Patents Examined by Adam J Eiseman
  • Patent number: 11565840
    Abstract: A binding machine includes: a main handle configured to accommodate a staple; a staple driver supported by the main handle and configured to drive the staple; and a clincher arm rotatably attached to the main handle and including a clincher, the clincher being configured to clinch the staple driven by the staple driver. The staple driver includes: a driving portion that extends in a direction away from the main handle and is configured to drive the staple toward the clincher, and an attachment portion with which the driving portion is attached to the main handle, and the attachment portion extends in a longitudinal direction of the main handle from a side edge of the driving portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Taguchi, Kenji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11565297
    Abstract: A method and a correspondingly configured bending machine are described, wherein a setting of the bending machine is first calculated on the basis of a mathematical model and subsequently corrected on the basis of stored data sets on previous bending operations and their correction values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: HÄUSLER HOLDING AG
    Inventor: Alexander Zwahlen
  • Patent number: 11559831
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an extrusion press (10, 20, 30) with a press cylinder (111), the press cylinder (111) being driven with an electro-hydrostatic control system (104) for a power transmission and being connected to a separate drive (120, 400) for rapid traverse, with a container (115), wherein the container (115) is connected to a hydraulic cylinder (117) for a power transmission and to a further separate drive (119, 300) for rapid traverse, with a hydraulic cylinder (101) with a locking device (103) for driving a shearing tool (102), wherein the hydraulic cylinder (101) is connected to the electro-hydrostatic control system (104), and wherein the press cylinder (111) in the power transmission and the hydraulic cylinder (101) for driving a shearing tool (102) are controlled alternately via the common electro-hydrostatic control system (104).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Moog GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Kirch
  • Patent number: 11559981
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heat press, especially knee lever-transfer press with at least one socket, with at least one base plate and with at least one heatable counter plate pivotable towards the base plate, wherein the knee lever-transfer press further has a control unit, by which the knee lever-transfer press is controllable in an open-loop manner and/or closed-loop manner and wherein the control unit constitutes a first modular unit of the knee lever-transfer press and wherein the socket constitutes at least one second modular unit, and the base plate and the counter plate constitute at least one third modular unit and wherein at least the first modular unit and the second modular unit and/or the third modular unit are separable from each other and/or are formed to be replaceable for functional comparable modular units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Nepata Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Schmidt, Oliver Tiedemann, Fabian Franke, Konstantin Köppe, Robert Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11554567
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hand press for pressing a package, the hand press having a housing, which has at least one first opening for the inserting the package and at least one second opening for the disposing of the package. Furthermore, the hand press has a pressing device, which is arranged essentially inside the housing and which has a first pressing surface, and an actuating device, which is connected via a rotary shaft with at least one lever, which is rotatably mounted with the pressing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Inventor: Hubert Troppmann
  • Patent number: 11554406
    Abstract: A high-precision heavy-load numerically-controlled flanging machine comprises a machine frame, an edge pressing assembly, a flanging beam and a flanging beam transmission mechanism that comprises an inclined slide rail, an inertia block and two crank-connecting rod mechanisms; the flanging beam is provided with a driving inclined plane; the inclined slide rail is mounted on the machine frame; the inertia block is provided with two non-parallel inclined planes, wherein one inclined plane of the inertia block is slidably mounted on the inclined slide rail to form a sliding pair I, and the other inclined plane of the inertia block is in sliding fit with the driving inclined plane of the flanging beam to form a sliding pair II; cranks of the two crank-connecting rod mechanisms are hinged on the machine frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    Inventors: Fengyu Xu, Baojie Fan, Sen Yang, Kaiwei Ma, Guoping Jiang
  • Patent number: 11554401
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a correction equipment for an end face of an aluminum alloy wheel, including a correction device and a transport device, which is configured to transport the aluminum alloy wheel to the correction device. The correction device comprises a rack body, which is provided with an oil cylinder on an upper part, a lower pressing plate on a middle part and a jacking air cylinder on a bottom part, with an output end of the oil cylinder fixedly connected downward to an upper pressing disc and an output end of jacking air cylinder fixedly connected upward to a lifting frame, on which a displacement roller way is provided. The present invention satisfies the need for an end face correction for an aluminum alloy wheel while having significant, stable and reliable characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: CITIC Dicastal Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiandong Guo, Le Zhang, Yuemei Zang
  • Patent number: 11554402
    Abstract: A carrier for seam formation and sealing comprising a roller assembly having at least one roller; a housing for holding the roller assembly; a fastening member for mounting the roller to the housing; and the fastening member is an interchangeable mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Mestek Machinery, Inc.
