Patents Examined by Edward Tolan
  • Method and apparatus for making aerosol cans for metered dose inhaler
    Patent number: 9643229
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming aerosol cans for metered dose inhalers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Paul A. Wilson, Mark Bolton, Derek A. Robinson, James E. Ribordy
  • Coil winding device and winding method thereof
    Patent number: 9646765
    Abstract: The coil winding device includes a nozzle configured to feed a wire to wind the wire around the winding core to form a coil, a plurality of hook rods disposed in predetermined intervals around an end part of the winding core, the wire drawn out from an edge of the coil being configured to be hooked to each of the plurality of hook rods during a forming process of the coil, a winding core rotating mechanism configured to rotate the winding core together with the plurality of hook rods, a hook rod rotating mechanism configured to rotate the plurality of the hook rods, and a wire drawing-out mechanism configured to draw out the wire from the edge of the coil and hook the wire on the hook rods during the forming process of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: NITTOKU ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Muto
  • Device and method for cooling rolled stock
    Patent number: 9643224
    Abstract: A device for cooling rolled stock, preferably for cooling during cold rolling, including a nozzle for applying a cooling medium to the rolled stock, wherein a cooling chamber that is in fluid communication with the nozzle and extends substantially parallel to the strip running plane is provided for applying the cooling medium to the rolled stock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Breuer, Andreas Gramer, Johannes Alken, Dietrich Mathweis, Heiko Zetzsche
  • Hot stamped high strength part excellent in post painting anticorrosion property and method of production of same
    Patent number: 9644252
    Abstract: A hot stamped high strength part in which the propagation of cracks which form at the plating layer at the time of hot stamping when hot stamping aluminum plated steel sheet is suppressed and the post painting anticorrosion property is excellent even without adding special ingredient elements which suppress formation of cracks in an aluminum plating layer is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Maki, Kazuhisa Kusumi, Masayuki Abe, Masao Kurosaki
  • Method and a device for the manufacturing of washers for locking and washer for locking
    Patent number: 9636738
    Abstract: A method for the manufacturing of circular washers for locking from blanks, a washer having a central hole, a first side comprising a pattern of radially extending teeth and a second side comprising a pattern of radially extending cams. The method is especially comprised in the steps of producing a washer blank having an annular shape; introducing the washer blank into a die assembly for forming a closed shaping space by a lower die portion, an opposing upper die portion, a central die portion and a support piece, the central die portion extending through a washer blank central hole; forming the blank to a washer by mutual movement of said lower and upper die portions; and opening the closed shaping space to extract the formed washer. The invention also relates to a device and a washer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Nord-Lock AB
    Inventor: Mattias Andersson
  • Method of controlling hydraulic system and hydraulic system
    Patent number: 9638219
    Abstract: A method of controlling a hydraulic system, the hydraulic system including a ram cylinder unit having a cylinder and a ram, and a hydraulic pump and a reservoir used to supply hydraulic fluid to the cylinder, and hydraulically driving the ram using the hydraulic fluid so as to move against a specific load, the method includes determining what a present state is one of an initial state, a proportional steady state, and a later state, controlling the pumping rate, which is obtained by adding the flow rate corresponding to the volume loss due to the compression of the hydraulic fluid thereto, to control the ram in the initial state, and controlling the pumping rate, which is obtained by subtracting the flow rate corresponding to volume recovery of the hydraulic fluid due to the relief of compression of the hydraulic fluid therefrom, to control the ram in the later state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Aluminum Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideki Furuse
  • Apparatus for correcting upward deformation of large member of stainless steel car roof
    Patent number: 9636730
    Abstract: The utility model provides an apparatus for correcting upwarp deformation of a large member of a stainless steel car roof, being characterized in that, it has a crossbeam, end support columns, a middle support column, an arc-shaped positioning body, crossbeam pull rings, a thin steel taut strap, and tighteners. The end support columns, crossbeam, and middle support column constitute a supporting part, the arc-shaped positioning body having the same arc shape as an inner arc of the large member of the stainless steel car roof is arranged on the middle support column. The thin steel taut strap covers an exterior contour surface of the large member of the stainless steel car roof, and is connected via the tightener to the crossbeam pull rings respectively fixed at two ends of the crossbeam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: CHANGCHUN RAILWAY VEHICLES CO. LTD
    Inventors: Xiaoyang Xu, Ting Wang
  • Method for producing a ring-pull top from a steel sheet provided with a protective layer and a ring-pull top produced thereby
    Patent number: 9623473
