Patents Examined by Erin B Saad
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Patent number: 12083618Abstract: A device for friction stirring a workpiece material includes a body, a spindle, a driver, and a biasing element. The spindle is configured to rotate around a rotational axis. The driver is rotationally coupled to the spindle. The biasing element supports the driver and is configured to apply a biasing force in an axial direction, wherein the biasing element axially overlaps the spindle.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Mazak CorporationInventors: Rodney Dale Fleck, Russell J. Steel
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Patent number: 12083627Abstract: A multi-spots welding method for processing a camera and a laser radar includes a position-determining method of welding spots, a solder-control method and a welding energy compensation method; the position-determining method of welding spots includes providing a plurality of welding spots between a first weldment and a second weldment; the solder-control method includes adding equivalent amount of solder on the plurality of welding spots according to a preset amount of the solder; and the welding energy compensation method includes detecting energy of the plurality of welding spots in real time when the plurality of welding spots are welded simultaneously, comparing detected real-time data of the plurality of welding spots with the preset amount of the solder.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: ShenZhen Rayshine Automation Technology Co., LTD.Inventors: Quan Cen, Zengwen Zhang, Xinjian Li
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Patent number: 12076805Abstract: A process for building a high-performance liquid flow-through plate is provided and includes providing a substrate formed of metal matrix composite (MMC) material, metallizing a surface of the substrate to reform the surface into a metallized surface, placing a braze foil on the metallized surface and executing a high-temperature and high-pressure bake whereby material of the braze foil diffuses into the metallized surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANYInventors: Trae M. Blain, James S. Wilson
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Patent number: 12064831Abstract: A joining system (100) of the present invention is for joining a joining target (W) including first, second, and third members (W1), (W2), (W3), and includes a welder (101), a friction stir welding machine (102), and a controller (110) that: (A) causes the welder (101) to weld the second and third members (W2), (W3); (B), after (A), causes the joining target (W) to be placed at the friction stir welding machine (102) so that the first member (W1) is opposed to a distal end of a tool (10); and (C), after (B), controls a linear motion driver (7) and a rotation driver (8) so as to, while pressing the distal end of the tool (10) to the joining target (W), rotate the tool (10) around an axis, so that the softened second and third members (W2), (W3) intrude into the softened first member (W1), thus joining the joining target (W).Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryoji Ohashi, Yoshitaka Muramatsu, Naoki Takeoka, Takuya Fukuda
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Patent number: 12059741Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liquid cooling jacket has a feature of using a primary joining rotary tool provided with a tip side pin and a base side pin having a taper angle larger than a taper angle of the tip side pin and comprising a first primary joining process in which inserting the tip side pin and the base side pin of the rotary tool that is rotating into the sealing body member and moving the rotary tool along the first abutted portion with an outer circumferential face of the base side pin being in contact with a front face of the sealing body member and with the outer circumferential face of the tip side pin being kept off a step side face of the peripheral wall step portion while having a second aluminum alloy of the sealing body member flow into the gap.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: NIPPON LIGHT METAL COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hisashi Hori, Nobushiro Seo, Kosuke Yamanaka
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Patent number: 12053842Abstract: A weld inspection apparatus that detects a weld defect in a welded portion of metal plates and includes a liquid application head disposed over one side surface of the metal plates and capable of moving in a welding direction of the metal plates, and an air jet head disposed over another side surface of the metal plates and capable of moving in the welding direction of the metal plates. The liquid application head includes a liquid application nozzle that projects toward the one side surface of the metal plates and applies liquid for sealing the welded portion. The air jet head includes an air jet nozzle that projects toward the another side surface of the metal plates and discharges air toward the welded portion to which the liquid has been applied.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Asato Hara, Syoma Murakami, Yasushi Kitani
