Patents Examined by SAra Addisu
  • Patent number: 10005144
    Abstract: A broach tool includes a broach tool rake face with a tailored surface topography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Tahany I. El-Wardany, Wayde R. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10005141
    Abstract: A tool holder has a tool body with at least one pocket for receiving at least one cutting insert. The at least one pocket has a support surface and an abutment surface transverse thereto, and a first stress relief surface located between the support surface and the abutment surface. The first stress relief surface extends along a first axis towards a first pocket peripheral surface. A second stress relief surface is formed between the first stress relief surface and the first pocket peripheral surface. The second stress relief surface has a convex shape in a cross-sectional view taken in a second plane containing the first axis. The convex shape may have a radius greater than 0.3 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Assaf Ballas
  • Patent number: 9999927
    Abstract: A tool assembly for heavy duty machining includes an insert, tool and clamp for securing the insert to a rigid insert seat of the tool. The insert is a solid cutting insert including a single cutting edge located at a corner region thereof. At a diagonally opposed corner region the insert is not subjected to clamping forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil Hecht, Dima Makhlin, Sergey Chistyakov
  • Patent number: 9999934
    Abstract: A bevel gear manufacturing face cutter head (2) for face hobbing and face milling. The cutter head has blade positioning slots (20) having a four-sided shaped cross-section and positive blade seating surfaces (22, 24). The cutter head also has the capability to clamp cutting blades (8) tight to the positive blade seating surfaces and to adjust the cutting blades radially after they are pre-clamped and axially located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: THE GLEASON WORKS
    Inventors: Hermann J. Stadtfeld, Anthony J. Norselli
  • Patent number: 9993939
    Abstract: An adjustable lathe mounting system for turning a work piece on a rotating lathe having a lathe bed, headstock, and a headstock spindle, where the work piece is attached to the headstock spindle. The lathe mounting system includes an adjustable base releasably attached to the slotted way of the bed via a locking plate and a pair of laterally adjustable way spacers moveable within a laterally extending slot that engage each side of the slotted way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: CARTER PRODUCTS COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Leland T. Perez, Jeffery S. Folkert
  • Patent number: 9993876
    Abstract: A cutting tool holder has a holder body and a vibration damping weight assembly. The holder body has opposing first and second side surfaces and a top surface extending therebetween, and an insert mounting portion located at a front end of the holder body adjacent to the top surface. A weight aperture opens out to the first and second side surfaces and has an aperture inner surface. The weight assembly is located within the weight aperture, having a first and second weight portions, a damping ring located along the aperture inner surface, and an actuating member interfacing and urging the first and second weight portions away from one another, such that each weight portion presses against the damping ring within the weight aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil Hecht, Ofir Zagagy, Jony Saffouri, Ilya Men
  • Patent number: 9993883
    Abstract: A multi-flute ball end mill comprising a shank portion, a cutting edge portion having a ball-shaped tip portion, and 3 or more cutting edges formed in the cutting edge portion; each cutting edge being constituted by a peripheral cutting edge having a twist angle ? of 35-45°, and a ball-end cutting edge having a twist angle ? at the outermost peripheral point, the twist angle ? and the twist angle ? meeting the relation of ????7°, such that the ball-end cutting edge is smoothly connected to the peripheral cutting edge; the ball-end cutting edge having a radial rake angle of ?37° to ?11°; the peripheral cutting edge having a radial rake angle of 2-8°; and a center-lowered, inclined cutting edge integrally extending from a tip end of each ball-end cutting edge to a rotation center point, in a tip end portion of the ball portion near the rotation center point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Tool Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinjiroh Sakai
  • Patent number: 9993884
    Abstract: A double-sided tangential cutting insert comprising a pair of cutting rake faces, a pair of major side surfaces and a pair of opposing minor side faces each having a twisted convex shape. Each of the cutting rake faces is defined between a pair of main cutting edges, a pair of full nose cutting edges, and a pair of opposing convex minor cutting edges. Each of the minor side faces is defined between one of the convex minor cutting edges at one of the rake faces and one of the convex minor cutting edges at the other one of the rake faces wherein, at each minor side face, a ridge line interconnects an apex of the convex minor edge at the one of the rake faces and an apex of the convex minor cutting edge at the other one of the rake faces. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Xiangdong Daniel Fang, Michael R. Cripps, Jean-Luc Daniel Dufour, David J. Wills
