Patents Issued in July 6, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170189954
    Abstract: A method for connecting a first component to at least one second component by at least one joining element which is introduced into the components at a joining point. The joining element is pushed into the components by an industrial robot at a speed of less than five meters per second.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Daniel KOHL, Holger SCHUBERT, Matthias WAGNER
  • Publication number: 20170189955
    Abstract: A method for producing a forged crankshaft includes: a preforming step of forming a preformed blank with no flash, the preformed blank including a shape of the crankshaft, wherein the crank arm have excess projecting portions at an outer peripheries of side portions of the crank arm near the crank pin; a die forging step of forming a forged blank with flash by pressing the preformed blank with a pair of first dies; and a trimming step of removing the flash from the forged blank. In the die forging step, while a second die is abutted against a journal-side surface of the crank arm and holds the surface, the excess projecting portions of the crank arm are deformed by the first dies so as to increase the side portions of the crank arm in thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Kenji TAMURA, Junichi OKUBO, Koichro ISHIHARA, Ken YOSHINO, Kunihiro YABUNO, Hiroyuki KUROKAWA, Tomohisa YAMASHITA, Sho TAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170189956
    Abstract: Teaching storage means stores teaching data created on the basis of signals from a first pulse generator, a first shaft detector, a second pulse generator, and a second shaft detector, in a storage unit as a sequence control program of molding operation of a self-hardening mold when teaching operation of throwing kneaded self-hardening foundry sand from a discharge port into a molding flask is performed by manually moving a conveyor arm and a kneading arm. Molding playback means reads out the sequence control program from the storage unit to control and drive a first pivot motor and a second pivot motor on the basis of the sequence control program to pivot the conveyor arm and the kneading arm, and then throws the self-hardening foundry sand from the discharge port of the kneading arm into the molding flask to reproduce the molding operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventor: Yukinori AOKI
  • Publication number: 20170189957
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a manufacturing method of a middle frame for a display screen, a display screen and a display device. The method includes: fixing a glass cover plate of the display screen to a first mold; bonding a second mold with the first mold, so as to form a cavity for forming the middle frame on a periphery of the glass cover plate; injecting a molten material into the cavity; cooling the molten material to form the middle frame, wherein the middle frame is integrally injected and molded on the periphery of the glass cover plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Xue DONG, Haiwei SUN, Wei BAI
  • Publication number: 20170189958
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus and method for manufacturing of an infiltrated fiber-based composite film. The apparatus comprises two tool blocks arranged opposite each other enabling a fiber-based film to be arranged between the tool blocks. At least one of the tool blocks comprises a recess so that the recess can form a sealed cavity enclosing a portion of the film when the tool blocks are in contact with each other. At least one of the tool blocks comprises a vacuum channel connecting cavity to a vacuum pump for drawing a vacuum in the cavity; a melt channel connecting the cavity to a source of molten material. The melt channel comprises a valve arrangement controlling delivery of the molten material to the cavity; pressure means to achieve an elevated pressure onto the molten material within the cavity such that a fiber film in the cavity is infiltrated by the molten material; and an ejection piston for ejecting an infiltrated fiber film from the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Johan LIU, Carl ZANDÉN
  • Publication number: 20170189959
    Abstract: A metal powder composition for making compacted parts, the metal powder composition including (i) sponge iron particles or sponge iron-based particles, and (ii) a lubricant including at least two different fatty acid amides. A process including (i) compacting the metal powder composition, and (ii) sintering the thus obtained compacted metal powder composition to produce a metal product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: HOGANAS AB (PUBL)
    Inventors: Åsa AHLIN, Peter JOHANSSON
  • Publication number: 20170189960
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a powder material that has good fluidity and is used for powder additive manufacturing. [Solution] The powder material of this invention is used in powder additive manufacturing. The powder material is formed of particles having a form of secondary particles that are formed with primary particles bound three-dimensionally with interspaces. The secondary particles forming the powder material preferably have an average particle diameter of 1 ?m or larger, but 100 ?m or smaller. The secondary particles forming the powder material are preferably granulated particles. The powder additive manufacturing method of this invention is carried out, using the powder material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIMI INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Hiroyuki IBE
  • Publication number: 20170189961
