Patents Examined by Debra M Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11806774
    Abstract: A punch tool with an expanded portion, a movable punch provided on a fixed punch so as to be able to move up and down in a direction along an inclined portion, and an interlocking member configured to interlock with a relative ascending and descending motion of the movable punch with respect to the fixed punch. The punch tool with an expanded portion is provided with an operation member provided on the fixed punch so as to be movable in the lateral direction, configured to move in the lateral direction by means of a moving motion of an external operation member, and including an abutting element capable of being abutted with the interlocking member, and an urging member configured to urge the operation member toward the inside in the lateral direction such that the abutting element is abutted with the interlocking member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: AMADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shiro Hayashi, Nobuo Oyamada, Yousuke Onagi
  • Patent number: 11801540
    Abstract: A device for stabilizing of working rollers and back-up rollers of a mill stand that has, for each bending block, first hydraulic pressing units being arranged upstream of the working roller, each first hydraulic pressing unit having a piston with a piston rod and a pressure plate, the piston and the piston rod being integrated in the bending block and the pressure plate being pressable against a working roller chock, and for each stand column, at least one second hydraulic pressing unit, the second hydraulic pressing unit being arranged downstream of the back-up roller and having a piston with a piston rod and a pressure plate, the piston and the piston rod being integrated in the stand column and the pressure plate being pressable against the back-up roller chock, and a first hydraulic pressing unit containing a first oscillation absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Inventors: Heinz Fürst, Franz Hermann Glaser, Simon Grosseiber, Georg Keintzel, Thomas Lengauer, Alois Seilinger, Armin Stumbauer
  • Patent number: 11795711
    Abstract: A binding machine includes: a feeding unit capable of feeding a wire and winding the wire around a to-be-bound object; and a function unit movable between a first position located on a feeding locus of the wire and a second position deviating from a position on the feeding locus of the wire. The function unit is located in the second position in a predetermined state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Hashimoto, Norihiro Nagai, Takahiro Ito, Hikaru Mizukami, Kozo Iwaki
  • Patent number: 11786960
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stabilizer, the stabilizer including a main body bar that is elastically deformable, and a pair of connecting plates that are separately connected to a pair of left and right suspension devices, the method including a forging step of forming the connecting plate by forging both end portions of a material tube, in which in the forging step, both end portions of the material tube are crushed in a radial direction to be formed into the connecting plate in a state where a sealing metal plate heated to a temperature equal to or higher than a melting point is disposed inside both end portions of the material tube heated to a temperature lower than the melting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mizukami, Masato Inaba, Masato Sugawara, Michiya Masuda
  • Patent number: 11779999
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a connecting element comprising at least two ball-like sections, wherein two ball-like sections are directly adjacent to each other, or wherein two ball-like sections are connected to each other by means of a connecting section, wherein the rolling of a single-piece blank, which is cylindrical at least in sections, between at least two rolling tools and the shaping of the at least two ball-like sections and optionally of the connecting section during the rolling are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventors: Uwe Wolfarth, Bernd Werthwein
  • Patent number: 11779984
    Abstract: A tool for bending an elongated workpiece includes a shaft having a first shaft portion and a second shaft portion, and a coupling assembly coupling the first shaft portion and the second shaft portion. The coupling assembly has a locked configuration in which the coupling assembly inhibits movement of the first shaft portion relative to the second shaft portion and an unlocked configuration in which the coupling assembly permits movement of the first shaft portion relative to the second shaft portion. The tool also includes a shoe coupled to the second shaft portion. The shoe has a curved bottom portion and a hook configured to hold the workpiece against the curved bottom portion. The curved bottom portion is engageable with the workpiece to bend the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron M. Williams, Kyle Reeder, Christopher S. Hoppe, Jacob Feuerstein, George Barton, Matthew W. Naiva, Matthew A. Lownik
  • Patent number: 11772148
    Abstract: Provided is a forming system that expands a heated metal pipe material to form a metal pipe. The forming system includes a gas supply portion that supplies a gas to the heated metal pipe material to expand the metal pipe material, a nozzle that includes a feed port for supplying the gas, a discharge portion that discharges the gas after expanding the metal pipe material, and a cooling unit that cools the gas flowing through the discharge portion and is provided in the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Kei Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 11759838
