Patents Examined by Willmon Fridie, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10434616
    Abstract: Provided is a highly practical machining system. The machining system is configured to include a base, and multiple machining modules which are detachably disposed on the base to be aligned with one another in a left-right direction. Machining is sequentially performed by the multiple machining modules with respect to a workpiece. At least one of the multiple machining modules is a vertical lathe module. It is possible to configure a compact system in which machining can be performed by a vertical lathe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Suzuki, Shigefumi Suzuyama, Shuichi Hirata, Kenji Mizuta, Jun Yanagisaki, Osamu Nagai
  • Patent number: 10434590
    Abstract: A skiving cutter includes a cutting edge portion in which a tooth trace extends in a direction inclined with respect to an axis of a base. The cutting edge portion is segmented into a plurality of segmented cutting edges by cutting edge grooves extending in a direction intersecting the tooth trace. One of the plurality of segmented cutting edges forms a reference cutting edge. Among the plurality of segmented cutting edges constituting the cutting edge portion, the reference cutting edge has the largest axis-cutting edge distance which is a distance from the axis to the outer circumferential cutting edge of the segmented cutting edge, and the remaining one or more segmented cutting edges have gradually smaller axis-cutting edge distances as a distance from the reference cutting edge to each of the remaining cutting edges increases. A helix angle is different according to positions of the plurality of segmented cutting edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINE TOOL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetuji Monden
  • Patent number: 10421134
    Abstract: A cutting insert having two opposing end surfaces, two identical opposing major side surfaces and two identical opposing minor side surfaces. Each end surface of the insert has a concave-shaped seating surface for contacting the insert pocket the insert pocket along an entire length of the cutting insert. The minor side surfaces are convex-shaped. The concave-shaped seating surface and the convex-shaped minor side surfaces enable the cutting insert to be accurately tangentially mounted in the insert pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventor: Lance David Brunetto
  • Patent number: 10421168
    Abstract: The machine tool comprises a headstock provided with a main spindle; a driving unit which moves the headstock in a main spindle axial direction and has a feed mechanism extended in the main spindle axial direction and a front end supporter which rotatably supports a front end of the feed mechanism; a first front cover mounted on the headstock in a first position between the main spindle and the feed mechanism with respect to a diameter direction from a main spindle axis toward the feed mechanism; and a second front cover mounted on the front end supporter in a second position between the main spindle and the feed mechanism. Part of the feed mechanism is covered by both of the first front cover and the second front cover when at least part of the first front cover is on the rear side of the second front cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: STAR MICRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shin Ito
  • Patent number: 10421166
    Abstract: An upright machining center is characterized in being provided with: x-axis guides for moving and guiding a table in the left-right direction on a bed; a column provided on the bed and provided with an opening that straddles the x-axis guides in the front-back direction so that a moving body, on which the table is provided, can enter therein in the left-right direction; a saddle, which is disposed on the upper part of the column so as to be movable in the front-back direction and for which a first y-axis guide that extends in the front-back direction on the right side of the left-right direction and a left second y-axis guide that is located lower and parallel thereto are provided; and a main shaft head, which is disposed on the left side surface of the saddle and moves in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: MAKINO MILLING MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Suzuki, Shinji Terakawa, Takuma Kawarasaki, Kenichiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10421135
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotary cutting tool is described. The rotary cutting tool defines a central longitudinal axis and includes a shank portion and a cutting portion adjoining the shank portion. The shank portion has a shank end and the cutting portion has a cutting end opposite the shank end. One or more blades are separated by a flute. A main, internal coolant passage extends from the shank end, through the shank portion, and into the cutting portion. The method includes forming at least one secondary coolant passage in fluid communication with the main, internal coolant passage in which the at least one secondary coolant passage is formed by using electro-magnetic radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Thilo Klaus Juergen Mueller, Naveen Kumar Kondameedi
  • Patent number: 10414010
