Patents Issued in July 18, 2017
  • Patent number: 9707604
    Abstract: A soil remediation unit that changes the use and purpose of certain commercially available aggregate mixing devices and or pug mills for removing unwanted contaminants from a quantity of contaminated soil aggregate or substrate which includes a canopy and a burner tube attached to the canopy. The burner tube includes an upper securing element and a lower adjustment element. The soil remediation unit also includes a burner supported in a desired position within the burner tube by the upper securing element and the lower adjustment element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Inventor: Tom Lee Maleck
  • Patent number: 9707605
    Abstract: An oil in water lubricant fluid for use in steel cold rolling, comprising an oil in water emulsion having a particle size of 1 ?m or less, consisting of an oil phase and water, where the oil phase includes about 5 wt % to about 40 wt % of at least one polymeric surfactant, about 25 wt % to about 95 wt % base oil, about 0.2 wt % to about 10 wt % extreme pressure lubrication additives, and about 0.5 wt % to about 6 wt % other functional additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: QUAKER CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tao Zhu, Pieter Schellingerhout, Yuming Zhang, Jiangbo Ma
  • Patent number: 9707606
    Abstract: An extrusion press machine includes an end platen, a die, a container, container cylinders which move the container back and forth, a stem that pushes a billet in the container, and a main cylinder at the front end of the stem is provided and by which the stem can freely slide front and back, the extrusion press machine further including a plurality of hydraulic valves that supply hydraulic oil in the main cylinder to the container cylinders and which operate before the stem and the container retract in movement when discharging compressed air in the container after upset of the billet and further including a hydraulic valve that discharges hydraulic oil in the main cylinder into a tank, the hydraulic valves connected by a hydraulic pipeline, and the main cylinder and the container cylinders being able to be connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Ube Machinery Corporation
    Inventors: Takeharu Yamamoto, Yukio Emoto
  • Patent number: 9707607
    Abstract: Disclosed is an impact extrusion can making system that uses induction heating to preheat an extruder punch and an extruder forming die, to increase yield during a cold start. In addition, a highly precise laser measuring device is used to measure dome thickness, so that stroke length and/or position of an extruder and/or extrusion die can be automatically adjusted in a predictive control system. High quality products with high yield are produced using these techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Integrated Packaging Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Michael W. Calahan, Kevin M. Gillest
  • Patent number: 9707608
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for bending a workpiece (1) of sheet metal, whereby a deformation region (6), in particular a strip-shaped region, on the workpiece (1) containing the bent edge to be produced (5) is heated before and/or during the bending process to a deforming temperature below the fusion temperature of the metal to increase deformability locally. In order to reduce undesirable deformation due to shrinkage stress, the workpiece (1) is heated before and/or during and/or after the bending operation in at least one heating zone (11) that is different from the deformation region (6) by means of the application of energy from outside the workpiece (1) starting from an initial temperature to a processing temperature below the fusion temperature of the metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: TRUMPF Maschinen Austria GmbH & Co. KG.