    Abstract: A tool, such as a conduit bender, that includes a gear assembly for providing a mechanical advantage when bending a workpiece conduit. The gear assembly comprises a pinion gear rotatably coupled to a handle, the handle including a pin that can be selectively engaged with the pinion gear. The conduit bender also includes a shoe with teeth that protrude radially inward from a curved outer portion. When the conduit bender is in use, the teeth of the pinion gear engage with the teeth of the shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventor: George Barton
  • Patent number: 11759846
    Abstract: A method for producing a shaft, which is at least partially not circular in cross-section, from a substantially cylindrical blank by means of radial forging, wherein the blank is not rotated in a final radial forging process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MAGNA POWERTRAIN GMBH & CO KG
    Inventors: Ewald Dohr, Helmut Haas
  • Patent number: 11745233
    Abstract: A single-side tower-type roller system based asynchronous rolling mill for rolling an ultra-thin composite strip and a hydraulic system therefor are provided. The mill includes a machine frame and reel assemblies. An upper roller system assembly and a lower roller system assembly are arranged in the machine frame. A down-pressing assembly is arranged on the machine frame and used to adjust a roll gap between the upper roller system assembly and the lower roller system assembly. A support roller balance assembly is arranged on the machine frame and used to support and balance the upper roller system assembly. The lower roller system assembly includes right and left working rollers. The right working roller is a plain roller. The left working roller is a patterned roller. A left-pressing assembly is arranged on the machine frame and used to adjust a roll gap between the right and left working rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Zhongkai Ren, Tao Wang, Xiao Liu, He Li, Jianchao Han, Dongping He, Qingxue Huang
  • Patent number: 11745239
    Abstract: A profiling station, a profiling unit formed therefrom and also a profiling installation continuously form a material strip into a profile. The profiling station includes a rack frame, a profiling arrangement with a forming roller and also a first and a second counter roller as well as a drive assembly. A first roller axis and a second roller axis of the counter rollers form between them a buckling angle, wherein the counter rollers define a bending edge for the material strip to be formed. The first counter roller and also the second counter roller are driven by the drive assembly in such a way that the first counter roller has a circumferential speed at its outer circumference and the second counter roller has a circumferential speed at its outer circumference that are equal to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: ASMAG-Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Vielhaber, Manfred Imberge
  • Patent number: 11745244
    Abstract: A machine for bending an elongated workpiece without wrinkling has a roller-like bending die (2) with a vice (3) adapted to retain one end of the elongated workpiece (P) to be bent. The roller-like bending die (2), being provided with a central hole (5) and a groove profile (6) and rotatable about a rotation axis (y), bears, centrally and coaxially in its groove profile (6), a plate element (18) oscillating with respect to the bending die (2) around a rotation axis (y) thereof. The plate element (18) having a peripheral edge (19) which continues the groove profile (6) of the bending die (2) consists of at least two pieces (20, 21) which are adapted to be connected to one another to surround the bending die (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: CML INTERNATIONAL S.P.A.
    Inventors: Alessandro Caporusso, Werner Davide D'Agostino
  • Patent number: 11730184
    Abstract: A system and method for processing organic material, the system having four stackable housings, each housing defining a compartment, in which a first compartment of a first housing contains upper grinding teeth, and second compartment of a second housing contains lower grinding teeth, and when organic material is added to the second compartment, the upper grinding teeth and the lower grinding teeth work together to crush the organic material into smaller pieces and granules. The second housing contains holes to allow the smaller pieces and granules to fall into a third compartment of a third housing, where a filter catches the smaller pieces but allows the granules to fall to a fourth compartment of a fourth housing. The third housing has Smaller pieces trapped by the filter can be removed a sidewall opening in the third housing, and the granules can be removed through a slot in the fourth housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: BUBBLY BLASTER, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Hall, Stason Strong
  • Patent number: 11731181
    Abstract: Spiral forming methods can be used to join edges of a rolled material along a spiral joint to form conical and/or cylindrical structures. Alignment of the edges of the rolled material can be controlled in a wrapping direction as the material is being joined along the spiral joint to form the structure. By controlling alignment of the edges of the material as the edges of the material are being joined, small corrections can be made over the course of forming the structure facilitating control over geometric tolerances of the resulting spiral formed structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Keystone Tower Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric D. Smith, Rosalind K. Takata, Daniel Ainge, Loren Daniel Bridgers
  • Patent number: 11732489
