Patents Examined by Homer Boyer
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Patent number: 8522586Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a sheet metal component. A hot or cold strip is electrolytically coated or coated in a smelting bath and the thus coated hot or cold strip is subjected to a flexible rolling process. During said process, sheet metal having various thicknesses of the flexibly rolled steel strips are produced due to various rolling pressures. Said invention is characterized in that in accordance with the thickness of the sheet metal after being rolled in a flexible manner or in accordance with the rolling pressure during flexible rolling, either the coating whilst being coated has various thicknesses, and in accordance with the rolling pressure with increasing rolling pressure that is expected, the thickness of the coating is thicker and/or the coating prior to or after the flexible rolling is subjected to a mechanical or chemical surface treatment for adjusting the desired emissivity or heat absorption capacity.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2008Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Voestalpine Stahl GmbHInventor: Josef Faderl
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Patent number: 8516867Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus comprises a final stand, with standing side members, and a cooling apparatus. The cooling apparatus comprises rows of upper surface cooling nozzles, rows of lower surface cooling nozzles, and an upper surface guide on the upper surface side of the steel sheet. An end portion of the cooling apparatus on a side of the final stand is arranged between the standing side members of the housing. When defining a width of a uniformly cooled region, an average gap distance (Wsw) between the end portion of the width of the uniformly cooled region and the standing side member of the housing; a gravity acceleration rate, an average water volume density of the width of the uniformly cooled region, and a value determined by Wsw and an average distance h between the upper surface guide and the upper surface of the steel sheet, a specific relation is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal CorporationInventors: Tomofumi Hosho, Yoichi Haraguchi, Kazuaki Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8516874Abstract: A stamping tool for forming a stamped metal panel used as part of a pillar of a motor vehicle is provided. The stamped metal panel is arcuate and has a u-shaped cross-section, the arcuate panel including a transitional portion so as to avoid a die lock condition. The tool includes an upper die, and a lower die, and transitional portion surfaces. The transitional portion surfaces tapers as the transitional portion surface extends from the ends of respective upper and lower dies to a first point. The transitional portion is substantially tangential with at least the first wall surfaces of the dies to facilitate removal of the panel from between upper and lower dies of a stamping tool.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2010Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Jaime Nicole Moore, Stuart W. Bailey, Nobiaki Kitaura
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Patent number: 8511135Abstract: A bending apparatus for manufacturing a bent member from a steel pipe with high dimensional accuracy and high productivity can be installed in a small space with good maintainability. The apparatus has a feed mechanism for feeding a steel pipe in its lengthwise direction, a first support mechanism for supporting the steel pipe while feeding it, a heating mechanism for heating a part or all of the steel pipe being fed, a cooling mechanism for cooling the portion of the heated steel pipe being fed, a second support mechanism for imparting a bending moment to the heated portion of the steel pipe to bend the steel pipe into a desired shape by moving two-dimensionally or three-dimensionally while supporting the fed steel pipe in at least one location, and a deformation preventing mechanism for preventing deformation of the steel pipe. The feed mechanism is a vertically articulated robot having seven axes.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2011Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignees: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation, Sumitomo Pipe & Tube Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinjiro Kuwayama, Atsushi Tomizawa, Saburo Inoue
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Patent number: 8499604Abstract: A duct making apparatus bends a metal web to form a duct blank having a lock tab at a forward end and having a Z-fold at a rearward end. Prior to shearing off the duct blank from the metal web, the apparatus bends the duct blank to insert the lock tab into the Z-fold, and further bends the Z-fold to form a clinch tab holding the lock tab into the Z-fold. After shearing off the duct blank from the metal web, the apparatus clinches the clinch tab over the lock tab to form a completed duct blank.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2009Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Mestek Machinery, Inc.Inventors: Michael C. Borwig, John R. Welty
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Patent number: 8485012Abstract: A cold rolling method for manufacturing a profile (16) from a one-piece rolling stock in form of initial material (6; 56) with a plurality of rolls (26, 36, 46; 6, 76, 86) each having a deforming region (28, 38, 48; 68, 78, 88) for deforming the initial material (6; 56) includes bending the initial material (6; 56) with formation at least one folded section (8) extending in a rolling direction of the initial material (6; 56), and deforming the initial material (6; 56) in its width direction with reduction of its thickness at least in one region.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Fritz Hermann, Juergen Gebhard, Christoph Wiedner, Erwin Karle, Frank Bertram, Frank Jackel
