Patents Issued in January 26, 2016
  • Patent number: 9242285
    Abstract: A manufacturing method and device for a drive plate that make it possible to obtain well-tensioned teeth at a ring gear portion while extending the life of a shaping die. A preferred embodiment provides a manufacturing device including: a compression punch that compresses a side wall portion of a raw material in an axial direction, the raw material including a bottom surface portion and the side wall portion which is cylindrical and provided to extend upright from an outer peripheral end portion of the bottom surface portion. A compression die disposed to face the compression punch in the axial direction and having a toothed shape formed on an inner peripheral surface. The compression punch contacts the compression die, and thereafter the compression die is pushed by the compression punch to form a toothed shape on the side wall portion while moving in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Iwata, Tomoyuki Hori, Naoki Yokoyama, Hiroshi Shibata, Masayuki Maki
  • Patent number: 9242286
    Abstract: A multilayer cookware article has an inner metal sheet and an outer metal sheet defining a flat bottom and a side wall connected to the bottom by a rounding. The flat bottom has at least one intermediate layer positioned between the inner sheet and the outer sheet. The intermediate layer has a diameter limited to a diameter of the flat bottom including the rounding. The side wall has an intermediate layer located between the inner sheet and the outer sheet. The intermediate layer of the side wall is mechanically separated from the intermediate layer of the bottom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Inventors: Dusko Maravic, Sebastian Rastberger
  • Patent number: 9242287
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hot forming tool for hot forming a metal workpiece, having at least two dies which may be moved relative to one another for forming the workpiece, and having a cooling device by means of which the workpiece may be cooled in the hot forming tool from a first, higher temperature to a second, lower temperature. To improve the hot forming tool, it is provided that the hot forming tool is equipped with a separating device by means of which a separating operation may be carried out on a workpiece present in the hot forming tool. The invention further relates to a method for hot forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Magna Automotive Services GmbH
    Inventor: Xiangfan Fang
  • Patent number: 9242288
    Abstract: A method of assembling thermal module includes steps of providing a first heat dissipation member and a second heat dissipation member, and aiming a section of the first heat dissipation member at a section of the second heat dissipation member, which section of the first heat dissipation member is to be assembled with the section of the second heat dissipation member and driving the first heat dissipation member to connect with the second heat dissipation member by means of striking the first heat dissipation member into the second heat dissipation member. By means of the method, the thermal module can be assembled at higher efficiency. Moreover, the manufacturing process of the thermal module is simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng-Huang Lin, Kuo-Sheng Lin
  • Patent number: 9242289
    Abstract: In a method according to the invention for the manufacture of tear notches (22) in can lids (11), the can lid (11) is subjected in the press tool (10) to a laser engraving during which the desired tear notch (22) is generated. The laser ablation process occurs preferably, with the press tool (10) closed, within a time period of less than 30 ms. During this time, the focal spot (27) of the laser beam (26) is moved over the whole desired contour of the tear notch (22) so that an uninterrupted groove-like cavity is formed. With the use of laser engraving in the press tool, the mechanical wear of the press tool and of the press molds can be minimized and in this way the tool operating life can be increased. In particular, the manufacture of can lids with consistently high quality is ensured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: SCHULER PRESSEN GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Blei, Markus Röver
  • Patent number: 9242290
    Abstract: A method for forming a wave form for a stent includes moving a first forming portion of a first forming member across an axis along which a formable material is provided in a first direction substantially perpendicular to the axis to engage and deform the formable material while engaging the formable material with a first forming portion of the second forming member. The method includes moving the first forming portion of the first forming member and the first forming portion of the second forming member across the axis in a second direction that is substantially opposite the first direction to draw and form the formable material over the first forming portion of the second forming member, disengaging the first forming member from the formable material, and rotating the first forming member to position a second forming portion of the first forming member to face the formable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Medtronic Vascular, Inc.
