Patents Examined by Michael Vitale
  • Patent number: 9815121
    Abstract: A machining head is provided with a turret on which multiple rotating tools are mounted, and this head is configured such that rotation of each of the multiple rotating tools during machining and rotation of the turret are performed by a single motor. A switchable turret rotation transmission mechanism is disposed to be capable of transmitting the rotation of the motor shaft to the turret as the rotation of the turret and releasing the transmission. The rotation of each of the multiple rotating tools during the machining and the rotation of the turret can be performed by the single motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigefumi Suzuyama, Osamu Nagai
  • Patent number: 9815106
    Abstract: A rotatable buffer turret apparatus on which plural pairs of punches and dies to be set on a turret of a turret punch press are set, includes an upper buffer turret on which punch attachment holes in which the punches can be set are arranged circularly, and a lower buffer turret on which die attachment holes that is associated with the punch attachment holes and in which the dies can be set are arranged circularly. The upper and lower buffer turrets are rotatably attached to a single rotary shaft. A diameter of the lower buffer turret is made larger than a diameter of the upper buffer turret. The die attachment holes are formed in a circular die attachment area having a diameter larger than the diameter of the upper buffer turret. According to the apparatus, a tool exchange manually operated by an operator can be done easily and efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: AMADA COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Keiichi Sugiyama, Syuuji Ishida, Tomotake Iwamoto, Youichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9776295
    Abstract: A hand power tool includes a tool receiver configured to receive a tool. The tool has an outer polygonal coupling and the tool receiver has an inner receiver including, at least portionally, a rotary driver profile. The tool receiver is provided on an associated tool housing, in which there is a drum-type tool change magazine having at least one tool chamber configured to store the tool. The tool chamber is configured to be aligned so as to be flush with the tool receiver to enable the tool to slide from the tool chamber into the inner receiver or from the inner receiver into the tool chamber. An alignment element is configured to align the outer polygonal coupling as the tool slides from the tool chamber into the inner receiver to enable the outer polygonal coupling to slide into the rotary driver profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Attila Nagy
  • Patent number: 9776294
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus for keeping a friction roller. The apparatus for keeping a friction roller comprises a cylinder provided with a plurality of brackets for storing the friction roller, a friction roller pick-and-place execution unit for picking and placing the friction roller, a cylinder driving unit for driving the cylinder to rotate, a storage sensor unit for sensing whether a friction roller exists on a bracket, a pick-and-place position sensor unit for sensing whether a bracket arrives at a pick-and-place position of the friction roller, and a control unit. The apparatus for keeping a friction roller according to the disclosure may access more friction rollers accurately; and the stroke of the action of picking and placing a friction roller is relatively short, such that the work efficiency of picking and placing a friction roller is also increased very greatly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Laifeng Liu, Zhubing Huang, Hui Jing, Xiaofeng Wang, Qiang Xiang
  • Patent number: 9751174
    Abstract: A numerically controlled machining center for performing work on a workpiece including a plurality of magazines holding a plurality of tools, each magazine positioned a first distance from an adjacent magazine, a plurality of spindles equal to the number of magazines and movable relative to one another independent of the positions of the magazines, the spindles movable apart from one another in a tool loading position to accommodate large magazine sizes and movable toward one another in a working position to allow the tools to work close together to minimize waste, and a table for supporting a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: C. R. Onsrud, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Charles Onsrud, Christopher John Sullivan
  • Patent number: 9713863
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an automatic steel bar coupling head making machine including a positioning mechanism, a transverse moving mechanism, a longitudinal moving mechanism, a processing mechanism assembly and a control mechanism, wherein, when a steel bar is positioned between two fixtures of the positioning mechanism and an end of the steel bar presses against a positioning detection rod of the processing mechanism assembly, the processing mechanism assembly sends a start signal to the control mechanism and, upon receipt of the start signal, the control mechanism drives the positioning mechanism, the transverse moving mechanism, the longitudinal moving mechanism and the processing mechanism assembly, for enabling the two fixtures to clamp the steel bar and then enabling the processing mechanism assembly to sequentially perform a first turning, a second turning and a thread rolling on peripheral edge of the steel bar adjacent to the end of the steel bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: DER FUN PRESTRESSED METAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tien-Fa Wang
  • Patent number: 9707657
