Patents Issued in November 7, 2017
  • Patent number: 9808863
    Abstract: A tube exchange device for holding and replacing refractory nozzle comprises a frame with a casting opening. The frame is configured to be fixed to the lower side of a metal casting vessel. The frame is has an upper portion and a lower portion joining at a middle section plane in which an inner nozzle and an exchangeable pouring nozzle form a sliding contact. The lower portion of the frame contains a displacing element and a guiding element disposed for displacing and guiding the nozzle from a standby position to a casting position, and a pressing element pressing the nozzle at the casting position towards the upper portion of the frame. In a combination of the tube exchange device and a nozzle, the nozzle comprises bearing elements mating with the clamping elements of the tube exchange device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: VESUVIUS CRUCIBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: Vincent Boisdequin, Mariano Collura, Fabrice Sibiet
  • Patent number: 9808864
    Abstract: A lamination molding apparatus which can lower the oxygen concentration in a molding room in short time is provided. A lamination molding apparatus, including a molding room; a processing head; a driving device housing room housing a driving device moving the processing head; a partitioning section to partition the molding room from the driving device housing room; a discharging section to discharge gas in the molding room; and an inert gas supplying apparatus to supply the inert gas to both of the molding room and to the driving device housing room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Kawada, Katsutaka Muranaka, Shuji Okazaki
  • Patent number: 9808865
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a metallic component is disclosed. The method includes forming a metallic component with a support structure using an additive manufacturing process. The support structure includes support walls arranged to form flow passages with a predetermined cross-sectional area. The method also includes placing the metallic component with the support structure into a chamber and sealing the chamber. The method further includes introducing a fuel mixture into the chamber after sealing the chamber. The method still further includes igniting the fuel mixture in the chamber to remove one or more of the support walls of the support structure from the metallic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventor: Thomas John Chipman Rogers
  • Patent number: 9808866
    Abstract: A self-adjusting tool for chamfering an end of a cylinder includes a plurality of legs. A distal segment of each of the legs extends in a forward direction of the tool and is placeable about the end of the cylinder. A central body has a rotatable shaft and a mechanism that is operable by rotation of the shaft about a shaft axis. The mechanism is operable to retract the legs inward in tandem toward the cylinder and to rotate the legs about the shaft axis when further retraction of the legs is blocked by contact with the cylinder. One or a plurality of chamfering blades are each attached to one of the legs. A cutting edge of each blade is oriented diagonally forward and inward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Noga Engineering & Technology (2008) Ltd.
    Inventor: Rami Glaser
  • Patent number: 9808867
    Abstract: A tool having a flexible shaft, a first end and, a second end and capable of being bent about its axis. The tool transfers rotary motion from a device to tool. The shaft, manufactured from a rigid material, has at least one flexible segment, each flexible segment have at least one sinuous slot ascending in a helical path. With multiple segments, the helical path of the slots can be opposite or the same. With one or more segments having multiple slots, the slots can be parallel or have opposite ascensions, thereby crossing one another. The helical paths can vary within each segment or from segment to segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Flex Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: William R. Krause, Garland Edwards
  • Patent number: 9808868
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool is provided which includes a clutch housing of a torque clutch, and a planetary gear, situated in a gear housing, for transmitting a torque which is generated by a drive motor to a drive shaft. The clutch housing cooperates with the planetary gear via a pressure plate. The pressure plate is displaced in the axial direction in order to disengage the torque clutch. The axial relative motion of the pressure plate causes an axial relative motion between a switching element and an associated optical sensor, via which the drive motor may be switched off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Kraus, Heiko Roehm, Joachim Hecht
  • Patent number: 9808869
