Producing Opposed Complementary Matching Bonding Surface Patents (Class 228/171)
  • Patent number: 11484974
    Abstract: A fixture for dumpster bottom replacement is provided including four vertical support legs, three fixed horizontal supports, with each horizontal support attached to two vertical supports, one slidable horizontal support which is slidably attached to two fixed horizontal supports, four upper supports which are integral with the vertical support legs or attachable to the vertical support legs and the upper supports comprise a plurality extension supports and one or more push pin assemblies. A kit for dumpster bottom replacement includes a fixture for dumpster bottom replacement as described above and a lift table including a surface capable of holding a dumpster that is vertically adjustable in height. A method of using a dumpster bottom kit includes placing a dumpster on the fixture with the lift table, securing the dumpster with a slidable horizontal support, removing the bottom of the dumpster and welding a new bottom onto the dumpster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Inventor: Kevin Paul Gavin
  • Patent number: 9833987
    Abstract: An injection mold component for molding the outer surface of a preform neck, which allows improved cooling of the preform neck inside the mold, while at the same time reducing the mold cycle time. A related production process of said injection mold component, which allows the section of the cooling channels to be optimized, determining a more effective cooling, is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: S.I.P.A. Societa' Industrializzazione Progettazione E Automazione S.P.A.
    Inventors: Matteo Zoppas, Andrea Cavalet
  • Publication number: 20140151440
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for making T-branch joints for pipes. The method comprises making a hole (3) in a pipe (1) to be branched and attaching a branch pipe (2) by welding to the edges of the hole. Welding is conducted from inside the pipes. The hole (3) is made smaller than the internal diameter of the branch pipe (2) with edges (4) of the hole (3) providing a step which extends inside the internal diameter of the branch pipe. The material of the step (4) is melted by internal welding to form part of a weld joint (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: EFES TEX AG
    Inventor: Leo Larikka
  • Patent number: 8710398
    Abstract: A splicing apparatus for joining a trailing end of a downstream metal strip to the leading end of an upstream metal strip includes a base having a working surface, a cover assembly operatively connected to the base and movable between an open position and a closed position, a fixed platen fixedly secured to the working surface, a moving platen slidably connected to the working surface, and a laser device for both cutting said downstream and upstream metal strips and for welding said metal strips together, the laser device including a laser source and a laser head in communication with the laser source, the laser head being connected to said cover assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Joining Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Boynton, Scott Poeppel
  • Publication number: 20130321985
    Abstract: A capacitor containing a solid electrolytic capacitor element including a sintered porous anode body and a relatively large diameter anode lead wire is provided. The lead wire is electrically connected to the anode body for connection to an anode termination. Further, the lead wire has a diameter that is at least about 10% of the height of the porous anode body to improve the points of contact between the anode body and wire to reduce ESR. A portion of the lead wire extends from a surface of the anode body in a longitudinal direction. At least one notch can be formed in the portion of the lead wire that extends from the anode body. The notch can be formed via a laser or by cutting, punching, or sawing and can serve as the point of electrical connection between the anode termination and the lead wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: AVX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lotfi Djebara, Stanislav Zednicek, Jiri Snitil, Jiri Navratil, Ludek Kubes
  • Publication number: 20130283592
    Abstract: An apparatus is described which is formed for expanding elongated, ribbon-shaped metal elements moving in the longitudinal direction and suitable for forming open section elements such as upright sections or plaster sections or closed section elements such as passages or pipes, the apparatus includes a feed station, a cutting station, a positioning station and a connection station, with the feed station being formed for the at least substantial continuous feed of at least one metal element to the cutting station. The cutting station is formed for producing at least one continuous meandering incision which extends in the longitudinal direction of the at least one metal element and by which at least two longitudinal portions of the at least one metal element having meandering longitudinal edges are produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Protektorwerk Florenz Maisch GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Christof Maisch
  • Patent number: 8322593
    Abstract: A method of cutting, polishing and then welding together two metallic components (10, 18), in which the respective components (10, 18) are cut to define respective cut surfaces (14, 16) that are to be polished and fitted together, both to define the relative positions of the two components (10, 18) to be fixed by the welding and to provide facing weld surfaces at which the two components (10, 18) can be welded together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: C. R. Bard, Inc.
