Patents Issued in January 17, 2017
  • Patent number: 9545658
    Abstract: There is provided a piercing apparatus in which the occurrence of an inner surface flaw in a hollow shell is suppressed. A piercing apparatus (10) according to an embodiment of the present invention is the piercing apparatus (10) which pierces a billet (18). The piercing apparatus (10) has a plug (14). The plug (14) has a through hole (30). The through hole (30) extends along the central axis, and allows the central portion of the billet (18) being pierced to pass therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Shimoda, Tomio Yamakawa, Kouji Yamane, Yuji Inoue, Syusuke Shimooka, Kouji Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 9545659
    Abstract: A tool for a progressive forming machine comprising an assembly having a workpiece shaping cavity symmetrical about an axis and including an end wall transverse to the axis, a conical bore open to the end wall and centered on the axis, the sides of the conical bore being described by a relatively small angle relative to the axis, and an ejector pin for forcing workpieces form the cavity, the ejector pin having an end face and a conical body portion rearward of the end face, the conical body portion having an external surface matching a surface of the conical bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: NATIONAL MACHINERY LLC
    Inventors: Thomas E. Hay, Jeffrey W. Carper
  • Patent number: 9545660
    Abstract: In order to produce a formed part furnished with a through hole, a rod material is advanced by a defined length in the direction of its lengthwise extension into a forming die through a stationary guide and then immobilised by a clamping arrangement that engages with it circumferentially. The end portion of the rod material is then axially swaged by a swaging tool and is thus shaped into a disc, the circumference of which is defined by the forming die. The disc is then penetrated axially by a dishing tool and impact extruded at the same time, the displaced material flowing between the dishing tool and the inner circumferential wall of the forming die. The formed part located in the forming die is then rotated coaxially relative to the rest of the rod material and thereby separated from the rest of the rod material by torsion shearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Hatebur Umformmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Christian Burgin, Thomas Christoffel, Andreas Matt, Patrick Stemmelin, Mihai Vulcan
  • Patent number: 9545661
    Abstract: A method includes placing a shell mold with a crucible portion and a casting portion in communication with the crucible portion on a rotary table, with the heterogeneous material including an embedded portion inlaying in the casting portion of the shell mold and a non-embedded portion locating in a cavity of the casting portion, placing a metal ingot into the crucible portion, followed by melting the metal ingot into molten metal in a vacuum environment, rotating the rotary table, causing the molten metal to flow into the cavity, destroying the shell mold after the molten metal solidifies to obtain a casting including a cast product portion separated from the casting to obtain a cast product of a golf club head, and removing the embedded portion of the heterogeneous material protruding from an outer periphery of the cast product of the golf club head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Fusheng Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien-Liang Li
  • Patent number: 9545662
    Abstract: A molten metal mold and bottom block system, including apparatus and method embodiments, which may include a mold cavity framework with a first side, a second side opposite the first side, a third side, and a fourth side opposite the third side, each side including an inner surface and the inner surfaces defining a mold cavity, and wherein one or more of the sides are movably mounted relative to the second side, and are controllably moved during the casting. This system may also include embodiments wherein the castpart produced has a tapered form at one or both of the castpart ends. Aspects of this invention may be considered to be a castpart shrinkage management system or a castpart form or profile control system due to the advantage of increased controls of castpart form during the casting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Wagstaff, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael K. Anderson, Craig Shaber, Steve Anderson, Brett Thielman, Mike Komicki
  • Patent number: 9545663
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: ATI PROPERTIES LLC
    Inventors: John W. Foltz, IV, Raul A. Martinez-Ayers, Aaron L. Fosdick
  • Patent number: 9545664
    Abstract: A high-temperature die casting die includes a first die plate with a first recess and a second die plate with a second recess, the first and second recesses defining a main part cavity and gating. A grain selector is in fluid communication with the main cavity, and an in situ zone refining apparatus is adapted to apply a localized thermal gradient to at least one of the first and second die plates. The localized thermal gradient and the at least one die plate are movable relative to each other so as to apply the localized thermal gradient along a first direction extending from the grain selector longitudinally across the main part cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Steven J. Bullied, John Joseph Marcin, Mario P. Bochiechio
  • Patent number: 9545665
    Abstract: A method of repairing defect in cast iron workpiece, including: machining the workpiece in the area of the defect to remove the defective material and form a chamber opening at a surface of the workpiece; anchoring a receptacle to the workpiece above the chamber (2), the receptacle is provided with an orifice in communication with the chamber; adding molten iron (4) into the receptacle so that it at least part of it flows into the chamber; adding slagging agent (5) into the receptacle; heating the slagging agent and the molten iron with an electrode (6); adding nodulizing agent into the molten iron so as to segregate graphite; and allowing the molten iron and the workpiece to cool down slowly. The above-described technique also has applicability for connecting two cast iron workpieces (11,12) together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventor: Hong Wei Zhang
  • Patent number: 9545666
    Abstract: A casting mold is pivoted about a horizontal pivot axis for casting cast parts in a casting machine. The casting mold has a lid and a reference side wall. A main plane is placed into the reference side wall. A tundish is coupled to the casting mold and the casting mold is then pivoted into a pouring-in position. The tundish filled with a molten metal portion is pivoted with the casting mold about the pivot axis, so that the molten metal flows into the casting mold. An angle ?1 enclosed between the main plane of the reference side wall and a bath level of the molten metal portion in the tundish is constantly <180° until the melt hits the bottom of the casting mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Nemak, S.A.B. de C.V.