    Abstract: In a machine tool and a control apparatus thereof, a repetitive movement unit is configured so that the cutting tool performs one repetitive movement with respect to multiple relative rotations between the workpiece and the cutting tool and so that a rotation angle of the relative rotation between the workpiece and the cutting tool during relative movement at a second speed is smaller than a rotation angle of the relative rotation during relative movement at a first speed in one repetitive movement. This configuration limits degradation of machining efficiency when the cutting tool machines the workpiece by performing one repetitive movement with respect to multiple relative rotations between the workpiece and the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignees: Citizen Watch Co., Ltd., Citizen Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Sannomiya, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Nobuyoshi Imasaki
  • Patent number: 10406611
    Abstract: A cutting tool has a cutting body with a first insert pocket and an indexable cutting insert removably mounted therein. The first insert pocket has a first seat surface with a plurality of first engagement elements and a first support wall transverse thereto. The cutting insert has upper and lower surfaces and a boundary surface extending therebetween. The lower surface has a plurality of lower engaging elements and the boundary surface has a plurality of alternating first and second peripheral surfaces intersecting the upper surface to form first and second upper cutting edges. In each index position with the lower surface in contact with the first seat surface, the first support wall prevents translation of the cutting insert in a first direction, and the first engagement elements eccentrically contact the lower engaging elements to prevent translation of the cutting insert in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Sergey Irlin
  • Patent number: 10406608
    Abstract: A round cutting insert has a seating surface with a plurality of projections formed on the seating surface proximate a central opening. The projections do not extend to an outer perimeter of the seating surface such that the outer perimeter is continuous and uninterrupted a full 360 degrees. An insert-receiving pocket includes a seating surface with a plurality of dimples for receiving the plurality of projections to prevent rotation of the cutting insert when mounted in the insert-receiving pocket. The plurality of dimples do not extend to an outer perimeter of the seating surface such that the outer perimeter is continuous and uninterrupted a full 360 degrees, thereby maximizing contact between the cutting insert and the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Paul Albert Brown, Lance David Brunetto
  • Patent number: 10399153
    Abstract: A rotary cutting tool including a polycrystalline diamond material of the invention includes: a tool body rotated about an axis with a carbide substrate made of cemented carbide and a flute provided at a tip portion thereof; a PCD layer sintered integrally with the carbide substrate, provided on an inside face of the flute facing in a rotation direction; and a cutting edge provided on the PCD layer to have the inside face as a rake face, in which a margin portion continuous with a rear side of the flute in the rotation direction is formed on an outer periphery of the tip portion, the cutting edge is formed at a ridge portion of the rake face, and a thickness of the PCD layer is ? to 1 times a width of the margin portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Matsuo, Wardoyo Akhmadi Eko, Chihiro Sakurazawa, Tadakazu Ohashi
  • Patent number: 10399156
    Abstract: A tool for chip-removing machining including a tool body and at least one cutting insert mounted in an insert seat of the tool body. The cutting insert includes an upper side and a lower side directed toward a bottom contact surface of the insert seat. The cutting insert is formed by sintering together two compacted powder parts, one of the parts forming an upper part and the other forming a lower part. An imaginary plane is defined between the lower and upper parts. A side surface extends between the upper and lower sides around the periphery of the cutting insert, and at least one cutting edge is formed in a transition between the upper side and the side surface. The tool is configured so that the tool body contacts the side surface of the cutting insert only above the imaginary plane along an upper part of the side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Per Viklund, Ralf Lehto
  • Patent number: 10391560
    Abstract: The cutting device includes a rotating portion for rotating the cutting tool in a rotation axis line of the cutting tool and a traveling means for making the cutting tool travel relative to a workpiece. The rotating means and the traveling means rotates the outer peripheral surface of the cutting tool and makes the cutting tool travel, having the outer peripheral surface function as the rake surface, so as to perform cutting machining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Azuma, Yoshihiko Yamada, Kenji Hamada, Masahiro Kiji, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10391559
    Abstract: A machine tool includes a workpiece spindle device which rotates a workpiece, a tool post which can move a tool in a first axis direction (X-axis direction) which is a radial direction of the workpiece and a second axis direction (Z-axis direction) which is an axial direction of the workpiece, and an articulated robot including a plurality of arms, a plurality of joints, and end effectors. The plurality of joints connect the plurality of arms in a rotatable manner around an axis parallel to a third axis (Y-axis) orthogonal to the first axis and the second axis, and the end effectors move in a plane parallel to a movement plane of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: OKUMA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shoichi Morimura
  • Patent number: 10384279
