Methods Patents (Class 219/121.72)
  • Patent number: 11969821
    Abstract: A system includes an energy source, a focusing system, and a controller. The energy source is configured to output energy pulses to the focusing system. A chamber surrounds at least a portion of a metallic substrate and contain a liquid in contact with a surface of the metallic substrate. The controller is configured to cause the energy source to output energy pulses and cause the focusing system to focus a focal volume of the energy pulses at or near the surface of the metallic substrate that is in contact with the liquid to create micro-scale or smaller surface texturing on the metallic substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiangnan He, David A. Ruben
  • Patent number: 11965786
    Abstract: There is provided a capacitive pressure sensor comprising: a dielectric layer; a first electrode disposed on a first surface of the dielectric layer and to which a pressure is applied; a second electrode disposed on a second surface of the dielectric layer opposite to the first surface and including a plurality of unit electrodes having a predetermined shape; and a measuring device configured to detect a measurement value of a capacitance of the dielectric layer for each unit electrode by causing a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUTABA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Ide, Yuhi Taguchi
  • Patent number: 11958130
    Abstract: A described method includes engraving, marking and/or inscribing a workpiece using a laser plotter. In a housing of the laser plotter, one, preferably more, in particular two laser sources in the form of lasers have an effect preferably alternating on the workpiece to be processed. The workpiece is laid in a defined manner on a processing table and a laser beam emitted from the beam source is transmitted to at least one focusing unit via deflection elements and the laser beam is diverted toward the workpiece and focused for processing. A sequence control adapted to the quality of the engraving is determined and/or carried out by a control unit and the focusing unit on the carriage is controlled corresponding to the defined parameters of the sequence control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Trotec Laser GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Hofinger
  • Patent number: 11945050
    Abstract: Provided is an electrode sheet manufacturing apparatus that forms an electrode sheet by cutting a sheet stack including an electrode composite material layer and a separator provided on the electrode composite material layer. The electrode sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a laser irradiation device that irradiates the sheet stack with a first laser beam having a wavelength to be absorbed by the separator and a second laser beam having a wavelength to be absorbed by the electrode composite material layer, and a controller that controls driving of the laser irradiation device. The controller moves an irradiation position of the first laser beam relative to the sheet stack and moves an irradiation position of the second laser beam so as to follow a track of the irradiation position of the first laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takahiro Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11938564
    Abstract: This specification describes systems, methods, and architectures related to generating a plasma shield for laser operations. An example system for generating a plasma shield includes a laser head for directing a laser beam towards a target area on a workpiece. The path of the laser beam from the laser head to the target area on the workpiece is substantially surrounded by a plasma shield, which may form a gas-impermeable barrier. The plasma shield is configured to prevent the ingress of atmospheric or environmental gases, for example oxygen, into an area which would allow the gas to be in contact with the area of the workpiece being interacted with by a laser beam. The shape or location of the plasma shield may be controlled or altered using a magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Faris Hasan Tulbah, Rafael Adolfo Lastra Melo
  • Patent number: 11919734
    Abstract: A method for separating blanks includes continuous conveying of a sheet metal strip in a transport direction to a laser cutting station, concurrent cutting of the sheet metal strip by at least one cutting laser, wherein a cut sheet metal strip is formed from successive sections of the same cutting geometry, transporting the cut sheet metal strip on a first conveyor belt in the transport direction, taking over the cut sheet metal strip from the first conveyor belt, transporting the cut sheet metal strip in the transport direction, separately ejecting the at least one residual blank of each section, transporting the at least one blank of each section into overlap with a second conveyor belt and ejecting the at least one blank from the suction conveyor, and transporting the blanks ejected one after the other from the suction conveyor horizontally in the transport direction to a collecting station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SCHULER PRESSEN GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Summerer, Alexander Seitz
  • Patent number: 11884034
    Abstract: In a tread-forming surface of a mold, a contour of a land surface-forming portion located between two projections among at least three land surface-forming portions can be represented by a single circular arc that is convex outward. In a case where, of the two projections, one projection is a wide projection and the other projection is a narrow projection, when a surface that has a contour represented by at least one circular arc and that is tangent to the at least three land surface-forming portions is defined as a reference surface of the tread-forming surface, a drop distance from the reference surface to an end on the wide projection side of the land surface-forming portion can be longer than a drop distance from the reference surface to an end on the narrow projection side of the land surface-forming portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Uno
