Patents Issued in July 27, 2017
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Publication number: 20170209880Abstract: A texture sprayer comprises an air compressor, a motor, a spray gun, an airflow switch, and a pressure switch. The air compressor is disposed to send the pressurized gas down a pneumatic line, and is driven by the motor. The spray gun receives pressurized gas from the pneumatic line, and expels the gas when actuated. The airflow and pressure switches are both disposed on the pneumatic line. The airflow switch is situated between the spray gun and the air reservoir, and powers the motor when gas flows through the airflow switch. The pressure switch powers the motor whenever pressure within the pneumatic line falls below a threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Max Carideo, Steven D. Becker, August F. Legatt, Mark D. Shultz
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Publication number: 20170209881Abstract: An outlet valve for a dispensing nozzle comprising a first valve component constructed and arranged to be received by the dispensing nozzle and a second valve component constructed and arranged to cooperate with the first valve component. The first valve component and the second valve component define a normally-closed flow interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventor: Simon Christopher Knight
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Publication number: 20170209882Abstract: Example embodiments relate to a power-driven, digitally metered dispenser where cylindrical piston driven jar dispensers of varying diameters are used for transferring repeatable and specific amounts of flowable composition into smaller containers, like HRTicker® dispensers, applicators, pumps, syringes, and jars. Dosing is accomplished by dialing the desired dosage and the pressing of a push-button to dispense. The various example embodiments consist of a motor powered threaded plunger that travels in the vertical axis in accordance with a predetermined and programmed linear displacement. The end user dials the desired dispensation into the computers program via a main control dial.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Ramiro M. PEREZ, Maryam AMIRI
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Publication number: 20170209883Abstract: A trigger-type pump dispenser includes a housing 11 with a front cylinder part 11A and a rear inverted-L-shaped grip part 11B integrally formed, a nozzle base 12 attached to the housing 11 and having a front nozzle part 11C mounted thereon, a piston structure configured of a hollow-shaped piston 15 and a hollow-shaped piston shaft 16 and sliding inside the cylinder part, a spring 17 which presses the piston structure 14 upward, a trigger 13 positioned above the housing 11, having a front tip rotatably mounted on the housing 11, and having a mid part where a tip of the hollow-shaped piston shaft 16 abuts, and a valve rod 18 disposed at a center part of the cylinder part 11A.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Tetsuya TADA, Mitsuaki SHADUKI
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Publication number: 20170209884Abstract: Examples of an apparatus and method are disclosed herein. In an example of the method, the performance of an ejection device that dispenses a composition is measured, information representative of the measured performance of the ejection device is generated, and the information representative of the measured performance of the ejection device is recorded so that the information is visually perceptible.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2014Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: James Michael Gardner, Eric T Martin
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Publication number: 20170209885Abstract: A wall-drawing hovering device (WDHD) is provided. The WDHD comprises an unmanned helicopter configured and operable for flying and hovering while being disconnected from ground. The WDHD further comprises a mobilizing system comprising at least one motorized wheel. The mobilizing system is physically associated and carried with the unmanned helicopter and configured to drive the WDHD along a vertical surface when the WDHD hovers above ground. The WDHD further comprises a drawing system comprising a paint releasing member connected with a paint reservoir. The drawing system is carried with the unmanned helicopter and configured to controllably release paint from the paint reservoir through the paint releasing member. The WDHD is thereby configured to hover above ground next to a vertical surface such as a wall, so that the mobilizing system frictionally attaches to the vertical surface thereby enabling driving the WDHD along the vertical surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventor: ROI NEUSTADT
