Patents Issued in January 18, 2018
  • Publication number: 20180015549
    Abstract: A cutting tool holder (110) configured for mounting thereon a cutting insert (140?). The cutting tool holder comprises a body (112) formed with an insert seat (120) configured receiving therein the cutting insert and a seat bore (135) configured for accommodating therein a fastening member (150?). The cutting tool holder also comprises an anchoring element (170) received within the body of the holder, the fastening element being configured for secured engagement with the anchoring element and being free of such engagement with the seat bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Gershon HARIF
  • Publication number: 20180015550
    Abstract: A handheld machining device (1), particularly for drilling, having a mechanism includes: a first mounting (20), on which a tool holder (2), and a motor (3, 4) arranged to rotate the tool holder (2), are mounted; a second mounting (30); and an element (40) for translatably guiding, between the first mounting (20) and the second mounting (30), a linear actuator (5) enabling the first mounting (20) to be spaced apart from the second mounting (30), and the first mounting (20) to be brought toward the second mounting (30). The motor (3, 4) is electric, and the rotor (4) of the first motor (3, 4) is directly mounted onto the tool holder (2) and is rigidly connected thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Sylvain GUERIN
  • Publication number: 20180015551
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a five-axis machining apparatus. A five-axis machining apparatus according an embodiment of the present invention includes: a column; a slide coupled to the column so as to be slidable in a vertical direction; a main spindle drive unit supported on the back of the slide; and a tiltable spindle module detachably coupled to the front of the slide, and configured to receive rotation power from the main spindle drive unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Hyo Seog KANG
  • Publication number: 20180015552
    Abstract: An automatic movable machine configured such that: a vertical plate and a support plate are fixed, in a perpendicular direction to each other, to a semicircular chamfering angle adjusting plate fixed to a head of the movable chamfering machine; a moving body is provided at the vertical plate on the inside of the pipe or the lower side of the metal sheet, and equipped with an internal roller regulated by a spring contact with the inside of the pipe or the lower side of the metal sheet; the support plate has a fixing bolt; a fixing plate is provided to the support plate, and provided at the front of a gear box; and external rollers are provided at the front of the gear box, and allow the speed of the rotational force of a motor, to be reduced in the gear box and transmit the speed-reduced rotational force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Jongil LEE
  • Publication number: 20180015553
    Abstract: A rotating tool includes a tool body having an axis of rotation and a first recess for receiving an ID chip having a first mass and a first exterior geometry. The tool includes a dummy chip receivable in the first recess and the tool is rotationally balanced with the dummy chip in the first recess, wherein after balancing the dummy chip is removed and the ID chip is insertable in the first recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Ulrich KOERNER
  • Publication number: 20180015554
    Abstract: A milling insert for shoulder milling having s a positive basic shape and includes an upper side having a rake surface, a lower side including a planar bottom surface, a side surface extending around the periphery of the milling insert, and a cutting edge formed between the side surface and the rake surface. The cutting edge has at least a major cutting edge portion, a corner radius cutting edge portion, a ramping cutting edge portion, and a surface wiping cutting edge portion. The side surface includes an upper set of primary clearance surfaces and a lower set of secondary clearance surfaces having a plurality of planar secondary clearance surfaces, wherein the upper set of primary clearance surfaces forms an overhang protruding with respect to the secondary clearance surfaces and extending around the entire upper periphery of the milling insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Stefan ROMAN
  • Publication number: 20180015555
    Abstract: A table saw has a base assembly, a table assembly supported by the base assembly, and a saw assembly supported by at least one of the table assembly and the base assembly. The saw assembly includes a saw blade extending through the table assembly. The base assembly has at least one tube connected to the table assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Robert P. Welsh, Kathy E. DiPasquale, Daniel N. Lopano, John E. Buck, Carl F. Merhar, III, Yung Ho Chang, Nicholas E. Achterberg
  • Publication number: 20180015556
