Patents Issued in June 1, 2017
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Publication number: 20170151674Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus of recognizing a position of a mobile robot using search based correlative matching and a method thereof. An apparatus of recognizing a position of a mobile robot includes two wide angle cameras which obtain one pair of stereo images on a region of interest including a vertical direction and a horizontal direction in accordance with movement of a mobile robot; and a position recognizing unit which extracts an edge from the received stereo image, forms a virtual space using at least one key frame selected based on the extracted edge, and estimates the current position using the edge size which is calculated for the formed space.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Kyung Chul SHIN, Seong Ju PARK, Jae Young LEE
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Publication number: 20170151675Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus of recognizing a position of a mobile robot using edge based refinement and a method thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Kyung Chul SHIN, Seong Ju PARK, Jae Young LEE
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Publication number: 20170151676Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for determining a location of an object that is being manipulated or processed by a robot. The technique includes capturing a digital image of the object while the object is disposed by the robot within an imaging space, wherein the digital image includes a direct view of the object and a reflected view of the object, detecting a visible feature of the object in the direct view and the visible feature of the object in the reflected view, and computing a first location of the visible feature in a first direction based on a position of the visible feature in the direct view. The technique further includes computing a second location of the visible feature in a second direction based on a position of the visible feature in the reflected view and causing the robot to move the object to a processing station based at least in part on the first location and the second location.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Evan ATHERTON, David THOMASSON, Heather KERRICK, Maurice CONTI
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Publication number: 20170151677Abstract: A device for automatically setting plugs on motor-vehicle body parts includes an industrial robot which has a plug-setting tool and a plug magazine, wherein the plug-setting device is designed to be suitable for human-robot collaboration (HRC). The plug-setting tool has one or more HRC-suitable electric drives, the speed and force or torque of which are limited to HRC-permissible values. A method for automatic setting of plugs with a plug-setting device that includes an industrial robot and a plug-setting tool includes carrying the plug-setting tool with the industrial robot, wherein the plug-setting tool has a plug magazine and the plug-setting device is designed for human-robot collaboration.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: KUKA Systems GmbHInventors: Stefan Mayr, Yuecel Kara, Julian Stockschlaeder, Richard Zunke
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Publication number: 20170151678Abstract: A gripper mechanism configured to clamp an object includes at least one pair of clamping arms, a connecting element hinging at least one pair of clamping arms, a power cylinder driving the connecting element to move, and a limiting element with a through slot. The clamping arms pass through the through slot and connect to the limiting element. The power cylinder can drive the connecting element to move opposite or to move closer, thus (respectively) closing the clamping arms together or causing them to open.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: XI-HANG LI, ZHI-JUN WANG, DA XU, LI ZHANG
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Publication number: 20170151679Abstract: A gripping device comprises a base, a first finger rotatably or movably connected to the base, and a second finger connected to the base. The first finger and the second finger are capable of selectively entering an opened gripping mode and a closed gripping mode to grip an object. In the opened gripping mode, the first and second fingers grip the object from the same side of the object. In the closed gripping mode, the first and second fingers grip the object from different sides of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Ching-Chang WONG, Chia-Jun YU, Young-Sheng LEE, Han-Sheng CHANG, Chih-Cheng LIU