    Abstract: A selective laser solidification apparatus including: a powder bed onto which a powder layer can be deposited, a gas flow unit for passing a flow of gas over the powder bed along a gas flow direction, a laser scanning unit for scanning a laser beam over the powder layer to selectively solidify at least part of the powder layer to form at least one object and a processing unit for selecting a scanning sequence of the laser beam based on the gas flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: RENISHAW PLC
    Inventor: Ben Ian FERRAR
  • Publication number: 20170189962
    Abstract: A method of producing a component from refractory metal or a refractory metal alloy having a refractory metal content >50 at %. The process includes the steps of providing a powder formed of particles and solidifying the powder under the action of a laser beam or electron beam. The powder has a particle size d50 as measured laser-optically of >10 ?m and an average surface area as measured by the BET method of >0.08 m2/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: HEINRICH KESTLER, GERHARD LEICHTFRIED, MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN, BERNHARD TABERNIG
  • Publication number: 20170189963
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides three-dimensional (3D) objects, 3D printing processes, as well as methods, apparatuses and systems for the production of a 3D object. Methods, apparatuses and systems of the present disclosure may reduce or eliminate the need for auxiliary supports. The present disclosure provides three dimensional (3D) objects printed utilizing the printing processes, methods, apparatuses and systems described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Benyamin Buller, Erel Milshtein, Sherman Seelinger
  • Publication number: 20170189964
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for welding a workpiece comprising the steps of: making a first weld at a first position on said workpiece with a high energy beam, deflecting the high energy beam with at least one deflection lens for making a second weld at a second position on said workpiece, focusing the high energy beam on said workpiece with at least one focusing lens, shaping the high energy beam on said workpiece with at least one astigmatism lens so that the shape of the high energy beam on said workpiece is longer in a direction parallel to a deflection direction of said high energy beam than in a direction perpendicular to said deflection direction of said high energy beam. The invention is also related to the use of an astigmatism lens and to a method for forming a three dimensional article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Johan Backlund, Tomas Lock
  • Publication number: 20170189965
    Abstract: Implementations described herein generally relate to additive manufacturing. More particularly, implementations disclosed herein relate to formulations and processes for forming articles via a three-dimensional printing (or 3D printing) process. In one implementation, a method of additive manufacturing is provided. The method comprises dispensing a first layer of a feed material over a platen. The feed material includes a powder mixture comprising a plurality of particulates comprising a first material and a plurality of particulates comprising a second material different from the first material. The method further comprises directing a laser beam to heat the feed material at locations specified by data stored in a computer readable medium. The laser beam heats the feed material to a temperature sufficient to fuse at least the second material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Kaushik VAIDYA, Simon YAVELBERG, Cariappa Achappa BADUVAMANDA
  • Publication number: 20170189966
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a turbomachine component is disclosed, including the steps of producing, by additive manufacturing, a plurality of separate segments of the turbomachine component, having a skin surrounding an empty volume corresponding to a massive part of the turbomachine component; assembling the separate segments of the turbomachine component together forming a semi-finished component, with an empty cavity therein; filling cavity of the semi-finished component with a bulk flowable material; and densifying and solidifying the bulk flowable material in the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Massimo GIANNOZZI, Iacopo GIOVANNETTI, Gabriele MASI
  • Publication number: 20170189967
    Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool according to the present invention includes a coating. The coating includes an ?-Al2O3 layer. Each of the ?-Al2O3 layers on a side of a rake face and a side of a flank face shows (001) orientation. In the ?-Al2O3 layer on the rake face side, a length LR3 of a ?3 crystal grain boundary exceeds 80% of a length LR3-29 of a ?3-29 crystal grain boundary and is not lower than 10% and not higher than 50% of a total length LR of all grain boundaries. In the ?-Al2O3 layer on the flank face side, a length LF3 of a ?3 crystal grain boundary exceeds 80% of a length LF3-29 of a ?3-29 crystal grain boundary and is not lower than 10% and not higher than 50% of a total length LF of all grain boundaries. A ratio LR3/LR3-29 is lower than a ratio LF3/LF3-29.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Anongsack Paseuth, Hideaki Kanaoka, Takanori Detani, Shinya Imamura
  • Publication number: 20170189968
    Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool according to the present invention is provided with a base material and a coating formed on the base material, the coating includes an ?-Al2O3 layer, the ?-Al2O3 layer includes a plurality of crystal grains of ?-Al2O3 and shows (001) orientation, a grain boundary of the crystal grains contains a CSL grain boundary and a general grain boundary, and a length of a ?3 crystal grain boundary out of the CSL grain boundary exceeds 80% of a length of a ?3-29 crystal grain boundary and is equal to or more than 10% and equal to or less than 50% of the total length of all grain boundaries which is the sum of the length of the ?3-29 crystal grain boundary and a length of the general grain boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Anongsack Paseuth, Hideaki Kanaoka, Takanori Detani, Shinya Imamura