    Inventors: Liviu Calin, Friedrich Irauschek, Walter Hartl, Reinhard Mann
  • Patent number: 9545667
    Abstract: A casting machine having a furnace body, a first heater, a first surface and pressure means. The furnace body has a melting portion and a holding portion, material being supplied and melted to form the molten metal in the melting portion, the holding portion holding the molten metal which has flowed out from the melting portion. The first heater heats the material supplied to the melting portion to melt it. The first surface is provided on a hearth surface of the melting portion and has concavities and convexities, the material to be heated being laid on the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumasa Yasuda, Yuji Sakakibara, Naoto Uesaka, Atsushi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9545668
    Abstract: A fine silver particle-containing composition includes a large number of fine silver particles 2 and a coating layer 4 that covers a surface of each silver particle 2. The silver particle 2 is a so-called nano particle. The silver particle 2 has a scale-like shape. The coating layer 4 consists of an organic compound. The organic compound binds to the silver particle 2. The organic compound suppresses aggregation of the silver particle 2. The composition is in a cake form. A weight ratio of the organic compound with regard to the total amount of the composition is not lower than 2% but not higher than 15%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: TOKUSEN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Insoo Kim, Chang-Gun Lee, Tomoki Kitafuji
  • Patent number: 9545669
    Abstract: The present invention relates to layer manufacturing, more particularly to a method for additive layer manufacturing of objects comprised of more than one material with free-form capability for all included materials. The invention can for example be used for producing packaging for Microsystems where the ceramic acts as an insulator and the secondary material is used to produce electrical or optical 3D conductor lines or electrical or optical 3D vias. The fine powder used in this method enables it to be used for building components with small feature size and demand for high precision. Other intended uses for this method is to build small mechanical precision parts or grinding tools, dental objects or medical implants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Digital Metal AB
    Inventors: Thorbjörn Åklint, Elis Carlstrom, Per Johander, Elisabeth Johander, Johanna Stiernstedt
  • Patent number: 9545670
    Abstract: A method for producing nanoparticles on a substrate using a metal precursor in an ionic liquid and microwave heating is described. The composite compositions are useful as catalysts for chemical reactions, fuel cell, supercapacitor and battery components, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lawrence T. Drzal, In-Hwan Do, Hiroyuki Fukushima
  • Patent number: 9545671
    Abstract: A polygonal indexable cutting insert including a pair of faces, a plurality of peripheral side surfaces, a plurality of rounded corners, a plurality of cutting edges formed with an edge radius, a plurality of triangular-shaped areas proximate the rounded corners; and a plurality of chip breaking scallops positioned along the cutting edges. Each scallop has a bottom surface formed by a rake face and an arcuate back wall having a varying depth. The arcuate back wall of each scallop intersects the arcuate back wall of adjacent scallops at a point located at a distance from each cutting edge for providing a wedge effect that facilitates in dividing and breaking chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INDIA LIMITED
    Inventor: Sreekala Pacheri
  • Patent number: 9545672
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutting insert. The cutting insert, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a top surface; a bottom surface; side surfaces which connect the top surface and the bottom surface to each other; a hole which penetrates the top surface and the bottom surface; and cutting edges which are defined by the top surface and the side surfaces, wherein a main cutting edge side surface among the side surfaces is provided with a first relief surface, a transition surface extending from the first relief surface, and a second relief surface extending from the transition surface, the first relief surface is formed such that the relief angle or the relief surface width varies along the cutting edge, and the transition surface is provided with a plurality of ridges in order to reinforce the rigidity of the cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: KORLOY INC.
