Abstract: A system includes a seal carrier tool. The seal carrier tool includes an inner portion configured to engage a seal carrier assembly. The seal carrier assembly is configured to removably engage with a portion of a borehole of a connector of a fluid supply system. The seal carrier tool also includes an outer portion disposed radially outward from the inner portion. The outer portion is configured to engage the connector. The seal carrier tool also includes an actuator configured to engage both the inner portion and the outer portion. The actuator is configured to drive the inner portion to move in an axial direction relative to the outer portion to facilitate removal of the seal carrier assembly from the portion of the borehole.

Abstract: A device for manufacturing a display apparatus includes a mask assembly, and a magnetic force portion facing the mask assembly, where the magnetic force portion applies a magnetic force toward the mask assembly. The mask assembly includes a mask frame, in which first openings are defined therethrough and a second opening is defined in a first surface thereof, where the second opening is arranged between two adjacent first openings among the first openings, a mask membrane disposed on a second surface of the mask frame opposite to the first surface and overlapping at least one of the first openings, and a support member on the first surface of the mask frame and including a magnetic body, where the support member is disposed on a surface of the mask frame defining a first opening or a surface of the mask frame defining the second opening.

Abstract: A method for producing a nonlinear cylindrical spring produced by winding or coiling a spring wire having wire diameters varying over its length, and formed from a blank with a constant diameter. A drum roller shapes the blank and, between the outer lateral surface of an inner rotor driven in rotation about a central longitudinal axis and the inner lateral surface of a drum concentric with the rotor, has an annular gap which tapers continuously from an input side to an output side, the clear opening width of which, viewed in the radial direction, is greater than the diameter of the blank on the input side and equal to or smaller than the minimum wire diameter of the spring wire on the output side, and the blank is shaped by moving it into the annular gap from the input side to the output side.

Abstract: A cutting tool has a cutting insert removably secured to a holding portion of an insert holder. The cutting insert has opposing first and second end surfaces with an insert peripheral surface and a central axis extending therebetween, at least one cutting portion, and at least one mounting cut-out. Each cutting portion has a cutting edge and an adjacent relief surface facing in a first rotary direction about the central axis. Each mounting cut-out extends between the first and second end surfaces and has a first flank surface and an adjacent first upper slope surface. The first flank surface faces in a second rotary direction about the central axis and the first upper slope surface faces away from a median plane located midway between the first and second end surfaces. The first upper slope surface extends away from the median plane with increasing distance from the first flank surface.

Abstract: A substrate holder includes a main body having a first arm and a second arm whose leading ends are spaced apart from each other and whose base ends are connected to each other; a first holding guide fixed to the leading end of the first arm, and configured to hold a periphery of the substrate; and a second holding guide fixed to the leading end of the second arm, and configured to hold the periphery of the substrate. A length between the first holding guide and the second holding guide is shorter than a diameter of the substrate. In a state that the substrate is located closer to the base ends than a position where the substrate is held by the first holding guide and the second holding guide, the first arm, the second arm, the first holding guide and the second holding guide are located diametrically outside the substrate.

Abstract: An automotive body joining position optimization analysis method includes: setting all or a part of an automotive body model as an analysis object model; generating an optimization analysis model by setting a candidate for weld line to the analysis object model; setting a variable amplitude load condition; setting the reciprocal of a predetermined target fatigue life as a target liner cumulative damage; setting improvement of the stiffness of the optimization analysis model, a reduction in the liner cumulative damage, which is the reciprocal of a fatigue life of the candidate for weld line, and minimization of the length of the candidate for weld line as optimization analysis conditions; performing optimization analysis by giving the variable amplitude load condition to the optimization analysis model, and determining the optimal arrangement of the weld line, which achieves the optimization analysis condition).

