Specific Material(s) Used For Holder Patents (Class 269/286)
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Patent number: 11839949Abstract: A grinding and polishing device includes a main body, a grinding disk, a sample disk, a first console, and a second console. The main body includes a support table and a support column. The support table is coupled to the support column. The grinding disk is fixed on the support table and includes a polishing surface. The sample disk is fixed on the support column and configured to hold a preform. The first console is electrically coupled to the sample disk and used for controlling a distance between the preform held by the sample disk and the grinding disk. The second console is electrically coupled to the grinding disk and used for controlling a working state of the grinding disk for grinding and polishing the preform.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: TRIPLE WIN TECHNOLOGY(SHENZHEN) CO. LTD.Inventors: Long-Fei Liu, Yen-Sheng Lin, Gao-Yang Deng, Yao-Wei Hong, Xue Peng
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Patent number: 11703223Abstract: A multi-function sight port door includes a sensor mount attached at an aperture within the sight port door. A sensor is mounted to the sensor mount and configured to monitor the interior of a heater that the multi-function sight port door is mounted to. The multi-function sight port door is also configured to open to allow visual inspection of the interior of the heater while the sensor is mounted thereto. The multi-function sight port may be configured to allow for one or more of X-axis, Y-axis, Z-axis, tilt, roll, and yaw positioning of the sensor as mounted to the sight port door. The sensor may be a temperature sensor, pressure sensor, flame scanner, gas analyzer, optical-based sensor, thermal imager, thermal camera, or laser-based analyzer.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: ONPOINT TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Eric Christopher Huelson, Eric Francis Gebhard, Michael Jozef Barjaktarevic
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Patent number: 11447362Abstract: An apparatus supports a convolutely wound log of web material during cutting of the convolutely wound log, and includes a bottom support link operatively pivotally coupled to a support frame and a side support link operatively pivotally coupled to the support frame and the bottom support link. A flexible member operatively coupled to a distal end of the side support link extends tangentially from the side support link and curves away from the side support link and the bottom support link so that a portion of the flexible member is spaced away from the side support link and the bottom support link. The spaced away portion of the flexible member together with the side support link and the bottom support link at least in part define a support surface for supporting the convolutely wound log when the log is directed into the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: PAPER CONVERTING MACHINE COMPANYInventors: Jonathon T. Zahn, Cory L. Schubring, Cory P. Gussert
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Patent number: 10197478Abstract: The invention relates to a sample carrier for a sample (70). Said sample carrier comprises a supporting base (10), a carriage (20) having a receiving region (30) for the sample (70), the carriage (20) being supported on the supporting base (10), a guide (40), the carriage (20) being movably arranged along the guide (40), and a disc (60) that is rotationally movable about an axis of rotation (50), said disc being operatively connected to the carriage (20), wherein a center (65) of the disc (60) is located outside of the axis of rotation (50).Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Technische Universitat BerlinInventor: Sören Selve
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Patent number: 8997351Abstract: An assembly used in performing a manufacturing process on a turbine engine component includes a turbine engine component and a fixture including an opening shaped to receive a portion of the turbine engine component. The assembly includes a non-metallic cover placed over at least a portion of an external surface of the fixture. The non-metallic cover is visible when positioned over the at least a portion of the external surface of the fixture and is visible when the turbine engine component is received in the fixture opening of the fixture.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Kirk D. Hlavaty, Stephen V. Glynn, Gordon Miller Reed
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Publication number: 20150084258Abstract: The tool assembly can be used in a manufacturing process and includes a support structure and a clamp arm pivotally coupled to the support structure. The tool assembly further includes a base fixed to the support structure. The clamp arm is configured to move relative to the base between an open position and a closed position. The clamp arm is wholly or partly made of a polymeric material, the polymeric material include at least one polyamide. The tool assembly can hold a panel between the base and the clamp arm when the clamp arm is in the closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventor: Kenneth J. Gosinski
