Patents Examined by Alan Snyder
  • Patent number: 11504776
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting tool comprising a main part which extends along a longitudinal center axis or rotational axis, at least one cutting insert holder mounted on the main part such that it can be radially adjusted, and an adjusting device for adjusting the position of the cutting insert holder relative to the main part. The adjusting device comprises a threaded sleeve which is non-rotatably but axially movably mounted in the main part and a screw drive driving the threaded sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Guehring KG
    Inventors: Gerd Heckel, Hans-Peter Hollfelder, Juergen Thanner
  • Patent number: 11491553
    Abstract: A facing head includes a fixed part, couplable with a head of a machine tool via an interface plate and a rotary part, wherein a compartment is placed internally to which drive means and measurement means are housed for driving and measuring a radial slide supported by the rotary part so as to close the compartment, and at least one electric collector for controlling the drive means and measurement means. A continuous gasket contacts the radial slide and a fluid collector supplies the compartment with pressurized air to seal the compartment. The fluid collector includes a rotary portion with first fluid routes, and a fixed portion integral with the fixed part of the facing head with second fixed fluid routes together supplying the rotary part with a coolant, supplying the compartment with pressurized air, and transporting the oil for locking the radial slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: O.M.G. S.R.L.
    Inventor: Corrado Catellani
  • Patent number: 11491672
    Abstract: A new and improved microfabrication device, microfabrication method, transfer mold, and transfer object that can suppress a defect are provided. A microfabrication device comprises a tool mounting portion, a predetermined cutting tool, an oscillator, and a controller, wherein the controller performs a cutting process to satisfy at least one of: a cutting condition (1) that oscillations at a start point and an end point of each set are in phase with each other; and a cutting condition (2) that oscillations of the sets are in phase with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Dexerials Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Noda, Katsuhiro Doi, Asahiko Nogami, Kyoko Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11491557
    Abstract: A container assembly for retaining a drill byproduct produced when drilling into a wall, the container assembly includes a container disposed on an internal side of the wall having an internal surface and an external surface. The container assembly also includes a sleeve that is disposed about the external surface of the container, the sleeve includes one or more magnets that couple the sleeve and container to the wall and retain the drill byproduct along the internal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventor: Bruce A. Niskanen
  • Patent number: 11491561
    Abstract: A cutting tool having an elongate cutting head provided with a plurality of teeth and flutes in which a plurality of cooling grooves are recessed at a land region of each tooth between a cutting edge and a trailing edge. The grooves at the land do not extend to and are physically separated from the cutting edge to provide a tool optimized for cutting via radially consistent cutting edges and the promotion of heat exchange and dissipation from the rearward side/region of the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventor: Gaetano Pittala
  • Patent number: 11484955
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a cutting tool having a tool head that can be rotated about its mid-axis and has a front end face and a circumferential surface, a plurality of cutting elements and associated chip grooves arranged to be distributed in the circumferential direction on the circumferential surface, and a channel system running through the tool head for the coolant supply to the cutting elements. According to this disclosure, the end face of the tool head has coolant grooves, which each lead from an outlet opening of the channel system to an end opening in a chip groove, wherein the longitudinal openings of the coolant grooves are covered by a baffle plate fixed to the front face of the tool head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: KOMET DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Leuze, Sigurd Schwarz, Thomas Trinkner, Viktor Vogel
  • Patent number: 11484948
    Abstract: An indexable cutting insert has a central mounting portion and two cutting portions. The central mounting portion has opposing upper and lower surfaces. The lower surface has two abutment elements associated therewith, each abutment element having two diverging abutment surfaces forming two abutment angles. The two cutting portions extend away from the central mounting portion, have distal cutting edges, and are entirely located in diagonally opposite imaginary quadrants of four quadrants defined by two mutually perpendicular quadrant planes. Two abutment bisector planes bisecting the two abutment angles and one of the quadrant planes are parallel or coincident. In a top view, the two cutting portions extend away from the central mounting portion in opposite directions. Two cutting bisector lines parallel to the two directions and bisecting the two cutting edges are mutually offset. A cutting tool has an insert holder and the cutting insert removably retained therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Gil Hecht
  • Patent number: 11478864
    Abstract: A T-shaped tool is configured by fastening a head having cutting blades to a cylindrical shank, the shank is made of cemented carbide and has a tapered male thread formed at a tip end portion thereof, the tapered male thread becomes smaller in diameter toward the tip end, and the head is made of steel and has a tapered female thread formed therein, and the tapered female thread comes into engagement with the tapered male thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MAKINO MILLING MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ueno, Ryoichi Miyamoto, Fukuhito Nagata
  • Patent number: 11478863