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine tool as well as to a method for operating the machine tool. The machine tool comprises a workpiece carrier (20) that can be incrementally rotated about an incremental advance axis (22) and has several carrier sides (25). A first workpiece chuck unit (26) for holding a workpiece in a first position (P1) and a second workpiece chuck unit (27) for holding a workpiece in a second position (P2) are arranged on each carrier side (25). In each angular position or incremental advance position of the workpiece carrier (20), one carrier side (25) is in a loading station (30), one carrier side (25) is in an unloading station 31, and the respectively other carrier sides (25) are in respectively one work station (32). A workpiece changing device (34) is provided, said device moving a partially machined workpiece (16a) out of the first position (P1) in the unloading station (31) into the second position (P2) in the loading station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: FFG WERKE GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Lutz, Daniel Scholz, Armin Mueller
  • Patent number: 9707651
    Abstract: A workpiece change for use in a machine tool that comprises a tool spindle for clamping tools for machining workpieces, comprises two wheels arranged parallel to one another and rotatable about an axis of rotation into at least two prominent angular positions. Two swivel tables for clamping workpieces are arranged between the wheels and are each mounted on the wheels to swivel about a swivel axis which runs parallel to the axis of rotation. In each prominent angular position, one of the swivel tables is located in its working position in which clamped workpieces can be machined with the tools. Both wheels are supported at their rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: CHIRON-WERKE GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dirk Prust, Michael Eble
  • Patent number: 9700944
    Abstract: A tool head for use with a modular shank tool includes at least two preforms. Each preform of the at least two performs is made separately from the other preform of the at least two preforms from granular materials and then put together and jointly compressed and integrally bonded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Christoph Gey, Juergen Schwaegerl
  • Patent number: 9700977
    Abstract: A motor-driven machine tool includes a drive unit and a tool changing magazine with tool chambers that are placed into a transfer position adjacent to a tool receptacle to be loaded. The machine tool includes a tool changing device with a slide element that is arranged in operative connection with a tool. The slide element is moved by an operating element into a first position for accepting a tool from or transferring a tool to the tool chamber and into a second position to drive the tool. The slide element is fixed in the second position by a blocking element that is brought out of operative connection with the slide element by a transfer element to move the slide element from the second position to the first position. The slide element is arranged in indirect contact with the blocking element to move the blocking element by the transfer element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Attila Nagy
  • Patent number: 9700975
    Abstract: Disclosed is a five axis machining apparatus. The five axis machining apparatus comprises a base member, a support member, a stationary base, a first moving plate, a second moving plate, a third moving plate, a fourth moving frame, a fifth moving frame and a controller (not shown). The five axis machining apparatus is designed to hold together A, C and X axes thereby resulting in a reduced size without compromising on rigidity that is required for processing metallic job components. The five axis machining apparatus allows independent as well as simultaneous control of X, Y, Z, A and C axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Inventor: Nitin Narayan Kelkar
  • Patent number: 9682453
    Abstract: A tool changer for a machine tool is provided with a spindle head, tool magazine, rotating shaft, and magazine drive motor. The tool magazine is provided with a tool-magazine power transmission unit. The tool-magazine power transmission unit and a magazine-drive-motor power transmission unit engage with each other at all times between a proximity position and a separated position relative to the spindle head of the tool magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gaku Isobe, Masahiro Murota, Naoki Sato
  • Patent number: 9656329
    Abstract: A machining jig for rotatably supporting a workpiece comprising: a rotary drive part which rotates a seating part about a rotation axis, a clamp arm which has a rotary type clamp member which cooperates with the seating part to fasten a workpiece at a position separated from the seating part in a direction along the rotation axis of the seating part, a linear drive part which moves the clamp arm in a direction along a rotation axis, a position adjusting part which adjusts a position of the clamp arm in a plane intersecting the rotation axis, and a tilt adjusting part which adjusts a tilt of the clamp member so that a rotation axis of the clamp member becomes parallel with the rotation axis of the seating part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Ogawa, Takashi Nagatomi
  • Patent number: 9656360
    Abstract: The invention relates to a grinding installation with a grinding machine having a head plate which is driven in a rotating and/or oscillating manner and is designed for receiving and releasably holding a grinding disk and with a device for replacing a grinding disk, which is releasably fixed on the head plate, with a stop element, against which the head plate with the grinding disk can be placed in a removal position, at least one removal finger which is adjustable between a retracted position and an engaged position, in which the removal finger engages into a recess on the head plate in the removal position, and a clamping means, through which the at least one removal finger is displaceable relative to the stop element, wherein the removal finger, for the purpose of releasing the grinding disk, comes to rest against its rear side and clamps the grinding disk on the stop element. The invention furthermore describes a corresponding method for replacing a grinding disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: ASIS GmbH