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Patent number: 8459076Abstract: A device for producing at least partly closed profiles from a blank includes at least one first die and at least one second die which can be positioned opposite the first die. The first die has a cavity and two side walls, wherein the side walls and the cavity of the first die can be raised and lowered relative to one another. A U-punch is provided to produce a U-shaped cross-sectional shape of the blank with the first die. The second die of the device has a cavity for producing an at least partly closed cross-sectional shape from a U-shaped blank. The device also has at least one supporting core. The cavity of the second die has elongated side walls in the direction of the first die, with which, the side walls of the first die can be lowered relative to the cavity of the first die.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AGInventors: Thomas Flehmig, Michael Brüggenbrock
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Patent number: 8459085Abstract: A tubular workpiece with a throughgoing bore is held by a handler having a passage alignable with the bore and of a predetermined inside passage diameter. A rod carrying a mandrel and of an outside rod diameter is provided with a guide having an outside guide diameter slightly smaller than the inside passage diameter but greater than the outside rod diameter The passage is aligned by the handler with the workpiece bore and the mandrel is inserted through the handler passage into the workpiece bore while sliding the guide along the passage and centering the rod in the passage with the guide out of contact with an inner surface of the passage. The workpiece is externally engage around the mandrel with forging tools and thereby forged around the mandrel.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: SMS Meer GmbHInventors: Uwe Muschalik, Klaus Steingiesser
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Patent number: 8438893Abstract: A two-dimensional sheet material is provided that is suitable for bending along a bend line to form a three-dimensional object. The sheet material is provided with a plurality of displacements in a thickness direction of the sheet material on one side of the bend line. A portion of the displacements shear adjacent the bend line and define an edge and an opposed face. The edge and opposed face configured to produce edge-to-face engagement of the sheet material during bending. Alternatively, sheet material is provided with a plurality of displacements in a thickness direction of the sheet material on one or both sides of the bend line, and with a plurality of corresponding and cooperating protrusions to improve structural integrity and/or to improve electromagnetic and radio frequency shielding. The sheet material may also be provided with a self-latching structure. A method of preparing and using these sheet materials is also described.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Industrial Origami, Inc.Inventors: Max W. Durney, Radha Vaidyanathan, Ryan Lam
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Patent number: 8438891Abstract: The invention deals with a rolling mill (1) for metallic products comprising at least one pair of work rolls and at least one cooling device (2) projecting a plurality of cooling jets under pressure on at least one work roll, the cooling device projecting also at least one scraper jet between the cooling jets and the metallic product to be rolled, the scraper jets being oriented in the desired flow direction following a re-entrant angle towards the perpendicular to the surface of the work roll, as well as with a rolling process using said rolling mill (1).Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2008Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: ArcelorMittal FranceInventors: Dirk Vanderschueren, Patrick Van Poecke
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Patent number: 8438892Abstract: A stem slide apparatus comprises a stem slide base (73) with a stem (6) horizontally mounted thereon to press a billet (B) mounted on a container (5), a slide guide member (72, 72a, 72b) mounted on a vertical stem move support member (71) and formed with guide grooves in which the side end portions of the stem slide base are fitted and vertically slid, and a lock means (77a, 77b) arranged on the slide guide member to press the side end portions of the stem slide base. The stem slide apparatus further comprises a drive mechanism (10) having an electric motor (11) to move the slide base in the sliding direction. Therefore the indirect cause of a fire is removed and the maintenance work simplified.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2007Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Ube Machinery Corporation, Ltd.Inventors: Takeharu Yamamoto, Yasuo Katoh
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Patent number: 8429946Abstract: A press-working apparatus capable of forming a clear character line. The press-working apparatus forms a product having a character line. The press-working apparatus comprises an upper die and a lower die arranged across a steel sheet, an upper die mechanism for moving the upper die toward and away from the lower die, a first holder and a second holder for clamping the steel sheet and applying an unwrinkling force to the same, and a control unit for controlling the upper die mechanism and the first holder. The upper die is divided on the character line of the product into a first upper die and a second upper die. The control unit makes the unwrinkling force by the first holder stronger than that by the second holder, so that the steel sheet is press-worked by the second upper die and then by the first upper die.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2007Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shingo Maeda, Hideo Meguri, Seiji Takahashi, Yuichi Nagai
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Patent number: 8424360Abstract: A hydraulic cylinder is provided which allows for a mount plate, or the like, to be moved between three positions. The mount plate can be positively positioned in any one of three different positions by appropriately supplying or removing pressurized hydraulic fluid to hydraulic fluid ports on the cylinder. The provision of appropriate positive stops corresponding to each desired position avoids the necessity for complex and/or expensive hydraulic control mechanisms. The cylinder is believed to be particularly suited for performing piercing operations, involving a negative pierce, in hydro-forming operations.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2009Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Magna International Inc.Inventor: Chris E. Peters