    Abstract: A wire electrical discharge machine includes a guide pipe arranged in a path along which a wire electrode is fed from a feed roller to a workpiece, and formed with an insertion hole through which the wire electrode is inserted, a compressed air supply device configured to supply compressed air to the insertion hole so that compressed air flows through the insertion hole along a feed direction of the wire electrode, a database configured to store data indicative of a relationship between rigidity information of the wire electrode and pressure information of compressed air, and a controller configured to set pressure of the compressed air supplied to the insertion hole, based on the rigidity information of the wire electrode fed to the workpiece and the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Keita HADA
  • Publication number: 20180015557
    Abstract: An electrical discharge machine includes: a machining power supply having a plurality of different circuit states, and configured to be capable of being set to one circuit state of the plurality of circuit states by switching at least one of electrical connection and electrical setting; a state determining unit configured to, when each of the plurality of circuit states is set as the circuit state of the machining power supply, determine whether or not the set circuit state is normal; a failure portion specifying unit configured to specify a failure portion of the machining power supply based on a determination result with respect to each of the plurality of circuit states obtained by the state determining unit; and a reporting unit (a display unit or the like) configured to report the failure portion specified by the failure portion specifying unit to an operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Yasuo NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20180015558
    Abstract: A soldering apparatus, that moves a jet nozzle while ensuring that molten solder does not spill to the outside of the jet nozzle, is provided. The soldering apparatus includes a solder tank storing the molten solder, a jetting mechanism including the jet nozzle and a pump, which pumps the molten solder stored in the solder tank, an XY-direction moving mechanism that moves the solder tank, and a control device that controls the acceleration and deceleration of the solder tank according to the height of the molten solder protruding upwards from a tip of the jet nozzle or the height of the molten solder protruding upwards from the tip of the jet nozzle according to the acceleration and deceleration of the solder tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsunori TANAKA, Tsuyoshi HAMANE
  • Publication number: 20180015559
    Abstract: The invention described herein generally pertains to a system and method related to a semi-automatic or a manual welding operation and detecting a base material (e.g., workpiece) temperature, communicating the base material temperature, and adjusting the welding operation based on the detected base material temperature. A temperature sensor can detect temperature at a location that is a distance from the arc and, for instance, parallel to a direction of travel of the welding torch and such detected temperature can be communicated to the user performing the weld or the user controlling the semi-automatic welding system. The user can be informed if the detected temperature is within a tolerance or approved range or if the detected temperature is outside the tolerance or approved range for the type of base material and/or pre-defined temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: BADRI NARAYANAN
  • Publication number: 20180015560
    Abstract: Embodiments for controlling heat input for a weld or metal deposition process by monitoring thermal characteristics of a weld environment are disclosed. One embodiment includes a welding helmet having a shell to be worn by a human welder to protect the human welder while viewing a weld environment through a viewing window of the shell during a welding operation using a welding system. A thermal sensing device is integrated with the shell to sense thermal energy of the weld environment and generate thermal data based on the thermal energy. A thermal analysis module is integrated with the shell to analyze the thermal data and generate control parameters. A transmitter device is integrated with the shell to transmit the control parameters to the welding system. The control parameters control at least one welding parameter of the welding system during the welding operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Badri K. Narayanan, Bruce John Chantry, David John Muzilla
  • Publication number: 20180015561
    Abstract: A welding system includes a welding torch that welds a workpiece by using a wire, a suction device that sucks shielding gas, and a sucked shielding gas supply path for allowing the sucked shielding gas to flow, wherein the welding torch includes a contact chip that guides the wire, a shielding gas supply nozzle that supplies the shielding gas to a weld zone, and a suction nozzle that surrounds a periphery of the wire protruding from the contact chip, and is opened toward a tip of the wire to suck the shielding gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Naoki KAWABE, Tokuji MARUYAMA, Minoru MIYATA, Kei YAMAZAKI, Reiichi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20180015562