    Inventor: Gerhard Sperrer
  • Patent number: 9707609
    Abstract: A mechanism for use in adjusting the position of components in a machine including an elongate shaft assembly, at least one projection shaft extending in a direction transverse to said elongate shaft assembly, and a support frame. The elongate shaft assembly includes at least one primary shaft segment, and at least one secondary shaft segment removably coupled to the primary shaft segment, the secondary shaft segment includes a first gear. The projection shaft extends in a direction transverse to the elongate shaft assembly and includes a second gear element disposed on its proximal end portion. The second gear element is coupled to the first gear element whereby rotation of the elongate shaft assembly translates into rotation of the projection shaft. The projection shaft is capable of being coupled to the components such that rotation of the projection shaft operates to adjust the position of the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Mazzella Holding Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald W. Schell, Jeffrey A. Fry, Adam J. Binderup, John W. DeBerard
  • Patent number: 9707610
    Abstract: A pipe bend die unit includes a bend die that comprises a clamp member and a counter pressure member, wherein the clamp member has a first groove part of half-circular cross section and a fitting recess extending in a peripheral direction by a first predetermined length on a planar surface perpendicular to a rotary axis. A fitting protrusion of the counter pressure member is positioned in the fitting recess to form a pipe-receiving groove of half-circular cross section, so that the counter pressure member and the clamp member are hingedly connected to one another about the rotary axis so as to be rotated relative to each other. The fitting recess possesses width expanding end face areas, where a clearance between opposing end faces is enlarged in a predetermined distance range including at least a radially outer end portion, from the rotary axis toward a radial outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: SANGO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kentaro Nozu
  • Patent number: 9707611
    Abstract: An apparatus for bending elongated members having different horizontal cross-sectional radiuses (e.g., different sizes of rebar) includes an extension portion, a first vise, and a second vise. The extension portion has a proximal region, a distal region, and a first aperture through the proximal region. The first vise has an aperture through the first vise. The second vise has a recessed region. The first aperture is sized to allow the extension portion to mount onto a vehicle hitch. The first vise and the second vise are located distally from the distal region of the extension portion. The aperture of the first vise is sized to accommodate an first elongated member having a horizontal cross-sectional radius (e.g., a first size of rebar). The recessed region of the second vise is sized to accommodate an second elongated member having a horizontal cross-sectional radius (e.g., a second size of rebar different from the first size of rebar).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Inventor: Craig Geoffrey Beal
  • Patent number: 9707612
    Abstract: There are provided a die cushion force control method and a die cushion device that can improve response delay of die cushion force without changing die cushion waiting position upward. In the die cushion force control method, a servo motor is driven according to a die cushion force command B previously set and the die cushion force is generated on the cushion pad. The die cushion force control method includes a step of allowing the cushion pad to wait in a predetermined die cushion waiting position at which a die cushion force action will start, and a preliminary pressurization step of outputting the die cushion force command B and preliminary applying pressure to the cushion pad before a slide of a press machine reaches the die cushion waiting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: AIDA ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Kohno
  • Patent number: 9707613
    Abstract: A device and a method for shaping sheared edges on stamped or fine-blanked parts having a burr include at least one cutting stage and at least one forming stage. The forming stage includes a shaping punch which has a shaping region for smoothing the sheared edge of the outer or inner contour of the workpiece to the net shape and an embossing shoulder for mashing the burr of the outer or inner contour. The shaping punch is configured so that the shaping region initially bends the burr on the outer or inner contour away from the sheared edge, then seizes the sheared edge for widening, wherein the embossing shoulder of the shaping punch mashes the burr on the outer or inner contour when the widening on the workpiece has ended and flattens the embossing bead, created during mashing, during separating of the shaping punch from the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Feintool International Holding Holding AG
    Inventor: Andreas Marti
  • Patent number: 9707614
    Abstract: Through a tube expanding processing simulation, a workpiece shape in a state where a tip of a workpiece 10 has advanced by 1.0 m or more after passing through a shoulder portion 3 of a tool 1 is evaluated. A hollow piece shape and a tool shape such that the external diameter is within ±1% of the target, the thickness is within ±7.5% of the target, and the internal gap between the hollow piece and the tool is 1.0 mm or less are obtained by repeated calculation, and thereby actual tube expanding manufacturing conditions are determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuro Katsumura, Noritsugu Itakura, Seiichiro Nambu, Kazutoshi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9707615
    Abstract: A shaped metal container having less metal than prior art shaped metal containers while still able to handle sufficient axial load and undergo shaping processes, including necking, without wrinkling, buckling, collapsing or other physical defect is disclosed. Processes for shaping a metal container having a sidewall of variable thickness, wherein a portion of the sidewall having a variable thickness is shaped using a die or dies are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Alcoa USA Corp.
