Patents Issued in November 17, 2016
  • Publication number: 20160332199
    Abstract: A system for monitoring screening facilities which includes screening panels and components of the screen deck incorporating wirelessly readable identification tags; a computer database containing information relating to the screen deck components and their associated tags; a wireless tag detection station for regularly reading the conveyed material to detect tags; a computer program for matching the detected information with said data base and means for communicating a warning that a screen deck component has been dislodged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: Schenck Process Australia Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Martin Schuetz
  • Publication number: 20160332200
    Abstract: At a conveyor forefront portion, velocity distribution of an airflow is provided. The velocity distribution is wind velocity distribution in a vertical direction of an airflow from a surface of an upper rectifying plate to a surface of a conveyor at the conveyor forefront portion, and has a maximum value in a range of less than 10 mm downward of the vertical direction from the rectifying plate surface. Moreover, a ratio obtained by dividing the maximum value by a wind velocity in the vicinity of the surface of the conveyor is 4 or more, and 12 or less. In a range other than the range of less than 10 mm, the airflow has a wind velocity equal to the wind velocity in the vicinity of the surface of the conveyor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: NAOSHI YAMAGUCHI, MASATOSHI MIYASAKA, SHINGO HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20160332201
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid dispensing applicator. The liquid dispensing applicator can include a sound-generating system for generating a sound during rotation of the container body to indicate to a user that the rotation is performed. The sound-generating system includes at least one knob and a plurality of ribs. the at least one knob cooperates with at least some of the ribs during rotation of the container body, in order to generate the sound. The liquid dispensing applicator can alternatively or also include a wing element insertable into a slot provided in an absorbent material. The wing element extends from an outer surface of the head component and comprises opposing surfaces and a at least one edge spike provided on an edge of the at least one wing element, and configured to prevent the absorbent material from being removed after insertion of the wing element into the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Razmik MARGOOSIAN
  • Publication number: 20160332202
    Abstract: An interchangeable basket treatment system receives a removable agitation basket preloaded with articles through a first door. Once positioned within the chamber and the chamber is sealed, the basket is, in one embodiment, suspended so that it may be manipulated to produce mechanical interaction between the articles and treatment fluids within the chamber. Upon completion of the treatment cycle the chamber is accessed via a second door and the basket and its contents removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: CO2Nexus, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Robbins, Stephen Whitney Madsen
  • Publication number: 20160332203
    Abstract: A cold rolling apparatus includes: a heating device configured to heat a sequentially transferred steel sheet; a cold rolling mill configured to sequentially cold-roll the steel sheet after being heated; a meandering-movement correction device arranged on an upstream side of the heating device in a transfer direction of the steel sheet, and configured to correct a meandering movement of the steel sheet transferred toward the heating device; and a meandering-movement suppression device arranged between the heating device and the cold rolling mill, and configured to suppress a meandering movement of the steel sheet attributed to the cold rolling of the steel sheet by using the cold rolling mill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayasu Ueno, Yoshimitsu Harada, Hidemasa Kodama, Tatsuhito Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20160332204
    Abstract: Guide device for rolling long metal products, comprising at least a pair of guide rolls coplanar with each other and rotatable round axes of rotation inclined with respect to a rolling axis, a support body on which the guide rolls are mounted and configured to keep the guide rolls constantly in contact with the long metal products, and a support structure configured to support the support body and to which the latter is attached. At least the support structure is made of one or more non-ferrous metal materials with a specific weight less than half the average weight of steel and with heat conductivity equal to or greater than double the average heat conductivity of steel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Marco Di Giacomo, Tiziano De Giorgio
  • Publication number: 20160332205
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a method of manufacturing a plate-like molded body having a thickened portion in a region spaced apart from an edge in a substantially flat plate-like portion. [Solution] Provided is a method of manufacturing a plate-like molded body having a plurality of thickened portions, including at least a drawing step of obtaining by a drawing process a cylindrical drawn molded body including a flat plate portion and a cylindrical drawn portion that swells in such a manner as to project from the flat plate portion and has a circular top portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki NAKAZAWA, Koichi SATO, Kojiro AKIBA
  • Publication number: 20160332206
    Abstract: The invention relates first to a hand tool, including a working head, which is actuated by an electric motor and/or by a hydraulic medium and which has a working part, and including a sensor for detecting a spatial motion, wherein the working part travels through a motion sequence as the result of a first triggering by a user in order to perform a working process. In order to specify a hand tool that allows a reliable series of actuations at differential spatial orientations of the tool to be achieved, according to the invention an additional triggering is possible only if the working part has ended the motion sequence resulting from the first triggering and the tool has been spatially moved overall thereafter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Egbert Frenken
  • Publication number: 20160332207
    Abstract: A die apparatus includes an upper die and a lower die used for blanking a thin plate, a stripper which is formed on the upper die and is arranged between the upper die and the lower die, and a punch which blanks a part of the thin plate. The stripper or the lower die is provided with a protruding part which reduces flexure of the stripper occurring when a test punching is performed by actuating the punch without the thin plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUI HIGH-TEC, INC.