    Inventor: Hans-Juergen Multhammer
  • Patent number: 9649763
    Abstract: The present invention relates to modular system for micro-nano manipulation of samples. The modular system of the present invention comprises changeable tool tips which may be provided in an array, and a tool body. Each changeable tool tip comprises an end effector connected to a base having mating structures. The tool body includes an arm having slits having dimensions and being disposed on the arm so as to detachably couple with the mating structures of the tool tip. The slits may include an opening with rounded corners for receiving the mating structures, and tapered side walls for frictionally fitting the mating structures. The present invention relates also to a connection system for connecting a micro-dimensional tool body to a changeable micro-dimensional tool tip and to a manipulation tool for use with changeable tool tips of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Inventors: Yu Sun, Ko Lun Chen
  • Patent number: 9630285
    Abstract: A servo-driven tool unclamping system for a machine tool contains: a tool changing unit, a tool unclamp unit, and a servo control unit. The tool changing unit includes a cam box, a first servo motor for driving the cam box, a driving shaft driven by the cam box, and a tool change arm driven by the driving shaft. The tool unclamp unit includes a spindle, a transmission assembly, and a second servo motor. The servo control unit includes a main controller, a first servo drive and a second servo drive both electrically connected with and controlled by the main controller. The first servo drive and the second servo drive are also electrically coupled with the first servo motor and the second servo motor and numerically control the tool changing unit and the tool unclamp unit, hence the tool change arm operates, and the spindle clamps and unclamps each tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: INNOSERV FA INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Chuan Chiu, Chih-Lung Lai
  • Patent number: 9616539
    Abstract: A machine tool comprises a tool spindle which can be positioned in 3 axes and a pivot bridge pivotable about an A axis with a round table for mounting a workpiece pallet supporting a workpiece. Furthermore, in front of the pivot bridge, a mount is provided for a processed workpiece or workpiece to be processed located on a workpiece pallet. Between the mount and the pivot bridge a pallet changer is provided which can only perform a vertical displacement movement and a pivot movement about a vertical axis. Workpiece pallets are picked up and put down only during the vertical displacement movement of the pallet changer, or possibly by pivoting the pivot bridge about the A axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: LICON MT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Winfried Benz, Frank Gessner, Thomas Weinbuch, Gerald Stengele
  • Patent number: 9616586
    Abstract: A cutting and insertion device for cutting an elongate tube to tube sections includes a frame section, a spinning wheel, a sheave section, a first pipe, a set of clamping members, and a set of plunger members. The spinning wheel mounts a roll of the elongate tube. The sheave section is attached to the frame section to allow traversal of the elongate tube through a first pipe. The first pipe is attached adjacent to the sheave section to receive the elongate tube, and includes slits to receive a knife to slice the elongate tube exposed to the knife at the slits to form a tube section. The clamping members are attached to the frame section to clamp the sliced tube sections at opposing ends. The plunger members are attached to the frame section to insert a fitting to the plunger member at the opposing ends of the sliced tube sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Inventors: Caleb Schrock, Jeremy Swartzentruber
  • Patent number: 9616536
    Abstract: A counterweight mechanism for a swivel arrangement includes first and second counterweights each including a seat, an axle, and two cylinders. The swivel arrangement has one end adjacent to the axle. The axle is rotatably, partially disposed in the seat. Each cylinder has a first end pivotably secured to a position proximate to the axle and a second end pivotably secured to the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: KEN ICHI MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming-Yueh Yeh
  • Patent number: 9604331
    Abstract: A replacement device of a processing apparatus includes a gripping device having a single first support member positionally fixed, a first gripping portion provided on the first support member to grip a holder not to rotate in a releasing direction when the processing member is removed from the holder, and a second gripping portion provided on the first support member apart from the first gripping portion to grip the holder not to rotate in a restricting direction when the processing member is attached to the holder, and a holding device having a single movable second support member, plural first holding portions provided on the second support member to respectively accommodate the processing member removed from the holder, and plural second holding portions provided on the second support member apart from the first holding portions to respectively accommodate the processing member that is to be attached to the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignees: F-TECH INC., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naohiro Noma, Yukio Shoji, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Mitsuru Sayama