Patents Examined by Sunil K. Singh
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Patent number: 9962775Abstract: Provided is a cutting edge position adjustment mechanism for moving a cutting edge member mounted on a tool body with respect to the tool body to adjust the position of a cutting edge. The cutting edge position adjustment mechanism is equipped with a shaft member that extends between the tool body and the cutting edge member and threadably engages with the tool body and a nut member that threadably engages with the shaft member and abuts against the cutting edge member; a first screw section that threadably engages with the tool body and a second screw section that threadably engages with the nut member are provided coaxially on the shaft member at different positions along the direction of an axis line of the shaft member; and the thread pitch of the first screw section and the thread pitch of the second screw section are different from each other.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2014Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Sakuyama, Takayoshi Saito
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Patent number: 9956656Abstract: This disclosure provides oil filling and labeling apparatuses for atomizers of electronic cigarettes, which include a rack provided with a table board. A material pick-up operation position, an oil filling operation position, an assembling operation position, a labeling operation position and a pressing operation position for silicon rubber sleeve are provided on the table board. The oil filling and labeling apparatuses for the atomizers of the electronic cigarettes further include a material loading mechanism, an oil filling mechanism, a mechanism for mounting oil-sealing ring, a mechanism for mounting end cap, an electric resistance detection mechanism, a first material rotation mechanism, a labeling mechanism, a second material rotation mechanism and a mechanism for pressing silicon rubber sleeve. The atomizer of the electronic cigarette is successively conveyed for processing among such mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2014Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: O-NET AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) LIMITEDInventors: Haisheng Zou, Zhicheng Li, Feng Chen, Xuebin Yu, Weizhao Tang, Lin Yang, Fei Shen, Qinglin Na
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Patent number: 9950398Abstract: A numerical control machine includes a bearing structure-frame suited to support various other parts, at least one lower surface, at least one table suited to hold a workpiece and mounted on the lower surface, and at least one head with an electric tool-holding spindle, wherein the lower surface is inclined.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Inventor: Lucio Carraro
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Patent number: 9937567Abstract: A drill has a replaceable cutting head mounted to a shank in an interlocking fashion. The shank has a pocket with at least one flat, vertically-angled retention surface located closer to a rotational axis than at least one driving surface. Similarly, the cutting head has at least one vertically-angled retention surface located closer to the rotational axis of the drill than at least one driven surface. As a result of the relative locations between the surfaces with respect to the rotational axis, the stresses and fatigue imposed on the drill are minimized, thereby prolonging tool life.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.Inventor: Ruy Frota de Souza Filho
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Patent number: 9919371Abstract: A gear machining apparatus includes a machining tool having a plurality of protruding tool edges on an outer periphery of the machining tool, and driving apparatuses that form a tooth on a work piece by rotating the machining tool around a central axis thereof, rotating the work piece W around a central axis thereof, and moving the machining tool relative to the work piece. Radial outer faces of the protruding tool edges form multiple steps that are parallel to the central axis of the machining tool such that the diameter of the machining tool increases in a stepwise manner from a tool leading end toward a tool base end of the machining tool.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuki Natsuda, Hisashi Otani, Hiroyuki Nakano
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Patent number: 9919453Abstract: A method for drilling an ophthalmic lens (10) includes the following steps: —memorizing the desired shape and dimensions of a drill hole (701; 702; 703) to be drilled in the ophthalmic lens (10) and the position of the opening of this drill hole on one of the faces (11, 12) of the ophthalmic lens; —positioning a drilling tool (80) facing the memorized position of the hole to be drilled; —determining a control setpoint for the transverse movement and axial advance of the drilling tool; and —drilling the ophthalmic lens according to the control setpoint. The control setpoint for the transverse movement and axial advance of the drilling tool forces the point of this drilling tool, on at least one drilling run, to follow a helical or pseudohelical trajectory depending on the desired shape and dimensions of the drill hole. An associated drilling device is also described.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: ESSILOR INTERNATIONAL (COMPAGNIE GENERALE D'OPTIQUE)Inventors: Cedric Lemaire, Sebastien Pinault