    Inventors: Masahiro IZUMI, Shinichiro ONO, Kenichi TAKASAKI
  • Publication number: 20160332208
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a beverage can, a bottle or a spray can made of aluminium alloy, by means of deep drawing-ironing followed by necking and/or bending, from a non-circular blank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: CONSTELLIUM NEUF-BRIASCH
    Inventor: Hervé STOPPIGLIA
  • Publication number: 20160332209
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy heat exchanger is produced by applying a coating material that is prepared by adding a binder to a mixture of an Si powder and a Zn-containing compound flux powder to a surface of an aluminum alloy refrigerant tube, assembling a bare fin that is formed of an Al—Mn—Zn alloy with the refrigerant tube, and brazing the refrigerant tube and the bare fin by heating in an atmosphere-controlled furnace, the refrigerant tube being an extruded product of an aluminum alloy that comprises 0.5 to 1.7% (mass %, hereinafter the same) of Mn, less than 0.10% of Cu, and less than 0.10% of Si, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Naoki YAMASHITA, Yasunaga ITOH, Yuji HISATOMI
  • Publication number: 20160332210
    Abstract: A production method of a wheel rim includes: a step of forming a cylindrical rim material into a rim shape; and a step of increasing a sheet thickness of at least one opening end edge of the rim material at least one of before and after the step of forming of the cylindrical rim material. In addition, in the step of increasing of the sheet thickness, in a state in which the opening end edge is inserted into an annular groove of a die provided with the annular groove which is wider than the sheet thickness of the opening end edge, a thickened portion is formed by exerting a compressive load in an axial direction of the rim material on the opening end edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KASEDA, Yutaka MIKAZUKI
  • Publication number: 20160332211
    Abstract: A method and apparatus forms an exhaust component that includes first and second substrates. An outer shell surrounds the first and second substrates. At least one sensor hole is formed in the outer shell at a location between the first and second substrates. A first end of the outer shell is surrounded with a plurality of first fingers to size the first end around the first substrate to a first diameter. The plurality of first fingers includes at least one extended finger that is longer than the other fingers such that the extended finger at least partially covers the sensor hole during sizing of the first end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Claudinei Hijazi, John Warren
  • Publication number: 20160332212
    Abstract: A wire-forming mechanism for spring making machine includes a base frame with two first sliding rail sets, and two wire-forming assemblies for independently performing a two-dimensional action. Each wire-forming assembly includes a movable base panel slidably mounted on one respective first sliding rail set and providing a second sliding rail set that extends in a perpendicular manner relative to the first sliding rail sets, a tool panel slidably mounted on the second sliding rail set and providing an L-shaped tool mount, one or multiple tools selectively mounted in the L-shaped tool mount, and two driving mechanisms for moving the movable base panel along one respective first sliding rail set and the tool panel along the second sliding rail set respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Ching-Fa YANG
  • Publication number: 20160332213
    Abstract: A spline rolling rack assembly for cold-forming external surface configurations upon a metal workpiece is provided, having a durable carriage of the type secured upon a reciprocating slide assembly, a perishable rack insert that is removably secured upon the carriage, a locating key disposed between the rack insert and the carriage for properly aligning the rack insert upon the carriage, a locating assembly disposed upon the carriage and engageable with the rack insert for assisting in properly aligning the rack insert and the carriage between load and work positions, and multiple clamping assemblies disposed within said carriage for releasably securing the rack insert upon the carriage. The perishable rack insert is designed for quick and convenient replacement, reducing maintenance cost and idle time for these devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Michael David Callesen
  • Publication number: 20160332214
    Abstract: A method for joining at least two parts to be joined which are arranged so as to overlap at least in a joining zone is disclosed using a joining element which is fed to the joining zone in a joining direction and which is designed so as to be free of undercuts at least in a shaft when seen opposite the joining direction. At least one first part to be joined that interacts first with the joining element in the joining direction, is punched by means of the joining element, and the joining element is pressed into a second part to be joined without punching through the second part. The shaft of the joining element is designed so as to be free of undercuts after being pressed into the second part to be joined and is arranged so as to contact the first and the second part to be joined with a radially applied force in a form-fit-free manner at least when seen opposite the joining direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Norbert HORNBOSTEL, Frank BARKHAUSEN, Heiko HELLMEIER
