Patents Examined by Matthew Stephens
  • 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: 11730184
    Abstract: A system and method for processing organic material, the system having four stackable housings, each housing defining a compartment, in which a first compartment of a first housing contains upper grinding teeth, and second compartment of a second housing contains lower grinding teeth, and when organic material is added to the second compartment, the upper grinding teeth and the lower grinding teeth work together to crush the organic material into smaller pieces and granules. The second housing contains holes to allow the smaller pieces and granules to fall into a third compartment of a third housing, where a filter catches the smaller pieces but allows the granules to fall to a fourth compartment of a fourth housing. The third housing has Smaller pieces trapped by the filter can be removed a sidewall opening in the third housing, and the granules can be removed through a slot in the fourth housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: BUBBLY BLASTER, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Hall, Stason Strong
  • 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: 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: 11638947
    Abstract: A mold for a press brake includes an upper mold that is mountable on an upper table and a lower mold mountable on a lower table in a press brake. The upper mold and the lower mold vertically face each other and have respective pressurizing surfaces. The respective pressurizing surfaces are superposed with each other in a pressing direction so as to define a wedge shaped recess between the respective pressurizing surfaces. The respective pressurizing surfaces are configured to pressurize a workpiece positioned between the respective pressurizing surfaces. Further, one of the pressurizing surfaces is formed as a level surface and the other is formed as an inclined surface. The upper mold includes a V-shaped workpiece bending portion that can freely enter into a bending groove provided in the lower mold, and the respective pressurizing surfaces are positioned outside of the bending groove of the lower mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: AMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingjun Jin, Takahiro Shibata, Shiro Hayashi, Shin Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11633773
    Abstract: A domer station having a domer assembly, a housing assembly, and a stacked piston assembly is provided. The domer assembly is movably disposed within a domer body passage located in the housing assembly and structured to move between a forward, first position and a retracted, second position. The stacked piston assembly includes a plurality of pistons, preferably three pistons, disposed in series and a pressure supply. The pistons are disposed behind the domer in pressure chambers. The pistons have a constant pressure applied thereto and are biased towards the domer. The pistons are, however, each restrained by a stop and do not contact, or operatively engage, the domer when the domer is in the domer first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory H. Butcher, James A. McClung, Paul L. Ripple
  • Patent number: 11623259
    Abstract: A system for flattening steel plates includes crane, a first conveyor, a second conveyor, a first shape detector, a second shape detector, a first rangefinder, a second rangefinder, a first detection device, a second detection device, a first idler roller, a second idler roller, a flattening machine, a first robot, a second robot, a third robot, and a fourth robot. The flattening machine is connected to one end of the first conveyor and one end of the second conveyor. The first shape detector is disposed above a middle part of the first conveyor. The second shape detector is disposed above a middle part of the second conveyor. The first rangefinder is disposed at one end of the first conveyor. The first detection device is disposed between the first rangefinder and the flattening machine. The second rangefinder is disposed on one end of the flattening machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Lifeng Ma, Rongjun Wang, Zhibin Yao, Lianyun Jiang, Lidong Ma, Wenxu Yuan, Hailian Gui, Yuquan Tong
  • Patent number: 11612923
    Abstract: In a tandem type cold rolling mill of a circulating oil-feeding system for continuously rolling a steel sheet by feeding a coolant serving as a rolling oil and a cooling water to each stand, an edge heater for heating both edge portions of the steel sheet to not lower than 60° C. as a steel sheet temperature at an entry side of a roll bite is arranged at an upstream side of the first stand in the cold rolling mill and a device for jetting a coolant having a concentration higher than that of the coolant fed to the firsts stand onto surfaces of both edge portions of the steel sheet is arranged between the edge heater and the first stand. The cold rolling mill can be used to roll a hard-to-roll material such as silicon or stainless steel sheet without causing an edge crack or sheet breakage in low-speed rolling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsuhito Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11583976
    Abstract: A shot-peen forming system includes a shot-sourcing chamber and a plurality of conduits, each having a first end and a second end. The first ends are coupled to the shot-sourcing chamber for receiving a portion of shot. A plurality of peen-forming jets are coupled to the second end of a respective one of the plurality of conduits. The plurality of jets are each adapted to fire shot in one of a plurality of predetermined directions to simultaneously deliver shot to a workpiece. An omnidirectional shot peening delivery system includes a plurality of nozzles positioned for shot peening from a plurality of angles, respectively. A shot distributor is adapted to receive shot through an inlet and distribute shot to the plurality of nozzles, and a workpiece holder is adapted to constrain a workpiece for receiving shot from the plurality of nozzles simultaneously to provide conformity during shot-peen forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Textron Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: David Ted Krehbiel, Joshua Ross Huston, Bradley Randal Higgins, Aaron Paul Shirley
  • Patent number: 11565297
    Abstract: A method and a correspondingly configured bending machine are described, wherein a setting of the bending machine is first calculated on the basis of a mathematical model and subsequently corrected on the basis of stored data sets on previous bending operations and their correction values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HÄUSLER HOLDING AG
    Inventor: Alexander Zwahlen
  • Patent number: 11559831
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an extrusion press (10, 20, 30) with a press cylinder (111), the press cylinder (111) being driven with an electro-hydrostatic control system (104) for a power transmission and being connected to a separate drive (120, 400) for rapid traverse, with a container (115), wherein the container (115) is connected to a hydraulic cylinder (117) for a power transmission and to a further separate drive (119, 300) for rapid traverse, with a hydraulic cylinder (101) with a locking device (103) for driving a shearing tool (102), wherein the hydraulic cylinder (101) is connected to the electro-hydrostatic control system (104), and wherein the press cylinder (111) in the power transmission and the hydraulic cylinder (101) for driving a shearing tool (102) are controlled alternately via the common electro-hydrostatic control system (104).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Kirch
