Patents by Inventor Paolo Gaboardi

Paolo Gaboardi 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).

  • Publication number: 20250144687
    Abstract: A machine for carrying out surface treatments onto rolling mill rolls, which includes a supporting structure extending along a longitudinal direction of development, a casing placed at least partially to cover the supporting structure, at least two supporting elements placed on the supporting structure opposed to each other and aligned along a rotation axis parallel to the longitudinal direction of development, a rotation motor configured to put in rotation the roll when supported by the two supporting elements, a grinding group slidably connected to the supporting structure and which includes a grinding tool, a texturing group slidably connected to the supporting structure and which includes a laser head, and a control unit placed in signal communication with the grinding group and with the texturing group and configured to control the grinding group and the texturing group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: TENOVA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Paolo GABOARDI, Claudio TREVISAN, Andrea GARIANO, Giovanni BOSELLI
  • Publication number: 20250033101
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for surface processing of cylindrical bodies, particularly for surface restoration of laminating cylinders. The apparatus includes a workstation configured to receive a cylindrical body having a lateral surface movable by rotation about an axis of rotation, a laser emitter cooperating with the workstation and configured to emit at least one laser beam, a profile detector configured to detect a detected surface profile of the lateral surface of the cylindrical body, and a control unit operatively configured to perform at least one procedure for restoring the lateral surface of the cylindrical body. The restoration procedure includes a procedure for detecting the surface profile of the cylindrical body, including a step of comparing the detected surface profile with a target surface profile, and a removal procedure including a step of emitting the laser beam on the cylindrical body to remove metallic material and to obtain the target surface profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Paolo GABOARDI, Claudio TREVISAN, Andrea GARIANO, Giovanni BOSELLI, Paolo PALLOTTI, Ali Gokhan DEMIR, Barbara PREVITALI
  • Publication number: 20220281032
    Abstract: An apparatus for surface processing of cylindrical bodies including a work station (100) for rotatably supporting the cylindrical body (1), a laser emitter (600) movable along a main direction (X) parallel to the rotation axis (K) of the cylindrical body (1) and according to an auxiliary direction (Z) transverse to the main direction (X), a distance sensor (700) for detecting a control parameter relative to a distance of the sensor or the laser emitter (600), and a control unit (15) configured for commanding a movement of the laser emitter (600) and of the distance sensor (700) along said main direction (X), commanding the emission of a laser beam directed towards a surface of the cylindrical body (1), executing a correction procedure adapted to compensate for the eccentricity of the cylindrical body (1) with respect to said rotation axis (K).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Giovanni BOSELLI, Paolo GABOARDI, Andrea GARIANO, Massimo PERASSOLO, Claudio TREVISAN
  • Publication number: 20210046527
    Abstract: A lamination cylinder includes a surface structure, on which a plurality of craters is defined having a different geometry and a random distribution. Some of the craters are partially superimposed with respect to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Tenova S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giovanni Boselli, Massimo Cavallari, Paolo Gaboardi, Rick McWhirter, Massimo Perassolo, Claudio Trevisan
  • Patent number: 10919078
    Abstract: A lamination cylinder includes a surface structure, on which a plurality of craters is defined having a different geometry and a random distribution. Some of the craters are partially superimposed with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Inventors: Giovanni Boselli, Massimo Cavallari, Paolo Gaboardi, Rick McWhirter, Massimo Perassolo, Claudio Trevisan
  • Patent number: 9399266
    Abstract: A machine for the surface treatment of a cylinder includes a first operative station for supporting the cylinder and for bringing it into rotation around its longitudinal axis, and at least a second operative station cooperating with the first station for generating and emitting, by means of an optical fiber apparatus, pulsed laser radiations randomly striking the surface of the cylinder and defining a desired roughness on the same surface; the second station being adjustably coupled with the first station in a first direction parallel with respect to the axis of the cylinder and carrying one or more pulsed laser radiation emitting heads, and slidingly assembled with respect to the cylinder in a second direction perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: TENOVA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Claudio Trevisan, Paolo Gaboardi, Giovanni Boselli
  • Patent number: 9109872
    Abstract: A calibration device for gauges for the measurement of the geometrical characteristics of cylinders, such as the diameter, profile, rotundity and eccentricity errors, wherein such gauges include a pair of movable opposing arms equipped with feelers or sensors at their free ends, includes a pair of abutments reciprocally approachable and/or withdrawable by means of motors until a sample measure is obtained, as desired, within the measuring range of the gauge, on which the calibration device is assembled, revealed by means of measuring means cooperating with the abutments, such that consequently the feelers or sensors are respectively abutted or approached to the abutments to reveal the sample measure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: TENOVA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Fausto Candiani, Paolo Gaboardi, Claudio Trevisan, Flavio Stefano Bianchessi
  • Publication number: 20140352384
    Abstract: A lamination cylinder includes a surface structure, on which a plurality of craters is defined having a different geometry and a random distribution. Some of the craters are partially superimposed with respect to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: TENOVA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Giovanni Boselli, Massimo Cavallari, Paolo Gaboardi, Rick McWhirter, Massimo Perassolo, Claudio Trevisan
  • Publication number: 20140332509
    Abstract: A machine for the surface treatment of a cylinder includes a first operative station for supporting the cylinder and for bringing it into rotation around its longitudinal axis, and at least a second operative station cooperating with the first station for generating and emitting, by means of an optical fiber apparatus, pulsed laser radiations randomly striking the surface of the cylinder and defining a desired roughness on the same surface; the second station being adjustably coupled with the first station in a first direction parallel with respect to the axis of the cylinder and carrying one or more pulsed laser radiation emitting heads, and slidingly assembled with respect to the cylinder in a second direction perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: TENOVA S.p.A.
