Patents Examined by George B. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10589396
    Abstract: A pressure shoe (1) includes a press surface (2) for directly pressing finishing tape onto a radial circumferential surface (3) of a rotating workpiece section (4) during a finishing process. A plurality of expansion elements (5) is formed in the pressure shoe (1). Each of expansion elements (5) are expandable individually and independently of one another radially while deforming the press surface (2) in a direction of the circumferential surface (3) of the workpiece section (4), so that during the finishing process, the shape of the circumferential surface (3) of the workpiece section can be influenced in a targeted manner via different expansion of the expansion elements (5) distributed over the press surface (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: THIELENHAUS TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventor: Holger Steinwender
  • Patent number: 10583620
    Abstract: Systems and methods for correcting uniformity of a cured tire using ablation of material along a plurality of tracks along the bead portion of the tire are provided. An ablation pattern can be determined to correct for a uniformity parameter for multiple tracks along a bead portion of a tire. The ablation pattern for each track can be analyzed to determined direct address commands for implementing the ablation pattern using an ablation device. The direct address commands can be determined according to an adjustment process to improve cycle time for the ablation of a tire. The adjustment process can be operable to more closely align azimuthal positions of ablation segments specified by direct address commands for different tracks along the bead of the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale des Establissements Michelin
    Inventors: Casey Scott Appleman, Verner Steve Nicholson
  • Patent number: 10576602
    Abstract: Described is a method for grinding workpieces, which comprise at least one cylindrical and profiled portion each, on one and the same grinding machine. The workpiece is ground initially in a first grinding operation in a first clamping in the grinding machine, said first grinding operation being followed by a second grinding operation once the first clamping has been released and then, before the start of the second grinding operation, a second clamping has been generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Erwin Junker Maschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventor: Erwin Junker
  • Patent number: 10576599
    Abstract: A portable rasping platform for rasping a top surface of a wall panel includes a plurality of adjustable leveling supports, a pair of support rails, and a drum rasp assembly. The drum rasp assembly includes a drum rasp, a motor coupled to the drum rasp and configured to rotate the drum rasp at a suitable speed, and a truss frame supporting the drum rasp and configured to roll along the pair of support rails. The pair of support rails are configured to be positioned on the plurality of adjustable leveling supports arranged in parallel a certain space apart, and the plurality of adjustable leveling supports are configured to support the wall panel. The drum rasp is configured to pass over and treat the top surface of the wall panel as the drum rasp assembly is displaced along the pair of support rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Baker Drywall IP Ltd.
    Inventor: Edward Keith Giddens
  • Patent number: 10576598
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a surfacing tool for repairing a sealing surface on a fitting. The surfacing tool is defined by a tool head and a tool head guide having an internal bore sized to receive the tool head. The tool head is includes a reverse flare working surface positioned at a first end thereof. A threaded element is positioned at one end of the tool head guide to threadingly receive a threaded flare fitting. The tool head being rotatable within the tool head guide while engaging and grinding the sealing surface on the fitting to a desired finish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Inventor: Richard C. Raczuk
  • Patent number: 10576601
    Abstract: An assembly for supporting the extended operation of mounted power hand tools is provided. The power tool extension apparatus extends between a baton-style handle and a depth-adjusting single wheel correlated to enable the operator to control the mounted power hand tool in a one-handed walk along manner. The alignment of the power tool extension apparatus, the mounted power tool, and the centrally disposed single wheel facilitates a wide range of selective pivotal motion of the single wheel and thus the mounted power tool about the extension apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Inventors: Omar Carambot, William Figueroa
  • Patent number: 10576610
    Abstract: A backing pad for a power tool having plate-like form and a trapezoid cross-section with a top surface, a larger bottom surface and a slanting circumferential surface connecting the top and bottom surfaces. The backing pad can be connected to a tool shaft of the tool and is adapted for receiving a polishing or sanding material on the bottom surface. The backing pad is provided with a recess and a plurality of holes and channels that creates a predefined air flow between the bottom surface of the backing pad and a working surface. At least one hole ending in an opening is located in an annular outer section of the bottom surface, the annular outer section being located opposite to the slanting circumferential surface of the backing pad. The additional hole is in connection with at least one opening located in the top surface of the backing pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Inventor: Guido Valentini