    Abstract: A cleaning device for a mechanical cleaning of a gas nozzle of a protective gas welding burner, provided with a controlled, rotatably driven cleaning head having at least one co-rotating cleaning element, and with a supplying and centering apparatus for a coaxial positioning of the gas nozzle with respect to the axis of rotation of the cleaning head in the region of at least one cleaning element. The cleaning head has two cleaning arms creating a scissors-form with the cleaning arms, which are suspended in a freely swinging manner on a pivot bearing arranged transversely to the axis of rotation in the cleaning head. Respective centrifugal weights are arranged on the cleaning arms on the lower regions facing away from the gas nozzle, so that the cleaning scissors are spread apart with a rotation of the of the cleaning head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventor: Klaus DENZER
  • Publication number: 20180015563
    Abstract: Provided is a shaping device for a roller electrode for seam welding that prepares shapes for a first roller electrode and a second roller electrode attached to an arm of a robot. This shaping device is provided independently from the robot and disposed within rotational range of the arm, and is provided with a first roller and a second roller that are disposed on a line orthogonal to a line joining the rotational centers of the first and second roller electrodes and are in contact with the outer circumferences of the first and second roller electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiko YAMAASHI, Tetsuya KODAMA, Noriaki SHIGEMATSU, Hitoshi YOSHIMICHI
  • Publication number: 20180015564
    Abstract: A recoater that is two-dimensionally driven is cooled by a simple structure. A three-dimensional laminating and shaping apparatus includes at least one material spreader that spreads a material of a three-dimensional laminated and shaped object, a temperature measurer that measures a temperature of the material spreader, at least one cooler that cools the material spreader and is provided at a standby position at which the material spreader stands by while the material is not spread, and a controller that controls the material spreader. The controller moves the material spreader to the standby position to bring the material spreader and the cooler into contact with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    Inventor: Kazuhiro HONDA
  • Publication number: 20180015565
    Abstract: Overheating of and unintended melting of powder is suppressed, and thus the shaping accuracy is improved. A three-dimensional shaping apparatus includes an electron gun that generates an electron beam, at least one primary deflector that deflects the electron beam one- or two-dimensionally, at least one lens that is provided between the electron gun and the primary deflector and focuses the electron beam, a secondary deflector that is provided between the electron gun and the primary deflector, and deflects the electron beam one- or two-dimensionally, and a controller that controls the deflection directions and scanning speeds of the primary deflector and the second deflector. The controller controls the deflection direction and scanning speed of the second deflector while the scanning speed of the primary deflector is lower than a predetermined speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    Inventor: Kazuya GOTO
  • Publication number: 20180015566
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a mechanical component, by applying additive manufacturing, wherein the method includes depositing a powder material and locally melting and resolidifying the powder material, thereby providing a solid body, the method including choosing a powder material of a specified chemical composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: ANSALDO ENERGIA IP UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Thomas ETTER, Andreas KUENZLER, Fabian Ernesto GEIGER
  • Publication number: 20180015567
    Abstract: A nozzle apparatus used for extruding a material includes an internal spindle that imparts motion into the extruding material, the internal spindle having a base; a multiple degree-of-freedom pivot at the base of the internal spindle, and a drive mechanism that controls the motion of the internal spindle. In one embodiment the material is a semi-solid metal or alloy. In another embodiment the material is a shear thinning mixture or material. In yet embodiment the material is a thixotropic mixture or material. The nozzle apparatus can be used for making a three-dimensional object with the steps of providing a material; providing a nozzle that extrudes the material, the nozzle having an internal spindle that imparts motion into the material; positioning the nozzle above a support structure; and moving the nozzle in a three-dimensional pattern while extruding the material through the nozzle onto the support structure or onto the material previously deposited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Paul A. Rosso, Joshua D. Kuntz