    Abstract: A hole cutter has a substantially cylindrical blade body defining a blade body circumference, a cutting edge formed on one end of the blade body, and an axially-elongated slot formed through the substantially cylindrical blade body. The axially-elongated slot is configured to receive chips flowing from the cutting edge within the interior of the blade body and (i) into the slot, and/or (ii) through the slot, to prevent the collection of such chips within the interior of the blade body and/or at an interface between the blade body and work piece. The axially-elongated slot defines a first end adjacent to the cutting edge, a second end axially spaced further from the cutting edge, and a slot area. The hole cutter further defines a total slot area to blade body circumference ratio within the range of about 0.1 to about 0.3 depending on the size of the hole cutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: IRWIN INDUSTRIAL TOOL COMPANY
    Inventors: Joseph Thomas Novak, Matthew Christopher Green
  • Patent number: 9808870
    Abstract: A reverse spot-facing tool for cutting a reverse spot-face in a workpiece using a reverse spot-facing cutter configured to engage a pilot shaft having a first end and a second end is disclosed. The workpiece comprises a through hole having a central axis. The reverse spot-facing tool comprises a stop configured to be located between the first end and the second end of the pilot shaft; a biasing assembly that generates a first thrust force and an equal and opposite second thrust force when the reverse spot-facing cutter is cutting the reverse spot face; and a thrust bearing configured to be positioned between the biasing assembly and the stop. When the reverse spot-facing cutter is cutting the reverse spot-face, the thrust bearing transmits the second thrust force from the biasing assembly to the stop, and the biasing assembly transmits the first thrust force to the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Walter F. Gurnavage
  • Patent number: 9808871
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a cutting insert which reduces cutting load and can be accurately positioned at a coupling part of a cutting tool even if cutting edges are broken or deformed. To this end, the cutting insert of the present invention includes an upper surface, a lower surface, a plurality of lateral surfaces connecting the upper surface with the lower surface, and a plurality of upper cutting edges formed between the plurality of lateral surfaces and the upper surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: KORLOY INC.
    Inventors: Byung-Sun Choi, Sun-Kyoo Lee, Taeg-Won Lee, Dong-Ryong Ji, Dong-Bok Park
  • Patent number: 9808872
    Abstract: A portable electric cutter includes a housing 2 in which a motor 1 is accommodated, a saw blade driven to rotate by the motor, a base 6 coupled to the housing 2 and having a bottom surface slidable on a surface of a material to be cut, a fan 7 driven to rotate by the motor, a driving circuit for switching power supplied to the motor, and a control circuit for controlling the driving circuit. A circuit board 60 on which the driving circuit, the control circuit and others are mounted is provided, motor cooling air vents are provided in the housing 2 on a side opposite to the saw blade, and circuit board cooling air vents are provided in the housing 2 on the side opposite to the saw blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hayato Yamaguchi, Hideyuki Tanimoto, Kenichirou Yoshida, Shinji Kuragano
  • Patent number: 9808873
    Abstract: A method is provided for removing an abandoned marine platform from a seabed. The platform extends below the seabed mud line. In order to remove the platform, a frame is provided having a perimeter that surrounds an open center. The frame is lowered over the platform wherein the platform occupies the open center portion. A movable cutter cable is fitted to the frame. At least a part of the cutter cable is positioned below the mud line. The cutter is moved relative to the frame to cut the platform below the mud line. Such movement can be a back and forth movement wherein the cutter cable moves in a first direction, stops and then moves in a second direction that is generally opposite the first direction. A lifting device can employ two vessels and two frames, each frame bridging from one vessel to the other. Winches on the vessel can be used to provide movement to the cutter cable. These same winches can take up cable slack as cutting moves from one platform member (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Inventor: Jon Khachaturian
  • Patent number: 9808874
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a soldering method for joining objects is also provided, comprising the steps of applying a flux composition to at least a portion of one or more of the objects, and joining the objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kang-Wook Lee, Jae-Woong Nah, Nathalie Normand, Valerie Oberson
  • Patent number: 9808875
    Abstract: Methods and associated structures of forming a package structure including forming a low melting point solder material on a solder resist opening location of an IHS keep out zone, forming a sealant in a non SRO keep out zone region; attaching the IHS to the sealant, and curing the sealant, wherein a solder joint is formed between the IHS and the low melting point solder material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Deepak V. Kulkarni, Carl L. Deppisch, Leonel R. Arana, Gregory S. Constable, Sriram Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 9808876
