Patents Issued in April 18, 2017
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Patent number: 9623447Abstract: The conventional washing apparatus has a double-cup washing tank that joins and separates to let work be placed therein, with nozzles set on the inner cup to allow a passage between it and the outer cup for spent liquid and/or air. The work is cleaned by washing detergent spirally flowing along the periphery of the inner cup by suction power within the passage, and then dried. Suction is not generated within the inner cup, so the spiral flow is too weak to make the tornado effect. This invention though resolves the above issues by an encased washing apparatus having a capsule-shaped washing chamber that joins and separates, has nozzles thereon, has a work table within that rotates by a drive device, has a drain at the bottom, and is characterized by washing detergent, cleaning water and/or air swirling by negative pressure within the washing chamber and then discharging into a drain.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: FINE MACHINE KATAOKA CO., LTD.Inventor: Keiji Kataoka
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Patent number: 9623448Abstract: A cleaning apparatus (100) for an ocean bottom cable (19) including a plurality of node casings (5), each containing at least one sensor capsule (9). During retrieval, an initial flushing device flushes the assembled cable with seawater before the capsules (9) are separated from the casings (5) in a loading/unloading apparatus (300). A washing tunnel (110) is configured to flush the sensor capsule (9) with water supplied from a freshwater tank (115) through a waterfeed pipe (117). Preferably, the cleaning apparatus also comprises a secondary flushing device for flushing the components with seawater after separation, and a drying tunnel (120). Separate conveyors convey the sensor capsules (9) and the node casings (5) to their respective destinations, such that each component may be flushed in seawater and/or freshwater and/or dried as required. The cleaning apparatus is optimized to use a minimum of freshwater and energy.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: MAGSEIS ASInventor: Jan B. Gateman
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Patent number: 9623449Abstract: A dielectric window cleaning apparatus may be used for cleaning a dielectric window of a plasma processing device. The dielectric window cleaning apparatus may comprise a window support base, a fluid containing enclosure, a window rotating mechanism, a spray arm, and multiple fluid spraying nozzles. The fluid containing enclosure may include at least one overflow containment sidewall and may be located at least partially under and at least partially around a portion of the window support base. The window rotating mechanism may be operatively connected to the window support base and may rotate the window support base. The spray arm may be in fluid communication with a fluid source and may include a fluid flow channel. The multiple fluid spraying nozzles may each expel fluid from the fluid flow channel in a window cleansing spray.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Lam Research CorporationInventors: Armen Avoyan, Hong Shih, Cliff LaCroix, John Daugherty
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Patent number: 9623450Abstract: A rotating shaft is provided to extend downward from the inside of a spin motor. A plate supporting member is attached to the lower end of the rotating shaft. A spin plate is supported in a horizontal attitude by the plate supporting member. A substrate holding mechanism is provided at the periphery on the spin plate. The lower end of an annular member is formed to be opposite to an annular region extending along the periphery on the upper surface of the substrate held by a spin chuck. A distance between the upper surface of the substrate and the lower surface of the spin plate is larger than a distance between the upper surface of the substrate and the lower end of the annular member.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: SCREEN Semiconductor Solutions Co., Ltd.Inventor: Koji Nishiyama
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Patent number: 9623451Abstract: The EAFD stabilizer for returned concrete and mixer drum wash water includes various methods of using EAFD as a stabilizer in making concrete. The potentially hazardous stockpile of EAFD can be used in practical construction, which has a positive impact on the environment. A certain amount of EAFD is added to cement being mixed or to wash water and acts as a stabilizer, the wash water being used to make a cement mixture. This resultant EAFD stabilized concrete mixture stabilizes overnight.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: KING SAUD UNIVERSITYInventors: Rajeh Zaid Al-Zaid, Abdulaziz Ibrahim Al-Negheimish, Abdulrahman Mohammed Alhozaimy, Mohammad Iqbal Khan
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Patent number: 9623452Abstract: This is a cleaning apparatus that automatically cleans the inside of a hose, end to end, by placing each end of a hose as a male into a female manifold which allows for complete exposure of the entire interior surface of a hose to the cleaning and drying process for the purpose of removing contaminants such as bacteria. A sprayer is fluidly connected to the exhaust manifold via a conduit and configured to spray liquid onto the outside of a hose as well as breathing mask components to be cleaned. A three-way valve is configured to control flow of the liquid, pumped by the pump, and the heated air, blown by the blower, into the intake manifold which provides the means to get the cleaning fluid inside a hose during the cleaning and rinsing cycles and air inside of a hose during the dry cycle.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Inventor: Gregory Alan Przyjemski