  • Publication number: 20180015568
    Abstract: [Solving Means] A method for joining a plurality of members to be joined composed of metals or materials different in kind from each other which are metal and such an inorganic substance as ceramics to each other, the members being put in a state stacked up and down by having a configuration that a member to be joined 1 is received from an opening of an inside space portion 3 provided in a member to be joined 2 into the inside space portion 3 to be supported by a slope 7 of the inside space portion 3 and the members to be joined 1 and 2 are subjected to a vertical load shown by arrow 14 from a joining tool portion 12 and an anvil 13, while the joining tool portion 12 resonates with acoustic wave vibration or ultrasonic wave vibration transmitted from an acoustic wave vibrator or an ultrasonic wave vibrator to be subjected to vibration in a longitudinal direction shown by arrow 15, so that the members are joined in an ingot-like state, in a diffusion-like state, or in an alloy-like state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: ULTEX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeru SATO
  • Publication number: 20180015569
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing chips from a semiconductor wafer having a plurality of streets on a front surface of the semiconductor wafer is provided. The method includes: forming a plurality of crack stopping structures on the semiconductor wafer at locations respectively aligned with intersections of the streets; irradiating a laser beam focused inside the semiconductor wafer along the streets to induce cracks; and breaking the irradiated semiconductor wafer along the cracks to the crack stopping structures, so as to separate the irradiated semiconductor wafer into the chips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Po-Chun LIN
  • Publication number: 20180015570
    Abstract: A welded shaped steel manufacturing device for weld-connecting a butt portion of a web member having an end butting perpendicularly against a flange member and thereafter correcting in shape the flange member subjected to thermal deformation caused by heat input during welding, the device includes: a corrective device including flange-member correcting rollers arranged for respective ends of the flange member, each configured to press each end on a web-member side of the flange member so as to correct the thermal deformation over a range of the flange member from each end thereof to the butt portion thereof against the web member, and web-member supporting rollers configured to support a web surface of the web member, wherein the flange-member correcting rollers arranged for the respective ends of the flange member apply independent pressures to the respective ends so as to correct the thermal deformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi ASADA, Yasuhiro SAKURADA, Tooru IENARI
  • Publication number: 20180015571
    Abstract: Disclosed are an infrared vision sensing detection method and device for narrow-gap weld seam deviation. The device includes a shaking (or rotating) arc narrow-gap welding torch, an arc current sensor (3), a computer image processing system (15), and an infrared photographing system. An infrared camera (11) acquires an infrared image of a welding region in an external triggering manner when an arc (1) shakes (or rotates) to a position closest to the left side wall or right side wall of a groove (9). After computer image processing, welding wire position and groove edge information is extracted in real time, and weld seam deviation is calculated according to position changes of a welding wire relative to the left side wall and the right side wall of the groove, and the weld seam deviation is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jiayou WANG, Jie ZHU, Cai ZHANG, Maosen YANG, Na SU, Wenhang LI
  • Publication number: 20180015572
    Abstract: Provided herein is a solder material that includes a spherical core that provides space between a joint object and another object to be joined to the joint object and a solder coated layer that has a melting point at which a core layer of the core is not melted. The solder coated layer includes Sn as a main ingredient and 0 to 2 mass % of Ag, and coats the core. The solder coated layer has an average grain diameter of crystal grains of 3 ?m or less, and the solder material has a spherical diameter of 1 to 230 ?m and a sphericity of 0.95 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Kawasaki, Shigeki Kondo, Atsushi Ikeda, Takahiro Roppongi, Takashi Hagiwara, Daisuke Soma, Kaichi Tsuruta, Isamu Sato, Yuji Kawamata
  • Publication number: 20180015573