    Inventor: Thilo Wack
  • Patent number: 7922067
    Abstract: A tailor weld blank assembly and method for making the blank assembly include providing a first metal sheet and a second metal sheet having at least one different characteristic from the first sheet. Complementary interlocking structures are provided on adjoining edges of the first and second sheets and the sheets are mechanically interlocked together by making a weld along the adjoining interlocked edges. Thereafter the permanently affixed together sheets are formed to make a formed sheet metal product. The provision of both a mechanical interlock and a weld provide a blank assembly that is strong for forming into a stamped product, and a metal product that is strong for its intended use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Robin Stevenson
  • Patent number: 7841507
    Abstract: The invention concerns a process for joining a first member (1) comprising an aluminum alloy to a second member (2) comprising a titanium alloy and having at least one edge with a thickness e, comprising the steps of (i) chamfering said edge of said second member into a tapered truncated shape having on a first side a first tapering angle ?1, on a second side a second tapering angle ?2 and a minimum thickness t, wherein ?1 and ?2 are greater than or equal to zero, the sum of ?1 and ?2 is between 10° and 50° and t is between 0.05 e and 0.3 e, (ii) placing said first member and said chamfered edge of said second member (21) in an abutting relationship defining a geometry to be weld-brazed (3), (iii) heating the surface areas of said members adjacent the abutment to a temperature above the melting temperature of said aluminum alloy and below the melting temperature of said titanium alloy, in the presence of an inert gas (5) and of a filler metal (4) to obtain a weld-brazed joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Engineered Products Switzerland Ltd.
    Inventors: Stefan Kempa, Urs Schuepbach
  • Publication number: 20100243715
    Abstract: This invention relates to a thermite welding process for joining sections of a railway line in situ, the process including the preliminary step of mounting a suitable welding mould about the aligned sections of railway line to be welded together and sealing the mould to prevent run out; mounting a vibration means on the railway line at a suitable distance from the mould and operating it at a suitable frequency; heating the sections of railway line to a desired temperature; igniting an ignitor means and allowing it to drop into the mould to react with molten steel in the mould and fill a weld area about and between the sections of railway line in the mould; and when solidified, to vibrate the railway line for a further period of time until stress relieving of the cast weld area has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Inventor: Brent Felix Jury
  • Publication number: 20100181369
    Abstract: A method of processing heated metal logs in a metal extrusion process. The remainder of each log is attached to the succeeding log. Specifically, the abutted ends of the two log segments are aligned with a saw. The saw is actuated to simultaneously remove material from both of the abutted ends. The cut ends are friction welded together through relative rotation of the log segments. The process creates a heated log column that is effectively endless, eliminating log remainders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicants: G. JAMES AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD., GRANCO CLARK, INC.
    Inventors: Derek William Boden, Scott David Buiten
  • Publication number: 20090200360
    Abstract: A method of cutting, polishing and then welding together two metallic components (10, 18), in which the respective components (10, 18) are cut to define respective cut surfaces (14, 16) that are to be polished and fitted together, both to define the relative positions of the two components (10, 18) to be fixed by the welding and to provide facing weld surfaces at which the two components (10, 18) can be welded together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: C.R. Bard, Inc.
