposing tool housing portions for forming a seal to restrict the ingress of liquid water into the tool housing interior via the switch, and method of assembly. Power tool for crimping or cutting an object, the tool having an arrangement of light emitting elements directed towards an operative part of the tool for indicating operational information to a user without requiring the user to remove their gaze from the operative part of the tool in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: DUBUIS ET CIE S.A.S.
    Inventor: Vincent Cerfeuillet
  • Patent number: 11491528
    Abstract: A method of producing a hot press-formed product, in which a die includes a hard layer having a skewness (Rsk), as measured in a direction from the outside of a die hole toward the inside of the die hole, of from ?5.0 to 1.2, and a hardness Hv_Die of from HV 1,000 to 1,550, over the entirety of a region of a steel sheet contact surface that is adjacent to a die shoulder portion. The steel sheet contact surface is a surface located outside of the die hole and configured to contact a plated steel sheet (a plated steel sheet including at least one kind of plating layer selected from the group consisting of a hot-dip galvanizing layer and a zinc nickel plating layer) that is to be subjected to hot press forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kubo, Naruhiko Nomura, Toshiya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11493170
    Abstract: Provided a die lubricant rotating spray tray device, wherein the nozzles, the connecting sleeve bodies, the nozzle connecting pipes, the air pipe joints and the lubricant pipe joints are sequentially connected to form independently-communicated cavity pipelines, compressed air is input from the air pipe joints, a lubricant is input from the lubricant pipe joints, the rotation driving mechanisms drive the spray tray rotators to rotate through the transmission mechanisms, and the spray tray rotators drive the nozzles to rotate, so that the same dosage of the lubricant is sprayed on the maximum pitch circle surfaces of upper and lower dies, the aim of uniformly spraying the forging lubricant on the working surfaces of the upper and lower dies is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: CITIC DICASTAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinling Yang, Xiaoting Zhu, Jiansheng Wang, Weizhou Liu, Hongshen Zhang, Li Yang
  • Patent number: 11440066
    Abstract: A first steel strip and a second steel strip (7) are rolled in succession in at least one roll stand (1) of a cold rolling mill. A rolling pause, in which no steel strip is rolled, is provided between the rolling of the first and the second steel strip (7). The first steel strip is fed over a first path starting from a first pay-off reel (2), and the second steel strip (7) is fed over a second path starting from the first pay-off reel (2), or from a second pay-off reel different from the first pay-off reel (2). The first steel strip is not heated as it is fed to the rolling mill (1), whereas, by contrast, the second steel strip (7) is heated. The second path is longer than the first path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventors: Roland Kellermayr, Konrad Krimpelstaetter, Alois Stadlbauer
  • Patent number: 11440082
    Abstract: An apparatus to make a metal mesh having longitudinal rods and transverse rods which have a diameter and reciprocal pitch defined on each occasion according to requirements, is provided, having a first operating group and a second operating group disposed in sequence and functionally coordinated, to obtain a reticular semi-worked product that is completed to make the desired metal mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: M.E.P. MACCHINE ELETTRONICHE PIEGATRICI S.P.A.
    Inventor: Giorgio Del Fabro
  • Patent number: 11440084
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an outside joint member, the outside joint member including a cup portion in a bottomed tubular shape and a shaft portion that is a shaft-like portion extending from a bottom portion of the cup portion and that has a spline shaft having an outer peripheral surface on which spline teeth are formed, includes forging a forming material to form a shape of the cup portion and a shape of the spline shaft on the shaft portion simultaneously using a forging die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yohei Fukumoto, Motonori Nakao, Kenichi Kurisu, Shuhei Fukuda, Kazuya Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11407140
    Abstract: An adjustable toe board, an adjustable toe board assembly, kit and sawmill comprising the adjustable toe board are provided. The toe board comprises a baseplate having a first end, an opposed second end, and a rod extending away from the baseplate. The toe board includes a support bar pivotably coupled to the baseplate proximate the first end, spaced apart from the rod, and extending towards the second end, the support bar being configured to support a log. The toe board also includes a ratcheting arm pivotably coupled to the support bar, the ratcheting arm having a plurality of spaced-apart teeth defining notches adapted and positioned to selectively engage with the rod, wherein selective engagement of the teeth with the rod enables pivotal adjustment and releasable locking of the support bar relative to the baseplate during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Inventor: Brian Shellswell
  • Patent number: 11407019
    Abstract: A press forming method includes a first process of obtaining a pressing force applied to each portion of a tool by an workpiece material during press forming while independently driving the respective each portion of the tool divided into multiple portions and press forming the workpiece material, and a second process of adjusting at least one of an applied driving force, an applied driving speed, and an applied driving timing for each portion of the tool to cause a processing portion of the workpiece material in which the state approaching an overload state is detected based on the pressing force to flow to other processing portions of the workpiece material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Wada, Shuji Yamamoto, Mitsuharu Yamagata
  • Patent number: 11400498
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cross-rolling mill, having a plurality of roll shafts (1), each applying a radially directed rolling force to a workpiece, wherein orientation of a roll axis (w) of at least one of the roll shafts (1) adjustably changes about a first adjustment axis (S1) and a second adjustment axis (S2), wherein an intermediate member (9, 10) is arranged between a rotary baring (4, 5) and a control element (11, 12), and wherein the intermediate member (9, 10) includes a rolling force-transmitting rocker pin (14, 15) having a spherical surface (14a, 14b, 15a, 15b) that provides for pivotal movement in a plurality of directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventor: Walter Kirchner
  • Patent number: 11400677
    Abstract: A portable roller compactor for compacting waste located in a container, which is open on the top, has a frame-like basic structure and an articulated arm, one end of which is supported by the basic structure, and the other, free end of which supports a roller compactor that essentially can be rotated about a horizontal axis of rotation. The articulated arm of the roller compactor is pivotably attached to a sliding carriage, which is mounted on the frame-like base structure and can be moved in a longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: HUSMANN UMWELT-TECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Heinz Hermann Husmann, Wolfgang Muchall