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Patent number: 8857803Abstract: A holder for an intraocular lens during the processing and packaging of the intraocular lens. The holder having an upper member having a base portion extending from the upper member along a first longitudinal axis. Additionally, the holder has a lower member having a receiving member defining a cavity for receiving the intraocular lens and a coupling member for engaging the base portion. The receiving member extending from the lower member along a second longitudinal axis and having at least one channel extending substantially through the receiving member that is substantially transverse to the second longitudinal axis. The holder has a locked position such that the upper and lower members are locked with respect to each other and at least one channel provides unobstructed access into the cavity of the receiving member for obtaining dimensional and optical measurements of the intraocular lens when the holder is in the locked position.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2010Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: Dale T. Schaper, Jr., Christopher E. Redman, Douglas Wensrich
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Publication number: 20130082429Abstract: A method comprises manufacturing a frame of a C-clamp, which has a lower jaw, an upper jaw and a mouth between the lower jaw and upper jaw. The method comprises forming a lower end plate and an upper end plate and at least two frame plates, which have a lower branch and an upper branch. The lower branches of the frame plates are attached to the lower end plate and the upper branches to the upper end plate, so that the frame plates settle in a parallel manner at a distance (e) from each other. The joined frame plates and end plates form the frame of the C-clamp. The frame plates are formed by machining a steel plate of ultra-strength steel only with machining methods, which do not substantially heat up the material being machined. Suitable machining methods are for example chipping machining methods or water cutting. The lower branches are attached to the lower end plate and the upper branches are attached to the upper end plate by welding or with mechanical attaching means.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2011Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: Autoprod OyInventors: Jari Kiviniemi, Juha Miinala, Timo Lehto
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Patent number: 8209853Abstract: A rework soldering jig is used for heating a surface mounted slot. The rework soldering jig includes a body and an assembly frame. The assembly frame is detachably disposed on the body. The body and the assembly frame together wrap the surface mounted slot. Since the rework soldering jig has the detachable assembly frame, a size thereof can be adjusted according to different forms of slots.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2010Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Inventec CorporationInventor: Ching Shun Chen
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Patent number: 8167292Abstract: Jaw plates for removably attaching to the jaws of machine vises extend above the top of the jaw to hold taller workpieces. They are made from aluminum alloy for readily machining to conform to contours of a workpiece not easily held by flat jaw faces. They are sections cut from a special extrusion for enhanced physical properties and economy of production. Through holes are drilled for fastening to the jaw face. The plate has a planar vertical face for lying flat on the vertical jaw face. A second face engages the top horizontal face of the jaw. A groove between the two plate faces ensures the second face engages the horizontal face of the jaw away from the intersection of the faces. Alternatively, material on the plate may conform to the workpiece when hot and retain shape when cool.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2007Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Inventors: Domenic Mucciacciaro, Alvin S. Blum
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Patent number: 8151458Abstract: An assembly includes a fixture including an opening shaped to receive a portion of a turbine engine component. A non-metallic cover is placed over at least a portion of the fixture. The cover facilitates reducing metal to metal contact of the fixture and the turbine engine component when the turbine engine component is installed in the fixture, and facilitates reducing scratching of the turbine engine component.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2008Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: United Technologies CorporationInventors: Kirk D. Hlavaty, Stephen V. Glynn, Gordon Miller Reed
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Patent number: 8141860Abstract: A versatile, foldable and disposable cutting board (1) for preparing food is made of a thin, resiliently flexible sheet of propylene, stainless steel or other cut-resistant material. The board has a triangular section (11) projecting away from the user to form a distal pouring funnel and spout when the board is folded along its middle by grabbing both sides (4) and moving them toward each other. A narrow fence (6) extending upwardly from the periphery of the board converges at the apex (9) of the triangular section. A rigidizing flange (15) extends outwardly from the upper rim of the fence but is interrupted (16) near the apex. The fence is interrupted along an offset portion (20) of the proximal edge (2) in order to provide clearance for the blade and handle of a chopping or mincing instrument.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2007Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Inventor: Robert Ivan Goldman