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Publication number: 20170209886Abstract: A powder coating apparatus for attaching powder to a film includes a forwarding roll which forwards the film; a take-up roll which is arranged on the downstream side of a conveyance direction of the film with respect to the forwarding roll and which takes up the film; a film-forming nozzle which is arranged between the forwarding roll and the take-up roll in the conveyance direction so as to be opposed to the film and which jets the powder; a first casing or a second casing which accommodates the forwarding roll and the take-up roll; an apparatus casing which accommodates the film-forming nozzle, the first casing, and the second casing; and a pressure adjustment unit configured to set an internal pressure of the first casing and the second casing to be higher than an internal pressure of the apparatus casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Daniel POPOVICI, Keita MINE, Shusaku SHIBATA, Toshitaka NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20170209887Abstract: A wet powder manufacturing apparatus includes a housing being arranged such that a central axis CL of the cylindrical inner surface extends in a substantially horizontal direction, a plurality of stirring blades provided rotatably about the central axis CL, a rotary plate configured to rotate the stirring blades about the central axis CL such that the wet powder accumulated at the bottom of the cylindrical inner surface is scooped by the stirring blades and then dropped, a driving device configured to impart a rotary force to the rotary plate, a liquid diffusing device configured to diffuse liquid into the drum inner space so as to wet the powder, and a controller configured to control operations of the driving device and the liquid diffusing device. The controller includes control for vibrating the stirring blades.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takenori IKEDA, Takeyuki OZAKI
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Publication number: 20170209888Abstract: This invention is a sturdy door rack that can easily be disassembled for shipping and storage and reassembled for use. It comprises stackable blocks that fit over each other in Leggo™ fashion to form supporting columnar stacks each stack supported by a base plate. Each block is configured on its top surface with a groove having a rectangular cross section. A cylindrical anchor inserted inside each groove is screwed into the edge of a door, thereby supporting the door. The rack can be configured with four stacks, thereby supporting the door at four points. The rack can also be configured with two stacks, thereby supporting the door at two points, thereby allowing the door to be easily rotated around an axis defined by these two points. Anchors located between two blocks in a stack are held firmly in place by the blocks, thereby achieving greater mechanical strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2016Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventor: Jake B. Schaerer
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Publication number: 20170209889Abstract: An apparatus and associated methods for an automated pipe doping apparatus. The apparatus may include a pump fluidly coupled to a reservoir and a dope manifold, the pump positioned to pump pipe dope from the reservoir to the dope manifold; an ejector coupled to the dope manifold, the ejector positioned to supply a fixed volume of pipe dope from the dope manifold to a dope distribution line; and a pipe dope applicator, the pipe dope applicator fluidly coupled to the dope distribution line positioned to deposit pipe dope on a threaded connection. In some embodiments, the pipe dope applicator may be a fan-pattern nozzle. In other embodiments, the pipe dope applicator may be a mold-type applicator. In other embodiments, the pipe dope applicator may be a brush-type applicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Christopher MAGNUSON, Enrique ABARCA
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Publication number: 20170209890Abstract: A painting plant was achieved with a painting booth (28) defining inside a work environment substantially closed under operative conditions, an air admitting and extracting system (42), a control unit (40) provided with a data entering system (40a) and a data storing memory; at least one sensor (105) of a parameter linked to humidity in the painting booth, for sending to the control unit a signal indicative of a humidity inside the painting booth; a fresh air intake conduit (44) comprises a heating section (101) having means (102) for heating the air to be delivered to the painting booth (28), and a humidifying section (103) having means (104) for humidifying the air to be delivered to the painting booth (28); the control unit (40) is configured for receiving a set value of the humidity inside the painting booth, receiving the signal indicative of a humidity inside the painting booth from the sensor (105) and adjusting the humidifying means (104) as a function of said set value or set range of values and of sType: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventor: Salvatore FERRARA
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Publication number: 20170209891Abstract: The invention relates to a device for removing wet paint overspray from an outgoing air flow (120) containing over-spray particles. The device separates wet paint over-spray from an over-spray particle contained in an exhaust air stream (120). The overspray particles in the exhaust air stream (120) are formed during the painting at an application area (108) of a painting installation (100). The device (126) comprises of at least one separation apparatus for separating the over-spray from the exhaust air stream (120). The separation apparatus includes a regeneratable surface filter (146) and the flow path of the exhaust air stream (120) from the application area (108) to a separating device (145) having at least one narrowed area (146). The central direction of flow of the exhaust air stream (120) remains essentially preserved in passing by the narrowed area (140).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: DIETMAR WIELAND, Wolfgang Tobisch, Klaus Rundel, Alexander Rajtschan