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an aluminum-based metallic glass cladding layer and a preparation method thereof. The aluminum-based metallic glass cladding layer takes aluminum-based amorphous alloy powder as a raw material and is prepared by a magnetic field stirring laser cladding molding technology; the aluminum-based amorphous alloy powder consists of the following elements: 5 wt %-8 wt % of Ni, 3 wt %-6 wt % of Y, 1 wt %-5 wt % of Co, 0.5 wt %-3 wt % of La and Al as balance; the particle size range of the aluminum-based amorphous alloy powder is 25-71 mum; and the oxygen content of the aluminum-based amorphous alloy powder is below 1,000 ppm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Xiaoming WANG, Sheng ZHU, Yao ZHANG, Bojun YANG, Guofeng HAN, Qiwei WANG, Zhiqiang REN, Yongxing CHEN, Chaoji ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20180015574
    Abstract: Provided is a brazing alloy powder with which the development of defect in a brazed portion is suppressed and which enables an increase in the joint strength of the portion to be joined. Also provided is a brazed joined component having a high joint strength of the portion to be joined. The brazing alloy powder includes particles which include 55 mass % or more of at least one element selected from Ni, Fe, and Co. The alloy powder includes not less than 10% alloy particles having an amorphous phase. In addition, d90?60 ?m, where d90 is the grain diameter indicating 90% in an integral volume distribution curve according to a laser diffraction scattering method. The joined component includes a plurality of members joined with a brazing material including the brazing alloy powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihito YOSHIZAWA, Seishin UEDA
  • Publication number: 20180015575
    Abstract: A submerged arc welding process using welding wire containing, based on the total mass of the welding wire, Ni: 50% or more by mass, Cr: 14.5% to 16.5% by mass, Mo: 15.0% to 17.0% by mass, W: 3.0% to 4.5% by mass, Fe: 4.0% to 7.0% by mass, and C, Si, Mn, P, S, Cu, V, Co, and Al: a predetermined amount or less, and a bonded flux containing, based on the total mass of the bonded flux, Al2O3: 35% to 55% by mass, SiO2: 5% to 25% by mass, CaO: 2% to 10% by mass, CaF2: 25% to 45% by mass, and Na2O: 2% to 4% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Junichi KAWATA, Kazuhiro FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20180015576
    Abstract: Provided is a flux activator containing a halogen compound represented by formula 1 below: where X1 and X2 represent different halogen atoms, R1 and R2 are each a group represented by any one of formulas —OH, —O—R3, —O—C(?O)—R4, and —O—C(?O)—NH—R5, R1 and R2 optionally represent the same group or different groups, R3, R4, and R5 are each an aromatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms or an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms, and R3, R4, and R5 optionally represent the same group or different groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yukikata, Yuusuke Sato, Junichi Aoki, Mitsuyasu Furusawa, Kimiaki Mori
  • Publication number: 20180015577
    Abstract: A clamping device for stretching a threaded bolt by pulling on its threaded end section has a support tube surrounding the threaded end section, a cylinder disposed in extension of the support tube, a piston axially movable therein, a changeover bush to be screwed onto the threaded end section and carried along axially by the piston, a hydraulic device for the piston, and a signal link between hydraulic device and a device for detecting the extent of the thread engagement between the changeover bush and the threaded end section. A contactless measurement of the thread engagement between changeover bush and bolt to be clamped for measuring the thread engagement is provided in that the device for detecting the extent of the thread engagement includes a sensor element fastened on the changeover bush, which is positioned axially opposite the end face of the threaded bolt with axial separation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Jörg Hohmann, Frank Hohmann
  • Publication number: 20180015578
    Abstract: A laser-transmitting machining tool is disclosed. The laser-transmitting machining tool has a plurality of faces including an entrance face, a rake face, a flank face connected to the rake face, a rake side face extending between the entrance face and the rake face, and a flank side face extending between the entrance face and the flank face. The connection of the rake face to the flank face defines a cutting edge. The rake face extends away from the rake side face to define a rake angle. The entrance face is configured to receive and refract a laser beam to the rake face, the flank face, and the cutting edge for causing the laser beam to refract into and heat the workpiece at a compression region extending proximate at least the rake face and a tensile region extending proximate the flank face. A system for machining a workpiece is disclosed. A method for machining a workpiece is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Micro-LAM, Inc.