  • Patent number: 10568642
    Abstract: A bone surgery grinding experimental device capable of cooling and electrostatic atomization film formation, including a linear three-axis platform capable of moving front, back, left, right, up and down, an electric spindle and a workpiece fixing device, wherein linear three-axis platform includes an X axis structure capable of carrying out left and right movement, Y axis structure capable of carrying out front and back movement and Z axis structure capable of carrying out up and down movement, the workpiece fixing device is fixed on the Y axis structure, and electric spindle is fixed on the Z axis structure and is installed at workpiece fixing device's upper end; a grinding head is installed at the electric spindle's lower end, a grinding cooling device is arranged inside a grinding head handle or on the grinding head's surrounding, and an electrostatic atomization film formation device is arranged on the grinding head's surrounding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: QINGDAO TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Changhe Li, Min Yang, Yanbin Zhang, Runze Li, Jun Wang, Yali Hou, Yaogang Wang, Benkai Li, Guotao Liu
  • Patent number: 10569378
    Abstract: Disclosed is an automatic wheel front burr removing device, including a station rotating motor, a station I manipulator, a station II manipulator, a station III manipulator, a station IV manipulator, a rim burr cutter head, a feeding slide plate I, guide posts I, cylinders I, a servo motor I, a feeding slide plate II, guide posts II, cylinders II, a servo motor II and a vision sensor. The station I is a wheel positioning and clamping station; the station II is a wheel rim burr removing station; the station III is a wheel cap section burr removing station; and the station IV is a wheel loosening and transferring station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CITIC DICASTAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Huiying Liu, Yuexin Lu, Xinyu Bi
  • Patent number: 10569383
    Abstract: The present invention provides a chemical mechanical (CMP) polishing pad with a top surface, one or more apertures adapted to receive an endpoint detection window, an underside having a recessed portion and having one or more flanged endpoint detection windows (windows), each window having a flange adapted to fit snugly into the recessed portion of the underside of the polishing layer, the flange having a thickness slightly less than the depth of the recessed portion of the polishing layer (to allow for adhesive), having a detection area that fits snugly into an aperture in the polishing layer so that its top surface that lies substantially flush with the top surface of the polishing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials CMP Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen G. Pisklak, Jeffrey James Hendron
  • Patent number: 10564446
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for establishing the representation of the edge of a spectacle lens or of a left spectacle lens and a right spectacle lens for a spectacle wearer is disclosed. The method includes: providing image data relating to the spectacle wearer with a worn spectacle frame; calculating information data derived from the image data; calculating a deterministically optimizable cost function linking the information data with spectacle lens data, wherein the spectacle lens data describe the spatial extent of at least one spectacle lens held in the spectacle frame; and setting a curve of an edge of the spectacle lens or of the left spectacle lens and the right spectacle lens by optimizing the cost function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Carl Zeiss AG
    Inventors: Claudia Nieuwenhuis, Oliver Schwarz
  • Patent number: 10562148
    Abstract: A method of controlling processing of a substrate includes generating, based on a signal from an in-situ monitoring system, first and second sequences of characterizing values indicative of a physical property of a reference zone and a control zone, respectively, on a substrate. A reference zone rate and a control zone rate are determined from the first and sequence of characterizing values, respectively. An error value is determined by comparing characterizing values for the reference zone and control zone. An output parameter value for the control zone is generated based on at least the error value and a dynamic nominal control zone value using a proportional-integral-derivative control algorithm, and the dynamic nominal control zone value is generated in a second control loop based on at least the reference zone rate and the control zone rate. The control zone of the substrate is processed according to the output parameter value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Shih-Haur Shen, Kun Xu, Tzu-Yu Liu
  • Patent number: 10562155
    Abstract: A removable and repositionable sharpening tool angle guide for a sharpening tool comprising an angle guide body, and a fastening and detaching means, wherein angle guide body can be attached to or detached from the sharpening tool by the fastening and detaching means, wherein the angle guide body further comprises at least one guide surface, wherein the at least one guide surface of the angle guide body and the sharpening tool forms a degree between about 1 degree to about 89 degrees, and wherein the angle guide body further comprises at least one fastening surface contacted with the sharpening tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Inventor: Oleg Boutorine
  • Patent number: 10556320