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a steel sheet provided with a protective layer for producing a ring-pull top or a can having a ring-pull top, where the steel sheet is made of an unalloyed or low-alloy steel having a carbon content of less than 0.1% by weight, and also an associated process. The problem proceeding from known steel sheets having a protective layer, namely to provide a steel sheet by means of which ring-pull tops which for a constant residual wall thickness of the notch line have a lower tear-off force can be produced by means of the ring-pull top, is solved by the steel sheet being recrystallizingly heat treated at a heating rate of more than 75 K/s and after the recrystallizing heat treatment cooled at a cooling rate of at least 100 K/s and then coated with the protective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP RASSELSTEIN GMBH
    Inventors: Karl Ernst Friedrich, Dirk Matusch, Burkhard Kaup, Reiner Sauer
  • Net-shaped duct forming apparatus
    Patent number: 9623460
    Abstract: A duct-forming apparatus includes an apparatus frame, a forming piston assembly having a cylinder carried by the apparatus frame and a forming piston extendable from the cylinder. A duct-shaping assembly includes a form die having a form die interior and a forming surface provided in the form die interior; a forming assembly having a plurality of expandable forming sections provided in the form die adjacent to the forming surface; and a plurality of piston openings provided in the expandable forming sections, respectively, and adapted to receive the forming piston of the forming piston assembly. A duct-forming method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Peter K. Hwang, Kenneth P. Zaballos
  • Can end with retort resistant panel, and tooling and associated method for providing same
    Patent number: 9616483
    Abstract: A method of making a can end, which includes a recessed panel defined by an upwardly extending chuck wall, a peripheral scoreline disposed in a public side of the panel proximate to the base of the chuck wall, a tab fastened to the panel by a rivet, includes the step of employing tooling to form a pressure resistance bead extends around the panel inboard of the peripheral scoreline and outboard of the rivet. The tooling forms a saw tooth panel formation proximate to the pressure resistance bead inboard of the pressure resistance bead. Among other benefits, the pressure resistance bead and saw tooth panel formation created by the tooling and method combine to resist wrinkling or other undesired deformation of the can end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventor: Dennis C. Stammen
  • Open containment frame for roller applied deep compression treatment of shaft products
    Patent number: 9616477
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a suspended supporting device for roller compression treatment of rotating shaft products, comprising: a containment frame including: a main portion; and an articulating arm including an attachment for a roller cartridge; a support element attached to the main portion and providing internal stabilization to the supporting device; a mechanism providing motion to the articulating arm with respect to the main portion; and an attachment mechanism for suspending the supporting device via attachment to an external element. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Ellwood National Investment Corp.
    Inventors: Ronald F. Dexter, Marshall B. Rupert, Jared N. Castaldi, Roger L. Garrett
  • Structures and methods of manufacture of microstructures within a structure to selectively adjust a response or responses of resulting structures or portions of structures to shock induced deformation or force loading
    Patent number: 9617612
    Abstract: Structures and methods of manufacturing utilizing direction of force loading or shock induced deformation of structures including microstructures produced in accordance with embodiments of the invention are provided. In one example, a method of manufacturing and structure including providing a metallic plate; forming said plate such that an original longitudinal direction of rolling the plate is perpendicular to a long direction of the plate, thus a force load on the plate would then be distributed over the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Eric Scheid
  • Device for cooling rolls
    Patent number: 9610622
    Abstract: The application is directed to a device (1, 1?) for cooling a roll (2), in particular a working roll (2) for rolling rolling stock (3), wherein the device comprises a cooling shell (50, 60) which lies opposite at least one part region of the circumference of the roll surface for forming a cooling gap (5) between the part region of the roll surface and the cooling shell (50, 60), through which cooling gap (5) cooling fluid can flow, and a lever (40, 44) which can be pivoted about a suspension point (8, 48), can be pivoted in the direction of the roll surface and is connected rotatably to a first half (51, 61) of the cooling shell (50, 60) as viewed in the circumferential direction (U) of the roll (2), wherein the cooling gap (5) can optionally be reduced in size or enlarged by pivoting of the lever (40, 44).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Johannes Alken, Matthias Kipping, Ralf Seidel, Torsten Mueller
  • Method of manufacturing screw thread and screw thread
    Patent number: 9604298