  • Patent number: 11851361
    Abstract: A method is provided for scoring glasses. The method includes the steps of generating a deep crack in the glass along an intended separation line by exerting pressure onto the glass surface using a rigid scoring tool, wherein the scoring tool, by being pressed against the glass surface and due to the advancement force while introducing the deep crack generates a zone of elastic strain in the glass in a direction along the glass surface and perpendicular to the separation line, which extends in an arc in the plane defined by the separation line perpendicular to the glass surface such that one leg of the arc is located close to the contact point of the scoring tool on the glass surface and another leg is located inside the glass. The arc being open towards the advancement/advancement direction of the scoring tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Markus Heiss-Chouquet, Matthias Jotz, Clemens Ottermann
  • Patent number: 11853493
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a transparent conductive film for a touch sensitive panel, comprising: providing a layered structure comprising a plurality of homogeneous layers which include at least a first transparent conductive layer, a second transparent conductive layer, and a transparent support substrate between the first transparent conductive layer and the second transparent conductive layer, the transparent support substrate being the thickest layer of the layered structure; forming an electrode pattern in the first transparent conductive layer by laser ablation of the first transparent layer by a laser beam incident on the first transparent layer from a side of the transparent support substrate on which the first transparent layer is provided; wherein the laser beam and transparent support substrate are configured such that the laser beam energy density is reduced by 50% or more by the transparent support substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: M-SOLV LIMITED
    Inventors: Philip Rumsby, Adam Brunton
  • Patent number: 11848436
    Abstract: Disclosed is method and device for forming an electrode plate. The method includes: performing tab cutting on a substrate so that the substrate forms a body portion, an edge portion connecting to the body portion, and a plurality of tabs that connect to the body portion but are separated from the edge portion; and performing edge portion cutting on the substrate to separate the edge portion from the body portion. The electrode plate is formed in two steps. First, the tab and the edge portion are separated, so that in the process of cutting, impact of vibration of the edge portion on the tab is small, greatly reducing the risk of deformation of the tab caused by vibration of the edge portion and damage to the tab caused by being pulled by the edge portion. Second, edge portion cutting separates the edge portion from the body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Shaojun Qiu, Nengwu Liao, Chao Guo, Tiefeng Wu
  • Patent number: 11820227
    Abstract: A functional element having electrically controllable optical properties having a plurality of side edges includes a stacking sequence having a first carrier film, a first planar electrode divided by an isolation line into at least two segments, an active layer, a second planar electrode, and a second carrier film, wherein on a first side edge in a first region, the second carrier film, the second planar electrode, and the active layer have a first cutback and in a second region, the first carrier film, the first planar electrode, and the active layer have a second cutback, a group of first bus bars electrically conductively contacts the first planar electrode, and each segment of the first planar electrode is electrically conductively contacted by a bus bar from the group of the first bus bars, and at least one second bus bar electrically conductively contacts the second planar electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Robin Spanjers, Francois Hermange
  • Patent number: 11819949
    Abstract: Laser processing of hard dielectric materials may include cutting a part from a hard dielectric material using a continuous wave laser operating in a quasi-continuous wave (QCW) mode to emit consecutive laser light pulses in a wavelength range of about 1060 nm to 1070 nm. Cutting using a QCW laser may be performed with a lower duty cycle (e.g., between about 1% and 15%) and in an inert gas atmosphere such as nitrogen, argon or helium. Laser processing of hard dielectric materials may further include post-cut processing the cut edges of the part cut from the dielectric material, for example, by beveling and/or polishing the edges to reduce edge defects. The post-cut processing may be performed using a laser beam with different laser parameters than the beam used for cutting, for example, by using a shorter wavelength (e.g., 193 nm excimer laser) and/or a shorter pulse width (e.g., picosecond laser).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: IPG PHOTONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. Sercel, Marco Mendes, Rouzbeh Sarrafi, Joshua Schoenly, Xiangyang Song, Mathew Hannon, Miroslaw Sokol
  • Patent number: 11817748