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Patent number: 9623453Abstract: Systems and methods for safe on-line pigging decoking of a coker furnace tubes and which also permits on-line spalling operations.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Brian Doerksen, John Ward, Rick Heniford, Scott Alexander, Richard Von Brecht, Jorge Gonzalez
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Patent number: 9623454Abstract: The invention is directed towards methods and compositions for treating piles of particulate materials to inhibit and prevent the loss of valuable fuel or mineral dust from being released from storage piles or open containers. The method involves applying separately to the pile two different compositions. When separate the two compositions are low viscosity and easy to spray. When combined the two form a gel coating that is resistant to erosion but is flexible while the pile or payload is still settling, jostling, being bumped, and otherwise moving around. This coating is especially effective for coal piles, iron ore piles, and also for piles within and/or being moved by open topped railroad cars. The coating's flexibility prevents the coating from becoming brittle and shattering. The coating has better performance than its ingredients do alone. As a result the invention can both prevent unwanted dust pollution as well as save its users money by avoiding loss of blown away material.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.Inventors: Danilo Zim, Fabio Peixoto Macedo Gomes
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Patent number: 9623455Abstract: The disclosure relates to the field of lining materials which are used to isolate landfill sites in order to avoid pollution of surrounding soil by ions such as heavy metals. Further disclosed is a process to increase the ion adsorption capacity of clay or dredged sediment. More specifically, the disclosed is a process comprising: a) mixing the clay or dredged sediment with an anionic polymer, and b) subsequently drying the mixture, results in a lining material having superior ion adsorption characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Universiteit GentInventor: Gemmina Di Emidio
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Patent number: 9623456Abstract: A modular soil treatment system and apparatus for treating soils contaminated by petroleum hydrocarbons such as gasoline, diesel and heating oil, chlorinated hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds is disclosed which can be transported to any site and reused.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Sanexen Environmental Services, Inc.Inventors: Éric Leblanc, Jean-François Larose, Karl Côté, Élaine Lacoste, Sylvain Laberge
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Patent number: 9623457Abstract: The present invention discloses a double cold reduction strip for shadow mask and a process for producing the same, comprising the following procedures: converter steelmaking?continuous billet casting?hot rolling?pickling and cold rolling?continuous annealing?double cold reduction?finishing and oiling. The weight percentages of essential elements of the shadow mask strip are: C: ?0.001%, Mn: 0.10˜0.40%, Al: 0.02˜0.06%, Si: ?0.025%, P: ?0.015%, S: ?0.01%, O: ?0.004%, with remainders composed of Fe and inevitable impurities.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Shoumin Wu, Xiujun Li
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Patent number: 9623458Abstract: An installation piece for supporting a roller in a roller stand of a roller frame. The installation piece includes a main bore for receiving a journal of the roller, an inlet for a lubricant, an outlet for the lubricant, and a pump device for pumping the lubricant leaving the installation piece through the outlet. The pump device has a housing, an inlet channel, and an outlet channel. The inlet channel communicates with the inlet and the outlet channel communicates with the outlet for the flow of the lubricant. The pump device is driven by the flow of the lubricant in the inlet. The housing of the pump device is equipped with a screw pump and a turbine, which is driven by the pressurized inflowing lubricant, in the inlet channel for driving the screw pump.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBHInventors: Rüdiger Grimmel, Karl Keller, Konrad Roeingh, Johannes Alken, Kurt Scheffe
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Patent number: 9623459Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of strip cold rolling, and in particular to a thickness control method for strips in a tandem cold mill. Frame S1 and one or more additional frames are selected as virtual indirect measuring instruments for the strip performance. A load cell is provided on the frames that are selected as the indirect measuring instruments for the strip performance, and deformation resistance fluctuation of the supplied materials of the frame S is calculated. Finally, the feed-forward adjustment amount of each frame is calculated. The present invention measures the deformation resistance of each section of the strip of the supplied materials through the selected frame, reducing the fluctuation of the thickness of the finished products of the strip and ensuring stable rolling.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Jianghua Xu, Shanqing Li, Peijie Huang, Zhenglian Jiang, Kangjian Wang, Xin Wang, Hongmei Li