    Abstract: A stainless steel weldment and pad combined welding method includes steps of: (a) respectively processing and pairing butts of to-be-welded portions of two weldments, wherein, during pairing, inner walls of the two weldments are aligned at the same plane; the butts of the two weldments are opposed to form a V-shaped groove with an angle ?; and between bottoms of the butts of the two weldments is kept a gap L of 2-4 mm; (b) providing a copper pad at the gap between the bottoms of the butts of the two weldments, wherein the copper pad closely attaches to the inner walls of the two weldments; (c) welding the V-shaped groove to form a root pass; and (d) removing the copper pad, and filling the root pass to be welded into a cover pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: CHINA NATIONAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING THIRD CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jiewen Xia, Qingping Huang, Jialin Chen, Yuxian Su, Wenwei Li, Liyang Pang, Yan Wu
  • Patent number: 9808877
    Abstract: An alloy comprising about 0.5 weight percent to about 2 weight percent carbon, about 15 weight percent to about 30 weight percent chromium, about 4 weight percent to about 12 weight percent nickel, up to about 3 weight percent manganese, up to about 2.5 weight percent silicon, up to about 1 weight percent zirconium, up to about 3 weight percent molybdenum, up to about 3 weight percent tungsten, up to about 0.5 weight percent boron, up to about 0.5 weight percent impurities, and iron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: AZZ WSI LLC
    Inventors: George Y. Lai, Bingtao Li
  • Patent number: 9808878
    Abstract: A robotic welding equipment station to detect deviation of a tool center point of a welding torch. The station is provided with pairs of light emitting and detecting devices to emit and detect two separate light beams. The pairs of light emitting devices and detectors are oriented at an angle and spaced apart from each other such that the two light beams are at an angle to one another and the weld wire electrode is able to simultaneously interrupt both light beams when there is no deviation in a tool center point. The spacing prevents the weld wire electrode from interrupting both light beams when an increasing deviation of the tool center point propagates along the length of the weld wire electrode. First and second output signals generated by the first and second light detectors are received by a means for detecting deviation of the tool center point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Ingraham, I, Kristofer K. Klein
  • Patent number: 9808879
    Abstract: Provided herein is a welding diagnostic device, a method of identifying a metal transfer mode of a welding process presently being performed and a transfer mode identifier for use with a GMAW welding machine. In one embodiment, the welding diagnostic device includes: (1) a welding data interface configured to receive a welding voltage from a welding machine during a welding process and (2) a data acquisition system configured to, during the welding process, determine a metal transfer mode of the welding process based on the welding voltage and provide a sensory indication thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: ISAWE, LLC
    Inventors: Yoni Adonyi, Joseph Russell, Derek S. Hoyt, Nathan Berthiaume
  • Patent number: 9808880
    Abstract: In a welding power supply, a feedback circuit senses electrical signals from the power output studs and from remote welding sense leads. The feedback control circuit scales the electrical signals and converts the signals to binary numbers having magnitude bits and a polarity bit respectively. The binary numbers, representing the signals, are simultaneously shifted into a logic processor for calculation of a feedback signal based on the digitized input. The feedback signal is calculated based on the polarity of connectivity of the remote welding sense leads as represented by the binary numbers. The feedback signal is then fed into the power supply output controller for automatically adjusting the power output of the arc welder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Lincoln Global, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward Michael Furman
  • Patent number: 9808881
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing welding-type power and auxiliary power includes an input circuit, a welding-type output power circuit, an auxiliary power circuit, and a controller. The input circuit receives input power and provides power to a common bus. The welding-type output power circuit receives power from the common bus and provides welding-type output power. The auxiliary power circuit receives power from the common bus and provides non-isolated auxiliary output power. The controller controls the auxiliary power circuit and the welding-type output power circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Michael D. Madsen
  • Patent number: 9808882
