Patents Examined by SAra Addisu
  • Patent number: 10562143
    Abstract: A method for reducing regenerative chatter in chip-removal machines wherein a tool head (2) machines walls of a workpiece (1) by means of at least one chip-removal tool and during this machining, the tool head is vibrationally excited and a loose additional mass (mz) is moved by the vibration. The additional mass randomly touches the tool head (2) in first position or randomly has no connection to the tool head (2) in second position, and thus the total mass of the tool head (2) is randomly changed by the amount of the additional mass (mz). This change in mass of the tool head in turn changes the frequency of vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Rattunde AG
    Inventor: Ulrich Rattunde
  • Patent number: 10556278
    Abstract: A tool body (12) for a shell end mill (10) is described with at least one helical chip guiding groove (24) arranged at the circumference of the tool body (12) for chip dissipation and at least two receptacles (28) for indexable cutting inserts (26) arranged at the chip guiding groove (24). In this case, the receptacles (28) each include a base surface having a bore for receiving an indexable cutting insert fastening screw (34) and at least one first abutment surface adjacent to the base surface. The transition between the base surface and the first contact surface is a groove. In addition, a cutting tool is described with such a tool body, wherein a two-sided indexable cutting insert (26) is attached in each receptacle (28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Alex Fraese, Mark Alan Francis, Werner Bruno Penkert, Michael Kreuzer
  • Patent number: 10556272
    Abstract: A holder for a tool for machining a workpiece, wherein the holder comprises a cutting insert receptacle in the region of its front end for receiving a cutting insert and a clamping portion in the region of its opposite rear end for clamping the holder in a machine tool. The cutting insert receptacle comprises an upper and a lower clamping jaw, wherein the holder comprises an upper part on which the upper clamping jaw is arranged, and a lower part on which the lower clamping jaw is arranged. The upper and the lower parts are connected together exclusively by means of a web which extends between a first and a second separating slit, wherein the two separating slits extend between the upper part and the lower part of the holder and are arranged on opposite sides of the web such that the upper part is pivotable relative to the lower part via the web in the manner of a rocker. The first separating slit extends in a front holder region between the cutting insert receptacle and the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Hartmetall-Werkzeugfabrik Paul Horn GmbH
    Inventor: Hassan Noureddine
  • Patent number: 10549362
    Abstract: Cutting tools for pipe cutting frames are disclosed. Example split frame pipe cutting tools include a frame and a slide tool configured to position a cutting edge in contact with the workpiece, the slide tool comprising: a radial advancement mechanism configured to provide radial advancement of the cutting edge based on circumferential advancement of the slide tool by the frame; and an axial guide rail; a recirculating bearing carriage configured to slide in an axial direction along the axial guide rail and to couple the cutting edge to the axial guide rail; an axial advancement mechanism configured to advance the cutting edge in the axial direction with respect to the workpiece by translating radial advancement by the radial advancement mechanism to axial advancement based on a cutting template coupled to the radial advancement mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Pierce, Michael W. Gearhart
  • Patent number: 10549361
    Abstract: This invention relates to cutting tools used to machine materials to produce new surfaces and chips of removed material. Embodiments of this invention allow round rotating cutting inserts to be used in a more economical way, with improved accuracy, with improved sealing, and with greater ease of use. The rotary support device and cutting inserts may be used in either radial or tangential mounting types of cutters. It also provides a built-in, fully sealed means of fine adjustment of the cutting insert that is useful in some applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: EIP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: William J. Endres, Douglas J. Woodruff
  • Patent number: 10549366
    Abstract: A whirling tool for machining a workpiece, having: three or a multiple of three cutting plates, wherein each of the cutting plates comprises at least one cutting edge; a cutting plate holder having a plurality of cutting plate receptacles, wherein each of the cutting plate receptacles is configured to receive one of the cutting plates, wherein the cutting plate receptacles are disposed so as to be distributed in a circumferential direction across the cutting plate holder; and a plurality of fastening elements for releasably fastening the cutting plates in the cutting plate receptacles of the cutting plate holder; wherein the cutting plates comprise at least two different kinds of cutting plates, wherein at least one cutting plate of a first kind, and one cutting plate of a second kind are provided for each group of three cutting plates that are disposed beside one another on the cutting plate holder, wherein the cutting plate of the first kind differs from the cutting plate of the second kind by an overall ge
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Hartmetall-Werkzeugfabrik Paul Horn GmbH
    Inventor: Eckhard Wagner
  • Patent number: 10549352
    Abstract: Cutting tool systems including a tool holder and tangential cutting inserts are disclosed. The tangential cutting inserts have indexable cutting edges that may be sinusoidal-shaped and helical-shaped. The tangential cutting inserts have integrated fan and base portions. The tool holders comprise a plurality of insert pockets structured and arranged to receive the indexable tangential cutting inserts. The cutting tool systems provide cutting tools with effectively longer sinusoidal and helical cutting edges at their cutting rake faces and a strong support when seating in insert-receiving pockets on the tool holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Xiangdong D. Fang, Jean-Luc D. Dufour, David J. Wills
