Abstract: A polishing method is described for polishing a machine component comprising at least one airfoil portion comprised of a suction side, a pressure side, a leading edge and a trailing edge. The method provides for arranging the machine component in a container and constraining the machine component to the container. A polishing mixture is added in the container, and the container is caused to vibrate together with the machine component constrained thereto, thereby generating a polishing mixture flow along the airfoil portion until a final arithmetic average roughness is achieved.

Abstract: A device for polishing of a multi-surface workpiece is described. The device includes a base and a vertical motion platform that moves along two support rods, which carries a motor that drives a rotating shaft. The support rods extend from the base. A polishing tool is attached to the motor shaft. The workpiece being polished is placed on a linear motion stage during the polishing process.

Abstract: An abrasive jet cutting system may include a differential pressure measurement apparatus configured to measure a differential pressure between points in an abrasive supply system. The differential pressure may be used to determine one or more conditions of the jet and the abrasive delivery. The measured differential pressure may be used in a feedback control system, feed forward control system, and/or an alarm or safety system.

Abstract: A chemical mechanical polishing apparatus including a conditioning head having a first pressure sensor and a controller configured to adjust at least one of a position or a rotation of the conditioning pad responsive to the first pressure data. The conditioning head is adjustable between a first position and a second position, the conditioning head and a polishing pad are in contact when the conditioning head is in the second position, and the first pressure sensor generates first pressure data when the conditioning head is in the second position.

Abstract: A nonwoven abrasive wheel includes a nonwoven abrasive body having opposed first and second major surfaces and a moisture barrier layer arranged on at least one of the first and second major surfaces. Methods of making are also described.

Abstract: To provide a method for forming an anchor hole and a diameter expansion device by which a centrifugal force can be appropriately adjusted when a cutting-blade portion is moved in a radial direction by the centrifugal force to grind a diameter expansion portion. In a method for forming an anchor hole for a post-installed anchor in which a diameter expansion drill bit is inserted and rotated in a prepared-hole portion bored in a concrete fixing body and a cutting-blade portion of the diameter expansion drill bit is moved in a radial direction by a centrifugal force to grind a part of the prepared-hole portion to form a diameter expansion portion, the minimum value of the centrifugal force applied to grind the diameter expansion portion is 0.75 N and preferably 1.1 N.

Abstract: A method for abrasive flow machining includes moving an abrasive media through a high-aspect passage of a workpiece. Local pressure of the abrasive media is increased at target abrasion surfaces of the high-aspect passage using a passage geometry that is configured to direct flow of the abrasive media into the target abrasion surfaces such that the target abrasion surfaces are preferentially polished by the abrasive media over other, non-targeted surfaces of the high-aspect passage at which the flow of the abrasive media is not directed into.

Abstract: A grinding wheel for grinding a wafer held on a holding table includes: a first circular annular plate mounted to a mount of a grinding apparatus; a tubular body extending downward from an outer circumference of the first circular annular plate; a second circular annular plate connected to a lower end of the tubular body; a plurality of grindstones arranged in an annular pattern on a lower surface of the second circular annular plate; an annular ultrasonic oscillation section disposed on an upper surface of the second circular annular plate so as to surround an opening; and an ultrasonic reception section that receives an ultrasonic vibration transmitted from the ultrasonic oscillation section to the grindstones.

Abstract: A device for the fine machining of a circumferential workpiece surface arranged eccentrically relative to an axis of a workpiece. The device comprises a pressure mechanism configured to press a fine-machining tool against the circumferential workpiece surface. The device also includes a drive unit configured to drive an active section of the pressure mechanism via a first drive and a second drive. The first drive drives the active section in a movement plane that runs crosswise to the workpiece axis along a first movement trajectory. The second drive drives the active section along a second movement trajectory that is at an angle to the first movement trajectory.

Abstract: A cooling lubricant supply device for supply of a cooling lubricant to a grinding wheel is rotatably mounted as a tool on a grinding spindle of a processing unit in a grinding machine. The device has a feed shoe, which is mounted at least indirectly on a grinding spindle housing and seated on a circumferential surface of the grinding wheel and which has a seating surface facing the grinding wheel. The seating surface has a shape substantially complementary with the circumferential surface of the grinding wheel and is provided centrally with a pocket-like recess into which the cooling lubricant can be fed under pressure. A spring mechanism is provided, by which the feed shoe is biased with the seating surface thereof against the circumferential surface of the grinding wheel.

Abstract: A device for blocking workpieces has an aligning station that includes a workpiece support for aligning a workpiece. A blocking station comprises a block piece mount and serves to block the aligned workpiece by use of a block material on a block piece, which can be mounted in the block piece mount in a centered manner in relation to a substantially vertically extending blocker axis. A workpiece carriage carries a holding head for the workpiece and is suitably guided and driven to transport the workpiece from the aligning station to the blocking station to position the workpiece along the blocker axis in a defined manner relative to the block piece held in the block piece mount, and to hold the workpiece during blocking in the defined relative position to the block piece with a gap between workpiece and body piece.

