Patents Examined by George Nguyen
  • Method for compensating temperature-induced deviations in a grinding machine and machine being equipped corresondingly
    Patent number: 9757840
    Abstract: Method for compensating temperature-induced deviations in a grinding machine includes controlling the movements of the dressing tool relative to the grinding tool in order to relatively move the dressing tool towards the grinding tool; checking whether a first-cut detection signalizes a contact of the grinding tool and the dressing tool; repeating the controlling and checking steps until a contact between the grinding tool and the dressing tool is detected, and when the contact is detected, then (i) recording the Current Position, and (ii) carrying out a compensation calculation using the Current Position and a reference position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: KLINGELNBERG AG
    Inventor: Karl-Martin Ribbeck
  • Polymer impregnated backing material, abrasive articles incorporating same, and processes of making and using
    Patent number: 9751192
    Abstract: This invention relates to composite backing materials (e.g., polymer impregnated nonwoven fabrics) and coated abrasive articles that include such composite backing materials. This invention also relates to methods of making and using said composite backing materials and coated abrasive articles. The claimed processes and systems related to the use and manufacturing of coated abrasive articles are improved and cost effective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignees: SAINT-GOBAIN ABRASIVES, INC., SAINT-GOBAIN ABRASIFS
    Inventors: Muthukrishnan Sharmila, Adiseshaiah K. Sathyanarayanaiah, Frank J. Csillag, Srikant Gollapudi, Gururajan Balasubramaniam, Dibbur Narasimha Murthy Rao Manjunatha, Akhilesan Sasidharan, Akshay Ramesh, Shyam Prasad Komath, VelliamKattupudur Samiappan Naveen
  • Systems and methods for finishing flow elements
    Patent number: 9751187
    Abstract: Systems and methods for finish portions of parts for gas turbine engines are provided. More specifically, systems and methods for finishing flow elements (e.g., stator vanes and turbine blades) or gas turbine engines are provided. The systems and methods may employ grit blasting, fluidic machining, and/or super polishing. Moreover, the flow elements may be inspected and/or evaluated between the one or more processing steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Micah Beckman, Osamuyimen A. Oyegun
  • Assembly having a handheld power tool and a roughing disk
    Patent number: 9751185
    Abstract: An assembly includes a handheld power tool. The handheld power tool comprises a housing, a drive shaft mounted at the housing via a bearing, a drive unit to drive the drive shaft, handles which are fixedly attached to the housing, a fastening device to fasten a roughing disk to the drive shaft, a first sensor to measure a power consumption value or an acceleration sensor to measure positional change information, an evaluating unit to evaluate the power consumption value sensed or the positional change information produced so as to produce an evaluation result, and an outputting device to output the evaluation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: RHODIUS SCHLEIFWERKZEUGE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Mike C. Wolf, Gerald Lichter
  • Method, tool and device for profiling a finishing tool
    Patent number: 9751141
    Abstract: Method for profiling a finishing tool, in particular a grinding worm, having a first and a second finishing flank; the method providing the steps of: arranging a cutting portion of a profiling tool in contact with the first flank of the thread; causing the cutting portion to slide in contact with the first flank of the thread so as to profile it; removing the cutting portion from the thread; automatically rotating the profiling tool so as to arrange the cutting portion in contact with a second flank of the thread; and causing the cutting portion to slide in contact with the second flank of the thread so as to profile it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SAMP S.P.A. CON UNICO SOCIO
    Inventor: Enrico Landi
  • Semiconductor manufacturing apparatus and manufacturing method of semiconductor device
    Patent number: 9748090
    Abstract: A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first cleaner and a second cleaner. The first cleaner polishes a semiconductor substrate or a polishing target material on the semiconductor substrate with an abrasive and then cleans a top face of the semiconductor substrate or of the polishing target material while the semiconductor substrate is rotated. The second cleaner rubs an end portion of the semiconductor substrate with a physical contact according to rotation of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Hirasawa, Dai Fukushima
  • Hose tool
    Patent number: 9744655
    Abstract: Embodiments of the Hose Tool are comprised of head assembly and handle assembly. The head assembly is comprised of a hose tab guide, a plurality of hose dogs, a plunger bar rack, and a hose tab guide sleeve. The handle assembly is comprised of a chassis, plunger bar rack, two handle pinons, a spring, two hinged handles, two bolts, a pivot pin, a guide bolt, two latch pins, and latch pin spring. The two hinged handles are attached to the two handle pinons via two bolts; held open by two latch pins being pressed into slot in two handles pinons by a latch pin spring. Depressing the two latch pins allows two hinged handles to swing alongside hose tool for storage. The two halves of two handle pinons are separated, timed and engaged within the plunger bar rack; then inserted into chassis and secured with pivot pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Hose Tool, LLC