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Patent number: 9908180Abstract: The invention relates to a tool holder (10) for a cutting insert (18), having a shank (12), a counter bearing (14) on which a pocket (16) for a cutting insert (18) is provided, disposed on the front end of the shank, and a clamping segment (20) integrally joined to the shank (12) via a bending segment (22); wherein the clamping segment (20) has a clamping finger (28) and a clamping element (26) such that the clamping finger (28) is capable of acting against the counter bearing segment (14) by means of the clamping element (26), thereby enabling a cutting insert (18) to be clamped between the clamping finger (28) and the counter bearing segment (14); wherein the clamping segment (20) protrudes beyond the top side of the shank (12); and wherein a coolant supply passage (40, 42, 44, 46) extends through the shank (12) and the bending segment (22) into the clamping segment (20); wherein the coolant supply passage (40, 42, 44, 46) has a shank passage (46), a clamping finger passage (40), and a connecting passage (4Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.Inventors: Igor Kaufmann, Anwar Mohideen Abdul
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Patent number: 9901992Abstract: A high-feed milling tool assembly includes a tool and a ramping insert. The ramping insert includes ramping, feed and side sub-edges. The ramping and feed sub-edges are longer than the side sub-edges and converge with increasing proximity to the side sub-edge to which they are both connected.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.Inventors: Gil Hecht, Osama Atar, Talal Qeys
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Patent number: 9884373Abstract: A hole saw having a blade portion separable into two parts which when separated form a base portion and a tip portion. The base and the tip have correspondingly shaped apertures and lugs that co-operate together to hold the blade tip in place. A locking means further assists in ensuring that the blade tip remains locked to the base and includes a sliding latch that engages an aperture in the blade and the base and is itself locked in place to thereby lock the blade to the base. An intermediate portion also allows for the hole saw to drill through different depths.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Inventor: Kym John Keightley
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Patent number: 9884413Abstract: A socket retaining tool for preventing separation of a socket from a drive shaft of a driving tool. A keeper sleeve is configured to accommodate insertion and reciprocal movement of a quick change adapter and a quick change sleeve under the action of a biasing member. The quick change adapter has a male end and an opposite female end. The male and female ends are constructed and arranged to be used with locking mechanisms such that the socket is connected to the male end, and the drive shaft is connected to the female end. A socket locking mechanism coupled to the male end is enclosed by the keeper sleeve, and a driver locking mechanism coupled to the female end is enclosed by the quick change sleeve, when the socket retaining tool is in a relaxed position, thereby avoiding unwanted release of the locking mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2014Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Power House Tool, Inc.Inventors: Laura Patterson, Douglas John Francis, Sr., Douglas John Francis, Jr.
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Patent number: 9878384Abstract: Herein a cutting insert for a power skiving tool is disclosed. The cutting insert includes an insert body having a bottom surface extending in a first plane, and a body axis extending substantially in parallel with the first plane. The insert body has a cutting end portion and opposite thereto, an abutment surface. The abutment surface extends substantially perpendicularly to the body axis and to the first plane. The cutting end portion is provided with a first and a second cutting edge, the first cutting edge and the second cutting edge being directed in a same cutting direction. Herein, further a power skiving tool including such cutting inserts is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ABInventor: Sture Sjöö
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Patent number: 9873155Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for holding the shaft of an object, wherein the shaft rotates in a first working direction. The apparatus includes a bore, a first ball slot in communication with the bore, a first ball disposed within the first ball slot, and a spring. The bore has a longitudinal axis, and the shaft is inserted into the bore in an insertion direction. The first ball slot is in communication with the bore and includes a ramp. The first ball slot has a first axis that is angularly offset from the longitudinal axis at an acute angle between the insertion direction and the first working direction. Upon insertion of the shaft into the bore, the shaft contacts the ball and causes it to move along the ramp within the ball slot, thereby compressing the spring by a first amount.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2010Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: INSTY-BIT, LLCInventor: James L. Wienhold
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Patent number: 9868156Abstract: A work-piece support member forming part of a spindle liner for use within the hollow spindle of a turning machine comprising: a disc dimensioned to fit closely within the hollow spindle, having a central aperture (A) sized to accept a work-piece; holding at least one helical spring (20) positioned adjacent to the aperture (A); such that in use the axis of said spring is held perpendicular to the axis of said work-piece such that part of the side walls of said spring or springs (20) abut against said work-piece and thereby firmly support said work-piece as it rotates with the hollow spindle about the axis of said hollow spindle.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2013Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Inventor: Craig Drust