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Publication number: 20170209892Abstract: A nebulizer for nebulizing a liquid from a container is proposed. The nebulizer comprises a liquid pump for withdrawing the liquid in doses from the container and pressurizing the respective doses for nebulization. The nebulizer comprises in addition an air pump for temporarily pressurizing the liquid in the container to help withdrawing the liquid from a collapsible bag in the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbHInventors: Heinrich KLADDERS, Matthias HAUSMANN
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Publication number: 20170209893Abstract: A misting device with quick release interchangeable cartridge is disclosed for atomizing and discharging a composition as a mist for topical application of the composition to the body or diffusing the composition into the ambient air. The cartridge comprises an atomizer and quickly attaches and detaches from a body using a coupling mechanism which may create a friction fit engagement. The atomizer atomizes the composition. A base maintains the body in an upright position for formulation of the composition in the cavity of the cartridge.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2016Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: John Swallow, Matthew Hawkes
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Publication number: 20170209894Abstract: The present application provides a porous sintered multicomponent applicator nib and methods of making and using these nibs. The porous nibs are made from sintered plastic particles. These nibs are used with liquid applicators devices, medical devices, writing tools or cosmetic applicators to apply liquids containing high solids or pigments to surfaces such as metal, paper, skin, hair, tissue or a wound.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: POREX CORPORATIONInventor: Kevin Sporrer
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Publication number: 20170209895Abstract: A surface application unit for applying a surface application substance to all or a portion of a surface of a planar substrate in a machine for printing planar substrates. The unit includes an applicator roller (11) which is rotated (T) and can be positioned against all or a portion of the surface of the substrate in order to apply the substance thereto; an anilox roller (13) which is rotated (S) and positioned against the applicator roller (11) and which covers the applicator roller (11) with the substance; and a supply system (14) which supplies the anilox roller (13) with the substance and which is provided with a substance tank, a pump, a device for circulating the substance, and a device (16) which is held against the anilox roller (13) in order to supply the substance to the roller. A recovery system (18) mounted downstream of the applicator roller (11) can be positioned against the applicator roller (11) to recover excess substance on the roller (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Steve AEBY, Pascal BAUDIN
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Publication number: 20170209896Abstract: Described are metering dispensers (10) having a body (100) configured to hold a flowable composition in a chamber, a drive screw (300) coupled to the body, and a plunger (400) threadingly coupled to the drive screw. The plunger includes at least two annular lips (416) that form a fluid seal with the chamber as the plunger travels along the drive screw through the chamber. A base (200) is rotationally coupled to the body with a cam (208) that contacts at least one tab (114) extending externally from the body so that the tab enters at least one low point (222) on the cam by traveling over a trailing edge (226) of the low point, and the trailing edge then prevents the tab from exiting the low point in the direction of the trailing edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: DoseLogix, LLCInventors: Timothy Gayle Phipps, Daniel Lee DeYoung, Dale Melton Coker, Craig Jay Cochran, John Britton S. Mockridge, Nicholas H. Reaves, Ellen Y. Brown
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Publication number: 20170209897Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of a composite element. The process includes (i) provision of an outer layer with an uncoated surface and a coated surface coated at least partially with a composition (B) including at least one inorganic material, (ii) treatment of the uncoated surface of the outer layer and (iii) application, to the treated surface of the outer layer, of a composition (Z2) suitable for the production of a polyurethane foam and/or polyisocyanurate foam. The present invention further relates to a composite element obtainable or obtained by a process of the invention, and also to the use of a composite element obtainable or obtained by a process of the invention or of a composite element of the invention as insulation material or in the construction of façades.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Oliver Clamor, Gunnar Kampf, Andrea Eisenhardt, Erhard Gleinig, Sven Moennig, Sarunas Turcinskas, Dirk Weinrich
