Patents Examined by Kevin E O'Brien
  • Patent number: 11376648
    Abstract: A compact stock guide assembly and method for metal forming dies includes a stock guide that includes a fastener that secures the stock guide to the die through a central aperture in the stock guide. The stock guide has a locating boss that can be received in a pocket in the die that has been bored and tapped to receive the fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: STANDARD LIFTERS, INC.
    Inventors: Scott M. Breen, Joel T. Pyper
  • Patent number: 11338351
    Abstract: A can bodymaker includes a mounting assembly and a forming system. The forming system includes a plurality of forming assemblies, each forming assembly coupled to the mounting assembly, each forming assembly including a ram assembly with an elongated ram body, and a ram drive assembly operatively coupled to each forming assembly. The ram drive assembly is a direct ram drive assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: Karl S. Fleischer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Leonardo Antonio Butolo Ribeiro, Sylvan Mario Praturlon
  • Patent number: 11338348
    Abstract: Flanges formed on sheet metal parts to increase the part stiffness or create mating surface for further assembly are created in an incremental sheet forming process using forming tool and supporting tool that move along a specified tool path so as to gradually deform a peripherally-clamped sheet metal work piece into the desired geometry. With two universal tools moving along the designed toolpath on the both sides of the part, the process is very flexible. Process time is can also be reduced by utilizing an accumulative double-sided incremental hole-flanging strategy, in which the flange is formed in only one step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Huan Zhang, Jian Cao, Kornel Ehmann, Jun Chen
  • Patent number: 11203021
    Abstract: A herb grinder includes: a main body with a receiving indentation, which has a spout indentation; a cutting section with top and bottom cutting parts, a magnet, and a ferromagnetic part; a main body with a receiving indentation, which has a spout indentation, a center interior, traversal ridges, a flow blocker, an exit canal, and an exit aperture; a slidable exit lid that covers the dispensing aperture; a window, a light source, a rotatable dispensing spout assembly with a dispensing arm and a dispensing spout that is configured to connect with an empty cigarette tube; a dispensing vibrator, and a vibration button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Cloudious9 Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Yao Tien Huang
  • Patent number: 11097327
    Abstract: A bending machine including a rack, the rack is provided with a feeding mechanism, one side of the feeding mechanism is provided with a pressing mechanism capable of pressing a workpiece firmly, and one side of the pressing mechanism is provided with a bending mechanism capable of bending the workpiece inside the bending mechanism. The bending machine is simple in structure, high in production and capable of reducing labor cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: OMS MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaobin Long, Haifeng Hu, Chuan Long, Yang Shi
  • Patent number: 11084042
    Abstract: A dual-shaft shredder for comminuting solids or solids in liquids comprises a housing defining an interior comminuting space, an inlet opening, an outlet opening, and a first and second cutting disc block each having a plurality of cutting discs disposed on a hub body such that an intermediate space is present between each two adjacent cutting discs. Some of the first cutting discs each engage in the intermediate space between two adjacent second cutting discs and some of the second cutting discs each engage in the intermediate space between two adjacent first cutting discs. A first shaft stub and a second shaft stub extend into an axial recess of the first and second cutting disc blocks for transmitting torques, and a first clamping device and a second clamping device clamp the shaft stubs against the cutting disc blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: VOGELSANG GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Torsten Burhorst, Paul Krampe, Hugo Vogelsang
  • Patent number: 11077449
    Abstract: A mobile shredder for metal materials comprising a feeding device, a shredding mill with a plurality of hammers associated with a rotor, and a removal device and an actuating device are provided, wherein: the feeding device comprises a hopper and a shredder with a first toothed roller and a second toothed roller that rotates in the opposite direction to that of the first roller and at a greater speed. The actuating device comprises a single motor. A control system is also provided with a plurality of hydraulic pumps for moving the rollers and a hydraulic clutch with a variable flow for moving the rotor, the plurality of hydraulic pumps and the hydraulic clutch being joined to the motor. The control system is configured to modify the rotational speed of the toothed rollers based on the motor load associated with the shredding mill; and the devices are mounted on a frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Talleres ZB, S.A.
    Inventors: Adolfo Manzanares Mercero, Mikel Macías Martín, Ángel María Montero Nieto
  • Patent number: 11052439
    Abstract: A pipe cross-section processing device that reduces friction during processing and improves the degree of freedom regarding the rotation angle of the pipe cross section is provided. The pipe cross-section processing device may include a rotation drive source configured to rotate the base, a shaft secured to a front end portion of the base, a slide base capable of a sliding movement along the axis of the shaft, a roller guide member secured to the slide base, a slide-base drive member configured to convert the rotational motion of the base into a linear motion so as to drive the slide base together with the roller guide member in a sliding movement, and a roller configured to be adhered to an inner surface of a pipe cross section to rotationally process a cross section of the pipe outwardly in a radial direction of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: DAIKI INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Baek Yoo, Dong Ki Yoo
  • Patent number: 11026544
    Abstract: A vacuum blender can crush foods, such as vegetables and fruits, in a vacuum state and preserve the foods in the vacuum state. Noise can be reduced because foods are put into an accommodation member and the foods accommodated in the accommodation member are blended in a state in which the accommodation member is covered by a cover member. Further, because a first chamber part is formed in the interior of the accommodation member and a first check valve is mounted and a second chamber part that is an empty space is formed between the accommodation member and the cover member, the first chamber part, in which the foods are accommodated, is vacuumed while the first check valve is automatically opened if the second chamber part is vacuumed without using a separate hose connected to the first chamber part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Inventors: Joung Geun Ahn, Byung Hyun An, Kyung Soon Kim, Se Hee An