By Suction Means Patents (Class 83/100)
  • Patent number: 11915963
    Abstract: A protective member forming apparatus includes an integrating unit that integrates a resin sheet held by a chuck table with a wafer by a resin, a conveying unit that conveys the wafer, and a cutting unit that holds, by a cutting table, the wafer integrated with the resin sheet conveyed by the conveying unit and cuts the resin sheet by a cutting section along the wafer. The cutting unit includes a detection unit that images the wafer by a camera and detects a position of a periphery of the wafer, and a control unit that causes cutting of the resin sheet by the cutting section to be performed only in the case where a peripheral edge of the wafer detected coincides with a track of a cutter blade of the cutting section when the preset resin sheet is cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Kakinuma, Yoshikuni Migiyama
  • Patent number: 11737930
    Abstract: A configurable cutting and transfer apparatus includes a cutter mechanism to cut an incoming web of material into a plurality of discrete articles and a transfer mechanism operable with the cutter mechanism to transfer and rotate the discrete articles from a web receiving location to an article placement location. The transfer mechanism includes a drive shaft rotatable about a transfer axis, a carriage plate mounted to the drive shaft so as to rotate therewith about the transfer axis, and a segmented puck wheel comprising a plurality of carriage units securable to, and repositionable on, the carriage plate so as to rotate therewith to travel along a transfer path about the transfer axis from the web receiving location to the pad placement location, each of the carriage units including a puck operable to provide a rotating and re-pitching of the articles between the web receiving location and the pad placement location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: CURT G. JOA, INC.
    Inventors: Lloyd F. Kreif, Darren Horness, Brian Nelson, Collin M. Heinz, Kevin D. Blank
  • Patent number: 11584102
    Abstract: A system includes a source of sheet material and a conversion machine. The conversion machine is configured to receive the sheet material and to form the sheet material into a fill material. The conversion machine further includes a cutting mechanism configured to cut the fill material. The cutting mechanism is configured such that, when cutting the fill material to form two pieces of fill material, uncut portions of the fill material remain between the two pieces of fill material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sealed Air Corporation (US)
    Inventors: Thomas P. Orsini, Kostadin I. Kostadinov, Donald Durant, Laura A. Favitta, Russell T. Christman
  • Patent number: 11554233
    Abstract: There is provided an exhaust apparatus for connection to a personal protection respiratory device that defines a filtered air volume adjacent to the face of a wearer and comprises at least one exhalation, the apparatus comprising a blower in fluid connection with the at least one exhalation valve, the blower being responsive to the wearer's respiratory cycle to draw a substantial portion of the wearer's exhaled breath through the at least one exhalation valve wherein, in response to the wearer's respiratory cycle, the blower operates throughout the wearer's exhale breath, or a substantial period thereof, and does not operate throughout the wearer's inhale breath, or a substantial period thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: John A. Duff, Benjamin H. Cooper, Jason A. Graves, Henning T. Urban
  • Patent number: 11478865
    Abstract: An improved cutting device with an integrated and interruptible auxiliary power supply. In a preferred embodiment, the improved cutting device is a miter saw having a trigger mechanism for controlling a cutting implement, and at least one 120V or 240V auxiliary power outlet. Electrical power is only provided to the cutting implement and the auxiliary power outlet when the triggering or a similar mechanism is activated, and the release of the triggering mechanism by the user automatically shuts off electrical power to both the cutting implement and the at least one auxiliary power outlet. The auxiliary power outlet is useful for powering any number of different accessories including, without limitation, a light, vacuum source, etc., and is repositionable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Inventor: Larry Knittle
  • Patent number: 11383950
    Abstract: A longitudinal cutting device with a cutting mechanism, which is arranged between an infeed and a delivery and has rotary cutters movable transverse to the transport direction, comprises transport devices that are arranged on the knife receptacles of these rotary cutters and bridge the region of the cutting mechanism with a conveying effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Kolbus GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Patrick Seifert
  • Patent number: 11230122
    Abstract: Disclosed are printer vacuum tables, and corresponding systems and methods for their use, in which the printer vacuum tables include multiple zones to apply vacuum, to hold a variety of media types and thicknesses within a given flatness range, to allow high definition printing. The vacuum zones run in the print direction, and each can be controlled for vacuum on and off. In an illustrative embodiment, the vacuum zones include one or more vacuum zones that are fixed with respect to a printer vacuum table surface, and one or more variable vacuum zones that are movable with respect to the printer vacuum table surface. One or more of the vacuum zones can be turned off if the print media does not cover the zone, such as to prevent leakage, and to provide more consistent vacuum hold down, regardless of media size or width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING, INC.
