Patents by Inventor Keith ZOBAY

Keith ZOBAY has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • METHOD OF MACHINING AN OPENING IN A PLURALITY OF BLANKS
    Publication number: 20190217371
    Abstract: A method and a system are disclosed for making an article of manufacture from a blank defining an internal opening. A stack of blanks are aligned and the internal openings of the blanks in the stack of blanks are machined by a rotary cutting tool to a finished dimension. The blanks are clamped together before machining in a numerically controlled machine tool. The blanks are subsequently formed individually in a sheet metal forming operation in which the inner perimeter of the internal openings is expanded as the blank is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Laurent Bernard CHAPPUIS, S. George LUCKEY, Andrey M ILINICH, Keith ZOBAY
  • METHOD OF MACHINING AN OPENING IN A PLURALITY OF BLANKS
    Publication number: 20180029105
    Abstract: A method and a system are disclosed for making an article of manufacture from a blank defining an internal opening. A stack of blanks are aligned and the internal openings of the blanks in the stack of blanks are machined by a rotary cutting tool to a finished dimension. The blanks are clamped together before machining in a numerically controlled machine tool. The blanks are subsequently formed individually in a sheet metal forming operation in which the inner perimeter of the internal openings is expanded as the blank is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Laurent Bernard CHAPPUIS, S. George LUCKEY, JR., Andrey M. ILINICH, Keith ZOBAY