Patents Examined by Joseph J. Hail
  • Patent number: 11534897
    Abstract: A modular tool bit holder system includes an angle tool bit holder, and a flexible shaft tool bit holder. The angle tool bit holder includes a housing containing a first input shaft, a first angle gear rotatably drivable about a first axis, a second angle gear, and a first bit holder rotatably drivable by the first angle gear about a second axis at an angle to the first axis. The flexible shaft tool bit holder includes a second input shaft, a flexible intermediate shaft rotatably drivable by the second input shaft, and a second tool bit holder rotatably drivable by the flexible intermediate shaft. The angle tool bit holder and the flexible shaft tool bit holder are operable separately or in combination. A connection assembly is configured to non-rotatably couple the angle tool bit holder and the flexible shaft tool bit holder when they are operable in combination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas R. Kaye, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11534889
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polishing pad for a wafer polishing apparatus, comprising: an upper pad having a front surface part, which has a cut surface and is in contact with a wafer, a rear surface part positioned on the lower part of the front surface part, and a plurality of grid grooves passing through the front surface part and the rear surface part; a lower pad, which is arranged on the lower part of the upper pad and can be attached to a surface plate; and an adhesion part positioned between the upper pad and the lower pad to couple the upper pad with the lower pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SK SILTRON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jin Woo Ahn
  • Patent number: 11534894
    Abstract: A socket assembly may include a fastener socket and a contact member. The contact member may extend through a window formed in the fastener socket in a first direction to engage a fastener head and lock the socket assembly to the fastener head in a locked position. The contact member may also retract at least partially into the window in a second direction to disengage the contact member from the fastener head and unlock the socket assembly from the fastener head in an unlocked position. A threaded actuator may be rotated to transform the socket assembly between the locked position and the unlocked position. The contact member may comprise a tang having first and second tang projections configured to engage first and second surfaces of the fastener head and lock the socket assembly to the fastener head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: THE REACTION WASHER COMPANY LLC
    Inventor: John D. Davis
  • Patent number: 11534896
    Abstract: The invention aims to provide a rotation tool enabling work without obstructing a view of an operator and facilitating fine-adjustment for the tool. A rotation tool includes a flexible shaft including a tool portion at one end and a grip portion at the other end; and a cylindrical exterior body including curved portion on at least a part thereof, wherein a spiral protrusion is formed on at least a part of the shaft and a spiral groove is formed on at least a part of the curved portion, and the shaft is configured to be movable inside the exterior body by screwing the spiral protrusion and the spiral groove to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO INSTRUMENTS INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Suzuki, Jun Shinohara
  • Patent number: 11534898
    Abstract: A torque wrench has a hollow tubular body. A long rod and a short rod are provided in the hollow tubular body. The hollow tubular body is formed with a first through hole and a second through hole respectively corresponding to the long rod and the short rod. A first limiting unit is provided in the first through hole, and a second limiting unit is provided in the second through hole. The first limiting unit enables to slide into a first gap spaced apart between the long rod and the hollow tubular body to limit the swing range of the long rod, and the second limiting unit enables to slide into a second gap spaced apart between the short rod and the hollow tubular body to limit the swing range of the short rod, thereby improving the accuracy of the tripping torque and making the torque wrench easy to calibrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TORQUE-TECH PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tien-Lung Lin
  • Patent number: 11530726
    Abstract: A robot cleaner having a fan brake device is provided, which includes a main cleaner body having an accommodating slot used to contain a dust box and a fan, and at least one brake device is disposed inside the accommodating slot. The brake device is disposed at a notch on the bottom of the dust box for the fan to be inserted into, and under the junction line between the notch and the bottom edge of the dust box. Therefore, when the dust box is taken off from the main cleaner body, the flexible element of the brake device can press a soft stopper upward and then the soft stopper presses against the bottom of the fan blade of the fan to stop the fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventor: Jason Yan
  • Patent number: 11529033
    Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus has a housing defining at least part of a cyclone chamber and a pre-motor filter chamber. In one embodiment, the housing is pivotally mounted to the main body of a hand vacuum cleaner. The housing is moveable between an in use position and an emptying position, in which the cyclone chamber and the pre-motor filter are concurrently openable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 11529035