    Inventors: Brett Schuster, Donald B. Richardson, Keith R. Vaillancourt
  • Patent number: 11198562
    Abstract: A supply device for feeding of goods to be transported to a conveyor device has at least one conveyor belt (9) that extends around two deflection pulleys (4) of the supply device. The at least one conveyor belt (9) has, on its inner side (21), a guide strip (23) arranged approximately along a feed direction (13), and has a bed (11) for guiding the at least one conveyor belt (9) between the two deflection pulleys (4) by a guide groove (19) for the guide strip (23). The bed (11) has a base table (22) and at least one guiding device (20) attached to the base table (22). The guide groove (19) is formed at least partially by the at least one guiding device (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Inventor: Siegmund Dudek
  • Patent number: 11111170
    Abstract: A method for cutting, separating and removing interior contoured shapes in thin substrates, particularly glass substrates. The method involves the utilization of an ultra-short pulse laser to form defect lines in the substrate that may be followed by use of a second laser beam to promote isolation of the part defined by the interior contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Bradley Frederick Bowden, Xiaoju Guo, Thomas Hackert, Garrett Andrew Piech, Kristopher Allen Wieland
  • Patent number: 11108109
    Abstract: The present application relates to the technical field of battery and provides a device for press-fitting a battery top cover. The device for press-fitting a battery top cover comprises a press-fitting body. The press-fitting body 1 is arranged on one side of the battery top cover facing away from a battery housing. A pneumatic cleaning assembly is arranged on one side of the press-fitting body facing the battery top cover. The pneumatic cleaning assembly is arranged to allow the chips to move out of the battery housing together with gas along a gap between the battery housing and the battery top cover. In the present application, the pneumatic cleaning assembly is arranged to allow the chips to move out of the battery housing together with gas along the gap between the battery housing and the battery top cover under the action of the gas flow so that to keep the inside of the battery housing clean, avoid short circuit in the battery caused by the chips, and improve the safety performance of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Shaoyu Chen, Jiang Lin, Xiang Fan, Chao Yang, Hongxin Fang
  • Patent number: 10926342
    Abstract: A panel saw is disclosed. The panel saw may include a support element, a frame, a movable saw, and a channel. The support element may support a bottom edge of a panel. The frame may support a face of the panel. The movable saw may cut the panel from a top edge of the panel to the bottom edge. The channel may be in the frame, behind the movable saw, and open toward the face of the panel. The bottommost portion of the channel may include a vacuum connection. The topmost portion of the channel may be open such that when a vacuum source is coupled with the vacuum connection, and the face of the panel is supported by the frame, air moves through the channel from the topmost portion to the vacuum connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: INNOVATIONS MANUFACTURING, INC.
