Patents Issued in October 12, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170291208
    Abstract: A producing method of the press formed product includes a preparation step of preparing a metal sheet as a starting material; and a press working step of performing press working on the starting material. The press working step includes: during a time period from when pushing-in of the starting material into the die by the punch is started or immediately thereafter until the pushing-in of the punch with respect to the die reaches a predetermined distance short of a bottom dead point for the pushing-in, holding the pad at a position distant from the punch by the predetermined distance; when the pushing-in of the punch with respect to the die reaches the predetermined distance short of the bottom dead point, receiving the pad in the die; and continuing the pushing-in of the punch with respect to the die and the pad to the bottom dead point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Ryuichi NISHIMURA, Yoshiaki NAKAZAWA, Toru YONEBAYASHI, Koichi SATO
  • Publication number: 20170291209
    Abstract: A clamp ring assembly for use in a can bottom forming assembly comprising a clamp ring retainer, a clamp ring having a biasing assembly and an inner dome die. The clamp ring floats with respect to the clamp ring retainer to accommodate off center contact by the punch and to center the punch at the end of the ram stroke, A slightly conically shaped inner dome die structure or dome plug may be provided to further center the punch at the end of the ram stroke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Zauhar, Russ Balamut, Dave Gadow
  • Publication number: 20170291210
    Abstract: An improved forged wheel trimming die, including a connecting rod, a lower die base lower plate, a bottom plate, a stripper guide pillar, a knockout rod, an ejector block, a lower die base stiffened plate, a lower die base upper plate, a lower die, a stripper plate, follow-up retainer plates, a shearing blade and a trimming rod. The improved forged wheel trimming die has the advantages that by adding two follow-up retainer plates to the stripper plate of the die, burrs of a forged wheel blank are constrained along the radial direction during the cutting, thereby avoiding breakage due to excessive deformation; in this way, the burrs can be protected from damage and knocked out successfully by the knockout rod after being cut off from the blank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: CITIC Dicastal CO., LTD
    Inventor: Rui Li
  • Publication number: 20170291211
    Abstract: A laminated hard film is obtained by laminating a layer A and a layer B. The layer A has a composition different from that of the layer B. The layer A is formed of (TiaCrbAlcSid)(CxN1-x) and satisifies the relationship of 0?a?0.10, 0.10?b?0.50, 0.50?c?0.90, 0?d?0.05, a+b+c+d=1 and 0?x?0.5. The layer B is formed of (CreSi1-e)(CyN1-y) and satisfies the relationship of 0.90?e?1.0 and 0?y?0.5, or is formed of (AlfSi1-f)(C2N1-z) and satisfies the relationship of 0.90?f?1.0 and 0?x?0.5. Each of the layer A and the layer B has a thickness of 2 to 100 nm, and the layer A and the layer B are each alternately laminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventor: Kenji YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170291212
    Abstract: A tandem water spot cooling device for a top die. The device includes a spot cooling device main body, a lower sealing plate, an outer-ring circular track, an inner-ring serpentine passage, outer-ring flow dividing baffles, inner-ring flow dividing baffles, outer-ring through holes, inner-ring through holes, bolt hole reservation positions, stripper rod reservation positions, and water inlet and outlet connection through holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: CITIC Dicastal CO., LTD
    Inventors: Lin Zhu, Changhai Li, Hongbiao Li, Yong Li
  • Publication number: 20170291213
    Abstract: A gauge cutting system and method are described herein. The gauge cutting system includes a cutting apparatus coupled to a track for cutting a wire and a movable measurement apparatus spaced from the cutting apparatus and coupled to the track. The measurement apparatus for measuring a length of wire extending from the cutting apparatus by looping said wire around said measurement apparatus and returning a cut end of the wire to the cutting apparatus, wherein a distance of the measurement apparatus from the cutting apparatus is proportional to the length of wire to be cut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: MICHAEL J. MURPHY
  • Publication number: 20170291214
    Abstract: A method of making a light weight component is provided. The method including the steps of: forming a metallic foam core into a desired configuration; inserting a pre-machined component into an opening in the metallic foam core; applying an external metallic shell to an exterior surface of the metallic foam core after it has been formed into the desired configuration and after the pre-machined component has been inserted into the metallic foam core; introducing an acid into an internal cavity defined by the external metallic shell; dissolving the metallic foam core; and removing the dissolved metallic foam core from the internal cavity, wherein the component and the external metallic shell are resistant to the acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Gary D. Roberge