    Abstract: A method of controlling a welding system includes providing a welding wire to a welding torch at a first wire feed speed, providing a pulsed power output to the welding wire via a contact point of the welding torch, determining, utilizing a sensing system, a contact-point-to-work-distance (CPWD) between the contact point and a workpiece, and changing, utilizing a controller, the wire feed speed of the welding wire to a second wire feed speed based at least in part on the determined CPWD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventor: Richard Martin Hutchison
  • Patent number: 9808883
    Abstract: A dual ultrasonic welder unit may be coupled to and carried by a mounting bracket including a base member extending in a an end of a robot arm and may include a first welder including a welding horn adjustable in a Z-axis direction by a first motor mounted within a mounting bar assembly of the first welder. The mounting bar assembly may be coupled to the base member and include a support for adjusting the location of the first welder in an X-axis direction by a second motor mounted to an extension member coupled to the base member and including a threaded member coupled to a follower member coupled to the mounting bar assembly. The dual ultrasonic welder may include a second ultrasonic welder fixedly coupled to the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: T.A. Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew E. Ballough, Thomas J. Martin, Kirk A. Brunssen, Timothy S. Gale, Timothy E. Dunbar, Lawrence F. Garrison, II, Gary J. Olson
  • Patent number: 9808884
    Abstract: There is provided a polycrystalline SiC wafer producing method. In this method, in a modified layer forming step for forming an interface for producing a polycrystalline SiC wafer from a polycrystalline SiC ingot, the formed interface is a surface formed by linking of modified layers formed in such a manner that an initial modified layer is formed through splitting of polycrystalline SiC into amorphous silicon and amorphous carbon at the light focus point of a pulse laser beam and then polycrystalline SiC splits into amorphous silicon and amorphous carbon at a position at which the power density is constant with absorption of the continuously-emitted pulse laser beam by amorphous carbon formed in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Disco Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Hirata, Yoko Nishino
  • Patent number: 9808885
    Abstract: A method for forming three-dimensional anchoring structures on a surface is provided. This may result in a thermal barrier coating system exhibiting enhanced adherence for its constituent coatings. The method involves applying a laser beam (10) to a surface (12) of a solid material (14) to form a liquefied bed (16) on the surface of the solid material, then applying a pulse of laser energy (18) to a portion of the liquefied bed to cause a disturbance, such as a splash (20) or a wave (25) of liquefied material outside the liquefied bed. A three-dimensional anchoring structure (22) may thus be formed on the surface upon solidification of the splash or wave of liquefied material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Gerald J. Bruck, Ahmed Kamel
  • Patent number: 9808886
    Abstract: A method and system to manufacture workpieces employing a high intensity energy source to create a puddle and at least one resistively heated wire which is heated to at or near its melting temperature and deposited into the puddle as droplets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Lincoln Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven R Peters, Paul E Denney, Badri Narayanan, Dionysus Damato, Michael Whitehead
  • Patent number: 9808887
    Abstract: An assembly includes a first steel component that is joined to a second steel component by a weld joint formed in a hybrid welding process. At least one of the first and second steel components is a through-hardened bearing steel. In the hybrid welding process, base material of the first and second steel components is melted, and a molten filler material including at least 90% nickel is added. The weld joint is formed after solidification of the molten base material and of the molten filler material. The weld joint has a central solidified portion and a peripheral solidified portion, and the central solidified portion includes at least 80% filler material and the peripheral solidified portion includes no more than 20% filler material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventor: John F. van de Sanden
  • Patent number: 9808888
    Abstract: A laser system includes a laser configured to emit pulse bursts and a motion device in optical communication with the laser. The motion device moves a laser beam along a process path on a substrate and is configured to have a natural frequency that is greater than an operating frequency of the laser system. The laser system enables high and constant speed processing along tight radii in the process path, which is useful to form laser induced channels along the process path with equal spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: GENTEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Niels A. Olesen, David A. Bender, Donald L. Bareman