    Inventor: Thilo Wack
  • Patent number: 7571531
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a spherical cavitation. Depending upon the chamber's composition and wall thickness, chambers fabricated with the disclosed techniques can be used with either low or high pressure systems. During chamber fabrication, initially two spherical half portions are fabricated and then the two half portions are joined together to form the desired cavitation chamber. During the fabrication of each chamber half, the interior spherical surface is completed first and then the outer spherical surface. Prior to joining the two spherical cavitation chamber halves, the surfaces to be mated are finished, preferably to a surface flatness of at least 0.01 inches. Electron beam welding is used to join the chamber halves together. Preferably the electron beam welding operation is performed under vacuum conditions. During electron beam welding, the two chamber halves are aligned and held together while the electron beam forms a weld along the chamber seam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Impulse Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: Ross Alan Tessien
  • Patent number: 7473475
    Abstract: A welded joint between two metal members in which the weld must support a structural load. The abutting faces of the welded members have step portions formed therein, in which the step portions extend beyond the surface of the adjoining welded members. The outer step portion of one member extends beyond an inner step portion of the adjacent member, and a weld is applied on abutting faces of the members and the step portions. The welded joint of this invention is intended to be used for two adjacent rotor discs in a gas turbine engine. But, the weld arrangement of this invention can be used for welding two pipes together, or two adjacent plate members. The weld arrangement of this invention provides for reduced stress distribution along the weld line that acts to increase part life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfred Paul Matheny, Bradley S Carter
  • Patent number: 7467741
    Abstract: A method of forming a sputtering target assembly and the sputtering target assembly made therefrom are described. The method includes bonding a sputtering target to a backing plate at a low temperature. Also described is a method of forming a sputtering target assembly such that a gap is formed between the sputtering target and the backing plate. Also described is a method of forming a sputtering target assembly providing a mechanism to prevent unintended sputtering into the backing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Cabot Corporation
    Inventors: Charles E. Wickersham, Jr., David P. Workman
  • Patent number: 7438523
    Abstract: A blade for a turbine engine is described, having a base body, made from a titanium alloy, with a first and a second component piece, which are connected in the connection region by means of a bonding process. A groove with a groove wall runs through the connection region, to prevent local concentration of tension, such that the above borders directly on the second component piece and forms therewith a connection angle greater than 70 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ursula Pickert, Iris Oltmanns, legal representative, Peter Tiemann, incapacitated
  • Patent number: 7406767
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for making a section of a support strut member of an offshore oil-drilling rig comprising steps which consist in: a) machining each longitudinal edge of a semi-cylindrical stiffener (13) to provide along the longitudinal edge, a lip (18) for support on a main surface (12A) of a main plate (12), by producing along the longitudinal edge an outer bevel (20) on the side opposite the conduit (17) defined by the stiffener (13); b) applying a base plate (22) of the support lip (18) to weld it with main surface (12A) of the plate (12); heating the support lip (18) to weld it with the plate (12) and constitute a support weld joint; and d) forming a weld bead with filler metal from outside the conduit (17) in the space delimited between the support weld joint, the outer bevel (20) and the main surface (12A) of the main plate (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Technip France
    Inventors: Louis Primot, Pierre-Armand Thomas
  • Patent number: 7329829
    Abstract: An optical cable unit has a metal tube with a longitudinal laser-welded seam and at least one optical waveguide in the interior of the metal tube. The metal tube has a first inner layer and a second outer layer, where the first inner layer is made from copper and the second outer layer is made from austenitic steel. The longitudinal seam of both layers is laser welded and the seams of the layers are in superimposed alignment, where the laser welding is performed by a CO2 laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Tom Harald Birkeland, Inge Vintermyr, Tom Eirik Toften, Per Arne Osborg, Vegard B Larsen
  • Patent number: 7114643
    Abstract: The present application pertains to unconventional sputter target/backing plate assemblies (10) for high power operation and to the low temperature method of making them. The sputter target/backing plate assemblies (10) comprise targets (12) and backing plates (16) having dissimilar thermal coefficients of expansion. Although the consolidated targets (12) and backing plates (16) have dissimilar thermal coefficients of expansion, they are able to be bonded together and used at high sputtering temperatures without bowing or bending and are able to utilize backing plates (16) normally associated with a specified target metal. In the method of making, a plurality of male projections (16) are formed in one member of the assembly (10) with a plurality of corresponding female grooves (32) formed in the other surface. The assembly (10) is bonded by conventional techniques around an annular zone that surrounds the male (26) and female portions (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Tosoh SMD, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene Y. Ivanov, Harry W. Conard
  • Patent number: 6749103
    Abstract: A low temperature target and backing plate bonding process and assemblies made thereby. A plurality of projections are formed in the harder member of the assembly. The assembly is bonded by conventional techniques around the peripheral assembly boundaries. The assembly is then pressure consolidated at low temperature so that the projections, circumscribed by the bonded zone, penetrate into the softer member promoting the formation of metal to metal cold diffusion type bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Tosoh SMD, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene Y. Ivanov, Harry W. Conard