  • Publication number: 20160332215
    Abstract: A method of inserting a rivet (2) into a workpiece (42, 44, 46) comprises moving the rivet (2) and workpiece (42, 44, 46) relative to one another, along a longitudinal axis of the rivet, so as to drive the rivet into the workpiece. The rivet is rotated about its longitudinal axis, relative to the workpiece, for at least part of the time during which it is in contact with the workpiece. The speed of said rotation, or the speed of movement along the longitudinal axis of the rivet, is altered at least once before driving of the rivet into the workpiece is complete.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: Henrob Limited
    Inventors: Stuart Edmund Blacket, Wojciech Gostylla, Paul Briskham
  • Publication number: 20160332216
    Abstract: A removable die of a joining tool comprising a die head having an upper side, a bottom side and a die shaft extending from the bottom side and receivable and lockable in a die dome without rotation. The die shaft comprises: at least one first radial web forming an axial undercut on two sides by which the die shaft is lockable in the die dome by a linear inserting movement, at least one second exposed radial web, the radial length of which is adaptable to a diameter of the die dome to ensure a lateral guiding of the die shaft in the die dome and which is arranged between the die head and the first radial web, and an ejection surface by which the removable die can be moved out of the die dome and which is arranged at the free end of the die shaft opposite to the die head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Fabian Ahlemeyer, Peter Peters
  • Publication number: 20160332217
    Abstract: A die chanter for a die of a joining device, a die dome adapted to the die and a method for removing a die of a joining device and a method for inserting a die into a joining device. The die has a head having upper and bottom sides, and a shaft extending from the bottom side and receivable and lockable in a dome without rotation. The shaft comprises: at least one first web forming an undercut on two sides by which the shaft is lockable in the dome by a linear inserting movement, at least one second web, the length of which is adaptable to a diameter of the dome to ensure a lateral guiding of the shaft in the dome and which is arranged between the die-head and the first web, and an ejection surface by which the die can be moved out of the dome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Fabian Ahlemeyer, Peter Peters
  • Publication number: 20160332218
    Abstract: A cylindrical drum is driven for rotation about its axis by a drive mechanism. A braking mechanism selectively applies braking forces to the drum to impede or brake its rotational movement. A first movement sensor senses movement of the drive mechanism while a second movement sensor senses movement of the drum. An electronic comparator circuit compares these sensed movements and generates a control signal when the drive mechanism movement and drum movement are not in synchronism. In response to such loss of synchronism, a control mechanism causes the braking mechanism to apply braking forces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: John S. Palmer, Marc Zerkle
  • Publication number: 20160332219
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing B4C/Al neutron-absorbing material sheet by continuous cast rolling including the steps of: 1) providing B4C particles and aluminum matrix melt, adding the B4C particles into the aluminum matrix melt while stirring the composite of the B4C particles and the aluminum matrix melt; 2) applying an electromagnetic field to the B4C particle-containing aluminum matrix melt passing through a headbox; 3) applying an ultrasonic vibration to the B4C particle-containing aluminum matrix melt passing through a casting nozzle; and 4) conducing twin roll continuous cast rolling on the B4C particle-containing aluminum matrix melt from the casting nozzle to obtain B4C/Al neutron-absorbing material sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Guogang Shu, Qiulin Li, Zhiyuan Luo, Wei Liu, Yanzhang Liu, Xin Wang, Xuejun Li, Tengfei Zhang
  • Publication number: 20160332220
    Abstract: An up-drawing continuous casting method according to the present invention is an up-drawing continuous casting method for forming a casting having a predetermined shape by drawing up molten metal held in a holding furnace, and includes: a step of introducing, into the molten metal, a hollow member configured to draw up the molten metal; and a step of flowing inert gas into the hollow member so as to pour the inert gas into the molten metal. The casting is formed by drawing up the molten metal with the hollow member after stopping the flowing of the inert gas into the molten metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi FURUKAWA, Keiichi MORITA
  • Publication number: 20160332221
