Patents Examined by Bobby Yeonjin Kim
  • Long-life die for the manufacturing of elongate bodies
    Patent number: 11413679
    Abstract: A die holder mounts a die to form heads on nails or screws. A top surface of the die includes a groove for longitudinally receiving and holding an elongate body. The die has a recess merging into the groove at one end of the groove to form a nail or screw head. The die is conical for press fit by contact with an inner surface of a bore or hole in the die holder. A top surface of the die is planar to a top surface of the die holder with a bottom surface engaging bottom part of the die holder. The bottom portion of the die has a recess or engaging with a corresponding protrusion die holder fixing an angular orientation of the groove relative to the die holder. Two opposite dies are brought together by two opposite die holders forming the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Enkotec A/S
    Inventors: Claus Peter Matzen, Kenn Christian Prinds
  • Locally changing the roll gap in the region of the strip edges of a rolled strip
    Patent number: 11413669
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for locally changing a roll gap in the region of the strip edges (10) of a rolled strip (1) in a rolling stand (2). The roll gap can be changed locally in the region of the strip edges (10) of the strip (1) during the hot rolling. Axial displacement of the working rollers (3, 4) in opposite directions is by a displacement distance s, where s is greater than or less than ?r/tan(?) and ?r indicates the wear of the running surface (8) in the radial direction (R) and ? indicates the pitch angle of the conical portion (7) of the respective working roller (3, 4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Inventor: Johannes Dagner
  • Transfer belt assembly for a six-out conversion system
    Patent number: 11413678
    Abstract: A transfer belt assembly includes a plurality of transfer belts. The transfer belt assembly is structured to move any of an increased number of shells, a very increased number of shells, or an extremely increased number of shells through said conversion press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Stolk Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: Greg Scott Williams, Robert Joseph Will, Michael Richard Soliday
  • Edge leveler with offset rollers
    Patent number: 11400502
    Abstract: An edge leveler for leveling an edge of a plate includes a first frame, a plurality of first rollers rotatably mounted along the first frame; a second frame, and a plurality of second rollers rotatably mounted along the second frame. The second rollers are offset relative to the first rollers. A width of a gap between an adjacent pair of first and second rollers on a first end portion of the edge leveler is greater than a width of a gap between an adjacent pair of first and second rollers in a middle portion of the edge leveler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: FuelCell Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Aldrich, Carson Payne, Steve Rulli, Marc Gizzie, Steve Ayres
  • Press brake tool engagement system
    Patent number: 11383284
    Abstract: A press brake tool comprises a tool body having a working end configured for operation on a workpiece and a coupling end configured for engagement with a tool holder. The working end is disposed along the tool body, generally opposite the coupling end. One or more magnetic elements can be configured to induce a magnetic coupling for selective engagement and disengagement of the coupling end of the tool body with the tool holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Mate Precision Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Dean Sundquist, Christopher Morgan, Joe Schneider
  • Method of processing steel plate and punching machine
    Patent number: 11383288
    Abstract: A method for processing a steel plate includes punching a steel plate as a workpiece fixed to a punching die by a punch, making a first heating electrode provided on a punch holder for supporting the punch and a second heating electrode provided on the punching die face each other by maintaining the punch in a state in which the punch penetrates the steel plate and heating a part of the steel plate including a trim edge punched in the punching, and pulling out the punch from the punching die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoaki Ihara, Shunsuke Tobita
  • Floatingly mounted multi-piece rolling tool, and rolling machine
    Patent number: 11376651
    Abstract: A rolling tool (5) has a basic body (6) for fastening the rolling tool (5) in a rolling machine (1) and a profiled part (7) for the shaping treatment of a workpiece (2) to be rolled. The basic body (6) and the profiled part (7) are of multi-piece design. The basic body (6) and the profiled part (7), in their interconnected position, are mounted movably relative to one another in a plane perpendicular to the rolling direction (23). The basic body (6) of the rolling tool (5) can also be part of the rolling machine (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: KAMAX HOLDING GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Harald Frischkorn, Hilmar Gensert, Armin Jänsch, Christian Ludwig