  • Patent number: 6749002
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of providing a spray formed composite article. The method comprises providing a first article. The first article is a spray formed article. A second article is located adjacent the first article. Metallic particles are sprayed onto the articles and allowed to form a metal deposit that extends between and connects the first and second articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Grigoriy Grinberg, Matthew M. Shade, David Robert Collins
  • Patent number: 6742698
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for repairing components such as blades used in turbine engines. The method comprises the steps of placing a piece of refractory metal material over an area of the component to be repaired and depositing a repair filler metal material over the piece of refractory material in an amount sufficient to repair the component and welding the repair filler metal material in place. The refractory metal material may be selected from the group consisting of niobium, tantalum, molybdenum, tungsten, a metal having a melting point higher than the melting point of nickel, and alloys thereof and may be uncoated or coated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Dilip M. Shah, James T. Beals, Norman Pietruska, Edward R. Szela
  • Patent number: 6729529
    Abstract: A system for providing cutting and orbitally welding thin-walled tubing. The system includes a plurality of clamping blocks that hold the tubing while the tubing is trimmed and orbitally welded. The system further includes at least one tooling plate to which the clamping blocks can be mounted such that the tubing is attached to the tooling plate and properly aligned for net length trimming. The system further includes a welding cassette for retaining the clamping blocks and properly aligning the tubing during orbital welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Paul J. Cecil, Roger G. Rae, Elton R. Rice
  • Patent number: 6634541
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a container formed of five rectangular metal panels including a bottom panel, opposed side panels and opposed end panels, each panel having peripheral edges there around, including the steps of forming spaced apart notches leaving interpositioned tab portions in peripheral edges of the panels, positioning the bottom panel horizontally, positioning the two side panels and two end panels vertically around the periphery edges of the bottom panel forming four vertical and four horizontal panel intersections with tab portions aligned with mating notches at each of the panel intersections and welding the four vertical and four horizontal panel intersections to physically interconnect the five panels to provide an open top rectangular container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Inventors: James D. Hankey, Ray J. Hankey
  • Patent number: 6609649
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a banjo-type drive axle housing for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The first step is the operation of forming the substantially identical upper and lower half members having a U-shaped cross-section along entire length thereof with radially extending wall sections. Each of the members is metal formed, such as by stamping or forging, from a blank sheet of steel. Next step is to select a desired box-section of an axle beam portions, and a desired size of an opening in a central portion of the axle housing. Then, if necessary, the wall sections of the housing half members are trimmed so that when assembled said housing half members provide the desired box section and size of the opening in the central portion of the axle housing. Finally, the trimmed housing half members are welded to each other to produce the axle housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Torque-Traction Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Charles Barnholt, James A. Krisher
  • Patent number: 6588648
    Abstract: During manufacture of certain hollow profiles suitable for use in car body construction the welded profiles are subjected to a further deformation process, namely hydroforming. At present the corresponding welding machines are charged manually. The invention relates to a method and a device for transferring hollow-profile blanks, characterized in that during transfer the positioned fusion faces of the blanks are pressed against each other at least in the area of the weld.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Elpatronic AG
    Inventor: Peter Gysi
  • Publication number: 20030089760
    Abstract: In order to connect the ends of flat tubular film sheets made of thermoplastic plastic that are equipped with side creases with one another by means of a lateral welding seam in such a manner that the interior creases remain permeable from the exterior even in the connection area, one end is equipped with cuts separating the interior edges of the side creases. The other end is inserted or placed into the separated area in such a way that both walls include the other end with a layer each of each side crease of the end area of the one tubular film between themselves. Separating layers are inserted or placed into the side creases of the included other end area, and the ends are then connected with one another by means of a lateral welding seam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventor: Ludger Nobbe
  • Patent number: 6539631
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a sidewall for a trailer in the shape of a trapezoid having a right edge and a left edge of differing lengths and the top edge perpendicular to the right and left edges. A first rectangular sheet has lengths of a top and a bottom edge equal to a desired length of the sidewall. The second rectangular sheet is fabricated with top and bottom edges having a sufficient length so that right and left edges of the second sheet extend beyond the right and left edges of the first sheet. The second rectangular sheet is placed either on top of or underneath the first sheet so that the second sheet slopes downward either from the right to the left or from the left to the right at an angle with respect to the first sheet. The second rectangular sheet is welded to the first rectangular sheet along the entire length where the first rectangular sheet and the second rectangular sheet overlap thereby forming a seam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Vantage Dump Trailers, Inc.