    Inventor: Marcus Bowen
  • Patent number: 11554403
    Abstract: In order to provide a balanced bent lip disc, the applicant routinely had issues with rippling at an outer circumference edge of the lip. Due to the geometries involved in a 3½ inch disc bent to provide an outer lip of ½ inch at 45 degrees, 0.1145 of excess circumference is created thereby providing a ripple effect. The applicant discovered that simultaneously embossing the lip while bending the lip could reduce this rippling effect (and the outer circumference at the edge) by at least 75 if not 90 or 95% of a non-embossed lip bent in the same manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Trailblazer Attachments LLC
    Inventors: William Robert Thompson, Michael Roy Turner
  • Patent number: 11554409
    Abstract: A rebar tying tool (2; 302; 402) include a feed mechanism (24), which includes a first motor (32; 304) and feeds a wire (W), and a twisting mechanism, which includes a second motor (76; 306) and twists together one or more portions of the wire. A control unit (202; 350) controls the first motor and the second motor and includes a general-purpose I/O port (202c; 350c) and a motor-control-signal output port (202a; 350a). A motor-control-signal-output-destination-switching circuit (204; 310; 406) inputs motor-control signals (UH, VH, WH, UL, VL, WL) from the control unit via the motor-control-signal output port and selectively outputs the inputted motor-control signals to either the first motor or the second motor in response to input of a switching signal (SW).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunta Mizuno, Masahiro Watanabe, Yuki Kawai
  • Patent number: 11548054
    Abstract: The present application is directed to a double seam modification tooling apparatus for double seam modification and the double seam modification process. More particularly, a tooling apparatus for double seam modification is provided which adds a third modification operation to the first and second double seam operations which form the finished double seam, as well as a process for modifying double seams to include patterns of integral slots, notches or threads, or the like, after the double seams have been previously completely formed by the double seam modification tooling apparatus. Child resistant lids can then be configured with mating tab notches or tab threads to allow for opening or closing the lid when the tabs are properly aligned with the notches and threads on the can rim modified double seams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: N2 PACKAGING SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventor: Randy Scott Martin
  • Patent number: 11541445
    Abstract: A tight space pilot, tight space pilot assembly, and related method includes a tight space pilot that can be installed into a die without fasteners, fastener apertures, or added blocks for mounting. The tight space pilot assembly includes ejectors that are retained by the pilot and a retaining ring that holds the tight space pilot in place in a die member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: STANDARD LIFTERS, INC.