  • Publication number: 20170291215
    Abstract: A method for producing a connection between a sandwich element and a metal element is disclosed herein. In this method, the sandwich element has an interlayer arranged between two cover elements. The method includes providing the sandwich element and the metal element; placing the sandwich element and the metal element in face-to-face contact at least partially overlapping; adding a fastener from the sandwich-element side while a base of the fastener extends within the sandwich element; and friction welding, from the metal-element side, to form a hybrid connection having a mechanical connection between the fastener and the sandwich element and a welding connection between the fastener and the metal element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Selahattin Tuerel MEMILI
  • Publication number: 20170291216
    Abstract: An expandable poly methyl methacrylate particle including a polymer, which is obtained by a process including polymerizing monomers including 100 parts by weight of an acrylic monomer and from 0.05 to 0.15 parts by weight of a polyfunctional monomer. The acrylic monomer includes 90% to 98% by weight of methyl methacrylate and 2% to 10% by weight of an C2-8 alkyl acrylate, relative to a total weight of the methyl methacrylate and the C2-8 alkyl acrylate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Kaneka Corporation
    Inventors: Kirito SUZUKI, Mitsuhiro TAMURA, Tatsuya HENMI
  • Publication number: 20170291217
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cold crucible for continuously casting high-purity light metal thin slab, which can control the electromagnetic force applied from the inner wall surface of a cold crucible to the surface of molten metal in order to change the shape of the cold crucible to various shapes during electromagnetic casting, while stabilizing the molten metal inside the cold crucible and casting an ingot having uniform particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Byung-Moon MOON, Je-Sik SHIN, Hoi-Soo YOO
  • Publication number: 20170291218
    Abstract: A die-casting process method for die-cast molding of a metal in a semi-solid state, wherein a semi-solid state die-casting machine is used as a processing device and a pulper is used as a device for preparing and delivering a slurry in a semi-solid state; the method comprises the steps: spraying a mold release agent and mold clamping; melting the raw material and keeping the temperature; adding a metal modificator into the molten raw material to prepare the slurry in a semi-solid state; transferring the slurry in a semi-solid state into a mold by the pulper; die-casting, opening the mold and exporting a die-cast; removing the sprue to obtain the final die-cast.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: ZHUHAI RUNXINGTAI ELECTRICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Huaide REN, Victor WANG, Gunan LI
  • Publication number: 20170291219
    Abstract: An alloy modifying agent for use in preparing a metal semisolid slurry, where the components and mass ratio thereof is silicon:iron:copper:manganese:magnesium:zinc:titanium:lead:aluminum having a mass ratio of (6.05-6.95):(0.15-0.45):(0.12-0.65):(0.002-0.006):(0.001-0.5):(0.025-0.05):(0.0 02-0.08):(0.002-0.06):(90.5-93.2). Also, a method for preparing the alloy modifying agent and a method for using the alloy modifying agent. The alloy modifying agent is capable of increasing the solid-liquid ratio and the spherical crystal content of the semisolid slurry, increasing the preparation efficiency of the semisolid slurry and the quality of the slurry, and ensuring the quality of a final die casting product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: ZHUHAI RUNXINGTAI ELECTRICAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Huaide REN, Victor WANG, Gunan LI
  • Publication number: 20170291220
    Abstract: A metal powder for powder metallurgy contains Co as a principal component, Cr in a proportion of 10 to 25 mass %, Ni in a proportion of 5 to 40 mass %, at least one of Mo and W in a proportion of 2 to 20 mass % in total, Si in a proportion of 0.3 to 1.5 mass %, and C in a proportion of 0.05 to 0.8 mass %, wherein one element selected from the group consisting of Ti, V, Y, Zr, Nb, Hf, and Ta is defined as a first element, that is contained in a proportion of 0.01 to 0.5 mass %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Hidefumi NAKAMURA, Taku KAWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20170291221