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Patent number: 9623460Abstract: A duct-forming apparatus includes an apparatus frame, a forming piston assembly having a cylinder carried by the apparatus frame and a forming piston extendable from the cylinder. A duct-shaping assembly includes a form die having a form die interior and a forming surface provided in the form die interior; a forming assembly having a plurality of expandable forming sections provided in the form die adjacent to the forming surface; and a plurality of piston openings provided in the expandable forming sections, respectively, and adapted to receive the forming piston of the forming piston assembly. A duct-forming method is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Peter K. Hwang, Kenneth P. Zaballos
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Patent number: 9623461Abstract: A straightening machine includes a frame supporting housings in which each housing receives a roll shaft rotatable about its axis. At least one first assembly includes a first guide defining a first convex surface and a first corresponding guided element defining a first concave surface. The first surfaces contact each other at a first contact surface. At least one second assembly includes a second guide defining a second convex surface and a second corresponding guided element defining a second concave surface. The second surfaces contact each other at a second contact surface. A device for rotating at least one roll shaft housing carries out a rotation being guided by the assemblies about a virtual axis transverse to a roll shaft axis, to compensate bending due to straightening of a product.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Primetals Technologies Italy S.R.L.Inventors: Danilo Nespoli, Emanuele Pace
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Patent number: 9623462Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for reducing ovality in pipe for joining to pipe components by using a plug coupled on an inside surface of the pipe and a sacrificial component coupled to the end of the pipe to establish a coupling interface. The plug, the sacrificial component, or a combination thereof assists in minimizing ovality changes during use of the pipe, particularly at the end of the pipe. When the pipe is to be coupled with a pipe component, the pipe and sacrificial component are separated at a different location than the coupling interface along the pipe in proximity to the plug. The plug is left coupled to the sacrificial component, and generally slidably engaged with the pipe. The plug and the sacrificial component can be removed from engagement with the pipe. The pipe and the pipe component can be coupled together.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: TECHNIP FRANCEInventors: Laurent Frank Paupy, Fabien Anne, Mathieu Boisne, Eric Christopher Keith
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Patent number: 9623463Abstract: The pump discharge volume of a bi-directional piston pump is set to a reference pump discharge volume Qa in condition where the actuation state of lift cylinders is a no-load state, and is set to a small-discharge pump discharge volume Qb smaller than the reference pump discharge volume Qa in condition where the actuation state of the lift cylinders is a high-load state. Qb·Pb which is the product of the pump discharge volume Qb and a pump discharge pressure Pb of the bi-directional piston pump in condition where the actuation state of the lift cylinders is the high-load state is set to be equal to or less than or approximately equal to a Qa·Pa which is the product of the pump discharge volume Qa and a pump discharge pressure Pa of the bi-directional piston pump in condition where the actuation state of the lift cylinders is the no-load state.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: AMADA COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Tomohiro Yukita, Akira Nakamura, Takanori Okubo
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Patent number: 9623464Abstract: The invention relates to a bending machine (1) for bending sheet metal workpieces (2), for example a press brake or a folding machine, comprising at least one tool carrier (3), wherein a plurality of tool parts (5) that can be moved along a horizontal tool receptacle (4) are arranged on at least one tool carrier (3), at least one adjusting device (6) for moving the tool parts (5), and coupling devices (14) associated with the tool parts (5), each for connecting a respective tool part (5) to the adjusting device (6). Furthermore, according to the invention the adjusting device (6) may comprise a threaded spindle (7) extending parallel to the tool receptacle (4) and each coupling device (14) may comprise a spindle nut segment (15), wherein the spindle nut segment (15) can be coupled to the tool part (5) or to the threaded spindle (7).Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: TRUMPF Maschinen Austria GmbH & Co. KG.Inventors: Wolfgang Aigner, Stefano Speziali, Thomas Weiss