  • Patent number: 9981323
    Abstract: A double-sided tangential cutting insert, as well as a tool holder system that carries a plurality of the double-sided tangential cutting inserts, that has a peripheral side shape, as viewed from one of said cutting rake faces, that includes a pair of generally identical opposing main cutting edges wherein each of the main cutting edge comprises a substantially straight main cutting edge portion and an adjoining convex main cutting edge portion. The convex main cutting edge portion is truncated by an adjacent convex minor side face so as to define a generally sharp edge and a point of truncation. The peripheral side shape further includes a pair of opposing full nose cutting edges with a nose cutting radius; and a pair of opposing convex minor cutting edges with a minor cutting edge radius. The minor cutting edge radius is at least about four times greater than the nose cutting radius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Xiangdong Daniel Fang, Jean-Luc Dufour, Lance Brunetto, Kent Mizgalski, David Wills, David Cope
  • Patent number: 9981330
    Abstract: A power skiving tool includes a basic body, which is equipped with a plurality of replaceable cutting inserts, by means of which chips can be carved or peeled out of a workpiece with the purpose of forming, for instance, teeth. The individual cutting insert is formed with only one cutting edge) and has a rear end in the form of a shoulder surface, against which an adjusting mechanism is pressed for the fine adjustment of the radial position of the cutting insert in relation to the basic body. On the underside of the cutting insert, there is in addition a control means, e.g. a serration connecting surface, which interacts with the corresponding control means in the appurtenant seat in the basic body. In addition, the invention concerns a power skiving cutting insert as such.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventor: Sture Sjoo
  • Patent number: 9975181
    Abstract: This present disclosure relates to a device for rotary entrainment of a workpiece clamped between two tips, which is mounted on a machine table of a machine tool, consisting of a base body with a centrically arranged tip and a plurality of concentrically arranged, axially shiftable driver elements which for the rotary entrainment of the workpiece are pressed against or into an end-face surface, wherein an axial position of the driver elements can be defined by active fixation after a centering operation of the workpiece, and to a receptacle opposite the base body, for example a tip or hollow tip, which serves a guidance of an opposite side of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Johannes Weixler
  • Patent number: 9962768
    Abstract: Pipe machining apparatuses and methods of operating are provided. In one aspect, a pipe machining apparatus includes an advancement mechanism coupled to a frame and adapted to move relative to the frame between a first position, in which the advancement mechanism is in a travel path of an advancement member and is adapted to be engaged by the advancement member to advance a tool, and a second position, in which the advancement mechanism is positioned out of the travel path of the advancement member and is not adapted to be engaged by the advancement member. In another aspect, a pipe machining apparatus includes multiple motors and pinion gears engaged with a gear rack of a tool carrier. In a further aspect, a pipe machining apparatus includes a race wiper. In yet another aspect, a pipe machining apparatus includes a race lubrication member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOK WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Pierce, Michael W. Gearhart
  • Patent number: 9962769
    Abstract: A pipe cutting tool having: a plurality of rollers; a clamping member moveable between an open position in which a pipe is insertable between the plurality of rollers and a clamping position in which the pipe is secured between the rollers; a cutting apparatus having first, second, and third cutting members configured to optionally sequentially engage the pipe when positioned between the plurality of rollers; a drive motor drivingly connected to at least one of the rollers; and an actuator operatively connected to the drive motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Inventors: Wayne Ernest Conrad, Nina Conrad, Brian Burke, Don Vivian
  • Patent number: 9956617
    Abstract: A pipe cutting tool having: a plurality of rollers; a clamping member moveable between an open position in which a pipe is insertable between the plurality of rollers and a clamping position in which the pipe is secured between the rollers; a cutting apparatus having first, second, and third cutting members configured to optionally sequentially engage the pipe when positioned between the plurality of rollers; a drive motor drivingly connected to at least one of the rollers; and an actuator operatively connected to the drive motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Ernest Conrad, Nina Conrad, Brian Burke, Don Vivian
  • Patent number: 9950372