    Abstract: A method for creating a metallurgic component comprises creating a thin-walled container corresponding to a shape of the metallurgic component from a metal. If powder metal is not already in the container (depending on a method of creating the container), the thin-walled container is filled with powder metal. A quick-can device is fixed to the thin-walled container, and the powder metal is consolidated inside the thin-walled container (e.g., in a hot isostatic press). During consolidation, pressure within the thin-walled container is monitored and a desired pressure differential between an inside of the thin-walled container and an outside of the thin-walled container is maintained by the quick-can device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: John P. Swank, Robert M. Conaway, Hugh M. Davis
  • Publication number: 20170291222
    Abstract: A hybrid article comprises a disintegrable metal comprising one or more of the following: Mg; Al; Zn; Mn; an alloy thereof; or a composite thereof; and a disintegrable polymer comprising one or more of the following: an epoxy polymer derived from an epoxy base and a curing agent having cleavable bonds; a cured cyanate ester; or a poly(hexahydrotriazine).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Suman Khatiwada, John C. Welch, Anil K. Sadana, Sayantan Roy
  • Publication number: 20170291223
    Abstract: A method, product, apparatus, and article of manufacture for the application of the Composite Based Additive Manufacturing (CBAM) method to produce objects in metal, and in metal fiber hybrids or composites. The approach has many advantages, including the ability to produce more complex geometries than conventional methods such as milling and casting, improved material properties, higher production rates and the elimination of complex fixturing, complex tool paths and tool changes and, for casting, the need for patterns and tools. The approach works by slicing a 3D model, selectively printing a fluid onto a sheet of substrate material for each layer based on the model, flooding onto the substrate a powdered metal to which the fluid adheres in printed areas, clamping and aligning a stack of coated sheets, heating the stacked sheets to melt the powdered metal and fuse the layers of substrate, and removing excess powder and unfused substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Swartz, John Bayldon, Buckley Crist, Eugene Gore
  • Publication number: 20170291224
    Abstract: The invention provides a green chemistry, aqueous method to synthesize gold nanoparticles directly from bulk gold sources. The method involves the ultrasonication of bulk gold in water in the presence of an alkythiol species and a quaternary ammonium surfactant. An organic bilayer forms on the surface of the gold which renders it susceptible to material ejection from the violent collapse of cavitation bubbles. This ejected material is stabilized in solution by the formation of an organic bilayer and can be easily separated. It can then be subjected to an aqueous digestive ripening step to give a gold nanoparticle ensemble with a well-defined plasmon resonance. This method is applicable to a number of different sources of bulk gold. The method can be applied to an environmentally important problem; the recovery of gold from electronic waste streams. For example, gold nanoparticles can be extracted directly from the surface of SIM cards, with no prior manipulation of the cards necessary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Dale L. Huber, John Daniel Watt, Jonathan Chavez, Lauren Marie Ammerman
  • Publication number: 20170291225
    Abstract: Provided is a chuck structure, which is configured to chuck an annular workpiece from a radially outer side of the workpiece. The chuck structure includes: leaf spring members arranged at a predetermined pitch along a circumferential direction of the chuck structure so as to be symmetrical with respect to a mechanism center axis; chuck claw members mounted to distal ends of the leaf spring members, respectively; and a pressing force applying mechanism configured to apply a force of pressing the leaf spring members radially inward, to thereby elastically press the chuck claw members onto a radially outer surface of the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Masayuki YAMAMOTO, Tsuyoshi YAGI
  • Publication number: 20170291226
    Abstract: A hydraulic chuck device includes a cylinder portion operated by pressure oil, a chuck opened and closed by operation of the cylinder portion, a pressure oil supply controlling pressure of pressure oil supplied to the cylinder portion, and a chuck controller controlling the pressure oil supply. When controlling the pressure oil supply to cause a jaw portion to perform a clamping operation, during movement of the jaw portion from an unclamping position to a preliminary position situated before a clamping position, the chuck controller supplies pressure oil set at a first pressure into a cylinder chamber for clamping to move the jaw portion quickly, and during movement of the jaw portion from the preliminary position to the clamping positon, the chuck controller supplies pressure oil set at a second pressure lower than the first pressure into the cylinder chamber for clamping to move the jaw portion slowly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: DMG MORI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamane, Kimiyuki Nishimura, Masakazu Takayama, Shun Michiura