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Patent number: 9623465Abstract: This document presents a system and method for presenting the invention as a tool that provides the ability to bend and shape rebar type material with less stress on the human body aiding in preventing common injuries that occur from standard rebar tools and processes and it provides portability so that all work can be done at the job site saving time and money from having to go to a workshop to fabricate unique shaped rebar parts.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2016Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Inventor: Kenneth L. Bergstrom
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Patent number: 9623466Abstract: The present invention relates to a bending assembly for bending a workpiece. The assembly includes a bending apparatus configured to bend the workpiece and form a curved portion of the workpiece. The curved portion of the workpiece has a longitudinal periphery and a curvature. The assembly includes a camera configured to produce an image of the longitudinal periphery of the curved portion of the workpiece. The assembly includes a processor configured to receive the image of the longitudinal periphery of the curved portion of the workpiece. The processor is configured to identify a plurality of measuring points spaced-apart along the longitudinal periphery of the curved portion of the workpiece. The processor is configured to determine the curvature of the curved portion of the workpiece based on the measuring points.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Aggresive Tube Bending Inc.Inventors: Yuri Fabrizio Tofini, Robert Wayne Georgison, Peter Wilhelm Diesing
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Patent number: 9623467Abstract: Provided is a method of forming a locking ridge for a case of forming the locking ridge on an outer peripheral surface of a joint portion by form rolling, the method realizing a joint portion structure which is superior in pipe detachment prevention performance when pipes with locking ridges are connected by fixing pipe ends with a housing. Using a convex roller arranged inside the workpiece pipe body and a forming circular groove arranged outside the pipe body, the locking ridge is form-rolled such that an upright wall portion thereof is raised at an angle of at least 65° and no greater than 90° with respect to the outer peripheral surface in the pipe axis direction, and that a height of the locking ridge from the outer peripheral surface to the apex of the tip portion is at least a total of curvature radii of faces of the processing means in contact with the pipe body.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinnosuke Nishijima, Katsuhide Nishio, Akihiro Ando, Kouki Tomimura
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Patent number: 9623468Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating for high-temperature applications with tribological stress. The coating comprises a multi-layer system and a top lubrication layer, the top lubricant layer containing, as a main component, molybdenum.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFÄFFIKONInventors: Matthias Lukas Sobiech, Jurgen Ramm
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Patent number: 9623469Abstract: A hand held forming tool includes a first arm member having a forming portion that includes a base that is connected to a pressure pad and a bending member. The tool also includes a second arm member pivotally connected to the first arm member. The second arm member includes a die portion. The forming portion and the die portion move between an open and a closed position in response to a force applied to handles of the first and second arm members. The die portion includes a die body having a slot and a bending channel. The slot is complementary to the pressure pad and the bending channel is complementary to the bending member. The tool further includes a shearing plate that is arranged so as to cut a work piece that has been inserted into the slot.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Erick Randle Holsonback, Jesse Michael Moss
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Patent number: 9623470Abstract: A metal processing apparatus comprising: (i) a first tool portion including a first carrier, a cutting surface, a first plurality of dimple forming elements; (ii) a second tool portion including a second carrier, in opposing relation to the first tool portion, the second tool portion having a blade or adapted to receive the blade which is adapted to contact the cutting surface for cutting an edge of a metal sheet to form a cut edge in the metal sheet, a second plurality of dimple forming elements; and (iii) a dimpler indexer to index the first plurality of dimple forming from a first pre-determined location to a second pre-determined location. The metal processing apparatus may find particular use in creating dimples along one or more cut edges of a metal sheet to allow for stacking of the metal sheets with an airgap therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: DELACO STEEL CORP.Inventor: Charles Knockeart
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Patent number: 9623471Abstract: An attachment between a heat exchanger and a cell panel of a furnace includes a cell panel including a plurality of cell panel openings and a heat exchanger having a plurality of cells. Each cell has a cell outlet insertable into a cell panel opening of the plurality of cell panel openings. A compressible gasket is insertable between the cell panel openings and the cell outlets and securable therein when the heat exchanger is secured to the cell panel. A crimping tool for securing a heat exchanger cell outlet to a cell panel of a furnace includes a male portion including a split die having two die halves and a die expander configured to separate the two die halves to engage an inner surface of the cell outlet. A female portion applies a force to the cell outlet to crimp the cell outlet to the cell panel.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventors: Paul M. Haydock, Stephen L. Pulley, James J. Mitchum, John A. Wade, Stephen R. Carlisle
