Patents Examined by Donte Brown
  • Patent number: 9849514
    Abstract: A cutting insert of one embodiment is provided with: an insert body having a top surface that has a corner section, a bottom surface, and side surfaces; a cutting edge that is positioned at an intersection between the top surface and the side surfaces, and includes a corner cutting edge, a first cutting edge and a second cutting edge; a rake face that slopes downward away from the cutting edge; and a first raised part that is positioned inside the rake face, and rises upward. The first raised part includes a protruding section that protrudes toward the corner cutting edge. The cutting insert is further provided with a second raised part that extends toward the first cutting edge and the second cutting edge from the protruding section, and has a convex curved shape in which, when viewed from above, the outer peripheral edge on the corner section side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Kouhei Sakai
  • Patent number: 9849522
    Abstract: The invention concerns a machining tool for machining fiber-reinforced materials such as CFRP, glass-fiber-reinforced plastics or plastics reinforced with polyester threads. The machining tool comprises a plurality of flutes (1, 2, 3, 4) which distance lands (5, 6, 7, 8), disposed about a cylinder core segment (9), from each other in the peripheral sense. At least one of the lands (6, 8) is designed as a premachining land (6, 8) and at least one other of the lands (5, 7) is designed as a postmachining land (5, 7), each comprising a peripheral working region extending along, or with a twist and in the form of a helical segment about, the tool axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Hufschmied Zerspanungssysteme GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Hufschmied
  • Patent number: 9849553
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes and teaches a drill safety system including a magnetic unit, a vacuum unit, and an improved hole saw drill set. The various parts of the drill safety system may be used individually or in combination with one another. The user may use the magnetic unit to surround the drilling site so that metal drill shavings on the drill surface may be collected by the magnetic unit. In addition, the magnetic unit includes a flippable top mechanism, allowing convenient disposal of the debris. The vacuum unit is fitted to the inner surface of the drilling site, collecting debris that fall through. The improved hole saw prevents over-penetrating by the drill, reducing the likelihood of damaging equipments underneath the drill site. This makes the drill particularly suitable for drilling holes during electrical work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher R. Bialy, Richard C. Vroman, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9844848
    Abstract: The method can include: assembling the part to be machined to a pallet into an assembly; measuring a centering of the part relative to the pallet; adjusting the centering of the part relative to the pallet based on said measuring; repeating the steps of measuring and adjusting until determining that the part is centered based on said measuring; and mounting the centered assembly to an automatic machining device and machining the part of the centered assembly with the automatic machining device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Mario Blais, Fuat Atabey, Jean-Yves Barbeau
  • Patent number: 9821385
    Abstract: A cartridge for a cutting insert has a carrier, a rocker, which is attached to the carrier so as to be pivotable and has a seat for a cutting insert, and an adjusting element for adjusting the rocker relative to the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Hans Woerner, Rudolf Ehrmann
  • Patent number: 9782832
    Abstract: A boring tool has one or more cutters whose radial and axial positions are both easily adjusted. The radial positions are adjusted by the axial movement of wedges that press against cartridges holding the cutters. The axial positions are adjusted by the axial movement of screws that support the cartridges holding the cutters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: DCT/Precision, L.L.C.