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Patent number: 8413477Abstract: A calibration tool for fabricating disk springs. The tool includes a circular cylindrical tool body having an insertion bevel at its face end portion for receiving and centering a workpiece within an inner circumferential enveloping surface of the tool body. A tool surface at the inner circumferential enveloping surface aligns the workpiece relative to a forming tool disposed within the inner circumferential enveloping surface. The tool surface includes a first portion having an inner diameter that increases in size along the axial longitudinal direction of the tool body, and a second portion with an inner diameter that decreases in size along the axial longitudinal direction of the tool body.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Fabian Bauer, Dianne Shelly, Kunding Wang
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Patent number: 8393194Abstract: The invention relates to a crimping tool (1) having crimp indentors and a through-opening for the introduction of a cable end which is to be crimped, introduction of the cable end being limited by an adjustable stop part (2) which is fixedly connected to the crimping tool (1), but is preferably operationally releasable, furthermore, the stop part (2) having different stop pins (3) which can be selectively activated by being pushed down and, if a different stop pin (3) is selected, the activated stop pin (3), which is biased into its non-activated position, having to be released from the stop position. In order to provide a crimping tool with a stop part for which there is advantageous adjustment from one activated stop pin to another activated stop pin, it is proposed that the activated stop pin (3) is retained by a spring latching means formed by a retaining spring (6), and the spring latching means can be deactivated by a release movement of the stop part (2).Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2009Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Rennsteig Werkzeuge GmbHInventors: Horst Nothnagel, Gerhard Koenig, Michael Brueckner, Thomas Wagner
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Patent number: 8375755Abstract: The invention provides a metal working fluid composition which comprises a morpholine compound and an isothiazoline compound and a metal working method which makes use of the metal working fluid composition. The composition is excellent in antiseptic properties, and can widely be applied to metal working techniques such as cutting, grinding, form rolling, press working and plastic working techniques.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2008Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Kyodo Yushi Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Goto, Yuji Aizawa, Satoshi Mima
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Patent number: 8342001Abstract: A power operated crimping/cutting tool driven by any type of impact wrench, with a crimping or cutting working head, includes a transmission unit, a connection unit, a process indication device and an adjustment device, wherein the transmission unit includes a jaw device and a transmission device, the jaw device is detachable, both the process indication device and the adjustment device are mounted on the transmission unit, the connection unit is sleevedly mounted at the impact wrench. The present invention can replace the jaw device according to different requirements.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Link-Tech (Tianjin) Metal Products Co., Ltd.Inventor: Lei Zhang
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Patent number: 8336363Abstract: A device to grip and handle a metal container, obtained as an extruded, deep-drawn or deep-drawn/ironed metal rough piece, especially suitable for use on high-speed machines intended to perform, in a sequence, a plurality of mechanical working operations or other sort of working on the metal container, and including a first or lower portion that is fit to interface-connect the device to the machine both at the working stage and at the transfer stage of the high-speed machine from one working station to the one coming next, and a second or upper portion that is adapted for firmly gripping the metal container during the handling and the entire working sequence of working operations.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2007Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Frattini S.p.A. Costruzioni MeccanicheInventor: Roberto Frattini
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Patent number: 8333092Abstract: A plug 2 used for a piercer according to the invention includes a tip end portion 23, a cylindrical portion 24, a barrel portion 25, a mandrel coupling portion 22, and an injection hole 21. The injection hole 21 penetrates from the surface of the cylindrical portion 24 to the surface of the mandrel coupling portion 22 and an externally supplied lubricant is injected from the hole. A clearance forms between the pierced material and the cylindrical portion 24. The injection hole 21 is formed at the cylindrical portion 24, and therefore the material in the process of piercing does not contact the injection hole 21. Therefore, an inner surface defect attributable to the contact between the material and the injection hole 21 can be prevented from being generated.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2006Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimoda, Tomio Yamakawa
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Patent number: 8333100Abstract: A press machine able to press-work a strip-shaped material during which it can prevent the strip-shaped material from moving or warping or can prevent the strip-shaped material from partially cracking and a processing method using that press machine. A multi-process press machine provided with a drive source M, a camshaft 1 driven by the drive source M and having a plurality of independent first cams 1a, 1b, and 1c and second cams 1h, 1i, and 1j, a plurality of die sets each comprised of a pair of a punch 2 and a die 3 connected with the first cam, a material holding member 7 pressing the strip-shaped material W against the die 3 when connecting with and pressing the second cam, and a base 5 supporting the dies.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Kengo Takeshita, Takeshi Kurosawa, Nobuyuki Morikawa