  • Publication number: 20170189969
    Abstract: A cBN sintered body contains cBN particles whose proportion is 85-97% by volume, and a binding phase whose proportion is 3-15% by volume. The cBN sintered body contains Al whose ratio to the entirety of the cBN sintered body is 0.1-5% by mass, and Co whose mass ratio to the Al is 3 to 40, and includes Al3B6Co20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Kouji HIROSAKI
  • Publication number: 20170189970
    Abstract: A cutter holder has a body, a collet fastening unit, a collet, a cutter, multiple concentricity adjusting units, and multiple straightness adjusting units. The collet fastening unit is assembled on the body. The collet is assembled on the collet fastening unit. The cutter is inserted into the collet. The body has a fastening flange which has multiple concentricity adjusting holes. The multiple concentricity adjusting units are respectively screwed in the multiple concentricity adjusting holes and abut against the collet fastening unit to correct the error of concentricity between the cutter and the body. The collet fastening unit has an assembling flange which has multiple straightness adjusting holes. The multiple straightness adjusting units are respectively screwed in the multiple straightness adjusting holes and abut against the body to correct the error of straightness between the body and the cutter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventor: Ching-Ting CHEN
  • Publication number: 20170189971
    Abstract: A cutter holder has a body, a fastening bolt, and a vibration absorbing structure. The body has a specific weight. The fastening bolt is mounted inside the body. The vibration absorbing structure is mounted inside the body and has a sleeve, an elastic unit, a spacer, and a set nut. The sleeve is mounted around the fastening bolt and has a specific weight. The specific weight of the sleeve is larger than the specific weight of the body. The elastic unit is mounted around the fastening bolt and has two opposite ends. One of the ends of the elastic unit abuts against the sleeve. The spacer is mounted around the fastening bolt and abuts against the other end of the elastic unit. The set nut is screwed with the fastening bolt and abuts against the spacer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventor: Chin-Chiu Chen
  • Publication number: 20170189972
    Abstract: A polygonal cutting has opposing first and second end surfaces connected by a side surface, and a plurality of cutting edges formed between the end surfaces and the side surface. Each cutting edge is formed at corner and includes a corner cutting edge and a major cutting edge connected to the corner cutting edge. A rake surface formed along the cutting edge on first the end surface is inclined toward the second end surface. In a side view of the cutting insert, the major cutting edge includes an inclined part which is inclined so as to approach the second end surface from the corner cutting edge. A portion of the rake surface along the inclined part is formed such that an angle of inclination toward the second end surface increases toward the corner in a direction along the intersecting edge between the first end surface and the side surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Takahiro MATSUMURA, Satoru YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20170189973
    Abstract: Within examples, systems and methods for forming a hole through at least one layer of a material are provided. An example cutting tool for forming such a hole may include a body, and a first portion of the body having a first diameter and a first radial rake angle. The cutting tool also includes a second portion of the body adjacent the first portion, the second portion having a second diameter and a second radial rake angle, wherein the second diameter is different than the first diameter, and wherein the second radial rake angle is different than the first radial rake angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Nicholas R. Farrell, Gary Lipczynski
  • Publication number: 20170189974
    Abstract: A rotary cutting tool has a plurality of circumferentially spaced grooves, each having a plurality of cutting inserts mounted. Each cutting insert has a wave-shaped major cutting edge, a corner cutting edge, and a minor cutting edge. The cutting inserts are arranged such that, the phases of the waves of the rotational trajectories formed by the cutting inserts that are adjacent to each other in a direction along the tool rotational axis coincide with each other in one groove. Also, the rotational trajectories of at least part of cutting edge portions of at least some cutting inserts are overlapped with each other in the direction of the tool rotational axis. Accordingly, even when the cutting edge portion is used as a major cutting edge and as an inner cutting edge, it is still possible to reduce cutting load and suppress breakage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20170189975