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Publication number: 20170151680Abstract: A robot controller configured to be able to mitigate the effect that an emergency stop may have on a robot is disclosed. The robot controller includes: a load detection unit which detects the load of a motor for driving each individual articulated axis of the robot; a speed detection unit which detects an axial speed at each individual articulated axis of the robot; a cause-of-stop identifying unit which, when an emergency stop of the robot occurs, identifies a cause of the occurrence of the emergency stop; and a recording unit which records the cause of the occurrence of the emergency stop by associating the cause with the axial speed or the load of the motor. The robot controller may further include a display unit which displays information representing the state of occurrence of the emergency stop of the robot.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Yanxue LIANG, Yoshiharu NAGATSUKA, Hiromitsu TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20170151681Abstract: A robot control device provided correspondingly to each of a plurality of robots, individually, includes an input interface unit, a control unit, an output interface unit, and a safety circuit unit. The input interface unit receives a signal from an outside of the robot control device. The control unit stops an operation of the corresponding robot when determining that a safety signal is not input to the input interface unit. The output interface unit outputs a signal to the outside of the robot control device. The safety circuit unit has a function of monitoring whether a failure occurs in the safety circuit unit. The safety circuit unit outputs a signal same as the safety signal to the output interface unit when determining that no failure occurs in the safety circuit unit, and determining that the safety signal is input to the input interface unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATEDInventor: Hiroshi ENDO
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Publication number: 20170151682Abstract: This application is to provide a knife structure which comprises a handle, a locating main body having an engagement part extended from an end thereof, configured to engage with two engagement slots formed on a blade and having other end connected to the handle, and a poke element pivotally connected to the handle adjacent to the other end of the locating main body and having a push part disposed at an end thereof and a poke part disposed at other end thereof. Under a condition that the poke part is poked to rotate, the push part is inserted into a sunken portion of the locating main body to force the other end of the blade to bend, deform and escape from a state of being engaged, so as to enable the blade to be pulled out in a direction away from the handle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: KANTAS PRODUCTS CO., LTD.Inventor: Yang-Fu CHENG
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Publication number: 20170151683Abstract: A plurality of retainers operable to secure a plurality of blades within a housing of a shaving blade unit. The plurality of retainers extending along a pair of side edges of the housing, between a front edge of the housing and a rear edge of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Ioannis Bozikis, Spiros Gratsias, Christoforos-Athanasios Brellis, Panagiotis Moustakas
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Publication number: 20170151684Abstract: A shaving blade unit includes a housing having a top surface, a bottom surface, a front edge, a rear edge, and a pair of side edges extending between the front edge and the rear edge, the housing having at least one blade disposed between the front edge and the rear edge, the at least one blade having a cutting edge, and a pair of retainers each having a top portion, a bottom portion, and a portion connecting the top portion to the bottom portion, the retainers extending along the pair of side edges between the front edge of the housing and the rear edge of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Ioannis Bozikis, Spiros Gratsias, Christoforos-Athanasios Brellis, Panagiotis Moustakas
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Publication number: 20170151685Abstract: To provide a technique by which, in cutting apparatus and a method for cutting into a small block such as a paper money or a postcard out of a large sheet, the cutting accuracy of a manufactured small block can be improved, and steps can be simplified and cutting equipment can have a smaller size simultaneously.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2014Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Tadao UNO, Yosuke UNO
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Publication number: 20170151686Abstract: A method of removing a foreign object from a food piece is provided. The method comprises detecting the location of a foreign object in a food piece (10); conveying the food piece to a cutting tool (42); operating the cutting tool to cut around the detected location of the foreign object and subsequently to engage and eject the foreign object from the food piece.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: ISHIDA EUROPE LIMITEDInventors: Adrian SUNTER, Robert BENNETT
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Publication number: 20170151687Abstract: The present invention relates to a film cutter assembly in which a blade housing slides bilaterally along a pair of rails. The blade housing houses a blade. An elongated rail base is coupled or integral with a pair of rails. The rails are formed of a material which provides an attractive or adhesion property to attract the film to the rail and maintain the film in flat position before and after cutting. A double-side adhesive tape can be applied to a surface of the elongated rail base which is adapted for attaching the elongated rail base to a carton of film.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Paul VEGLIANTE, Sean Neiberger, Rudolf Pavlik, Ian Kaiser