    Inventors: Sang-Yong Lee, Ki-Chan Nam, Wook-Jung Sung, Young-Jun Park, Dong-Bok Park
  • Patent number: 9545673
    Abstract: A vibration reducing device for a machine tool reduces vibration generated in a tool support body supporting a tool. The vibration reducing device includes an attenuation inducing member and a pressing and fitting mechanism. The attenuation inducing member is brought into contact with the tool support body so as to generate a frictional force in a direction in which it acts as a resistance to the vibration generated in the tool support body. The attenuation inducing member has a rigidity in a direction conforming to a contact surface between the attenuation inducing member and the tool support body, which rigidity is higher than that of the tool support body. The pressing and fitting mechanism fits the attenuation inducing member to the tool support body in a pressed condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsunori Hirose
  • Patent number: 9545674
    Abstract: A bushing for a drill template, the bushing has a head portion for receipt of a drill motor. The head portion has a top surface and a bottom surface with at least one pin protruding from the bottom surface of the head portion. The pin fits within a secondary opening in a template to help retain the bushing in place. A body portion extends from the bottom surface of the head portion. The body portion has an outer surface with a portion of it threaded. The body portion extends through a primary drill hole in the template. A fastening nut having inner threads mates with the outer threads on the body portion to lock the bushing to the template. A bore extends through the head portion and the body portion for receipt of a drill bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Harcourt Industrial, Inc.
    Inventor: Rob Beardmore
  • Patent number: 9545675
    Abstract: Nonmetallic tools such as rotary bits, circular blades, and scything tools are described that may be suitable for removing cured flexibilized epoxy gap-filler materials from gaps between soft composite materials. The nonmetallic tools may be formed from various plastic or composite materials that are sufficiently hard to cut through the gap-filler material while being sufficiently soft to avoid damaging adjacent areas of soft composite materials. Methods for using the nonmetallic tools may include attaching the nonmetallic tools to a suitable machine-driven tool and contacting the nonmetallic tools to a material to be cut, shaped, or drilled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: University of Dayton
    Inventors: Paul K. Childers, Jr., Ryan P. Osysko
  • Patent number: 9545676
    Abstract: A general-purpose multiple-cutting edge drill includes: a drill point (1); a drill body (2); margins (3) located on an outer wall of the drill body (2); two lips, wherein, if viewed from an axial direction, from out to inside, each of the two lips successively includes an outer cutting edge (11), an arc cutting edge (12) and an inner cutting edge (13); a chisel edge (14); outer peaks (15) formed by intersection of the outer cutting edges (11) and the arc cutting edges (12); a center peak (16) formed by intersection of two inner flank surfaces and two split surfaces. Moreover, an included angle between the inner cutting edges (13) ranges from 108° to 128°, an included angle between the outer cutting edge (11) ranges from 130° to 140°, and an included angle between the inner cutting edge (13) and outer cutting edge (11) ranges from 28° to 40°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignees: NINGBO HUAREN TOOLS CO., LTD., TEST RITE INTERNATIONAL COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jianing Sun
  • Patent number: 9545677
    Abstract: A numerical control machine-tool includes: a ground-resting base plate; a movable supporting column rising cantilevered from the base plate in a substantially vertical direction and movable horizontally on said base plate; a first electronic-controlled drive assembly for moving the supporting column along the base plate; a head-carrier slide fixed in vertically sliding manner in a straight longitudinal slit extending along the front face of the supporting column parallel to the longitudinal/vertical axis of the supporting column; a second electronic-controlled drive assembly for moving the head-carrier slide along the supporting column; a straight supporting beam inserted in an axially sliding manner into the head-carrier slide and cantilevered juts out from the front face of the supporting column while remaining substantially parallel to the ground; and a third electronic-controlled drive assembly for moving the supporting beam forwards and backwards with respect to the head-carrier slide parallel to the bea
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: O.M.V. OFFICINE MECCANICHE VENETE S.P.A.