    Inventor: Owen Woodruff Bunker, II
  • Patent number: 10882207
    Abstract: Table saws and table saws designed to implement safety systems that detect contact between a person and a dangerous portion of the saw are disclosed. Table saw components, mounting systems for table saws, and table saw attachments are also disclosed. One embodiment may include a first clamp surface, a second clamp surface spaced apart from the first clamp surface so that a base portion of a riving knife or splitter can be placed between the clamp surfaces with the opposing sides of the base portion generally parallel to the first and second clamp surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SawStop Holding LLC
    Inventors: Stephen F. Gass, J. David Fulmer, David A. Fanning
  • Patent number: 10875211
    Abstract: An object detection system in a saw includes an electrically conductive plate positioned at a predetermined distance from the implement, a detection circuit comprising a transformer, and a single cable connecting first terminal and second terminals of the transformer. The single cable includes a first conductor electrically connected to the first terminal of the winding and to the electrically conductive plate, a second conductor electrically connected to the implement, and an electrical insulator positioned between the first conductor and the second conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: John DeCicco, Eric Laliberte, Timothy Szweda, Brian Taylor, Dieter Volpert, Gary L. Voong
  • Patent number: 10703017
    Abstract: A novel cutting method and apparatus includes a cutting blade adapted to consistently and easily form a desirable kerf in a concrete substrate while capturing substantially all resulting concrete dust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Perfect Trac OpCo, LLC
    Inventors: John Merck, Reginald A. Ronzello, Sr., Timothy H. Crowley
  • Patent number: 10569375
    Abstract: A chip suction cover is used for a machine tool including: a spindle configured to rotate a tool; and a suction mechanism unit configured to suck chips of a workpiece that are produced in accordance with rotation of the tool. The chip suction cover includes: a hollow body that is provided with an opening through which a rotation central axis of the spindle extends and that is arranged so as to surround the tool; and a cover body that is provided in the hollow body so as to partially close the opening and that is configured to cover a part of a tip end portion of the tool while exposing a remaining part of the tip end portion of the tool. A chip suction cover having such a configuration that improves the efficiency of sucking chips produced due to workpiece machining is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: DMG MORI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keisuke Ikai
  • Patent number: 10569921
    Abstract: A labelling unit and a method for labelling containers is provided. Said method provides rapid and reliable switching movements with low noise development and low wear of the mechanical components in that suction bars for suctioning label areas at places where container gaps occur can be actively switched back to an inner position, in which they do not come into contact with a gluing unit, and in that the switching process is triggered with the aid of a stationary toggle lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Dieter Hafner, Stephan Rattenberger, Tobias Eichhammer
  • Patent number: 10512965
    Abstract: Devices for separating two workpiece parts, e.g., metal sheets, from one another are described and include a workpiece mounting, a lifting device arranged on one side of the workpiece mounting, and a counter-holder arranged on the opposite side of the workpiece mounting. The counter-holder can be transferred into a fixing state and into a releasing state. One of the workpiece parts to be separated from one another is provided as a removal part, the other as a remaining part. For separating the two workpiece parts, the removal part, which is acted upon by the lifting device and supported by the counter-holder, can be moved by means of the lifting device perpendicular to the mounting in relation to the remaining part by a removal movement. At least in the releasing state, the counter-holder forms a rigid abutment in the lifting direction for the removal part. The rigid abutment has the effect that the removal part is aligned parallel to the mounting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignees: TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG, J. Schmalz GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz-Juergen Prokop, Peter Epperlein, Thomas Eisele, Walter Dunkmann, Magnus Deiss, Frank Schmauder
  • Patent number: 10439243
    Abstract: A membrane electrode assembly manufacturing device includes a loading apparatus for supplying an MEA roll on which a membrane electrode assembly is arranged by a predetermined pitch, a hot press apparatus for pressing a surface corresponding to the membrane electrode assembly of the MEA roll at a set temperature, a buffer apparatus to which the MEA roll is supplied to one side and exhausted at the other side, and for performing a buffer function of absorbing a difference between supply and exhaustion, and a cutting apparatus for cutting a portion of the membrane electrode assembly arranged at the MEA roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Sung Hoon Jeong, Jongcheol Ahn, Yongmin Kim, Ki Sub Lee
  • Patent number: 10418642