    Abstract: A cutting insert which is suitable for high cutting speed, a tool body thereof and a tool are provided. A tool according to the present invention is a tool in which a leading end thereof is provided with a force transmitting portion and for which a rotational axis extending from the leading end to a base end thereof is defined, wherein the tool comprises a cam portion which is arranged closer to the base end than the force transmitting portion and for which a dimension from the rotational axis of the tool varies in accordance with an angle at which the cam portion is rotated around the rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryuichi Saji
  • Patent number: 10384270
    Abstract: A machining tool for cutting a work component includes a cutting tool insert having a cutting surface along a portion of an external surface that defines a circumference of the cutting tool insert. A plurality of cartridges are insertable into the machining tool, each having an insert pocket for receiving the cutting tool insert. The cutting tool insert is rotatable between first, second and third fixed positions in each insert pocket of the plurality of cartridges, a first portion of the cutting surface exposed when the cutting tool insert is in the first fixed position, a second portion of the cutting surface exposed when the cutting tool insert is in the second fixed position, and a third portion of the cutting surface exposed when the cutting tool insert is in the third fixed position. The insert pocket of each of the plurality of cartridges is offset from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dale Quinn, Joseph Zarb, Adam Bezzina
  • Patent number: 10384275
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a cutting tool includes a holder that is a columnar body and includes a pocket in which an insert disposed. The pocket includes a first surface in contact with the insert, a second surface, and a projecting portion. The second surface is disposed further forward in a rotational direction of a rotational axis than the first surface, and disposed on a radial inner side of the holder. The projecting portion is disposed closer to a radial outer circumferential side of the holder than the first surface and projects forward in the rotational direction of the rotational axis. The second surface is inclined and comes closer to an outer circumference of the holder as going forward in the rotational direction of the rotational axis, in a front view of a first end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Shin Deguchi
  • Patent number: 10384278
    Abstract: An indexable cutting insert has upper and lower surfaces with a peripheral surface extending therebetween and having four side surfaces alternating with four corner surfaces. The side and corner surfaces intersect the upper surface to form side and corner cutting edges, respectively. Each side cutting edge includes a primary cutting edge adjoining one of the corner cutting edges at a first endpoint and a secondary cutting edge adjoining another one of the corner cutting edges at a second endpoint. In a top view, the four primary cutting edges define an imaginary first square, each primary cutting edge is tangential to its adjoining corner cutting edge, and each secondary cutting edge is curved and entirely located in one of four imaginary quadrants. The insert is removably secured in a rotary cutting tool such that one of the secondary cutting edges contains the axially forwardmost point of the insert's upper peripheral edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Adi Shapir
  • Patent number: 10384326
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide surface treatment tools, methodologies, and/or repaired turbomachine components. A surface treatment tool according to the present disclosure can include a lathe assembly having a lathe chuck for receiving a component thereon, wherein the lathe chuck rotates the component about a first axis of rotation, and wherein the component includes an exposed axial target surface; and a sander or burnishing tool coupled to the lathe assembly and including a sanding or burnishing surface thereon, coupled to a drive system, wherein the sanding or burnishing surface rotates about a second axis of rotation substantially non-parallel with the first axis of rotation, such that the sanding or burnishing surface selectively contacts the target surface of the component to yield a polished target surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Andrew Joseph Colletti, Bruce John Badding, Bryan Edward Williams
  • Patent number: 10376970
    Abstract: A cutting tool to cut a hollow vessel includes a conical member, a plurality of grooves, and a plurality of cutting members. The plurality of grooves are disposed in a semi-helix around an outer conical surface of the conical member. Each of the plurality of cutting members is disposed in fixed position within one of the plurality of grooves at a non-zero angle relative to a vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Pierce, Alexander S. Giberman, Michael W. Gearhart
  • Patent number: 10369638
    Abstract: A milling cutter (10), in particular a side milling cutter, is described, having a tool body (12), to which at least one cutting insert (14) is removably secured, said cutting insert being clamped by means of a movable clamping element (16) in the tool body (12) and comprising a cutting edge (18) pointing in the direction of rotation (R). The clamping element (16) clamps the cutting insert (14) from behind and is arranged on the rear side of the cutting insert (14) in the direction of rotation (R) of the milling cutter (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Alex Fraese, Michael Kreuzer, Werner Penkert