    Inventors: Lance Ensign, Erik Griswold
  • Patent number: 9242291
    Abstract: A method of processing an alloy ingot or other alloy workpiece to reduce thermal cracking may generally comprise depositing a glass material onto at least a portion of a surface of a workpiece, and heating the glass material to form a surface coating on the workpiece that reduces heat loss from the workpiece. The present disclosure also is directed to an alloy workpieces processed according to methods described herein, and to articles of manufacture including or made from alloy workpieces made according to the methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: ATI Properties, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramesh S. Minisandram, Richard L. Kennedy, Robin M. Forbes Jones
  • Patent number: 9242292
    Abstract: A composition of a ceramic layer for manufacturing a casting mould and other products, in particular intended for making castings by investment casting, comprising a liquid ceramic mass consisting of, in weight %, 50-75% of a ceramic material which is a mixture with particle-size distribution comprising minimum 90% of particles of size less than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Instytut Odlewnictwa
    Inventors: Zbigniew Stefanski, Aleksander Karwinski, Irena Izdebska-Szanda
  • Patent number: 9242293
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a metal strip (1) in a plant, comprising a continuous casting plant (2), a first furnace (3), a second furnace (4) and an adjoining rolling mill (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Juergen Seidel, Peter Sudau
  • Patent number: 9242294
    Abstract: A method of forming cooling channels in a component is provided. The component has a substrate having outer and inner surfaces. The inner surface defines at least one interior space, and a core is disposed within each interior space. The method includes forming at least one access hole in the substrate, while the core is disposed within the respective interior space, removing the core from the respective interior space, and forming at least one groove in the outer substrate surface (before or after the core is removed). Each access hole connects the groove in fluid communication with the respective interior space. The method further includes disposing a coating over at least a portion of the outer substrate surface, where the coating includes at least a structural coating that extends over the groove(s), such that the groove(s) and the structural coating together define one or more channels configured to convey a coolant from the respective interior space(s) for cooling the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Eric Richard Bonini, Ronald Scott Bunker
  • Patent number: 9242295
    Abstract: The present invention relates to bulk magnetic nanocomposites and methods of making bulk magnetic nanocomposites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: THE UNIVERISTY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON
    Inventor: J. Ping Liu
  • Patent number: 9242296
    Abstract: A method for producing a rare earth magnet material which allows efficient Dy or the like diffusion into an inside thereof. This method includes a preparation step of preparing a powder mixture of magnet powder including one or more rare earth elements including neodymium, boron, and the remainder being iron; and neodymium fluoride powder; a heating step of heating a compact of the powder mixture and causing oxygen around magnet powder particles to react with the fluoride powder, thereby obtaining a lump rare earth magnet material in which neodymium oxyfluoride is wholly distributed. The fluoride powder traps oxygen enclosed in the powder mixture and fixes the oxygen as stable NdOF. When Dy is diffused into this rare earth magnet material, Dy smoothly enters into its inside without being oxidized at grain boundaries. Consequently, coercivity of the entire rare earth magnet material can be efficiently increased without wasting scarce Dy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Yuji Kaneko, Yukio Takada
  • Patent number: 9242297
    Abstract: This method for producing porous sintered aluminum includes: mixing aluminum powder with a sintering aid powder containing titanium to obtain a raw aluminum mixed powder; mixing the raw aluminum mixed powder with a water-soluble resin binder, water, and a plasticizer containing at least one selected from polyhydric alcohols, ethers, and esters to obtain a viscous composition; drying the viscous composition in a state where air bubbles are mixed therein to obtain a formed object prior to sintering; and heating the formed object prior to sintering in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, wherein when a temperature at which the raw aluminum mixed powder starts to melt is expressed as Tm (° C.), a temperature T (° C.) of the heating fulfills Tm?10 (° C.)?T?685 (° C.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Hoshino, Ji-bin Yang, Kenji Orito, Shinichi Ohmori
  • Patent number: 9242298
    Abstract: The present technology provides an illustrative method for preparing shaped nanoparticles. The method includes passing a metal vapor to a shaping apparatus and condensing the metal vapor within the shaping apparatus to form selectively-shaped metal nanoparticles. The method may also include forming the metal vapor by heating a bulk metal. In an embodiment, the shaping apparatus comprises a mesh separator that include a plurality of nano-sized, square-shaped pores or a plurality of shaping cups that includes a plurality of recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventor: David Max Roundhill