    Abstract: A device for bonding fuel cell parts may include a die, which forms vacuum suction holes, a lower hot press, respectively installed on both edges of a lower die to be movable in a vertical direction an upper die, installed to be movable in a vertical direction from the upper side of the lower die, a vacuum attachment member, which constitutes the same plane with the lower surface of the upper die, forms vacuum suction holes on the lower surface, and is installed on the upper die to be movable in a vertical direction while corresponding to the upper surface of the lower die between the lower hot press, and an upper hot press, respectively installed between both edges of the upper die to be movable in a vertical direction while corresponding to the lower hot press and constituting the same plane with the lower surface of the upper die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Young Gun Kim, Sun Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 10112351
    Abstract: A slide-room for installation in a recreational vehicle or other structure is disclosed. The slide-room comprises a shell, which can be constructed from fiberglass. The shell comprises an end wall, a ceiling, a floor, two opposing side walls, and a flange extending from the end wall, wherein the end wall, the ceiling, the floor, the side walls and the flange comprise a one-piece, unitary construction. Also disclosed are methods for molding composite components, such as slide-room. In one specific implementation, the shell for a slide-room is formed from fiberglass using a vacuum-assisted resin transfer process. During the vacuum-assisted resin transfer process, a mold apparatus can include a perimeter seal system to inhibit resin from flowing into spaces between mating components of the mold. The perimeter seal system can include clamp seal assemblies and/or vacuum seal assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Composite Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Dame, Jeffrey Chase
  • Patent number: 10052786
    Abstract: Table saws and table saws designed to implement safety systems that detect contact between a person and a dangerous portion of the saw are disclosed. Table saw components, mounting systems for table saws, and table saw attachments are also disclosed. One embodiment may include a first clamp surface, a second clamp surface spaced apart from the first clamp surface so that a base portion of a riving knife or splitter can be placed between the clamp surfaces with the opposing sides of the base portion generally parallel to the first and second clamp surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: SawStop Holding LLC
    Inventors: Stephen F. Gass, J. David Fulmer, David A. Fanning
  • Patent number: 9522823
    Abstract: An apparatus for cutting micro-grids from a metal substrate is provided. The apparatus includes a support and a cutting module. The support includes a supporting surface, the support is configured to support a micro-grid and the metal substrate. The cutting module includes a fixing element, a spring and a cutting structure. The fixing structure and the spring are located in the cutting structure. The fixing element is configured to fix the micro-grid on the supporting surface. The cutting structure is configured to cut the micro-grid from the metal substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chen Feng, Xue-Wei Guo
  • Patent number: 9517573
    Abstract: A rotary cutting apparatus is configured to rotate about a first longitudinal axis. The cutting roll includes a cutting member. The apparatus includes an anvil roll that is configured to rotate about a second longitudinal axis. The anvil roll is positioned relative to the cutting roll such that the first longitudinal axis is substantially parallel with the second longitudinal axis. The anvil roll includes an outer circumferential surface. The second longitudinal axis is selectively movable between a first position and a second position relative to the first longitudinal axis. In the first position, a first minimum distance is defined between the first longitudinal axis and the second longitudinal axis. In the second position, a second minimum distance is defined between the first longitudinal axis and the second longitudinal axis, and wherein the second minimum distance is greater than the first minimum distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Uwe Schneider, Daniel Patrick Findley
  • Patent number: 9289913
    Abstract: A punching device is provided for processing samples applied to a sample card comprising at least one punching head with a punch and a lower die, the punch being movable between a resting position and a punching position. The punching head has a receiving opening into which a sample card can be introduced by a movable gripping unit, and a punching drive, which drives the movement of the punch between the resting position and the punching position. A piece of sample punched out from the sample card can be discharged at an outlet opening of the lower die into a receiving recess of a receiving container. The punching head comprises a structure separate from the punching device, wherein the structure of the punching head forms an exchangeable module that is couplable to the punching device and the punching drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Hamilton Bonaduz AG
    Inventors: Nando Giovanoli, Reto Menzi
  • Patent number: 9251951
