Patents Examined by Chwen-Wei Su
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Patent number: 10870155Abstract: An oscillating power tool system in one embodiment includes a motor, an output power shaft extending along an axis and operably connected to the motor, the output power shaft driven in an oscillatory manner by the motor about the axis, a flange supported by the output power shaft and fixedly positioned with respect to the output power shaft so as to oscillate with the output power shaft when driven by the motor, the flange including a lower surface defining a first plane, and a plurality of mounting pins extending from the flange to a location beneath the first plane, the plurality of mounting pins configured such that when an accessory is mounted to the flange, a mounting force is applied directly to the plurality of mounting pins from the accessory.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2018Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignees: Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Said S. Castro Pena
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Patent number: 10870156Abstract: The invention relates to a device (21) and to a method for processing a rim (1) for a vehicle, in particular an automobile or truck, said device comprising means (2) for supporting the rim, means (3) for centering the rim, and means (4) for drilling, wherein the means for supporting the rim have a protective insert (5), in particular a funnel-shaped element, and can be inserted into an inside (6) of the rim, wherein the rim is arranged on the means for support with the inside in a direction (7) downward and is retained laterally by the means of centering, in particular two means for centering that are arranged opposite, wherein the rim should be oriented with a central wheel hub axis (8) substantially concentric with respect to a processing axis (9) of the means for support, wherein in a wheel hub region (10) the wheel hub region can be drilled into through the means for support from a direction (11) of the inside of the rim by means of the means for drilling.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: G+K Umformtechnik GmbHInventor: Normen Gröschl
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Patent number: 10861735Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for supporting a substrate. The substrate support unit includes a support plate having a plurality of absorption holes, in which a vacuum pressure is formed, on an upper surface thereof to absorb the substrate, and a vacuum absorption unit configured to apply the vacuum pressure to the absorption holes, and the vacuum absorption unit includes a pressure measuring member configured to measure internal pressures of the absorption holes, an intake unit configured to intake and discharge gas in the absorption holes and adjust a suction force for suctioning the gas in the absorption holes, and a controller configured to control the intake unit to adjust the suction force according to the internal pressures measured by the pressure measuring member.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: SEMIgear, Inc.Inventors: Yonghoe Heo, Donghee Lee
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Patent number: 10850372Abstract: A bone fixation pin is inserted into a bone with an apparatus comprising a housing having a proximal portion and a distal portion, the distal portion having an inner surface and an opening configured to receive the bone fixation pin; a drive shaft having a proximal end configured to engage a handle and a distal end; and a body having an axis and a peripheral edge. The body comprises a bore along the axis, the bore being configured to slidably engage the distal end of the drive shaft; and a plurality of evenly spaced slots in the peripheral edge of the body. A plurality of chuck arms move radially along the evenly spaced slots in the peripheral edge of the body, each chuck arm having an inner surface and an outer surface. The distal end of the drive shaft and the body are within the proximal portion of the housing, the body being biased toward the distal end of the housing; and the inner surface of each chuck arm is configured to engage the bone fixation pin.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey Loftus-Vergari, Steven Krevitski, Kory Smith, Jeffrey Darrow
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Patent number: 10849671Abstract: A bone fixation pin is inserted into a bone with an apparatus comprising a housing having a proximal portion and a distal portion, the distal portion having an inner surface and an opening configured to receive the bone fixation pin; a drive shaft having a proximal end configured to engage a handle and a distal end; and a body having an axis and a peripheral edge. The body comprises a bore along the axis, the bore being configured to slidably engage the distal end of the drive shaft; and a plurality of evenly spaced slots in the peripheral edge of the body. A plurality of chuck arms move radially along the evenly spaced slots in the peripheral edge of the body, each chuck arm having an inner surface and an outer surface, with each chuck arm being biased toward the axis of the body by a first biasing force. The outer surface of each chuck arm slidably engages the inner surface of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey Loftus-Vergari, Steven Krevitski, Kory Smith, Jeffrey Darrow
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Patent number: 10847347Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to apparatuses and methods for controlling a plasma sheath near a substrate edge. The apparatus relates to a processing chamber and/or a substrate support that includes an edge ring assembly with an edge ring electrode and an electrostatic chuck with a chucking electrode. The edge ring assembly is positioned adjacent the electrostatic chuck, such as with the edge ring assembly positioned exterior to or about the electrostatic chuck. The edge ring assembly includes a base and a cap positioned above the base with the edge ring electrode positioned between the cap and the base. The base of the edge ring electrode may include an inner recess and/or an outer recess with the cap including one or more lips that extend into the inner recess and/or the outer recess. One or more silicon rings and/or insulating rings are positioned adjacent the edge ring assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Hamid Noorbakhsh, Anwar Husain, Reyn Wakabayashi