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Publication number: 20120025437Abstract: The carbon fiber c-shaped clamp tool is preferably used in wood working and instrument manufacturing. The carbon fiber c-clamp tool preferably includes a main body, carbon fiber sleeves, pads, one or more threaded rods, and turning knobs. In a preferred embodiment, the main body and sleeves are made of unidirectional carbon fiber. A method connects the main body and sleeves by extending the carbon fibers from the main body to the sleeves and wrapping them around threaded inserts.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: ALLRED & ASSOCIATES INC.Inventors: Jimmie B. Allred, III, Edmund Zielinski, Michael D. Griswold, Michael J. Hall, Matthew A. Bush, Joseph Kummer
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Patent number: 7418834Abstract: A takeout jaw for handling glass bottles includes a holder for both fixed and floating inserts. This design allows an insert to be in a fixed position when the insert is provided with a nominal thickness. When a floating insert of a lesser thickness is installed, the spring clip does not engage the floating insert, which allows the floating insert to move vertically or float. The takeout holder contains either type of insert within the pocket with retaining clips that engage chamfers formed on the inserts.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2005Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Assignee: Poco Graphite, Inc.Inventor: David Jack Lang
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Patent number: 7118104Abstract: A gripper system for a machine that processes printing material sheets has a gripper with a first clamping surface and a gripper pad, for cooperating with the gripper, with a second clamping surface. One of the two clamping surfaces is formed with a surface relief. The clamping surface which has the surface relief is placed in such a way that, when a narrow printing material sheet is gripped, the clamping surface is covered by the sheet only within a subregion of the clamping surface and, when it grips a broad printing material sheet, it is covered by the latter beyond the subregion. The surface relief is structured differently within the subregion than outside the subregion, in that it is provided within the subregion with an antideformation structure which protects the narrow printing material sheet from excessive clamping deformation.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2004Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AGInventors: Jens Forche, Hans-Peter Hiltwein
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Patent number: 7055813Abstract: An auxiliary mechanism for a vise called a Vise Mate. This device features extender jaws to enable a person to hold larger than normal objects in a common shop vise. These extender jaws featured with a stabilizer bar permit a person to quickly expand the physical capacity of the shop vise with only the auxiliary vise mate and no additional set-up tools.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2004Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Inventor: Vearl Patrick Hexamer, Jr.
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Patent number: 7048268Abstract: In order to detect accurately a seating of clamped body and a clamping force at a seating, the workpiece supporting device has plural seating mechanisms 40. Each of the seating mechanisms 40 includes a load sensing element 45 receiving a clamping force or a fixing force. The load sensing element 45 consists of a material having a characteristic that said load sensing element is not substantially deformed by an applied load, especially it consists of a composite material dispersing a material having a pressure resistance effect or a magnetic resistance effect in a matrix of an electric insulation ceramics material. An abnormal clamping or fixing of the clamped body and an abnormal overload are detected by detecting an output from plural load sensing elements 45 supporting the clamped body.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2003Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: Toyoda Koki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihiro Arai, Mitsuyoshi Taniguchi, Yasuo Niino, Kiyotaka Kinoshita, Kunimichi Nakashima
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Patent number: 6910685Abstract: An elevated, portable non-slip cutting board for use in cutting and supporting foodstuffs, household and miscellaneous items comprising a rigid, planar base board to which is fixed numerous non-skid projections downwardly directed, spaced apart projections of such a height, width, and spatial arrangement as to provide support, stability, and the free flow of fluid underneath the cutting board and which provides enhanced traction to retard slippage of the cutting board during the cutting or support process, which may be formed by having a thermoplastic elastomer bonded to pre-molded convex protrusions supplied by pre-molded channels in the base of the cutting board. The board bottom can be molded with projections and supply channels for bonding with the non-skid material to reduce the expense of manufacture.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2002Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Inventor: Kathleen R. Sellers