  • Patent number: 9242299
    Abstract: A machining tool insert holder having a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a first insert tip slot extending between the first surface and the second surface. The first insert tip slot is configured to support a first insert tip. The insert holder further includes elevated projections extending from the first and second surfaces proximate the first insert tip slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals, LLC
    Inventors: Alan Taylor, Virgiliu-Adrian Savu, Steven Aharrah, II
  • Patent number: 9242300
    Abstract: A groove cutting tool has a groove insert and a tool holder. The groove insert can be replaced by using a lever tool. The lever tool penetrates into a slot by way of an ejector portion and is able to assume several positions in the slot either in order to contact the groove insert and to push it out of its receiving means or in order to push away a clamping jaw and to open the receiving means for the groove insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Inventors: Igor Kaufmann, Anwar Sadat Mohideen Abdul
  • Patent number: 9242301
    Abstract: A tool for machining work pieces includes a base body and at least first and second operating slides, slidable with respect to the base body. The first operating slide carries a machining element. At least one balancing pendulum can be pivoted with respect to the base body. A first coupling device connects the first operating slide and the second operating slide and is pivotably hinged to the first operating slide and the second operating slide. A second coupling device connects the first coupling device and the balancing pendulum. The second coupling device is pivotably hinged to the first coupling device at a hinge point. The second coupling device is pivotably mounted around a rotation axis of the tool. Displacement of the first operating slide resultantly displaces the second operating slide in an opposite direction relative to the rotation axis of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: MAPAL FABRIK FUR PRAZISIONSWERKZEUGE DR. KRESS KG
    Inventor: Matthias Führer
  • Patent number: 9242302
    Abstract: A cutting tool holder includes a pressing member with a pressing part and an inserting part, a holder body, a head member including a first fixing section which is divided into a first front end region and a first rear end region, and has a first fixing hole for inserting the inserting part of the pressing member and a contact part pressed by the pressing part of the pressing member, at a portion of a first surface close to the first front end region in reference to the first rear end region; and a second fixing section divided into a second front end region and a second rear end region in which the first rear end region of the first fixing section and the second rear end region are connected to each other so that a fixing space extending from the second rear end region to the second front end region is located between the second fixing section and a second surface different from the first surface in the first fixing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Tetsuya Uno
  • Patent number: 9242303
    Abstract: A cutting or milling machine with an end mill is mounted on a moveable platform, wherein the platform is moveable by a mechanical assembly to put the end mill through a circular motion apart from the rotational motion imparted by the milling machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: National Oilwell Varco, L.P.
    Inventor: Jaroslav Belik
  • Patent number: 9242304
    Abstract: A portable cutting device having a cutting tool for cutting a material. The cutting device includes a motor driving the cutting tool and a shroud at least partially enclosing the cutting tool. The shroud defines a debris accumulation chamber for gathering debris created by the cutting tool cutting the material. An impeller is operatively coupled to the motor and driven by the motor to create suction pressure to draw the debris out of the debris accumulation chamber and into a collection bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Inventor: Charles B. Martin
  • Patent number: 9242305
    Abstract: A circular burner device comprising a cutting torch which includes a head, a tip, a valve, and a handle; a base bar which includes a first end and a second end; a U-shaped torch attachment at the first end of the base bar, where the U-shaped torch attachment receives the head of the cutting torch; a support bar fastened to the handle of the torch burner, where the support bar includes an opening along an entire length of the support bar; a slider at the second end of the base bar, where the slider includes a connection joint to attach to the second end of the support bar to the base bar; and a coupling fastening the support bar to the handle of the cutting torch, where the coupling slides within the opening in the support bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Inventor: Aaron Kirkendall
  • Patent number: 9242306
    Abstract: A suspension component for a vehicle includes a cast iron body, a high strength steel tube and an adapter ring. The adapter ring includes a protrusion engaged with a face of the cast iron body. The protrusion is heated to a plasticized state as a capacitor is discharged through the protrusion and the face. The adapter ring is welded to the body upon cooling of the adapter ring. The high strength steel tube is fixed to the adapter ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Magna International Inc.