    Abstract: A method for constructing a lamination for a rotary electric machine includes forming an annular lamination from a ferrous core material having a first relative magnetic permeability. The lamination defines through-openings, e.g., for permanent magnets or conductors. Peripheral bridges of the core material extend between the through-openings and an outer or inner diameter surface of the lamination. The method includes diffusing an alloy material having a second relative magnetic permeability into the bridges to form austenitic bridges, with the second relative magnetic permeability being less than the first relative magnetic permeability. A rotary electric machine includes a stator and rotor. A vehicle includes a rotary electric machine connected to the battery pack and to road wheels, and having a rotor and/or a stator constructed in accordance with the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Fatemi, Anil K. Sachdev, Thomas W. Nehl
  • Patent number: 11806811
    Abstract: A method for producing a shaped sheet of wrapping, including a hollow portion and a perimetral edge that extends along a pre-set profile, is provided. The method includes laying a sheet of wrapping on a treatment surface having a forming cavity. The method includes forming the sheet of wrapping within the forming cavity so as to reproduce the shape of the hollow portion thereon, without subjecting the sheet of wrapping to deformation by stretching. The method includes cutting the formed sheet of wrapping along the pre-set profile for producing the perimetral edge and obtaining the shaped sheet of wrapping. In the method, the cutting step envisages the use of a laser beam according to a particular cutting mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SOREMARTEC S.A.
    Inventor: Sergio Mansuino
  • Patent number: 11801131
    Abstract: A heart valve prosthesis includes a frame and a prosthetic disposed within a lumen of the frame. The frame includes a plurality of struts and crowns and has a radially collapsed state and a radially expanded state. A stiffness of the plurality of struts is varied by varying the width of at least one strut of the plurality of struts such that when the frame is in the radially expanded state, the frame has a substantially elliptical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Baldwin
  • Patent number: 11794283
    Abstract: A unitary adapter for attaching a cutting nozzle to a laser cutting head includes an inner cylinder made of ceramic, a conductive shield sintered to the outer sidewall of the ceramic cylinder, a threaded conductive holder (for accepting the cutting nozzle) mounted in an opening at one end of the ceramic cylinder, and a coaxial connector (for connection to external measuring equipment) attached to an opposite end of the ceramic cylinder. A pair of wires is formed to be embedded within the ceramic material and provide separate electrical connections between the coaxial connector and: (1) the threaded holder, and (2) the conductive shield. The various components are sintered to the ceramic body to form permanent attachments, creating a unitary structure less susceptible to the high levels of acceleration and elevated temperatures associated with the laser cutting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: II-VI Delaware, Inc.
    Inventors: Goran Bjelajac, Frank Schulze
  • Patent number: 11794284
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods of manufacturing a workpiece fixture (10) and also a target material fixture (10), for use in precision manufacturing processes. A sheet material is supported on a generic material fixture (10) and the sheet material precision processed to form support blades (16, 18) for a target workpiece fixture (10). Each support blade (16, 18) has a support locus and interstices are positioned in the support loci where a target pattern and the support loci coincide. Thus, there are no unnecessary clearances between the workpiece support (10) and the workpiece. The interstices that are present are located only where necessary to reduce or eliminate any interference between the precision manufacturing process and the fixture (10), when it is used in a precision process involving the target pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TANNLIN TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: James Stewart Hall, James Graham Hall, Jake Gillespie, Scott McVey, Michael Gallagher
  • Patent number: 11780032
    Abstract: A control device controls a beam vibrating mechanism to vibrate a laser beam in a C-shaped vibration pattern in which a beam spot is moved from a first irradiation position at a front end in a cutting advancing direction to a second irradiation position at a rear side and displaced in an orthogonal direction to the cutting advancing direction, and is moved from the second irradiation position to a third irradiation position at a front end and displaced in the orthogonal direction to the cutting advancing direction, and movement from the first irradiation position to the third irradiation position via the second irradiation position, and movement from the third irradiation position to the first irradiation position via the second irradiation position are repeated. The control device performs control to cut the sheet metal by causing beam spots in the first to third irradiation positions to overlap one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Amada Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Yamanashi, Koji Funaki, Akihiko Sugiyama, Takehiko Shigefuji
  • Patent number: 11772189
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a groove on a line formed on one surface of an electrical steel sheet in a direction crossing a rolling direction; and a thermal shock portion on a line formed on one surface of the electrical steel sheet in the direction crossing the rolling direction, wherein a distance between the groove and the thermal shock portion is 1 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: POSCO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Se-Min Park, Jae Soo Kim, Ki-Young Min, Seong-Cheol Hong, Won-Gul Lee
  • Patent number: 11745291