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Patent number: 12048958Abstract: A mobile pipe fusion assembly system includes a fusion machine skid comprising a flat cross-sectional area whereon a pipe fusion machine rests, a forward skid comprising a flat cross-sectional area whereon a first pipe stand rests, and a rear skid comprising a flat cross-sectional area whereon a second pipe stand rests. The fusion machine skid is coupled to the forward skid by a first coupling. The fusion machine skid is coupled to the rear skid by a second coupling. The system is configured such that when the forward skid is pulled along a length of the pipe, the forward skid pulls the fusion machine skid via the first coupling and the fusion machine skid pulls the rear skid via the second coupling.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Inventor: Kenton Braegger
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Patent number: 12051517Abstract: A dry storage systems for radioactive nuclear waste materials may include a double-walled canister system. The canister system may include a canister having a tubular inner shell defining an internal cavity for storing nuclear waste material, a first lid sealably welded to a first end of the inner shell, a primary base plate defining a peripheral edge portion and having an annular closure flange, and an annular full thickness butt weld formed at an abutment joint between the annular closure flange and a second end of the inner shell. The inner shell, first lid, and first end closure may collectively define a sealed primary pressure retention barrier. A tubular outer shell may adjoin the inner shell. The outer shell may be welded to the canister to form a hermetically sealed secondary pressure retention barrier.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Inventor: Krishna P. Singh
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Patent number: 12042878Abstract: An ultrasonic welder includes, among other things, a sonotrode, a sleeve that is arranged at least partially around the sonotrode, and a biasing assembly that acts on the sleeve and is configured to urge the sleeve to an extended position relative to the sonotrode in response to a biasing force. The sleeve is configured to move from the extended position to a clamping position relative to the sonotrode in response to engagement with a workpiece which opposes the biasing force.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: T.A. SYSTEMS, INC.Inventor: Theodore Robert Brown
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Patent number: 12042875Abstract: A method includes positioning a braze material along a defect of a component of a turbine system, positioning a cover over the braze material, and focusing a heat source on the cover to melt the braze material along the defect.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Yan Cui, Michael Arnett, Matthew Laylock, Brian Lee Tollison
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Patent number: 12037294Abstract: A copper/ceramic bonded body includes: a copper member made of copper or a copper alloy; and a ceramic member made of an aluminum oxide, wherein the copper member and the ceramic member are bonded to each other, a magnesium oxide layer is provided on a ceramic member side of an interface between the copper member and the ceramic member; and a Mg solid solution layer is provided between the magnesium oxide layer and the copper member and contains Mg in a state of a solid solution in a Cu primary phase.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATIONInventor: Nobuyuki Terasaki
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Patent number: 12030139Abstract: A solder paste includes a first solder alloy powder in an amount ranging from 30% to 95% by weight. The first solder alloy powder includes a first solder alloy with a solidus temperature of 200° C. to 260° C. The first solder alloy includes an Sn—Cu alloy or an Sn—Cu—Ag alloy. The solder paste further includes a second solder alloy powder in an amount ranging from 5% to 70% by weight, and a solder flux. The second solder alloy powder includes a second solder alloy with a solidus temperature below 250° C. The solder paste has a variable melting point. In multiple reflow soldering, a remelting of the solder paste is inhibited under different temperature conditions so that no functional failure occurs during assembly and/or packaging of PCBs or electronic devices due to melting of solder.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Wallace Chuang, Eckart Schellkes, Yee-Wen Yen, Chia-Yu Liu
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Patent number: 12030572Abstract: A method for a steer axle knuckle of a vehicle is provided. The method comprises welding a steer arm and a tie rod arm to a knuckle body by linear friction welding. The method further includes, in one example, pairing a plurality of first contact surfaces of the knuckle body and a plurality of steer arm contact surfaces of the steer arm prior to the welding; pairing a plurality of second contact surfaces of the knuckle body and a plurality of tie rod arm contact surfaces of the tie rod arm prior to the welding. Each of the plurality of first contact surfaces, second contact surfaces, steer arm contact surfaces, tie rod arm contact surfaces is machined prior to the welding.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP, LLCInventor: Jason A. Shaw