    Inventors: Deepak VM Ravindra, Sai Kumar Kode
  • Publication number: 20180015579
    Abstract: A grinding machine for grinding of a profile, comprising a machine bed, wherein a machining device is arranged on the machine bed, wherein the machining device comprises a swivel head which carries a first grinding spindle with a first grinding tool, especially with a roughing grinding tool, and a second grinding spindle with a second grinding tool, especially with a finishing grinding tool, wherein a workpiece carrier being a rotary table is arranged on the machine bed. To allow the production of workpieces with a complex geometry in a high precision in an economical manner the invention proposes that the swivel head further carries at least one third grinding spindle with a third grinding tool, wherein the swivel axle of the swivel head is directed horizontally and the axis of rotation of the rotary table is directed vertically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Matthias SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20180015580
    Abstract: A number of variations may include a pin clamping device having a clamp hook connected to an actuator constructed and arranged to apply at least a downward force to the clamp hook and a biasing system constructed and arranged to apply an upward force to the clamp hook while a downward force is being applied to the clamp hook by the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Marek Bieciuk, Michael John Vanston
  • Publication number: 20180015581
    Abstract: A byproduct collection system is configured to collect byproducts of a manufacturing operation on a workpiece. The byproduct collection system includes a collection shroud defining a collection chamber, and a securing mount coupled to the collection shroud. The securing mount is configured to removably secure the byproduct collection system to a surface of the workpiece so that the collection shroud is proximate to a working location of the workpiece during a working operation on the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Andrew Lawrence Neale
  • Publication number: 20180015582
    Abstract: A collar member is for a collar assembly of a cutting system and method. The cutting system has a spindle and a cutting tool coupled to the spindle. The collar assembly includes a number of components and a gas flow system having a number of gas flow delivery apparatus and a number of conduits. The collar member includes a support portion structured to be coupled to the spindle, and a chamber portion extending from the support portion and being structured to be coupled to each of the number of components, the number of gas flow delivery apparatus, and the number of conduits. The support portion has a side portion having an edge portion defining a thru hole in order to form a passageway from an interior of the support portion to an exterior thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: EATON CORPORATION
    Inventors: DARRON ROBERT MOHR, CHRISTOPHER ALAN ARNOLD, STEVEN CHRISTOPHER RANDALL, TIMOTHY ARNOLD THOMPSON
  • Publication number: 20180015583
    Abstract: The invention primarily relates to a system (10) for detecting a total or partial obstruction of at least one internal fluid pipe (11) of a tool (12), characterised in that said system (10) comprises: a pneumatic system (13) that is intended to be connected upstream of said internal pipe (11) of said tool (12), a pressure source (16) that is connected to said pneumatic system (13) by means of a solenoid valve (17), and a control unit (22) that is configured to open said solenoid valve (17) so as to pressurise said pneumatic system (13), and then to close said solenoid valve (17) so as to let said pneumatic system (13) be emptied freely by means of said internal pipe (11), and to detect an obstruction state of said internal pipe (11) depending on an analysis over time of a change in the pressure in said pneumatic system (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Pierre Faverjon, Cyrille Urville
  • Publication number: 20180015584
    Abstract: An air tool monitoring apparatus includes a housing having a hollow chamber formed therein, and also having an inlet and an outlet formed therein, each of the inlet and an outlet in fluid communication with the chamber. The apparatus also includes a first sensor for sensing a condition indicative of tool usage, a battery disposed in the housing, and a microprocessor operatively connected to the housing and including a timer, a memory storage module, and a unique identifier. The apparatus further includes a switch for starting and stopping the timer, and a communication device for sending data from the microprocessor to a data collection device. The apparatus may additionally include a second sensor for sensing a condition indicative of tool wear. Methods of using the apparatus, along with systems for monitoring and reporting on usage of multiple air tools equipped with the apparatus, are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Brian D. MABEE, Jeffrey B. KAPLAN, Darryl V. WITTE, Jason M. ADAMS
  • Publication number: 20180015585
