Patents Examined by Reinaldo A Vargas Del Rio
  • Patent number: 11951551
    Abstract: A positioning cutter/collet assembly has a cutter/collet and a magnetic attracting position key. The cutter/collet has a cutter/collet key seat recessed in an external annular surface thereof. The magnetic attracting position key is mounted on and magnetically attracts the cutter/collet key seat. The magnetic attracting position key has a body having a protruding rod and a magnetic attracting portion combined with the body and magnetically attracting the cutter/collet to prevent the magnetic attracting position key from separating from the cutter/collet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHIN-YAIN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pen Hung Chen
  • Patent number: 11945035
    Abstract: A machine tool comprises a tool carrier, e.g. in the form of a turret disc (7) that is provided with receptacles (8) for tool holders (9), wherein each tool holder and tool carrier comprise support surfaces associated to each other and devices for fixing the tool holder at the tool carrier. At least one clamping element is provided at the tool carrier (7) that is adjustably supported between a clamping position and a release position in a direction transverse to a tie rod of a tool holder arranged on a slider (22) receptacle of the tool carrier. The clamping element is provided with a first clamping surface (24) that can be brought into engagement with a second clamping surface (35) at the tie rod of the tool holder in a self-locking and releasable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ESA EPPINGER GMBH
    Inventors: Joel Judas, Rolf Liedecke
  • Patent number: 11919095
    Abstract: Provided is a lathe capable of shortening the spindle. The lathe comprises a spindle, a spindle support which supports the spindle through a bearing on an outer side of the spindle, a collet disposed on a front end of the spindle, an inner ring holder provided on the spindle to hold a front of an inner ring of the bearing, an outer ring holder provided on the spindle support to hold a front of an outer ring of the bearing, a cap screwed into the spindle in front of the inner ring holder, and a cover detachably provided on the spindle support side. The cover has an inner circumferential surface facing an outer circumferential surface of the cap. A first air purging unit is provided between the inner circumferential surface of the cover and the outer circumferential surface of the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: STAR MICRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Deno, Daisuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11919143
    Abstract: Provided is a system and method for a hand tool with a plurality of quick release work heads. The hand tool includes a handle having a socket having a first longitudinal axis and an inner cavity extending rearward from an open distal end, the inner cavity having a first non-circular cross section transverse to the first longitudinal axis, the socket further having a quick release transverse to the first longitudinal axis, the quick release releasably disposing a locker transversely across a portion of the inner cavity. The hand tool also includes at least one work head having a second longitudinal axis and a shaft having a second non-circular cross section concentrically conforming to the first non-circular cross section of the inner cavity, the shaft further having a locking groove transverse to the second longitudinal axis and disposed to engage with the quick release locker when the shaft is disposed within the socket of the handle. An associated method of use is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Inventor: Barry D. Nelson
  • Patent number: 11919094
    Abstract: A modular drill apparatus (100) includes: a shank (110) having a pocket (112); a cylindrical post (117) centrally secured within a bottom (114) of the pocket (112); a cutting tip (130) including a lower portion (131) including a central bore (136) which receives the cylindrical post (117), an upper portion (132) and a channel (134) therebetween; and an insert assembly (150) interfitted within and supported by the channel (134), the insert assembly (150) being expandable along a length thereof for securing the cutting tip (130) to the shank (110) within the pocket (112) by providing an interference fit and retractable along the length thereof for releasing the cutting tip (130) from the pocket (112) by overcoming the interference fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Marcelo Euripedes da Silva, Ruy Frota de Souza Filho
  • Patent number: 11897039
    Abstract: A tapping head configured to hold and drive different size taps with a slip joint that introduces a small amount of play bet ween the tap head and the tap to compensate for excessive lead that may damage the tap or the workpiece. The tapping head includes a base, a drive coupler, a drive sleeve, a driver, a clutch pack, a pressure ring, a clutch cover, a drive cover and a lock nut. The driver and drive sleeve are longitudinally coupled by splines that form a slip joint. The clutch pact includes discs that against the inside surface of the base and lower surface of the pressure ring. Mounted on the lower surface of the pressure ring are a plurality of clutch springs that force the pressure ring upward against the clutch pack. Disposed between the drive couple and the driver are thrust springs that exert downward forces on the driver. The clutch cover includes internal threads configured to attach to external threads formed on the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventor: Jerome Sailing
  • Patent number: 11883885