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Patent number: 12023763Abstract: Disclosed is a welding device, which includes a drive unit, a first connecting rod, a second connecting rod, a welding head and a welding base. The drive unit is in driving connection to one end of the first connecting rod and one end of the second connecting rod; another end of the first connecting rod is in driving connection to the welding head, and is configured for causing, being driven by the drive unit, the welding head to move in a direction close to or away from the welding base; and another end of the second connecting rod is in driving connection to the welding base, and is configured for causing, being driven by the drive unit, the welding base to move in a direction close to or away from the welding head. The present application can ensure the synchronous movement of the welding head and the welding base.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2023Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Kun Yang, Gang Lin, Xiang Fan, Tengteng Wang
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Patent number: 12023753Abstract: The present invention relates to a friction stir welding head including a central pin shaft, a peripheral shoulder part, a shaft for driving in rotation the part and the shaft about the axis, the shaft being integral in rotation with the part and being free in translation with respect to the part along the axis, the head including an external interface part intended to be secured to a rotary spindle of the machine, a device for transmitting the rotation of the shaft about the axis of rotation from the part and a device for driving in translation the shaft along the axis from the motor during the rotation of the shaft and of the part.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: StirweldInventors: Thomas Pierron, Gilles Sevestre, Laurent Dubourg
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Patent number: 12017296Abstract: A multi-source self-adaptive low-stress additive manufacturing apparatus including a multi-axis manipulator additive manufacturing system, a high-energy sound beam regulation system, a substrate and a self-adaptive additive manufacturing workbench. The multi-axis manipulator additive manufacturing system includes multi-axis manipulator(s), welding torch(es), manipulator controller(s) and a guide rail, where base(s) of the multi-axis manipulator(s) is connected with the guide rail, the welding torch(es) is held by distal end(s) of the multi-axis manipulator(s), the multi-axis manipulator(s) is controlled by the manipulator controller(s) to move the welding torch(es) to conduct low-stress additive manufacturing on the workpiece to be additive manufactured.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2023Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Chunguang Xu, Wenjun Zhang, Bo Yang, Wenkai Li
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Patent number: 12017341Abstract: The robot apparatus includes a solder pot having a nozzle from which solder flows out, a flux ejection tool for ejecting flux, and a support tool for supporting the solder pot. The robot apparatus includes a table for supporting a workpiece, and a placement member on which the operation tools and the solder pot can be placed. The controller performs a flux application control for coupling the flux ejection tool to the robot and applying flux to the workpiece, a preheating control for coupling the support tool to the robot and arranging the solder pot below the workpiece so as to heat the workpiece, and a supply control for moving the nozzle of the solder pot closer to the workpiece and supplying the solder.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Yoshio Motowaki
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Patent number: 12011788Abstract: The invention relates to a welding technical field and provides a crawling welding robot. The crawling welding robot includes a vehicle chassis and two crawler wheels connected to two opposite sides of the vehicle chassis, respectively, wheel carriers of two crawler wheels are movably connected with the vehicle chassis. In this way, when the crawling welding robot moves on a non-planar surface for welding, the two crawler wheels can freely adjust its posture relative to the vehicle chassis to adapt to the surface for welding and improve a degree of fit between the two crawler wheels and the surface for welding, making the moving direction of the crawling welding robot easier to be controlled and reducing a probability of the crawling welding robot slipping or falling from the surface for welding.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: BEIJING BO TSING TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiaobing Feng, Jiluan Pan, Lisheng Gao
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Patent number: 12016127Abstract: Provided is a method for removing an electronic component from a printed wiring board. The method comprises applying an embrittlement agent to a lead of an electronic component that is soldered to the printed wiring board. The electronic component is removed from the printed wiring board by breaking the embrittled lead.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2023Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mark K. Hoffmeyer, Timothy P. Younger
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Patent number: 12011775Abstract: A steel joined body includes a plurality of steels joined together, the plurality of steels including a joint interface having a carbon concentration of 0.20 mass % or more and 2.10 mass % or less, and the steel joined body including a concentration gradient layer having a carbon concentration decreasing with distance from the joint interface.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2022Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: Neturen Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takuya Suzuki, Masahiro Tsukahara, Osamu Idohara, Setsuo Takaki