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Publication number: 20170151688Abstract: Method of making a wavy wood element (B) from a wood element •(A), wherein the method comprises at least steps (H1) to (H4): •(H1) providing a wood element (A), which comprises fibers and lignin on or between said fibers; •(H2) heating the wood element (A) to a temperature which is sufficient to soften or melt at least a part of the lignin; •(H3) deforming the wood element heated in step (H2) such that a wavy wood element (B) is formed; •(H4) cooling the wood element deformed in step (H3); characterized in that the deforming in step (H3) is performed such that the ratio of the wave height to the thickness of the wavy wood element (B) equals or is more than 2:1; wherein the term “thickness” signifies the shortest distance between an upper side and the respective lower side of the wavy wood element (B), and the term “wave height” signifies the shortest distance between two imaginary planes which run in parallel to one another between which the wavy wood element (B) may be arranged such that the waves are positiType: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: Wood Innovations Ltd.Inventors: Thomas Eckstein, Achim Moeller
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Publication number: 20170151689Abstract: The wood splitting aid of the invention includes a resilient bucket that attaches at its bottom to a base block bucket of similar shape and size to be used in conjunction with a hand-splitter such as an ax or splitting-mall. The resilient or flexible upper bucket holds a plurality of split pieces of corded firewood in an upright position for hand chopping and absorbs both horizontal and vertical forces of wood splitting. The split wood pieces are maintained in a general upright position adjacent their neighboring pieces. The base block bucket provides both a safe and ergonomic chopping height which absorbs and distributes the predominantly remaining vertical force of wood-splitting action against solid ground. The buckets are detachably connected bottom to bottom and are nesting when disconnected for easy portability, use, storage and reuse in an urban environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventor: Nicholas Hysni Seed
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Publication number: 20170151690Abstract: A method of manufacture of medium and high density fibreboard with moisture and mildew resistance and low formaldehyde emission, which includes the steps of: (a) providing wood chips; (b) pre-steaming; (c) refining the wood chips into fibers and adding 200-230 kg/m3 urea-formaldehyde resin adhesive, nigrosine solution with a mass percentage of nigrosine in absolutely dried fiber of 1-1.2%, 6-8 kg/m3 refined paraffin and 1.5-2 kg/m3 curing agent; (d) feeding activated carbon of 100-200 mesh to mix with the fibers and then drying the fibers to a water content between 8-10%; (e) separating qualified fibers to measuring silo; (f) laying the fibers onto a mat formation platform uniformly to form a fiber mat by pre-pressing; (g) pre-heating the fiber mat; and (h) processing continuous hot-pressing to form a raw board. The resulting fiberboard is black in color, has good physical properties and low formaldehyde emission rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventor: Maohui LI
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Publication number: 20170151691Abstract: Method for producing ceramic components, more particularly ceramic components having recesses and/or hollow spaces, there being at least one sintered ceramic part present. In order to improve the handling qualities of ceramic components, the sintered ceramic part can include a carrier or carrying section which is removed in the further processing from at least one ceramic component.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: Lakeview Innovation Ltd.Inventor: Dirk Zimmermann
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Publication number: 20170151692Abstract: A drive shaft for a machine tool, for example a core drilling machine, able to be connected to a drilling tool, in particular a core bit, is disclosed. The drive shaft contains a cavity which substantially extends over the whole length of the drive shaft and along the rotational axis. The cavity contains at least one inflow opening where, through the at least one inflow opening, water can be fed along the drive shaft into the drilling tool. In the drive shaft, an insertion device is provided in the cavity, through which water is guided for cooling the drive shaft, firstly, in a first direction and then in a second direction, where the water comes into direct contact with the inner side of the cavity at least in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thomas Reichenberger, Jochen Erhardt
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Publication number: 20170151693Abstract: A centrifuge plate is disclosed which is intended for casting housing ends of hollow fiber filter modules and can be rotated around a centrifuge axis. The centrifuge plate includes at least two bearing elements arranged diametrically with respect to the centrifuge axis and provided for supporting a housing of a hollow fiber filter module to be cast, wherein each bearing element is rotatably supported on the centrifuge plate around a bearing axle which is parallel to the centrifuge axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventor: Falk KÄSTNER