    Abstract: A retention chuck for glass pipes for machines producing glass containers is provided. The retention chuck has a central supply channel for the glass pipes, a plurality of adjustable clamping jaws arranged at the lower end of the supply channel and so as to be distributed around a centerline of the channel. The spacing of the jaws from the center line of the supply channel is adjustable by an actuation element. A coupling element couples the jaws to the actuation element. Guides guide the adjustment movement of the clamping jaws perpendicularly, radially inwardly relative to the center line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SCHOTT PHARMA SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Marcel Tremp, Marco Otero
  • Patent number: 11878355
    Abstract: A power tool chuck includes a body with a central bore extending along an axis and configured to receive a tool bit, a plurality of angled passageways, and a plurality of jaws received in the passageways and moveable between an axially forward and radially inward clamping position and an axially rearward and radially outward retracted position. At least one jaw has a rear end lying in a first plane transverse to the axis. A first key drive member coupled to a tail portion of the body is configured to be engaged by a second key drive member on a power tool output shaft to non-rotationally couple the body to the output shaft. The first key drive has a forward end lying in a second plane transverse to the axis. The second plane is axially forward of the first plane when the jaws are in the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: BLACK & DECKER INC.
    Inventors: Joseph P. Kelleher, William F. Gallagher, Louis M. Vasiliades, Trevor J. Koenig, Heather Schafer
  • Patent number: 11875967
    Abstract: An apparatus may include a clamp to clamp a substrate wherein the clamp is arranged opposing a back side of the substrate; and an illumination system, disposed to direct radiation to the substrate, when the substrate is disposed on the clamp, wherein the radiation comprises a radiation energy equal to or above a threshold energy to generate mobile charge in the substrate, where the illumination system is disposed to direct radiation to a front side of the substrate, opposite the back side of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Qin Chen, Julian G. Blake, Michael W. Osborne, Steven M. Anella, Jonathan D. Fischer
  • Patent number: 11872642
    Abstract: A dynamically configurable arbor assembly apparatus. The dynamically configurable arbor assembly apparatus provides plural configurations with removable and attachable components that can be dynamically adjusted and configured to be used with a large variety of power tools, lathes and/or milling machines including plural different attachment interfaces. The dynamically configurable arbor assembly apparatus can also replace a chuck component the power tools, lathes and/or milling machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: Robert James Suhling
  • Patent number: 11865626
    Abstract: A three-flute drill includes a body, discharge grooves, cutting edges, thinning edges and gash portions. The discharge grooves are provided in an outer peripheral surface of the body. The cutting edges are provided on ridge sections between inner faces of the discharge grooves and flanks of the body. The thinning edge extends from an end of the cutting edge toward a radially inner side. The gash portion includes an R portion and a straight portion. A first ridge line between the R portion and the flank extends while curving toward a rotation direction, from an end of the thinning edge toward a radially outer side. A second ridge line between the straight portion and the flank extends linearly from an end of the first ridge line toward the radially outer side, and connects to the discharge groove further to the radially inner side than the outer peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: OSG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamamoto, Hiroyasu Makino
  • Patent number: 11858053
    Abstract: Cutting tool for the rotary machining of workpieces, in particular a twist drill, with a cutting tip which has at least one main cutting edge and at least one free surface (24), wherein a flank face adjoins the main cutting edge radially to the outside, and wherein a flank angle of the flank face increases in a radially outward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Christian Strauchmann, Jürgen Schwägerl, Herbert Rudolf Kauper
  • Patent number: 11826894
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tool bar. The tool bar comprises a head part, a tail part, a pipe connection assembly, a backstop mechanism and a bushing member. The head part and the tail part are connected with each other by the pipe connection assembly. The bushing comprises a cone section and a cylinder section; one end of the head part passes through the cylinder section and connected to an inner thread of the cone section; the outer side of the cone section is configured to secure with a tool head; an external thread is provided on an outer surface of the cylinder section. The backstop mechanism comprises an intermediate member and a lock cap; the intermediate member is a hollow cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventors: Changzhi Fu, Xiaolin Fu, Yuxuan Fu, Chun Li, Dongjian Jin, Xiongjun Ren
  • Patent number: 11819929