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Patent number: 6886821Abstract: The present invention is directed to a portable, adjustable vertical work holder device. The device includes a base support having an arcuate front view profile and a flat bottom view, and has a top and a bottom. There is a pair of opposing jaws connected to the base support, and at least one of the pair of jaws being slideably mounted to the base support and having a locking mechanism located thereon to render the slideably mounted jaw lockable and unlockable in plurality of positions along the base support. One critical and unique feature is that the base support is yielding (semi-flexible) and will flatten under load. In some preferred embodiments, the pair of jaws are substantially flat jaws facing one another with a gap therebetween, and when the device is in a rest position without a workpiece, there is a first gap width closest the base support that is less then a gap width furthest from the base support.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2003Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: Blue Heron Enterprises, LLCInventor: Harry W. Eberle, III
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Patent number: 6848684Abstract: A portable workbench includes a top structure, a support structure and a collapsible frame. The top structure includes top members lying in a common plane. The top members include upper working surfaces and lower supporting surfaces. The lower supporting surfaces include a plurality of rib portions formed thereon. The top members further include longitudinally extending opposed side portions defining clamping surfaces. A linkage mechanism cooperates with the frame to actuate the workbench between an expanded working position and a collapsed transport position. A lever releasably cooperates with the frame to maintain the workbench in a locked expanded position.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2002Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Marc A. Fortin, John Bryan Mason, Mike G. Sirois, Robert D. Watters, Clifford D. Read
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Patent number: 6805339Abstract: A sandwich board for erecting workpiece clamping devices has an upper plate forming a clamping surface provided with fastening bores and a lower plate forming a support surface. Support bodies are positioned between the upper plate and the lower plate. The support bodies are pin-shaped and are friction-welded to a first one of the upper and lower plates and glued to a second one of the upper and lower plates.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2003Date of Patent: October 19, 2004Assignee: Horst Witte Entwicklungs- und Vertriebs-KGInventor: Horst Witte
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Patent number: 6702273Abstract: A wooden cutting board for cutting vegetables, bread and other food stuffs, especially useful on a dry or wet countertop for providing improved traction for the cutting board, comprising a wooden cutting board body having a plurality of traction plates, one attached substantially in each corner, each of said traction plates having a plurality of non-skid projections for increasing the surface area between the cutting board and the countertop surface, all of which are spaced apart to permit liquid to flow in between each of said traction plates attached to apertures in the cutting board through a plurality of legs that have circular attachment disks mounted therein for firm attachment of the traction plates to the cutting board surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2002Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Inventor: Kathleen R. Sellers
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Patent number: 6598867Abstract: A vise system including a plurality of jaws associated with a vise body. A first jaw is attached to a first shaft which are both slidable with respect to the vise body. A second jaw is attached to a second shaft which are both slidable with respect to the vise body independent of the first jaw and first shaft. A locking mechanism is associated with the first and second shafts for locking the first and second shafts, and first and second jaws, in place. The locking mechanism includes a first collet partially surrounding the first shaft, and an aligned second collet partially surrounding the second shaft. First and second stops are operatively connected to a handle so that as the handle is turned, the first and second stops engage the respective first and second collets to compress the collets over the shafts to immobilize them.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2001Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: Conquest Industries, Inc.Inventor: Gustavo R. Martinez
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Patent number: 6595506Abstract: This invention relates generally to the reduction of particulate material generation by workpiece handling components. Reduced levels of scratching, abrasion, wear and particulate generation are achieved by improved smoothing and flattening of the surface and, in a preferred embodiment, through the application of an ion beam assisted diamond-like-carbon film coating deposition.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2000Date of Patent: July 22, 2003Assignee: Epion CorporationInventors: Barry M. Zide, Sean R. Kirkpatrick
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Patent number: 6478292Abstract: A elevated, portable non-slip cutting board for use in cutting and supporting foodstuffs, household and miscellaneous items comprising a rigid, planar baseboard to which is fixed a traction means having at least 13 downwardly directed, spaced apart projections of such a height, width, and spatial arrangement as to provide support, stability, and the free flow of fluid underneath the cutting board and which provides enhanced traction to retard slippage of the cutting board during the cutting or support process.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2000Date of Patent: November 12, 2002Inventor: Kathleen R. Sellers