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Publication number: 20170151694Abstract: An imprint apparatus for forming a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate using a mold includes a plurality of alignment scopes and a control unit. The control unit controls aligning of a shot region of the substrate and the mold based on outputs from the plurality of alignment scopes. Each of the plurality of alignment scopes outputs information indicating a relative position of a first mark selected from a plurality of first marks in the shot region and a second mark selected from a plurality of second marks on the mold. The control unit controls aligning of the shot region and the mold based on information excluding incorrect information from a plurality of pieces of information output from the plurality of alignment scopes.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventor: Hiroshi Sato
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Publication number: 20170151695Abstract: A foam molded article mold includes a lower mold with a cavity space; an upper mold formed with an upper mold face portion facing a lower mold face portion of the cavity space when the upper mold has been brought together with the lower mold; a partitioning wall that projects out from the upper mold face portion, and that configures a first parting line between the partitioning wall and the lower mold face portion in a state in which the upper mold has been brought together with the lower mold; and a partition that projects out from the lower mold face portion, and that, in a state in which the upper mold has been brought together with the lower mold, partitions the cavity space together with the partitioning wall to form plural cavities, and that configures a second parting line between the partition and the partitioning wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Yoichi NABESHIMA, Shin TADA, Masatoshi SATOU, Hirokazu HIRANO
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Publication number: 20170151696Abstract: Manufacturing a blade by arranging a plurality of layers are in a mould. A matrix material is injected, through an inlet which is partly integrated into an inner surface of the mould, into the plurality of layers injecting the matrix material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventor: Karsten Schibsbye
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Publication number: 20170151697Abstract: A method for manufacturing a permanent magnet includes preparing a plurality of permanent magnet blocks having the same size, spacing and arranging the plurality of permanent magnet blocks in a lower mold Having an opened upper side, pressing a side of the lower mold while circulating adhesive in the lower mold and integrating the plurality of permanent magnet blocks such that the adhesive is evenly applied to surface of each of the permanent magnet blocks, thereby forming a permanent magnet assembly and hardening the adhesive by heating the permanent magnet assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Jae Ryung LEE, Hyung Ju LEE, Kun Min PARK
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Publication number: 20170151698Abstract: A method for manufacturing an air duct includes providing a tubular body having at least one open end which is inserted into an internal cuff mold to form an internal cuff that is secured to and axially extends from the tubular body. The tubular body and the internal cuff are removed from the internal cuff mold and then inserted into an external cuff mold to form an external cuff that is secured to and radially extends from at least the internal cuff. The tubular body with the internal cuff and the external cuff is then removed from the external cuff mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: DOUGLAS FRENCH, ERIC D. ANDERSON
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Publication number: 20170151699Abstract: An air duct system for transferring air or the like from one component to another includes a tubular body with an exterior surface, an interior surface, and an end which connects the exterior surface to the interior surface. The end has a diameter no larger than the exterior surface. The internal cuff connects to the exterior surface and extends axially from the end of the tubular body. The external cuff connects to the internal cuff and the exterior surface, and extends axially and radially from the internal cuff and the exterior surface. The external cuff is made from a material relatively harder than a material used for the internal cuff.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: DOUGLAS FRENCH, ERIC D. ANDERSON
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Publication number: 20170151700Abstract: An air-cooled sprue bush is mounted on a mold and contains: a columnar runner body and a flange portion. The runner body includes a gate and a cooling path defined in the runner body, the cooling path has plural U-shaped channels annularly arranged around the cooling path, and each U-shaped channel has a mesh structure formed therein. The flange portion is fixed on the runner body so as to contact with an outer face of the mold, and the gate passes through the flange portion and has a feeding orifice formed in the flange portion. The flange portion also includes at least one inlet and at least one outlet which are in communication with the cooling path of the runner body and do not contact with the mold, such that external gas flows out of the at least one outlet from the at least one inlet via the cooling path.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventor: Chih-Meng WU