    Inventor: John D. Lambrick
  • Patent number: 9764394
    Abstract: A rotary cutting tool includes a cutter body having a head, a shank, and a cavity extending along a central, longitudinal axis of the cutter body. The head includes at least one cutting insert mounted in a pocket adjacent to a chip groove. A stiffening device includes a plurality of slugs with high compressive strength disposed within the cavity, and a first compression screw threaded into a rearward end of the cutting tool. In another embodiment, a second compression screw is threaded into a forward end of the cutter body. In another embodiment, each slug includes a coolant hole, circumferential grooves and axial grooves on its outer diameter, and a plurality of radial grooves on each end, and the first compression screw has a coolant hole for allowing coolant to pass therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Gamble, Ronald Louis Dudzinsky, James Michael Waggle
  • Patent number: 9751134
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a generally cylindrical body, a plurality of cutting teeth formed on the generally cylindrical body, a plurality of non-cutting protrusions formed on the generally cylindrical body, and a plurality of gullets formed on the generally cylindrical body. Each gullet is formed between one of the plurality of cutting teeth and one of the plurality of non-cutting protrusions. Each gullet has a base and a gullet depth measured from the base to a tip of a corresponding cutting tooth. Each non-cutting protrusion is located approximately halfway between the tips of two adjacent cutting teeth and has a height that is at most about 75% of the gullet depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jason M. Thom, Geoffrey R. Piller, Ryan J. Malloy
  • Patent number: 9707626
    Abstract: A hole saw assembly is revealed. The hole saw assembly is a hole saw with a quick change drill rod. The hole saw assembly includes a quick release device and the drill rod, both arranged at the hole saw. The drill rod is inserted through the quick release device and the quick release device is for fastening and releasing a drill head of the drill rod. Thereby the drill rod is fitted over the quick release device and users can fasten and release the drill rod quickly. Users can also quickly mount a shank of the drill rod quickly into the hole saw. The drill rod is fast slid out of the quick release device for replacement of a new drill rod. Then the shank is locked on the hole saw so that the shank and the hole saw can rotate synchronously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: ROTE MATE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ying-Tsung Lai
  • Patent number: 9707625
    Abstract: A cutting insert according to one aspect of the present invention includes a polygonal columnar shape, and includes an upper surface, a lower surface and a side surface located between the upper surface and the lower surface, and a cutting edge is formed at an intersecting portion between the upper surface and the side surface, the upper surface includes a main portion of a convex shape including a flat upper end surface, a first projecting portion which projects from the main portion to a corner portion of the upper surface, and a pair of second projecting portions which each project from the first projecting portion to a periphery of the upper surface to interpose a region between a front end of the first projecting portion and the corner portion, and each of upper ends of the pair of second projecting portions is spaced part from the first projecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chie Onodera
  • Patent number: 9687914
    Abstract: A drilling tool includes a spindle, a housing at least partly housing the spindle, a feed gear drivingly connected to a motor and threaded around the spindle to feed the spindle in an axial direction of the spindle by mutual rotation between the feed gear and spindle during a drilling process, and a micro peck unit which includes an undulated cam profile and a follower arranged to bear against the cam profile, and which produces an oscillating movement of the feed gear and the spindle upon rotation of the feed gear during a drilling process. The micro peck unit further includes interposable rolling elements arranged to be re-positioned into a gap between two circular contact surfaces in order to separate the cam profile from the follower, such that no oscillating movement is produced by the unit when the interposable rolling elements are positioned inside the gap between the contact surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO INDUSTRIAL TECHNIQUE AB
    Inventors: Ulf Mikael Eriksson, Lars Joakim Edberg
  • Patent number: 9682435
    Abstract: In one aspect, thread forming taps are described herein. In some embodiments a thread forming tap comprises a shank disposed at a first end adapted to engage a tool holder and an elongated working portion disposed at a second end. The working portion comprises at least one helical thread and a plurality of longitudinally-extending linear grooves. The longitudinally-extending linear grooves intersect the helical thread forming a plurality of lobes, wherein adjacent lobes differ from one another in relief type and/or relief rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Yan Yan, Emmanuel Puviland
  • Patent number: 9662720
    Abstract: A cylindrical drill body for a hole saw has cutting teeth on an end side and at least one cutout, which is located in a lateral surface of the cylindrical drill body at a distance from the cutting teeth. The cutout has a rectilinear boundary edge directed parallel to the end side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Richter
  • Patent number: 9610637
    Abstract: A tailstock control device includes a tailstock parameter setting unit that receives, in advance, setting of tailstock acceleration time ta, tailstock movement velocity V, drive torque measuring period t, and number n of drive torque measurements; a calculating unit that calculates acceleration zone distance La from the acceleration time ta and the movement velocity V; a calculating unit that calculates constant velocity zone distance Lb from the movement velocity V, the measuring period t, and the number n of measurements; a drive torque detecting unit that detects servo motor drive torque; and a control unit that sets La+Lb as drive torque measuring distance Lt and calculates servo motor drive torque limit value ?c from drive torque T detected by the drive torque detecting unit when the tailstock is moved over La+Lb and also from a servo motor torque command value ?a required for supporting a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: OKUMA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiichi Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 9604285
    Abstract: A rotary tool, in particular drilling tool, extends along a longitudinal axis and has an end surface; a brad point; and at least one major cutting edge extending outward up to an edge corner. A first free surface segment adjoins the major cutting edge, and a second free surface segment in turn adjoins said first free surface segment. To keep the stress, in particular the wear, low in the region of the end surface, the first free surface segment has a lower average abrasiveness than the second free surface segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL, INC.