    Inventor: Dieter Toepker
  • Patent number: 9242307
    Abstract: A welding gun is provided that includes a handle having forward and rear end portions and having a first passageway formed therethrough. A cable support tube having forward and rear end portions and a second passageway formed therethrough is secured to the handle at the forward end portion. A welding cable having a forward end portion and a rear end portion connected to a rear connector assembly extends from the rear end portion through the first and second passageways of the handle and the cable support tube to the forward end portion disposed within the forward end portion of the cable support tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Victor Equipment Company
    Inventors: Jim Barker, John Boisvert
  • Patent number: 9242308
    Abstract: A system and method for friction stir welding of small diameter tubing, wherein the small diameter tubing is held in a correct position with a grasp sufficient to perform FSW when the tubing is comprised of high melting temperature materials, wherein the small diameter tubing can be rotated by the positioning and holding system while a FSW tool is held stationary, or vice versa, wherein internal mandrels are also described which can fit inside the smaller dimensions of the small diameter tubing and expand to provide a counter force to prevent deformation of the tubing when forces are applied by the FSW tool, wherein new FSW tool geometries are also described which enable the FSW tool to direct more heat on a tool/workpiece interface to counteract a lack of contact between the FSW shoulder and the workpiece because of tube curvature, and wherein the FSW tool is positioned on a small diameter tube by trailing the joint to provide desirable heating at the joint/workpiece interface and surface finishing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: MEGASTIR TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Peterson, John Hall, Russell J Steel, Jonathan Babb, Matt Collier, Scott M. Packer
  • Patent number: 9242309
    Abstract: There is provided high power laser tools and laser heads that utilize total internal reflection (“TIR”) structures to direct the laser beam along a laser beam path within the TIR structure. The TIR structures may be a TIR prism having its hypotenuse as a TIR surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: FORO ENERGY INC.
    Inventors: Mark S. Zediker, Brian O. Faircloth, Sharath K. Kolachalam, Daryl L. Grubb
  • Patent number: 9242310
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and manufacturing method thereof are disclosed, by which color reproducibility of a display and the expected life span of a display can be enhanced using quantum dots. The present invention may include a display panel, a plurality of light source units spaced apart from each other, and a quantum dot filter unit provided to a light emitting surface of the light source unit to enable a light provided by the light source unit to pass through. And, the quantum dot filter unit may include a light transmissive hollow pipe member having one end opening or both end openings, quantum dots provided within the light transmissive hollow pipe member, and a sealing member configured to seal the one end opening or the both end openings, the sealing member formed of a same material of the light transmissive hollow pipe member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jeongho Kim, Anna Yoo, Soowook Jang
  • Patent number: 9242311
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for propagating a laser beam. The laser beam pulse is passed through a first lens which focuses the laser beam pulse at a focal point of the first lens. An electronegative gas at substantially atmospheric pressure is configured to surround the focal point in order to suppress an ionization effect by the laser beam pulse at the focal point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventor: Stephen P. Shaffer
  • Patent number: 9242312
    Abstract: A surface of a workpiece (12) to be laser machined is protected by a surfactant film (11) form debris (15) produced during machining with a laser beam (14) by reducing adherence to the surface of debris produced by the laser machining. The surfactant film is preferably subsequently removed together with debris (151) deposited thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Electro Scientific Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: David Gillen
  • Patent number: 9242313
    Abstract: A viewport assembly may allow viewing of a retort chamber while protecting the viewer from heat of the retort chamber through a high-temperature-resistant window in an end wall of the viewport assembly. An access port in the end wall may allow use of tools, such as a welding device. An insulated door between the viewport assembly and the retort chamber may enhance protection and heat retention. The assembly may enhance retention of inert atmosphere in the retort chamber as well as heat, facilitating work on superalloy articles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Steven Charles Woods, Ronald Lee Souther
  • Patent number: 9242314
    Abstract: The invention discloses a machining method of welding an ear plate on a barrel of a central cylinder of a horizontal preheater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Inventors: Jianxin Shen, Chao Hou, Zhong Wang, Shilai Chen
  • Patent number: 9242315