    Inventors: Robert E. Dick, Anthony J. Fedusa, Gary L. Myers
  • Patent number: 9707616
    Abstract: A form rolling apparatus for applying in-feed form rolling to a rod-shaped material includes a support portion configured to support the rod-shaped material to be axially rotatable, a round die formed with die teeth on an outer periphery thereof, the die teeth configured to be positioned facing an outer periphery surface of the rod-shaped material, and a moving device moving the round die so that a distance of axes of the round die and the rod-shaped material changes. The die teeth includes forming die teeth for generating gear teeth on the outer periphery surface of the rod-shaped material and finishing die teeth enhancing a tooth surface precision of the generated gear teeth by engaging with the generated gear tooth and rotating. The finishing die teeth are formed in a configuration each having an addendum that does not come to contact a bottom land of the generated gear teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Eiri Nagata
  • Patent number: 9707617
    Abstract: While a compression part (B1) in a bottom wall part of a cup-shaped workpiece (B) is compressed by an inner punch (11) and an inner die (14) and moved in a direction to get away from an intermediate die (15), the inner die (14) is pushed toward the inner punch (11); and a compression part (B2) being an outer end portion in a radial direction of the workpiece (B) is compressed by an outer punch (13) and an outer die (16) and moved in an direction to approach the intermediate die (15), to thereby suppress the workpiece (B) in the compression part (B2) from material-flowing in a direction to get away from a central axis (10), whereby thickness reduction processing of the compression part (B1) and thickness increase processing of a vertical wall part (B3) of the workpiece (B) sandwiched by an intermediate punch (12) and the inner die (15) and a vertical wall part (B4) of the workpiece (B) sandwiched by the intermediate punch (12) and an outer die (16) are performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuharu Yamagata, Shuji Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Wada
  • Patent number: 9707618
    Abstract: In a forming apparatus, journal dies hold and retain rough journal portions of a preform blank therebetween, and reference crank pin die and movable crank pin dies contact rough crank pin portions thereof. In this state, the journal dies and the movable crank pin dies are moved axially toward the reference crank pin die and the reference crank pin die and the movable crank pin dies are moved perpendicular to an axial direction. With this, rough crank arm portions are axially compressed to reduce their thickness to that of crank arms of a forged crankshaft, and the rough crank pin portions are pressed perpendicular to the axial direction to increase an amount of eccentricity to that of the forged crankshaft crank pins. Consequently, it is possible to form a blank for finish forging having a shape generally in agreement with a shape of the forged crankshaft for a three-cylinder engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Okubo, Kenji Tamura, Kunihiro Yoshida, Tomihiko Fukuyasu, Nobutaka Tanimoto, Tadashi Matsui
  • Patent number: 9707619
    Abstract: A squeeze pin circuit is installed to a direction switching valve. The direction switching valve is configured to switch a direction of hydraulic pressure to a core cylinder. The squeeze pin circuit is configured to drive a squeeze pin. The squeeze pin is configured to partially pressurize molten metal filled in a cavity. The squeeze pin circuit includes a squeeze pin cylinder and a flow rate adjusting unit. The squeeze pin cylinder is coupled to the direction switching valve to drive the squeeze pin. The flow rate adjusting unit is installed on a hydraulic pressure path. The hydraulic pressure path couples the direction switching valve to a head side of the squeeze pin cylinder. The flow rate adjusting unit is configured to ensure pressure compensation and temperature compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihiro Iwamoto, Fumihiro Sakuma, Tetsuya Uehara
  • Patent number: 9707620
    Abstract: The present invention provides a side-mold water spot-cooling device for cooling a casting mold, a manufacturing method thereof and a method for cooling a casting mold by the device. The technical solution of the present invention has the following technical effects: an open-type backwater structure is employed, not only eliminating the back pressure from the backwater process without adding the supercharging equipment, but also reducing the investment costs of the equipment; reducing requirements for the sealing elements, thereby reducing costs for fittings; greatly reducing use of the joints and reducing the manufacturing, maintenance difficulty and costs of the mold; and the structure is substantially the same as that of the air-cooled mold and is easy for promotion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: CITIC Dicastal CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lin Zhu, Changhai Li, Hongbiao Li, Fengyi Chang, Yongning Wang, Zhihua Zhu
  • Patent number: 9707621