    Inventors: Juergen Schwaegerl, Herbert Rudolf Kauper
  • Patent number: 9597736
    Abstract: A hole cutter assembly is operable to cut a plurality of different sized diameter holes in a work piece. The hole cutter assembly includes an arbor configured to connect to a power tool for rotation about an axis, and a body coupled to the arbor for rotation with the arbor. The body defines an aperture. The hole cutter assembly includes a drill bit removably received in the aperture of the body for rotation with the arbor, an arm moveably coupled to the body, and a cutting blade coupled to the arm and moveable with the arm relative to the body. The arm is moveable relative to the body to adjust a cutting diameter of the hole cutter assembly when the drill bit is not received within the aperture. The arm is fixed relative to the body when the drill bit is received within the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael S. Steele, Robb Dennert, Bryan C. Ward
  • Patent number: 9586312
    Abstract: A universal drill stand for supporting a hand-held drill in an elevated and inverted position for drilling holes or inserting fasteners into a concrete ceiling or other overhead surface. The universal drill stand is extendable for use with varying ceiling heights. It eliminates the need for a worker to construct scaffolding or ascend a ladder or other elevating device to drill each hole, allowing the worker to remain safely on the floor and away from dust and debris associated with the drilling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Inventors: David J. Buchner, J. Reed Felton
  • Patent number: 9579734
    Abstract: A multi-flute endmill including a cutting edge part having multiple cutting edges and flutes formed between adjacent cutting edges in a rotation direction around the tool axis O. A rake face of each cutting edge is formed from a rake face of an end cutting edge from the tool axis O side to the outer peripheral side of a shank, an adjacent rake face of a corner R edge that forms a surface different from the rake face of the end cutting edge, and an adjacent rake face of a peripheral cutting edge that forms a surface different from the rake face of the corner R edge. A gash is formed between the rake face of the end cutting edge and a flank of an end cutting edge that is adjacent on a forward side thereof in the rotation direction R.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI TOOL ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Baba, Jun-ichi Hirai
  • Patent number: 9579732
    Abstract: A hole saw includes a cylindrical body disposed along an axis of rotation with a side wall extending axially from a cap end to a cutting end. The cutting end includes a plurality of cutting teeth. A cap includes a rim portion seated on the cap end and an axially extending portion extending into the cylindrical body from the cap end. The side wall defines an aperture including a first slot portion and a second slot portion disposed closer to the cap end than the first slot portion. A wall of the second slot portion nearest the cap end is between approximately 0.010 inches and approximately 0.120 inches axially offset from the axially extending portion of the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Geoffrey R. Piller, Jason M. Thom, Ryan J. Malloy, Todd A. Taylor
  • Patent number: 9555483
    Abstract: A cutting tool utilizing a replaceable blade has a body which defines a blade-accepting pocket having an interior within which the body of the blade is nestingly accepted when inserted within the pocket and for releasable securement of the blade within the blade-accepting pocket. Furthermore, the blade-accepting pocket includes an abutment surface against which a surface of the blade body bears against when the cutting edge of the blade is moved into cutting engagement with an item being cut with the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: iTool Equipment Holding LLC
    Inventors: David S. Jordan, Michael C. Jordan