  • Patent number: 9808889
    Abstract: A turbine is provided comprising a plurality of stages, each stage comprising a rotatable disk and blades carried thereby, at least one pair of adjacent rotatable disks defining an annular gap therebetween and having respective opposing sealing band receiving slots aligned with the annular gap A sealing band is located in the opposing receiving slots to seal the annular gap Disk engagement structure is defined in the pair of adjacent rotatable disks. A clip member is coupled to the sealing band and engaged with the pair of adjacent rotatable disks through the disk engagement structure The clip member may have an aperture extending only partially through the clip member for alignment with a hole in the sealing band for engagement with a tool To improve weld geometry, the clip member may have angled surfaces and notched areas, and the sealing band may have chamfered edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: David J. Mitchell, Michael J. Olejarski, Christopher J. Muller
  • Patent number: 9808890
    Abstract: A solder alloy has an alloy composition containing Zn of 3 through 25 mass %, Ti of 0.002 through 0.25 mass %, Al of 0.002 through 0.25 mass % and balance of Sn, a solder joint made of the solder alloy, and a jointing method using the solder alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Senju Metal Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hikaru Nomura, Shunsaku Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 9808891
    Abstract: A tool and a method of reflow are provided. In various embodiments, the tool includes a chamber unit, a wafer lifting system, a heater, and an exhausting unit. The wafer lifting system is disposed in the chamber unit. The heater is coupled to the chamber unit, and configured to heat the wafer. The exhausting unit coupled to the chamber unit, and configured to exhaust gas in the chamber unit. The wafer lifting system is configured to receive and move the wafer in the chamber unit, and to provide a vertical distance between the heater and the wafer in the chamber unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shih-Yen Chen, Tzi-Yi Shieh, Yuh-Sen Chang, Chung-Li Lee
  • Patent number: 9808892
    Abstract: A fitting holding device holds an olet fitting in place while tack welding the olet fitting to a pipe. The device includes an elongated rectangular handle with a gripping section and a tapered section. A first rod straight rod extends from the handle. A second rod extends from the handle having a first section is coplanar with the first rod, a second section coplanar with respect to the first section and skewed relative to the first rod, a third section coplanar with the second section and the first section and transverse relative to the first rod defining a gap to engage and hold an olet fitting. A cuff is slidable along a length of the first rod and the first section to adjust tension on the olet fitting positioned between the first rod and the third section of the second rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Inventor: Shelley L. Dowden
  • Patent number: 9808893
    Abstract: An apparatus for aligning sections of pipe includes a first clamp member and a second clamp member coupled with the first clamp member. The first and second clamp members each include a first clamp jaw and a second clamp jaw longitudinally spaced from the first clamp jaw. Each one of a first plurality of turnbuckle assemblies is coupled with each one of the first and second clamp jaws of the first clamp member, and each one of a second plurality of turnbuckle assemblies is coupled with each one of the first and second clamp jaws of the second clamp member. An assembly made from a kit of components is also disclosed. The kit includes an apparatus for aligning sections of pipe, and a plurality of shoe inserts. The assembly includes the apparatus and at least two of the shoe inserts coupled with the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Walhonde Tools Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew W. McClure
  • Patent number: 9808894
    Abstract: A swash plate fulfils the basic properties required for a swash plate, which are stable boundary lubricating state by lubricating oil, without forming a metal spray coating layer comprising a copper type or aluminum type material on the surface of a substrate 3a forming the swash plate 3 of the swash plate type compressor as an intermediate layer. The substrate 3a of the swash plate 3 comprises a disk-shaped steel sheet formed by pressing a rolled steel sheet into a disk shape, and both surfaces of the disk-shaped steel sheet are ground. Thus, resin coating layers 10 containing fluororesin, which has superior seizure resistance, can be strongly fixed to the substrate without the need to form a metal spray coating layer on the surface of the substrate. This improves the durability of the swash plate type compressor using carbon dioxide gas as a refrigerant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Naonari Tanigawa, Yoshio Oki
  • Patent number: 9808895