    Abstract: A cutting insert includes an upper surface, a lower surface, a side surface, and an upper cutting edge. The upper cutting edge includes a major cutting edge having an outwardly projecting curvilinear shape, and a minor cutting edge having a straight line shape and being continuous with the major cutting edge. The side surface includes a continuous inclined surface with the major cutting edge and is inclined outward from the upper surface to the lower surface with respect to a virtual straight line connecting the respective centers of the upper and lower surfaces. An inclination angle of the inclined surface with respect to a virtual straight line on the side surface increases from a portion of the inclined surface which is continuous with an end portion of the major cutting edge to a portion of the inclined surface which is continuous with a center of the major cutting edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170189976
    Abstract: Foldable miter saws and a folding method of miter saws are disclosed. The foldable miter saws includes a base unit, a worktable, and a cutting unit. The cutting unit includes a support arm pivotally mounted on the worktable, a saw blade, and a driver. The miter saw folding method includes the step of biasing the cutting unit relative to the base unit and the step of rotating the support arm relative to the base unit and the worktable to change the cutting unit from a working position to a folded position, thus reducing the vertical space occupied by the cutting unit and facilitating delivery, storage and package of the foldable miter saws.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Rexon Industrial Corp., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ju Zhen LIN, Ya Pin KUO, Hung-Jung CHIANG
  • Publication number: 20170189977
    Abstract: A perpendicular axis saw blade includes a blade body with an outer blade body edge to which a plurality of primary saw teeth are affixed at spaced intervals to form a primary teeth per inch (TPI). The blade also includes a plurality of primary gullets. Each primary gullet is located between two of the plurality of primary teeth and has a primary gullet depth and primary gullet capacity. Each of the plurality of the primary teeth includes a primary tooth tip, a primary tooth leading edge, a primary tooth trailing edge. Secondary saw teeth affixed at spaced intervals to the primary tooth trailing edge or at least one primary gullet form a secondary TPI. The primary teeth cut a workpiece during a machining operation. A user or system can use the secondary teeth to cut through a foreign object detected in the workpiece without damaging any primary teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventor: Brian Read
  • Publication number: 20170189978
    Abstract: Saw cords made of saw beads threaded on a steel cord, where the saw beads are separated by polymer spacers. The saw beads have a metal sleeve of which the outer surface is covered with an abrasive layer. The inner surface of the sleeve has with two sets of parallel grooves in a first and second axial part of the sleeve. The two sets of parallel grooves differ in at least one of the groove angle, the groove offset or the groove spacing, thereby preventing axial movement of the sleeve and blocking the rotation of the saw bead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: NV BEKAERT SA
    Inventors: Tom BAEKELANDT, Steven DERYCKE
  • Publication number: 20170189979
    Abstract: A cutting tap includes thread ridges, roots formed between the respective axially adjacent pairs of thread ridges, and a plurality of deburring thread grooves arranged at a constant pitch toward the axial front side of the cutting tap from the rearmost ones of the roots in which the deburring thread grooves are formed, and formed such that a groove bottom diameter of the deburring thread grooves gradually decreases toward the axial front side of the cutting tap. The respective deburring thread grooves have groove bottom diameter reliefs by which the groove bottom dimeter gradually decreases from the front side toward the rear side of each deburring thread groove in the rotation direction of the cutting tap, the groove bottom diameter reliefs being set to be larger than effective diameter reliefs of the thread grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: SAKAI THREADING TOOL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshio HACHIUMA, Hitoshi YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170189980
    Abstract: A soldering wire dispensing apparatus is provided and comprises a support frame with a motor is mounted therein. A motor axle extends from the motor and rotates upon activation of the motor. A dispenser spool is mounted within the support frame with a predetermined amount of solder wire. A dispensing axle extends from the dispenser spool. A connecting belt links the motor axle to the dispensing axle to rotate the dispensing axle with rotation of the motor axle. A flexible wire nozzle is positioned in and extends from the support frame. An adjustment housing is mounted to the support frame. An upright bar is slidably mounted within the adjustment housing. A lever is connected to the upright bar and extends through the adjustment housing. A connecting wire extends between the second end of the wire nozzle and the upright bar. Upon moving the lever downward, the connecting wire nozzle bends nozzle to a predetermined angle relative to the adjustment housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventor: Sergio Lopez
  • Publication number: 20170189981
    Abstract: A soldering module for a soldering system for selective wave soldering, having at least one first and one second solder pot, wherein the solder pots are displaceable along an x-axis by means of an x-axis drive, along a y-axis by means of a y-axis drive, and along a z-axis by means of a z-axis drive, wherein the axes are all arranged orthogonally in relation to each other; wherein two y-axis drives and two moving devices are provided on which the solder pots are displaceable along the y-axis by means of the y-axis drives; wherein a first moving device is associated with the first solder pot, and wherein a second moving device which is different from the first moving device is associated with the second solder pot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Rainer KURTZ, Michael Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20170189982
