Patents Examined by Lawrence J Averick
  • Patent number: 8464565
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system for supplying a lubricant necessary for efficiently manufacturing high-quality seamless pipes or tubes in a piercing mill, an apparatus for manufacturing seamless pipes or tubes having the supply system, and seamless pipes or tubes manufacturing method. The system for supplying a lubricant has a storage tank of the lubricant, a plumbing extending from the storage tank to a position near disk rolls, a nozzle provided at the tip of the plumbing, a device for switching flow direction provided in some midpoint of the plumbing, a plumbing extending from the device for switching flow direction to the storage tank, and a device for releasing pressure in a plumbing, provided between the switching device and the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventor: Yusuke Hiraishi
  • Patent number: 8459077
    Abstract: To form a through hole at one portion of a side wall, of an expanded portion made by plastically deforming one part of a metal tube radially outward, in a portion where the plate thickness gradually changes, a slide tool is withdrawn from inside a punch hole while applying hydraulic pressure to the inside of the side wall. At the instant of commencing withdrawal of the slide tool, the degree of progress in the shearing for the portions of the side wall matching with the two side edges of the punch hole is made different. Then, the timing for moving from shearing to rupture is made to coincide, so that of the side wall, the portions matching with the punch hole, are made reliably into a blank, and are extracted from the side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignees: NSK Ltd., NSK Steering Systems Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Pipe & Tube Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi Abe, Yasushi Watanabe, Kazumi Shimoii, Atsushi Tomizawa, Mitsutoshi Uchida
  • Patent number: 8424352
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for manufacturing a barrel coil spring make it possible to coil opposite sides of a spring material at the same time so as to considerably reduce manufacturing processing, thereby remarkably reducing the time required to manufacture the coil barrel spring, thus improving productivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Dae Won Kang Up Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chan-Gi Jung, Soon-Sam Hong
  • Patent number: 8381564
    Abstract: Cage nut having a cylindrical nut body (14) provided with a coaxial bore having an interior thread, wherein the nut body is ending in an rectangular plate (16) and, wherein the nut body (14) by means of the rectangular plate (16) is floatingly supported within a cage (12) and, wherein the entire cage nut (10), i.e. the nut body (14), and the cage (12) merely is manufactured from a single strip (100) of metal sheet by tube-forming, thread-cutting, bending and punching as well as a method for producing such a cage nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Acument GmbH & Co. oHG
    Inventor: Oliver Weiss
  • Patent number: 8371149
    Abstract: A sheet metal component that is bent from a sheet metal blank includes at least one three-sided corner. Two edges of the three-sided corner are formed by a first bending member of the sheet metal blank bent about a first inner bending radius Ri,1 and a second bending member of the sheet metal blank bent about a second inner bending radius Ri,2, and the third edge of the three-sided corner is formed by a first blank edge of the first bending member and a second blank edge of the second bending member. The sheet metal blank has an internal corner that forms the first blank edge, the second blank edge, and a wedge-like recess that opens in the internal corner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Trumpf Laser- und Systemtechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Vogel
  • Patent number: 8365563
    Abstract: A method for flattening steel strip by cold rolling wherein the strip is passed through at least two cold rolling mill stands each having work rolls. A first mill stand has work rolls having local rigidity K significantly different from a second milled stand. The local rigidity K is calculated in Kgf/mm/mm in accordance with an equation. A six high mill comprises a pair of driven backup rolls disposed on the entry side, a pair of horizontal support rolls disposed on the exit side, and a pair of small diameter work rolls having an entry side face and an exit side face. The work rolls are disposed between the backup rolls and the support rolls, wherein during operation the entry side face of the work rolls engages the backup rolls and the exit side face of the work rolls engages the support rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Quad Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Yuli Liu
  • Patent number: 8327677