Abstract: A burring structural member resistant to fracture even if the burring structural part is bent back is provided. In the burring structural member of the present disclosure, a thickness T of the sheet-shaped part is 2.0 mm or more, a Charpy impact value vE(0) of the sheet-shaped part at 0° C. is 50 J/cm2 or more, a BCI value calculated by BCI=vE(0)/Lc based on the Charpy impact value vE(0) (J/cm2) and a maximum length Lc (?m) of a crack at the inside bend of the bent wall part of the burring structural parts is 2.5 or more, and a curvature radius R (mm) of the inside bend of the bent wall part is larger than R1 calculated by R1=25/BCI?1.5.

Abstract: A combined machining apparatus includes a spindle to which a cutting tool and a friction stir welding tool are attachable. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the combined machining apparatus to perform operations comprising: reading a machining program to determine a working tool of a plurality of tools to be called by the machining program; determining whether the working tool is the cutting tool or the friction stir welding tool; allowing correction of a position of the working tool based on a temperature detected by a temperature sensor when the working tool is determined to be the cutting tool; and allowing correction of a position of the working tool based on load detected by the load sensor when the working tool is determined to be the friction stir welding tool.

Abstract: A tool management device according to the present invention that manages the tools, for a target device including a tool holding mechanism that holds a plurality of tools, includes an information acquisition unit that acquires configuration information including a current tool holding state in the tool holding mechanism, a holding position setting unit that sets holding positions at which the tools are held in the tool holding mechanism based on the above-described configuration information and tool information on the tools, and a command generation unit that generates a drive command for moving the holding positions in the tool holding mechanism to a transfer position at which the tools are transferred.

Abstract: A blade in which coolant can be efficiently supplied to a machining place with a reduced pressure loss is provided. In a blade 100 in which a cutting insert 13 is attached to an insert attachment portion 12 provided at a longitudinal end part of a blade body 11 formed in a long plate shape, the blade body 11 includes a supply inlet 51 opened at one side surface, a lower discharge port 53 and an upper discharge port 54 that are opened at an end face nearby the insert attachment portion 12, a lower coolant supply path 55 connecting the supply inlet 51 to the lower discharge port 53, and an upper coolant supply path 56 connecting the supply inlet 51 to the upper discharge port 54, and the lower coolant supply path 55 and the upper coolant supply path 56 each have a curved shape in a side view.

Abstract: A system for enabling a mobile robot to utilize an elevator autonomously comprises a pressing module including at least one pressing finger adapted to press elevator call buttons on an elevator call control panel. A lifting device of the system supports the pressing module and selectively adjusts a height position of the pressing module for aligning the at least one pressing finger on the pressing module to height positions horizontally aligned with the elevator call buttons. A controller wirelessly communicates with the mobile robot and the pressing module. In response to a command sent by the mobile robot, the controller instructs the pressing module to press an elevator call button on the elevator call control panel associated with the command.

Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to a machine apparatus. The machine apparatus may perform work on one or more work pieces. The machine apparatus may be augmented or reconfigured to work on a plurality of different work pieces in specific and unique configurations.

Abstract: A cutting insert according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises an upper surface, a lower surface, a lateral surface, a cutting edge, and a fastening hole, wherein the cutting edge includes a main cutting edge, a nose R part connected to the main cutting edge, and a sub-cutting edge connected to the nose R part, the upper surface includes a land part adjacent to the cutting edge, an inclined surface downwardly inclined from the land part, and an upper surface bottom part extending from the inclined surface, first and second protrusion parts are formed respectively, in which the first protrusion part is connected to a main cutting edge land part and formed on a main cutting edge inclined surface at a portion at which a nose R part inclined surface ends and the second protrusion part is connected to a sub-cutting edge land part and formed on a sub-cutting edge inclined surface at a portion at which the nose R part inclined surface ends, and no protrusion is present on the nose R part inclined su

Abstract: A method of forming an annular wick for a heat pipe is disclosed. The method includes forming a plurality of layers of wick material around an elongate rod; placing the elongate rod and the layers of wick material into a central die opening of an annular die assembly; placing the rod, the layers of wick material, and the annular die assembly into a central clamp opening of a clamp, where the clamp is configured to hold the rod, the layers of wick material, and the annular die assembly together; and heating the rod, the layers of wick material, the annular die assembly, and the clamp to a temperature sufficient to thermally expand the rod toward the central die opening of the annular die assembly to compress the layers of wick material between the rod and the central die opening of the annular die assembly.