    Abstract: A heat transfer coefficient ? between a solidified shell (2) and a mold (4) sandwiching a mold flux layer (3), and a heat transfer coefficient ? between a molten steel (1) and the solidified shell (2) are found by solving an inverse problem by using data from thermocouples (6), and a solidified shell thickness and a solidified shell temperature are estimated (solidified state in mold estimation amounts), and further, solidified state in mold evaluation amounts are obtained. It is determined whether a normal casting state or an abnormal casting state by comparing at least one or more kinds of amounts contained in the solidified state in mold estimation amounts and the solidified state in mold evaluation amounts with allowable limit values which are found based on at least one or more kinds of amounts contained in the solidified state in mold estimation amounts and the solidified state in mold evaluation amounts when the abnormal casting occurred in a past and stored in a data storage part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi KOSUGI, Kensuke OKAZAWA, Junichi NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20160332222
    Abstract: A method of assembling a centrifugal casting apparatus includes positioning a wedge on a rotatable axis and positioning at least two molds into sealing engagement with the wedge. Each of the at least two molds includes a front face and defines at least two cavities extending from the front face into the mold. A sprue chamber is defined and is structured to receive molten material, and at least a portion of the sprue chamber is defined by at least a portion of the front faces of the at least two molds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: John W. Foltz, IV, Raul A. Martinez-Ayers, Aaron L. Fosdick
  • Publication number: 20160332223
    Abstract: A method for producing an impeller of an exhaust gas turbocharger made of TiAl alloy by centrifugal casting, includes providing a TiAl alloy consisting of titanium, 43.7 at-% to 47.5 at-% aluminum, 1.9 at-% to 8.7 at-% niobium, 0.3 at-% to 0.6 at-% carbon, and at most 2.0 at-% others, heating a casting mold used for the centrifugal casting to a casting temperature of 500° C. to 800° C.; introducing the TiAl alloy into the heated casting mold; accelerating the casting mold about a rotation axis spaced apart from the casting mold with an angular acceleration to a rotational speed within an acceleration time period as soon as the TiAl has reached the casting temperature, wherein a rotary axis of the produced impeller is arranged perpendicular to the rotation axis during the centrifugal casting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: OLIVER HENKER, ANTON STICH, GREGOR HULLIN, HEINZ WERNER HÖPPEL
  • Publication number: 20160332224
    Abstract: A water cooling apparatus for cooling centrifugal casting equipment that includes an upper mold and a lower mold rotating together includes a rotating shaft in which a first cooling passage is formed and to which a nozzle is provided at an end portion of the rotating shaft, and a collecting portion which surrounds a side surface of the lower mold and is installed apart from the lower mold. The lower mold is connected to the rotating shaft and includes a chamber separated from a mold space formed between the upper and lower molds in order to store cooling water injected to the nozzle. The lower mold includes at least one second cooling passage extended from the chamber toward an outer circumference surface direction, and the collecting portion receives the cooling water discharged through the second cooling passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Young Chan KIM, Jun Min LEE, Min Soo KIM
  • Publication number: 20160332225
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cylinder liner having a high bonding strength to a cylinder block. Further disclosed is a method for producing the same. The cylinder liner uses a silicon-aluminum alloy as a material; a plurality of protrusions are formed on the external surface thereof; and the protrusions each contain a pillar section extending from the external surface, and a head section formed at the end of the pillar section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: MORESCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi YAMAGATA, Hidetaka SHIMA
  • Publication number: 20160332226
    Abstract: A method and casting core for forming a landing for welding a baffle inserted into an airfoil are disclosed, wherein the baffle landing of the blade or vane is formed in investment casting by the casting core rather than by wax, reducing tolerances and variability in the location of the baffle inserted into the cooling cavity of airfoil when the baffle is welded to the baffle landing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley
  • Publication number: 20160332227
    Abstract: A metal powder contains not less than 0.10 mass % and not more than 1.00 mass % of at least one of chromium and silicon, and a balance of copper. The total content of the chromium and the silicon is not more than 1.00 mass %. In accordance with an additive manufacturing method for this metal powder, an additively-manufactured article made from a copper alloy is provided. The additively-manufactured article has both an adequate mechanical strength and an adequate electrical conductivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicants: DAIHEN Corporation, TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OSAKA PREFECTURE