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Patent number: 6439559Abstract: The present invention relates to a vacuum control device used for holding a workpiece during the machining process. The vacuum control device may be activated by placing the workpiece onto the vacuum control device. Once the workpiece is removed, the vacuum control device is deactivated, no longer drawing a vacuum.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2000Date of Patent: August 27, 2002Assignee: Bay View Industries, Inc.Inventors: Steve Patrick Kinnard, Eugene T. Plitt, Eugene W. Plitt
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Patent number: 6209859Abstract: A frame comprising four angles each angle having two legs, each leg connected to a a leg of a neighboring angle wherein locations of attachment of the legs are adjustable so as to accommodate a range of sizes of boards for a surface mount manufacturing process. One leg of each angle has a tongue and the other leg has a groove so that tongue of one leg slideably engages the groove of the leg of a neighboring angle to enable adjustment in size of the frame opening. The board is supported on a shoulder around the frame opening with the surface of the board opposite the supporting shoulder surface coplanar with the plane surface of the frame. A flat spring loaded rotatable finger on the plan surface in one corner of the board urges the board toward the opposite corner of the frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: Henry Chung
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Patent number: 6202998Abstract: An apparatus for supporting a thermoformable material along its peripheral edges includes a frame forming a channel therealong for receiving the peripheral edges of the thermoformable material. The channel has an opening formed between first and second edges of the frame. At least one retaining arm is pivotally connected to the frame along the first edge and includes a distal end. The retaining arm is pivotable between an open position to allow insertion of the peripheral edge of the thermoformable material into the channel and a closed position for clamping the thermoformable material between the distal end and the second edge.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1999Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Lear CorporationInventor: Sunil Gupté
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Patent number: 6196532Abstract: The present invention generally provides a workpiece handling device and, more particularly, a vacuum operated chuck for securing a substrate to a substrate handling device. In one embodiment, the invention provides a chuck having three vacuum chuck rings projecting from a chuck base and having no resilient materials such as o-rings or the like exposed to the operating environment within which the wafer is being handled. In another embodiment, the present invention provides a substrate handling chuck having removable vacuum chuck rings for permitting interchangeable chuck ring elements for a particular application.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 1999Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventor: Robert Otwell
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Patent number: 6184972Abstract: Spoke shaped (petal shaped) through holes or cavities are provided at the center or a substrate holder which attaches and holds a substrate over substantially the entire surface, to allow vertical movement of a center-up member having a plurality of radially extended spoke shaped mounting portions. As a result, degradation in the flatness of a substrate at the time of attaching the substrate to the mounting surface of the substrate holder is minimized.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1999Date of Patent: February 6, 2001Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Shinji Mizutani, Hiroaki Narusima
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Patent number: 6175999Abstract: A universal fixture for a pre-assembly of computer components includes a base and a support plate adjustably mounted on the base for movement to various inclined positions. At least one support arm interconnects the base and the support plate for securing the support plate in an inclined position. A fixture is rotatably mounted on the support plate and includes various positioning stops and an adjustable slide for properly positioning various computer components for attaching chassis mounting devices to the components. The adjustment of the support plate and rotation of the fixture provide ergonomic advantages to the assembler performing the pre-assembly operations.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 1999Date of Patent: January 23, 2001Assignee: Dell USA, L.P.Inventors: Robert Sloan, Mark Manley
