Abstract: A computer-implemented method for repairing a structural defect includes determining a size and position of a defect within a structural element and, in accordance with a structural analysis of the defect, determining a stitching pattern that counters loss of structural integrity due to the defect. A set of holes and channels are formed in the structural element in accordance with the stitching pattern. The set of holes and channels in the structural element are filled around the defect in accordance with the stitching pattern to increase strength around the defect.

Abstract: A method for repairing a part for an aircraft turbine engine, the part including a lower panel, an upper panel and a core having a honeycomb structure arranged between the lower panel and the upper panel, the part having an unimpaired portion and an at least partially impaired portion, the repair method including the following steps: (a) removing at least one portion of the lower panel or the upper panel from an area to be repaired; (b) removing at least one portion of the core from the area to be repaired; (c) reforming the core in the area to be repaired directly on the part by additive manufacturing; (d) reforming the lower panel or the upper panel in the area to be repaired, directly on the part.

Abstract: A pet toy and related methods are disclosed. An outer member is overmolded about an inner member which defines an interior void. The outer member is provided in sections, each with apertures, such that sections of the outer member collectively surround, and frictionally engage, the inner member but leave portions of the inner member exposed. The sections are permanently joined along a seam. Reinforcement sections are provided along the seam and extend outward therefrom.

Abstract: A method for decommissioning a wind turbine blade includes separating a root section of a turbine blade from a tip section of a turbine blade, and laterally cutting the tip section of the turbine blade into a plurality of separate tip subsections. Each tip subsection is cut along its length, flattened, deposited into a compacting and bundling apparatus, and compressed. The compressed tip subsections are bundled in the compacting and bundling apparatus with banding material to form a bundle. The bundle is removed from the compacting and bunding apparatus and loaded onto a transportation vehicle.

Abstract: Work for installation of a feed line is efficiently conducted. An installation tool installs a feed line in a feed line holder, the feed line holder accompanying any of rails for allowing a carrier to travel thereon and holding the feed line, the feed line feeding electric power to the carrier in a non-contact manner. The installation tool includes: a main body part configured to be capable of moving along the rails; and a pressing part configured to move together with the main body part along the rails and continuously press the feed line into a holding part of the feed line holder as the main body part is moved, the holding part being partially open.

Abstract: A wire clamp may include a bottom piece having: a first base portion defining a first aperture, an at least partially elliptical barrier extending from the first base portion about the first aperture, and a plurality of legs extending from sides of the first base portion; a top piece having: a second base portion, a protrusion extending from the second base portion, the protrusion defining a second aperture, and a plurality of legs extending from sides of the second base portion; and a fastener. The first aperture and the second aperture may be configured to align and receive the fastener therethrough. A first side of the partially elliptical barrier and a first portion of the plurality of legs may define a first wire channel, and a second side of the partially elliptical barrier and a second portion of the plurality of legs may define a second wire channel.

Abstract: An articulating tire valve install-removal tool and related methods for use. The articulating tire valve install-removal tool has a body comprising an outer perimeter, an inner recess, a threaded member, a linkage and a contact member. The articulating tire valve install-removal tool components are connected to each other and secured within the body so one or more components can rotate around one or more axes. Together these components facilitate in the valve being installed and removed perpendicular or generally perpendicular to the valve hole on the wheel.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a knife blade for a cutter knife of an agricultural harvesting machine, wherein a substantially disk-shaped blade blank is provided in a providing step, said blade blank having a bottom side extending in a first plane (YZ1) and a top side extending in a second plane (YZ2), wherein a hole connecting the first plane (YZ1) with the second plane (YZ2) is made in the blade blank, wherein in a reshaping step an area of the blade blank surrounding the hole is deformed in such a way that a top contact surface surrounding the hole is formed in a third plane (YZ3), wherein the third plane is more distant from the first plane than the second plane (YZ2) in a normal direction (X) perpendicular to the first plane (YZ1).

Abstract: A thermal battery assembly includes a modules configured to be stacked vertically on top of each other. The modules includes an electronics module; a first tank module; and a second tank module. A base defines a bottom of the stack and is configured to receive thereon the lowermost module of the stack for supporting the stack on a floor. Each tank module includes a phase change material (PCM); a heat exchanger assembly with heat exchangers immersed in the phase change material, a first set thereof defining a PCM charging circuit, and a second set defining a PCM discharging circuit; a first exterior connection port configured for fluid communication with an inflow of the PCM discharging circuit and a second exterior connection port configured for fluid communication with an outflow of the PCM discharging circuit. Heating or cooling capacity can be increased by adding another tank module to the stack.

Abstract: A method of mounting a heat dissipation device to a bare die heat source using fixing elements is disclosed. The fixing elements respectively include a screw, which has a spring fitted thereon and is disposed in a sleeve. Limiting units are provided on the sleeve for holding the spring in the sleeve in a compressed state. To mount the heat dissipation device to the bare die heat source, first use the fixing elements to preliminarily screw the heat dissipation device to a top of the heat source. Then, the springs compressed in the sleeves of all the fixing elements are elastically released synchronously to apply evenly distributed downward forces that push the heat dissipation device toward the bare die heat source stably.