    Abstract: A rebar tying machine may be configured to perform: a winding process in which a wire is fed around rebars, a vicinity of a distal end of the wire is grasped, the wire is pulled back, and the wire is cut; and a twisting process in which the wire is twisted. When instructed to tie the rebars by a user, the rebar tying machine may be configured capable of performing a multiple-winding tying operation in which the twisting process is performed after the winding process has been performed multiple times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta Asakura
  • Patent number: 11731140
    Abstract: A dedicated device for shattering phenolics with mechanochemical synthesis and a shattering method thereof. The dedicated device includes a supporting frame, a primary shattering device, a secondary shattering device, a three-stage shattering device and an automatic regulating device. The primary shattering device includes a shattering box, a first motor, a first transmission rod, a plurality of tool frames, a plurality of blades, at least one screen mesh, a plurality of fixed cutters and a guide hopper. The secondary shattering device includes a first roller, a second roller, a second transmission rod and a set of helical gears. The three-stage shattering device includes a second motor, a set of tapered blade sets and a plurality of strain sensors. This realizes the regeneration of new mixed materials and the chemical properties of materials control of some micro changes such as material morphology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Intelligent Manufacturing Institute of Hefei University of Technology
    Inventors: Xinyu Li, Leilei Zhao, Di Hu, Hui Luo, Wenxing Zhai
  • Patent number: 11725405
    Abstract: A binding machine includes: a wire feeding unit configured to feed a wire; a curl guide configured to curl the wire fed in a forward direction by the wire feeding unit; and a binding unit configured to twist the wire fed in a reverse direction by the wire feeding unit and wound on an object. The binding unit includes a wire engaging body configured to engage a tip end-side of the wire fed in the forward direction by the wire feeding unit, curled by the curl guide and wound around the object. The binding machine includes a pulling unit for pulling, toward the object, a wire on a second side positioned on an opposite side to the curl guide with respect to the object earlier than a wire on a first side positioned on the curl guide of the wire wound around the object and engaged at its tip end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichirou Morimura, Yusuke Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11724295
    Abstract: A section mill (10) for the rolling of steel sections is disclosed. The section mill includes a universal mill stand (12) and an edger mill stand (14) for rolling a workpiece (18) in a plurality of back-and-forth passes into a steel section having a web and one or more flanges. The section mill further includes a cooling arrangement (16) for cooling the workpiece while it undergoes rolling during one or more of the passes. The cooling arrangement includes a cooling box (20) having a spray head (21) with spray openings (22) for spraying jets of pressurized cooling liquid against the workpiece. The cooling arrangement further includes an actuator (38, 34) configured to move the cooling box relative to the stand frame (58) of the universal mill stand and/or of the edger mill stand for adjusting a distance between the spray openings and the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: ARCELORMITTAL
    Inventors: Romain Houot, Francois Mary, Patrick Mas, Gilles Brosius, Pierre Didier, Stephane Boul
  • Patent number: 11724302
    Abstract: An expansion tool for expanding an article. The expansion tool includes a lead-in portion extending outwardly from a first end of the expansion tool and a first pilot portion extending from the lead-in portion. The first pilot portion has a first diameter. The expansion tool further includes a second pilot portion being generally parallel with the first pilot portion. The second pilot portion has a second diameter larger than the first diameter. The expansion tool further includes a forming portion bridging the first pilot portion and the second pilot portion. The forming portion is generally sloped. The expansion tool further includes an expansion portion extending from the second pilot portion toward a second end of the expansion tool. The expansion portion has a third diameter larger than the second diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: BELVAC PRODUCTION MACHINERY, INC.
    Inventor: Gerald Meador
  • Patent number: 11717874
    Abstract: A precision compensation mechanism of a full-automatic bidirectional flanging machine comprises an upper die X-direction fine adjustment assembly, an upper die Y-direction fine adjustment assembly, a lower die X-direction fine adjustment assembly and a lower die Y-direction fine adjustment assembly, wherein the fine adjustment assemblies each comprise N adjusting threaded sleeves, N adjusting screws and a threaded sleeve rotation driving device; wherein the N adjusting threaded sleeves are threaded into an upper opening or a lower opening of a C-shaped flanging beam along the length direction of an upper die or a lower die; the outer wall surfaces of the N adjusting threaded sleeves are threaded into the upper opening or the lower opening of the C-shaped flanging beam to form N screw thread pairs I with the thread pitch of P1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NANJNG NANYOU INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOVATION CO., LTD
    Inventors: Fengyu Xu, Sen Yang, Jingjin Shen, Zixin Chen, Guoping Jiang