  • Patent number: 10543544
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a machine tool comprising a tool holder which rotates relative to a workpiece to be machined and has a tool axis, and a plurality of cutting inserts that are removably attached to the tool holder, the active cutting edges of said cutting inserts having a common cutting circle which is coaxial to the tool axis. According to this disclosure, the tool holder has a cylinder-type insert seat shell for radially positioning the cutting inserts, which rotates about the tool axis. The cutting inserts have at least one contact surface that can be brought into contact with the insert seat shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: KOMET GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Cristian Colletta, Wolfgang Bierl, Simone Nägele, Waldemar Dubs, Frederik Peters, Peter Leuze
  • Patent number: 10532409
    Abstract: A device for holding tools for machine tools, includes at least one interchangeable holder and one base holder. Each interchangeable holder includes two interchangeable-holder guiding elements which are engaged with base-holder guiding elements of the base holder. Furthermore, each interchangeable holder comprises an interchangeable-holder coolant channel comprising an interchangeable-holder coolant-channel opening in one of the interchangeable-holder guiding elements, which comes into contact with a base-holder coolant-channel opening of a base-holder coolant channel, which is arranged on a base-holder guiding element. First guiding elements—either the interchangeable-holder guiding elements or the base-holder guiding elements—have a convex semicircular cross-section. The cross-section has a flat area containing the vertex of the semicircle, or it has two widened areas which are arranged in mirror symmetry on the semicircle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Goeltenbodt Praezisionswerkzeug—und Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Dieter Goeltenbodt
  • Patent number: 10532408
    Abstract: A pipe end machining device configured to machine an end of a pipe includes an outer housing, a spindle rotatably mounted within the outer housing and configured to carry tool supports and cutting tools, a mounting assembly configured to be attached to the pipe, a stem extending from the mounting assembly and connected to the spindle by an interengagement which allows the spindle to move linearly relative to the stem, but prevents rotational movement of the spindle relative to the stem, and a locking assembly attached to the stem and configured to fix the vertical position of the outer housing and the spindle relative to the mounting assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventor: Alexander S. Giberman
  • Patent number: 10525539
    Abstract: A compression milling cutter includes a shank and a front cutting portion that terminates at a leading end of the milling cutter. The front cutting portion has a first circumferential row of one or more insert receiving pockets proximate a leading end of the milling cutter, and a second circumferential row of one or more insert receiving pockets, each insert receiving pocket configured to receive a respective indexable cutting insert. The cutting insert mounted in the first circumferential row has a positive axial rake angle, A, and the indexable cutting insert mounted in an insert pocket of the second circumferential row has a negative axial rake angle, B. Because of the different axial rake angles, chips generated during a machining operation flow in opposite directions, thereby creating a compression zone disposed between the first and second circumferential rows. This compression zone replicates the cutting action of a solid end mill, particularly when machining fiber reinforced plastic materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Slusarcyk, Thomas J. Long, II, Tim J. Marshall, Ronald Louis Dudzinsky
  • Patent number: 10525560
    Abstract: A tool holder has a main body and a holding pin onto which a rotary tool having a corresponding holding bore can be placed. At least one channel for transporting coolant or lubricant, the channel leading to the outer circumference of the holding pin, is arranged in the tool holder. In order to enable cooling of the cutting edges of the rotary tool without great production complexity, at least one longitudinal groove for conducting the coolant or lubricant in a longitudinal direction of the holding pin is arranged on the outer circumference of the holding pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Franz Haimer Maschinenbau KG
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Patent number: 10518338
    Abstract: An end mill includes a bar-shaped body, a cutting edge, a gash, a first flute, and a second flute. The body extends from a first end to a second end along a rotation axis. The cutting edge is located at a side of the first end of the body. The gash is located adjacent to the cutting edge. The first flute surrounds the gash and spirally extends from the gash toward the second end. The second flute surrounds the first flute and spirally extends from the first flute toward the second end. A depth of the first flute is greater than a depth of the second flute in a cross section orthogonal to the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiko Kuroda
  • Patent number: 10512976