    Abstract: A twisting device comprises at least one conductor coupler configured to engage a plurality of the conductors and at least one drive operably connected to the conductor coupler. The at least one drive is configured to rotate the conductor coupler in order to bend the plurality of the conductors and simultaneously move the conductor coupler in an axial direction relative to the electric machine component. An associated method of bending conductors positioned in a component of an electric machine comprises first engaging a plurality conductors with a conductor coupler. Thereafter, the plurality of conductors are bent by rotating the conductor coupler while simultaneously moving the conductor coupler in an axial direction relative to the component of the electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Remy Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Allen Young, Mark A. Stephenson
  • Patent number: 8327682
    Abstract: A fence clip installation tool includes a pair of handles pivotally joined to respective jaws pivotally maintained between two plates to enable the jaws to counter-rotate in unison. Clips of a compatible design may then be nested between the jaws and compressed or deformed about objects upon closure of the handles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Dutton-Lainson Company
    Inventors: Reinhold A. Haase, Brandon William Miller
  • Patent number: 8322173
    Abstract: A method for utilizing a bending machine die layout includes designating a die layout of a bending machine, the designated die layout being defined by arrangements of replaceable punches and replaceable dies installed on the bending machine. The method also includes extracting, in the designated die layout, segments in each of which a punch and a die face overlapping to each other to be actually used for one of bending processes, as virtual die stages based on punch attachment positions and punch lengths of the punches, and die attachment positions and die lengths of the dies. The method further includes assigning, by using a sheet metal shape model of a bent product planned to be made by the bending machine, bend lines on the sheet metal shape model corresponding to actual bend lines of the bent product, to the virtual die stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Amada Company, Limited
    Inventor: Akira Senba
  • Patent number: 8322176
    Abstract: A system and method for incrementally forming a workpiece. A first manipulator is configured to move a first tool in multiple directions along a first surface of a workpiece. A second manipulator is configured to move a second tool in multiple directions along a second surface of the workpiece. The first and second tools move along first and second predetermined paths of motion and exert force to form the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Carl Frederick Johnson, Vijitha Senaka Kiridena, Feng Ren, Zhiyong Cedric Xia
  • Patent number: 8307685
    Abstract: A high-strength beam includes first and second sections bent in opposite directions as part of a roll-forming process. A frame includes side frame members incorporating the double-bent beam and at least one energy management tube attached to the beam. In one form, the beam is tubular and has a cross-sectional dimension of greater than 25 mm and a material strength of at least about 60 KSI tensile strength. A roll form apparatus includes a roll former device and a sweep station in-line with the roll former device for sweeping the continuous beam in first and second opposing directions. Also, a method of roll-forming comprises steps of: roll-forming a sheet of material into a continuous beam and sweeping first and second sections of the beam in opposite directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Shape Corp.
    Inventors: Richard D. Heinz, Bruce W. Lyons, Bryan E. Gould
  • Patent number: 8302453
    Abstract: An apparatus for attaching edging to a sheet has two stationary guides at each end, an upper hollow guide (8), a pair of lower guides (5), with a fixed base (4) between the lower guides. A hollow profile (1) is vertically movable, having a binding rail (2) on the underside thereof. The upper guide (8) is placed inside the profile, forming upper and lower spaces (7, 9) between the profile and the upper guide. Upper and lower flexible elements (10, 11) are provided in each space. In use, one element is filled while the other element is emptied, such that when an edging and a sheet is placed between the fixed base (4) and the binding rail, the lower element is filled to force the profile and thus the binding rail down to attach the edging. Then the upper element is filled to release the sheet with the attached edging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: TP Holding Hadsund ApS
    Inventor: Tomas Pedersen
  • Patent number: 8276430
    Abstract: A hydraulic pressing and/or cutting tool (1) comprises an electric motor (6), a converting mechanism (8) suitable to convert the rotary motion of the motor (9) to an oscillating translational motion, a hydraulic pump (11) suitable to carry out, in response to the oscillating translational motion, an increase in the pressure of a pressure fluid acting on an operating piston (12) such that the operating piston (12) is displaced, a stationary jaw (13) and a movable jaw (14) connected to the operating piston (12) such that, in response to the displacement of the operating piston (12), the movable jaw is displaced to the stationary jaw (13) to carry out pressing or cutting operations. The converting mechanism (8) comprises an epicycloidal gear (16) and a thrust unit (17) co-axial with the epicycloidal gear (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Cembre S.p.A.