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Publication number: 20170209898Abstract: An ultrasound transducer arrangement (100) is disclosed comprising a plurality of substrate islands (110, 120, 130) spatially separated and electrically interconnected by a flexible polymer assembly (150) including electrically conductive tracks providing said electrical interconnections, said plurality including a first substrate island (110) comprising a plurality of ultra sound transducer cells (112) and a second substrate island (120) comprising an array of external contacts for connecting the ultrasound sensor arrangement to a flexible tubular body including a coaxial wire assembly (200) comprising a plurality of coaxial wires (220) each having a conductive core (228) covered by an electrically insulating sleeve (226); and an electrically insulating body (210) having a first main surface (211), a second main surface (213) and a plurality of through holes (212) each extending from the first main surface to the second main surface and coated with an electrically conductive member, wherein each coaxial wireType: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: VINCENT ADRIANUS HENNEKEN, MARCUS CORNELIS LOUWERSE, JOHANNES WILHELMUS WEEKAMP, RONALD DEKKER, MARC GODFRIEDUS MARIE NOTTEN, ANTONIA CORNELIA JEANNET VAN RENS
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Publication number: 20170209899Abstract: A vibrator unit may be configured to vibrate a target material in a target channel and include a vibration element configured to vibrate in response to an external electrical signal having a predetermined frequency. A resonance frequency of the vibration element may be different from the predetermined frequency of the electrical signal. A vibrator unit may include a vibration transmission member in contact with the first member including the target channel in interior; and a vibration element that is in contact with the vibration transmission member. A mode-1 natural frequency of the vibration transmission member may be different from a resonance frequency of the vibration element.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: Gigaphoton Inc.Inventor: Toshiyuki HIRASHITA
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Publication number: 20170209900Abstract: Acoustophoretic devices and methods for using such devices in various applications are disclosed. The devices include a flow chamber having an inlet; a phononic crystal within an active volume of the flow chamber; and ultrasonic transducer(s) that create an acoustic standing wave in the active volume. This combination results in the creation of high-pressure nodes within the active volume, having a value of at least 50 MPa, which is useful for different applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Bart Lipkens, Edward Rietman
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Publication number: 20170209901Abstract: A deck panel includes a panel base having a top defining an upper, load-bearing surface, a bottom disposed opposite the top, and first and second opposite sides, a plurality of passages, each passage connected between an upper opening disposed in the upper, load-bearing surface and a lower opening on the bottom, and first and second guards depending from the bottom of the panel base, each of the guards disposed along one of the first and second opposite sides with the plurality of passages disposed between the two guards.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2016Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Kerry Willliam Quinn, Steve Massman, Justen Healless
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Publication number: 20170209902Abstract: A cleaning device, according to one embodiment, for cleaning a substrate by being rotated, includes: a cleaning member configured to clean a substrate; and a sleeve configured to be provided along a circumference of the cleaning member, a lower part of the sleeve being divided into a plurality of chucking claws each of which holds a portion of a side face of the cleaning member, wherein at inside of each of the plurality of chucking claws, a plurality of protrusions are provided substantially parallel to a rotation direction of the cleaning member, an end of each of the plurality of protrusions is configured to contact the side face of the cleaning member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: Ebara CorporationInventor: Tomoatsu ISHIBASHI
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Publication number: 20170209903Abstract: A method of cleaning solder from the jaws of a solder ball test device including the steps of heating a gas to a temperature above the melting temperature of the solder and directing the heated has over the jaws of a solder ball test device to remove solder from the jaws, and an apparatus for carrying out the method.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventor: Robert Sykes
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Publication number: 20170209904Abstract: A system and method of cleaning a turbine engine are provided. The method may include inserting, directing and evacuating a cleaning agent. Inserting may include inserting the cleaning agent through a predefined access port into a cooling cavity defined by an internal wall of an assembled turbine component, while directing may include directing the cleaning agent against the internal wall to remove a foreign material therefrom. Evacuating may include evacuating the cleaning agent from the cooling cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2016Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Michael Edward Eriksen, Matthew Bos, Nicole Jessica Tibbetts, Michael Scheper, Eric Zeltwanger