Abstract: Implementations described herein generally relate to polishing articles and methods of manufacturing polishing articles used in polishing processes and cleaning processes. More particularly, implementations disclosed herein relate to composite polishing articles having graded properties. In one implementation, a polishing article is provided. The polishing article comprises one or more exposed first regions formed from a first material and having a first zeta potential and one or more second exposed regions formed from a second material and having a second zeta potential, wherein the first zeta potential is different from the second zeta potential.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a substrate processing system and a substrate processing method capable of cleaning a processing-liquid supply line. A substrate processing system includes: a substrate processing apparatus (1) configured to process a substrate W; and a flushing device for cleaning a distribution line (93) and a processing-liquid supply line (92). The flushing device includes: a cleaning-liquid supply line (99) coupled to the distribution line (93); a drain mechanism (101) configured to direct a cleaning liquid, supplied into the processing-liquid supply line (92) through the distribution line (93), to a liquid disposal area (100); a supply switching valve (104) configured to allow only the processing liquid or the cleaning liquid to flow in the distribution line (93); and an operation controller (30) configured to control operations of the drain mechanism (101) and the supply switching valve (104).

Abstract: This dressing device has: a gear grinding tool spindle (7) that rotatably supports a screw-shaped grindstone (10); and a dressing tool (30) that dresses the screw-shaped grindstone (10). The dressing device dresses the screw-shaped grindstone (10) by driving the screw-shaped grindstone (10) to rotate, and causing the relative motion of the screw-shaped grindstone (10) and/or the dressing tool (30). The dressing device performs a dressing process on the screw-shaped grindstone (10) in a manner such that the pressure angle changes along the direction of the tooth line by means of moving the screw-shaped whetstone (10) and/or dressing tool (30) at a fixed speed and altering the speed of rotation of the screw-shaped grindstone (10), or rotating the screw-shaped grindstone (10) at a fixed speed and altering the speed of motion in the axial direction of the screw-shaped grindstone (10) and/or the dressing tool (30).

Abstract: A cutting device including a stand and a saw supported by the stand. The saw includes a motor and a blade rotatably driven by the motor. A pair of rails is supported by the stand. A tray is configured to support an object to be cut on an upper surface and including a roller assembly on a lower surface. The tray is slidable along the pair of rails towards and away from the blade. At least one of the rails is disposed over a basin configured to hold water.

Abstract: A method, performed by a centrifuge, for treating toughness and hardness of drill bit buttons is provided. The centrifuge comprises a chamber formed by a stationary side wall and a bottom which is rotatable around a rotation axis, the bottom comprising one or more protrusions which at least partly extends between the rotation axis and the side wall, the side wall comprising at least six pushing elements arranged around a periphery of the side wall. The method comprises rotating, by rotation of the bottom with the protrusions, the drill bit buttons around the rotation axis, pushing, by the pushing elements, the drill bit buttons from the side wall during the rotation of the bottom, collectively forming the drill bit buttons into a torus shape at the bottom of the chamber for inducing collisions between the drill bit buttons, thereby treating the toughness and hardness of the drill bit.

Abstract: A sheet glass tool in which many abrasive grains are anchored in an anchoring layer formed on the tool tip, wherein a coolant flow channel is formed between a first abrasive grain and a second abrasive grain that are adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A wire saw apparatus including: a wire row formed of a wire wound around a plurality of wire guides and reciprocatively travels in an axial direction; a nozzle from a coolant or slurry is supplied to the wire; and a workpiece feed mechanism presses a held workpiece against the wire row, the wire saw apparatus slice the workpiece into a wafer shape by pressing the workpiece held by the workpiece feed mechanism against the wire row and feeding it for slicing while supplying the coolant or the slurry from the nozzle to the wire, the wire saw apparatus nozzle is arranged above the wire row to be orthogonal to the wire row, and windbreak plates are arranged on both left and right sides of the arranged nozzle seen from an axial direction.

Abstract: Provided is a feeler for workpieces being machined, including a rocking arm configured to feel the workpiece, a first sensor configured to measure the position of the rocking arm and at least one additional sensor operatively connected to the rocking arm and configured to detect external perturbations acting on the feeler.

Abstract: A device for fine processing of optically effective surfaces on workpieces has a workpiece spindle which protrudes into a working space and by which a workpiece to be polished can be rotationally driven about a workpiece axis of rotation. Two tool spindles are associated with the workpiece spindle and protrude into the working space oppositely to the workpiece spindle. On each tool spindle, a polishing tool can be rotationally driven about a tool axis of rotation and is retained so that the polishing tool can be axially advanced along the tool axis of rotation. Furthermore, the tool spindles can be moved together in relation to the workpiece spindle along a linear axis extending substantially perpendicularly to the workpiece axis of rotation and can be pivoted about different pivoting adjustment axes, which extend substantially perpendicularly to the workpiece axis of rotation and substantially perpendicularly to the linear axis.