    Abstract: A device for centering and internal clamping of tubular parts such as metal conduits, placed end-to-end so as to be welded to form metal pipelines is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: SERIMAX NORTH AMERICA
    Inventors: François Pesme, Denis Destouches, Jean-François Dagenais
  • Patent number: 9242316
    Abstract: The method for retrofitting a double flow steam turbine includes opening an outer casing of the steam turbine, removing the blade carriers and the stator blades, removing the inner casing with inlet belt, removing the double flow rotor and the rotor blades. Thus, the method includes the further steps of providing a new single flow rotor and new rotor blades different from the rotor blades connected to the double flow rotor, providing balancers connected to the single flow rotor, to balance the axial thrust, providing new stator blade carriers and new stator blades different from the stator blades associated to the double flow rotor, providing a new inner casing with inlet belt, providing a passage between the inner casing and the outer casing, closing the outer casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: David Paul Blatchford, Andrew Martin Diesch, David Lloyd Bell, Suyog Sidram Ghodake
  • Patent number: 9242317
    Abstract: A method for producing piston for an internal combustion engine which has a piston head that has a circumferential cooling channel as well as a combustion bowl having a circumferential bowl wall that makes a transition into a piston crown by way of a bowl edge region. The combustion bowl is formed at least in part by a piston base body and the bowl wall is formed at least in part from an insert. The insert is connected with the piston base body by means of beam welding. A lower weld seam is configured in the bowl wall, which seam encloses an acute angle with the piston center axis (M) and ends in the lower half of the cooling channel. An upper weld seam runs from the cooling channel ceiling to the piston crown and is disposed centered or radially offset toward the outside, with reference to the clear width of the cooling channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Scharp, Peter Kemnitz, Michael Ullrich
  • Patent number: 9242318
    Abstract: An exemplary safety device can comprise a guard coupled to a lower end of a support shaft and two arms coupled to the support shaft configured to engage with the inner walls of the meter box. The arms can be adjustable to change the distance they extend from the support shaft, such as by rotating the arms about a central bolt that is fixed relative to the shaft. The arms can have end caps that are configured to contact the inner walls of the meter box to create a frictional resistance holding the device securely within the meter box. The arms can be coupled to the support shaft with an adapter ring that is adjustable along the support shaft to change the vertical position of the arms. The guard can partially surround the angle meter stop and can contain it if it blows off the pipe below it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Las Vegas Valley Water District
    Inventors: Mark Mikaelsen, Joel Murphy
  • Patent number: 9242319
    Abstract: A method of servicing a pipe bundle or riser bundle employs a specially configured hoist having a rail that supports multiple lifts. A selected satellite pipe/conduit of the pipe bundle is both lifted and pulled horizontally in order to remove it from a plurality of supports that hold the satellite pipes together in spaced apart positions. During removal of a satellite pipe, the lifts elevate, then travel with and hold the pipe as it moves horizontally away from the bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Coastal Cargo Company, LLC
    Inventor: Don M. Zemo, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9242320
    Abstract: An automated press feeds a string of tack pins loaded on a reel. The press shears the part from the string of fasteners and delivers each part individually to a punch for installation. The string of fasteners is pulled from the reel by a sprocket which includes peripheral teeth for engaging the fasteners and for feeding them in a vertical column to a shear station. A horizontally reciprocal shear block severs individual fasteners one-at-a-time from the end of the fastener string at the shear station, each fastener being indexed to the next shear position by incremental rotation of the sprocket. The punch includes vacuum retaining means for lifting each fastener from the shear block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: PEM Management, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. Maloney
  • Patent number: 9242321
    Abstract: An apparatus for removably attaching dealer tags to various vehicles, comprising two or more mounting devices, each comprising a center portion with a mounting hole for mounting the device on the vehicle's tag or license mounting structure using a screw or bolt or similar mounting means. At one end of the device is a mounting post supported by a mounting post support with a ridge, protrusion, or indentation on two opposing sides. The mounting post support is flexibly attached to the center portion, and can be bent around and removably attached to the center portion by means of inserting the ridge or protrusions into corresponding holes or slots in the sides of the center portion. The other end of the device comprises a flexible arm or structure with a hole adapted to fit over the mounting post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Inventor: Dennis Brandon