    Abstract: A system for metal powder atomization comprising a refractory lined melting furnace (1) configured to melt metal into a liquid metal bath (6), in which furnace (1) a drain (3) is arranged for draining liquid metal from the bottom of the furnace. The drain (3) is configured to be closed by a stopping member. The system comprises an atomization chamber (2) configured to receive and atomize liquid metal from the melting furnace (1). The system also comprises removal means controllable from the bottom region of the furnace (1) for removing the stopping member without interfering with the surface of the liquid metal bath (6). The removal means and the stopping member are configured such that the stopping member is removable independently of the temperature of the liquid metal bath (6) using the removal means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Erasteel Klister AB
    Inventors: Peter Vikner, Patrik Lönnberg
  • Patent number: 9707622
    Abstract: There is provided a selective laser sintering method capable of reducing the bulge of the peripheral portion corresponding to the periphery of the three-dimensional shaped object. The manufacturing method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes alternate repetition of a powder-layer forming and a solidified-layer forming, the repetition comprising: (i) forming a solidified layer by irradiating a predetermined portion of a powder layer with a light beam, thereby sintering the powder in the predetermined portion or a melting and subsequently solidifying the powder; and (ii) forming another solidified layer by newly forming a powder layer on the formed solidified layer, followed by irradiation of a predetermined portion of the newly formed powder layer with the light beam, wherein a scanning of the light irradiation is divided into light beam-scannings “A” and “B”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masataka Takenami, Satoshi Abe, Isamu Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 9707623
    Abstract: A multiphase composite system is made by binding hard particles, such as TiC particles, of various sizes with a mixture of titanium powder and aluminum, nickel, and titanium in a master alloy or as elemental materials to produce a composite system that has advantageous energy absorbing characteristics. The multiple phases of this composite system include an aggregate phase of hard particles bound with a matrix phase. The matrix phase has at least two phases with varying amounts of aluminum, nickel, and titanium. The matrix phase forms a bond with the hard particles and has varying degrees of hard and ductile phases. The composite system may be used alone or bonded to other materials such as bodies of titanium or ceramic in the manufacture of ballistic armor tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Inventor: Robert G. Lee
  • Patent number: 9707624
    Abstract: Provided is a method of synthesizing silver nanoparticles including: a) a nucleation step of reacting a composition containing a silver precursor, a heterogeneous metal precursor, and an amine-based compound at 30 to 120° C. to form a nucleus; and b) a growth step of reacting the composition containing the nucleus formed therein at 155 to 350° C. to grow the nucleus. According to the present invention, significantly uniform and fine silver nanoparticles may be synthesized with high reproducibility on a large scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA BASIC SCIENCE INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Gaehang Lee, Yeon Suk Choi
  • Patent number: 9707625
    Abstract: A cutting insert according to one aspect of the present invention includes a polygonal columnar shape, and includes an upper surface, a lower surface and a side surface located between the upper surface and the lower surface, and a cutting edge is formed at an intersecting portion between the upper surface and the side surface, the upper surface includes a main portion of a convex shape including a flat upper end surface, a first projecting portion which projects from the main portion to a corner portion of the upper surface, and a pair of second projecting portions which each project from the first projecting portion to a periphery of the upper surface to interpose a region between a front end of the first projecting portion and the corner portion, and each of upper ends of the pair of second projecting portions is spaced part from the first projecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chie Onodera
  • Patent number: 9707626
    Abstract: A hole saw assembly is revealed. The hole saw assembly is a hole saw with a quick change drill rod. The hole saw assembly includes a quick release device and the drill rod, both arranged at the hole saw. The drill rod is inserted through the quick release device and the quick release device is for fastening and releasing a drill head of the drill rod. Thereby the drill rod is fitted over the quick release device and users can fasten and release the drill rod quickly. Users can also quickly mount a shank of the drill rod quickly into the hole saw. The drill rod is fast slid out of the quick release device for replacement of a new drill rod. Then the shank is locked on the hole saw so that the shank and the hole saw can rotate synchronously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: ROTE MATE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ying-Tsung Lai
  • Patent number: 9707627