    Inventors: Ryusuke TSUBOTA, Jyunichi TANAKA, Yohei OKA, Takayuki NAKAMOTO, Takahiro SUGAHARA, Mamoru TAKEMURA, Sohei UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20160332228
    Abstract: A 3-D printer scalable to large sizes employs a combination of mechanical and electrical scanning of a linear array of electron beams that operate to melt material of a powder bed. A housing holding the electron beam sources may be maintained at a high vacuum and positioned close to a print surface to minimize electron travel in a softer vacuum surrounding a print bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas Rockwell Mackie, Brandon Joseph Walker
  • Publication number: 20160332229
    Abstract: A method of additively manufacturing is used to produce a component with an internal cooling channel for conveying a fluid. Powders in a powder bed are selectively fused to form a shaped layer of a body of the cooled component. The fusing is repeated on a layer-by-layer basis to form the body of the component with the internal cooling channel extending within the body, so that a peripheral wall of the internal cooling channel has a geometry that allows the peripheral wall to be self-supporting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Brooks E. Snyder, Thomas N. Slavens
  • Publication number: 20160332230
    Abstract: A system for preventing powder depletion/contamination during a consolidation process has a can for holding a powdered material; the can having an interior wall; a protective layer positioned intermediate the powdered material and the interior wall; and the protective layer being formed from a material selected from the group consisting of nickel alloys, chrome alloys, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Agnieszka M Wusatowska-Sarnek, Larry G Housefield, Ruston M Moore, Enrique E Montero, Promila Bhaatia
  • Publication number: 20160332231
    Abstract: An electrode material obtained by press molding a mixed powder where a Cu powder, a Cr powder and a refractory metal powder (for example, a Mo powder) are mixed and then sintering the thus-obtained molded body in a non-oxidizing atmosphere at a temperature that is not higher than the melting point of Cu. As the Cr powder to be mixed in the mixed powder, a Cr powder wherein the volume-based relative particle amount of particles having particle diameters of 40 ?m or less is less than 10% is used. The Cr powder is mixed in the mixed powder in an amount of 10-50% by weight, while the refractory metal powder is mixed in the mixed powder in an amount of 1-10% by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: MEIDENSHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita ISHIKAWA, Kaoru KITAKIZAKI, Shota HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160332232
    Abstract: A method of producing a metallic powder material comprises supplying feed materials to a melting hearth, and melting the feed materials on the melting hearth with a first heat source to provide a molten material having a desired chemical composition. At least a portion of the molten material is passed from the melting hearth either directly or indirectly to an atomizing hearth, where it is heated using a second heat source. At least a portion of the molten material from the atomizing hearth is passed in a molten state to an atomizing apparatus, which forms a droplet spray from the molten material. At least a portion of the droplet spray is solidified to provide a metallic powder material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Robin M. Forbes Jones, Matthew J. Arnold, Ramesh S. Minisandram, Arthur A. Kracke
  • Publication number: 20160332233
    Abstract: A method for producing titanium powder containing a solid-soluted oxygen comprises the steps of: heating titanium powder comprised of titanium particles in an oxygen-containing atmosphere in a temperature range of 160° or higher and less than 600° C. to form a titanium oxide layer on the surface of the titanium particle; and heating the titanium powder having the titanium oxide layer in an oxygen-free atmosphere in a temperature range of 450° C. or higher and a melting point of the titanium oxide layer or lower to decompose the titanium oxide layer on the surface of the titanium particle so that oxygen atoms dissociated form a solid solution in a matrix of the titanium particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Katsuyoshi Kondoh
  • Publication number: 20160332234
    Abstract: A production method of silver nanowires exhibits a yield enhancement effect for a protective agent other than PVP. The method for producing silver nanowires includes depositing a silver linear structure, which is referred to as silver nanowires, in an alcohol solvent having a silver compound, a halogen compound, and an organic protective agent dissolved therein. A deposition reaction of silver is performed in a state where aluminum nitrate is further dissolved in the solvent, the total amount of aluminum nitrate dissolved in the solvent being from 0.01 to 0.50 in terms of Al/Ag molar ratio with respect to the total amount of the silver compound. The organic protective agent is, for example, one containing one or more kinds of alkylated PVP and a PVP-PVA graft copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Jeyadevan BALACHANDRAN, Jhon Lehman Cuya HUAMAN, Daisuke KODAMA
