Patents Examined by Erica E Cadugan
  • Patent number: 12030130
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for machining the tip circle diameter of a tooth system (4) of a gearwheel (6), in which the gearwheel (6) rotates about a workpiece axis of rotation (Rw), and in which at least one tooth (9) of the tooth system (4) is machined, by removing chips, by means of a tool (7, 7?) that rotates about a tool axis of rotation (Rz) oriented at an axial distance (A?, A?) relative to the workpiece axis of rotation (Rw).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Präwema Antriebstechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Jörg Schieke, Jörg Reinhardt
  • Patent number: 12023724
    Abstract: In an installing method for installing divided upper tools to upper tool holders disposed to be spaced at an appropriate interval in a left-right direction in a lower portion of an upper table of a press brake, by using a tool changer, a round bar-shaped finger provided in the tool changer is engaged in a circular engagement hole provided at a central portion in the lateral direction of each divided upper tool. The divided upper tool is temporarily positioned in a gap between an upper tool holder to which the divided upper tool is to be installed, and an adjacent upper tool holder. The temporarily positioned divided upper tool is moved in the left-right direction to be installed to the upper tool holder to which the divided upper tool is to be installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: AMADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Shiro Hayashi, Shingo Kamada, Hideto Yamada, Yohei Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 12023772
    Abstract: An arrangement for processing workpieces includes at least one processing machine, a machine magazine assigned to a respective processing machine for accommodating processing tools, and a robot arranged on a driverless base frame. Processing tools may be supplied to and/or removed again from the machine magazine using the driverless base frame. The driverless base frame is additionally provided with a temporary magazine for accommodating processing tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Erowa AG
    Inventor: Hans Hediger
  • Patent number: 12011769
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an efficient brake disc processing device, which relates to the technical field of brake disc processing, comprising a lathe bed, an upright vertical lathe and a first power tool holder installed on a top end of the lathe bed, and an inverted vertical lathe and a second power tool holder installed on a rear side of the top end of the lathe bed, wherein the upright vertical lathe is cooperated with the second power tool holder to process an upper brake surface of a brake disc, and the inverted vertical lathe is cooperated with the first power tool holder to process a lower brake surface of the brake disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: LONGKOU TIANGONG MACHINERY PARTS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Keyang Zhang, Fuxing Zhang
  • Patent number: 12011771
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the refurbishment and repowering of wind turbines through the extension of existing installed blades so that they can catch more wind energy and therefore enable an increase in the overall average power output of the wind turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Inventor: Bento Massahiko Koike
  • Patent number: 12005539
    Abstract: In a self-detecting apparatus for workpiece-origin, a mobile machine tool having the self-detecting apparatus, a method for self-detecting the workpiece-origin, the self-detecting apparatus is equipped to the mobile machine tool and includes a vision sensor and a transmitting unit. The vision sensor obtains a point image marked to the workpiece, and detects a position of a workpiece-origin based on coincidence of focuses of the points. The transmitting unit provides an information obtained by the vision sensor to the mobile machine tool. The mobile machine tool is moved to the workpiece-origin, so as to coincide the focuses of the points, based on the provided point image obtained by the vision sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF MACHINERY & MATERIALS
    Inventors: Dong-Hoon Kim, Joonyub Song
  • Patent number: 11992911
    Abstract: A tool changing mechanism includes a tool base housing, a mandrel disposed therein and having a chamber and a keyway provided axially, and first and second linked units. A first shoulder portion is provided at an end of the keyway, and pulling jaws are disposed at the other end. The first linked unit has a first pulling rod, an end of which has an external thread, and the other end has a connecting portion driven by a pneumatic cylinder. The second linked unit has a second pulling rod, an end of which has an internal thread, and a pressing head is disposed at the other end. The second pulling rod has a sliding key located in the keyway. The first pulling rod is screwed into the second pulling rod, and the relative screwing rotation therebetween attains tool pulling for fixing or tool loosening for removing the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PRECISION MACHINERY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    Inventors: Chia-Hsuan Cho, Yu-An Liu
  • Patent number: 11986918