    Inventor: Cliff McWilliams
  • Patent number: 6516993
    Abstract: A fabricated control rod is disclosed having a spacer with a “C” or “U-shaped” channel cross-section. The spacer also has a bushing tube welded to each of its ends. Each end of the spacer is shaped to have a substantially continuous mating engagement with the exterior side surface of the adjacent bushing tube. Also, at least a substantially complete perimeter weld joins both the interior and exterior of each shaped end to the bushing tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: The Boler Company.
    Inventors: Mark W. Dankow, Christopher W. Forrest, Vincent Mastrangelo, Thomas Sholeen
  • Publication number: 20020126573
    Abstract: A housing (2) for plastics, metal powder, ceramic powder or food processing machines, more particularly for twin and multiple screw extruders, comprising several married bimetallic barrels (1) including a lining (6) and a backing (5) is characterized in that the bimetallic barrels (2) are diffusion bonded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Gerrit Schubert, Kai-Uwe Volker
  • Patent number: 6403918
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to an improved laser welded work piece, such as an automotive body panel, and a system and method for the manufacture thereof. The invention is also directed to an improved system for manufacturing the welded work piece including an improved laser welder and a laser weld inspection device and system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Donald R. Fields, Jr., James Foley, Darin Morris, Frank Godsil
  • Patent number: 6371358
    Abstract: The invention regards a method for rolling billets fed from a billet-heating furnace (10) set upstream of a roll train, in which, between the furnace (10) and a first stand (11) of the roll train is provided a space for transfer of the billets coming out of the furnace. In the space between the furnace (10) and the stand (11) at least two billets (15, 14) are welded together and subsequently introduced into said stand (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Techint Compagnia Tecnica Internazionale S.p.A.
    Inventors: Pometto Virginio, Colombo Enrico
  • Patent number: 6352194
    Abstract: A damaged area of a metal sheet, such a conveyor belt, is repaired by affixing frames to upper and lower sides of the sheet, and rotating a center element that is rotatably mounted in one of the frames, whereby a chip-removing cutting blade disposed on the center element cuts a piece out of the metal sheet following a number of rotations of the center element. The same mechanism is used to cut a correspondingly shaped replacement piece from a metal replacement sheet. The replacement piece is then positioned in the hole cut in the sheet to be repaired, and the center element carrying the cutting blade is replaced by a center element carrying a welding device. The welding device welds a joint between the replacement piece and the sheet as the center element is rotated. Inert shielding gas is supplied above and below the weld joint during the welding operation, and support rollers keep the sheet and the replacement piece flush with each other during the welding operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: Sandvik Aktiebolag
    Inventor: Alf Larsson
  • Publication number: 20010042774
    Abstract: To provide a cutting apparatus for a welding machine, which is less costly, at least one of each of upper blade portion ascending/descending guide units, a lower blade portion ascending/descending guide unit and an ascending/descending guide unit for holding a clearance between the upper and lower blade portions is used in common as a co-use ascending/descending unit out of the plurality of ascending/descending guide units. Also, there is provided a hydraulic drive unit normally depending upon the operation of the upper blade portion ascending/descending link unit and working as a drive source for the upper blade portion ascending/descending link unit when necessary, in conjunction with the upper blade portion or the upper blade portion ascending/descending link unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Inventors: Junji Miyata, Nobuyoshi Nakatani
  • Patent number: 6193131
    Abstract: The invention relates to a solder sleeve comprising a split sleeve of solder material having end surfaces of which take the form of form-fitting coupling elements, and to a method for forming such a solder sleeve, comprising of: i) providing a strip of solder material having end surfaces of which take the form of form-fitting coupling elements; and ii) bending the strip to form a sleeve, wherein the coupling elements mutually engage for coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Witmetaal B.V.