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Publication number: 20170151701Abstract: An injection molding apparatus comprising a manifold, an actuator having a piston that divides an enclosed actuator housing into upstream and downstream actuator drive chambers, the piston having an internal piston chamber and a piston bore that communicates flow of the drive fluid between one of the upstream or downstream actuator drive chambers and the internal piston chamber, a flow rate controller adapted to enable flow of drive fluid between one of the upstream or downstream actuator drive chambers and a source of drive fluid at a first low rate of flow over a selected first portion of the stroke length of the piston and at a second high rate of flow over a selected second portion of the stroke length of the piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Christopher Lee, Vito Galati
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Publication number: 20170151702Abstract: Injection-moulding mould configured for being mounted in an injection-moulding apparatus for automated moulding of work pieces from plastics, said injection-moulding mould comprising at least two separate mould parts that are separated by a mould separation face, and wherein at least one mould part 1 is configured with an outer frame 2 in which one or more spaces is/are configured that are open relative to the mould separation face, in which is mounted at least one exchangeable mould insert 3, and wherein the exchangeable mould insert 3 has a mould cavity side that faces towards the mould separation face, which mould cavity side is provided with one or more mould cavities, and wherein, in the mould insert 3, a set of cooling channels 14 is provided and at least two pipe couplings to which there is, for each pipe coupling, configured a cooling pipe 4 being, with its first end, mounted to the pipe coupling and extending therefrom, in its longitudinal direction, from the pipe coupling and out through a channel 8Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventor: Jens Stamp LAMBÆK
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Publication number: 20170151703Abstract: Injection molding apparatuses and methods wherein a valve pin is controllably driven upstream and downstream along an axis between a first closed position where the tip end of the valve pin obstructs the gate to prevent the injection fluid from flowing into the cavity, a full open position and one or more intermediate positions, wherein the valve pin is drivable to be disposed or held in a selected intermediate position for a selected period of time during the course of an injection cycle where the tip end of the valve pin restricts flow of injection fluid through the gate to the mold cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Sergio Ribeiro de Oliveira Antunes, Lin Yang, Vito Galati, Hans-Joerg Schreyer
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Publication number: 20170151704Abstract: Printing devices and methods are provided that utilize high throughput extrusion to generate a printer material, such as a three-dimensional object. High-throughput extrusion systems in accordance with the present disclosure volumetrically pre-heat an extruded filament to a desired pre-heat temperature, and then either maintain or heat the extruded filament to a desired melt temperature prior to having the filament extruded out of the system and onto a surface, such as a build platform. By pre-heating the filament prior to heating it to the temperature at which it is excluded, it helps increase the throughput of the system. Likewise, by doing the heating volumetrically, it further helps increase the throughput of the system. Various embodiments of devices and methods typically used for printing in conjunction with the disclosed high throughput systems are also provided for in the present disclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Jamison Go, Anastasios John Hart
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Publication number: 20170151705Abstract: An enclosure for housing electrical equipment is disclosed. The enclosure is produced by thermoforming four separate pieces or bodies together to form the top and bottom of the enclosure. The enclosure is made of a moldable material, such as plastic or fiberglass.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Gary D. Stahl, Gregory L. Klosowski, Rick Conklin
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Publication number: 20170151706Abstract: The present invention provide a lipophilic laminate including a substrate and a lipophilic resin layer on the substrate, wherein the lipophilic resin layer has micro convex portions or micro concave portions in a surface thereof and contains filler particles, and when parts of the filler particles are exposed from the lipophilic resin layer, the rate of exposed portions of the filler particles relative to the surface of the lipophilic resin layer is 0.1% or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Ryosuke IWATA, Shinobu HARA, Mikihisa MIZUNO