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Patent number: 9623472Abstract: A vertical Pittsburgh Seam closing apparatus having a base supporting surface, a track mechanism for moving a carriage assembly which holds seam forming members used to close a Pittsburgh Seam, a pair of upper and lower guide members for guiding the duct section into a proper vertical position, and upper and lower clamping members positioned inside the duct section adjacent the Pittsburgh Seam to be closed, the upper guide members and clamping member being selectively movable and adjustable for accommodating different duct section lengths. In one embodiment, the seam forming assembly includes three roller members mounted in vertical arrangement, one roller member being V-shaped in configuration and the other two roller members being substantially cylindrical in shape. The V-shaped roller member may also include one or more projecting members for forming dimples in the closing process to prevent shifting and/or slipping of the closed seam.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Vicon Machinery LLCInventors: Dale R. Foster, Bert Michael Fischer
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Patent number: 9623473Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a steel sheet provided with a protective layer for producing a ring-pull top or a can having a ring-pull top, where the steel sheet is made of an unalloyed or low-alloy steel having a carbon content of less than 0.1% by weight, and also an associated process. The problem proceeding from known steel sheets having a protective layer, namely to provide a steel sheet by means of which ring-pull tops which for a constant residual wall thickness of the notch line have a lower tear-off force can be produced by means of the ring-pull top, is solved by the steel sheet being recrystallizingly heat treated at a heating rate of more than 75 K/s and after the recrystallizing heat treatment cooled at a cooling rate of at least 100 K/s and then coated with the protective layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP RASSELSTEIN GMBHInventors: Karl Ernst Friedrich, Dirk Matusch, Burkhard Kaup, Reiner Sauer
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Patent number: 9623474Abstract: A rolling-element bearing cage includes two axially spaced-apart side rings extending in a circumferential direction. Each side ring is split in the circumferential direction along at least one cutting line, thereby defining bordering surfaces on first and second bearing cage sections. A plurality of connecting bridges connects the side rings in an axial direction. First and second pairs of mutually-opposing first projections and corresponding first openings are disposed on the side rings along the bordering surfaces of the first and second bearing cage sections and fix the bordering surfaces to each other in at least first and second directions that are perpendicular to each other. A pair of a second projection and a corresponding second opening is disposed axially between the first and second pairs of first projections and first openings and fixes the bordering surfaces to each other in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKFInventor: Dieter Steblau
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Patent number: 9623475Abstract: A method of producing a spring which reduces time required for a heat treatment step of eliminating a machining strain generated by a forming step is provided. This production method is provided with a forming step (S10) of forming a spring steel material into a spring shape and a heat treatment step (S12) of eliminating a machining strain generated in the spring steel material by the forming step. The heat treatment step is executed by electrically heating the spring steel material by applying a current thereto. The heat treatment step has a first step of heating the spring steel material to a predetermined set temperature and a second step of keeping the spring steel material at the set temperature for a predetermined set time period subsequent to the first step. The set temperature is set to be higher than 430° C. but not higher than 500° C.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: CHUO HATSUJO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuichi Hirata, Hidekazu Suzuki, Hiroyuki Ogiso
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Patent number: 9623476Abstract: A forging die device is configured in such a manner that die heating heater plates 11, 21 are disposed respectively between a die 1 which is held at the outer periphery by die holders 12, 22, and die holding means 14a, 24a composed of heat insulating plates 13, 23 and die plates 14, 24, and the die holders, the die holding means and the die plates are integrated together. After the preheated die 1 is placed on the heated die holding means, the die 1 is heated by heating means, and forming surfaces 10a, 20a of the die are heated to a required temperature immediately before forging.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Choda, Yukihide Honda, Shigeomi Araki, Shogo Murakami, Soichiro Kojima, Yusuke Momota