    Abstract: A tool shape measurement apparatus for imaging a tool is provided with: a camera for imaging the tool disposed at a previously determined imaging position; a shutter disposed on the opposite side of the tool from the camera; an illuminating device for shining light toward the shutter; and a control device for calculating the shape of the tool from an image of the tool. The illuminating device is disposed so that an image in which the tool is darker than the background of the tool is captured due to light reflected at the reflecting surface of the shutter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: MAKINO MILLING MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi KASAHARA, Kenichi OHATA
  • Publication number: 20180015586
    Abstract: A portable tool sharpener adapted for mounting on a rail such as may be found on various weapons includes a sharpener body in which a plurality of sharpening tools are mounted and a rail-mounting base pivotally mounted to the sharpener body to allow the body to moved selectively to a closed and open position, wherein the rail-mounting base is releasably engageable with a rail mounted on a weapon, a handle or a fixed pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: James Hammond, James Hammond
  • Publication number: 20180015587
    Abstract: A method and device for simultaneous centreless cylindrical grinding of multiple workpieces (11, 12, 13, 14), at least sections of which are rotationally symmetrical, the workpieces are arranged on a support apparatus (200) one behind the other between at least one grinding wheel (110) and at least one regulating wheel (120), and wherein the axis of rotation of the regulating wheel is inclined with respect to a horizontal plane extending parallel to the workpiece axes of rotation and the grinding wheel axis of rotation by an inclination angle (?). During grinding the workpieces are arranged with a height offset relative to each other corresponding to at least a quarter of the inclination angle (?) of the axis of rotation of the regulating wheel with respect to the parallel plane to render the respective bearing angles (?) of the workpieces on the inclined regulating wheel consistent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Tschudin GmbH Grenchen
    Inventors: Libor SEDLACEK, Urs TSCHUDIN
  • Publication number: 20180015588
    Abstract: An apparatus for abrading a surface is provided. The apparatus includes: a framework with a motor housed therein; a chassis housing a drivetrain, the drivetrain including a drive pulley operative connected to the motor, a plurality of tool assembly pulleys, a belt operatively connecting the drive pulley and the plurality of tool assembly pulleys; a plurality of tool assemblies operatively connected to the drive pulley and the plurality of tool assembly pulleys, each tool assembly including: a tool holder, a tool plate comprising a tool segment with an abrading surface, wherein the tool holder and tool plate are detachably connected by a plurality of equidistantly spaced pins, wherein the number of pins is a multiple of three.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Owen ROGERS
  • Publication number: 20180015589
    Abstract: The present invention is a fluorohydrocarbon compound-filled gas container obtained by filling a gas container with a fluorohydrocarbon compound, the gas container being made of manganese steel, an amount of aluminum adhering to an inner surface of the gas container as measured by XPS analysis being 1 mol % or less, and the fluorohydrocarbon compound being a compound represented by C4H9F or C5H11F. The present invention provides a fluorohydrocarbon compound-filled gas container that is obtained by filling a gas container with a fluorohydrocarbon compound represented by C4H9F or C5H11F, and suppresses or reduces a decrease in the purity of the fluorohydrocarbon compound with which the gas container is filled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuko KOHINATA
  • Publication number: 20180015590
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a CMP apparatus having a polishing pad surface property measuring device for measuring surface properties such as surface topography or surface condition of a polishing pad used for polishing a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Hisanori MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20180015591
    Abstract: Processing tool for processing a surface of a workpiece. The processing tool includes a tool body which defines a tool axis. At least one first roll element, which is borne by the tool body, is rotatable around a first roll element axis and has a first outer surface with a rough surface structure in at least one first working section configured for rolling contact with the workpiece surface. Further, at least one second roll element, which is borne by the tool body, is rotatable about a second roll element axis and has a second outer surface that, in at least one second working section configured for a rolling contact with the workpiece surface, has a distance (r2) to the tool axis, which is less than a distance (r1) of the at least one first working section to the tool axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Hoffmann GmbH Qualitaetswerkzeuge
    Inventors: Martin BARTH, Juergen LUKAS, Josef LIFKA
  • Publication number: 20180015592