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Publication number: 20170151707Abstract: A resin body includes: a core member including an internal structure and a planar structure covering the internal structure; and a resin face material containing resin and joined so as to cover a surface of the planar structure on an opposite side to a side where the planar structure covers the internal structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshihiro IWANO
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Publication number: 20170151708Abstract: Ultrasound surgical apparatus are disclosed, including: medical ultrasound handpieces with proximally mounted ultrasound radiators configured to create a distally-focused beam of ultrasound energy, in combination with distal guide members for control of focal point depth; medical ultrasound handpieces with proximally mounted ultrasound radiators configured to create a distally-focused beam of ultrasound energy, in combination with distal rolling members for manipulability and control of focal point depth; medical ultrasound handpiece assemblies with coupled end effectors providing a probe with a probe dilation region configured to have an average outside diameter that is equal to or greater than the average outside diameter of a probe tip and neck; as well as junctions to an ultrasonically inactive probe sheath; medical ultrasound handpiece assemblies with coupled end effectors having positionable, ultrasonically inactive probe sheath ends slidably operable to both cover and expose at least a probe tip; and uType: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Timothy G. Dietz, Foster B. Stulen, William A. Olson, William D. Dannaher, John W. Willis, Sora Rhee, Juergen Burger, Phillippe Margairaz, Robert Lockhart, Franz Friedrich, Danik Brand, Herbert Keppner, Jean-Paul Sandoz
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Publication number: 20170151709Abstract: A stringer and corresponding method is provided having a runout design that softens the stringer. According to one aspect, the stringer includes a base flange, a web, and a noodle. The noodle includes a unidirectional fiber top portion and a stacked laminate bottom portion coupled to the top portion. The bottom portion includes a number of stacks, each stack including three plies having three corresponding fiber orientations within an acreage region of the stringer. In a transition region of the stringer, the stacked laminate bottom portion includes a number of stacks, each stack including the first and third plies of the acreage region. According to another aspect, the base flange is softened by dropping plies within the transition region. Yet another aspect includes trimming the web down to the noodle, while trimming through the noodle according to a trim radius to a height proximate the base flange.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Hyukbong Kwon, Douglas A. Frisch, Arman Rowhani
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Publication number: 20170151710Abstract: A method for manufacturing an aircraft structure component of fiber composite material, wherein a semifinished first part made of a dry fiber preform is provided, a semifinished second part made of either a dry fiber preform or a hardened fiber matrix composite is provided, a semifinished aircraft structure component is prepared by placing the semifinished first part against the semifinished second part, such that a first connection surface rests against a second connection surface, matrix material is infused through the semifinished aircraft structure component, and the semifinished aircraft structure component is cured. Before infusing matrix material through the semifinished aircraft structure component, an intermediate layer for assisting adhesion is applied between the first connection surface and the second connection surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventor: Carsten Barlag
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Publication number: 20170151711Abstract: A method of making a wind turbine blade, and the turbine blade resulting form the process, is described in which correct alignment of the shear webs (42a, 42b) upon mould (30) closing is ensured. The method involves providing a first half shell (32a) and a second half shell (32b) to be joined together to form the wind turbine blade. A first edge (46) of a shear web (42) is attached to an inner surface (36a) of the first half shell (32a). A shear web mounting region is defined on an inner surface (36b) of the second half shell (32b). At least one guide block (60a, 60b) is attached to the inner surface (36b) of the second half shell (32b) adjacent to the shear web (42) mounting region. The guide block (60a, 60b) has a guide surface (70) oriented transversely to the inner surface of the second half shell (36b).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicants: Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Vestas Wind Systems A/SInventors: Brian Birkemose, Kim Linddal Kristensen