  • Publication number: 20170291227
    Abstract: To provide a post-installed anchor capable of being used repeatedly and being easily removed and recovered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: ANCHOR BIRDS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chikara SHIMMURA
  • Publication number: 20170291228
    Abstract: A quick connect/disconnect mechanism for a rotary bit having a central mounting hole at a proximal end includes a shaft extending axially and having a proximal end adapted to be releasably secured in a rotary tool and a distal end having a spud extending distally and axially therefrom. A plurality of retainer arms are arrayed about the axis and extending distally, each retainer arm including a catch extending radially outwardly from a distal end thereof. A release sleeve extends about the shaft adjacent to said distal end, the release sleeve having engagement keys to impinge on the proximal ends of the retainer arms, the sleeve being rotatable from a first position in which the engagement keys hold the retainer arms to secure the rotary bit to a second position in which the retainer arms rotate to release the rotary bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Timothy Carl Pamatmat
  • Publication number: 20170291229
    Abstract: A machining tool (1) comprises a clamping section (2), which extends along a central axis (M), a cutting section (3), which adjoins the clamping section (2) and has a nominal diameter (DN), and at least one cooling duct (4), which preferably extends in the clamping section (2) and in the cutting section (3), wherein the cross-sectional shape of the cooling duct (4) is arranged in a cross-sectional region (Q) of the respective section (2, 3) in which the equivalent stress under a machining load has a value which is as small as possible, and/or wherein the cross-sectional shape of the cooling duct (4) is defined by an inner curve segment (5), an outer curve segment (6), which is arranged at a distance from the latter, and by means of two tangents (7) connecting the two curve segments (5, 6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Mattia Genini, Alberto Gotti, Markus Schnyder
  • Publication number: 20170291230
    Abstract: A replaceable face-milling head configured for rotating about a central rotation axis AR. The head includes a cutting portion and an integrally formed threaded shank-connector portion, the latter of which being configured for connecting to a shank. A length-diameter ratio LDR, defined as a cutting portion length LC divided by a cutting portion diameter DE, fulfills the condition: LDR?1.00.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: JACOB HARPAZ, Eliyahu BUDDA, Ely ERLICH
  • Publication number: 20170291231
    Abstract: A cutting insert of an embodiment includes an upper surface including a first upper cutting edge and a second upper cutting edge, a lower surface including a first lower cutting edge and a second lower cutting edge, and a side surface. The side surface includes a first surface extending from the second upper cutting edge, a second surface extending from the first lower cutting edge, a third surface extending from the first upper cutting edge, and a fourth surface extending from the second lower cutting edge. The first surface and the fourth surface are parallel to a central axis. The second surface is inclined so as to depart from the central axis as going from the lower surface toward the upper surface. The third surface is inclined so as to depart from the central axis as going from the upper surface toward the lower surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Shohei MAO
  • Publication number: 20170291232
    Abstract: A cutting tool has an insert receiving pocket provided with a base surface. The base surface has a screw hole, and second and third engagement surfaces which are brought into contact with a first engagement surface formed in the lower surface of the cutting insert, thereby suppressing shifting of the cutting insert during cutting. The base surface is divided into four areas by a first boundary which passes through the screw hole's center point, and a second boundary is perpendicular to the first boundary and also passing though the center point. The second engagement part is formed on the outer side surface side relative to the first boundary and on the base end side relative to the second boundary, and the third engagement part is formed on the outer side surface side relative to the first boundary and on the leading end surface side relative to the second boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Yosuke YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20170291233