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Patent number: 5901948Abstract: A jig adapted to hold a contact lens material having a concave surface, for holding the contact lens material, including a protruding portion which has a top end having as an outer surface thereof a convex surface. This convex surface of the jig is bonded to the concave surface of the contact lens material. The protruding portion has a recess which extends from an inner surface of the top end toward a bottom end of the protruding portion. The recess is defined by an inner surface which includes a first portion that corresponds to the convex surface of the top end of the protruding portion. At least the first portion of the inner surface is roughened with a light-scattering texture. A method of holding the contact lens material while the contact lens material is processed into a contact lens is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 1997Date of Patent: May 11, 1999Assignee: Menicon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuyoshi Yamamoto, Atsuhiro Doke, Hiroyuki Ohyama, Seiichi Ichikawa, Keiji Yamashita
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Patent number: 5893551Abstract: A vise having machinable low profile removable jaws includes a stationary jaw attached between two movable jaws for holding two work pieces during a machining process. The stationary jaw is positioned adjacent to a pair of guide rails, which are mounted onto a base. The movable jaws are removably attached to a first and second slide member by a mating connection which is positioned below the work surface of the vise. The slide members are contained within a channel in the base. A screw shaft is disposed within a bore of the slide members and is contained within a tube and a sleeve which are telescopically connected together for protecting the threads of the screw shaft from metal chips and other debris. A tension mechanism is disposed in an aperture of the first and second slide members for controlling movement of the movable jaws. The base has interlocking edges for allowing vises positioned side by side to be mounted closer together.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 1997Date of Patent: April 13, 1999Inventors: Joseph Russell Cousins, Jeffrey John Baur
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Patent number: 5843623Abstract: According to the preferred embodiment, the invention is a simplified, low profile, adjustable substrate ground probe used in electron beam photolithography processing. The low profile substrate ground probe is compatible with state-of-the-art, electron beam lithographic processing tools that require minimal clearance. The ground contact base incorporates a flexure, an adjustable ground contact base, and an adjustment screw which allows the height of the ground contact relative to the surface of the workpiece to be accurately and easily set, without using shims. The flexure is a one-piece probe body with a flame sprayed tungsten carbide ground contact surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1996Date of Patent: December 1, 1998Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: David J. Pinckney
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Patent number: 5820120Abstract: This invention provides a portable system for adjustably grasping and cradling a model train engine or other car (especially Garden Scale) without damaging it and presenting the desired portion of such engine or car for repair or maintenance. The device used includes: a rectangular longitudinal plywood base plate having in its upper surface a pair of transverse upside-down T-slots with sloppy-fit nut members captured in the T-slots; and a pair of longitudinal plywood vertical side plates, each fitted with vertical bolt members tightenable in the corresponding nut members. When the piece to be worked on is placed between the side plates, with appropriate cushioning, the sloppy fits permit the side plates to be pushed into snug position before tightening. The device also provides a cover with a handle for portability between uses.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1996Date of Patent: October 13, 1998Inventor: Charles W. Anderson
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Patent number: 5562872Abstract: A chopping board of the present invention is formed in a manner that synthetic rubber (NBR) and hard chloroethene as a basis are kneaded into wherein an anti-bacterial agent is mixed. Definitely, a stiffening agent of synthetic rubber, low-pressure polyethylene resin, white carbn black which is the reinforcing extender of rubber, zinc flower as a reinforcing accelerator of rubber, titanium as a coloring agent and stearic acid as a dispersion accelerator are mixed with the base of synthetic rubber (NBR) and hard vinyl chloride. The mixture thus obtained is agitated under kneading by a kneader exclusively for rubber and then a ceramic power and an inorganic antibacterial agent are mixed with the kneaded mixture so as to mold the chopping board.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1995Date of Patent: October 8, 1996Assignee: Daikyo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tadao Watanabe
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Patent number: 5549238Abstract: A method and brazing fixture are provided for passing a plurality of heat exchanger components through a brazing furnace to provide a heat exchanger for use in a motor vehicle air conditioning system. The brazing fixture includes a reusable brazing tray having a flat planar surface for securing the heat exchanger components thereto, in alignment for passing through the brazing furnace. The heat exchanger components include refrigerant flow tubes and fin stock, which are placed alongside of the planar surface, with the planar surface extending substantially along the full length of the fin stock to prevent high fin. Circulation ports extend through the brazing tray in a honeycomb pattern along the planar surface, for passing heated gases within the brazing furnace between the fin stock and flow tubes. The planar surface of the brazing tray is formed from a material to which the heat exchanger components will not braze, and which will not tend to stick to brazing flux.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1995Date of Patent: August 27, 1996Assignee: Zexel USA CorporationInventor: Clive R. Hindle