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Publication number: 20170209905Abstract: A method for cleaning a storage tank to which sodium metal is adherent, the method containing: filling, with an inert oil, the storage tank to which sodium metal is adherent; subsequently adding water, water vapor, or a humidified inert gas to the inert oil; providing a gas discharge line to the storage tank and measuring the hydrogen gas concentration in the gas discharge line; regulating the amount of the water, water vapor, or humidified inert gas to be added per hour in accordance with the level of the hydrogen gas concentration; regulating the temperature of the inert oil to 0-98° C.; and converting the sodium metal into caustic soda while changing the liquid surface level of the inert oil in parallel with addition of the water, water vapor, or humidified inert gas to the inert oil.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki ITO, Toru ARAKAWA, Takahiro AIBA
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Publication number: 20170209906Abstract: A centrifugal cast caliber roll for a hot rolling mill has excellent abrasion resistance, fatigue resistance, and slip resistance. The roll has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 1.8% or more and 3.0% or less, Si: 0.2% or more and 1.0% or less, Mn: 0.2% or more and 1.5% or less, Cr: 5% or more and 9% or less, Mo: 4.0% or more and 7.0% or less, V: 4.0% or more and 7.0% or less, Nb: 0.5% or more and 2.0% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, in which the relationship 0.6?(C?0.24V?0.13Nb)?1.4 (where C, V, and Nb each denote the content (mass %) of the corresponding chemical element) is satisfied, and has a surface hardness of Hs 67 or higher and Hs 76 or lower in terms of shore hardness.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Itoh, Kenji Ichino, Tetsuo Mochida
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Publication number: 20170209907Abstract: A rolling mill with a cooling zone for cooling and scissors for cross-cutting metal strips, which are preferably made of steel. A method and a device enables metal strips with thicknesses >4 mm and/or metal strips made of high-strength materials to be cross-cut by means of scissors arranged after a production line and a cooling zone. In the method, the metal strip (6) is cooled in the cooling zone (10) to a specified temperature profile in the longitudinal direction of the metal strip (6) such that the metal strip (6) has a higher temperature in the region of the strip head of the trailing metal strip portion (31) and the strip base of the leading metal strip portion (32) than in the upstream and downstream regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Manfred KUEGEL, Axel RIMNAC, Alois SEILINGER
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Publication number: 20170209908Abstract: In various embodiments, metallic wires are fabricated by combining one or more powders of substantially spherical metal particles with one or more powders of non-spherical particles within one or more optional metallic tubes. The metal elements within the powders (and the one or more tubes, if present) collectively define a high entropy alloy of five or more metallic elements or a multi-principal element alloy of four or more metallic elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: David B. SMATHERS, Patrick HOGAN, Michael Thomas STAWOVY, Maria B. WINNICKA, Gary A. ROZAK
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Publication number: 20170209909Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a lightweight sheet-metal component with varying wall thicknesses, characterized by the following method steps: —extruding a lightweight metal to form a profile with a non-planar profile cross section, wherein the wall thicknesses of the profile cross section differ from one another in at least two regions, —cutting the profile to length into profile pieces, —widening the profile pieces, —forming the flattened profile piece into a three-dimensional shaped sheet-metal component, wherein the sheet-metal component has at least two regions with wall thicknesses that are different from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Tobias Svantesson KAVIK, Amin Farjad BASTANI, Edwin List CLAUSEN, Andreas HITZ
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Publication number: 20170209910Abstract: A method for producing a motor vehicle component from a light metal alloy includes: extruding an extruded profile with, in cross section, at least two mutually different wall thicknesses and at least one closed hollow chamber and with an extrusion width, at least partially flattening and/or widening the cross section to a processing width, wherein the processing width is greater than the extrusion width, before or after the flattening and/or widening, performing separation to form blanks, processing the blanks by deformation to form the motor vehicle component.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Edvin List CLAUSEN, Andreas HITZ, Tobias Svantesson KAVIK, Amin Farjad BASTANI