  • Publication number: 20160332235
    Abstract: This present disclosure relates to a device for rotary entrainment of a workpiece clamped between two tips, which is mounted on a machine table of a machine tool, consisting of a base body with a centrically arranged tip and a plurality of concentrically arranged, axially shiftable driver elements which for the rotary entrainment of the workpiece are pressed against or into an end-face surface, wherein an axial position of the driver elements can be defined by active fixation after a centering operation of the workpiece, and to a receptacle opposite the base body, for example a tip or hollow tip, which serves a guidance of an opposite side of the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Johannes WEIXLER
  • Publication number: 20160332236
    Abstract: A cutting tool made by an additive manufacturing process is disclosed. The cutting tool has an exterior surface and an enclosed interior cavity defined by one or more inwardly facing surfaces. The interior cavity may have internal supports such as a lattice or a honeycomb structure. The cutting tool may be an insert, drill or endmill with coolant holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventor: Pantcho Stoyanov
  • Publication number: 20160332237
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool includes a substrate and a coating having at least one ?-type aluminum oxide layer. In a cross-section of the ?-type aluminum oxide layer, when an angle formed by a normal to the cross-sectional surface and a normal to a (222) plane of a particle of the ?-type aluminum oxide layer is regarded as a misorientation, and when areas of particles, each of which has a misorientation ranging from 0-90 degrees, of the ?-type aluminum oxide layer are defined as constituting 100 area %, and the areas of particles, each of which has a misorientation ranging from 0-90 degrees, of the ?-type aluminum oxide layer are divided into respective 10-degree pitches, a total Sa of the areas of particles having a misorientation ranging from 20-30 degrees, of the ?-type aluminum oxide layer is at a maximum from among totals of areas for nine divisions in respective 10-degree pitches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Takaaki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20160332238
    Abstract: A back spotfacing system having a machining apparatus with a through-hole cutter tool. The tool has an elongate member movable to coaxially extend through a hole in a workpiece from a first side of the workpiece, the workpiece coupled to the apparatus. The tool has a cutter element pivotal between a stowed position on the elongate member, a contact position with an inner surface of the hole, and an extended position extending radially from the elongate member. In the extended position, the cutter element extends to machine and back spotface a surface on a second side of the workpiece opposite the first side. The system has a power system for powering the apparatus and tool, and a measurement system coupled to the apparatus for measuring one or more hole exit positions of the cutter element and one or more surface contact positions of the cutter element on the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Derek L. Mickelson, Joel T. Adriance, Alan R. Merkley, Christopher J. Gray
  • Publication number: 20160332239
    Abstract: A forming tool for forming leading edges of turbine blades is disclosed. In various embodiments, a forming tool may comprise a cylindrically-shaped body having a notch around the circumference of the cylindrically-shaped body. The notch may be positioned perpendicularly to a center axis of the cylindrically-shaped body. Further, the notch may have a notch contour with an upper notch contour and a lower notch contour, and where the notch contour is a relief of a selected turbine blade leading edge. The forming tool may be a grinding tool or a cutting tool. Moreover, a forming process may comprise forming, by a forming tool, a first portion of a turbine blade leading edge with a rough edge result, and forming, by a milling cutter, a second portion of the turbine blade leading edge with a rough edge result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Fromerth, Daniel J. Wright, Chung Y. Wu
  • Publication number: 20160332240
    Abstract: A cutting tool assembly and a method of manufacture. The cutting tool assembly may include a backing member made of a first material and a cutting member made of a second material. The second material may differ from the first material. The cutting member may be fixedly disposed on the backing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: JOHN E. MASSETH
  • Publication number: 20160332241
    Abstract: A mill cutter assembly comprises a handle having a tapered hole and a through hole; an upper end of an connecting block having a threaded hole; a lower bottom of the connecting block being formed with an engaging groove; a knife having a lower portion and the lower portion being formed with a helical trench and a helical cutting portion; an upper end of the knife being formed as an engaging section which can be inserted into the tapered hole of the handle; an outer side of the engaging section having a tapered shape; an upper side of the engaging section being formed with an engaging block which is engagable with the engaging groove of the connecting block; and a stud having a head and a shaft extended downwards from a lower side of the head; the stud having a straight rod and a threaded rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: HSIAO -LIN LIU