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a support unit supporting a substrate including a film, a laser generation unit that generates a laser beam to process the film, a beam splitter that splits the laser beam into a first laser beam travelling along a first path toward an upper edge of the substrate and a second laser beam travelling along a second path toward a lower edge of the substrate, a first beam shaping unit on the first path shaping the first laser beam, a second beam shaping unit on the second path shaping the second laser beam, a first beam scanning unit downstream of the first beam shaping unit that applies the first laser beam to the upper edge in the manner of scanning, and a second beam scanning unit downstream of the second beam shaping unit that applies the second laser beam to the lower edge in the manner of scanning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SEMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ohyeol Kwon, Jun Keon Ahn, Byungsun Bang
  • Patent number: 11731303
    Abstract: A precut module with one or more profiling heads and/or circular saws may be provided upstream of a saw module. The precut module may be used to implement a portion of a cut that would otherwise be made by the saw module, thereby reducing the depth of cut required at the saw module. In some embodiments, profiling heads may be used to profile a block that is wider than a desired side board. The block may be cut from the workpiece and sent to the edger. This may provide the same or better wood volume recovery and/or throughput speed than profiling the side board or cutting the side board from a flitch. In some embodiments, cut patterns for the precut module and other machine centers may be calculated and/or selected based on a desired depth of cut at the saw module, desired throughput speed, wood volume recovery, and/or other parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: USNR, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher W. Blomquist
  • Patent number: 11717904
    Abstract: The durability and detection accuracy of a sensor unit may possibly decrease due to radiation heat generated from work pieces while they are welded together. A sensor device 1 includes a sensor unit 2, a housing case 3, and a shielding member 5. The sensor unit 2 is a device for measuring the shapes of the work pieces W or the distance to the work pieces W. The housing case 3 houses the sensor unit 2 and has formed therein a pass-through portion 36a for laser beam projection and a pass-through portion 36b for detection that pass a laser beam L1 from a laser beam projection unit 21 and a laser beam L2 directed to a detection unit 22, respectively. The shielding member 5 is attached to the housing case 3, and shields radiation heat directed toward the lower surface of the housing case 3 among radiation heat generated while the work pieces W are welded together. The shielding member 5 is made of a material with lower thermal conductivity than that of the housing case 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: DAIHEN CORPORATION, KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Tani, Hirokazu Saito, Kengo Onishi, Tomohiro Noguchi, Daisuke Kanai
  • Patent number: 11715866
    Abstract: A method of forming edge materials on an electrochemical cell component having a metallic foil substrate including a conductive coating on top and bottom surfaces and first and second edge portions extending laterally outward beyond the conductive coating, includes pulling the metallic foil substrate from a roll, feeding the metallic foil substrate through a profile machine and forming notches within the first and second edge portions that extend inwardly from outermost edges of the first and second edge portions a distance less than a distance between the outermost edges and the conductive coating, and define a plurality of electrode tabs, feeding the strip of metallic foil substrate sequentially through a plurality of 3-dimensional printing machines and printing edge materials onto the electrode tabs and the first and second edge portions between the plurality of electrode tabs, and rolling the strip of metallic foil substrate onto a roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Wai Ping Gloria Tam, David F. Titmuss
  • Patent number: 11712750
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a laser system for processing a material. The system may make use of a laser configured to intermittently generate a first laser pulse of a first duration and a first average power, at a spot on a surface of the material being processed, and a second laser pulse having a second duration and a second peak power. The second duration may be shorter than the first duration by a factor of at least 100, and directed at the spot. The second laser pulse is generated after the first laser pulse is generated. The first laser pulse is used to heat the spot on the surface of the material, while the second laser pulse induces a melt motion and material ejection of molten material from the melt pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Sonny S. Ly, Jeffrey D. Bude, Gabriel Mark Guss, Wesley John Keller, Raluca A. Negres, Alexander M. Rubenchik, Nan Shen
  • Patent number: 11703913
    Abstract: A display module including non-folding portions and a folding portion disposed between the non-folding portions; a first supporting member disposed under the display module; and a second supporting member disposed between the display module and the first supporting member, wherein the first supporting member may include: a first supporter and a second supporter overlapping with the non-folding portions; and an adhesive member attaching the display module to the second supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changmin Park, Sangwol Lee, Kyungmin Choi
  • Patent number: 11702727
    Abstract: The method for obtaining rolling mill rolls with a coating of tungsten carbide or the alloy thereof, wherein the coating is a single layer and is carried out by high velocity thermal spraying is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: MECANIZACION INDUSTRIAL ASTILLERO, S.A.