    Abstract: The removal starting position (8S1) of a first removal process and the four removal starting positions (8S21-8S24) in a second removal process are established on an imaginary circle (7I) with a prescribed radius (R) that is inscribed in the apex (7C) of an incomplete thread part (7a). In each removal process, the tip of the screw thread cutting tool shaves off the apex (7C) of the incomplete thread part (7a) into respective recesses, contacting the imaginary inscribed circle (7I) from the outside (above). The multiple cutting surfaces of the apex (7C) are formed in parallel helices (that is, as mutually adjacent helical recesses) from the starting position to the ending position of the incomplete thread part. Points and burrs in the incomplete thread part can thereby be eliminated or reduced without loss of the ability to screw together with a partner threaded fastener (threaded portion).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: RICOH ELEMEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Shimizu, Masao Kobayashi, Kenji Nishikawa, Seiji Otani, Takaya Nishikawa, Manabu Takeda
  • Method for producing a fibrous metal structure by means of weaving
    Patent number: 9605364
    Abstract: A method for the production of a fibrous metal structure by weaving with metal weft yarns and metal warp yarns. The method includes weaving the fibrous structure by successive weaving of metal clasps that are used as weft yarns. For the purpose of weaving, each of the arms of each of the metal clasps is introduced into at least one shed, each shed being formed by two warp yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thierry Godon, Bruno Jacques Gérard Dambrine, Alain Robert Yves Perroux
  • Pressing tool and method for manufacturing a pressing tool
    Patent number: 9597722
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pressing tool includes shaping a blank, which is able to be hardened, at least in part, to a final size of a pressing jaw. Then, a laser beam is applied to at least one selected region of a surface of the pressing jaw so as to form at least one hardened surface layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: ROTHENBERGER AG
    Inventors: Markus Faulstich, Thoralf Krause, Arnd Greding
  • Method for machining seal-mounting groove in metal plate
    Patent number: 9592617
    Abstract: The invention provides a processing method of a seal mounting groove in a metal plate, which can form the seal mounting groove with a small pressing pressure, whereby it is possible to respond to request for easily manufacturing and achieving a low cost, and can achieve a problem caused by a protruding phenomenon of a metal which plastically deforms going with formation of the seal mounting groove. In order to achieve the object, in a method of pressing a seal mounting groove by using a punch on a plane of a metal plate, a leading end portion of the punch is formed into an inclined surface shape which is inclined in a punch width direction, and the seal mounting groove which inclines in a groove width direction in its groove bottom portion and is formed into an inclined surface shape is formed by pressing while using the punch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: NOK Corporation
    Inventors: Shotaro Koga, Masaki Sato
  • Combination collar feeder and swaging tool
    Patent number: 9586257
    Abstract: A combination collar feeder and swaging tool for installing lockbolt fasteners. The collar feeder is mounted on the tool to present collars one-by-one from a cartridge. After placing a collar on a lockbolt shank, the feeder moves out of alignment with the nose assembly to allow it to advance onto the collar for swaging purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Gage Bilt, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce T. Godfrey, Brian H. Leigh, Tony P. Potts
  • Water pipe for which hydroforming is employed, and a production method therefor
    Patent number: 9579705
    Abstract: Disclosed are a double water pipe manufactured via hydroforming and a method of manufacturing the same. The method includes: inserting an inner pipe into an outer pipe made of steel, the inner pipe being made of a corrosion resistant material selected from among stainless steel, titanium and aluminum, and having a smaller outer diameter than an inner diameter of the outer pipe; placing the outer pipe on a die unit and sealing opposite ends of the die unit with sealing members each having a through-hole connected to a fluid supply unit for supplying a fluid to the inner pipe; supplying the fluid to the inner pipe to perform plastic expansion of the inner pipe and elastic expansion of the outer pipe; and discharging the fluid from the inner pipe to allow frictional coupling between the inner pipe and the outer pipe through elastic restoration of the outer pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: HYUNDAI STEEL COMPANY
    Inventors: Sung-Pill Park, Kyung-Soo Jin, Yun-Gyu Kim, Man-Been Moon
  • Plastic working method and spinning machine used in the same
    Patent number: 9579831
    Abstract: A spinning machine includes: a main shaft which includes a chuck holding a cylindrical material having a bottom and a regulation member; a mandrel which is inserted inside from an opening side end portion of the material; and a press roller which presses the opening side end portion of the material. The spinning machine molds a circumferential groove portion on the opening side end portion so that an inner diameter of the opening side end portion of the material is smaller than an inner diameter of a body of the material by pushing a press roller while rotating the material around the axial center of the main shaft, and at least a portion of the inserted mandrel is formed so that a gap is provided between the portion and an inner circumferential surface after the opening side end portion of the material is plastically deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: NIHON SPINDLE MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Takada, Jyunji Kishino, Taishi Shirai