    Inventors: Martinus Adrianus Oud, Paul Willem Godijn, Antonius Johannes Welling, Willem Velthuizen
  • Patent number: 6189763
    Abstract: There is provided a rolled plate joining apparatus equipped with a truck that can travel reversibly in the rolling direction, tailing end pinch rolls that are mounted on the truck and can be moved vertically with the tailing end of a preceding rolled plate pinched horizontally, leading end pinch rolls that are mounted on the truck and can pinch horizontally the leading end of a succeeding rolled plate, machining apparatuses for cutting one surface of the tailing end of the preceding rolled plate and the other surface of the leading end of the succeeding rolled plate, and a pressure welding apparatus for compressing the preceding rolled plate and the succeeding rolled plate with the machined surfaces of the preceding rolled plate and the succeeding rolled plate overlapped to reduce them approximately to the thickness of the rolled plates, including a tailing end centering apparatus placed between the tailing end pinch rolls and the pressure welding apparatus for pressing the opposite width ends of the tailing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignees: Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Metal Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Tazoe, Toshio Iwanami, Masami Oki, Kouiti Sakamoto, Suguhiro Fukushima, Toshihiro Mori
  • Patent number: 6079612
    Abstract: A big scale (500 cc) golf club head fabrication method includes the step of preparing molds for making a top cover panel, a bottom cover panel and a face panel, the step of preparing metal alloy plate materials and then cutting the metal alloy plate materials into the desired sizes and then using the molds thus obtained to forge the metal alloy plate materials into the desired top cover panel, bottom panel and face panel respectively, and the step of welding the obtained top cover panel, bottom panel and face panel in a vacuum tank to form a golf club head and then polishing the golf club head into a finished product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Inventor: Kun-Ming Tung
  • Patent number: 6076725
    Abstract: Sections 1 and 2 each in the form of a welded pipe (square pipe) are provided. The sections 1 and 2 are brought into abutment with each other so that the respective end faces 3a and 3b abut each other at a predetermined angle .beta. between each section and its axial direction. The sections 1 and 2 are arranged symmetrically with respect to each other. Acute end portions of the abutted portion are chamfered to from a plane part. Corners of the sections 1 and 2 are rounded. In such a combined state of both sections, the abutted portion is welded in the circumferential direction to form a weld bead. As a result, penetration of weld metal to the section 1 and that to the section 2 become equal to each other. Thus, it becomes possible to fabricate a welded structure having a uniform weld bead and having improved strength and reliability of welded portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Yoshihaya Imamura, Kazuo Yonezawa, Toru Hashimura, Takahito Fujii, Tomohiro Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 6073828
    Abstract: An end effector has a tower with non-stacked spatulas. Tolerance stacking is avoided by making grooves in the tower relative to a common reference surface, and mounting the spatulas in such grooves. The grooves are provided in separate planar walls of the tower. The walls intersect to enhance the structural properties of the tower. The tower has a dual-purpose clamp formed integrally with one wall for use in assembling the tower and the spatulas, and for mounting the completed end effector in a load lock. The spatula may carry a wafer during various operations, e.g., semiconductor processing, material deposition and etching systems, or in flat panel display processing systems. The carrying of the wafers is notwithstanding vibration of equipment for performing the manufacturing operations, which vibration is primarily in a range of frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Edmund L. Ma, Christopher O. Lada, Donald H. Langhans
  • Patent number: 6062762
    Abstract: An angle joint for chassis parts in a motor vehicle, especially a strut joint, in which a tubular housing, which is cylindrical on the outside, and a shaft, which has a profile adapted to the outer contour of the housing on the front side and partially surrounds the tubular housing, are welded together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Lemforder Metallwaren AG
    Inventor: Wilfried Lustig
  • Patent number: 6048628