    Abstract: A device for the controlled stabilization of tool holder shanks on the respective ring nut, the tool holder shanks, motorized or non-motorized, being predisposed for ER or other type fixing. The device comprises a ring nut and a tool holder shank of a truncated conical shape provided externally with a groove in which means connecting the ring nut to the tool holder are arranged inside the ring nut. The connecting means consist of an annular body formed of at least two shaped half-rings that define opposite protrusions projecting outwardly and centrally to form a shaped prominence having an arched-convex outer profile; on each of the shaped prominences a recess is made predisposed to house respective elastic pins, by means of which the shaped half-rings are firmly connected inside the ring nut blind holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: ALGRA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Giovanni Vezzoli
  • Patent number: 11813679
    Abstract: A cutting tool assembly includes a tool shank having a coupling opening, and an insert holder having an insert body to which an insert is coupled and detachably attached. A coupling protrusion protrudes from one surface of the insert body and is detachably coupled to the tool shank. Located on the coupling protrusion are a tapered contact portion which comes into contact with the coupling opening and provides a fixing force to fix the insert holder to the tool shank, and a contact surface at a rear end of the tapered contact portion which couples to a fastening member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TaeguTec Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang Young Lee
  • Patent number: 11759866
    Abstract: A modular additive manufactured tool assembly includes a perishable tool and a tool holder coupled to the perishable tool. The tool assembly is configured to be coupled to a machine spindle. The tool assembly also includes a spindle connection coupled to the tool holder. The spindle connection is configured to be coupled to a machine spindle. Each of the tool holder and the perishable tool includes a perishable material. Each of the tool holder and the perishable tool is manufactured using an additive manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Gabriel Gonzalez Gillis, Paul Tanis, Robert C. Portugaise
  • Patent number: 11759902
    Abstract: A workpiece adapter system to support a workpiece rotated by a rotary machine, the system including a first drive member having a proximal end configured to be secured in a chuck of a rotary machine, at least one workpiece adapter configured to secure at least a portion of an end of a workpiece in a central opening of the workpiece adapter, an adapter mount configured to be connected to the at least one workpiece adapter, and a universal joint assembly arranged between the first drive member and the adapter mount, the universal joint assembly comprising a first fork member coupled to the first drive member, and a second fork member coupled to the adapter mount. An adapter ring may be provided to rotatably support a workpiece being machined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventor: Robert Kyle Hughes, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11745274
    Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the field of machining of chamfers of holes. The hole chamfering device includes blades in bilateral symmetry and a blade distance adjusting, through the blade distance adjusting, the distance between the blades on the left side and the right side can be adjusted, thus, after the blades on the left side and the right side of the hole chamfering device process chamfers on the front face of a hole, the distance between the blades is reduced to enable the blades to pass through the hole to process chamfers on the back face of the hole, after processing of the chamfers on the back face of the hole is completed, the distance between the blades is reduced, the hole chamfering device not only can chamfer the front face of the hole, but also can chamfer the back face of the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: CITIC Dicastal Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huiying Liu, Zuo Xu, Hanqi Wu
  • Patent number: 11717896
    Abstract: A lower drill tool that is structurally configured to receive a bracket, and, to cooperate with an upper drill tool having a pair of spaced apart drill bits. The lower drill tool has part receiving surface, a pair of spaced apart drill bores, a central bore, a centering nub and a biasing member. The drill bores extend downwardly away from the part receiving surface. The central bore is between the drill bores and extends downwardly away from the part receiving surface. The centering nub is slidable within the central bore, and has an upper tip extendable beyond the part receiving surface, positionable between an extended position and a partially retracted position. The upper tip has a conical configuration. The biasing member is positioned within the central bore and biases the centering nub toward the extended position. A drill system and a method are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: JR Automation Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Robert Russell, Jason R. Turman, Ryan Nathan Anderson, Marcos Merino, Gabriel C. Van't Land
  • Patent number: 11712740
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a built-in type spindle, and more particularly, to a built-in type supersonic spindle, which includes a housing having a built-in spindle unit therein and a supersonic vibrator pressing the built-in spindle unit in order to enhance machining accuracy and reduce a damage of a bearing by vibrating a spindle and the bearing at the same time, and an excitation method using the built-in type supersonic spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: KASWIN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gi Soo Kim