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Patent number: 9862031Abstract: A tube scraping apparatus comprises a body having a passageway for receiving a piping component; and a first blade and a second blade. The first blade and second blade each: are mounted to the body and shiftable between a first condition and a second condition; and having an engagement portion positioned to engage an outer diameter (OD) surface of the received piping component in at least one condition, the first blade engagement portion comprising a cutting edge for removing material from the OD surface. The second blade engagement portion comprises a partial thread for engaging the piping component to convert a rotation of the piping component relative to the body to an axial movement of the piping component relative to the body.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Georg Fischer Central Plastics LLCInventors: Robert A. Goodman, Michael D. Smith
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Patent number: 9855666Abstract: A mechanical cutting device cuts twisted strips of foods such as potatoes. The device comprises twisted cutting tubes, each having a ring secured at a distance from the cutting end. A plurality of such tubes may be arranged in an array, which may be supported by plates having an array of tube-supporting orifices. The cutting tubes are supported for rotation in such manner that, when force is exerted on the tubes to insert the tubes into the food, the tubes rotate as they cut into the food obtaining as result twisted strips of food.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2013Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: THE LAST TWIST, INC.Inventors: Jorge Antonio Alcala Lopez, Ernest O. Evans
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Patent number: 9849522Abstract: The invention concerns a machining tool for machining fiber-reinforced materials such as CFRP, glass-fiber-reinforced plastics or plastics reinforced with polyester threads. The machining tool comprises a plurality of flutes (1, 2, 3, 4) which distance lands (5, 6, 7, 8), disposed about a cylinder core segment (9), from each other in the peripheral sense. At least one of the lands (6, 8) is designed as a premachining land (6, 8) and at least one other of the lands (5, 7) is designed as a postmachining land (5, 7), each comprising a peripheral working region extending along, or with a twist and in the form of a helical segment about, the tool axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Hufschmied Zerspanungssysteme GmbHInventor: Ralf Hufschmied
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Patent number: 9849514Abstract: A cutting insert of one embodiment is provided with: an insert body having a top surface that has a corner section, a bottom surface, and side surfaces; a cutting edge that is positioned at an intersection between the top surface and the side surfaces, and includes a corner cutting edge, a first cutting edge and a second cutting edge; a rake face that slopes downward away from the cutting edge; and a first raised part that is positioned inside the rake face, and rises upward. The first raised part includes a protruding section that protrudes toward the corner cutting edge. The cutting insert is further provided with a second raised part that extends toward the first cutting edge and the second cutting edge from the protruding section, and has a convex curved shape in which, when viewed from above, the outer peripheral edge on the corner section side.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Kouhei Sakai
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Patent number: 9849603Abstract: A cutting fluid jet machine includes: a cutting fluid jet nozzle; a nozzle-angle adjusting servo motor; a nozzle-length adjusting servo motor; a nozzle-location calculating unit; and a nozzle controlling unit for controlling an angle and a length of the cutting fluid jet nozzle in accordance with movement of a machine tool in a spindle direction based on a nozzle location calculated by the nozzle-location calculating unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Rikizou Watanabe
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Patent number: 9844848Abstract: The method can include: assembling the part to be machined to a pallet into an assembly; measuring a centering of the part relative to the pallet; adjusting the centering of the part relative to the pallet based on said measuring; repeating the steps of measuring and adjusting until determining that the part is centered based on said measuring; and mounting the centered assembly to an automatic machining device and machining the part of the centered assembly with the automatic machining device.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Mario Blais, Fuat Atabey, Jean-Yves Barbeau
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Patent number: 9844820Abstract: An apparatus for cutting annular corrugations in an interior surface of a cylindrical tube having a cutter head comprising a plurality of cutting teeth; a drive shaft coupled to the cutter head for spinning the cutter head; a mandrel coupled to the cutter head, wherein the mandrel defines a longitudinal axis, wherein an axis of rotation of the cutter head is parallel to, but in a position not coaxial with the axis of rotation of the cutter head; an outer eccentric coupled to mandrel, wherein the outer eccentric rotates the mandrel, wherein the axis of rotation orbits around the longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: General AtomicsInventors: Michelangelo DiMartino, Charles P. Moeller