    Inventor: Franco Pasquetto
  • Patent number: 9545678
    Abstract: A cutting tool having particular usefulness in milling fall includes a plurality of flutes wherein each flute includes a plurality of reliefs spaced equidistant along a leading cutting wall or edge and a second plurality of reliefs spaced equidistant along a trailing cutting wall or edge and wherein the second plurality of reliefs are off set evenly from the first plurality of reliefs. The plurality of reliefs on a second flute are offset from the plurality of reliefs on a first flute by a distance equal to the equidistance of the plurality of reliefs divided by the total number of flutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Inventor: Stojan Stojanovski
  • Patent number: 9545679
    Abstract: A saw blade for an electric saw tool with a drive shaft making a reciprocating arcuate swing motion, the saw blade comprising a saw plate which has centrally a coupling part for connecting and fixing the saw plate to the drive shaft of the saw tool and has an appearance as being elliptic, and has cutting teeth on the outer periphery. Also, a saw blade for an electric saw tool with a drive shaft making a reciprocating arcuate swing motion, the saw blade having at one end a coupling part for connecting and fixing the saw blade to the drive shaft of the saw tool and having at the other end cutting teeth of the saw blade, and height of the cutting teeth being smaller in the order from near to at both ends of a line of the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: C. & E. Fein GmbH
    Inventor: Tamotsu Okada
  • Patent number: 9545680
    Abstract: The inventive device includes a work supporting portion for supporting a work rotatably about a first axis, a cutter supporting portion for supporting a cutter rotatably about a second axis different from the first axis and a moving portion for moving the cutter along a reference line extending through the first axis. The second axis is slanted relative to a reference plane oriented perpendicular to the first axis and a blade edge of the cutter is caused to come into contact with the work at an offset position offset from the reference line. The work and the cutter are driven in synchronism and the cutter is moved along the reference line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Eiri Nagata
  • Patent number: 9545681
    Abstract: An automatic wire connecting device includes a heating electrode that heats an electrode wire by applying a current to the electrode wire, a tension applying unit that applies a tension to the electrode wire to which the current is applied by the heating electrode, a tension control unit that controls the tension applied by the tension applying unit, and a power supply control unit that applies a heating current smaller than a preset annealing current to the electrode wire until a first set time elapses since the current starts to be applied and increases the current applied to the electrode wire to reach the annealing current during a second set time after the first set time elapses since the current starts to be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Zhengyong Liu, Rintaro Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 9545682
    Abstract: Solder can be used to wet and bind glass substrates together to ensure a hermetic seal that superior (less penetrable) than conventional polymeric (thermoplastic or thermoplastic elastomer) seals in electric and electronic applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Ferro Corporation
    Inventors: Srinivasan Sridharan, Robert P. Blonski, Chandrashekhar S. Khadilkar, John J. Maloney
  • Patent number: 9545683
    Abstract: A method and a welding device for performing a welding process on a workpiece by a welding torch, uses a melting welding wire, which is arranged on a wire coil and may be supplied to the welding torch via a hose package, wherein different welding wires and different welding parameters are used depending on the geometry of the workpiece. A welding wire formed by the different interconnected welding wires in lengths depending on the geometry of the workpiece is arranged on the wire coil, so the welding process may be performed without interruptions using the different welding wires and the different welding parameters by supplying to the welding torch the welding wire formed by the different interconnected welding wires from the wire coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Fronius International GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Ruehrnoessl, Markus Schorn, Herbert Staufer
  • Patent number: 9545684
    Abstract: A system and method for automatic detection of a connection of a spool gun to a welding system. In addition to automatically detecting connection of the spool gun, a system and method is provided for controlling the operation of the welding system based on the detection of the spool gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOLS WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Jason Dunahoo, Seth Michael Gregory, Craig Steven Knoener
  • Patent number: 9545685
    Abstract: A method for producing a welded joint between a high-strength aluminum alloy with a copper proportion as a first metal and a second metal, in which the welded joint is produced by CMT welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: MAGNA STEYR Engineering AG & Co KG
    Inventor: Werner Karner
  • Patent number: 9545686
    Abstract: An arc welding apparatus is disclosed in one form including a conductor tube defining an internal passageway and a distal end portion. The internal passageway has an internal profile proximate the distal end portion. The apparatus further includes an alignment device comprising an exterior profile and an internal passage. The exterior profile is configured for mechanical attachment to the internal profile of the conductor tube. The apparatus also includes a conduit liner disposed in the internal passageway of the conductor tube and the internal passage of the alignment device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Victor Equipment Company
    Inventors: Khalid Hassan, Glenn Redding, Mike Stephens, Jim Barker, Ross Fleishmann
  • Patent number: 9545687