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a magnet segment of a field pole magnet body includes cleaving a magnet material at a plurality of cleavage target regions arranged with an interval in a longitudinal direction of the magnet material. The cleavage process includes cleaving the magnet material sequentially from the cleavage target region closer to one side edge of the longitudinal direction of the magnet material, wherein a notch is formed in each of the plurality of cleavage target regions of the magnet material such that a depth of the notch closer to the one side edge becomes deeper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaichi, Kimio Nishimura, Hideki Watanabe, Takashi Sekikawa, Yasushi Matsushita, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Yasuhisa Koike
  • Patent number: 9149951
    Abstract: A saw (100) includes a sawdust collection assembly (2) having a chute (10) made of a material having a stretchability to be shaped responsive to movement of a blade housing (102) into a moveable sawdust path. An upper end (40) of a top portion (6) of the chute (10) is removably and reattachably engaged with a top attachment member (36) mounted to the blade housing (102). A bottom portion (8) of the chute (10) is removably and reattachably engaged with a bottom attachment member (26) mounted to a rear side (106C) of a fence (106) of the saw (100). Two side edges (44, 46) of the top portion (6) are respectively attached by two side tension cords (18) to left and right sides (106B, 106A) of the fence (106). One of the side tension cords (18) can be used with a tension block (20, 28) to form a tensioning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Nomis LLC
    Inventor: Richard F. Keenan
  • Patent number: 9130232
    Abstract: A grid for a battery is disclosed. The battery grid includes an electrically conductive grid body having opposed top and bottom frame elements. At least one of the frame elements has a cross section with coined edges. The battery grid also includes a plurality of interconnecting electrically conductive grid elements spanning between the opposed top and bottom frame elements defining a grid pattern. Methods of forming a battery grid are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventor: Richard R. Binder
  • Publication number: 20150096415
    Abstract: A suction conveyor device, comprising a suction arrangement having a suction side on which low pressure is generated, continuously rotating flexible conveying means made of flexible flat material having holes, an inner side enabling the conveying means to move along the suction side, and an outer side for receiving flat items in the active area of the suction side, where the conveying means moves in the transporting direction, the suction arrangement and the conveyor means designed with a transport path width in the active range perpendicular to the transporting direction. The conveying means includes continuously circulating individual, single-piece, flexible conveying means, both lateral edges thereof extending in the transporting direction at a distance from each other being at least the same as the total width of the transport path such that the individual, single-piece flexible conveyor means extend over the total width of the transport path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: Will-Pemco GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Herpell
  • Publication number: 20150082958
    Abstract: The present invention disclosed a woodworking table saw with self vacuuming function, comprising: a worktable and a saw blade, the worktable being provided with a saw slot through which the saw blade is extended, a blade guard being disposed on the saw slot, a riving knife being disposed adjacent to a side of the saw blade, and a riving knife holder being provided for holding the riving knife, wherein the woodworking table saw further has a closed box, an eccentric motor, a vacuuming air box and a dust bag, the closed box is hung beneath the worktable by lugs disposed under two sides of the worktable, the eccentric motor is fixed at a side of the closed box, the eccentric motor is provided with an eccentric shaft which has one end coupling to the saw blade and the other end coupling to a central shaft of the vacuuming air box via a belt, a fan blade is fixed on the central shaft, an air inlet of the vacuuming air box is in communication with a dust outlet of the closed box and an air outlet of the vacuuming a
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: Zhen Feng
  • Publication number: 20150068376
    Abstract: The object of the application is a cleaning system of a drum conveyor of a filter segment feeding apparatus in the tobacco industry wherein a transport drum (3) comprises a plurality of discs (4) on the circumferential surface of which concavities (5) are formed whereas the concavities of the individual discs are positioned relative to one another so that together they form channels (6) receiving filter rods (1), where in the said channels (6) the filter rods (1) are transported during cutting, whereas the borders of adjacent discs (4) do not contact one another and in this way they form circumferential grooves (9). The discs (4) have passages (12) discharging the dirt, the circumferential grooves (9) have a connection with the passages (12) discharging the dirt, and the system comprises a vacuum channel (15) receiving the dirt having a connection with the passages (12) discharging the dirt in the discs (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventor: Andrzej Boleslawski
  • Publication number: 20150059542