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, a welding wire delivery system includes a non-rotational actuator configured to engage, disengage, and move welding wire. In certain embodiments, the welding wire delivery system includes a piezoelectric walk motor, a piezoelectric worm drive, a piezoelectric wave drive, a shape memory alloy, a solenoid piston, a linear actuator or motor, or a voice coil actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventor: Christopher Hsu
  • Publication number: 20170189983
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing welding power supplies with interleaved inverter circuitry are described. In one embodiment, a welding power supply includes, for example, a first inverter circuit and a second inverter circuit that are arranged in parallel. A voltage source or a current source is coupled to a first same node of the first inverter circuit and the second inverter circuit. A filter inductor is coupled to a second same node of the first inverter circuit and the second inverter circuit. The output current of the filter inductor is halved in frequency by disabling one of the first inverter circuit and the second inverter circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Alan Adam Manthe, Craig Steven Knoener
  • Publication number: 20170189984
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided that allow a weld sequencer to use a statistical analysis of generated reports to automatically determine weld parameter limits for the welds defined by various functions in a sequence file. For example, the weld sequencer can take reports generated for a specific type of part and statistically analyze the weld data included in the reports according to a set of analysis parameters provided by a user. The weld sequencer can use the statistical analysis to identify and remove outlier data and define a set of weld parameter limits based on the remaining data. The weld parameter limits can define a low limit and/or a high limit for one or more weld parameters associated with a function. The weld sequencer can then update the sequence file to include the weld parameter limits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventor: Joseph A. Daniel
  • Publication number: 20170189985
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a constant current controller for use in constant current welding applications are described. In one embodiment, a current controller controls the output current of the welding torch without directly measuring the output current of the welding torch. The current controller controls or sets a current in a primary winding of a transformer in an inverter of a welding power supply to control the output current of the welding torch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Alan Adam Manthe, Craig Steven Knoener
  • Publication number: 20170189986
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing welding-type power is disclosed. It includes an input circuit, a dc bus, an output circuit, and a control module. The input circuit receives power and provides an intermediate signal to the bus. The output circuit receives the dc bus and provides an ac welding-type output. The output circuit includes a half-bridge output inverter with at least first and second switches. The output inverter further includes an output control circuit. The output control circuit provides freewheeling paths that includes control switches, the output, antiparallel diodes. The control module has a four quadrant control module that provides control signals to the half bridge output inverter and provides modulating control signals to the first and second output control switches. The modulating signals cause the output control switches to be turned on and off multiple times to control a rate of change of output current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: IIIinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew J. Henry
  • Publication number: 20170189987
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining welding parameters using material thickness and wire diameter are disclosed. An example welding-type system includes a power source; an input device configured to receive a first user input specifying a thickness of a material to be welded; and control circuitry configured to: determine a plurality of welding parameters based on the first user input and based on a user-specified wire diameter; control the power source based on one or more of the welding parameters; and control a wire feeder based on one or more of the welding parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventor: Darrell L. Sickels
  • Publication number: 20170189988
    Abstract: A welding system having a welding power supply coupled to a fume extractor is provided. The fume extractor may be coupled to control circuitry configured to operate the welding power supply. The control circuitry may be configured to begin, terminate or modify the operation of the fume extractor prior to the establishment of a welding arc, after the termination of the welding arc, or both. The control circuitry may be further configured to modify the operation of the fume extractor based upon a type of welding process used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Peter Donald Mehn, Allan Thomas Hilbert
  • Publication number: 20170189989