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Publication number: 20170209911Abstract: The invention relates to an alignment means for a profiling line. The alignment means (6) is structured for aligning two edges of the item (P) on which a welding must be performed by welding means (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Luciano MICALI, Andrea ANESI, Fabio BARBOLINI
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Publication number: 20170209912Abstract: A punching apparatus includes a tool holder unit rotatable around a working axis and provided with a plurality of seats for slidably housing respective punching tools, a beating element movable along and around the working axis and provided with an operating end that has a beating portion to selectively interact with a set punching tool, a first driving assembly for moving the beating element along the working axis to move the set punching tool, and a second driving assembly for rotating the tool holder unit around the working axis. The operating end of the beating element includes a first coupling element and the tool holder unit includes a plurality of second coupling elements, each of the second coupling elements being associated with a respective one of the seats and a related one of the punching tools and being arranged to couple with the first coupling element in a connection configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: SALVAGNINI ITALIA S.P.AInventor: Nicola MENEGHETTI
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Publication number: 20170209913Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for assembling products in a die by the aid of a device for assembling products in a die. The device for assembling products in the die comprises a pushing portion and an assembling portion. The pushing portion comprises a pushing block (11), a pushing spring (10) and a pushing wedge (9), wherein the pushing block (11) is connected with the pushing spring (10), and the pushing wedge (9) is arranged above the pushing block (11) and is in wedge-shaped connection with the pushing block (11). The assembling portion comprises an assembling wedge (6), a transmission wedge (4) and an assembling male die (5), wherein the transmission wedge (4) is in wedge-shaped connection with the assembling male die (5), and the transmission wedge (4) and the assembling male die (5) are arranged in a lower base (2).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2016Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: CHENGDU HOMIN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventors: Junjie GUO, Guofu TIAN, Jian YOU, Yan ZHUANG, Yi GUO, Bin TENG
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Publication number: 20170209914Abstract: Construction is achieved that is capable of preventing the formation of radial streaks in the tip-end surfaces of teeth of hub-side face splines 21. When a swing center distance is taken to be L, a swing angle that is the inclination angle of the center axis of a roll 30 with respect to a main hub body 8 is taken to be ?, the pitch diameter of the hub-side face splines 21 is taken to be Dh, the number of teeth of the hub-side face splines 21 is taken to be Nh, and the number of teeth of a processing surface 31 of the roll 30 is taken to be Nr, the position relationship of the main hub body 8 and the roll 30, or in other words, at least one of the swing center distance L, the swing angle ?, and the pitch circle diameter Dh is regulated so that the relationship Nh/Nr=cos ?+(2L/Dh)·sin ? is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki HAGIWARA, Toshio NAKAMURA, Hiroshi KOYAMA, Isao SHINTOU, Kazuto KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20170209915Abstract: A manufacturing method for a cylinder head is described. A masking member is attached to cylinder head material, which followed by a film formation step. The masking member comprises a mask portion to mask the matching surface with the cylinder block, and mask portions to mask each of the openings of the intake ports, the exhaust ports, and the CPS hole. Mask portions are linked directly to other mask portions without any steps.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2016Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki IGUMA, Akio KAWAGUCHI, Hideo YAMASHITA, Kazuaki NISHIO
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Publication number: 20170209916Abstract: The masking member comprises a matching surface mask portion to mask the matching surface with the cylinder block, port hole mask portions to mask openings of the intake ports and the exhaust ports, and a between openings mask portion to mask a region which is sandwiched between the openings of two adjacent port holes. The matching surface mask portion is linked directly to the port hole mask portions without any steps, and the between openings mask portion is linked directly to both of the port hole mask portions without a step.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroki IGUMA, Akio KAWAGUCHI, Hideo YAMASHITA, Kazuaki NISHIO