    Abstract: A radius end mill includes a corner R cutting edge which extends between the end cutting edge and the outer peripheral cutting edge; and a corner gash disposed adjacent to the corner R cutting edge of the rake face, wherein the corner gash in a planar shape has an edge, part of which is located at the center portion of the corner R cutting edge, and an axial rake at an end portion on the side of the end cutting edge which is in contact with the corner gash on the corner R cutting edge is in the range of 5 to 20 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Tsutomu Yamayose
  • Patent number: 9707628
    Abstract: Even if chips enter a gap between a flank face and a surface to be worked, the defect of the flank face or a cutting edge is suppressed by the control of the flow of the chips. A plurality of cutting edges, which are undulated in wave forms in a direction of an axis, are formed on an outer periphery of a front end portion of an end mill body rotating about the axis so that phases of the wave forms are displaced from each other in a path of rotation about the axis; flank faces of the cutting edges are covered with a coating film; and rough surface regions and smooth surface regions are alternately formed on the surface of at least portions of the coating film, which are close to the cutting edges, in the direction of the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi Ota, Genki Matsumoto, Koji Fukata
  • Patent number: 9707629
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a portion made of a high hardness material. The portion includes a rake face, a flank face, and a cutting edge. The rake face is divided into a region A along the cutting edge and a region B excluding the region A of the rake face, a surface roughness of the region A is smaller than a surface roughness of the region B, and the region B is deepened with respect to a position of the region A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Yano, Yoshinori Tanigawa, Yoshikazu Yamashita, Hiroyuki Shimada, Kazuo Nakamae
  • Patent number: 9707630
    Abstract: A milling apparatus has a housing, a drive shaft extending along and rotatable about an axis in the housing and an axially compressible and radially expansible washer stack on the front end of the drive shaft. A tool is held by the on the shaft. A bolt projects radially in a slot through the shaft and is limitedly axially displaceable in the shaft. An actuator element shiftable axially in the passage projects axially forward out of the drive shaft and is fixed in the bolt. A clamping assembly axially compresses and radially expands the stack so as to lock the tool to the drive shaft. A spring assembly is braced axially forward against the housing and axially rearward against the bolt. A piston axially displaceable on the drive shaft in the housing bears axially forward on the bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: PUTSCH GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Michele Lodico
  • Patent number: 9707631
    Abstract: A hand-held cutting tool to remove a metal fitting ring from the outside surface of plastic tubing. The fitting removal tool comprises a first handle, a second handle, a bridge member, and a cutting blade. The first handle is pivotally connected to a first end of the bridge member by a pivot. The second handle is securely connected to a second end of the bridge member in fixed relation to the bridge member. The bridge member comprises a seat for snugly receiving the outer diameter of the metal fitting ring. The first handle comprises a hand gripping area and a cutting blade positioned between the hand gripping area and the pivot. The cutting blade is configured to make an off center cut in the metal fitting ring such that the underlying plastic tubing is not damaged in the cutting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Inventor: Ed Nixon
  • Patent number: 9707632
    Abstract: A tool for the turning/turn broaching of workpieces is provided, including a carrier which can be attached directly or indirectly to a machine tool with a plurality of segments which are fastened to the carrier. Each of the segments is provided with a plurality of tool bits. In addition, each of the segments is attached to the carrier by at least two fastening elements, which act obliquely to a plane (E) lying perpendicular to the rotational axis (R) of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Markus Heinloth, Günter Sponsel, Jan Grünler, Sebastian Föttinger
  • Patent number: 9707633
    Abstract: A miter saw includes a base, a table disposed on the base and having a top surface extending between a front end and a rear end of the table, a cutting assembly overlying the table, the cutting assembly including a rotatable cutting blade having a peripheral cutting edge, and a motor for driving the cutting blade. The miter saw has at least one guide rail interconnecting the table and the cutting assembly for guiding sliding movement of the cutting assembly over the table between a rear-most position and a forward-most position. A locking assembly is coupled with the cutting assembly for locking the cutting assembly in only one position between the rear-most position and the forward-most position. During a cutting operation, the locking assembly remains coupled with the cutting assembly while the cutting blade moves downwardly for preventing sliding movement of the cutting assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin S. Agan, Daryl S. Meredith