    Inventors: Gary Lewis Trimpe, Kyle James Eckhardt
  • Corrosion resistant retaining rings
    Patent number: 9744640
    Abstract: Implementations described herein protect a retaining ring for a polishing system from corrosive polishing chemistries. In one embodiment, a retaining ring has a ring-shaped body having a top surface, an inside diameter sidewall, an outer diameter sidewall and a bottom surface. The inside diameter side wall is configured to circumscribe a substrate. The ring shaped body has a rigid ring-shaped portion, a polymeric ring-shaped portion stacked on the rigid ring-shaped portion and covering at least three sides of the rigid ring-shaped portion, a plurality of grooves formed in the bottom surface, and a plurality of wash ports formed through the polymeric ring-shaped portion, wherein the wash ports are isolated from the rigid ring-shaped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Gangadhar Sheelavant, Simon Yavelberg, Yongqi Hu
  • Pressing device for pressing a finishing belt against a workpiece surface
    Patent number: 9744639
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pressing device for pressing a finishing belt against a workpiece surface, including a pressure belt and a pressure belt carrier which supports the pressure belt at two mutually spaced-apart support points, wherein the pressure belt is fastened releasably to the pressure belt carrier, wherein, in order to fix in each case one pressure belt end, provision is made of a fixing device that is provided separately from the pressure belt carrier, and wherein the fixing device is fastened or fastenable releasably to the pressure belt carrier in a state in which one pressure belt end is fixed to the fixing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: SUPFINA GRIESHABER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Hildebrandt, Simon Wolber, Michael Woehrle
  • Vibratory mass media fixture with tip protector
    Patent number: 9737970
    Abstract: A fixture assembly includes a frame with a tip rail displaced from a main body. A method of polishing a gas turbine engine component includes restricting a flow of media adjacent to a tip of a component with an airfoil to be generally equal to a flow of media adjacent to a sidewall of the airfoil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Micah Beckman, David K. Masiukiewicz
  • Systems and methods for cutting concrete piles
    Patent number: 9739026
    Abstract: Systems and methods for cutting piles wherein, for example, a pile cutting device is attached to the end of an articulated arm of an excavator, the pile cutting device having a set of grasping arms that hold the pile and a set of saw blades that are linearly advanced to cut the pile in a single stroke. The saw blades are offset so that the cutting paths of the blades overlap. The saw blades may be positioned at the ends of telescoping arms that are coupled to a linearly movable frame. A single hydraulic unit moves the frame along a central rail. The frame is coupled to one or more cables and pulleys so that the travel of the telescopic arms is twice that of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Inventor: J. Dustin Butler
  • Component for establishing a form-locking riveted connection of a tool
    Patent number: 9737969
    Abstract: An electric power tool is disclosed. In an embodiment, the electric power tool includes a tool, a tool holder part and a main body with a plurality of rivets integrated with the main body. The rivets include rivet shafts of a cross section for producing a positive-locking rivet joint of the tool with the tool holder part, wherein the tool and the tool holder part have circular openings which are aligned with each other, and wherein the rivet shafts are positioned aligned with the openings on the main body and protrude through the aligned openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: C. & E. Fein GmbH
    Inventors: Fabian Bek, Markus Knecht, Thomas Weber, Rainer Mann
  • Polishing pad
    Patent number: 9737972
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a polishing pad that hardly generates scratches on a surface of a subject to be polished. This polishing pad is characterized in that: the polishing pad is provided with a polishing layer having a polishing region and a light-transmitting region; the light-transmitting region includes a surface layer positioned on the pad surface side, and at least one soft layer laminated under the surface layer, and the soft layer has a hardness lower than that of the surface layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: ROHM AND HAAS ELECTRONIC MATERIALS CMP HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventor: Kenji Nakamura
  • Ergonomic manhole cover lifting tool, system, method, and apparatus
    Patent number: 9738502
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a tool, system of tools, or method of utilizing tools to quickly, safely, ergonomically and effectively lift any number of objects including but not limited to manhole covers and car tires. The user is aided by the tool containing any number of picks that may be directionally adjusted, manually or automatically, latches to connect the tool to attachments (such as tripods, power lifting belts, vehicles, and other tools), additional support handle bars located at or about the center of gravity which may be adjusted from one location to another to guide the body into a lifting posture to reduce back strain and accident potential, pre-molded or moldable sections on the tool or its handlebars to aid the user in gripping the tool, a gyroscope and other features for making the jobs of utility workers and service workers safer, more efficient, and easier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: D.C. Water & Sewer Authority