    Abstract: A method is used to produce a piston pump having a housing and a piston subassembly. The piston subassembly is displaceably guided in the housing and has a first, rod-like piston element and a second, sleeve-like piston element. The second piston element is connected to the first piston element via a press fit. At least one transverse bore and a longitudinal bore are arranged in the second piston element. A stop edge for the housing is arranged on the second piston element. The piston subassembly also has an inlet valve, which includes a receiving element, in which an inlet valve spring and an inlet valve sealing element are arranged. The piston subassembly also has a corresponding inlet valve seat, which is arranged on the second piston element. While the second piston element is being machined, the press fit and the longitudinal bore are produced and/or finished in one step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernard Huckenbeck, Marc Zimmermann, Martin Juretko
  • Patent number: 9808896
    Abstract: Positive feed tools that include gear heads configured to be driven by a motor. The gear heads further include a pneumatic manifold that provides for access to input/output signals to add on additional components that include additional air logic functionality. The gear head includes first and second interface positions. Each interface is configured to receive either the motor for powering the gear head or an add-on component to provide additional functionality to the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Apex Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Myhill
  • Patent number: 9808897
    Abstract: A machine tool adapted to perform operations, for example, machining, on a surface of a part of large size is provided. The machine tool comprises a longitudinal rail and a transverse arm, orthogonal to the longitudinal rail, slidingly fastened at a first end to the longitudinal rail. A second end of the transverse arm is provided with a unit comprising a holding device enabling the unit to be held in position on the part during an operation. The transverse arm bearing a tool is thus precisely positioned on the part on which the operations are carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
    Inventor: Fabien Albert
  • Patent number: 9808898
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a sealing system for a tool holder of a fluid-assisted axial machining or milling machine, including:—at least first and second seals contributing to define a space for the flow of fluid to at least one inner channel of the tool, one of the seals being applied to the tool or an optional adapter carrying the tool and the other seal a) being applied to the tool or to the adapter carrying the tool or b) being applied to a surface spaced apart from the tool and rotating with same, with 0.3?Do/Djmax for Do in the interval [1; 3] in mm and 0.5?Do/Djmax for Do in the interval [3; 20] in mm, where Do is the diameter of the tool facing this other seal and Djmax is the internal diameter of this seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: MITIS
    Inventor: Sylvain Laporte
  • Patent number: 9808899
    Abstract: A method for mutually positioning tubes. End faces, which includes a generally annular and generally circular end surface near an inner surface of the tube and a beveled edge surface connecting the end surface to an outer surface of the tube, are provided on first and second tubes, respectively. Plural clamping cylinders are engaged with the first and second tubes, respectively. Each cylinder is radially arranged onto and evenly distributed around respective tubes. The first and second tubes are pre-positioned relative to each other such that their respective end faces are opposite each other. At least one radial offset is assessed between the respective end surfaces of the first and second tubes. The clamping cylinders of the first and/or second tube are moved relative to each other in accordance with the assessed radial offset based on an optimization of areas in which their respective end surfaces coincide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SERIMAX
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Dagenais
  • Patent number: 9808900
    Abstract: A system for duplicating a master key includes a mechanism for receiving and positioning a master key. The master key defines a major key axis and an intermediate key axis along which a key blade variably extends, and a minor key axis along a key thickness. Optical path components direct a light beam along the minor key axis. The light beam impinges upon the key blade. A portion of the light beam traverses the key blade. A detector receives the portion of the light beam that traverses the key blade. An apparatus imparts relative motion along the major key axis between the light beam and the master key. The light beam scans along the major key axis of the master key. A processor receives a signal from the detector as the beam scans along the major key axis and generates information usable for defining the machining of a duplicate key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: MINUTE KEY INC.