  • Patent number: 9242322
    Abstract: A jig for aligning door hinges into a position at a predetermined mounting angle in an automatic system that automatically mounts door hinges to upper and lower seats on pillars of a vehicle body conveyed by a conveying unit. The jig may include a support frame, a first support part fixed to the support frame and supporting a hinge bracket of the door hinge, a pair of second support parts movably disposed at both sides of the first support part and respectively supporting both sides of a door bracket of the door hinge, and an actuating cylinder fixed to the support frame and connected with the second support parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Taeheun Jin
  • Patent number: 9242323
    Abstract: A die pressing plate including a main body, an adjusting groove, and a main through hole, each of the left or right surface of the main through hole has at least one guiding groove; a lower cushion block having a top curve surface; and an upper cushion block having a lower curve surface for engaging the top curve surface of the lower cushion block, at least one extension portion protruding away from the lower curve surface, the at least one extension portion having two blocking portions, the blocking portions of the at least one extension portion engage the at least one guiding groove, the at least one extension portion extends elastically when the blocking portion slide downwardly, and the blocking portion is blocked by the bottom surface of the main body. The die pressing plate is simple in structure, fast and convenient to assemble and use, and low in cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Ningbo Yinzhou Zhonghe Hualida Plastic Mould Factory
    Inventor: Huafeng Zhu
  • Patent number: 9242324
    Abstract: A grip member is inserted into an insertion hole of a cylindrical clamp body and is capable of extending outwards to grip the inner circumferential surface of an aperture of an article. A clamp rod is engaged with the grip member; a driving mechanism capable of driving the clamp rod forwards and backwards; a seating surface formed at the top end of the cylindrical clamp body; a case member supporting the cylindrical clamp body movably forwards and backwards; a driving mechanism capable of raising an lowering the cylindrical clamp body; and a lock mechanism having a cylindrical member into which the cylindrical clamp body is inserted so as to slide freely and capable of locking the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical clamp body by elastically deforming the cylindrical member so as to reduce its diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Pascal Engineering Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Kawakami
  • Patent number: 9242325
    Abstract: The invention concerns a securing device for securing a chuck, in particular a power-operated chuck, on a rotating spindle of a machine, wherein a rotating element and at least one chucking-slide assembly are provided in a main body in such a way that, when the rotating element turns, the chucking-slide assemblies change their radial position such that, in a chucking position, they force the chuck against the securing device in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: SCHUNK GMBH & CO. KG SPANN-UND GREIFTECHNIK
    Inventors: Philipp Schraeder, Alexander Holstein
  • Patent number: 9242326
    Abstract: A tool change magazine for a motor-driven machine tool, in particular a handheld machine tool with a tool which is to be driven in rotation, has an annular or drum-shaped housing. The housing is rotatable about its longitudinal axis. The tool change magazine also includes tool chambers arranged within the housing and each configured to slidably receive a tool. The housing includes regions formed from a transparent material. The tool chambers are arranged in the housing at the regions formed from the transparent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Attila Nagy, Hendrik Hesse
  • Patent number: 9242327
    Abstract: A machining device for material-removing machining of a workpiece includes a stationary frame, a workpiece magazine, a workpiece slide movable relative to the frame and accommodates a workpiece and a housing which encompasses a machining chamber and is located outside the workpiece magazine, wherein the workpiece magazine accommodates a plurality of workpieces, the workpiece magazine moves workpieces to an interchange point, the workpiece slide imparts translational movement to a workpiece along an X axis during workpiece machining and the workpiece slide is movable along the X axis to such an extent that the workpiece located on the workpiece slide is movable to the interchange point disposed outside the machining chamber encompassed by the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Ivolclar Vivadent AG
    Inventors: Jörg Evertz, Holger Von Both
  • Patent number: 9242328
    Abstract: A monitoring device of a machine tool, in particular a circular saw bench, includes a safety unit having at least one first sensor. The monitoring device further includes at least one reference sensor, which is provided to convert a characterizing physical measured variable of the workpiece into an electric characteristic variable during machining of a work piece using the machine tool. The characteristic variable is provided to establish a reference value for a signal of the first sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Stellmann, Sebastian Jackisch, Ralph Dammertz