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Publication number: 20170209917Abstract: The present invention relates to a feeder system for metal casting. The feeder system comprises a feeder sleeve mounted on a tubular body. The feeder sleeve has a longitudinal axis and comprises a continuous sidewall that defines a cavity for receiving liquid metal during casting. The sidewall extends generally around the longitudinal axis and has a base adjacent the tubular body. The tubular body defines an open bore therethrough for connecting the cavity to the casting. A groove extends into the sidewall from the base to a first depth and the tubular body projects into the groove to a second depth and is held in position by retaining means. The second depth being less than the first depth so that upon application of a force in use the retaining means are overcome and the tubular body is pushed further into the groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventor: Christof VOLKS
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Publication number: 20170209918Abstract: Apparatus for producing elongate strands of metal comprises a rotatable wheel having a circumferential surface, at least one nozzle for directing a molten metal onto the circumferential surface and a collection means for collecting solidified strands of metal formed. The solidified strands are formed on the circumferential surface from the molten metal and are separated from the circumferential surface by centrifugal force generated by rotation of the wheel. The circumferential surface has a circumferentially extending structure having circumferentially extending edges and recesses formed between or bounded by the edges, and by an apparatus for controlling a gas pressure applied to the liquid metal which moves the liquid metal through the nozzle opening and delivers it to the circumferential surface of the rotatable wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Joachim P. Spatz, Moyu Watari, Reinhard Mager
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Publication number: 20170209919Abstract: An apparatus and a system including a casting pit; a mold including a reservoir and a cavity; a coolant feed operable to introduce a coolant to a periphery of a metal emerging from the mold cavity; an array of water vapor exhaust ports about at least the top periphery of the casting pit; a mechanism to introduce an inert fluid into the coolant feed. A method for a direct chill casting including, after detecting a bleed out, exhausting generated gas from the casting pit at a flow volume rate that is enhanced relative to a flow volume rate prior to detecting bleed out or run out; introducing an inert gas into the casting pit; and introducing an inert fluid into a coolant feed to the casting mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Ravindra V. Tilak, Rodney W. Wirtz, Ronald M. Streigle
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Publication number: 20170209920Abstract: A mold and cavity are coupled to a vacuum tank via a pressure reducing path. A first back-cleaning filter 4a is disposed between the cavity and the vacuum tank in the pressure reducing path. The vacuum tank and the second dry pump are series-connected via a mechanical booster pump. The vacuum tank is sucked by the mechanical booster pump and the second dry pump, thereby always maintaining a predetermined vacuum degree in the vacuum tank. When carrying out die casting, first, after the mold is closed, a release agent is applied on an inner peripheral surface of the mold. Next, while reducing a pressure in the cavity using the vacuum tank, a molten metal is injected to the cavity. When the molten metal is solidified, the mold is opened and a cast product is taken out from the mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Takuma SAIDA
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Publication number: 20170209921Abstract: A ladle transport car includes a car truck body provided with a wheel, a mounting table arranged on the car truck body, a ladle movement mechanism arranged on the mounting table, on which a ladle is mounted and moved in a horizontal direction, and a ladle turning mechanism arranged between the car truck body and the mounting table and turning the ladle by turning the mounting table in a horizontal plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2014Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Tadashi NISHIDA, Masanori HOSHINO
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Publication number: 20170209922Abstract: An alloy structure which has high uniformity in the distribution of the element composition and the mechanical strength and excellent high-temperature strength and corrosion resistance, contains Fe and at least four elements, which are selected from the group consisting of elements from atomic number 13 to atomic number 79, included in Group 3 to Group 16 of the periodic table of the elements, and have a ratio of the atomic radius to an Fe atom of 0.83 or more but 1.17 or less, each of the elements in an atomic concentration range of 5 at % or more but 30 at % or less, a difference in atomic concentration among the at least four elements and Fe is in a range of less than 3 at %, and the alloy structure has, as a main crystal, a column crystal in which the at least four elements and Fe are solid-dissolved.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Takahiko KATO, Kousuke KUWABARA, Tadashi FUJIEDA, Kinya AOTA, Isamu TAKAHASHI, Kenji YAMAGA, Hiroyuki SATAKE, Hajime MURAKAMI