    Inventors: Richard L. Gardner, Bradford Shayne Cooley, David Kortbawi
  • Patent number: 9808901
    Abstract: Apparatus for sharpening a cutting tool. In some embodiments, a tool sharpener includes an abrasive medium having an abrasive surface. A stationary tool support guide provides a guide surface that supports a side of the tool during presentation of a cutting edge of the tool against the abrasive surface. A rotatable edge guide has a roller member with a curvilinearly extending outer surface. The roller member is rotatable about an edge guide roller axis and is moveable between a deployed position and a retracted position. In the deployed position, the roller member is positioned to engage, via rolling contact, the cutting edge during the presentation of the cutting edge against the abrasive surface. In the retracted position, the roller member is positioned to provide a non-contacting clearing relation with the cutting edge during said presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Darex, LLC
    Inventor: Daniel T. Dovel
  • Patent number: 9808902
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for sharpening a cutting tool. In some embodiments, a sharpener has a guide assembly adjacent a moveable abrasive medium. The medium is advanced at a first speed relative to the guide assembly during a coarse sharpening operation in which a user presents the cutting tool against the medium to shape a side of the cutting tool and generate distended material from the cutting edge (e.g., burrs). The medium is subsequently slowed to a lower, second speed for a fine sharpening operation in which the user presents the cutting tool against the medium to remove the distended material and provide a sharpened cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Darex, LLC
    Inventor: Daniel T. Dovel
  • Patent number: 9808903
    Abstract: A polishing method which can remove foreign matters from an entire back surface of a substrate at a high removal rate is provided. The polishing method includes placing a polishing tool in sliding contact with an outer circumferential region of a back surface of a substrate while holding a center-side region of the back surface of the substrate, and placing a polishing tool in sliding contact with the center-side region of the back surface of the substrate while holding a bevel portion of the substrate to polish the back surface in its entirety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Ishii, Kenya Ito, Masayuki Nakanishi, Tetsuji Togawa
  • Patent number: 9808904
    Abstract: A device is adapted to be coupled to a conveyor system and recondition at least one chain of the conveyor system. The device includes a base and at least one attachment element coupled to the base. The attachment element is adapted to detachably couple the device to the conveyor system. At least one reconditioning element is coupled to the base, and the reconditioning element is adapted to engage and recondition the chain as the chain moves relative to the reconditioning element. At least one biasing element is coupled to the reconditioning element, and the biasing element urges the reconditioning element away from the base and into engagement with the chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Dean Foods Company
    Inventor: Larry Sewell
  • Patent number: 9808905
    Abstract: An invention is provided for creating smoothed, heat-treated glass fragments. The invention includes placing a plurality of heat-treated glass fragments into a tumbling or vibrating apparatus. Each heat-treated glass fragment is formed from glass that has been heated to a temperature of at least 1000° Fahrenheit and rapidly cooled to a temperature below 700° Fahrenheit. The plurality of glass fragments are then tumbled or vibrated for a predetermined period of time such that surfaces of the heat-treated glass fragments are smoother than prior to tumbling. The glass fragments are thereafter removed from the tumbling apparatus, resulting in smoothed, heat-treated glass fragments that are suitable for direct handling without hand protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Inventors: Edgar Edward Jaunzemis, Claudia Sue Jaunzemis
  • Patent number: 9808906
    Abstract: A polishing apparatus includes a platen having a first surface to support a polishing pad and a second surface, a carrier head to hold a substrate against the polishing pad, a plurality of through-holes defined in the platen, and a pad pressure control assembly adjacent on a side of the platen opposite the carrier head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Shou-Sung Chang, Takashi Fujikawa, Hung Chih Chen, Paul D. Butterfield
  • Patent number: 9808907