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner separation system having: a cyclone tube having a cyclone chamber and an inner wall having a substantially cylindrical appearance defining a center axis; an inlet channel offset with respect to the center axis for receiving dust laden air; a dust outlet for discharging dust from the cyclone tube; an air outlet for discharging air from the cyclone tube; and a helical member arranged within the cyclone tube in an opposite region of the cyclone tube with respect to the air outlet. The helical member defines or partly defines a helical passage around the center axis from the inlet channel to the cyclone chamber for generating a centrifugal flow in the cyclone chamber. The helical passage has a substantially constant cross sectional area and the helical passage is rotated 360° or less than 360° around the center axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventors: Jens Leffler, Johan Spång
  • Patent number: 11530624
    Abstract: A tool holds and axially fixes a high-pressure shaft of an aircraft engine in a state where a high-pressure turbine stage is demounted. The tool includes: a shaft end cap having an inner radius, which is adapted to a predetermined shaft diameter, the shaft end cap plugs onto a turbine-side end of the high-pressure shaft; a shaft end cap receptacle receives the shaft end cap in a radially movable manner and in an axially limited manner in a first direction; a connector is fastenable to the shaft end cap receptacle and has a shank, which is insertable into the high-pressure shaft, the connector being configured to axially secure the shaft end cap receptacle; and a spring element, which is positionally fixed with respect to the shaft end cap receptacle, the spring element being configured to apply a predetermined spring force to the shaft end cap in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: LUFTHANSA TECHNIK AG
    Inventors: Jan Sassmannshausen, Eugen Roppelt
  • Patent number: 11529723
    Abstract: A bushing installation tool having a plurality of spacer rods with first and second ends and a pressure plate mounted to the first ends of the spacer rods. A first base includes portions configured to engage an end of a cylindrical bushing and to restrain radial expansion of a cylindrical bushing received. The bushing installation tool has a first stage in which the first base being releasably engage with the second ends of the spacer rods. A second base including portions configured to engage the end of the cylindrical bushing and to permit radial expansion of the cylindrical bushing engaged therewith. The second base also including portions configured to releasably engage the second ends of the spacer rods and being alternatively interchangeable with the first base. The bushing installation tool includes a second stage in which the second base is releasably engaged with the second ends of the spacer rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventor: Jeremey Taylor
  • Patent number: 11524391
    Abstract: A clamp device has first and second jaws movable relative to one another for clamping an object therebetween. A clamp sensor operatively connected to one of the jaws generates a clamping signal representative of a clamping force urging the first and second jaws towards one another. A display is arranged to display a value proportional to the clamping signal which is representative of the clamping force between the first and second jaws. A motor for driving movement of the second jaw relative to the first jaw is operated by a controller that responds to operator commands in a manual control mode and/or which automatically drives the motor so as to maintain the clamping signal measured by the clamp sensor within a prescribed threshold range to apply a constant clamping force between the first and second jaws under an automated control mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventor: Tory Weber
  • Patent number: 11524378
    Abstract: To provide a dust collection deburring apparatus which is capable of performing efficient and preferable debarring work and which is capable of, even in the case of handing a large workpiece, performing preferable deburring work by placing the workpiece together with a pallet on a work table by a forklift. A dust collection deburring apparatus A includes a work table apparatus configured to allow a product together with a pallet to be placed on and allow a worker to perform deburring work, a chip antiscattering apparatus arranged so as to surround the work table apparatus and configured to prevent scattering of chips, and a chip suction collection apparatus including a dust collecting device configured to suck air from an internal space surrounded by the chip antiscattering apparatus to suck the chips generated in the deburring work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenta Nomura
  • Patent number: 11517996
    Abstract: A polishing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a polishing pad including a polishing surface for polishing a polishing target object and a membrane including a contact surface that is in contact with the polishing target object on the opposite side of the polishing surface. The contact surface is deformed from a flat surface into an uneven surface in response to pressure applied to the membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Takagi