    Abstract: A formed part having a multiple-plate structure of zonal design includes a base plate and a plurality of reinforcing plates fastened to the base plate. The multiple-plate structure is configured so that its strength is largely adapted to the load profile to be applied to the formed part and so that its cost of production is reduced. To this end, the thicknesses of the reinforcing plates vary as a function of the load structure to be applied to the formed part and the reinforcing plates engage each other in a positive locking manner so that the abutting edges are provided essentially with regularly arranged projections which are in mutual engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Jurgen Hillmann, Klaus-Dieter Morsch
  • Patent number: 6045033
    Abstract: A method of forming lengths of pipe for assembly together to form fluid flow conduits includes the steps of providing a pipe having a first inner diameter and a central longitudinal axis, providing a ferrule which has an annular first end, having an inner diameter equal to the pipe inner diameter and having a second end formed into a flange adapted to form a flange coupling when abutted against and connected to another similar flange. The flanges have end faces countersunk approximately 1.degree. to 5.degree.. The first end of each ferrule is welded to an end of a pipe, whereby the end face of the flange assumes an orientation wherein the end face is substantially normal to the central longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Tri-Clover, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert D Zimmerly
  • Patent number: 6010055
    Abstract: There is provided a rolled plate joining apparatus equipped with a truck that can travel reversibly in the rolling direction, tailing end pinch rolls that are mounted on the truck and can be moved vertically with the tailing end of a preceding rolled plate pinched horizontally, leading end pinch rolls that are mounted on the truck and can pinch horizontally the leading end of a succeeding rolled plate, machining apparatuses for cutting one surface of the tailing end of the preceding rolled plate and the other surface of the leading end of the succeeding rolled plate, and a pressure welding apparatus for compressing the preceding rolled plate and the succeeding rolled plate with the machined surfaces of the preceding rolled plate and the succeeding rolled plate overlapped to reduce them approximately to the thickness of the rolled plates, including a tailing end centering apparatus placed between the tailing end pinch rolls and the pressure welding apparatus for pressing the opposite width ends of the tailing
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignees: Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Metal Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Tazoe, Toshio Iwanami, Masami Oki, Kouiti Sakamoto, Suguhiro Fukushima, Toshihiro Mori
  • Patent number: 5957368
    Abstract: A continuous hot rolling method is available for continuously hot finish rolling steel pieces. The trailing end of a preceding steel piece and the leading end of a succeeding steel piece are cut by a drum shear which sandwiches the steel piece between its upper drum and lower drum, having cutting blades on the peripheries of the drums. The cut ends are heated to raise the temperatures thereof by high-frequency induction heating, pressed against each other to butt-join the cut ends. The joined steel pieces are then supplied to a rolling equipment. The trailing end of the preceding steel piece and the leading end of the succeeding steel piece are cut individually by two pairs of the cutting blades. One pair of the cutting blades has the obverses of the blades oriented in opposite directions in the obverse side and the reverse side of the steel piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Takebayashi, Yoshikiyo Tamai, Toshio Imae, Kunio Isobe, Hideyuki Nikaido, Koichi Uemura
  • Patent number: 5930882
    Abstract: A method of making pairs of thread splits inserts used to injection mold bottle preforms. Machining a hollow outer part of the pair of thread split inserts with an opening therethrough and outer portions of two cooling conduits extending from the opening therethrough to respective inlets and outlets. Making an inner part of the pair of thread split inserts by injection molding a ceramic core with the required shape and investment casting the inner part around the ceramic core. The outer surface of the inner part having grooves to partially form inner portions of the two cooling fluid conduits. Then machining the cast inner part to fit in the opening through the outer part. Mounting the outer part around the inner part with the inner and outer portions of the two cooling fluid conduits aligned. Applying brazing material between the inner and outer parts and heating them in a vacuum furnace to integrally braze them together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Inventor: Jobst Ulrich Gellert