    Inventor: Gregorio Fuentevilla Diaz
  • Patent number: 11691225
    Abstract: Laser cutting on a plated steel sheet is executed by cutting the plated steel sheet by irradiating the plated steel sheet covered with a plate metal with laser light at a wavelength in a 1 micrometer band; and emitting assist gas onto a cut surface of the plated steel sheet, the cut surface being formed in the step of cutting, to make the plate metal fused by irradiation of the laser light flow to the cut surface so as to cover the cut surface with the plate metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: AMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Hara, Masanori Uehara
  • Patent number: 11691224
    Abstract: A fixture used in the manufacture of an eyepiece, to cut the eyepiece to a particular shape, and a method of using the fixture to cut the eyepiece to have a desired shape. Embodiments are directed to a configurable fixture to align, hold, and protect a plastic sheet (e.g., a wafer) while a laser cutting apparatus is cutting one or more eyepieces out of the wafer. During the cutting, the fixture protects the eyepieces from reflected laser light by providing voids around the laser cutting lines, and by supporting each eyepiece near its perimeter. The fixture can be quickly rearranged for different eyepieces, different eyepiece shapes, and/or different plastic sheet sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Christopher Sawicki, Jeffrey Dean Schmulen, Christophe Peroz, Sharad D. Bhagat
  • Patent number: 11669130
    Abstract: A display module including non-folding portions and a folding portion disposed between the non-folding portions; a first supporting member disposed under the display module; and a second supporting member disposed between the display module and the first supporting member, wherein the first supporting member may include: a first supporter and a second supporter overlapping with the non-folding portions; and an adhesive member attaching the display module to the second supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changmin Park, Sangwol Lee, Kyungmin Choi
  • Patent number: 11656528
    Abstract: Multiple collimated laser beams can be arranged in a tightly packed non-overlapping array the goes through a telescope system to reduce the size of the beams and also the separation between the beam centers. The beams in the resulting smaller array then diverge until they reach a nonlinear lens, which collimates each of the beams individually so that all of the beams are collimated, pointing in the same direction and overlapping. The pulses in the beams are temporally separated from each other such that the nonlinear lens acts as a different lens for each of the beams. Such an arrangement facilitates scaling the far field average intensity by combining multiple temporally interleaved pulsed laser beams, allowing diverging pulsed laser beams to be collimated individually by utilizing the large nonlinear refractive index of certain materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Myron Ruppe, Bruce Gregory Tiemann
  • Patent number: 11612963
    Abstract: A laser cutting device includes a control unit configured to control operations of a laser machining robot and a laser oscillator. Machining condition tables are stored in memory of the control unit. Each of the machining condition tables includes data of a laser power output and a duty, a usable range of a cutting speed of cutting a workpiece, the usable range being set based on a speed range in which a laser cutting robot can move with given tracking accuracy, and an effective range of the cutting speed and the laser power output that are set so that a cut surface of the workpiece meets given finishing conditions. The control unit is configured to select one of the machining condition tables so that the cutting speed and the laser power output meet given conditions, and control cutting of the workpiece based on the selected machining condition table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuyuki Nakagawa, Futoshi Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 11608594
    Abstract: A paper machine clothing has a substrate with an upper side, a lower side, two lateral edges and a usable region between the two lateral edges. The usable region is formed with a plurality of through-channels extending through the substrate and connecting the upper side with the lower side. The through-channels are non-cylindrical with a cross sectional area becoming smaller when going in a thickness direction of the substrate from the upper side to a middle region of the substrate between the upper side and the lower side, wherein a shape of the cross sectional area of at least one through-channel, preferably of all through-channels, of the plurality of through-channels changes proceeding in the thickness direction of the substrate from the upper side to the lower side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Koeckritz, Reinhard Holl, Michael Straub, Jens Kallenberg, Timo Kalefe, Tom Meijer, Johan Bergvall, Johann Boeck
  • Patent number: 11602803