    Abstract: A cutting tool has a tool body having at least one pocket, at least one cutting insert releasably fixed to the pocket and a fastening device for securing the insert in the pocket. The pocket has a raised portion) with a flat upper support face arranged to be received in a recess of the insert and support the insert by receiving a bottom surface of the recess bearing on the support face. A projecting member of the raised portion has delimiting walls designed to bear against border walls of the recess of an insert for establishing mutual contact therewith and prevent rotation of the insert in the pocket by receiving a rotational moment acting on the insert in an active chip-removing state of the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Gilles MARIE, Marc RUE, Jacques GASTHUYS
  • Publication number: 20170291234
    Abstract: A roughening tool for roughening a metallic surface of an inner wall of a pre-drilled workpiece bore is disclosed. The roughening tool has a profiled contour provided between the tool clamping shaft and the tool tip. With this contour, a roughened structure can be produced through rotation of the tool by processing the metallic surface in a material removing or non-material removing manner The roughening tool includes at least one profiled web which extends along the tool axis, protrudes from a main tool part, and on whose outer web back the profiled contour is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: PETER KOPTON
  • Publication number: 20170291235
    Abstract: A clamping apparatus includes a shaft; a base body that is adjustable to different positions, e.g., heights, along the shaft; a clamping leg arranged to pivot into a first clamping position and a second clamping position; an arm that includes, and extends between, a first end portion connected to the base body and a second end portion connected to the clamping leg; and a handle configured to be moved (a) into a first position that locks the position of the base body relative to the shaft and provides a clamping force to the clamping leg, and (b) into a second position in which the base body is free to be shifted into different positions along the shaft, where moving the handle into the second position releases the clamping force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: John H. Drake, JR.
  • Publication number: 20170291236
    Abstract: A modular bow saw wherein the handle and bow can be separated for storage or transport.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: David Lindeman, Gary Benson, Timothy Kooser
  • Publication number: 20170291237
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes an SDS tool receiver and a tool housing. The SDS tool receiver includes at least one vacuuming-off channel and is configured to receive an exchangeable insert tool such that the at least one vacuuming-off channel enables removal of dust produced during operation of the exchangeable insert tool with a workpiece. The tool housing includes at least one drive unit configured to drive the exchangeable insert tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Uwe Engelfried, Thomas Duerr
  • Publication number: 20170291238
    Abstract: A blade for oscillating tools includes lateral edges, a working edge that extends in a first direction, and a mounting portion. The mounting portion includes a first mounting configuration that defines a first center and a second mounting configuration that defines a second center, where the first center is spaced a distance away from the second center in a direction that is substantially orthogonal to the first direction in which the working edge extends or to a tangent of a center of curvature of the working edge. Both mounting configurations are configured to drive the same working edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Walter Bernardi, Arvind Gopi, Saad Alam
  • Publication number: 20170291239
    Abstract: A method for monitoring the machine geometry of at least one gear cutting machine (10), having the following steps: a) measuring a workpiece in a measuring device (20) in order to determine actual data, wherein a workpiece is concerned which was previously machined in the machine (10) on the basis of specification data (VD, ?VD, MD, ?MD); b) correlating the actual data with the specification data (VD, ?VD, MD, ?MD) in order to thus determine the deviation of a geometric setting of at least one axis of the machine (10); c) storing the deviation of the geometric setting; d) repeating the steps a)-c) after the machining of further workpieces in the machine (10); e) performing a statistical evaluation of several of the stored deviations in order to determine a geometric change in the axis of the machine (10) by considering a predetermined condition and/or rule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Hartmuth Müller
  • Publication number: 20170291240