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Publication number: 20170151712Abstract: In some examples, a method including depositing a resin and a plurality of carbon fibers via a print head of a three-dimensional printing system to form a carbon fiber preform including a plurality of individual carbon fiber layers, wherein each individual layer of the plurality of individual carbon fiber layers includes the resin and carbon fibers, and wherein the carbon fiber preform exhibits at least one of a non-uniform composition of the resin within the preform, different types of the carbon fibers within the preform, or non-uniform fiber orientation within the preform.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Mark L. La Forest, Slawomir T. Fryska
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Publication number: 20170151713Abstract: A method for printing a three dimensional object comprising providing a support structure, rotating a build platform having a center and disposed on the support structure, slideably moving the build platform disposed on the support structure, and printing an object on the build platform with a print head.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventor: William Joseph STEELE
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Publication number: 20170151714Abstract: A 3D printing apparatus, wherein the apparatus is configured to use a build material to form a peripheral wall in a plurality of layers, the combined plurality of layers having a first height, and to form an infill section within the peripheral wall, wherein said infill section is formed comprising a single layer and having a second height equal to the first height of the peripheral wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventor: Mike MCGEE
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Publication number: 20170151715Abstract: A print method for printing three dimensional (3D) objects that are difficult to copy by use of a 3D scanner and 3D printer. The printer includes a print head with an extrusion nozzle with a heated portion and a print bed with a surface for receiving material extruded from the extrusion nozzle. The printer includes a print material supply spool loaded with an anti-scanning filament. The method includes operating the print head to draw the anti-scanning filament into the heated portion for heating and to extrude the heated filament from the extrusion nozzle to form a 3D object. The printed 3D object includes one or more scan protected exterior surfaces on at least one element of the 3D object. The scan protected exterior surfaces are either light absorbing or reflect light in unconventional directions. The anti-scanning filament is a plastic mixed with an anti-scanning additive such as a retroreflective material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: JEFFREY VORIS, DAVID W. CRAWFORD, JORGE ALTED, BENJAMIN FOSTER CHRISTEN
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Publication number: 20170151716Abstract: A 3D printing method and apparatus using the same are provided. The printing method includes: generating a two-dimensional layer information related with multiple layer objects of a three-dimensional object according to a three-dimensional model information, whereas the three-dimensional object has a forming part and an object embedded part; analyzing the two-dimensional layer information to identify a forming region and an object embedded region within each of the layer objects, whereas the forming regions constitute the forming part and the object embedded regions constitute the object embedded part; selecting at least one section of the three-dimensional object as a separation plane; printing the layer objects, layer by layer, with a forming material and a supporting material, to coat the forming material onto the forming region without overlapping with the separation plane, and coat the supporting material onto the forming region overlapping with the separation plane and the object embedded region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Ting-Yu Lu, Yi-Lung Lin
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Publication number: 20170151717Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a 3D printing device and an imaging system thereof. The imaging system comprises a display panel having a plurality of pixels, a storage apparatus for storing a liquid light curable material, and a control component for controlling the display panel to performing imaging. The display panel is an active light emitting panel. The imaging system does not need a polarizer, so as to avoid the polarizer from absorbing the light emitted by the light source system. On the other hand, because there is not backlight, and the image projection is formed by directly using the light emitted by the display panel, the light path is shortened and the optical loss is reduced, consequently, the utilization ratio of light is improved and the power consumption of the whole system is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventor: Wenbo LI
