Patents Examined by Daniel Howell
  • Patent number: 10232450
    Abstract: A hole saw, including a rotatable drill bit, a plurality of rotatable saw jaws disposed around the drill bit to encase at least a portion of the drill bit therewithin when the rotatable saw jaws are in a closed position, a fixed locking collar portion disposed at base ends of the plurality of rotatable saw jaws, and a movable locking collar portion to move with respect to the fixed locking collar portion, such that the plurality of rotatable saw jaws pivot away from each other into an open position as the movable locking collar portion moves away from the fixed locking collar portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Inventor: Carlos Florez
  • Patent number: 10227733
    Abstract: A rail vehicle includes a milling device for finishing the running surface of track rails during the travel of the rail vehicle along the track rails. The rail vehicle has a chassis frame having wheel sets. The milling device is provided with a milling head, and includes a framework arranged on the chassis frame having a milling head receptacle, which is displaceable vertically and transversely in relation thereto. The milling head receptacle can be supported for the vertical guiding via a guide shoe on the running surface and for transverse guiding in parallel to the milling head shaft via a guide stop laterally on the railhead. The milling head receptacle forms a transverse carriage, which supports the guide shoe and the guide stop, and the guide path of which, which is vertically displaceable, is provided on the side of the milling head receptacle facing toward the guide shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: MASCHINENFABRIK LIEZEN UND GIESSEREI GES.M.B.H.
    Inventor: Helmut Rungger
  • Patent number: 10220543
    Abstract: The invention relates to a core drill with an end portion (3) and a drill bit portion (1-2). The end portion and the drill bit portion are joinable in a watertight fashion with a sealing element (11). The sealing element (11) is provided in a space between the end portion and the drill bit portion, such that it is being compressed in a sealing fashion when the end portion and the drill bit portion are joined. The end portion and the drill bit portion are locked together with a joining element (8, 10) which achieves this locking effect when moves in the radial direction of the core drill. When the joining element moves in this direction, the end portion and the drill bit portion move towards each other. Thus the sealing element is being compressed while concurrently the end portion and the drill bit portion are joined together. This is further achieved without the joining element having to extend in the axial direction of the core drill. Typically, the joining element (8, 10) is constituted by a set screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Inventor: Kjell Andersson
  • Patent number: 10220479
    Abstract: Provided is a machining apparatus capable of improving the positioning accuracy of a machining tool as compared to conventional machines. A machining apparatus 1 includes a rotating tool, a machining tool provided on an outer periphery of the rotating tool, and a spindle head adapted to rotatably support the rotating tool. The machining apparatus includes a driving portion configured to move the spindle head in a direction perpendicular to an axis of rotation R of the rotating tool, a position sensor configured to measure a position of the spindle head on a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation R, and a control unit configured to control the driving portion so as to move the machining tool in a direction perpendicular to the axis of rotation R of the rotating tool on the basis of the position of the spindle head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroki Nonaka
  • Patent number: 10213843
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stop for a rotating drilling, milling or countersinking tool which comprises a stop sleeve which is freely rotatably coupled, by means of a sliding or rolling bearing, around the tool. A first bearing bush of the bearing supports the stop sleeve. A second bearing bush of the bearing sits in a rotationally fixed manner on a shaft sleeve. The shaft sleeve can be pushed and fastened on a shaft of the tool. In a secondary aspect, the invention relates to a drilling, milling or countersinking tool having such a stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Guehring KG
    Inventor: Felix Rebholz
  • Patent number: 10213840
    Abstract: A blade fastening device is provided with a hollow clamping member including an axial channel for disposing a portion of a blade therein, and at least one slit formed on a peripheral surface so that the hollow clamping member is configured to be flexibly compressible; and a cylindrical extension formed with a first end of the hollow clamping member. The blade fastening device is capable of preventing cutting fluid from leaking, guiding cutting fluid to a cutting site, and fastening a blade so that a deflection of the blade is made impossible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: X'POLE PRECISION TOOLS INC.