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a body including a connecting end, a cutting end which includes a space for receiving the work piece, at least one projection with a ridge defining at least one cutting edge for cutting the work piece, and at least one slot for allowing pieces trimmed from the workpiece to exit from the body. The space has a top and a bottom and tapers outwardly from the top to the bottom. The at least one cutting edge has a first end adjacent to the top of the space and a second end adjacent to the bottom of the space and extends from the first end to the second end obliquely. The body is rotatable about a first axis, and the first axis extends longitudinally between the first and second ends of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Cheng-Wei Su
  • Publication number: 20170291241
    Abstract: A device to unclog orifices in a workpiece is provided. The device includes a lower portion configured to receive the workpiece and an upper portion configured to secure the workpiece to the lower portion. The upper portion includes a tube configured to receive a piston. An unclogging material is placed in the tube portion, and the piston forces the unclogging material through the orifices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Harry Van Steel, III
  • Publication number: 20170291242
    Abstract: The present application teaches systems and methods for automating all or portions of a construction process including the steps of locating stud welding locations on the surface of an I-beam, I-beam grinding, ferrule placement, stud placement and welding to ground welding sites, and ferrule fracturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: James T. Benzing, William R. Haller
  • Publication number: 20170291243
    Abstract: A welding wire feeding device includes a base, a fixing post, a pressing member, a motor, and a conveying mechanism. The pressing member is pivotally connected with a driven wheel. A tension spring is provided between the fixing post and the pressing member. A shaft portion of the motor is pivotally connected with a driving wheel. The conveying mechanism is coupled to the base and has an air hole. The base is formed with a first passage and a second passage connected with a gas cylinder. The length of the conveying tube of the conveying mechanism can be adjusted by pressing. A wire is sandwiched between the driving wheel and the driven wheel through the tension spring. The motor drives the driving wheel to rotate the driven wheel so as to continuously convey the wire; meanwhile, the inert gas can be sent out through the second passage and the conveying mechanism to prevent a workpiece from being oxidized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: CHENG HSIN CHUANG, HUA CHENG CHIANG, CHING CHIA CHEN, I CHIN CHOU, CHIEN YANG LIU
  • Publication number: 20170291244
    Abstract: A plasma gas swirl ring for a liquid cooled plasma arc torch is provided. The swirl ring comprises a substantially hollow body having a distal end, a proximal end, an interior region defined by an interior surface, and an exterior surface. The interior region of the body is configured to receive an electrode of the plasma arc torch. The swirl ring comprises a first opening disposed within a portion of the proximal end of the body, a second opening disposed about a central portion of the body, and a third opening comprising at least one swirling port disposed within a portion of the distal end of the body. The third opening is configured to provide a swirling flow of the plasma gas about the electrode at the distal end of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: John Peters
  • Publication number: 20170291245
    Abstract: A plasma cutting system includes a plasma torch having a head, and a housing. A power supply is disposed within the housing and is in communication with the plasma torch. The power supply is configured to provide an output current for generating and maintaining a plasma cutting arc by the plasma torch, and includes a control processor in communication with a plurality of autonomous switching circuits via a multi-node communications bus. Each of the autonomous switching circuits includes a microcontroller configured to control the generation of a portion of the output current based on messages received from the control processor, monitor operating parameters of the autonomous switching circuit, and modify a control parameter of the autonomous switching circuit independent of and asynchronous to the other autonomous switching circuits of the plurality of autonomous switching circuits when one or more of the operating parameters exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Wayne Chin, Girish R. Kamath, Norman LeBlanc, Christopher S. Passage, Shane M. Selmer
  • Publication number: 20170291246