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Publication number: 20170209923Abstract: A method for manufacturing a machine component made of metal-based material is described. The method comprises the steps of: providing a powder blend comprising at least one metal-containing powder material and at least one strengthening dispersor in powder form, wherein the strengthening dispersor in powder form has an average grain size less than an average grain size of the metal-containing powder material; and forming the machine component by an additive manufacturing process using the powder blend.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Iacopo GIOVANNETTI, Pierluigi TOZZI, Massimo GIANNOZZI
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Publication number: 20170209924Abstract: The flaky magnetic metal particles of the embodiments include a plurality of flaky magnetic metal particles, each of the flaky magnetic metal particles including a first magnetic particle including a flat surface, at least one first element selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co and Ni, an average ratio between the maximum length and the minimum length in the flat surface being between 1 and 5 inclusive, an average thickness of the first magnetic particles being between 10 nm and 100 ?m inclusive, an average aspect ratio of the first magnetic particles being between 5 and 10000 inclusive; and a plurality of second magnetic particles disposed on the flat surface, an average number of the second magnetic particles being five or more, an average diameter of the second magnetic particles being between 10 nm and 1 ?m inclusive.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tomohiro SUETSUNA, Tomoko EGUCHI, Hiroaki KINOUCHI
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Publication number: 20170209925Abstract: The present invention related to a method to make capacitor grade powder. The method includes the use of a spray dryer that includes a rotating atomizer disk to form agglomerated powder and the method further includes a heat treatment step. Capacitor grade powder formed by the methods of the present invention are further described.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2014Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: Global Advanced Metals USA, Inc.Inventors: Eiji Kataoka, Shuhei Yoshikawa, John Koenitzer
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Publication number: 20170209926Abstract: Articles and methods for forming nanostructures having unique and/or predetermined shapes are provided. The methods and articles may involve the use of nucleic acid containers as structural molds. For instance, a pre-designed nucleic acid container including a cavity may be used to control the shape-specific growth of nanoparticles. Growth of the nanoparticles within the cavities may be confined by the specific shape of the nucleic acid container. In some embodiments, the resulting nucleic acid-nanoparticle structures can be used to control the orientation and numbers of surface ligands on the surface of nanoparticles. The addressability of the surface ligands can be used to form higher ordered assemblies of the structures.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2016Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeInventors: Wei Sun, Peng Yin
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Publication number: 20170209927Abstract: A solid freeform fabrication powder material includes a metal particle, and a water-soluble organic material particle. The water-soluble organic material particle accounts for 2-18 percent by volume of the solid freeform fabrication powder material and the water-soluble organic material particle has a volume average particle diameter of 3-15 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Yasuyuki YAMASHITA, Yasuo SUZUKI, Hitoshi IWATSUKI, Teruki KUSAHARA, Takeo YAMAGUCHI, Takuya SAITO, Nozomu TAMOTO
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Publication number: 20170209928Abstract: A sintered alloy is produced from mixed powder containing first hard particles, second hard particles, graphite particles, and iron particles. The first hard particles are Fe—Mo—Ni—Co—Mn—Si—C-based alloy particles, the second hard particles are Fe—Mo—Si-based alloy particles, the mixed powder contains 5 to 50 mass % of the first hard particles, 1 to 8 mass % of the second hard particles, and 0.5 to 1.5 mass % of the graphite particles, when total mass of the first hard particles, the second hard particles, the graphite particles, and the iron particles is set as 100 mass %.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FINE SINTER CO., LTDInventors: Nobuyuki SHINOHARA, Kimihiko ANDO, Yoshihisa UEDA, Yusaku YOSHIDA, Masaru SUGIMOTO
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Publication number: 20170209929Abstract: A three-dimensional shaped article production method for producing a three-dimensional shaped article by stacking layers to form a stacked body includes a first layer formation step of forming a first layer on a support by supplying a first composition containing first particles and a binder, a second layer formation step of forming a second layer composed of one layer or a plurality of layers on the first layer by supplying a second composition containing second particles and a binder, and a separation step of separating the second layer from the support through the first layer, wherein after the separation step, a sintering step of sintering the second layer is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2017Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Masaya ISHIDA, Eiji OKAMOTO, Hiroshi WADA, Toshimitsu HIRAI