Abstract: A jig set for placing an insulated circuit board on a cooling surface of a cooling unit, and a method for placing the insulated circuit board on the cooling surface using the jet set. The jig set includes: a positioning jig configured to be disposed on the cooling surface, and having an opening corresponding to a size of the insulated circuit board in a plan view, to thereby define a fixing area for housing the insulated circuit board therein; a height control jig including a control part shaped to be fitted into the fixing area of the positioning jig, the control part having, at a lower end thereof, a pressing surface for pressing an upper surface of the insulated circuit board located in the fixing area toward the cooling surface; and a positioning weight configured to apply, to the positioning jig, a pressure toward the cooling surface.

Abstract: Wafer level proximity sensors are formed by processing a silicon substrate wafer and a silicon cap wafer separately, bonding the cap wafer to the substrate wafer to form a bonded wafer sandwich, and then selectively thinning the silicon substrate wafer and silicon cap wafer. The silicon substrate wafer is thinned first, and an interconnect structure of through-silicon vias is formed within the thinned silicon substrate wafer. The silicon cap wafer is then thinned to expose openings facing an area of the thinned silicon substrate wafer where a photosensitive region is location and facing an area of the thinned silicon substrate wafer where an emitter die is to be installed. After emitter die installation, the openings in the thinned silicon cap wafer are filled with a transparent material. The thinned silicon cap wafer further includes an opaque light barrier to block light transmission between the openings.

Abstract: An aircraft skin alignment system includes at least one support structure to support one or more aircraft skins and one or more assembly tools; the one or more assembly tools having a holding mechanism to releasably engage with a first aircraft skin; a pulling mechanism to apply a pulling force to the first aircraft skin; and an edge locator; the pulling mechanism is to pull the first aircraft skin such that a first edge of the first aircraft skin abuts the edge locator, the edge locator preventing the first edge from being pulled past the edge locator; and one or more tool holes can be drilled into the first aircraft skin such that the one or more tool holes are aligned based on an edge index due to a position of the edge locator.

Abstract: A system, method and apparatus are proposed to assist in assembling the frame, attaching the skin, and performing other tasks in manufacturing an airship and constructing other structures that are otherwise challenging, inefficient, or unsuitable for humans to perform, and/or that traditionally require significant investments in capital intensive manufacturing facilities. Several embodiments are proposed in which these and other recurring manufacturing tasks can be performed safely and efficiently with the assistance of autonomous, semi-autonomous, and/or human-directed robots, acting independently and in robot swarms.

Abstract: A cutting tool with sufficient stiffness of a body is provided. A cutting tool 10 includes a body 100 in which a discharge groove 120 for guiding and discharging chips is formed, and a cutting insert 200 fastened and fixed on a distal end side of the body 100. The cutting insert 200 includes a first surface 210 through which a through-hole 230 is opened, and a major cutting edge 231 formed so as to extend straight at an end part of the first surface 210. A protrusion portion 130 protruding so as to cover part of the first surface 210 of the cutting insert 200 from outside is formed at the body 100. A clearance hole 170 is formed so as to extend from a surface of the body 100 opposite the cutting insert 200 toward a corner cutting edge 242 when viewed from the distal end side along a central axis AX1.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a hoist tool including a hoist frame and a base structure. The hoist frame includes a structural framework having a first end and a second end and at least one first rotation-enabling coupling at the second end of the structural framework. The base structure includes at least one second rotation-enabling coupling configured to engage with the at least one first rotation-enabling coupling of the hoist frame. The at least one second rotation-enabling coupling of the base structure defines a rolling axis. The hoist frame is selectively movable by the hoist to position the at least one first rotation-enabling coupling into engagement with the at least one second rotation-enabling coupling and when coupled and when the assembled structure is coupled to the hoist frame, the hoist frame is selectively rotatable about the rolling axis, relative to the base structure, to enable a rollover of the assembled structure.