  • Patent number: 9707634
    Abstract: A hacksaw blade has a blade body that includes a cutting edge. One cutting-edge section is embodied in a concavely curved manner and at least one further cutting-edge section is embodied in a non-concave manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Grolimund, Wilfried Kern, Martin Kocher
  • Patent number: 9707635
    Abstract: A method for slicing a workpiece into wafers by imparting axial reciprocating motion to a wire wound around a plurality of grooved rollers, and moving the workpiece relatively downwardly to press the workpiece against the reciprocating wire and feed the workpiece with the workpiece cut into while supplying a slurry to the wire, the method including the steps of: configuring each of the grooved rollers such that a distance from a bottom of grooves of the grooved roller to a rotating shaft of the grooved roller decreases gradually from a wire-supply side toward a wire-collection side; slicing the workpiece in such a manner that the workpiece is pressed against the wire on the wire-supply side before the workpiece is pressed against the wire on the wire-collection side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU HANDOTAI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukio Itoi
  • Patent number: 9707636
    Abstract: A wire electrical discharge machining apparatus includes: multiple main rollers around which a wire winds in parallel; multiple workpiece feeding units for feeding the workpiece toward the wire; a machining power supply unit for supplying a machining voltage to the workpiece; and a power supply terminal for supplying the machining voltage to the wire. The multiple workpiece feeding units are respectively arranged at a first position for feeding the workpiece toward a wire portion having a wire plane of the wire and a second position for feeding another workpiece toward another wire portion having another wire plane of the wire. The power supply terminal is arranged at a third position between the first position and the second position. The machining voltage supplied from the single machining power supply unit is supplied to the workpieces to be electrically discharge machined by the multiple workpiece feeding units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignees: CANON MARKETING JAPAN KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA MAKINO KURAISU SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Haruya Kurihara
  • Patent number: 9707637
    Abstract: A method for electrical discharge machining a workpiece includes the steps of: presenting an elongate electrode to the workpiece with a spark gap therebetween; flowing a dielectric fluid in the gap; eroding the workpiece by electrical discharge between the tip of the electrode and the workpiece; displacing the electrode in a direction aligned with the long axis of the electrode to maintain the gap as the electrode wears and the workpiece is eroded; and simultaneously with the displacement, producing vibratory movement of the electrode, the vibratory movement being aligned with the long axis of the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Fabio Nogueira Leao, Alexander Xidacis, Martyn Cuttell
  • Patent number: 9707638
    Abstract: A wire electric-discharge machining device includes a control unit that selects a cutting wire to which a pulse voltage is applied by a pulse-voltage generation unit on a basis of an angle formed between an end face of a workpiece and a plane including a plurality of cutting wires, which are not parallel to the end face, an interval between parallel cutting wires, and a relative distance between the cutting wires and the workpiece. A drive unit drives a workpiece in a direction not vertical to the plane including the cutting wires, and the workpiece is cut by electric-discharge machining by applying a pulse voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Itokazu, Hidetaka Miyake
  • Patent number: 9707639
    Abstract: A rotary cutter includes a pair of recessed receivers which receive the respective tip ends of a pair of electrode tips, and a through portion which runs through in a rotation axis direction and provides an opening that communicates with each of the recessed receivers. A cover case covers the lower recessed receiver of the rotary cutter and has a notch which is associated with the lower recessed receiver. Over the upper recessed receiver of the rotary cutter, a cover plate is fixed to cover the upper recessed receiver. An electrode tip insertion hole is cut through a center portion of the cover plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Kyokutoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kotaro Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9707640
    Abstract: A vibration dampening device for the manufacture by rotational friction welding of a turbomachine rotor including a first disc and a second disc each having a hub with an internal surface is provided. The device includes a first clamping device configured to be positioned coaxially to the hub of the first disc and having a pair of radially opposite jaws suited to come into contact with the internal surface of the hub of the first disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Bour
  • Patent number: 9707641