    Abstract: A Dust Capturing Device for Reciprocating Saws is disclosed. The device is attachable to a convenational shop vacuum cleaner so that virtually all dust created by the reciprocating saw at the cutting blade is captured by the vacuum cleaner. The system is universally attachable to all powered reciprocating saws on the market. A pair of suction hoses are snugly attached to the body of the saw, from intake ports located adjacent to the saw blade to an adapter manifold that combines the two suction hoses into a single hose adaptable to the vacuum cleaner hose. The hoses are attached to the body of the saw by one or more body straps, with each body strap having a pair of hose clips extending therefrom for restraining the two suction hoses running along the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Shave Away Europe, Inc., dba Dust Collection Products
    Inventor: John Buser
  • Publication number: 20150020659
    Abstract: A glass tube cleaning and cutting device includes a glass tube cutting device configured to cut an end portion of a glass tube while the glass tube cutting device rotates the glass tube having a predetermined length about a tube axis of the glass tube and conveys the glass tube in a direction orthogonal to the tube axis, at least one blower configured to blow air into an opening located on a first end portion side of the glass tube, and at least one cutting blade provided at a position opposite to the at least one blower interposing the glass tube therebetween, the at least one cutting blade being configured to impose thermal shock and scratches on an outer circumference surface of a second end portion side of the glass tube to cut the second end portion side of the glass tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Hoshiba, Masahiro Ichikawa, Toru Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20150020661
    Abstract: A chop saw, grinding wheel, or like apparatus is disclosed herein also incorporated to an easily portable dust collection system. In a preferred embodiment, a worktable is provided with a center slot for receiving a circular saw blade. A negative pressure and resulting air flow is provided at the center slot to capture particulate matter as a byproduct of cutting the workpiece. Side slots are also disclosed to assist in particulate collection. A unique filter chamber having a cylindrical filter is additionally provided to remove dust from air and discharge the filtered air at a lateral side of the apparatus. A filter cleaning knob is additionally disclosed to assist in cleaning the filter. Of the beneficial aspects of the chop saw with dust collection system is its portability being one integral unit and the dust filter being easily cleaned and maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Mitch Fairweather, Stephen M. Curtis, Paul W. Guth, Randy Ott
  • Publication number: 20150013513
    Abstract: A novel cutting method and apparatus includes a cutting blade adapted to consistently and easily form a desirable kerf in a concrete substrate while capturing substantially all resulting concrete dust.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: John MERCK, Reginald A. RONZELLO, SR., Timothy H. CROWLEY
  • Patent number: 8925432
    Abstract: A paper discharging apparatus contains a movable mechanism and a control unit. The movable mechanism moves a surface part between a first position that the surface part is not contacted with a pinch roller and a second position that the surface part is contacted with the pinch roller through a paper so as to push the pinch roller; the control unit moves the surface part to the second position, clamps the paper by the pinch roller and the surface part, and conveys the paper, thereby bending the paper, and which moves the surface part to the first position and clamps the paper by the pinch roller and a feeding roller, and rotates the feeding roller, thereby discharging the paper from the conveyance path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Eoka, Tsuyoshi Sanada
  • Patent number: 8910548
    Abstract: A finishing apparatus for ductwork having a duct body with at least one open end. The finishing apparatus includes an operation platform for selectively supporting the ductwork and a first wrapping mechanism integrated with the operation platform, the first wrapping mechanism including a first dispenser for dispensing a first film. The finishing apparatus further includes a first cutting mechanism integrated with the first wrapping mechanism. In operation, the first wrapping mechanism selectively dispenses the first film adjacent to and against the open end of the ductwork as the ductwork is moved a predetermined distance down the operation platform. The first cutting mechanism selectively cutting the first film after the ductwork has moved the predetermined distance down the operation platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Mestek Machinery, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael C. Borwig
  • Patent number: 8910551
    Abstract: In order to punch a moving material web there are two punching units present, which are arranged one after another in the direction of movement of the material web. Each punching unit has two punching tools, which interact with a rotatably mounted back-pressure cylinder that can be driven. The punching tools are arranged on a rotatably mounted drive shaft that can be driven, and their position can be adjusted in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the latter and locked in various working positions. Each punching tool has a cylindrical base, to the periphery of which a punching strip which is provided with at least one punching shape is fixed such that it can be replaced. The drive shafts can be driven independently of the associated back-pressure cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Hunkeler AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schürch, André Meznaric