    Abstract: A tool for positioning a masking plug relative to a surface feature on a component is provided. The tool includes a body extending from a first end to an opposite second end. The second end is configured to couple to an attachment tool. The tool further includes a channel defined in the first end. The channel is sized to receive at least a portion of the masking plug therein such that rotational motion of the tool about a longitudinal axis is transferred to the masking plug. The tool is operable to releasably secure the masking plug to the first end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Tyler Walton Kasperski, Jonathan Matthew Lomas
  • Publication number: 20170189990
    Abstract: An exemplary method for making a metal matrix composite vented brake rotor includes: providing a first side plate; providing a second side plate; and welding the first and second side plates together. The first and second side plates have outer surfaces, inner surfaces, and metal matrix composite portions extending from the outer surfaces to a distance from the inner surface that is less than a thickness measured between the inner surface and outer surface. The inner surface of the first side plate includes a vent portion. The step of welding includes welding the first vent portion to the second inner surface to form the vented brake rotor, the vented brake rotor having a plurality of vents formed by the first and second inner surfaces and the first vent portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Intellectual Property Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan G. Sarkisian, Dan T. Moore
  • Publication number: 20170189991
    Abstract: A system for and a method of processing a transparent material, such as glass, using an adjustable laser beam line focus are disclosed. The system for processing a transparent material includes a laser source operable to emit a pulsed laser beam, and an optical assembly (6?) disposed within an optical path of the pulsed laser beam. The optical assembly (6?) is configured to transform the pulsed laser beam into a laser beam focal line having an adjustable length and an adjustable diameter. At least a portion of the laser beam focal line is operable to be positioned within a bulk of the transparent material such that the laser beam focal line produces a material modification along the laser beam focal line. Method of laser processing a transparent material by adjusting at least one of the length of the laser beam focal line and the diameter of the laser beam focal line is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Jacques Gollier, Garrett Andrew Piech
  • Publication number: 20170189992
    Abstract: A method includes generating a plurality of pulse bursts with a predetermined quantity of intra-burst pulses in each pulse burst and a temporal spacing between the intra-burst pulses, and with a pulse burst frequency, and scanning the pulse bursts across an anodized target at a scan rate so that the pulse bursts overlap at the anodized target by an amount that is above an overlap damage threshold and the intra-burst pulses provide a peak power and peak fluence that are below an ablation threshold of the anodized target so as to produce a laser mark on the anodized target with an L value of less than or equal to 30 and without a damage to an anodized layer of the anodized target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: nLIGHT, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Dittli, Ken Gross
  • Publication number: 20170189993
    Abstract: A laser-cutting nozzle including a nozzle body including a first axial recess extending axially through the nozzle body, an inlet for supplying assist gas to the first axial recess and a first outlet located at a front surface of the nozzle body, and a moveable element arranged in the first axial recess of the nozzle body is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventor: Philippe LEFEBVFRE
  • Publication number: 20170189994
    Abstract: A method for the gap-free joining of two workpieces is provided. The method comprises the following steps: a. the workpieces to be joined are brought into contact with one another so that a joining point is formed, b. the joining point is geometrically fixed by means of a film, c. the workpieces are joined in a gap-free manner, wherein the step a. and the step b. can be interchanged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Wilfried BEHR, Dietrich FAIDEL
  • Publication number: 20170189995
    Abstract: A method for material deposition includes providing a transparent donor substrate (34) having opposing first and second surfaces and a donor film (36) including a metal formed over the second surface. The donor substrate is positioned in proximity to an acceptor substrate (22), with the second surface facing toward the acceptor substrate, in an atmosphere containing oxygen. Pulses of laser radiation are directed to pass through the first surface of the donor substrate and impinge on the donor film so as to induce ejection from the donor film of droplets (44) of molten material onto the acceptor substrate, forming on the acceptor substrate particles (46) of the metal with an outer layer (54) comprising an oxide of the metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Michael Zenou, Zvi Kotler
  • Publication number: 20170189996
    Abstract: Methods for manufacturing reinforced structural components are described. The methods include providing a previously formed steel structural component having a thickness of 0.7 mm to 5 mm. In a reinforcement zone of the structural component, locally depositing a material on the structural component to create a local reinforcement with a minimum thickness of 0.2 mm, wherein locally depositing a material on the structural component includes supplying a metal powder to the reinforcement zone, and substantially simultaneously applying laser heat to melt the metal powder and create the reinforcement by drawing specific geometric shapes on the structural component with the metal powder and the laser heating. The disclosure further relates to a reinforced component obtained using such methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventor: Michel GARCIA