    Abstract: A method wherein by reducing the amount of current, and therefore torque, to the linear servo motor (50) and/or rotary servo motor (52) of a loader mechanism (9), the loader mechanism is operable for determining proper workpiece positioning in a machine tool such as a gear manufacturing machine, particularly a machine (4) for manufacturing bevel and hypoid gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: THE GLEASON WORKS
    Inventor: Michael W. Roberts
  • Patent number: 11986919
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward a tooling assembly for a machine having an automatic tool changing system. The tooling assembly includes a holder, a tool body, and an internal passage defined within and extending through the holder and the tool body. The holder includes a machine interface configured to engage with a spindle of the machine. The internal passage is operable to have a coolant fluid flow within, and has a stem channel and a curved channel extending from the stem channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: David Stephenson, Timothy G. Beyer, Michael A. Kopmanis, David Ozog, William E. Dowling, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11980987
    Abstract: A workpiece processing method includes: a dresser preparing step of preparing a dresser of a predetermined thickness; a fixing step of fixing the workpiece and the dresser on a support member adjacently to each other in a first direction; a holding step of holding the support member by a holding table, after the fixing step is performed; and a cutting step of positioning a tool edge of the cutting blade at a predetermined height and cutting the workpiece and the dresser in the first direction by a cutting blade, after the holding step is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junki Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11980988
    Abstract: A blade replacing device used in a cutting apparatus includes a holding section that detachably holds one surface side of a cutting blade, a moving section that relatively advances and retracts the holding section with holding the cutting blade relative to a spindle in an axial direction of the spindle, and positions the holding section at least at a mounting position at which the other surface of the cutting blade is equal to or less than a predetermined distance from a flange section of a blade mount, and at a released position at which the cutting blade is spaced from the blade mount, and a thickness information acquisition section for acquiring information concerning a thickness of the cutting blade. The mounting position of the holding section is adjusted according to the thickness of the cutting blade acquired by utilizing the thickness information acquisition section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki Terada
  • Patent number: 11975415
    Abstract: An aeronautical aluminum alloy minimum-quantity-lubrication milling machining device includes a machine tool worktable and spindle connected with a machine tool power system. The spindle is connected with a tool holder that is fixed with a cutting tool. The machine tool worktable is provided with a machine tool fixture, the tool holder is connected with a minimum-quantity-lubrication mechanism, the machine tool fixture includes a fixture body that is fixedly provided with a limit block for contact with two adjacent side surfaces of a workpiece, the fixture body is provided with a plurality of clamping elements capable of pressing the workpiece against an upper surface of the fixture body, and a top of the clamping element is provided with a detection member for detecting a relative position between the clamping element and the spindle. The device can avoid interference and contact between a nozzle and the clamping element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignees: QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SHANXI JINZHAO AVIATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Yang, Hao Ma, Changhe Li, Xifeng Wu, Yixue Han, Yuying Yang, Xin Cui, Xufeng Zhao, Naiqing Zhang, Qidong Wu, Teng Gao, Yanbin Zhang, Bingheng Lu, Mingzheng Liu, Dongzhou Jia, Xiaowei Zhang, Xiaoming Wang
  • Patent number: 11945062
    Abstract: A levelling machine includes a pair of spaced apart rail assemblies, a gantry assembly and a face mill assembly. The spaced apart rail assemblies define an x axis. The gantry assembly is moveably attached to the pair of spaced apart rail assemblies whereby the gantry assembly defines a y axis. The gantry assembly is moveable in the x axis along the pair of spaced apart rail assemblies. The face mill assembly is moveably attached to the gantry assembly and is moveable in the y axis along the gantry assembly. The face mill assembly has a plurality of saw blades, the saw blades being generally in an x-y plane defined by the x axis and y axis. The saw blades have a plurality of teeth that extend downwardly generally in a z axis. The face mill assembly is moveable in the z axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MARVEL INTEGRATION, LLC
    Inventor: Travis Everett Vap
  • Patent number: 11938578
    Abstract: The invention relates to an interchangeable milling adapter (20) for a work table (60), which comprises a receptacle (21) for a milling machine (70) and an angular adjustment (22). At the same time, an angular position (WP1, WP2) of the receptacle (21) in relation to the work table can be adjusted using the angular adjustment (22). Furthermore, a work table, a milling unit and their use for adjusting a milling machine are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Plöckl GmbH & Co. Industrieoptik KG
    Inventor: Manfred Plöckl
  • Patent number: 11931844