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Patent number: 9623477Abstract: An apparatus is provided for texturing the surface of a brake plate has three die plates and spring supports therebetween. A toothed tooling mounts to the top die plate above an anvil on the center die plate both of which ride on posts held by the lower die plate. The toothed tooling comprises multiple blades each with multiple replaceable toothed inserts are held in a cartridge arrangement. The anvil receives brake plates from a separately supported plate feed mechanism with greatly reduced reciprocating mass. The complete die set can be set up on the bench and inserted ready to use in any style of press where the press ram contacts the upper die plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Nucap Industries Inc.Inventors: Ray Arbesman, Nghi Pham
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Patent number: 9623478Abstract: In a die casting apparatus, during feeding of molten metal by an electromagnetic pump, a molten metal level sensor repeatedly detects a during-feeding level of the molten metal stored in a molten metal holding furnace; a control unit corrects a molten metal feeding voltage to a during-feeding voltage based on the repeatedly detected during-feeding level of the molten metal such that an amount of the molten metal fed by the electromagnetic pump coincides with a prescribed amount; the control unit applies the during-feeding voltage to the electromagnetic pump to cause the electromagnetic pump to feed the molten metal from the molten metal holding furnace into a plunger sleeve; and casting is performed through an injecting operation in which the molten metal fed into the plunger sleeve is extruded by a plunger tip to be injected into a cavity.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Tomita, Makoto Kikuchi
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Patent number: 9623479Abstract: A device to be deployed downhole. The device includes a member including a metallic foam and a sealing material coupled to the metallic foam. The member attains a compressed shape when compressed to restrict fluid flow between regions downhole. The sealing material may be in, on or coated on the metallic foam member.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATEDInventors: Edward J. O'Malley, Grant R. Thompson
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Patent number: 9623480Abstract: A method of producing a steel foam component includes providing a mold defining a cavity. The method also includes positioning an insert within the cavity of the mold. The insert can be configured to form a generally uniform pattern of pores within the steel foam component, and in some cases occupies at least 20% of the cavity. The method can further include pouring molten steel into the cavity, cooling the molten steel into the steel foam component, and removing the steel foam component and the insert from the mold. Steel components having internal shapes corresponding to the insert(s) are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignees: Maynard Steel Casting CompanyInventor: Hathibelagal M. Roshan
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Patent number: 9623481Abstract: Provided herein is a nanostructure refined by suspending an unrefined nanostructure with a solvent, dispersing the suspended nanostructure in an acidic solution and agitating the acidic solution to produce a refined nanostructure.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2011Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORKInventors: Stanislaus Wong, Christopher Koenigsmann
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Patent number: 9623482Abstract: A method for preparing an R—Fe—B based sintered magnet, including: preparing a R1—Fe—B-M sintered magnet having a thickness of between 1 and 10 mm; spraying a layer of Tb or Dy having a thickness of between 10 and 200 ?m on each surface of the sintered magnet in a sealed box under an Ar atmosphere by hot spraying method; and transferring the sintered magnet coated with the layer of Tb or Dy to a vacuum sintering furnace, heating the sintered magnet at the temperature of between 750 and 1000° C. in a vacuum condition or under the Ar atmosphere, and allowing heavy rare earth element Tb or Dy to enter an inner part of the sintered magnet via grain boundary diffusion.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Yantai Zhenghai Magnetic Material Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yongjiang Yu, Xiuyan Sun, Zhiqiang Li, Yulin Wang, Lei Liu
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Patent number: 9623483Abstract: A powder-metallurgical body and a method for producing such a body. The powder-metallurgical body is formed with a seating base for seating a sealing element to produce a seal with respect to fluids, such as liquids and/or gases. The body is redensified in a low-lying depth region of the seating base.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: PMG Fuessen GmbHInventor: Rudolf Mineif
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Patent number: 9623484Abstract: Pipe machining apparatuses are provided. In one aspect, a pipe machining apparatus includes a tool support adapted to both part or completely cut a pipe into multiple portions, and machine a groove in an exterior surface of the pipe. In another aspect, the apparatus has a low radial clearance such that the tool support does not project a significant distance beyond a pipe. In a further aspect, a method of parting and machining a groove in a pipe with a single pipe machining apparatus is provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Kenneth R. Pierce, Farhat A. Khan, William M. Pence