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Patent number: 5529297Abstract: A clamp having internal snap-fit attachments has a first member, a second member and an actuating mechanism. At least one of the preceding members has a pair of sections thereof which are attached together by a plurality of snap-fit attachments.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 1993Date of Patent: June 25, 1996Assignee: BTM CorporationInventor: Edwin G. Sawdon
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Patent number: 5491999Abstract: The present invention is an element for gripping metal to be stretched by a stretcher leveler apparatus. The gripping element includes a first and preferably a second high density cast polyurethane gripping pad adapted for engagement with the metal to be stretched and a support member which can be a rectangular plate upon which the first and second gripping pads are operatively anchored. The support member having two pads is detachably mounted to the stretcher leveler apparatus either in a first orientation in which the first pad is positioned for engagement with the metal to be stretched or a second orientation in which the second pad is positioned for engagement with the metal to be stretched. Preferably, the support member is a plate having a first support surface upon which the first gripping pad is chemically bonded and a second support surface upon which the second gripping pad is chemically bonded. The support surfaces are disposed on opposite sides of the plate and in a parallel relationship.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1992Date of Patent: February 20, 1996Inventor: Bertram A. Holloway
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Patent number: 5487536Abstract: A cutting table is disclosed which can be used to cut workpieces such as banners. The device comprises a hard-surfaced vacuum table, with a rectangular grid pattern of cutting grooves. One or more raised measuring guides allow quick and accurate alignment and measurement of workpieces. The device is designed for expansion by connection to one or more additional banner tables.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1994Date of Patent: January 30, 1996Inventor: Jerry F. McEachin
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Patent number: 5433424Abstract: A chopping board of the present invention is formed in a manner that synthetic rubber (NBR) and hard chloroethene as a basis are kneaded into a mixture wherein an anti-bacterial agent is mixed. Definitely, a stiffening agent of synthetic rubber, low-pressure polyethylene resin, white carbon black which is the reinforcing extender of rubber, zinc flower as a reinforcing accelerator of rubber, titanium as a coloring agent and stearic acid as a dispersion accelerator are mixed with the base of synthetic rubber(NBR) and hard chloroethene. The mixture thus obtained is agitated under kneading by a kneader exclusively for rubber and then a ceramic power and an inorganic anti bacterial agent are mixed with the kneaded mixture so as to mold the chopping board.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 1993Date of Patent: July 18, 1995Assignee: Daikyo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tadao Watanabe
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Patent number: 5428199Abstract: A frame member, comprising a pair substantially parallel base members connected by a pair substantially parallel intermediate members extending therebetween, has its base members formed of the same material as the machine bed wherein the material is a cast mineral material comprising a synthetic binder and mineral fillers. It is a particular feature that the base members of the frame member be cast with the machine bed as a unitary structure out of the cast mineral material.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1993Date of Patent: June 27, 1995Assignee: Georg Fischer AGInventors: Hansruedi Berger, Fritz Fankhauser
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Patent number: 5324012Abstract: A holder which cleanly holds an article such as a semiconductor wafer and which is high in rigidity, light in weight, high in dimensional stability and excellent in dust resistance. The wafer holder includes a vacuum holding surface formed with a plurality of concentric or helical annular projections and annular vacuum holding grooves which are arranged at a given pitch. A plurality of vacuum holes for vacuum holding purposes are formed in the respective annular grooves so as to be arranged radially and each of the vacuum holes is subjected to pressure reduction by a vacuum source through the interior of the holder, thereby correcting the flatness of a wafer to conform with the upper surfaces of the annular projections. At least the portions of the holder which contact with the wafer (preferably the holder on the whole) are made of a sintered ceramic containing covalent bond-type conductive material such as a TiC-containing sintered Al.sub.2 O.sub.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 1992Date of Patent: June 28, 1994Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Masaaki Aoyama, Keiichi Kimura