    Abstract: Optical elements with small increments in average density are formed in a substrate by laser micromachining using a variable aperture and a pattern mask set of pattern masks each having of shape-defining elements whose density differs among the pattern masks in first density increments. A laser light beam passes through a combined mask formed by the variable aperture and one pattern mask selected from the pattern mask set. The variable aperture controls beam size and the pattern mask spatially modulates its intensity. A focusing element focuses light from the combined mask on a small averaging region of the substrate. Different combinations of the size of the aperture mask and the selected pattern mask are used in combination at respective averaging regions of the substrate. The resulting average densities of the optical elements vary among the averaging regions in increments that are small compared to the first density increments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Rambus Delaware LLC
    Inventors: Timothy A McCollum, Fumitomo Hide, Ian Hardcastle
  • Patent number: 9707642
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a solder composition comprising a metal or a metal alloy; and an electrically conductive high temperature polymeric composition; where the electrically conductive high temperature polymeric composition is dispersed homogeneously in the metal; and where the electrically conductive high temperature polymeric composition has a higher glass transition temperature or a melting point than the flow temperature of the metal or metal alloy. Disclosed herein too is a method comprising mixing an electrically conductive high temperature polymeric composition with a metal or a metal alloy to form the solder composition; where the electrically conductive high temperature polymeric composition is dispersed homogeneously in the metal; and where the electrically conductive high temperature polymeric composition has a higher glass transition temperature or a melting point than the flow temperature of the metal or metal alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: David Peter Gerrard, Sayantan Roy
  • Patent number: 9707643
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to welding and, more specifically, to welding wires for arc welding, such as Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) or Flux Core Arc Welding (FCAW). In one embodiment, a tubular welding wire includes a sheath and a core. Further, the core includes a carbon source and an agglomerate having a Group I or Group II compound, silicon dioxide, and titanium dioxide. Additionally, the carbon source and the agglomerate together comprise less than 10% of the core by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: HOBART BROTHERS COMPANY
    Inventors: Steven Edward Barhorst, Mario Anthony Amata
  • Patent number: 9707644
    Abstract: A method is provided for connecting a first component to a second component. The two components are placed against each other and pre-fixed, wherein the two components are attached and immovably connected to each other at at least one first connection point via a first detachable component connection and are attached and connected to each other so as to be movable relative to each other in a sliding direction at at least one second connection point via a second detachable component connection. The pre-fixed components are rigidly connected, in particular, by welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Maik Hammer, Johann van Niekerk, Thomas Herzinger
  • Patent number: 9707645
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the disclosure may include systems, methods, and apparatus for locating and drilling closed holes of a gas turbine component. According to an example embodiment, the method can include receiving position data associated with one or more holes in a gas turbine component; receiving predefined hole position data from manufacturing data associated with the gas turbine component; determining at least one missing hole, based at least in part on comparing the received position data to the predefined hole position data; and drilling at least one hole in the gas turbine component corresponding to the determined at least one missing hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Yusuf Eren Ozturk, Selami Haydar Icli
  • Patent number: 9707646
    Abstract: A method for semi-automatically reconditioning a railcar articulated connector that comprises a male portion including a parent casting material is provided. The method comprises applying weld material to a male portion of an articulated connector, mounting a housing mounting a housing defining an interior space to the male portion, the male connector within the interior space, centering and stabilizing the fixture laterally on the male portion, inserting a clamping mechanism attached to the housing within an opening of the male connector to affix the housing to the male portion, securing the clamping mechanism to a surface of the male portion, and automatically machining at least a portion of the weld and/or parent casting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: TTX Company
    Inventors: Richard A. Brueckert, William A. Guess, Donald F. Kroesch
  • Patent number: 9707647