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Patent number: 9623485Abstract: An apparatus and method of using an apparatus for refacing a tubular connection is provided. In one example, the apparatus has a mandrel connectable to a threaded portion of a tubular connection and two face plates bearing cutters for refacing surfaces of the tubular connection. In this example, the cutting is controlled by an engaging nut moving along a threaded portion of a drive shaft, and the two face plates may be spaced apart at a fixed distance to maintain the distance between the torque-stop surface and the primary surface after refacing. Also, the apparatus uses a locking pin to assist in tightening or loosening the mandrel into place using the remainder of the apparatus. An air-oil system is provided to supply air and oil to the cutting surfaces as the apparatus refaces the shoulders of the connection. An exemplary pin refacer and an exemplary box refacer are both disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Reface Systems, LLCInventor: Patrick DHooge
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Patent number: 9623486Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a cutting insert which can minimize friction with a chip and maximize heat-radiating performance. To this end, the present invention provides a cutting insert comprising: an upper surface; a lower surface; a plurality of lateral surfaces for connecting the upper surface with the lower surface; a main cutting edge formed between the lateral surface and the upper surface; and a main cutting edge land and a main cutting edge incline formed in series between the main cutting edge and the upper surface, wherein the main cutting edge incline has a first wavy shape in which two or more incline convex parts and two or more incline concave parts are repeated from the main cutting edge land toward the upper surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: KORLOY INC.Inventors: Ki-Chan Nam, Wook-Jung Sung, Sang-Yong Lee, Young-Jun Park
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Patent number: 9623487Abstract: A tool having a flexible extension shaft, a first end and, a second end and capable of being bent about its axis. The tool transfers rotary motion from a device to an implement. Both of the ends may be capable of independently being bent about the axis. The shaft may include a male member and a female member for a kit. Further, one end of the tool may include a rotatable member having a first and second implement.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Combined Products Co. Inc.Inventor: Burt Kozak
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Patent number: 9623488Abstract: A drill includes a substantially cylindrical cutting portion includes a first region located at a front end portion, and a second region which has a step whose diameter increases as going from the first region to a rear end in a sectional view perpendicular to a rotation axis, and which is continuous with the first region in an end of the second region on a side of the step, and using this drill, a method of manufacturing a machined product is provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignees: KYOCERA CORPORATION, FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuzuru Ono, Yoshifumi Koike, Hideaki Kataoka
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Patent number: 9623489Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary tool (2), in particular a drill, having a cutting part (10) that extends in a longitudinal direction (8) from a clamping shank (6) arranged in a rearward region (22) to a tool front (12) arranged in a forward region (20), and in which helically running chip flutes (14) and continuously helically running coolant channels (36) are fashioned, such that an exit opening (42) of each coolant channel (36) is arranged in the respective chip flute (14), wherein the chip flutes (14) are each shaped with an angle of twist (?) varying in the longitudinal direction (8) such that, in the forward region (20) facing towards the tool front (12), the respective coolant channel (36) is intersected by the respective chip flute (14) so as to fashion the exit opening (42).Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.Inventor: Tim Guter
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Patent number: 9623490Abstract: A three-flute drill having: a tool main body with cutting edges at an axially distal end thereof, a flute portion having discharge flutes in a distal-end side portion of the body, and a cutting fluid supply hole for supplying fluid toward the edges, a rear inner wall surface on the radial direction on a rear side in the drill rotation direction and opposed to the front inner wall surface in a drill circumferential direction, an outer circumferential inner wall surface made up of a partially cylindrical surface whose center lies on an axis of the drill, and an inner circumferential inner wall surface having a partially cylindrical surface whose center lies on the drill axis and opposed to the outer circumferential inner wall surface in the radial direction, the inner circumferential inner wall having a curvature radius smaller than that of the outer circumferential inner wall surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: OSG CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuteru Takai