    Abstract: A diamond tool comprising a tool shank and a tool head, which is fixed on the tool shank and which is formed by a layer of material interspersed with diamonds at least in sections, the layer of material interspersed with diamonds at least in sections being directly integrally bonded to the tool shank by an electroplating deposition process and the tool head having a recess on the front side, so that in cross-section the tool head has the form of a circular ring in the area of the free end, the tool head forming a hollow milling cutter and a wall forming the hollow milling cutter and having the form of a circular ring consisting only of a nickel-diamond material that is grown by electroplating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SCHOTT DIAMANTWERKZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Burghard Lein, Friedhelm Kleine
  • Patent number: 11471953
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a two-way indexable cutting insert clamped in a transversely oriented insert receiving pocket of an insert holder. The insert holder includes a forwardly located insert mounting portion that includes upper and lower jaws which together define the insert receiving pocket having a pocket front opening. The lower jaw includes a pocket lower clamping surface. The upper jaw includes a pocket upper clamping surface which faces mutually towards the pocket lower clamping surface and a pocket stopper surface facing generally towards the pocket front opening. The pocket stopper surface is closer to the pocket lower clamping surface and further from the pocket front opening, than the pocket upper clamping surface. The pocket stopper surface is further from the pocket rear opening than the pocket lower clamping surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shimon Athad
  • Patent number: 11465220
    Abstract: Driving systems for tools used with metal-fabricating presses or other machines, whereby planetary gears are used in the systems, and whereby the driving systems can be constructed for use with particular tooling, such as tapping tools, and complementary systems can be exemplarily configured for use with such driving systems. The driving systems can enable enhanced tool output as compared to conventional driving mechanisms, while also enabling variable disassembly and configuration of the systems relative to the intended machining operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Wilson Tool International Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Rose, Damian O'Brien-Jones, Jon M. Shimota
  • Patent number: 11458545
    Abstract: A cutting insert may include a base member including a plurality of tungsten carbide particles. In cases where a particle diameter distribution of the tungsten carbide particles is measured at intervals of 0.025 ?m, the particle diameter distribution may include, as a maximum peak and a second peak, a first peak value that appears in a particle diameter range of 0.5-0.9 ?m, and a second peak value that appears in a particle diameter range of 1.1-1.5 ?m. A value of a particle diameter distribution frequency is larger than zero at a valley part where a value of the particle diameter distribution frequency reaches a minimum between the first peak value and the second peak value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yamasaki, Yoshiki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11453072
    Abstract: The end cutting edges formed on the front end face of the tool body includes a first end cutting edge that is connected to the front end of the thread cutting edge, and a second end cutting edge that is connected to the first end cutting edge on the side closer to the axis, and is angled more toward the rear end than the first end cutting edge. The angle formed by an imaginary plane perpendicular to the axis and the first end cutting edge is set to 6° or less. The angle formed by the second end cutting edges and the imaginary plane perpendicular to the axis and is set to be greater than the angle formed by the first end cutting edges and the imaginary plane perpendicular to the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: OSG CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomonori Yoda
  • Patent number: 11453067
    Abstract: Disclosed is an assembling and centering structure for a processing tool, the structure having a clamping handle (10), a processing head (20), and a fastening member (30) for connecting and fixing the clamping handle (10) and the processing head (20). An end face accommodation groove (100) of the clamping handle (10) is formed with a concave part (11) and a centering hole (12). The processing head (20) is formed with a convex part (211) and a centering post (222), the convex part (211) matches the concave part (11), and the centering post (222) matches the centering hole (12). Thus, it can be ensured that after assembly, the central axis of rotation of the clamping handle (10) is in a straight line with the central axis of rotation of the processing head (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Yih Troun Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Li-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 11453060
    Abstract: A cutting insert configured to couple to a pipe machining apparatus is provided and includes a first cutting edge and a second cutting edge opposite the first cutting edge. A pipe cutting assembly is provided and includes a first base, a second base separate from the first base, and a cutting insert interchangeably couplable to the first base and the second base to perform a first cut with the cutting insert coupled to the first base and a second cut with the cutting insert coupled to the second base. A pipe machining apparatus is provided and includes a tool support, a first cutting tool base and a second cutting tool base interchangeably coupled to the tool support, and a cutting insert interchangeably coupled to the first cutting tool base and the second cutting tool base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventor: Jeremy E. Weinberg
  • Patent number: 11453062
    Abstract: A cutting insert is provided, comprising a top surface, a bottom surface, a plurality of side surfaces spanning therebetween, and a cutting edge formed at an intersection of the side surface and a forwardly-disposed portion of the top the surface. It further comprises a cooling cavity projecting into the insert, a top end thereof being disposed further forwardly than an open bottom end thereof. The cooling cavity defines at least one molding axis such that a solid element having the shape of the cooling cavity and completely inserted therein may be retracted intact therefrom along a linear path parallel to the molding axis. A circumscribing portion is formed on the side surfaces encircling the cutting insert. The circumscribing portion is formed parallel to the molding axis and has a non-zero height along its entire extent. The cutting insert does not extend beyond the circumscribing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: NO SCREW LTD.