    Abstract: A laser processing system capable of reliably determining an abnormality in a jet during laser process. The laser processing system comprises a nozzle including an emission opening configured to emit a jet of an assist gas along an optical axis of a laser beam, the nozzle being configured to form a maximum point of velocity of the jet at a position away from the emission opening; a measuring instrument configured to measure any of the velocity of the jet and a sound generated by the jet impinging on a workpiece; and an abnormality determination section configured to determine whether or not output data of the measuring instrument is different from reference data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Izumi
  • Patent number: 11605545
    Abstract: A wafer cleaning equipment includes a housing to be positioned adjacent to a wafer, a hollow region in the housing, a laser module that outputs a laser beam having a profile of the laser beam includes a first region having a first intensity and a second region having a second intensity greater than the first intensity, the laser beam being output into the hollow region, and a transparent window that covers an upper part of the hollow region and transmits the laser beam to be incident on an entirety of a lower surface of the wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hun Jae Jang, Seung Min Shin, Seok Hoon Kim, In Gi Kim, Tae-Hong Kim, Kun Tack Lee, Jinwoo Lee, Ji Hoon Cha, Yong Jun Choi
  • Patent number: 11565347
    Abstract: A laser processing machine includes a condenser and a water pillar forming unit. The condenser condenses a laser beam emitted from a laser oscillator and irradiates it to a workpiece held on a chuck table. The water pillar forming unit is disposed on a lower end of the condenser and is configured to form a thread-shaped water pillar on a front side of the workpiece. The laser oscillator includes a first laser oscillator, which emits a first laser beam having a short pulse width, and a second laser oscillator, which emits a second laser beam having a long pulse width. After the laser beams emitted from the first and second laser oscillators have transmitted through the thread-shaped water pillar formed by the water pillar forming unit and have been irradiated to the workpiece, a plasma occurred in the water pillar forming unit applies processing to the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiji Nomaru, Yuji Hadano
  • Patent number: 11558010
    Abstract: A method includes providing a mandrel having an electrical conduit electroformed in the mandrel. The second side of the electrical conduit is blackened while in the mandrel to create a black layer on the electrical conduit. The mandrel is aligned in a flatness fixture such that the mandrel is substantially flat. The mandrel remains flat and in a fixed relationship to the flatness fixture throughout the method. A beam of a laser is controlled toward the black layer. The beam has laser parameters including a power output, a frequency and a mark speed, and selected by setting the power output and the mark speed then determining the frequency. The beam removes a plurality of the portions of the black layer. Each removed portion of the plurality of the portions has a thickness equal to the black layer thickness, and a portion area of 9 mm2 to 18 mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Merlin Solar Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Dechaumphai, Venkatesan Murali, Sarinee Prompanut, Chagkapong Chitsamart, Niphon Lapanaphan
  • Patent number: 11554444
    Abstract: A laser machine able to effectively satisfy cutting quality required on one side of a cutting spot of a workpiece. The laser machine comprising a machining head configured to emit a laser beam and an assist gas coaxially and non-coaxially; and a data table in which data of a machining condition for cutting a workpiece using the machining head, and a shift amount, by which a center axis of the assist gas is to be shifted from an optical axis of the laser beam in order to make cutting quality on both sides of a cutting line to be different during cutting the workpiece, are stored in associated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Ryousuke Nakamura, Takashi Izumi
  • Patent number: 11548098
    Abstract: A method of forming a cutting element for an earth-boring tool may include directing at least one energy beam at a surface of a volume of polycrystalline superabrasive material including interstitial material disposed in regions between inter-bonded grains of polycrystalline superabrasive material. The method includes ablating the interstitial material with the at least one energy beam such that at least a portion of the interstitial material is removed from a first region of the volume of polycrystalline superabrasive material without any substantial degradation of the inter-bonded grains of superabrasive material or of bonds thereof in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Anthony A. DiGiovanni, Rocco DiFoggio
  • Patent number: 11537098