  • Crimping tool locator and crimping tool
    Patent number: 11381048
    Abstract: The invention relates to a crimping tool locator (12) for a crimping tool (1), especially crimping plier (2). The crimping tool locator (12) comprises an accommodating body (14) with at least one accommodation (21) for a workpiece (10), especially a plug (11). The accommodating body (14) comprises a securing device (24), by which the workpiece (10) is securable in the interior of the accommodation (21). The securing device (24) can be realized as a latching device, locking device or friction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: WEZAG GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Martin Pletsch
  • Hot-stamped trim component
    Patent number: 11376646
    Abstract: A hot-stamped and trimmed part is produced by hot pressing a blank and then cutting off an excess outer peripheral portion by laser machining, an outer peripheral shape of the hot-stamped and trimmed part includes a laser trim line formed by cutting in the laser machining, and a press trim line formed by shearing in the hot pressing or pressing performed before the hot pressing, and the laser trim line and the press trim line are connected via a projecting corner portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Toyoda Iron Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Yokoi, Yasuhisa Sakashita
  • Drive assembly
    Patent number: 11370015
    Abstract: A drive assembly for a necker machine includes a plurality of motors, each motor including an output shaft, a plurality of drive wheel assemblies, each drive wheel assembly operatively coupled to an associated necker machine drive shaft, and a number of timing/drive belts operatively coupled to each drive wheel assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: Richard James Edward Mercer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Bradley James Miller
  • Cooling of rolled matertial
    Patent number: 11358195
    Abstract: A cooling bar (1) for cooling rolled material (5) being moved in a transport direction (3) and in particular for reducing temperature differences in the temperature of the rolled material (5) transversely to the direction of transport (3). The cooling bar (1) has several full jet nozzles (11) by means of which a coolant beam of a coolant with an approximately constant jet diameter can be distributed to the rolling stock (5) in the direction of distribution (15). A cooling device has at least two cooling bars (1) of that type. The cooling bars extend transversely to a transport direction, one behind the other. Each cooling bar has a respective different pattern of jet nozzles and selection of applicable pattern of jet nozzles in their respective bars selectively cools the rolled material transversely to the transport direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Erich Opitz, Lukas Pichler, Alois Seilinger
  • Strapping tool
    Patent number: 11352153
    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: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Keller, Guido Leine, Kurt Bolliger, Michael Wettstein, Samuel Hochstrasser, Mirco Neeser
  • Hold device
    Patent number: 11351591
    Abstract: A hold device is attached to press tooling. The hold device includes a distance member attached to a holder, and a moving device attached to a first die unit. The holder is provided in a movable manner with respect to a punch in a press direction, and a pad is provided in a movable manner with respect to a die in the press direction. The distance member is pivotable between a home position in which the distance member does not come into contact with the second die and a preventive position in which the distance between the pad and the holder in the press direction is prevented from being equal to or less than a predetermined distance. As the holder moves relative to the punch in the first direction, the moving device causes the distance member to pivot from the home position toward the preventive position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunori Oooka, Toshimitsu Aso, Hiroshi Yoshida, Daisuke Yasufuku, Yasuharu Tanaka, Takashi Miyagi, Junichiro Suzuki, Shinobu Yamamoto
  • Method of manufacturing washer and washer
    Patent number: 11339828
    Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a washer capable of suppressing reduction in a sliding area, which includes: a preparing step of preparing a panel-shaped member N; a cutting step of cutting the panel-shaped member N with a laser L2 to thereby obtain a longitudinal member N1; and a forming step of obtaining an arc-shaped washer by using the longitudinal member N1. The panel-shaped member N has an equal width to a longitudinal width of the longitudinal member N1. The cutting step is a step of cutting the panel-shaped member N from one end to the other end in a width direction to thereby obtain the longitudinal member N1 and the forming step is a step of deforming the longitudinal member N1 into an arc shape so that cut faces of the longitudinal member N1 form an outer peripheral face and an inner peripheral face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: TAIHO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Ochiai