    Abstract: A method of resistance spot welding an aluminum workpiece and an adjacent overlapping steel workpiece is disclosed in which a source of a reactive metal in a diffusible state is located along a faying interface of an aluminum workpiece and an adjacent overlapping steel workpiece. The source of the reactive metal in a diffusible state may take on a variety of forms including (1) a composite adhesive layer that includes reactive particles dispersed throughout a structural thermosetting adhesive matrix or (1) a reactive alloy layer that confronts and is in proximate contact with a faying surface of the aluminum workpiece. Once the source of a reactive material in a diffusible state is in place and the workpiece stack-up is assembled, an electrical current is passed through the workpiece stack-up and between a set of opposed welding electrodes at a weld zone to ultimately produce a weld joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: David Sigler, Blair Carlson, Surender Maddela
  • Publication number: 20170291247
    Abstract: A weld joint is disclosed that weld bonds together an aluminum workpiece and a steel workpiece. The weld joint includes an aluminum weld nugget, an intermetallic layer, and an annular ring of aluminide particles that is selected from the group consisting of nickel aluminide particles, iron aluminide particles, and a combination thereof. The annular ring of aluminide particles extends upwards from a weld bond surface of the weld joint such that the annular ring of aluminide particles extends radially inwardly into the aluminum weld nugget and protects the weld bond surface of the weld joint against crack propagation that may originate from a notch root of the weld joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: David Sigler, Blair Carlson, Surender Maddela
  • Publication number: 20170291248
    Abstract: A welding electrode is disclosed that includes an electrode welding shell and a blind adapter that are joined together to cooperatively define an internal cavity. The electrode welding shell and the blind adapter may be integrally formed or they may be distinct components that are attached together. The presence of the internal cavity defined by the electrode welding shell and the blind adapter reduces the thermal mass of the welding electrode and slows the rate of conductive heat transfer from the weld face to a cooling fluid, which allows in the center of the weld face to retain heat for a longer duration once current flow through the welding electrode is terminated, thereby positively affecting the spot welding process for particular types of workpiece stack-ups including those that include an aluminum workpiece and an overlapping adjacent steel workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: David R. Sigler, David S. Yang
  • Publication number: 20170291249
    Abstract: A method of monitoring in real time pressure resistance welding of a cladding tube and an end plug. The method includes: a first step of detecting welding information including voltage, current, and welding force in a process of pressure resistance welding of a cladding tube and an end plug; a second step of comparing static factors obtained by calculating effective values for the welding information with predetermined reference values, respectively; a third step of calculating dynamic factors for the welding information including the gradient of instantaneous welding force, when the reference values are satisfied in the second step; and a fourth step of determining whether there is defect or not in welding quality by comparing the dynamic factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicants: KEPCO NUCLEAR FUEL CO., LTD., MONITECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Hyung NA, Dong Soo HWANG, Mi Hye KO, Kyung Woo CHOI
  • Publication number: 20170291250
    Abstract: A moving mechanism brings the rotational axis of each driven rotator into alignment with the rotational axis of a drive rotator, which has an engaging face extending along its rotational axis. Each driven rotator has an engageable face extending along the rotational axis of the drive rotator. Rotating the drive rotator while moving the driven rotator, of which the rotational axis is aligned with the rotational axis, toward the drive rotator will bring the engaging face into engagement with the engageable face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: TIPMAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Thinh Huu HUYNH, Anura Silva MARAKKALA MANAGE
  • Publication number: 20170291251
    Abstract: Provided is a bonding apparatus including a bonding stage 83 for heating a substrate (lead frame) 61 placed on the upper surface thereof or a semiconductor die 63 mounted on the substrate (lead frame) 61, an imaging device 20 arranged above the bonding stage 83 to image the substrate 61 placed on the bonding stage 83 or the semiconductor die 63 mounted on the substrate 61, and a standing wave generating device 35 for generating an ultrasonic standing wave in the space between the upper surface of the bonding stage 83 and the imaging device 20. This improves the accuracy of image position detection by the imaging device with a simple structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: Shinkawa Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru HAYATA, Hiroya YUZAWA, Yusuke MATSUKI
  • Publication number: 20170291252