  • Patent number: 11394165
    Abstract: Hydraulic crimp tools, working heads for hydraulic crimp tools and die sets for crimping wire connectors onto electrical conductor wires using such hydraulic crimp tools are provided. The die sets include identical dies that can be repositioned on the working head to mechanically secure wire connectors to an electrical conductor wire or a bundle of electrical conductor wires from different orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HUBBELL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Richard E. Robicheau, Adam W. Jones, Shane M. Hopps
  • Patent number: 11389848
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flattening device, comprising: a rack; a material-pressing component, which is provided on the rack and has a material-pressing part; a material-guiding component, which is provided on the rack and has a material-guiding part corresponding to the material-pressing part, the material-pressing part and the material-guiding part being configured to be able to bear against two sides of a sheet material respectively, so as to form a flattening channel between the material-guiding part and the material-pressing part; and an adjusting component, which drives at least one of the material-pressing component and the material-guiding component to move, so as to adjust the distance between the material-pressing part and the material-guiding part. Further disclosed are a material-conveying apparatus including the flattening device and a sheet material processing system comprising the material-conveying apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: DALIAN FIELD HEAVY-MACHINERY MANUFACTURING CO., LTD
    Inventor: Guowu Gao
  • Patent number: 11383472
    Abstract: A press for waste has an actuator (42) that moves a ram (40) in a chamber (30). The actuator and the ram are connected by a fastening system (100). The fastening system allows the ram to be displaced in a direction perpendicular to the length and direction of travel of the actuator. In this way, as inner surfaces of the chamber wear the ram may adjust to the worn surfaces without applying large forces perpendicular to the length of the actuator. When the actuator moves forward, it pushes directly against the back of the ram. When the actuator moves backwards, it pulls a pin (102) that pushes on an inner surface (108) of the ram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: ANAERGIA B.V.
    Inventors: Willem Jan Oude Grotebevelsborg, Carlo Gonella
  • Patent number: 11358199
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for correcting a vehicle member, by which twisting or deflection of a vehicle member including a side member of the vehicle, may be corrected, may be disclosed, wherein the apparatus for correcting a vehicle member includes a base extending in a lengthwise direction thereof, and a plurality of correction units disposed on the base to be movable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Young Min Won, Dae Weon Kim, Tea Jung Yoon, Yong Baek Suh, Kyung Bum Kim
  • Patent number: 11358209
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a hot forged material capable of preventing the generation of double-barreling shaped forging defects. The method for producing a hot forged material, wherein both an upper die and a lower die are made of Ni-based super heat-resistant alloy and the method comprises a hot forging step of pressing a material for hot forging by the lower die and the upper die in the air to form the hot forged material, the method comprising: a raw material heating step of heating the material for hot forging in a furnace to a heating temperature within a range of 1025 to 1150° C.; a die heating step of heating the upper die and the lower die to a heating temperature within a range of 950 to 1075° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Suzuki, Tomonori Ueno, Shinichi Kobayashi, Shoichi Takahashi, Takanori Matsui
  • Patent number: 11358190
    Abstract: A method for producing a composite material by plating a band arrangement with a top side (O) and a bottom side (U), wherein the band arrangement comprises at least a first strip and a second strip, which form between them a filling channel, wherein the band arrangement comprises at least one filler strip, wherein the abovementioned band arrangement is plated, wherein a part of the filler strip, during the plating, is extruded into the filling channel; and a composite material, characterized in that it has been produced according to the method as disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Wickeder Westfalenstahl GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Balkenhol, Jens Erlemeyer
  • Patent number: 11358210
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a swaging tool includes forming a body of the swaging tool via additive manufacturing, forming a jaw of the swaging tool, and connecting the jaw with the body. Forming the body may include providing a portion of the body with a lattice structure. The portion may be internal and may not be externally accessible. Forming the body may include adding material to form at least one recess in an outer surface of the body. The method may include conducting a stress analysis. The at least one recess may be formed based on or according to the stress analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Tanul Singh, Christopher T. Cantrell, Emmanuel Matthews, Srinivasan A. Tekalur, Lucas Stahl, David St. John, Gregory Kiernan
  • Patent number: 11352678
    Abstract: A method for partial hardening of an austenitic steel by utilizing during cold deformation the TWIP (Twinning Induced Plasticity), TWIP/TRIP or TRIP (Transformation Induced Plasticity) hardening effect. Cold deformation is carried out by cold rolling at least one surface of the steel with forming degree (?) of 5???60% in order to achieve in the steel at least two consecutive areas with different mechanical values in thickness, yield strength (Rp0.2), tensile strength (Rm) and elongation, having a ratio (r) between the ultimate load ratio (?F) and the thickness ratio (?t) of 1.0>r>2.0, and in which the areas are mechanically connected to each other by a transition area having a thickness that is variable from the thickness of the first area in the deformation direction to the thickness of the second area in the deformation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Outokumpu Oyj
    Inventors: Thomas Fröhlich, Stefan Lindner, Thorsten Piniek
  • Patent number: 11338344
    Abstract: A component forming tool for forming a component from a blank includes a die forming shell for forming the component from the blank. A first shell portion of the die forming shell is located on a first set of support elements and a second shell portion is located on a second set of support elements. The tool includes at least one induction heating coil for induction heating of a workpiece disposed within a cavity formed by the first and second shell portions. The first set of support elements include multi-material support elements having at least two layers of different materials and the second set of support elements include multi-material support elements having at least two layers of different materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: TEMPER IP, LLC
    Inventor: William C. Dykstra