    Abstract: A cutting machine includes a holder located below a spindle to hold processing targets, and an adaptor connected to a rotation shaft to rotatably support the holder. The holder includes a first holder fixed to the adaptor and including a pin insertion hole to which a fixing pin attached to a processing target is fixed, and a second holder detachably attached to the first holder and including a pin insertion hole at a position facing the pin insertion hole. The fixing pin extends in a Y-axis direction. In the Y-axis direction, a distance between a processing target fixed to the pin insertion hole and a processing target fixed to the pin insertion hole is shorter than a length of the fixing pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DGSHAPE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaki Nakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11926012
    Abstract: A device is provided for machining rod-shaped workpieces such as window profiles or door profiles. The workpieces can be moved in a horizontal plane in a Z direction by a transport device. A machining device with tools is provided in a plane arranged substantially vertically to the direction of movement of the workpieces, which machining device is spatially oriented in the vertical plane in relation to the workpiece. The machining device includes an open arc arranged in the vertical plane to the workpiece, the arc being mounted to rotate about the workpiece in the Z axis as an open flat ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SCHIRMER MASCHINEN GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas Heeke
  • Patent number: 11925991
    Abstract: A milling device for machining a slot into an inner surface of a casing for a gas turbine engine. The milling device includes a frame assembly including multiple structural guides configured to engage structural features on the inner surface of the casing to maintain an axial position of the milling device relative to a longitudinal axis of the casing. The milling device also includes a milling cutter coupled to the frame assembly. The milling device is configured to be displaced in a circumferential direction relative to the longitudinal axis to machine the slot, via the milling cutter, along the inner surface of the casing in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Fabian Gubelmann, Andrew David Ellis, Robert David Jones, Thomas Gloor, Roman Stefan Peter
  • Patent number: 11911862
    Abstract: In a method for automated positioning of a blank in a processing machine provided with a housing and a spindle unit with an electric motor, a control unit for control and electrical supply of the processing machine, a computer producing processing programs for manufacturing workpieces, a workpiece holder, and an image recording unit that optically records image data of a blank received in the workpiece holder, a blank is fixed in the processing machine and the image recording unit produces an image of the blank. A division of the blank into an already processed region and into an unprocessed region based on the image data of the image is performed. A workpiece geometry to be produced is assigned to the unprocessed region of the blank, and a milling operation is performed on the unprocessed region. In a variant of the method, the image recording unit is separate from the processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: vhf camfacture Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Frank Benzinger
  • Patent number: 11911864
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine tool (100) for machining a workpiece, said machine tool (100) comprising a machine table (10) for clamping the workpiece, a work spindle (20) for receiving a tool for machining the workpiece, a work space (70) substantially defined by the machine table (10) and at least one first cover (30), and a tool changer (50) arranged outside the work space (70) and configured to change the tool received in the work spindle (20), wherein the machine tool (100) is further configured such that, during a tool change, the first cover (30) is moved, as a result of which the work space (70) of the machine tool (100) is expanded by a tool changing area (80) and an access surface (42), through which the tool changer (50) can be moved into the tool changing area (80), is exposed, and the work spindle (20) is positioned in the tool changing area (80) such that the tool changer (50) is able to change the tool received by the work spindle (20) within the tool changing area (80).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DECKEL MAHO Seebach GmbH
    Inventor: Andre Engel
  • Patent number: 11911861
    Abstract: A machining system includes a cover body having an opening and defining a machining area of a workpiece, a door portion provided in the opening, an actuator that operates the door portion between a first position at which the opening is closed and a second position at which the opening is opened, a controller that controls the actuator, and a robot arm that operates through the opening to convey a workpiece between the machining area and an external area outside the machining area. The controller controls the actuator such that the door portion is positioned at a third position when the robot arm conveys the workpiece. An opening area of the opening when the door portion is positioned at the third position is smaller than an opening area of the opening when the door portion is positioned at the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DMG MORI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Higuchi, Hiroshi Yasuda, Hideki Nagasue