  • Clamp jig, stator manufacturing device, and method for manufacturing stator
    Patent number: 11342823
    Abstract: Provided are a clamp jig for inhibiting an increase in the size of clamping equipment, and reducing the load during clamping by clamping after doing preliminary aligning of a segment end part; a stator manufacturing device; and a method for manufacturing a stator. The clamp jig 40 has a pair of clamp bodies 41, extended in a stator core radial direction, for clamping from both sides in the stator core circumferential direction the end part of an electric conductor, which is inserted in the stator core and welded; and a convex part 42 provided extending in the stator core axis direction at the bottom of the clamp body 41, the convex part being inserted between unwelded electric conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Yanagisawa, Kazuhito Hiraga, Hideaki Onda, Kenichiro Murata, Akifumi Sudo
  • Method for operating a fine blanking system
    Patent number: 11331711
    Abstract: A method for operating a fine blanking system comprises at least one fine blanking press having a first press unit, a second press unit, and one or more sensors. The method comprises obtaining parameter data from the one or more sensors for at least one of the first press unit, the second press unit, and another component of the fine blanking system during a first fine blanking process step. Adjustments are determined for control parameters of at least one of the first press unit, the second press unit, and the other component based on the parameter data. The adjustments are applied to the control parameters in a second fine blanking process step subsequent to the first fine blanking process step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Lapmaster Wolters GmbH
    Inventor: Jose Lozano Bonet
  • Tying machine
    Patent number: 11332934
    Abstract: A tying machine disclosed herein includes a feed mechanism. The feed mechanism includes a feed roller that feeds a tying string; a feed motor that rotates the feed roller; a cover disposed between the feed roller and the feed motor, and including a through hole; and a suppression member that suppresses movement of dust from a feed roller side to a feed motor side via the through hole. Another tying machine disclosed herein includes a reel on which a tying string is wound; a brake member that engages with the reel to brake the reel; and an actuator that drives the brake member. The brake member is interposed between the reel and the actuator. Yet another tying machine disclosed herein includes a housing; a reel on which a tying string is wound; a magnet that rotates integrally with the reel; and a magnetic sensor attached to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadasuke Matsuno, Yoshitaka Machida
  • Piercer plug and method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 11331703
    Abstract: A piercer plug with increased life and a method of manufacturing it are provided. The piercer plug 1 includes a tip portion 2 and a trunk portion 3 made of the same material as the tip portion 2 and continuous to the tip portion 2. The trunk portion 3 includes a cylindrical portion 5 having a hole used for attaching a bar. The tip portion 2 is harder than the cylindrical portion 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Hidaka, Yasuto Higashida, Yuichi Yamanari, Yuji Yamamoto, Tatsuya Miyai
  • Deep drawing tool and deep drawing process for deep drawing blanks
    Patent number: 11318518
    Abstract: A deep-drawing tool for deep drawing blanks which are punched out of sheet material that is painted or coated with film material, in order to obtain flangeless molded blanks, includes a drawing bell, a drawing core, a blank holder, a force transmission device, a drawing cushion for applying a spring force to the blank holder by the force transmission device, and a drive which, after the drawing bell reaches a predetermined position in downward movement thereof, drives the force transmission device to perform a movement which precedes movement of the drawing bell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Rainer Naroska Engineering GmbH
    Inventor: Marcus Naroska
  • Apparatus for center twisting wires
    Patent number: 11309105
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to twist a first wire about a second wire is presented herein. The apparatus includes a securing mechanism configured to secure ends of the first wire and the second wire. The first wire is arranged parallel to the second wire along a longitudinal axis. The apparatus also includes a gripping mechanism configured to grip central portions of the first and second wires such that inner surfaces of the central portions of the first and second wires are in contact with one another and a rotating mechanism configured to rotate the gripping mechanism, thereby twisting the first and second wires about one another. A method of twisting a first wire about a second wire is also presented herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventors: Frank A. Ciapala, Jeffrey M. Handel