  • Patent number: 5931370
    Abstract: Method is for welding billets leaving a heating furnace in a rolling line, the line including, in the segment (10) between the heating furnace (11) and the first rolling stand, at least a drawing unit (14), a rollerway to transport the billets, a movable welding assembly (20) with welding jaws (31) and an emergency shears (13). The trailing end of the billet (12a) being rolled is welded to the leading end of the billet (12b) unloaded afterwards from the furnace (11) while the billets (12) are in movement by a welding assembly (20) mounted on a movable trolley (19). The movable trolley (19) is taken substantially to the rolling speed, grips the billets (12) with the jaws (31) of the welding unit (20) and welds the ends of the billets (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche SpA
    Inventors: Alfredo Poloni, Mirco Marchiori, Milorad Pavlicevic, Nuredin Kapaj
  • Patent number: 5871137
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for reliable splices to be made in hard-rolled copper and alloy tapes without buckling or overlap and with splices that are stronger than the tape metal, itself. The invention permits an operator to load a second reel of tape in position such that when a first reel is exhausted, the system will automatically butt splice the tail end of the first tape to the front end of the second tape without the presence of the operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Inventors: Sigmund Ege, Arne Ramsland
  • Patent number: 5839643
    Abstract: In a weld-coupling portion 3 which is formed by fitting an inner peripheral surface 2b of an end portion of a pump shell 2 to a lower-step surface 4a of a stepped portion 4 formed on an outer peripheral surface of an end portion of a front cover 1 of a torque converter and then welding them together while abutting an end surface 2a of the end portion of the pump shell 2 with a stepped surface 4a of the stepped portion 4 of the front cover 1, the weld-coupling portion 3 is cut down to a level of the lower-step surface 4a of the front cover 1 in such a predetermined cutting width as to evenly cut a front cover side and a pump shell side of the weld-coupling portion 3 in order to separate the front cover 1 and the pump shell 2 apart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yutaka Giken
    Inventors: Koji Inoue, Takashi Ogai
  • Patent number: 5720425
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of splicing rolled plates with each other, including the steps of (a) positioning a rear end portion of a leading rolled plate above a front end portion of a following rolled plate by a distance slightly greater than a diameter of a cylindrical cutter having a rotation axis extending in a width-wise direction of the leading and following rolled plates, the positioning being carried out while the leading and following rolled plates are being transferred, (b) cutting an upper surface of the front end portion of the following rolled plate with the cylindrical cutter only within a region at which the following rolled plate is to be spliced with the leading rolled plate, the cutting being carried out in a direction F in which the rolled plates are being transferred, (c) blowing a first reducing flame to the upper surface being cut from above the upper surface in the direction F while the step (b) is being carried out, (d) cutting a lower surface of the rear end portion of the leadin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignees: Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Metal Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Tazoe, Toshio Iwanami, Masaumi Oki, Kouiti Sakamoto, Tadao Ebukuro
  • Patent number: RE38396
    Abstract: A method of making pairs of thread splits inserts used to injection mold bottle preforms. Machining a hollow outer part of the pair of thread split inserts with an opening therethrough and outer portions of two cooling conduits extending from the opening therethrough to respective inlets and outlets. Making an inner part of the pair of thread split inserts by injection molding a ceramic core with the required shape and investment casting the inner part around the ceramic core. The outer surface of the inner part having grooves to partially form inner portions of the two cooling fluid conduits. Then machining the cast inner part to fit in the opening through the outer part. Mounting the outer part around the inner part with the inner and outer portions of the two cooling fluid conduits aligned. Applying brazing material between the inner and outer parts and heating them in a vacuum furnace to integrally braze them together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Inventor: Jobst Ulrich Gellert