  • Patent number: 11517995
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wet chemical heating system, including a first conduit for transporting wet chemical, a dispensing head connected to the first conduit, and a radiative heating element configured to heat the wet chemical in the first conduit and positioned at an upper stream of the dispensing head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Ji James Cui, Chia-Hsun Chang, Chih Hung Chen, Liang-Guang Chen, Tzu Kai Lin, Chyi Shyuan Chern, Keith Kuang-Kuo Koai
  • Patent number: 11518010
    Abstract: A setting torque tool to tighten a screw or a similar fastener to a target torque is disclosed. The torque tool comprises a main body with a housing and a drive shaft, which is firmly attached to the housing to transfer a torque. The drive shaft has a connection area, to which a drive can be connected. An adapter for an operating tool rotates together with the housing and the drive shaft to transfer the torque, Sensor measure and evaluate the torque transferred. A release mechanism, which is arranged in the housing, releases the torque tool upon reaching a target torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: STAHLWILLE Eduard Wille GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Brad Jenkins, Rainer Schwafertz
  • Patent number: 11517165
    Abstract: A cleaner is disclosed, which comprises a main body including an suction inlet through which air containing dust enters, a dust separator provided to separate dust from the air while the air entering from the suction inlet is moving, a first dust collector configured to collect the dust separated by the dust separator, a cyclone portion configured to rotate the air to separate the dust from the air, and a second dust collector collecting the dust separated by the cyclone portion. The dust separator is provided with a plurality of plate shaped members arranged at a predetermined angle with respect to a moving direction of the air, and arranged to be spaced apart from one another to move the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: LG ELECTRONICS INC., INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Seungyeop Lee, Kietak Hyun, Changgun Lee, Sejin Yook, Junhyung Lim
  • Patent number: 11517940
    Abstract: A substrate cleaning device that facilitates control of the amount of liquid supplied to a substrate and reduces adverse influences of the liquid supplied to a bearing part on the substrate is provided. The substrate cleaning device includes: a holding part that has a bearing part configured to rotatably hold a cleaning member for cleaning a substrate; a first supply part that has at least a part provided inside the holding part and supplies a first liquid into the cleaning member through the inside of the holding part; and a second supply part that supplies a second liquid to the bearing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuji Uozumi, Yasuyuki Motoshima, Toru Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11518001
    Abstract: An abrasive disc mounting assembly for attaching an abrasive disc to a rotary motor drive. The assembly includes a backing pad with a front face and a rear surface. A tapered recess is formed in the front face and extends into the backing pad, the recess having a flat base at its inward end. A hole is formed in the recess and extends through the backing pad from the base to the rear surface. The hole is centered within the recess. A grinder spindle is sized to fit within the hole. The spindle has threads formed on one end. The assembly also includes a nut with a shape that is complementary to the shape of the recess so that the nut seats within the recess. The recess and nut include anti-rotational features that prevent one from rotating relative to the other as the nut seats within the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Weiler Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Zulauf, Richard Hopkins
  • Patent number: 11518000
    Abstract: The invention refers to a backing pad (100) for use with a hand-held or hand-guided orbital sander (10) or polisher. The backing pad (100) has a planar extension and an essentially triangular form comprising a triangular region (102), with a top surface for releasable attachment of the backing pad (100) to the sander (10) or polisher and with a bottom surface for releasable attachment of a sheet-like sanding or polishing member (132) to the backing pad (100). In order to provide for a possibility to sand or polish surfaces within narrow, cramped, tight, twisty and crooked spaces with a sander (10) or polisher having an essentially triangular backing pad (100), it is suggested that the backing pad (100) comprises at least at one of the three corners (104) of the triangular region (102) a protrusion (108) extending in the plane of the planar extension of the backing pad (100) and projecting laterally beyond the triangular region (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventor: Guido Valentini
  • Patent number: 11517997
    Abstract: An adapter plate for use with a floor finishing machine for coupling abrasive drive plates to the spider arms of the floor finishing machine which includes a plurality of stamped plate components which when joined together form a polygon on which is mounted a plurality of hub members in which shafts are journaled for rotation in a spherical bearing. The shafts are, in turn, coupled to the abrasive drive plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Diamond Productions Ltd.
    Inventors: Harvey Stark, Pavel Ikonomov