    Inventor: Peter Chen
  • Patent number: 10213848
    Abstract: A rotary tool comprises a cylindrical sleeve including an opening formed in an outer circumferential surface thereof providing fluid communication between a hollow interior of the sleeve and an environment surrounding the sleeve. The sleeve includes an axially extending flow passage formed therein terminating in a first fluid outlet formed in an open end of the sleeve disposed adjacent a cutting element of the rotary tool. The fluid outlet is configured to deliver a flow of a fluid toward the workpiece to cause chips formed during the machining operation to be directed away from the workpiece and out of the hollow interior of the sleeve through the opening formed in the outer circumferential surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: DECATUR DIAMOND, LLC
    Inventors: Erik Koik, Kirk Bennett
  • Patent number: 10213847
    Abstract: A chamfering tool that chamfers an opening edge of a target hole formed in a work, the chamfering tool including a support shaft, a base shaft having the support shaft on a tip end side thereof and being eccentric with respect to the support shaft, and a blade portion having a rake face that is a step surface of a step protrusion portion protruded laterally from the support shaft or that is an end surface of the support shaft. The blade portion including an edge line in a shape of a curve and being bulged to a side away from a center axis of the support shaft, and the edge line being inclined with respect to an axial direction of the support shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: KREUZ CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Syuichi Nakata
  • Patent number: 10213845
    Abstract: A rotary tool designed as a modular drill, extending in an axial direction along an axis of rotation. It comprises two coupling parts: a carrier; and a cutting head that is attached to the carrier so as to be exchangeable. The carrier includes pin receiving means, into which a coupling pin of the cutting head is introduced in a clamping manner and so as to be reversibly exchangeable. The pin receiving means and the coupling pin have torque sections and clamping sections that correspond to one another and are oriented parallel to the axis of rotation. In addition, to prevent axial pull-out, stop surfaces are provided on the pin receiving means and on the coupling pin, the stop surfaces being effective in an axial direction and corresponding to one another. These stop surfaces preferably extend horizontally and therefore perpendicular to the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Jürgen Schwägerl, Berthold Heinrich Zeug, Horst Manfred Jäger, Herbert Rudolf Kauper, Julia Tempelmeier, Tim Guter
  • Patent number: 10207338
    Abstract: A device for holding and securing a tool, in particular, a drill bit, on a machine tool, for example, a core drill, including an output shaft for transmitting a torque generated in the machine tool to the tool; and a union nut positioned around the output shaft for detachably connecting the output shaft to an attachment end of the tool. The output shaft includes a locking ring and the union nut includes a washer disk, as well as an attenuator, the washer disk being positioned between the locking ring and the attenuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Reichenberger, Xaver Ried
  • Patent number: 10207377
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for machining a planar workpiece, having a machine stand which has a support surface (application surface) for a planar workpiece, and further having a machining head which can be moved relative to the support surface, which machining head has a tool for machining the workpiece and also has a holding unit (“hold-down unit”) with a pressure plate whereby the workpiece is pressed against the supporting surface; characterized in that the pressure plate has a structure which is comprised of a plurality of pieces, preferably two pieces, wherein at least one of the pressure plate parts is movable back and forth relative to at least one other pressure plate part, namely it is movable between the application position, in which the pressure plate part presses the workpiece against the application surface when the workpiece is applied to said application surface, and a released position, in which the pressure plate piece is at a minimum distance away from the workpiece when the workpie
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. Kg
    Inventors: Matthias Kienholz, Lars Martin, Kersten Wurm, Alexander Glowacki
  • Patent number: 10207336
    Abstract: A rotary tool comprising two coupling parts, namely a carrier and a cutting head in a front end surface. The carrier comprises a pin receptacle into which a coupling pin of the cutting head is inserted. In order to prevent pulling-out in an axial direction, stop surfaces are provided on the pin receptacle and on the coupling pin, said stop surfaces being effective in an axial direction. For a design that is as simple as possible, in particular with regard to grinding, each stop surface of the coupling pin is adjoined by a lateral surface which freely tapers off in the direction toward the end surface as viewed in the axial direction. In particular, the lateral surface constitutes a torque surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Jürgen Schwägerl, Berthold Heinrich Zeug, Horst Manfred Jäger
  • Patent number: 10207335
    Abstract: A device for opening a connection to a lined pipe is disclosed. The device has a body that includes a front end and a rear end and being rotatable about a rotation axis. The device also has a drill head that has multiple cutters for puncturing and enlarging a hole in a liner, and multiple side cutters have at least one cutting edge parallel to the rotation axis. A safety ring is disposed on the body between the drill head and the side cutters. The safety ring has a circular periphery extending beyond the drill head and the side cutters in a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Picote Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Mika Lokkinen