    Inventors: Scott M. Breen, Joel T. Pyper
  • Patent number: 11534997
    Abstract: The disclosure relates a roll press arrangement, in which a rotatable side plate is supported against axial ends of press rolls to delimit a nip between press rolls and to prevent feedstock from escaping therefrom. Moreover, a clearance is arranged between the side plate and the axial ends of the press rolls so as to provide a drainage route for liquid dewatered from the fibrous granular feedstock. A press roll apparatus and a method for dewatering fibrous granular feedstock are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SAALASTI FINLAND OY
    Inventor: Arttu Juvonen
  • Patent number: 11534815
    Abstract: Disclosed is a press formed product which is formed from a single steel sheet. The press formed product includes two vertical wall portions, a top plate portion which connects two vertical wall portions with each other, and a projecting portion which projects from at least one boundary portion of two boundary portions each of which connects the vertical wall portion and the top plate portion with each other. In the projecting portion, a steel sheet extending from the vertical wall portion and a steel sheet extending from the top plate portion project from the boundary portion so as to overlap at an overlapping portion located at least at a distal end of the projecting portion. The projecting portion is present at least at a portion of the press formed product in a longitudinal direction. An angle formed between the top plate portion and the overlapping portion is larger than 180°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenichiro Otsuka
  • Patent number: 11534808
    Abstract: Prior to the rolling of a flat rolling material (2) on a rolling line that includes a number of roll stands (1), a control system (3) receives actual variables (I) and target variables (Z) of the material (2). The control system (3) determines desired values (S*) for the roll stands (1), based on the actual (I) and target variables (Z) in combination with a model (10) of the rolling line, such that expected variables (E1) of the material (2) after its rolling are aligned as far as possible with the target variables (Z) and transfers the desired values (S*) to the roll stands (1) such that the material (2) is rolled according to the desired values (S*). The target variables (Z) comprise at least one freely selectable, discrete characteristic variable (K1 to K5, K2? to K4?, K2? to K4?) defining the contour (K) of the flat rolling material (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventors: Jens Frenzel, Christopher Gusek, Matthias Kurz, Marco Miele, Friedemann Schmid, Alexander Thekale, Martin Vogt
  • Patent number: 11529669
    Abstract: A rebar tying tool includes: a feed mechanism (24), which includes a first brushless motor (32) and performs an advancing process that advances a wire (W) and a draw-back process that draws back the wire (W); a first inverter circuit (212), which is electrically connected to the first brushless motor; and a control unit (202), which controls the first brushless motor via the first inverter circuit. The first brushless motor comprises a first Hall-effect sensor (180), which is disposed on a first sensor board (178). In the advancing process, the control unit performs lead-angle control on the first brushless motor at a first lead angle. In the draw-back process, the control unit performs lead-angle control on the first brushless motor at a second lead angle. The first lead angle is set to be larger than the second lead angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunta Mizuno, Yuki Kawai
  • Patent number: 11529660
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a rolling device for rolling a rolled material. The rolled material is guided through a roll gap between two working rollers of a reversing roll stand, alternatingly in two opposing rolling directions. A lubricant for lubricating a contact zone is introduced into the contact zone in which the rolled material is in contact with the working rollers, and a coolant is applied to the rolled material and/or the working rollers. In a mixture with a carrier gas, the lubricant is sprayed onto the working rollers and/or onto the rolled material exclusively on an outlet side of a pass. The coolant is applied to the working rollers and/or to the rolled material exclusively on an inlet side of a pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Bergmann, Konrad Krimpelstaetter
  • Patent number: 11529670
    Abstract: A method for cutting a cast strand or intermediate strip using shears. In order to facilitate improved rolling of the section having significantly reduced thickness, the method according has the following steps: a) bringing part of the completely solidified cast strand or intermediate strip in the conveying direction (F) of the cast strand or intermediate strip in front of the shears; b) placing a first blade of the shears onto the one surface of the cast strand or intermediate strip and placing a second blade of the shears onto the other surface of the cast strand or intermediate strip and performing a cut by carrying out a relative movement of the two blades, wherein at least one of the blades is in a pushed-forward position; c) upset forging or upset forging with stamping a wedge-shaped contour on the end of the cast strand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: SMS group GmbH
    Inventors: Luc Neumann, Michael Pander, Björn Kintscher, Bernhard Ehls
  • Patent number: 11524801
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping tool configured to tension metal strap around a load and, after tensioning, attach overlapping portions of the strap to one another by cutting notches into a seal element positioned around the overlapping portions of the strap and into the overlapping portions of the strap themselves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Keller, Guido Leine, Kurt Bolliger, Michael Wettstein, Samuel Hochstrasser, Mirco Neeser
  • Patent number: 11516969
    Abstract: A hay bale feeder is described. Embodiments of the hay bale feeder include a frame, one or more bale support members, and a pair of spaced apart drum assemblies. The hay bale feeder can be implemented to shred a square hay bale. The hay bale feeder can typically be attached to a tractor or other vehicle. The pair of spaced apart drum assemblies can include a pair of drums having protrusions that are adapted to shred a square hay bale as the square hay bale is gravity fed to the pair of drum assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventors: Tanner Matheson, Bill Matheson