    Abstract: A cutting machine is provided with a machine main body and an NC device. The NC device controls the machine main body and has a tool radius compensation amount calculation unit, a machining path calculation unit, and a drive control unit. The tool radius compensation amount calculation unit generates tool radius compensation information. The machining path calculation unit generates a tool radius compensation control signal. The drive control unit generates a drive control signal. The machine main body has a machining unit and a tool path control unit. The machining unit cuts a workpiece by changing a relative position thereof with respect to the workpiece. Based on the drive control signal, the tool path control unit controls a tool path corresponding to a cutting tool and having a non-circular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: AMADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takehiro Nagayama, Kazuhiro Kanno
  • Patent number: 11503727
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display module having a first non-foldable area, a foldable area, and a second non-foldable area, which are arranged in a first direction in a unfolded state; and a first support layer disposed under the display module and having a lattice pattern including a plurality of first holes overlapping the foldable area, wherein the first holes are arranged in the first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction, and wherein: each of the first holes has a first width in the second direction and a second width in the first direction, the first width is in a range from about 2,000 ?m to about 9,000 ?m, and the second width is in a range from about 100 ?m to about 250 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongwoo Seo, Dongjin Park, Jaiku Shin, Sung Chul Choi
  • Patent number: 11487327
    Abstract: A display assembly includes: a first plate having a first surface; a second plate having a second surface; and a display formed into one sheet shape and including a first region fixed to the first surface, a second region fixed to the second surface, and a third region as a region between the first region and the second region. The display assembly includes a flat plate form in which the first and second surfaces are lined up in a plane direction to be formed into a flat-plate shape, and a folded form in which the third region is so bent that the surface of the first plate and the surface of the second plate face each other. In the flat plate form, a tension is applied to the third region in a width direction toward the first region and the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigehiro Horiuchi, Tatsuya Ushioda, Hiroaki Kinoshita, Takehito Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 11471979
    Abstract: A machining apparatus for laser machining a workpiece (12) in a machining zone (13) is provided, having a first interface (14) for a machining laser source for generating a machining laser beam (15), an outlet opening (18) for the machining laser beam (15), In an optical system between the first interface (14) and the outlet opening (18), which has at least one laser beam guiding device (22) having at least one movable surface (24) and at least one actuator (26), with which the movable surface (24) is dynamically adjustable, and a cooling device (28) for cooling the at least one actuator (26), wherein the cooling device (28) has at least one primary circuit (30) through which a first cooling fluid can flow without contact with the actuator (26). Furthermore, a set of parts for a machining apparatus for laser machining a workpiece (12) and a method of laser machining a workpiece (12) using such machining apparatus are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: BYSTRONIC LASER AG
    Inventors: Simon Scheidiger, Andreas Luedi, Roland Zollinger, Martin Mumenthaler
  • Patent number: 11465368
    Abstract: A method for bonding two elements, the method including receiving first and second elements, the first element being a composite material; applying a laser-based treatment to a surface of the first element to obtain a treated surface; patterning the treated surface to have plural trenches; applying an adhesive to one of the first and second elements; and joining the first element to the second element so that the adhesive is between the first and second elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITÁ DELLA CALABRIA
    Inventors: Ran Tao, Marco Alfano, Gilles Lubineau
  • Patent number: 11458572
    Abstract: A method of additive manufacturing includes providing a substrate material at a location proximate a surface of a part and forming the substrate material into an additive layer on top of the surface by exposing the substrate material to a first laser beam having a first power level. After forming the additive layer on the part, the method includes cooling at least a portion of the additive layer from a first temperature reached at the completion of the forming step to a second temperature. After cooling, the method includes exposing the additive layer to a second laser beam having a second power level, wherein the second power level is lower than the first power level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Paul S. Mullins, Jeffery M. Stark