  • Patent number: 10207337
    Abstract: A front-loaded, side-activated modular drill includes a shank and a replaceable cutting insert installed on and engaging the tool shank. The shank has a pocket for supporting the cutting insert when the cutting insert is installed within the pocket. The pocket includes a first centering wall having an aperture with internal threads formed with a first pitch and a second centering wall having an aperture with a first portion with internal threads formed with a second, different pitch. A first member is threaded into the aperture of the first centering wall, and a second member is threaded into the second centering wall. The first member is threaded into the second member. The cutting insert has an opening in a trailing end for allowing the first member to pass therethrough. Rotation of the first member causes the centering walls to elastically deform and move relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventor: Ruy Frota de Souza Filho
  • Patent number: 10201858
    Abstract: A drill bit, which is rotatable in a direction of rotation about an axis of rotation, is disclosed. The drill bit has a cutting portion with an annular portion where the annular portion has a first end on which is a cutting element and has at a second end a first insertion element. The drill bit has a drill shaft portion with a cylindrical drill shaft which has at an end, towards the cutting portion, a second insertion element. In a direction of insertion parallel to the axis of rotation, the insertion elements form a plug-in connection and can be additionally connected by way of at least one pin element which is movable in at least one slit-shaped clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Matthaeus Hoop
  • Patent number: 10201860
    Abstract: A drill bit is disclosed. The drill bit has a cutting portion having an annular portion, where the annular portion has a first end on which is disposed a cutting element and a second end that includes an outer insertion element and a stop shoulder. The drill bit has a drill shaft portion having a cylindrical drill shaft, where the drill shaft has an inner insertion element with an end face on a side of the drill shaft facing the cutting portion. The outer insertion element and the inner insertion element together form a plug connection in an insertion direction that is parallel to the axis of rotation and the insertion elements are connectable to each other via a pin element that is movable into a slot-shaped recess. The pin element is attached to an outside of the inner insertion element and the outer insertion element has the slot-shaped recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Matthaeus Hoop, Christoph Weber, Thomas Britt, Christoph Amman
  • Patent number: 10197367
    Abstract: An improved method of machines grooves forming Pearson notches in a pattern on hollow shell casings for munitions for at least one of increased functionality and/or performance. Rather than running a broach through a hollow casing, a CNC lathe with a multi-axis tool with cutting implement can precisely locate and form grooves along either an interior or an exterior surface of a hollow shell casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Precision Machining Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Michael Oettinger
  • Patent number: 10195674
    Abstract: A jig assembly structured to facilitate attachment of a device to a door including a base having oppositely disposed first and second end segments and an open interior, including first and second open faces. The open interior and the open faces are disposed between the end segments and are cooperatively structured therewith to receive a portion of the door in an operative position therein. A clamp member is movably connected to the first end segment and is least partially disposable into said open interior in clamping relation to the door portion, when in the operative portion. The second end segment is disposed and structured to receive passage therethrough of a tool, from an exterior to and interior of the base, into engaging relation with the door portion disposed in the operative position and into an interior channel of the clamp member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Inventor: Douglas Couvertier, II
  • Patent number: 10199255
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, a workpiece planarization arrangement may include: a chuck including at least one portion configured to support one or more workpieces; and a planarization tool configured to planarize the at least one portion of the chuck and to planarize one or more workpieces on the at least one portion of the chuck; wherein the at least one portion of the chuck includes at least one of particles, pores and/or a polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Infineon Technologioes AG
    Inventors: Ingo Muri, Alexander Binter, Bernhard Goller, Christian Grindling
  • Patent number: 10196834
    Abstract: A fabrication system is disclosed for use in a key making machine. The fabrication system may have a housing with a slot configured to receive a key blank, and a receiving unit configured to accept a shank of the key blank at the slot. The receiving unit may be configured to mechanically align the shank as it is inserted by a user. The fabrication system may also have a clamp movable between an open position and a closed position, and an actuator. The actuator may be configured to move the receiving unit and the key blank to the clamp, and to move the receiving unit away from the key blank after the clamp has moved to the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: The Hillman Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Phillip Gerlings