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Publication number: 20170151718Abstract: A method of forming a three-dimensional object of polyurethane, polyurea, or copolymer thereof is carried out by: (a) providing a carrier and an optically transparent member having a build surface, the carrier and the build surface defining a build region therebetween; (b) filling the build region with a polymerizable liquid, the polymerizable liquid including at least one of: (i) a blocked or reactive blocked prepolymer, (ii) a blocked or reactive blocked diisocyante, or (iii) a blocked or reactive blocked diisocyanate chain extender; (c) irradiating the build region with light through the optically transparent member to form a solid blocked polymer scaffold and advancing the carrier away from the build surface to form a three-dimensional intermediate having the same shape as, or a shape to be imparted to, the three-dimensional object, with the intermediate containing the chain extender; and then (d) heating or microwave irradiating the three-dimensional intermediate sufficiently to form from the three-dimenType: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Jason P. Rolland, Kai Chen, Justin Poelma, James Goodrich, Robert Pinschmidt, Joseph M. DeSimone, Lloyd M. Robeson
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Publication number: 20170151719Abstract: A three-dimensional object comprises substantially planar or flat substrate layers that are folded and stacked in a predetermined order and infiltrated by a hardened material. The object is fabricated by positioning powder on all or part of multiple substrate layers. On each layer, the powder is selectively deposited in a pattern that corresponds to tiles that each have a slice of the object. For each slice, powder is deposited in positions that correspond to positions in the slice where the object exists, and not deposited where the object does not exist. The tiles of each substrate layer are folded and aligned in a predetermined order. Multiple folded substrate layers mat be combined into a single stack. The powder is transformed into a substance that flows and subsequently hardens into the hardened material in a spatial pattern that infiltrates positive regions, and does not infiltrate negative regions, in the substrate layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2016Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: Impossible Objects LLCInventors: Robert Swartz, Eugene Gore, John Bayldon
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Publication number: 20170151720Abstract: An additive manufacturing method is provided. A plurality of powder layers is stacked on a supporting plate in sequence. Energy beams are provided to the powder layers in sequence by using an energy source, such that each of the powder layers is at least partially shaped. The powder layers are heated by using a temperature control device, so as to control a temperature of each of the powder layers being shaped.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Che-Nan Kuo, Cheng-Wen Lin, Yu-Lun Su, Meng-Hsiu Tsai, Sebastien Husson, De-Chang Tsai, Cheng-Tsung Kuo, Ying-Cherng Lu, Ho-Chung Fu
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Publication number: 20170151721Abstract: A system and method for manufacturing composite parts has been developed which offers the ability to produce composite parts in an infusion resin process without the use of expensive preforms or tools. In addition, the methods of manufacturing composite parts described herein offer the ability to produce composite parts having complex structures without the need for complex tooling. The method of manufacturing and systems described herein typically include printing a part skeleton using an additive manufacturing process followed by infusing the part skeleton with resin and curing the resin infused part skeleton to form the composite part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2015Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Benjamin J. STEPHENSON, Hugh A. YAP, Gwen Marie LANPHERE GROSS, William S. HOLLENSTEINER, Scott K. FRANKENBERY, Dennis J. HANKS
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Publication number: 20170151722Abstract: In a computational modeling method for identifying how to apply a modifying agent during a three-dimensional (3D) printing method, a thermal diffusion model of a layer of a 3D object to be formed from a portion of a sinterable material using the 3D printing method is created. The thermal diffusion model is created by a computer running computer readable instructions stored on a non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium. A quantity of the modifying agent to be selectively applied is calculated, by the computer, based upon the thermal diffusion model.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2014Publication date: June 1, 2017Inventors: Keshava A. Prasad, David H. Donovan, Krzysztof Nauka, Ali Emamjomeh, Hua Tan
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Publication number: 20170151723Abstract: A three-dimensional printing system and equipment assembly for the manufacture of three-dimensionally printed articles is provided. The equipment assembly includes a three-dimensional printing build system, an optional liquid removal system and an optional harvester system. The build system includes a conveyor, plural build modules and at least one build station having a powder-layering system and a printing system. The equipment assembly can be used to manufacture pharmaceutical, medical, and non-pharmaceutical/non-medical objects. It can be used to prepare single or multiple articles.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2017Publication date: June 1, 2017Applicant: APRECIA PHARMACEUTICALS COMPANYInventors: Jaedeok YOO, Thomas J. BRADBURY, Thomas J. BEBB, James ISKRA, Henry L. SURPRENANT, Thomas G. WEST