    Inventor: Gershon Harif
  • Patent number: 11446742
    Abstract: When seen in a direction perpendicular to a seating surface, the second boundary line has a first portion and a second portion, the first portion having an inclination relative to the second cutting edge portion in a counter clockwise direction, the first portion being located between the first boundary line and an intersection between the second boundary line and a straight line passing through a center of a mounting hole and perpendicular to the second cutting edge portion, the second portion being located opposite to the first portion relative to the intersection, the second portion having an inclination relative to the second cutting edge portion in a clockwise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Yuma Kawakami, Tomoyuki Fukuyama, Shinya Ikenaga
  • Patent number: 11446744
    Abstract: A polygonal cutting blade having a circular arc-shaped groove in a hole includes a blade body composed of an upper surface, a lower surface and a plurality of main side surfaces connecting the upper surface and the lower surface. The blade body has a central hole penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface, and is centrally symmetrical about a central axis of the central hole. At least one set of positioning side surface comprised of adjacent two of the main side surfaces is provided. An inner surface of the central hole has at least one circular arc-shaped groove fitting with a fastening screw for fixing the cutting blade. The circular arc-shaped groove directly faces toward an intersection of the two main side surfaces of the set of positioning side surface. A groove central axis of the circular arc-shaped groove has an offset distance from the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: ZHUZHOU CEMENTED CARBIDE CUTTING TOOLS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Aisheng Jiang, Shequan Wang, Aimin Tang, Junbo Xue, Xingdong Xiang
  • Patent number: 11420273
    Abstract: In one aspect, rotary cutting tools are described herein comprising sets of coolant channels having exit aperture in the flutes of the tools for efficient coolant delivery to multiple cutting surfaces. Briefly, a rotary cutting tool comprises a shank portion, and a cutting portion extending from the shank portion along a longitudinal axis, the cutting portion comprising flutes helically extending along the longitudinal axis and internal coolant channels comprising exit apertures in the flutes. A projection of an exit aperture of a first set of internal coolant channels intersects a rake face extending below a corner edge of the rotary cutting tool, and a projection of an exit aperture of a second set of internal coolant channels intersects a rake face below a radial cutting edge of the rotary cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Xiangdong D. Fang, Paul D. Prichard, Kevin M. Gamble, David Wills, Jeff Lane
  • Patent number: 11420272
    Abstract: A rotary milling tool has a tool holder and a milling head releasably attached thereto. The milling head has a plurality of angularly spaced apart peripherally disposed cutting edges which form an effective cutting edge. The milling head has a head through recess opening out to the head forward and rearward surfaces. The recess includes a centering region and a driven region, the driven region being axially forward of, and non-identical to, the centering region. The driven region has at least one driven surface facing opposite a rotational direction. The centering region has at least one radially inwardly facing radial centering surface located axially rearward of, and radially outward from, the at least one driven surface. The two opposing extremities of the effective cutting edge define two parallel planes respectively between which both the at least one driven surface and the at least one radial centering surface are disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Gil Hecht