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for cooling an object that was previously subjected to a heat application, generally a multi-piece composite, particularly in the form of a shrink-fit chuck into which the shank of a tool was chucked or from which it was removed (cooling device), wherein the device comprises a pump, by way of which it generates a carrier gas flow, particularly an air flow, which is charged with a liquid cooling medium, particularly water, so that a coolant flow, the majority of the volume of which consists of the carrier gas, is created, which then spreads over at least the section of the object to be cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Franz Haimer Maschinenbau KG
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Patent number: 9707648
    Abstract: A part assembling apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The part assembling apparatus for a vehicle that assembles constituent elements in a part that is transferred using a part transfer line to be received by a jig and that automatically assembles the part by selectively mounting various applications that test the part of which assembly is complete includes: a base frame and a mounting plate. The base frame is installed at a work place to correspond to the jig. The mounting plate is mounted to slidably move upward and downward at a front side of the base frame and configured to mount various applications to be used upon assembling and testing the part at a front surface. In addition, at least one operation cylinder is mounted to the base frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Dong-ho Kwak, Suyoung Kim, Se-hoon Ham, Yongtae Kim
  • Patent number: 9707649
    Abstract: In a thread grinder which grinds a thread grove on an inner surface of a workpiece while a rotation axis of a grinding wheel shaft is inclined with respect to an axis of a main shaft, a centering master which has a cylindrical outer surface is mounted to the main shaft. A measuring unit including two measuring instruments such that probes can contact two edges of a grinding wheel is mounted to the centering master. The origins of the measuring instruments are set by the probes contacting the cylindrical outer surface of the centering master. The measuring unit is moved in the axial direction of the centering master to bring the probes of the two measuring instruments into contact with the edges of the grinding wheel, respectively. The position of the grinding wheel shaft is adjusted such that measured values obtained by measuring instruments become same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Igarashi
  • Patent number: 9707650
    Abstract: A workpiece accommodation device for purposes of accommodating a workpiece and for use in a device for the machining of a workpiece with: a tool mounting for purposes of accommodating the tool, a workpiece accommodation device for purposes of accommodating the workpiece, characterized in that during the machining process at least one first oscillation component can be introduced in a Z-direction, and an, in particular simultaneous, second oscillation component can be introduced in an X- and/or Y-direction by means of oscillation components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: EV GROUP E. THALLNER GMBH
    Inventor: Herbert Tiefenbock
  • Patent number: 9707651
    Abstract: A workpiece change for use in a machine tool that comprises a tool spindle for clamping tools for machining workpieces, comprises two wheels arranged parallel to one another and rotatable about an axis of rotation into at least two prominent angular positions. Two swivel tables for clamping workpieces are arranged between the wheels and are each mounted on the wheels to swivel about a swivel axis which runs parallel to the axis of rotation. In each prominent angular position, one of the swivel tables is located in its working position in which clamped workpieces can be machined with the tools. Both wheels are supported at their rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: CHIRON-WERKE GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dirk Prust, Michael Eble
  • Patent number: 9707652
    Abstract: A machine tool for processing plate-like workpieces, in particular metal sheets, has a machine frame with a lower frame arm, an upper frame arm and a frame compartment or throat defined between the upper and lower arms. A first tool magazine, close to the station, has storage places for processing tools is arranged at least partially within the frame compartment. The processing tools, such as punch/die sets, can be interchanged at a processing station of the machine tool. By means of a tool transfer device, processing tools can be transferred between the first tool and a second tool magazine, remote from the station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Marc Klinkhammer, Stefan Kerscher
  • Patent number: 9707653
    Abstract: A automatic tool changer of a machine tool including a magazine driving motor configured to turn a tool magazine has the magazine driving motor fixed to a non-movable unit of the machine tool and when the tool magazine rotationally moves to reach an approaching position to a spindle head, a tool magazine side power transmission unit and a magazine driving motor side power transmission unit are connected to perform a turning operation of the tool magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gaku Isobe, Masahiro Murota, Naoki Sato