    Abstract: A polycrystalline diamond construction comprising a body of polycrystalline diamond material is formed of a mass of diamond grains exhibiting inter-granular bonding and defining a plurality of interstitial regions therebetween, and a non-diamond phase at least partially filling a plurality of the interstitial regions to form non-diamond phase pools, the non-diamond phase pools each having an individual cross-sectional area. The percentage of non-diamond phase in the total area of a cross-section of the body of polycrystalline diamond material and the mean of the individual cross-sectional areas of the non-diamond phase pools in the image analysed using an image analysis technique at a selected magnification is less than 0.7, or less than 0.340 microns squared, or between around 0.005 to 0.340 microns squared depending on the percentage of non-diamond phase in the total area of the cross-section of the polycrystalline diamond construction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Nedret Can
  • Publication number: 20180015593
    Abstract: Disclosed is an adjustable wrench including a handle and a working portion. The working portion includes an adjusting device and at least two jaws. The jaws are distributed along the circumferential direction of the working portion, and the adjusting device is arranged such as to adjust the jaws to simultaneously move in a radial direction of the working portion, closer to or away from the center of the working portion, that is, the jaw opening defined by the plurality of jaws are adjustable. The adjustable wrench provided by the invention is adapted for workpieces of various specifications, and can realize rapid adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Min Wang
  • Publication number: 20180015594
    Abstract: Systems, method, and apparatus for locking a movable component of a tool into an operationally static position. A locking mechanism embedded within an interior cavity of a tool is operationally connected to a squeeze handle via a linkage assembly. When the handle is squeezed, the linked assembly drives the locking mechanism toward the movable component. Corresponding gear racks on the locking element and movable element inhibit movement in both vectors, using a zero degree pressure angle to strongly inhibit movement in another factor, and using a non-zero degree pressure angle to less firmly inhibit movement in an opposing vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Brendan Laiben
  • Publication number: 20180015595
    Abstract: A ratchet wrench includes a body, a ratchet wheel rotatably and movably mounted in the body, and a pawl slideably received in the body and disengageably engaged with the ratchet wheel. The body is extended along a first longitudinal axis, and the ratchet wheel is extended along a second longitudinal axis. The ratchet wrench is operable between a first position and a second position. When the ratchet wrench is in the first position, the first and second longitudinal axes are collinear. When the ratchet wrench is operated to withstand a torque load and to move from the first position to a second position, the first and second longitudinal axes are parallel to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Shih-Hao Lai
  • Publication number: 20180015596
    Abstract: A screw and a fastening tool of a screw are disclosed. The screw has a cross-shaped tool insertion groove formed on a head part and a holding groove formed on one side inner surface of the tool insertion groove, so as to be assembled with a cap having a cross-shaped fitting part and a holding protrusion provided at one side of the fitting part. The fastening tool includes a first linear insertion part and a second insertion part, which are configured to be fitted into the tool insertion groove, wherein the first and second insertion parts are perpendicular. As the fastening tool fitted into the head part of the screw is rotated, the rotation torque is uniformly dispersed over the four corner portions of the tool insertion groove through the first and second insertion parts, thereby avoiding abrasion of the tool insertion groove and extending the lifespan of the screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Chang Hun KIM
  • Publication number: 20180015597
    Abstract: A shaft securing mechanism is provided that includes pins, bearings or other securing members that are biased inwardly at an angle with respect to the axis of the shaft being engaged by the mechanism. The angled orientation of the engagement of the pins with the shaft enables the pins to more securely hold the shaft relative to the handle without significant slop or play in the lateral or longitudinal directions. The mechanism also includes a tapered inner surface to increase the ease of alignment of the shaft with the mechanism, which allows the shaft to be engaged with the handle by only pressing and rotating the shaft into the mechanism within the handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Michael T. Gauthier, Ray Wollner
  • Publication number: 20180015598
    Abstract: A plumbing tool designed to easily remove and replace seats and springs in stem assembly, ball valve seat, or lever handle faucets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventor: Paul R. Siddall, JR.