    Inventors: Wade L. Brooks, James Lowell Ramsey Clarke
  • Chemical mechanical polishing pad, polishing layer analyzer and method
    Patent number: 9737971
    Abstract: A chemical mechanical polishing pad, polishing layer analyzer is provided, wherein the analyzer is configured to detect macro inhomogeneities is polymeric sheets and to classify the polymeric sheets as either acceptable or suspect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignees: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials CMP Holdings, Inc., Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Francis V. Acholla, Andrew Wank, Mark Gazze, Scott Chang, Jeff Tsai, William A. Heeschen, James David Tate, Leo H. Chiang, Swee-Teng Chin
  • Gear or profile grinding machine and method for the operation of such a machine
    Patent number: 9731367
    Abstract: A gear or profile grinding machine and a method for operating such a machine, especially for grinding of pre-geared or pre-profiled workpieces, wherein the machine includes at least one tool spindle which can receive at least one grinding tool, and at least one workpiece spindle which is movably arranged at a carrier element and which can be driven up to the tool spindle for an at least temporary cooperation of the workpiece with the grinding tool by at least one drive. To enhance the precision of the machine at growing workpieces with simple measures, at least one mass is arranged at or in the carrier element, which is arranged movable at or on a guiding element by a drive element, wherein the mass is permanently free from any contact with another machine part and/or workpiece part and/or tool part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignees: KAPP WERKZEUGMASCHINEN GMBH, NILES WERKZEUGMASCHINEN GMBH
    Inventors: Achim Stegner, Sven Thierfelder, Andreas Wellein
  • Hand operated power tool
    Patent number: 9731412
    Abstract: A hand operated power tool comprising a housing with a motor and a working element performing an actuating movement if the tool is actuated. The motor is adapted to actuate a tool shaft in order to make it perform a rotational movement. A carrier element is functionally located between the tool shaft actuated by the motor and the working element for translating the rotational movement of the tool shaft into the actuating movement of the working element. In order to provide for a power tool, which allows perfect working of a workpiece with different types of actuating movements and/or working elements, it is suggested that the working element and the carrier element make part of a functional unit constituting a unit separate of the rest of the tool, wherein the functional unit is detachably fixed to the rest of the tool, in particular to the tool shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Inventor: Guido Valentini
  • T-post puller
    Patent number: 9732541
    Abstract: A fence post removal device is provided which provides a simple mechanical device to allow a person to remove a fence post from an installed position within the ground. The device allows the person to sit atop a machine like a tractor or front loader, position the device over an exposed end of the fence post, and lower the device such that an internal guide causes the device to self-align with the top of a fence post which passes through the device a specific distance before coming into contact with a bumper which prevents the device from dropping too close to the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Hoovler Innovations, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey Alan Hoovler
  • Tilted angle abrasive belt sharpener
    Patent number: 9731395
    Abstract: A sharpener for sharpening a cutting tool having a blade portion with a cutting edge, such as but not limited to a kitchen knife. In some embodiments, the sharpener has first and second rollers, with the first roller rotatable about a first roller axis and the second roller rotatable about a second roller axis parallel to the first roller axis. An endless abrasive belt is arranged along a belt path that passes over the first and second rollers to define a planar segment that lies along a neutral plane from the first roller to the second roller. A guide assembly adjacent the planar segment of the belt is configured to contactingly engage the cutting edge of the cutting tool and apply a non-uniform surface pressure to a side of the cutting tool adjacent the cutting edge across a width of the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Darex, LLC
    Inventor: Daniel T. Dovel
  • Cover for component of polishing apparatus, component of polishing apparatus, and polishing apparatus
    Patent number: 9724798
    Abstract: There is provided a cover to which a polishing liquid is less likely to stick and solidify. The cover for a component of a polishing apparatus for polishing substrates is provided with a locking mechanism disposed inside the cover and configured to latch together a main body of the component and the cover. An external surface of the cover exposed to the outside has no recessed portion, and has no horizontal plane, except on the top portion of the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Shinkai, Tadakazu Sone, Hideo Aizawa, Hiroshi Aono