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a welding system having a welder, a welding gun, and a welding gun adapter, the welding gun being a spool gun with an attached motor. The welding gun adapter receives welding power from the welder, and converts it to output power suitable for driving the motor of the welding gun. The welding gun adapter also uses received welding power from the welder for control power. The present techniques allow for the use of welding guns requiring motor power to be used with any ordinary welder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: HOBART BROTHERS COMPANY
    Inventors: Darrell Lee Sickels, Brian Scott Bashore
  • Patent number: 9545688
    Abstract: A device of vibro-spot welding includes: a vibration cylinder housing having first and second chambers; an annular rod integrally connected with a first piston disposed in the first chamber and having one end penetrating a side of the vibration cylinder housing; a circular rod penetrating the annular rod integrally connected to a second piston disposed in the second chamber and having one end penetrating the side of the vibration cylinder housing; a leading-in housing wrapping an exterior surface of the vibration cylinder housing and receiving current; an electrode supporter threaded with one end of the leading-in housing; a heating electrode threaded with one end of the electrode supporter; a first vibration electrode threaded with the one end of the annular rod and penetrating the electrode supporter and the heating electrode; and a second vibration electrode threaded with the one end of the circular rod and penetrating the first vibration electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignees: SUNGWOO HITECH CO., LTD., PUKYONG NATIONAL UNIVERISTY BUSINESS INCUBATOR CENTER
    Inventor: In Tai Jin
  • Patent number: 9545689
    Abstract: Temporal focusing of spatially chirped femtosecond laser pulses overcomes previous limitations for ablating high aspect ratio features with low numerical aperture (NA) beams. Simultaneous spatial and temporal focusing reduces nonlinear interactions, such as self-focusing, prior to the focal plane so that deep (˜1 mm) features with parallel sidewalls are ablated at high material removal rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Colorado School of Mines
    Inventors: Jeffrey Squier, Dawn Vitek, Charles Durfee, Daniel Adams, David Kleinfeld
  • Patent number: 9545690
    Abstract: A method for structuring at least one sliding surface (4) of a machine element (1), wherein the at least one sliding surface (4) is provided by a first structuring method with a first microstructure (5) for holding lubricant. To be able to now realize the best possible sliding properties for the sliding surface, during the course of a second structuring method, recesses are formed in the at least one sliding surface (4), by which a second microstructure (6) is defined with less depth in comparison with the first microstructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Holger Patzold
  • Patent number: 9545691
    Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, a method of removing a waste part of a substrate is provided. The method includes: using a laser to partially drill the substrate to define the waste part; and applying megasonic vibration to the substrate to remove the waste part from the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
    Inventors: Chin-Yi Cho, Yi-Chuan Teng, Shang-Ying Tsai, Li-Min Hung, Yao-Te Huang, Jung-Huei Peng
  • Patent number: 9545692
    Abstract: There are provided high power laser cutting tools, optics assembly and laser beam configurations having long stand off distances, which provide high power laser beams, greater than 1 kW, to cut and volumetrically remove targeted materials. There is also provided methods of using these tools using a beam delivery angle that provides for molten material to be removed by flowing out of the targeted material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: FORO ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Brian O. Faircloth, Mark S. Zediker, Shararth K. Kolachalam, Daryl L. Grubb
  • Patent number: 9545693
    Abstract: A consumable insert for welding a first component to a second component is provided. The first component is positioned with respect to the second component in such a manner that a gap is defined between adjacent surfaces thereof. The consumable insert includes a body having a profile. The profile of the body matches a scan of a profile of the gap between the adjacent surfaces. The consumable insert also includes a dam portion having a profile. The profile of the dam portion matches, at least in part, a scan of corresponding surfaces of the first component and the second component respectively. The dam portion is provided in contact with at least one end of the body. The dam portion is configured to control an overflow of a weld puddle therefrom. The body and the dam portion are formed using three dimensional printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Huijun Wang, Leon R. Adcock, Kendall R. Powell, Donald A. Stickel, III, Howard W. Ludewig
  • Patent number: 9545694
    Abstract: A cylindrical valve assembly, including: a housing defining a port, an interior volume, and an interior surface; a lip structure disposed about the periphery of the port, wherein the lip structure protrudes into the interior volume past the interior surface of the housing; and a valve door defining an exterior surface disposed concentrically within the housing, wherein the valve door is configured to move from an open configuration in which it does not obstruct the port to a closed configuration in which it does obstruct the port, and wherein, when the valve door is in the closed configuration, the exterior surface of the valve door is in contact with the lip structure and not the interior surface of the housing. Optionally, the lip structure is provided by an insert structure that is disposed through the port. Optionally, an end of the insert structure opposite the lip structure includes a velocity stack. Optionally, a plurality of dimples are manufactured into the exterior surface of the valve door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Inventor: Valentin Postevka
  • Patent number: 9545695
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for inserting angle plates in transverse duct flanges. The apparatus is especially useful in inserting angle plates into transverse duct flanges of duct fittings. Packages for holding angle plates are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: HVAC Inventors/Systemation, Inc.