    Inventors: Gualtiero Barezzani, Cesare Braga
  • Patent number: 8276427
    Abstract: A frame of a metal-forming press having upper and lower traverses interconnected by vertical columns having upper and lower ends is provided with respective sets each of a plurality of identical tension bolts at each end of each of the columns. The traverses are formed at each end of each column with an array of throughgoing holes through each of which a respective one of the bolts extends, and the columns have opposite ends each formed with an identical array of blind threaded bores each in turn aligned with a respective one of the throughgoing holes. Each bolt has an inner end seated in a respective on of the bores of the respective column end and an outer end bearing inwardly on a face of the respective traverse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: SMS Meer GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Kirchner
  • Patent number: 8276423
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rolling mill, especially a swage rolling mill for heated operation, said rolling mill being provided with a pair of cylinders (3, 4) which are vertically arranged with the central axes thereof (5), can be adjusted in relation to each other, and are connected to at least one rotating drive (8) by means of cardan shafts (6; 7). The aim of the invention is to render the adjustment of the cylinders more favorable with lower displaced masses, to reduce friction and to improve lever arm relations. To this end, the rotating drive (8) for both cylinders (3; 4) is fixed beneath the mill floor level (2) and is respectively connected to a fixed gearbox (9) and the cardan shaft (6, 7) in a driving manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Habermann, Bernd Zieser, Gerhard Artel
  • Patent number: 8272244
    Abstract: The invention describes an apparatus for stamping can lids or the like, having a bridge (10) supported on a frame and carrying stamping tools (1) actuated vertically in a continuously repeating manner, having a longitudinal conveying device (30) gradually transporting metal sheets (11, 12) under said tools (1) in each case with the latter opened, and having a transverse conveying device (20, 40) laterally displacing to a limited extent the metal sheet (11, 12) moving or moved longitudinally in each case, wherein a separately controllable transverse conveying device (20, 40) is arranged in a stationary position in each case on the feed and discharge side approximately symmetrically to the tools (1) close in front of and behind the latter, said transverse conveying device (20, 40) in each case carrying a driving roller pair (31, 32; 51, 52) as the longitudinal conveying device (30, 50), which delivers the metal sheet (11, 12) in a controlled clamping manner or releases it in a controlled manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Inventor: Frank Hoffman
  • Patent number: 8266942
    Abstract: A bending machine includes an operating platform, a lower die clamp received on the operating platform, an upper die holder, and an upper die clamp. The upper die holder includes a main body, a positioning pin, a spring, and an operating rod. The main body includes a lower surface and two opposite side surfaces, the lower surface defines a sliding groove having a bottom surface with a positioning hole defined thereon. One of the two opposite side surfaces defines a sliding slot communicating with the positioning hole. The spring and the positioning pin are received in the positioning hole in sequence. The operating rod is received in the sliding slot with one end received in the latching hole and the other end extending out of the sliding slot. The upper die clamp is slidable in the sliding groove and defines a pinhole corresponding to the positioning pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shu-Wei Zhou, Teng-Chiao Shen
  • Patent number: 8256258
    Abstract: A heat sink has a plurality of radially extending radiating fins, which are arranged annularly on the outer circumferential surface of a cylindrical base to be integral with that surface. The base is formed to have a cylindrical shape having a center axis. The base is formed to be solid-core. The heat sink is ground such that a cooling object contact portion having a generally cylindrical shape projects from the end surface of the heat sink in the axial direction. An annular groove is ground out along the outer circumference of a contact surface of the cooling object contact portion. An attaching member is attached on the outer circumferential surface of the cooling object contact portion, and a pressure application portion is entirely pressed by a pressing machine. The pressure application portion is plastically deformed outward in the diameter direction, so that the attaching member is fixed in between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Yamaoka, Takamasa Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8256256
    Abstract: A coiler furnace having a heat-insulated enclosure delimiting a furnace interior, a strip coiling device includes a coiler drum having a slotted receiving opening for the hot-rolled strip in the furnace interior, A controlled rotational drive for a coiler shaft is located outside the furnace interior. An inlet and outlet opening to the enclosure for a hot-rolled strip. A strip guiding device between a roller table and the coiler drum. In order to avoid any winding errors, a feeding shield extends through the enclosure of the coiler furnace and is coupled to a displacement drive arranged outside the furnace interior. The displacement drive can be displaced between an insertion position and a withdrawal position of the shield. The feeding shield, in the insertion position, interacts with the strip guiding device to form a feed funnel, mounted upstream the slotted receiving opening on the coiler drum for the hot-rolled strip together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Vai Metals Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Micheal Jesche, Wolfgang Peitl
  • Patent number: 8245553
    Abstract: A method of producing an ultrathin-wall metal tube by a cold drawing method includes a diameter-expanding drawing method, in which an entry solid die, the diameter of which increases, remains constant or decreases from the engaging entry side toward the finishing exit side, and a delivery solid die, the diameter of which decreases at least in the vicinity of the engaging entry, are arranged in series and in an abutting relation on the same pass line. A tapered plug, the diameter of which increases from the engaging entry side toward the finishing exit side, floats along the pass line, whereby in the entry solid die region, the wall thickness is reduced while the mid-wall diameter of a hollow shell is being expanded between the solid die and the plug, and in the delivery solid die region, the tapered plug floats by performing reduction working of the outside diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Chihiro Hayashi