    Abstract: A coil to magnetic-pulse weld parts including an active portion, one surface of which is referred to as an active surface, is arrangeable to face one of the parts at an area of overlap between the parts. The active surface has, across the width Lb thereof, an angled profile such that the active surface has a non-zero angle in relation to a plane. At least at the working area, the part closest to the active surface extends along the plane, when the parts are positioned at the coil for welding. A related magnetic-pulse welding method is also provided herewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: GILLES AVRILLAUD, JEAN-PAUL CUQ LELANDAIS, SAMUEL FERREIRA
  • Publication number: 20170291253
    Abstract: A transition structure includes a metallic portion, a fiber portion including a plurality of tows embedded within the metallic portion and extending out from the metallic portion forming a fabric, and a binding material forming a matrix surrounding the fiber portion embedded within the metallic portion. The fiber portion may be attached to or form part of a composite vehicle component. The transition structure may join a metallic component and a composite component. The transition structure may be manufactured by creating first channels within a layer of a metallic substrate, inserting fiber tows into the first channels, placing a first metallic layer over the metallic substrate and the fiber tows, consolidating the metallic layer to the metallic substrate, and binding the fiber tows within a resin. Prior to binding, additional layers of channels and fiber tows may be consolidated onto the first metallic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Ryan HAHNLEN, Duane DETWILER, Allen SHELDON, Marcelo DAPINO, Mark Bryant GINGERICH, Matthew SCHEIDT, Leon HEADINGS
  • Publication number: 20170291254
    Abstract: An SiC wafer is produced from an SiC ingot by a method that includes a first modified layer forming step and a second modified layer forming step. In the first step, a first laser beam having a first power forms a plurality of discrete first modified layers at a first depth inside the ingot. In the second step, a second laser beam having a second power greater than the first power is applied to the ingot with the second laser beam focused at a depth greater than the first depth. A beam spot of the second laser beam overlaps any one of the plural first modified layers, thereby continuously forming a plurality of second modified layers connected in a line at the first depth. Cracks are formed on both sides of the line of the plural second modified layers so as to extend along a c-plane in the ingot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Kazuya Hirata
  • Publication number: 20170291255
    Abstract: A wafer is produced from an ingot by confirming whether or not an inclined c-axis of the ingot and a second orientation flat of the ingot are perpendicular to each other, and detecting a processing feed direction perpendicular to the direction in which the c-axis is inclined. The method includes performing sampling irradiation of the ingot with a laser beam, along a direction parallel to the second orientation flat and a plurality of directions inclined clockwise and counterclockwise by respective predetermined angles from the second orientation flat, thereby forming a plurality of sampled reduced strength areas in the ingot; measuring the number of nodes which exist per unit length on each of the sampled reduced strength areas, and determining a direction in which the sampled reduced strength area where the measured number of nodes is zero extends as a processing feed direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventor: Kazuya Hirata
  • Publication number: 20170291256
    Abstract: Ballistic failure resistance is imparted to metallic ballistic armor plate by identifying a compressive residual stress profile for mitigating a predetermined ballistic failure mode in a metallic ballistic armor plate component, and imparting the identified compressive residual stress profile to the component by laser peening the component in a treatment mode predetermined with reference to the identified compressive residual stress profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Jeff L. Dulaney, David F. Lahrman, Daniel Ryan Georgiadis, Richard Daniel Hepburn
  • Publication number: 20170291257
    Abstract: The present invention is aimed to design an invented portable laser marking apparatus with a mini size body, which includes several modules received in a single body for providing improved utility. That is, the present invention includes a laser control module, a marking module, a plug-in computer module, and a power supply module. All modules are easily assembled in the apparatus to become a portable single mini body, which can then be provided with a panel thereon. Therefore, by use of the single mini apparatus according to the present invention, users can operate the laser marking apparatus easily and obtain the design effect of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: CHIEH HUANG CHANG, HSIEN TING WANG