  • Patent number: 8905662
    Abstract: Methods and devices include a patterning device positioned along a processing path. The patterning device forms one or more holes through workpieces at a contact location of the workpieces. A transport device is positioned along the processing path. The transport device removes the workpieces from the processing path and stacks the workpieces by simultaneously moving at least two of the workpieces together in workpiece sets. The transport device comprising a vacuum device that contacts the contact location of the top workpiece within each of the workpiece sets. The vacuum device applies vacuum through the holes of the top workpiece to the bottom workpiece within each of the workpiece sets to maintain the workpieces together in the workpiece sets when performing the removing and the stacking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Paul N. Richards, Derek A. Bryl, Douglas K. Herrmann
  • Publication number: 20140352155
    Abstract: A hand-held electric power tool having a tool that can be rotated around a rotational axis by the drive unit, having a protective cover that at least partially surrounds the tool, having an outlet opening that conveys out of the protective cover the material removed from the workpiece that is to be machined, and having a suction adapter that is connected to the protective cover and that has a connection section with a suction opening for connecting a suction device, the suction adapter having a guide device for guiding the material being removed, the guide device having an outlet opening that differs from the suction opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Markus Looser, Konstantin Baxivanelis, Guenter Haas, Bernhard Link
  • Publication number: 20140356988
    Abstract: A mechanical debonding method and system are provided. A mechanical debonding method, used to debond temporary bonding wafers formed by bonding a device wafer and a carrier wafer by an adhesive, includes: obtaining the height position of the adhesive through a thickness measurement apparatus; moving a cutting apparatus to a position between the device wafer and the carrier wafer based on the height position of the adhesive, then removing the adhesive at the edge of the temporary bonding wafers by the cutting apparatus; removing the carrier wafer from the temporary bonding wafers; cleaning the adhesive left on the surface of the device wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Daquan Yu, Feng Jiang
  • Publication number: 20140352508
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cutting system for glass substrate and includes an upstream table for carrying the glass substrate. A downstream table is disposed adjacent to the upstream table for receiving the unit panel cut from the glass substrate. A transferring device is provided for displacing the glass substrate from the upstream table to the downstream table. A cutting device is arranged between the upstream and downstream tables, and includes an upper knife and a lower knife suitable conducting cutting strokes with respect to the glass substrate from above and below. The apparatus further includes a discharging device arranged between the upstream and downstream tables for removing a leftover of the glass substrate, the discharging device includes a vacuum pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haibo Huang
  • Patent number: 8869786
    Abstract: A chop saw, grinding wheel, or like apparatus is disclosed herein also incorporated to an easily portable dust collection system. In a preferred embodiment, a worktable is provided with a center slot for receiving a circular saw blade. A negative pressure and resulting air flow is provided at the center slot to capture particulate matter as a byproduct of cutting the workpiece. Side slots are also disclosed to assist in particulate collection. A unique filter chamber having a cylindrical filter is additionally provided to remove dust from air and discharge the filtered air at a lateral side of the apparatus. A filter cleaning knob is additionally disclosed to assist in cleaning the filter. Of the beneficial aspects of the chop saw with dust collection system is its portability being one integral unit and the dust filter being easily cleaned and maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Inventors: Mitch Faiweather, Stephen M. Curtis, Paul W. Guth, Randy Ott
  • Patent number: 8844415
    Abstract: A power tool includes a table structure defining a blade slot, a frame supporting the table structure, a blade assembly mounted within the frame, and a dust cover assembly. The blade assembly includes a blade positioned within the blade slot, a motor assembly to rotate the blade, and a carriage assembly supporting the motor assembly and pivotably mounted to adjust the angular orientation of the blade relative to the table structure. The carriage assembly includes a cover arranged to define a gap between an upper edge of the cover and the underside of the table structure. The dust cover assembly is mounted between the carriage assembly and the table structure to substantially cover the gap at all angular orientations of the blade relative to the table structure. The dust cover assembly is mounted for relative movement relative to at least one of said carriage assembly and said table structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Brian Taylor