  • Patent number: 11554409
    Abstract: A rebar tying tool (2; 302; 402) include a feed mechanism (24), which includes a first motor (32; 304) and feeds a wire (W), and a twisting mechanism, which includes a second motor (76; 306) and twists together one or more portions of the wire. A control unit (202; 350) controls the first motor and the second motor and includes a general-purpose I/O port (202c; 350c) and a motor-control-signal output port (202a; 350a). A motor-control-signal-output-destination-switching circuit (204; 310; 406) inputs motor-control signals (UH, VH, WH, UL, VL, WL) from the control unit via the motor-control-signal output port and selectively outputs the inputted motor-control signals to either the first motor or the second motor in response to input of a switching signal (SW).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunta Mizuno, Masahiro Watanabe, Yuki Kawai
  • Patent number: 11554401
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a correction equipment for an end face of an aluminum alloy wheel, including a correction device and a transport device, which is configured to transport the aluminum alloy wheel to the correction device. The correction device comprises a rack body, which is provided with an oil cylinder on an upper part, a lower pressing plate on a middle part and a jacking air cylinder on a bottom part, with an output end of the oil cylinder fixedly connected downward to an upper pressing disc and an output end of jacking air cylinder fixedly connected upward to a lifting frame, on which a displacement roller way is provided. The present invention satisfies the need for an end face correction for an aluminum alloy wheel while having significant, stable and reliable characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: CITIC Dicastal Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiandong Guo, Le Zhang, Yuemei Zang
  • Patent number: 11554567
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hand press for pressing a package, the hand press having a housing, which has at least one first opening for the inserting the package and at least one second opening for the disposing of the package. Furthermore, the hand press has a pressing device, which is arranged essentially inside the housing and which has a first pressing surface, and an actuating device, which is connected via a rotary shaft with at least one lever, which is rotatably mounted with the pressing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Inventor: Hubert Troppmann
  • Patent number: 11541445
    Abstract: A tight space pilot, tight space pilot assembly, and related method includes a tight space pilot that can be installed into a die without fasteners, fastener apertures, or added blocks for mounting. The tight space pilot assembly includes ejectors that are retained by the pilot and a retaining ring that holds the tight space pilot in place in a die member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: STANDARD LIFTERS, INC.
    Inventors: Scott M. Breen, Joel T. Pyper
  • Patent number: 11511330
    Abstract: A press formed product is disclosed. A method for manufacturing the press formed product is a method for manufacturing the press formed product including applying press processing including stretch flange forming to a single metal sheet of one sheet material after performing shearing processing of the metal sheet to manufacture the press formed product. When a region where a stretch flange crack is estimated to be likely to occur when the single metal sheet is press formed by the press processing is set as a stretch flange crack region, the press processing is applied after heating and cooling the end surface of the metal sheet positioned in the stretch flange crack region and at least the end surface in the end surface and the vicinity thereof in the single metal sheet after the shearing processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tobita, Toyohisa Shinmiya, Yuji Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 11504760
    Abstract: A wire bending device is adapted for bending hanger wires hanging from a ceiling in preparation of the installation of rails of a suspended ceiling. The bending device comprises a pole having a top extremity, a head module mounted to the pole, and a pair of handles distant from the head module for holding and activating the head module. The head module comprises a casing, a motor enclosed in the casing, a channel housed by the casing for receiving the hanger wire; and a push member driven by the motor travelling between an hanger wire insert position and a wire bend position, wherein the push member is adapted to push against the hanger wire and bend the hanger wire during its travel. Thereby, one may operate the bending device from the ground and bend hanger wires for installation of suspended ceiling rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: GESTION T.F.C. INC.
    Inventor: Franky Champagne
  • Patent number: 11498108
    Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus for a hat-shaped cross-section component includes a die having first molding surfaces, a pad having a second molding surface, a punch having a third molding surface, a holder having fourth molding surfaces, and a first restraint portion. An upright wall is molded between a top and each of flanges by moving the pad and the punch relative to the die and the holder, or moving the die and the holder relative to the pad and the punch. The first restraint portion is configured to, during a period from when a top forming part is sandwiched by the second molding surface and the third molding surface to when the upright walls are molded, suppress displacement of the top forming part in a longitudinal direction of the top forming part relative to the second molding surface and the third molding surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Isao Nojiri, Naoya Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11497355
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to food preparation appliance with a rotatable tool for chopping and/or mixing a food in a food preparation container, the tool being detachably connected to a shaft, which extends from outside the food preparation container through a passage toward the tool inside the food preparation container in order to be able to drive the tool to rotate. A locking mechanism is provided for producing a locked connection of the tool to the shaft and is equipped so that a releasing and/or a locking of the connection of the tool from/to the shaft can be performed from outside the food preparation container. The present disclosure also relates to an anchoring assembly for the food preparation appliance. It is thus possible to ensure a simple and convenient removal of a prepared food from the food preparation container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventor: Philipp Charopoulos
  • Patent number: 11465153
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an anti-adhesion crushing tool for crushing damp ores. The anti-adhesion crushing tool can effectively improve the current working environment in attapulgite crushing, and is beneficial to effectively improve the anti-adhesion properties of the attapulgite clay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Chengdu University of Technology
    Inventors: Xingqiao Deng, Zhifei Du, Lun Wang, Chengfu Li