    Abstract: Beveling tools having a variety of features are described. The tools can utilize a combination of handles, a protective external frame, guide rollers that are positionally adjusted by swing arms with timing lobes, or by an alternative guide bar mounting system, a helical knurled drive roller, guide rollers that have a convex or crowned face, skewed guide rollers, a positive clutch assembly for governing force applied to the guide rollers, a hand crank assembly for moving the tool when mounted on a workpiece, position adjustment provisions for varying the position of a milling head, and indicators providing visual feedback to an operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: RIDGE TOOL COMPANY
    Inventors: Brandon Moherman, Michael J. Rutkowski, Harish Prakash Kulkarni, Jon R. Dunkin, Robert Skrjanc, James E. Hamm
  • Patent number: 9943910
    Abstract: A cutting tool composed of a sintered cermet body is disclosed. The body includes hard phases composed of carbide(s), nitride(s), and carbonitride(s) of metal(s) selected from metals belonging to Groups 4, 5, and 6 of the periodic table including Ti as a main component, and includes first and second hard phases, and a binding phase mainly composed of at least one of Co and Ni. The body includes first and second faces, a cutting edge located at an edge of the first and second faces, and an interior portion located at a depth of 400 ?m or more from the first face. When residual stresses are measured by a 2D method, stress of the first hard phase is 80 MPa or more in terms of compressive stress. Stresses of the second hard phase and the binding phase are ?50 MPa to 50 Mpa in terms of compressive or tensile stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Tokunaga, Hideyoshi Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 9937596
    Abstract: In a steady rest (1) for centering a rotationally symmetrical workpiece (2) in the space, consisting of: two housing halves (4, 5) arranged at a distance from one another and firmly connected together, a middle steady rest arm (6) arranged between the two housing shells (4, 5) that is mounted in the housing shells (4, 5) by means of an actuation piston (7) so as to be moved in an axial direction (3) towards the workpiece (2), and two outer steady rest arms (11, 12) that are in a driving connection with the middle steady rest arm (6) workpieces (2) with the largest possible diameters should be held centerd in the space by the steady rest (one), while retaining the greatest possible movement of travel of the actuation piston (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: SMW-Autoblok Spannsysteme GmbH
    Inventor: Eckhard Maurer
  • Patent number: 9937566
    Abstract: A spirally-fed drilling and milling cutter to be driven spirally in order to drill and mill includes a shank, a groove at one of a plurality of offset positions at one end of the shank, a blade at a bottom side of the groove, and a spiral flute on the periphery of the main body of the shank, wherein the spiral flute has a flute end connected with the groove. When the cutter is rotated at high speed and in high torsion, drilling/milling chips are pushed upward, along with a cutting liquid, through the spiral flute out of a hole being made. Thus, the heat generated by the cutting action is reduced, and the chips are efficiently discharged, allowing the cutting edges to stay sharp and the cutter to make deep holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Inventor: Hsin-Tien Chang
  • Patent number: 9937569
    Abstract: A cutting insert for a tool for machining a workpiece, wherein the cutting insert has a 180° rotational symmetry about a bore axis extending perpendicularly and centrally through two opposing, identical base surfaces of the cutting insert, and has two identical parts which are connected along a center plane, wherein said center plane extends orthogonally to the bore axis and has the same distance from each of the two base surfaces, wherein each part has two identical mutually opposite main sides and two identical mutually opposite secondary sides, wherein each main side has a rectilinear main cutting edge extending parallel to the center plane, and each secondary side has a planar bearing surface extending orthogonally to the center plane, wherein the two main cutting edges of each part extend parallel to one another and transversely to the two main cutting edges of the respective other part, and wherein the two main cutting edges of each part extend parallel to the two bearing surfaces of the respective othe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: HARTMETALL-WERKZEUGFABRIK PAUL HORN GMBH
    Inventor: Christian Stark
  • Patent number: 9925596
    Abstract: A turning tool holder includes a tool body, a cutting tool insert, and a shim. A coolant conduit system extends through the turning tool holder, a first portion of the coolant conduit system extending through the tool body and an end portion of the coolant conduit system extending through the shim. The end portion of the coolant conduit system includes a through hole extending from a first surface to an opposite second surface of the shim. The end portion has a coolant outlet opening at the second surface, the coolant outlet opening being formed by the shim alone. A jet of coolant from the coolant outlet opening may be directed towards a space expected to have a cutting zone of a workpiece. Further a cutting tool insert arranged to be used in a turning tool holder is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Adam Johansson, Gustav Gewers