    Inventors: David E. Daw, Cody B. Umberger
  • Patent number: 9545696
    Abstract: A screwing system includes at least one screw feeder, and a screwing device configured to move between the screw feeder and a screwing position and tighten a screw obtained from the screw feeder on a part at the screwing position. The screwing system includes a robot capable of holding the part. The robot carries the held part to the screwing position, changes a posture of the part, and carries the part from the screwing position. While the robot holds the part, the screwing device screws the part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Iwai, Masato Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 9545697
    Abstract: A method for performing operations on a structure. A moveable platform may be positioned in an area relative to the structure to define a working envelope. The moveable platform may be connected to a tool that may be moved around a plurality of axes within the working envelope using the moveable platform. The tool may be moved to a plurality of locations within the working envelope using the moveable platform. An operation may be performed with the tool through the working envelope at each of the plurality of locations using the moveable platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Eric Whinnem, Gary A. Lipczynski, John A. Baumann
  • Patent number: 9545698
    Abstract: A treatment machine for containers, in particular bottles, having a rotatable container table; a lift guard cover formed laterally on the container table; and a rail guide, which is stationarily fixed in position above the container table and which has the lift guard cover secured thereto such that it is displaceable in a vertical direction. The lift guard cover includes a carrier for fastening to the rail guide, the carrier extending in a circumferential direction. The lift guard cover can be mounted in a suspended fashion. Access to the container table in the raised condition of the lift guard cover is not impaired by guide rails extending down to the container table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Tobias Eichhammer, Dieter Hafner
  • Patent number: 9545699
    Abstract: A power tool includes a spindle and a clamp shaft, and drives a tool accessory clamped by an outer flange and a clamp head. A ball or a grooved clamping element is configured to hold the clamp shaft against the spindle in a fixed manner. A holding element holds and moves the ball or grooved clamping element. A coil spring biases the holding element. The ball or grooved clamping element is movable between a first position where it holds the clamp shaft and a second position where it does not hold the clamp shaft. The holding element is capable of moving the ball or the grooved clamping element from the first position to the second position. The coil spring biases the holding element and prevents movement of the holding element when the ball or the grooved clamping element is located in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori Furusawa, Ken Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 9545700
    Abstract: A balancing mechanism of a machine tool turret includes an accommodation housing and a balancing device. The accommodation housing includes a slide rail located at a side of the accommodation housing, a groove located at an opposing side thereof and connected with the machine tool, a driving screw located in the slide rail along a specific axis, a driving motor located top of the accommodation housing and connected with the driving screw, and a block base located in the slide rail and connected with one end of the driving screw. The balancing device is located aside to the accommodation housing with one end fixedly connected with a top side of the accommodation housing and another end extended along the specific axis perpendicular to an axis of a work piece. In a finite installation space, the balancing mechanism has the way in embedding the accommodation housing without increasing the extra volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: TAIWAN TAKISAWA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chun-I Liu
  • Patent number: 9545701
    Abstract: The fan screw nut for removing scraps includes a screwing hub, multiple fan blades and a frame. The screwing hub has an outer periphery. The fan blades are spiral in shaped and are formed around the outer periphery of the screwing hub. A flux space is formed between each fan blade. The frame is formed integratedly on an outer periphery of a front side of the fan blades. Multiple through holes are formed between the inner side of the frame and the flux spaces for air flowing. The fan screw can be introduced air into flux space via through holes to blow up scraps that generated from cutting a work piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Inventor: Ching-Ting Chen
  • Patent number: 9545703