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Patent number: 10835966Abstract: A kit for assisting in the location of holes to be drilled in a door of a thickness between 1?? to 1¾? for the installation of a conventional lock set at a backset of either 2?? or 2¾? with no additional hardware and without damaging the door. A first guide plate defines a first hole saw guide. A second guide plate is attachable to the first guide plate in one of two orientations and defines a second hole saw guide. At least one clamping member is carried by the second guide plate and extends substantially parallel to the first guide plate. Each of the first guide plate and the clamping member define opposing biasing members such that when mounted on a door, the door is centered within the kit.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Tech-Tool Sourcing Company LimitedInventor: An Qi
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Patent number: 10825712Abstract: A vacuum chuck includes an adsorption plate including porous materials, a housing including an accommodation part, a plurality of adsorption grooves, and a vacuum opening formed in the accommodation part. The adsorption plate is disposed in the accommodation part, and the plurality of adsorption grooves each have an arc shape and is formed in a surface of the accommodation part. The vacuum chuck further includes a vacuum line configured to supply vacuum pressure to the vacuum opening.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Young-min Kim
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Patent number: 10814404Abstract: A depth limiting device includes an axial braking structure; a limited shrinking structure, the limited shrinking structure surrounding a moving object, and being in a home position or a compressed position; and a structure adapted for pushing the limited shrinking structure to the home position. The axial braking structure axially brakes the moving object such that the moving object moves together with the depth limiting device, and when the moving object enters into a subject, the limited shrinking structure is pressed against the subject, moves from the home position to the compressed position, and stops the moving object from entering further into the subject.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Inventor: Kai Li
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Patent number: 10807171Abstract: A novel drill jig includes an edge alignment guide, a hole-spacing assembly, a second guide, a biasing member, and an actuator. The edge alignment guide is configured to abut an edge of a workpiece to facilitate movement of the workpiece along a first straight line. The hole-spacing assembly includes a protrusion disposed to engage a preexisting hole in a workpiece positioned by the edge alignment guide. The second guide is coupled to the hole-spacing assembly and is configured to facilitate movement of the hole-spacing assembly along a second straight line perpendicular to the first straight line. The first biasing member is coupled to the hole-spacing assembly and is operative to exert a force on the hole-spacing assembly in a direction parallel to the second straight line. An actuator moves the hole-spacing assembly along the second straight line via the first biasing member.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Inventor: Robert James DeGowske
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Patent number: 10792738Abstract: A cutting tool may include a circular columnar body extending from a first end to a second end along a rotation axis. At least a part of the columnar body may correspond to an insert including a cutting edge at the first end. The insert may include therein a flow path extending from a side of the first end toward a side of the second end. A width of the flow path along a radial direction of the circular columnar body may be smaller than a width of the flow path along a circumferential direction of the circular columnar body in a cross section orthogonal to the rotation axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Katsura Hayashi
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Patent number: 10790181Abstract: Grinding, lapping and polishing basically work by making scratches in the body being ground, lapped or polished. The scratches typically are linear. The scratches gives rise to a directionality component of friction: the friction coefficient is less in the direction along the scratch than in a direction orthogonal, or across, the scratch. In a wafer handling/chucking situation, one wants the wafer to settle on the chuck, which involves the outer regions of the wafer moving radially with respect to the chuck. One can reduce friction in the radial direction by giving the lapping scratches a preferred orientation, namely, radial. This can be achieved by making the final passes of the lapping tool move predominantly in radial directions.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2016Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: M Cubed Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Edward J. Gratrix
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Patent number: 10773317Abstract: A rotating cutting tool that is internally cooled by cryogenic coolant, the rotating cutting tool has a cylindrical body including: a central bore that extends along a longitudinal axis of the cylindrical body; a plurality of cold flow delivery paths formed from radial bores that fluidly communicate with and extend radially-outwardly from the central bore; longitudinal grooves that are formed along an outer surface of the cylindrical body extending along the longitudinal axis and fluidly communicating with the radial bores; a bushing having an inner diameter closely conforming to the outer surface of the cylindrical body allowing the bushing to concentrically fit over the cylindrical body and the longitudinal grooves to form longitudinal passageways extending from the radial bores to one or more exhaust ports formed in the bushing proximate a rear face of the cylindrical body; and a plurality of flutes for cutting a workpiece each having a cutting edge formed from the bushing.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: 5ME IP, LLCInventor: George Georgiou