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Patent number: 5316586Abstract: The sample holder of the invention is formed of the same semiconductor crystal as the integrated circuit on which the molecular beam expitaxial process is to be performed. In the preferred embodiment, the sample holder comprises three stacked micro-machined silicon wafers: a silicon base wafer having a square micro-machined center opening corresponding in size and shape to the active area of a CCD imager chip, a silicon center wafer micro-machined as an annulus having radially inwardly pointing fingers whose ends abut the edges of and center the CCD imager chip within the annulus, and a silicon top wafer micro-machined as an annulus having cantilevered membranes which extend over the top of the CCD imager chip. The micro-machined silicon wafers are stacked in the order given above with the CCD imager chip centered in the center wafer and sandwiched between the base and top wafers. The thickness of the center wafer is about 20% less than the thickness of the CCD imager chip.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1992Date of Patent: May 31, 1994Assignee: California Institute of TechnologyInventors: Michael E. Hoenk, Paula J. Grunthaner, Frank J. Grunthaner
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Patent number: 5193792Abstract: A soft jaw attachment to machine vises having precision ways and flat vise jaw faces with widely spaced fastener openings through said vice jaw faces, the soft jaw being an elongated bar of resilient material having a flat face to interface with the vice jaw face, an element of the fastener means being of T-shape engaged in a complementary channel in the soft jaw, the soft jaw being arcuately prestressed and drawn tightly into flat contiguous interengagement with the jaw face; and an embodiment wherein the fastener element is an elongated and resilient prestressed bar; either or both the soft jaw or the fastener element being prestressed: tightness of the soft jaw to the vice jaw being ensured.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1992Date of Patent: March 16, 1993Inventor: Joel Di Marco
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Patent number: 5181411Abstract: A gripper means for use in a stretcher leveler apparatus in which the surface for engagement with the metal to be stretched comprises a smooth polymeric material most desirably of a thermoset polyurethane.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1991Date of Patent: January 26, 1993Inventor: Bertram A. Holloway
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Patent number: 5156383Abstract: A window polishing stand for securely receiving and holding selected ones of a class of aircraft window panels during a polishing operation. The stand consists of a planar panel member having a generally oval hole cut centrally therein and having at least three short legs supporting about the periphery to allow clearance beneath the panel member. A quadrature array of felt pads are then included around the edge of the oval hole for padding purposes and clamping assemblies are provided on opposite sides in line with the minor axis of the oval hole thereby to provide secure positioning of the aircraft window with either the concave or convex side directed downward.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 1991Date of Patent: October 20, 1992Inventor: Ronnie G. Williams
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Patent number: 5143359Abstract: A plastic protective gripping member or guard fits on the jaw of a Vise-Grip type locking wrench whose jaws have lateral protuberances at their tips. The gripping member can be in a form of a block or cup having a slot with internal recesses on each side wall. The gripping member fits onto the jaw and permits swiveling about a transverse axis. The gripping member is installed by pushing it onto the jaw tip and twisting it 90 degrees. Nylon is a perferred material because of its comparatively high coefficient of friction even when wet or oily. The gripping surface can be concave, ridged, or flat.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 1991Date of Patent: September 1, 1992Inventor: Matthew A. Bush
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Patent number: 5123636Abstract: The present invention is a low-contaminate work surface for processing semiconductor grade silicon. The work surface is comprised of a parallel array of silicon elements forming a planar surface. The silicon elements are of comparable purity with the semiconductor grade silicon to be process, thus minimizing contact contamination. In an additional embodiment of the present invention, the low-contaminate work surface is part of a work station which provides for initial screening and sizing of the semiconductor grade silicon being processed.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 1991Date of Patent: June 23, 1992Assignee: Dow Corning CorporationInventors: Richard C. Dumler, Matthew J. Stavely
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Patent number: RE34953Abstract: A takeout jaw .Iadd.assembly .Iaddend.for use in a bottle-forming machine .[.is formed in a semicircular shape and.]. contains a spring clip for holding immovably .[.a piece of.]. .Iadd.an arcuate, .Iaddend.non-metallic .[.contact material.]. .Iadd.takeout jaw insert .Iaddend.within .[.a.]. .Iadd.an arcuate .Iaddend.pocket in the body of the takeout jaw.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1992Date of Patent: May 30, 1995Assignee: Union Oil Company of CaliforniaInventors: Michael L. Denney, Shelby M. Withrow, John M. DeLancey, Sr.