  • Publication number: 20170189997
    Abstract: A method of removing a coating made of an organic material, in particular an organic lacquer or a polymer coating, which adheres to the surface of tin-plated sheet steel. In a first step, the tin layer of the tin-plated sheet steel is completely or incipiently melted by exposure to electromagnetic radiation with a predefined wavelength, to which the organic coating is at least primarily transparent, with the organic coating becoming detached from tin layer, and in a second step, the organic material of the coating which detached from the tin layer is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP RASSELSTEIN GMBH
    Inventors: Benjamin LIEBSCHER, Andreas TSCHAGE
  • Publication number: 20170189998
    Abstract: The present invention provides a device and method for degating of an aluminum wheel blank by laser cutting, and the device comprises members including a lower lifting frame movable long beam, a middle lifting frame inner side oblique beam, a middle lifting frame pin shaft, a rubber supporting cushion, an upper lifting frame long fixed beam, a middle lifting frame outer side oblique beam, a first stroke limiting frame, a first stroke limiting wheel, a second stroke limiting frame, a second stroke limiting wheel, piston firm retaining rings, frame-shaped guide plates, directional sliding blocks, grating positioning devices, a wheel blank member, a roller way, a lower rack fixed frame, a lower gate taking device fixed frame, a laser cutting head, an eccentric turning wheel, high-temperature-resistant resin clamping gaskets, clamping blocks, rack vertical corner frames, clamping hydraulic cylinder pistons, horizontal clamping hydraulic cylinders, a movable plate and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Fengbao Luo, Ruixiao Zhou, Chuan Dai, Dengyao Li, Xiao Liu
  • Publication number: 20170189999
    Abstract: A method of arresting propagation of an incident crack through a transparent material includes focusing pulsed laser beams into a laser beam focal line directed into the transparent material a series of locations corresponding to a predetermined pattern that is designed to arrest an incident crack that propagates through the transparent material, and generating, with the laser beam focal line (1460), an induced absorption within the transparent material in order to produce a defect (1440) in the transparent material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Dana Craig Bookbinder, Stephan Lvovich Logunov, Albert Roth Nieber, Garrett Andrew Piech, Pushkar Tandon, Sergio Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20170190000
    Abstract: A method for scribing transparent materials uses ultrashort laser pulses to create multiple scribe features with a single pass of the laser beam across the material, with at least one of the scribe features being formed below the surface of the material. This enables clean breaking of transparent materials at a higher speed than conventional techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: IMRA AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: James BOVATSEK, Alan Y. ARAI, Fumiyo YOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20170190001
    Abstract: An enclosure for a laser in which on side of the enclosure includes a rotatable positioner and a vertically slidable door movable between open and closed positions. With the door in the open position, the positioner is free to rotate, thereby enabling an workstation to rotate into and out of the enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Brown, William R. Giese, Erik Miller
  • Publication number: 20170190002
    Abstract: To provide a wire bonding method and a wire bonding device capable of stably forming a free air ball having a large ball diameter while suppressing oxidation of the free air ball, in addition to supply of an oxidation prevention gas from gas supply means (10) into an insertion portion (32), an oxidation prevention gas is supplied from a gas supply nozzle (40), which is arranged outside the insertion portion (32), so as to cover an inlet of the insertion portion (32). Under a state in which a leading end of a wire (74) is positioned inside the insertion portion (32), and in which a leading end of a capillary (3) is positioned outside the insertion portion (32), spark discharge is generated. With this, a free air ball (75) having a large ball diameter can be formed while suppressing oxidation of the free air ball (75) and stabilizing the free air ball (75).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Hikaru YOSHIDA, Mizuho SHIROTO
  • Publication number: 20170190003
    Abstract: Features herein relate to an electric arc welding method for creating a multi-pass welded joint comprising the following steps: a first stand-alone toe weld on a first construction element, then, arranging the first construction element and a second construction element in a joining position, with a distance being present between the first stand-alone toe weld and a root area of the welded joint to be created, while maintaining the joining position, making a first weld connection between the first construction element and the second construction element by applying a root pass at the root area, then, applying one or more filling beads, wherein the first stand-alone toe weld, the root pass and the one or more filling beads together form part of the welded joint, wherein the first stand-alone toe weld forms the toe of said welded joint at the side of the first construction element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Philippe Octave Thibaux, Eric Rene Leontine Van Pottelberg, Christopher Hendrikus Johannes Gerritsen