    Abstract: A detachable cutting insert for an indexable rotary cutting tool, has a cutting edge portion that includes a major cutting edge continuous with a first end of a first corner edge near a short-side-direction side surface, which is formed into a straight line. The cutting insert has a first minor cutting edge that is continuous with a second end of the major cutting edge, which is formed into a circular arc. The cutting insert has a second minor cutting edge that is continuous with a third end of the first minor cutting edge, which is formed into a straight line. In a cross-sectional view of a rake face of the second minor cutting edge, perpendicular to the second minor cutting edge, a cross-sectional ridgeline of the rake face of the second minor cutting edge is formed into a convex shape protruding above a cross-sectional ridgeline of a reference plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI TOOL ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Hisanori Mura, Tadahiro Hibata, Tomohiro Murata, Masashi Noshita
  • Patent number: 10507528
    Abstract: A lathe including a moving headstock designed to rotate and move forward a workpiece to be turned in relation to an axis of translation and rotation. A guide bush is designed to be attached to a frame of the lathe and includes a bush spindle and a clamping mechanism. The guide bush is designed to operate either in bush mode or in grip mode and is designed to be moveable axially in relation to the frame along the axis of translation and rotation. The lathe is arranged to operate in a first mode in which the guide bush is driven axially by the moving headstock, and a second mode in which the axial position of the guide bush is static in relation to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: WATCH OUT SA
    Inventors: Philippe Jacot, Sebastien Laporte
  • Patent number: 10507529
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a cutting tool is disclosed. The cutting tool includes a holder and an insert. The holder has a shape extending from a first end to a second end, and includes a flow path and a pocket located at a side of the first end. The insert is located at the pocket. The flow path includes a first flow path and a second flow path. The first flow path includes a first opening located at a side of the first end and located above the insert. The second flow path includes a second opening located at a side of the first end and located above the first opening. A first imaginary line of the first flow path and a second imaginary line of the second flow path intersect each other above the insert. A method of manufacturing a machine product by using the cutting tool is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Youji Kobayashi, Atsumi Nishimoto
  • Patent number: 10507531
    Abstract: A cutting insert for profile turning, in particular for wheel profile turning, includes an upper surface, a lower surface, and side surfaces. At the transition from the upper surface to the side surfaces two cutting edges are formed for machining a workpiece and two further edges each having two ends. The two cutting edges are designed part-circular in shape and each extend from one end of one of the two edges to the opposite end of the other of the two edges. Also described is a cartridge for holding a cutting insert, the cartridge being mountable on a machine tool. The cartridge has a main seating surface having a plane angle (?) of greater than 90° to the axis of rotation (D) of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Helmut Gremer, Frank Funke, Dieter Rosenland
  • Patent number: 10500648
    Abstract: An elongated tool holder includes a tool anti-vibration component having a component housing portion and an anti-vibration arrangement. The anti-vibration arrangement includes an enclosed interior component cavity formed in the component housing portion. The anti-vibration arrangement also includes a vibration absorber portion disposed within the component cavity that is integrally formed with the component housing portion to have unitary one-piece construction therewith. The vibration absorber portion includes a vibration absorbing mass and at least one elastic suspension member through which the vibration absorbing mass is connected to the component housing portion. The component cavity includes an oscillating space located between an inner surface of the component housing portion and the vibration absorber portion. The vibration absorbing mass is configured to oscillate within the oscillating space upon elastic deformation of the at least one suspension member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Jony Saffouri
  • Patent number: 10493535
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cutting insert. The cutting insert according to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure has a dot formed between a main cutting edge and a chip breaker, and the dot has a bridge formed between the main cutting edges. Therefore, a chip, which is produced during a cutting process, may come into contact with three points on a main cutting edge land portion, the bridge, and the dot. The chip may discharge heat generated from the cutting insert while the chip comes into contact with the three points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: KORLOY INC
    Inventors: Dong Sub An, Sung Hun Kim, Hyo San Kim, Sang Ho Lim, Young Heum Kim
  • Patent number: 10493534
    Abstract: A method and a device for machining a workpiece rotating about a rotational axis. The machining point moves along the cutting edge of a cutting edge plane and the surface to be machined in a rolling movement on an advancement plane not intersected by the rotational axis. A pivot drive implements a large enough pivot angle so that a first workpiece surface is machined by a machining point moving along the first cutting edge in a first machining step. In a second machining step, a second workpiece surface is machined, wherein the machining point moves along the second cutting edge and the second workpiece surface. The cutting edge has a curvature radius smaller than the distance from the pivot axis of the holder to the cutting edge. The holder can additionally be displaced on the advancement plane with a movement component in a direction transverse to the rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: VANDURIT GMBH HARTMETALL UND DIAMANTWERKZEUGE
    Inventor: Jürgen Klose