  • Patent number: 11452637
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for cutting-out including a device for treating a L.A.S.E.R. beam generated by a femtosecond laser (1), and positioned downstream from said femtosecond laser, the treatment device comprising: a shaping system (3) positioned on the trajectory of said beam, for modulating the phase of the wave front of the L.A.S.E.R. beam according to a modulation set value calculated for distributing the energy of the L.A.S.E.R. beam in at least two impact points forming a pattern in its focal plane, an optical focusing system (5) downstream from the shaping system, the optical focusing system comprising a concentrator module for focusing the phase-modulated L.A.S.E.R.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignees: KERANOVA, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE JEAN MONNET SAINT ETIENNE
    Inventors: Fabrizio Romano, Aurelien Bernard, Cyril Mauclair, Emmanuel Baubeau
  • Patent number: 11446763
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a metal machining apparatus having a gas nozzle for generating a gas jet. The apparatus also has a nozzle exit opening on one end on the outside; an electronic camera for acquiring a digital image of the end of the gas nozzle with the nozzle exit opening. The apparatus also includes a pattern recognition module for mapping the digital image to at least one nozzle pattern from the group of nozzle state and/or nozzle type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: BYSTRONIC LASER AG
    Inventors: Andreas Luedi, Christoph Fahmi, Kevin Messer
  • Patent number: 11446760
    Abstract: A laser machining apparatus includes: a laser oscillator to emit a laser beam; a focusing lens to irradiate a workpiece with the laser beam; a focus position control mechanism disposed between the laser oscillator and the focusing lens and disposed on the optical path of the laser beam and that controls the divergence angle of the laser beam and the incident diameter of the laser beam incident on the focusing lens; a laser beam deflector to deflect the laser beam before the laser beam is incident on the focusing lens; and an emitting angle control mechanism to control the emitting angle of the laser beam that exits from the focusing lens after being deflected by the laser beam deflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyohei Ishikawa, Naoyuki Nakamura, Tatsuya Yamamoto, Masaki Seguchi
  • Patent number: 11446769
    Abstract: A laser cutting apparatus and method, and a method of manufacturing a display panel by using a laser cutting method are provided. A laser cutting method includes: providing a panel in which a second substrate is stacked on a first substrate including a conductive wiring; and removing a portion of the second substrate to expose the conductive wiring by emitting a laser beam to the second substrate, and the laser beam is emitted to the second substrate at an incident angle equal to or greater than a threshold angle at which total reflection occurs in the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Joonyung Jang
  • Patent number: 11401194
    Abstract: An aspect of the invention provides a device, comprising: a laser machining head configured to deflect laser radiation onto an optical system comprising a substrate, the device being configured to carry out a method for separating the substrate using the optical system, the optical system being configured to provide the laser radiation, a thickness of the substrate not exceeding 2 mm in a region of a separating line, the method comprising: applying pulsed laser radiation having a pulse duration (t) to a substrate material of the substrate using the optical system, the substrate material being transparent at least in part to a laser wavelength of the pulsed laser radiation, the pulsed laser radiation being focused using the optical system at an original focal depth (f1), an intensity of the pulsed laser radiation leading to a modification of the substrate along a beam axis (Z) of the pulsed laser radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: LPKF LASER & ELECTRONICS AG
    Inventors: Robin Alexander Krueger, Norbert Ambrosius, Roman Ostholt
  • Patent number: 11389906
    Abstract: A laser cutting device comprises: a conveying mechanism (1) comprising a feeding end and a discharging end; a working platform (2) disposed at the discharging end of the conveying mechanism (1); a first counter (3) and a second counter (4) oppositely disposed at a side of the working platform (2) near the discharging end of the conveying mechanism (1) and driven respectively by two opposite side edges of a substrate (6) to rotate for counting; a laser cutter (5) disposed above the working platform (2); a control device (13) for determining a modified cutting motion path of the laser cutter according to a set cutting path, and starting and ending times of counting values of the first counter (3) and second counter (4), and for controlling the laser cutter to cut the substrate (6) according to the modified cutting motion path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ping Liu, Qingyu Hu, Yong Sub Kim