    Abstract: A polishing clamp for clamping a work-piece to be polished and a polishing method using the same. The polishing clamp includes a fixing-block for fixing the work-piece to be polished, a recess formed on an end surface of the fixing-block and having the same shape as the work-piece to be polished, the work-piece able to be embedded in the recess, and when the work-piece is placed in the recess, a polished surface of the work-piece to be polished is flush with the end surface of the fixing-block forming the recess. Since a portion of the work-piece to be polished that does not need polish could be prevented from contacting the polishing apparatus by means of the fixing-block when being polished, the over-wearing may not occur at edges and corners of the work-piece, improving the quality of polishing. This can improve the quality of, e.g., a light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BOE OPTICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keping Cao, Feng Zhou, Chaozong Chen
  • Patent number: 9808908
    Abstract: A method of monitoring dressing of a polishing pad is provided. The method includes: rotating a polishing table that supports the polishing pad; dressing the polishing pad by pressing a dresser against the polishing pad while causing the dresser to oscillate in a radial direction of the polishing pad; calculating a work coefficient representing a ratio of a frictional force between the dresser and the polishing pad to a force of pressing the dresser against the polishing pad; and monitoring dressing of the polishing pad based on the work coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Shinozaki
  • Patent number: 9808909
    Abstract: An orifice for a high-pressure waterjet cutter includes a first surface defining an inlet plane, a second surface defining an outlet plane, and an inner bore aligned along a flow axis and extending from the first surface to the second surface. The orifice also includes a first layer of polycrystalline diamond extending from the first surface to a plane between the inlet plane and the outlet plane, and a second, separate layer of polycrystalline diamond extending from the plane to the second surface. The first layer and the second layer are coupled to one another to define a single component. The second layer has material properties different than the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: KMT Waterjet Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Pradeep Nambiath, David S. Wootton
  • Patent number: 9808910
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to polycrystalline diamond compacts (“PDCs”) and methods of fabricating such PDCs. In an embodiment, a PDC includes a substrate and a preformed polycrystalline diamond table including an interfacial surface bonded to the substrate and an opposing working surface. The preformed polycrystalline diamond table includes a proximal region extending from the interfacial surface to an intermediate location within the preformed polycrystalline diamond table that includes a metallic infiltrant infiltrated from the substrate, and a distal region extending from the working surface to the intermediate location that is substantially free of the metallic infiltrant. A boundary exists between the proximal and distal regions that has a nonplanar irregular profile characteristic of the metallic infiltrant having been infiltrated into the preformed polycrystalline diamond table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: US SYNTHETIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mohammad N. Sani
  • Patent number: 9808911
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing polycrystalline abrasive elements consisting of micron, sub-micron or nano-sized ultrahard abrasives dispersed in micron, sub-micron or nano-sized matrix materials. A plurality of ultrahard abrasive particles having vitreophilic surfaces are coated with a matrix precursor material in a refined colloidal process and then treated to render them suitable for sintering. The matrix precursor material can be converted to an oxide, nitride, carbide, oxynitride, oxycarbide, or carbonitride, or an elemental form thereof. The coated ultrahard abrasive particles are consolidated and sintered at a pressure and temperature at which they are crystallographically or thermodynamically stable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: ELEMENT SIX ABRASIVES S.A.
    Inventors: Antionette Can, Anna Emela Mochubele, Geoffrey John Davies, Johannes Lodewikus Myburgh
  • Patent number: 9808912
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for fabricating a super mirror finish stainless steel sheet uses the following steps: 1) rough machining, wherein a 400-450 grit sandpaper or scouring pad is used to remove an oxide layer on a surface of a stainless steel decorative sheet; 2) finish machining, wherein a 240-1,000 grit graphite grinding wheel is used to perform finish grinding; and 3) polishing processing, wherein an abrasive material is used to perform polishing. For the finish grinding and the polishing that are performed by using the grinding wheel and the abrasive material respectively, a multi-shaft polishing system is used to drive a grinding wheel, and a cylinder is controlled to adjust a force of each polishing shaft, which enables a stainless steel decorative sheet to have a surface finish under 0.01 ?m and a reflectivity above 69%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: HAIMEN SENDA DECORATION MATERIAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zhihong Sang, Liang Hong, Hui Jiang, Gang Chen