    Abstract: A sharpening apparatus that may be used by a relatively unskilled person to simultaneously sharpen the two opposed cutting edges of a knife blade by hand and to maintain a sharpened cutting edge along the blade with minimal effort and training is provided by the invention. The apparatus comprises a panel member with a slot partially extending from its top edge, and a pair of sharpening steels that are pivotably mounted to the panel member to swing downwards in a crossed relation across the slot. A pair of leaf spring bias the sharpening steels in their standby position. When the knife blade is moved down through the slot, it comes into contact with crossed sharpening steels to bow them outwards under tension applied by the leaf springs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Razor Edge Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph C. Juranitch
  • Patent number: 9545704
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for a through cutting machining steady rest comprising a base plate fixed to a vertical support plate where an adjustable workpiece cradle may be adjusted to support a desired workpiece to be machined. A pair of opposing articulating side arms pivotally mounted upon the vertical plate wherein articulation of a fastening means will clampingly engage the side arms upon the desired workpiece. The side arms are engaged at points leaving a gap between the side arms for machining of the workpiece between the side arms. Rollers are implemented upon the ends of the side arms and along the came of the workpiece cradle to allow for a fixed axial hold of the workpiece while allowing the workpiece to be rotated around its longitudinal axis for further machining without the need of unclamping and repositioning the workpiece on the steady rest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Inventor: Glenn Guillot
  • Patent number: 9545705
    Abstract: A reversible ratchet wrench includes a body rotatably receiving a driving member, slideably receiving a pawl, and pivotably receiving a switch button. A pressing member and an elastic element are received in a pressing member receptacle in the switch button. An end of the pressing member outside of the pressing member receptacle has a first spacing to a first side of the switch button. A protrusion is provided on the first side of the switch button and has a second spacing to the first side of the switch button. If the pawl slides in the compartment while the body rotates in a non-driving direction and if the pawl does not disengage from the driving member, the protrusion presses against the pawl to disengage the pawl from the driving member when the elastic element is compressed to an extent in which the first spacing is not larger than the second spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Inventor: Bobby Hu
  • Patent number: 9545706
    Abstract: A tool suspension device includes a suspension member, a first and a second receiving members. The suspension member is protrudedly formed with a first and a second pivot structures at two ends. The suspension member has a suspension portion for suspension. The first and the second receiving members are pivotably connected with the first and the second pivot structures respectively. Thus, the first receiving member and the second receiving member are able to be piled together for storing. Also, the first and the second receiving members are able to pivot to be unfolded for available of tools for a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Inventor: Yu-Hua Ou
  • Patent number: 9545707
    Abstract: A circular, cylindrically shaped tool handle holds multiple sizes of tools. The handle includes one or more holding slots each positioned on the outer surface into which tools are inserted and held. Each holding slot includes one or more contoured compartments in which tools rest when engaged with the handle. Each contoured compartment is of a size and dimension which corresponds to one or more tool sizes. Each contoured compartment is formed about a corresponding receiving hole. A lock is positioned over the contoured compartment to irremovably confine the short leg of the hexagonal wrench within the contoured compartment. Hexagonal shaped tools other than wrenches are able to be used with the handle of the present invention such as screwdrivers and socket wrenches. A tool container stores the tools and the tool handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Wagic, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald L. Johnson, Robert J. Gallegos, Steven Simas Escobar, Anders Scot Hudson, Idriss Mansouri-Chafik Ruiz, Yugen Patrick Lockhart, Howard Allen Wilson, Eric M. Colton
  • Patent number: 9545708
    Abstract: A pneumatic motor with built-in striker mechanism mainly includes a cylinder, rotor set and output shaft lever. The rotor set has a rotary drum and flexible blades. The output shaft lever can be driven by the rotary drum. A chamber is formed into the rotary drum and a striking portion on the output shaft lever is located within the chamber. The built-in striker mechanism is placed in the chamber and has striking bulges protruded on the striking portion, movable hammers sleeved externally on the striking bulge and struts axially located on the rotary drum. This new pneumatic motor has the striker mechanism set into the rotary drum of the rotor set, thus reducing greatly the axial length and volume of the pneumatic motor and realizing ease-of-use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Inventor: Ching-Shun Chang