  • Patent number: 9242329
    Abstract: A device for drilling or boring openings, primarily deep openings, comprises a cutter head with guides, said head being equipped with a device for displacing the cutter in the radial direction from the drive. The input of the drive is connected via a control signal transmission circuit and a transducer to the output of a system for digital programming control (DPC). A sensor for checking variations in the wall thickness of the component, a sensor of the angle of rotation of the component, a sensor of the angle of rotation of the cutter head and a sensor for checking the wobbling of the component are connected to the DPC system. The drive of the device for displacing the cutter in the radial direction is in the form of a linear drive and is mounted on the cutter head. The technical result is expressed in an increase in the accuracy of machining deep openings while ensuring that said openings can be corrected during the process of machining the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Inventor: Mikhail Vladimirovich Vedel
  • Patent number: 9242330
    Abstract: A skate blade sharpening system includes a clamp for retaining a skate blade in a sharpening position during a sharpening operation, with a centerline of the sharpening position having a first predetermined location relative to a first visual reference feature. A grinding wheel contacts the skate blade during sharpening and is mounted for rotation on a motor arm. A centerline of the grinding wheel has a second predetermined location relative to a second visual reference feature carried by the motor arm. An adjustment mechanism is used to move the motor arm transversely during an alignment operation to vary relative position between the grinding wheel and the sharpening position across a range that includes an aligned position in which the centerline of the grinding wheel is aligned with the centerline of the sharpening position. The aligned position is indicated by alignment of the first visual reference with the second visual reference feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: VELASA SPORTS, INC.
    Inventors: Russell K. Layton, Jr., Daniel A. Beaudet, Ivan D. Goryachev
  • Patent number: 9242331
    Abstract: An electric sharpener for sharpening ceramic blades includes at least one stage. The stage is a finishing station having a sharpening member in the form of a disc which comprises a rigid support having a flexible abrasive matrix which both sharpens and polishes the facet of the ceramic blade. The sharpener may include a pre-sharpening stage for metal blades and a further pre-sharpening stage for ceramic blades. The sharpener also includes a removable guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Edgecraft Corporation
    Inventors: Bela Elek, George C. Jensen, Daniel D. Friel, Jr., Samuel Weiner
  • Patent number: 9242332
    Abstract: On a workpiece there are first longitudinal portions which are rotationally symmetrical with respect to the continuous longitudinal axis and are intended to be ground by way of centerless grinding. The workpiece also has a second longitudinal portion, which is not rotationally symmetrical with respect to the longitudinal axis and would lead to imbalance in the event of rotation. Therefore, a balancing weight having a radially extending recess is placed on the second longitudinal portion. The balancing weight contributes largely to uniform distribution of the rotating masses, thus reduces the imbalance to a very low residual imbalance and allows reliable and precise centerless grinding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Erwin Junker Grinding Technology A.S.
    Inventors: Erwin Junker, Hubert Mueller
  • Patent number: 9242333
    Abstract: A method of grinding an ingot for use in manufacturing a semiconductor or solar wafer is disclosed. The method includes providing an ingot including four flat sides and four rounded corner portions, each corner portion extending between an adjacent pair of the flat sides, and grinding a plurality of planar facets on each corner portion, each planar facet of the corner portion joined to an adjacent facet at a juncture and oriented such that each corner portion has a substantially arcuate shape. A wafer and ingot are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: MEMC Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: James A. Hicks, Nicholas R. Mercurio
  • Patent number: 9242334
    Abstract: The invention discloses a transform mechanism of a finishing wheel for an abrasive belt polishing finisher in the field of mechanical technology. The invention is disposed on the inner side of the abrasive belt of the finisher, comprising several slide rails disposed on the side of the frame of the finisher and sliders on the slide rails. A finishing wheel is fixedly connected with each of the sliders. The curved surface of the rim of each of the said finishing wheels has a different curvature. A driving element connected with the slider is provided on the frame of the finisher close to each of the sliders. The finishing wheel corresponding to the driving element, driven by the said driving element, is pressed against the inner side of the abrasive belt. The transform mechanism of the invention could be widely applied and has a high polishing and finishing efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Taizhou Federal Robot Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Qiyue Chen