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Patent number: 9623491Abstract: The present invention provides a beveling tool including: a body with a shaft hole formed through the center; a plurality of cutter blades arranged at predetermined distances on the circumferential surface of the body, each having a radial primary blade with a radial primary relief angle ranging from about 10 to about 20 degrees and a radial secondary blade with a radial secondary relief angle ranging from about 25 to about 35 degrees (or about 35 to about 45 degrees); discharge grooves formed longitudinally between the cutter blades to discharge chips produced in beveling; and a shank inserted in the shaft hole of the body, in which the body and the shank are connected by brazing. With the beveling tool of the present invention, it is possible to smoothly discharge chips produced in beveling and to prevent damage to the cutter blades.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Inventor: Thomas M. Dieckilman
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Patent number: 9623492Abstract: A milling tool is disclosed. The tool may include a base including a clamp for coupling to a selected mounting slot of a plurality of slots of the rotor; a milling tool including a motorized milling head; and a motorized linear actuator coupling the milling tool to the base. The base mounts the motorized linear actuator at an acute angle relative a portion of the slot to allow the motorized linear actuator to linearly move the milling tool to machine the portion of the slot. The portion of the slot may include, for example, an end face and, more particularly, a root corner of the slot where a cooling slot flange extends from the root of the slot. The milling tool may be portable.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Daryl Paul Capriotti, James Bradford Holmes, Andrew Lee Trimmer
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Patent number: 9623493Abstract: A double-sided ball end mill includes a body having a generally hemispherical forward end portion and a rearward end portion. The forward end portion includes insert-receiving pockets and chip pockets. A cutting insert can be mounted within each insert-receiving pocket. The cutting insert includes a first substantially planar surface, a second substantially planar surface, a first curvilinear side surface, a second curvilinear side surface, a first pair of cutting edges formed at an intersection between the first substantially planar surface and the first and second curvilinear side surfaces, and a second pair of cutting edges formed at an intersection between the second substantially planar surface and the first and second curvilinear side surfaces. The first and second planar surfaces are substantially parallel to each other, and the cutting insert is mirror symmetric about all three axes.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2008Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.Inventors: Michael G. Morrison, Srikanth Bontha
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Patent number: 9623494Abstract: A machining tool that comprises a cutting part and a base that supports the cutting part. The base and/or the cutting part are made at least in part of a fiber-reinforced plastic. In some embodiments, the fiber-reinforced plastic is CFRP or CFC.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Guehring OHGInventor: Lutfi Bozkurt
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Patent number: 9623495Abstract: A cutting insert for a cutting tool is described. The cutting inserts generally square-shaped with two opposing surfaces and four peripheral side surfaces. Cutting edges are formed at the intersection between the first and second surfaces and the peripheral side surfaces. Each cutting edge is divided into a first portion, a second portion and a radius blend. The first portion has a length, L1, and the second portion has a length, L2, that is shorter than the first portion such that the radius blend is not located at a midpoint of the cutting edge, thereby increasing a height of the ninety-degree shoulder that can be cut by the cutting insert.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.Inventors: Brad Daniel Hoffer, Jeffrey Francis Kovac
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Patent number: 9623496Abstract: The present invention relates to an insert for slot milling, and more specifically, to an insert for slot milling which can smoothly form a front end surface of a concave portion of a slot formed at a cutting target, and provides a safe use thereof by preventing the erroneous installation of cutting inserts coupled with insert-installation seats on both sides of a milling cutter body to prevent damage of the cutting inserts and the milling cutter. To this end, the present invention is characterized in that the plurality of cutting inserts are provided around the slot milling cutter body, one of two cutting inserts protrudes with respect to one side of the milling cutter body and the other protrudes with respect to the opposite side of the milling cutter body, and two cutting inserts are formed with different structures to prevent the erroneous installation thereof on the insert-installation seats prepared on both sides of the milling cutter body.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: KORLOY, INCInventors: Jung Woo Lee, Taeg Won Lee, Byung Sun Choi, Dong Ryong Ji, Dong Bok Park