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Patent number: 10766083Abstract: A spiral flute tap includes a body having an axial forward end and an axial rearward end. The body has a cylindrical shank portion adjacent the axial rearward end, a threaded fluted portion adjacent the axial forward end, a non-threaded fluted portion between the cylindrical shank portion and the threaded fluted portion, and a central, longitudinal axis. The spiral flute tap further includes a plurality of helical flutes formed at a helix angle, HA, with respect to the central, longitudinal axis of the tap that continuously increases in magnitude in the threaded fluted portion. In other words, the lead of the plurality of helical flutes continuously decreases in magnitude in a rearward direction for a predetermined distance. In one example, the helix angle, HA, varies at a rate of between 0.5 degrees/mm to 4.0 degrees/mm. A method of making the spiral flute tap is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.Inventors: Yan Yan, Stephen Michael George
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Patent number: 10744572Abstract: An orbital drill bushing adapter for use with a drill unit. In one embodiment, the orbital drill bushing adapter comprises a main body and locking arms. The main body includes a base member having an upper surface, a lower surface, and an external side wall that extends between the upper surface and the lower surface. The main body further includes a cylindrical spacer that projects from the lower surface of the base member, and is configured to fit in a drill hole of an orbital drill bushing. The main body includes a cylindrical hole that passes through the base member and the cylindrical spacer. The locking arms are pivotally coupled to the base member, and are configured to clamp the main body onto the orbital drill bushing.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Douglas A. Jones, Brent F. Craig, Matthew K. Roberts
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Patent number: 10744573Abstract: A method for enlarging each one of an initial pair of holes, which includes a first hole, extending through a first component, and a second hole, extending through a second component, includes inserting a pilot member, corresponding to a tolerance of misalignment of the first hole and the second hole of the initial pair of holes, such that pilot member passes through a clearance gap, defined by at least a portion of a boundary of first hole and at least a portion of a boundary of second hole with pilot member having a first central axis. The method also includes cutting a second pair of aligned holes through first and second components, respectively, with a cutter section, which has a second central axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: John P. Scheibel, James L. Scherer, Michael A. Ward
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Patent number: 10744606Abstract: A tool drive with spindle shaft for a chip-forming machining includes at least one electromagnetic axial actuator and a control and/or regulation apparatus for the operation of the axial actuator for changing the position of the spindle shaft along the longitudinal axis. The control and/or regulation apparatus is designed to drive the axial actuator for the generation of microvibration movement of the spindle shaft, independently of and superimposable on a feed movement, in order to affect the chip size and chip shape of the removed material.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: KEBA INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GERMANY GMBHInventors: Markus Dirscherl, Johannes Von Löwis
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Patent number: 10730116Abstract: A handheld core drilling device includes a tool receptacle where the tool receptacle has a receiving sleeve and a tool receiving piece disposed in the receiving sleeve. A compression spring arrangement is disposed within the receiving sleeve. Exactly three equally spaced retaining tabs are formed on the receiving sleeve along a circumferential direction and each retaining tab has a respective stop surface that faces the tool receiving piece. Exactly three equally spaced bearing surfaces are formed on the tool receiving piece along a circumference of the tool receiving piece and each bearing surface faces a respective stop surface. Each of the bearing surfaces includes a stud with a stud surface where the stud surfaces in a radial direction are at most half as wide as the bearing surfaces in the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Oliver Koslowski, John Van Taack-Trakranen
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Patent number: 10730117Abstract: Provided is a tool chuck that allows precision gripping of a tool by a collet when this collet is pushed into a chuck body. The tool chuck includes a collet for gripping a tool, a chuck body having, at a leading end thereof, a receiving portion for receiving the collet inserted therein along an axis thereof, a holder containing the collet therein and configured to be movable together with the collet along an axial direction based on the axis, and a nut fitted on the chuck body (2) in a radial direction based the axis and containing the holder in the radial direction. The holder has a movement allowing mechanism for allowing the holder to move relative to the nut along the axial direction when the nut is moved relative to the chuck body along the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Big Daishowa Co., Ltd.Inventors: Joji Nakatani, Hirokazu Suruga
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Patent number: 10730124Abstract: A pipe-tapered-thread machining tap has a thread, four spiral flutes and four cutting edges that include a plurality of thread intersection portions at each of which a corresponding one of the four cutting edges intersects with the thread. The thread intersection portions of the cutting edges have four groups, such that each of the four groups has ones of the thread intersection portions that are portions of a corresponding one of the four cutting edges. Every two of the thread intersection portions of each of the four groups is removed, such that, in each of the four groups, at least one of the thread intersection portions that is removed and at least another one of the thread intersection portions that is not removed are alternately arranged in a direction in which a corresponding one of the four cutting edges extends.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: OSG CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Nakajima, Kohichi Saitoh