  • Publication number: 20140260848
    Abstract: A dust collection system for a circular saw having a saw housing and a motor configured to rotationally drive a saw blade includes a dust collecting member and a guide mechanism. The dust collecting member includes a body having a first end in which a dust collection opening is defined and a second end operably connectable to an airflow generation device. The guide mechanism is configured to support the dust collecting member on the saw housing such that the dust collection opening remains adjacent to an outer edge of the saw blade in response to one of the dust collecting member and the guide mechanism contacting the workpiece to move the dust collecting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicants: Robert Bosch GmbH, Robert Bosch Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Reinhard Gantke, Hans-Joerg Hopfengart, Uwe Striggow, Ralph Dammertz, Juergen Wiker
  • Patent number: 8826787
    Abstract: A media feeder system for use with a media cutting system having a cutting table includes an upper out-feed tray and a lower in-feed tray bins are disposed laterally adjacent one side of the cutting system table. A bi-directional media transport system transports media in an in-feed direction from the in-feed tray to the cutting table surface and removes media from the cutting table surface in an out-feed direction from the cutting table surface to the out-feed tray. The media transport system includes a sheet acquisition system having gripping apparatus that adjust for a height of the media held in the bins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Linn C. Hoover, Barry P. Mandel, Robert A. Clark, William W Nowak
  • Publication number: 20140238962
    Abstract: A method for disposing of a slug produced in a hole punching operation on a hollow profile is provided. The method includes the steps of providing a hollow profile; cutting at least one predeterminable hole or slug contour path into the hollow profile by means of a cutting device; leaving a residual web of the hole or slug contour path; moving a receiving device into the hollow profile; moving a punch from a first position into a residual-web-removing second position in such a way that the slug thereby produced is received by the receiving device; and moving the receiving device out of the hollow profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: JENOPTIK Automatisierungstechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian NAWRODT, Karsten HEINIG, Roland HENNIG, Christoph STEINER
  • Patent number: 8794115
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is provided for single transfer insert placement. The apparatus receives continuous web material and cuts a discrete section or pad from the web. The pad is then supported on a single transfer surface. The single transfer surface then may spin the supported pad to a desired angle and provide the pad to a receiving surface at a desired interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Curt G. Joa, Inc.
    Inventor: John A. McCabe
  • Patent number: 8793835
    Abstract: A system and method for capturing resultant dust from power tool operation are disclosed. The system comprises a device that includes a housing with a substantially cylindrical shape. The housing has a first end that tapers to an opening for a tool bit and at least one suction port that opens into an interior volume of the housing. The housing has a second end configured to couple to a power tool. An air intake passage attaches to the exterior surface of the housing body such that an interior volume of the air intake passage connects to an interior volume of the housing. An exit passage is coupled to the air intake passage and is configured to couple to a vacuum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Inventor: Jack M. King, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8789572
    Abstract: In the cutting transferring device according to the present invention, the cut film sheet is configured to be sucked onto the outer peripheral surface of the lower blade roll at a position where both side edge regions of the cut film sheet and a front end region thereof in a proceeding direction face an edge area 41B-1 in 41B of the second region while a remaining region of the cut film sheet faces a center area 41B-2 in 41B of the second region. And a suction holding force in the edge area 41B-1 is stronger than a suction holding force in the center area 41B-2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20140202296
    Abstract: A cutting machine waste extraction apparatus is provided and includes ducting system and junction apparatus such that waste from cutting is removable from the cutting area through a movable ducting system. The ducting system receives and directs waste from the cutting area, up a vertical plane to a horizontal plane. A portion of the ducting system is connected by the junction apparatus to another portion of the ducting system, whereby in the horizontal plane the ducting is movable with respect to other ducting. The junction apparatus includes a movable junction ducting for directionally directing waste flow. The ducting has at least one movable flexible belt covering and sealing the ducting. belt being movably supported by rollers to be slidably raised above a portion of the ducting to allow the junction apparatus to be movable along the ducting to allow waste therein while being continuously fluidly sealed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Eigen Systems Limited
    Inventor: Murray Houlton Forlong