Abstract: Tools and methods are disclosed for automatically capturing debris generated during rivet installation using an autoloading rivet gun. In some examples, an autoloading rivet installation device includes a hand-held rivet gun and an automatic loader which uses a first actuator having a shaft oriented parallel to a longitudinal plane of the rivet gun. A second actuator is coupled to the rivet gun and has an orientation orthogonal to the first actuator, such that the second actuator is configured to transition a magnet laterally between a plurality of positions relative to the longitudinal plane to capture ferromagnetic debris. The magnet may, for example, be disposed on a load arm of the loader, and the second actuator may be configured to translate the loader's first actuator from side to side.

Abstract: A method of inserting a fastener into a workpiece includes positioning the workpiece with at least two sheets of material between a die and a head of a fastening system. The workpiece has a first fastening site, a second fastening site, and a third fastening site. The second fastening site is between the first fastening site and the third fastening site. A passage of the head is aligned with the second fastening site. A bottommost surface of the head in contact with the workpiece from the first fastening site to the third fastening site. The method also includes inserting the fastener into the workpiece through the passage of the head at the second fastening site and through the sheets of material. The method also includes upsetting an end of a shank of the fastener with the die to fasten the sheets of material together.

Abstract: A modular, multi-functional, and reusable three-dimensional (“3D”) mounting surface for use in robotic automation to facilitate changing from one robot type to another (e.g., COTS (commercial off the shelf) robot or component) is described. A change involves removing only the surface plates without the entire mounting base plate for each product, which make the manufacture process less costly and faster to deploy. The modular design of the present invention enables a flexible mounting base plate configured to incorporate different types of robot sizes, robot cabinets, and applications. This invention is not only expandable on the three-dimensional (“3D”) tessellated surface for larger robot applications, the 3D surfaces may be combined together to form even larger robot solutions for factory automation. The present invention is reconfigurable with inserts that fit precisely in the mounting base plate.

Abstract: A method for assembling a rotational equipment assembly having a rotational equipment module and a rotational equipment case includes axially supporting the rotational equipment module with a first support assembly, positionally fixing a rotor assembly and a stator assembly of the rotational equipment module together with a second support assembly, coupling a pulling rod assembly with a tooling shaft of the rotational equipment module, and assembling the rotational equipment assembly by positioning the rotational equipment case axially abutting the rotational equipment module and axially pulling the pulling rod assembly to axially fit the rotational equipment module with the rotational equipment case.

Abstract: A method for forming an access passage for a gas turbine engine of an aircraft propulsion system includes installing a tooling jig on an engine case of the gas turbine engine at a port at a turbine section radially outward of a turbine vane stage, aligning the tooling jig on the engine case and fixedly mounting the tooling jig on the engine case, and drilling a first access aperture of the access passage through the inner ring along the tooling axis with a drill bit inserted into the first turbine vane through a tooling aperture of the tooling jig. The access passage extends through the turbine vane stage to a rotor cavity disposed radially inward of the turbine vane stage and between an upstream rotor stage and a downstream rotor stage of a bladed turbine rotor.

Abstract: Base components are placed into recesses of a holder. Each recess includes a flat bottom surface parallel to a horizontal direction. A lid is placed above the holder at a predetermined distance from the bottom surface. A magnetic field with a magnetic flux line intersecting perpendicularly with the bottom surface is caused to act on the base components in the recesses to rotate the base components about their longitudinal axes to have internal electrode layers parallel to the magnetic flux line.

Abstract: A process for producing bearing ring blanks, or gearwheel ring blanks, or tubular connection-member blanks, comprises the steps of: a) providing a steel tube; b) dividing the tube into a plurality of slugs each having an axial through cavity; c) supplying the slugs to a die assembly of a cold-forming station, the forming station including a punch assembly; and d) subjecting the slugs to contained forward extrusion through the die assembly, wherein the thrust imparted by a pushing member of the punch assembly on a subsequent slug causes passage of a preceding slug through the die assembly, with deformation thereof into a blank, while a restraining member of the punch assembly occupies the axial cavity of the subsequent slug and at least part of the axial cavity of the preceding slug.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a watch dial including at least one pattern on a visible face of the dial, the process including: a step of designing a support plate including a dial blank, this step including producing several through holes in the thickness of the body of a support plate, the holes delimiting in such a plate the edge of the dial blank, and a step of producing at least one pattern on a visible face of the dial blank during which step the following is performed: an arrangement of this support plate including the external part element in a mould, and a construction of a blank of each pattern on the visible face of the dial blank, as well as a finalisation of the blank of the pattern.

Abstract: Process of grinding and polishing flank surfaces of teeth of toothed wheels, which includes a grinding device, a polishing device, a dynamic positioning device, and a toothed wheel.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a soundproof cabin of a turbine engine. The soundproof cabin is sleeved on the turbine engine. The soundproof cabin includes a cabin body, an induction noise reduction unit and a ventilation noise reduction unit, wherein the induction noise reduction unit and the ventilation noise reduction unit are disposed on the cabin body, the surrounding of which is filled with soundproof materials, the induction noise reduction unit is used to reduce the induction noise of the turbine engine, the ventilation noise reduction unit is used to reduce the noise of the ventilation system of the turbine engine.