  • Publication number: 20160332242
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a totally new cabinet-making industry GAME-CHANGER. So revolutionary and different that it is hard for the average wood worker or cabinet maker to understand just by looking at it. It is best understood by watching a video of it being used. A video will be supplied. For example, a cabinet can easily be cut and assembled as little as two minutes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Paul Eugene Fiala
  • Publication number: 20160332243
    Abstract: Shaft cutting machine that is able to cut short size shaft composes of machine structure of which its part supporting the installing of short size shaft feeding in part. This feeding in part could fit with short size shaft in horizontal. The shaft is to be sent to rail that support the moving of shaft. This supporting rail support the mechanical pushing of short size shaft located behind moving that compose of the structure of forth-back axis be able to moving in-out for push the shaft that need to cut out by blade the short shaft that is supplied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Akira Kakehata
  • Publication number: 20160332244
    Abstract: An airflow management system for a table saw includes an elongated hollow member and a dust cap. The elongated hollow member includes a first prong and a second prong, the first and second prongs being configured to be positioned adjacent a saw blade on opposite sides of a saw blade plane in which the saw blade is positioned. The first and second prongs define an opening and a partially enclosed space, in which an airflow channel is defined, therebetween. The dust cap is attached to the elongated hollow member and includes a hose connection fluidly connected to the airflow channel of the elongated hollow member and configured to connect to a vacuum source to pull air from the airflow channel through the hose connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Jan Koegel
  • Publication number: 20160332245
    Abstract: A numerical controller controlling a wire electric discharge machining device of the present invention is configured to perform perpendicular setting of the wire electrode with respect to the workpiece while the wire electrode is inserted into and passed through a machining hole of a workpiece and calculate the inclination of the workpiece; drive an XY axis and detect short-circuit; obtain the diameter of the machining start hole; subsequently drive the upper wire guide and the lower wire guide respectively and detect the short-circuit and calculate the location of the center of the upper portion of the machining start hole and the location of the center of the lower portion of the machining start hole; and, based on these calculated values, calculate the correction amount for the workpiece on the upper wire guide surface of the upper wire guide and the correction amount for the workpiece on the lower wire guide surface of the lower wire guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Yasuyuki KUROHARA
  • Publication number: 20160332246
    Abstract: An electric heating tool includes a handle device and a heating device rotatably mounted to the handle device. The handle device includes a body, a power connection member, and a sleeve. The power connection member is received in the body, and the sleeve mounted around the body. The heating device includes a seat and a heating member. The seat rotatably engaged with the sleeve. The heating member is mounted to the seat and is slidely and electrically connected to the power connection member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Jung-Fa Tsai
  • Publication number: 20160332247
    Abstract: There is provided an arc welding method. In the method, welding is performed in a spray transfer mode by feeding a welding wire. A first welding current Iw1 is flown during a first period. A second welding current Iw2 is flown during a second period. A third welding current Iw3 is flown during a third period, where 0<Iw2<Iw3<Iw1. The first to third periods are alternately repeated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: DAIHEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke MORI, Zhongjie LIU, Toshiro UEZONO
  • Publication number: 20160332248
    Abstract: A welding accessory that allows a welder to easily maintain the proper electrical arc gap between the welding torch and the surface being welded, and that improves the consistency of the shield gas plume by reducing the variation of gap between the shield gas nozzle and the surface being welded while in motion is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, the welding accessory is comprised of a body portion, a slidable and rotatable repositionable arm; and a wheel attached to one end of said repositionable arm. A kit that comprises the welding accessory of the present invention and other accessories for welding and/or oxy-fuel cutting is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventor: Martin Albrecht