    Inventors: Claudio Trevisan, Paolo Gaboardi, Giovanni Boselli
  • Patent number: 8819953
    Abstract: An apparatus for revealing the geometry of operative cylinders, in particular during the grinding operation of the same, includes a pair of movable clamps which can be moved away from and towards each other with respect to a fixed intermediate structure, the clamps having tilted surfaces in opposite directions to each other according to a swallowtail arrangement with respect to a cylinder being measured, positioned between them and between a surface of the fixed intermediate structure, the surfaces of the movable clamps and the surface of the fixed intermediate structure always being kept in contact with the cylinder, whether still or rotating, wherein the fixed structure also has, in its interior, parts of a group which interact with each other to correlate the movement of the clamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Tenova S.p.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Andersson, Paolo Gaboardi, Massimiliano Giucolsi, Fabrizio Porta
  • Publication number: 20130125615
    Abstract: A calibration device for gauges for the measurement of the geometrical characteristics of cylinders, such as the diameter, profile, rotundity and eccentricity errors, wherein such gauges include a pair of movable opposing arms equipped with feelers or sensors at their free ends, includes a pair of abutments reciprocally approachable and/or withdrawable by means of motors until a sample measure is obtained, as desired, within the measuring range of the gauge, on which the calibration device is assembled, revealed by means of measuring means cooperating with the abutments, such that consequently the feelers or sensors are respectively abutted or approached to the abutments to reveal the sample measure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Inventors: Fausto Candiani, Paolo Gaboardi, Claudio Trevisan, Flavio Stefano Bianchessi
  • Publication number: 20130130603
    Abstract: A protection device for a grinding wheel includes a containment structure having an operating opening for a grinding wheel, wherein the containment structure includes a fixed portion and a movable portion which can be moved with respect to the fixed portion by means of a motor and which can be blocked with respect to the first fixed portion by means of a magnetic blocking unit. The device further includes a sensor adapted to automatically detect the position of the movable portion, and a control means of the entire device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: TENOVA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Andersson, Massimiliano Giucolsi, Matteo Anzini, Paolo Gaboardi
  • Publication number: 20130122790
    Abstract: A contrast device for the grinding of products, particularly but not exclusively cylinders, held between centres, wherein a grinding machines (21) comprise a holding structure (20) equipped with a grinding wheel (24) to which a cylinder to be processed (22) is opposed, and the contrast device (23) is situated on the opposite side of the cylinder (22) with respect to the grinding wheel (24), the contrast device (23) comprising a slide (25) assembled on a short pipe (26) sliding inside a body (27) of the contrast device (23) by an interposed actuator (28, 35), there also being a blocking element (29) of the relative position of the short pipe (26) with respect to the body (27) and an irreversible blocking device (31, 32, 33) of the position of the pipe (26) with respect to the cylinder (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: TENOVA S.p.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Andersson, Fausto Candiani, Paolo Gaboardi, Claudio Trevisan
  • Publication number: 20120246956
    Abstract: An apparatus for revealing the geometry of operative cylinders, in particular during the grinding operation of the same, includes a pair of movable clamps which can be moved away from and towards each other with respect to a fixed intermediate structure, the clamps having tilted surfaces in opposite directions to each other according to a swallowtail arrangement with respect to a cylinder being measured, positioned between them and between a surface of the fixed intermediate structure, the surfaces of the movable clamps and the surface of the fixed intermediate structure always being kept in contact with the cylinder, whether still or rotating, wherein the fixed structure also has, in its interior, parts of a group which interact with each other to correlate the movement of the clamps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: TENOVA S.P.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Andersson, Paolo Gaboardi, Massimiliano Giucolsi, Fabrizio Porta