    Abstract: A computerized method and apparatus for high pressure grit or sand blasting comprises an upright cabinet through which work pieces, supported by a roller conveyor, can be disposed for blasting. An elongated actuator assembly horizontally extending across the enclosure interior comprises a pair of rigid, spaced-apart, rails upon which a displaceable carriage can move. The carriage supports a sand blasting head and nozzle. An internal tape within the actuator assembly moves the carriage. Tape condition is monitored by software in response to a magnetic sender driven by the tape idler pulley and an adjacent Hall effect sensor that picks up timed pulses. The actuator assembly is braced by buffer wheel assemblies at each end, in contact with vertical guide rails at each cabinet interior end. The hose-fed sand blasting head secured to the carriage directs sand or towards a target work piece be processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Inventor: James T. Carnathan
  • Patent number: 10556326
    Abstract: A clamp for a T-slotted structural element can be positioned anywhere along the T-slot. A housing and stop are opposingly attached to the structural member, and a horizontal shaft is engaged with the housing. A fixing pin is inserted through a vertical hole in the housing and attached to a slot key that is inserted in the T-slot. Actuating a lever or handle applies an upward force on the fixing pin, pressing the key against the top of the T-slot and fixing the housing in place. In embodiments, the stop can be repositioned to any of a plurality of locations along the T-slot. In certain embodiments, the stop and housing can be placed on different surfaces of the structural member. In various embodiments, the stop and/or housing are constructed with different slot profiles that match their respective T-slotted structural elements. In embodiments, the housing is rotatable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Voytas Inc
    Inventor: Michael T. Kelly
  • Patent number: 10556271
    Abstract: A jig and tool are provided for rotating the tool around a pipe or pipeline, for truing the pipe end. An operator can easily installation the jig into the pipe end, with or without the cutting tool installed thereto. The tool can be manually or motor driven for rotation about the jig and the pipe end. The attachment of the tool to the jig enables alignment of the tool's cutting face with the pipe end, with angular and axial adjustment available for obtaining a profile suitable for welding to like pipe ends. In an embodiment, the tool can track the pipe diameter to retain alignment despite out-of-round dimensional variation. The tool is operated and rotated about the pipe end to remove material and, as necessary, the tool is adjusted into the pipe end and the rotation about the pipe end is repeated for incremental removal of material therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Inventor: Gregg Richard Bruinsma
  • Patent number: 10549401
    Abstract: A method of shaping a laminated glass structure comprising a flexible glass sheet having a thickness of no greater than about 0.3 mm laminated to a non-glass substrate by an adhesive layer is provided. The method includes cutting the laminated glass structure with an abrasive cutting jet including a pressurized cutting fluid and abrasive particles thereby forming a shaped laminated glass structure. A glass edge strength of a cut edge of the shaped laminated glass structure is at least about 20 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Dominick John Forenz, Mark Lee Humphrey, Walter Jay McKendrick, Michael William Price, Gregg Lee Shugars
  • Patent number: 10543576
    Abstract: A glass substrate support system includes a first and second vacuum members extending lengthwise in a glass substrate feed direction along opposing edges of a flexible glass substrate. Each vacuum member has a vacuum body including a pressure chamber located therein and a support surface having a vacuum opening extending therethrough and in communication with the pressure chamber. A support rod assembly is provided that includes a plurality of support rods located between the first second vacuum members in the glass substrate feed direction. The support rod assembly has an out-of-plane configuration that supports the flexible glass substrate in a downward arc orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Yousef Kayed Qaroush, Shai Negev Shafrir
  • Patent number: 10544598
    Abstract: An apparatus for grinding a concrete floor surface, in order to perform grinding with a manual, a pullable or a ride-on concrete trowel machine is provided. The apparatus comprises a concrete trowel organ to be used with the concrete trowel machine and a diamond grinding arrangement, such as one or several diamond disks or like, to be coupled in connection with the concrete trowel organ removably by means of a fastening arrangement. The fastening arrangement for coupling the diamond grinding arrangement in connection with the concrete trowel organ comprises a fastening frame, being in connection with the diamond grinding arrangement that exits on a scrubbing surface of the concrete trowel organ, and a fastening part extending from the fastening frame and, while going through the concrete trowel organ, getting supported against a back surface of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Inventor: Mika Ahonen
  • Patent number: 10518387
    Abstract: A grinding element mounted on a grinding wheel and a grinding wheel containing the same are provided for grinding. The grinding element includes a grinding tooth, and the grinding tooth includes a grinding material having a framework structure and pores distributed in the framework structure. The framework structure includes a bond material and abrasive particles that are bonded by the bond material. A pore size of the pores is larger than 40 microns but smaller than 70 microns. A manufacturing method for semiconductor packages using the same is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi-Chao Mao, Chin-Chuan Chang, Jing-Cheng Lin, Wen-Hua Chang