Patents Issued in January 25, 2018
  • Publication number: 20180021805
    Abstract: Provided are apparatus and method of dispensing an adhesive liquid for a dust trap, in which the adhesive liquid is dispensed to a camera module while effectively cleaning the adhesive liquid that may be smeared on a nozzle, thereby enhancing productivity and quality of a process of forming a dust trap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: PROTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung Min HONG
  • Publication number: 20180021806
    Abstract: A thermal processing device includes a waiting section, a heating section and a transport mechanism. The waiting section includes a plurality of support pins. The transport mechanism includes a transport arm for holding a substrate and transports the substrate between the waiting section and the heating section by moving the transport arm. The transport arm has a plurality of regions and a plurality of cooling water passages for respectively cooling the plurality of regions are provided in the transport arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventor: Yukihiko INAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20180021807
    Abstract: A method for applying a layer of a second color according to a predetermined pattern, on at least one face of a metal substrate, which is entirely painted with a first color comprising applying a primer according to a predetermined pattern onto at least one face of a metal substrate, applying thereto a UV curable powder coating comprising a second color that is different from the first color, removing excess of UV curable powder coating such that the UV curable powder coating remains only at a location on the metal substrate determined by the primer, activating IR and UV energy in order to cure the UV curable powder coating, and forming a metal substrate decorated with at least two colors according to the predetermined pattern on at least one face of the metal substrate, and a system for performing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Israel MICHAL, Ran MANO, Assi HINDI, Michael BUCHMAN
  • Publication number: 20180021808
    Abstract: Methods, processes, compositions and systems for preventing leaching effects from water pipes (such as lead, steel and copper) having an inner diameter of at least approximately 12 mm. 2-part thermoset resin coating is applied to the inner surfaces of the pipes where the curing agent can be a phenol free and plasticizer free adduct type. The coating can reduce heavy metals, such as lead, from leaching from installed pipes to less than approximately 10 ?g/L (10 ppb). When cured, specific leachates, Bisphenol A and Epichlorohydrin from the coatings will be (less than) <1 ?g/L (1 ppb) with overall TOC levels measured at (less than) <2.5 mg/L (2.5 ppm). Pipes can be returned to service within approximately 24 hours, and preferably within approximately 4 hours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Larry L. Gillanders, Steven A. Williams
  • Publication number: 20180021809
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a multilayer coating on a metallic substrate, comprising, in the given order, (1) producing a polyvinyl chloride plastisol layer on the metallic substrate, comprising the application of a polyvinyl chloride plastisol material to the metallic substrate, (2) producing a thermosetting and/or thermoplastic topcoat layer directly on the polyvinyl chloride plastisol layer, comprising the application of a thermosetting and/or thermoplastic coating material directly to the polyvinyl chloride plastisol layer, wherein both the polyvinyl chloride plastisol material and the thermosetting and/or thermoplastic coating material comprise a layered double hydroxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Rafael Bautista Mester, Paul Davies, Stephen Corkish, Stephen Birch
  • Publication number: 20180021810
    Abstract: The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method for forming a multilayer coating film using a 3-coat 1-bake process, the method comprising sequentially applying an aqueous first colored coating composition, an aqueous second colored coating composition, and a clear coating composition to a substrate and simultaneously heat-curing the resulting three layers to form a multilayer coating film having an excellent finished appearance, such as smoothness and distinctness of image, as well as metallic feel and no metallic mottling when the composition comprises an effect pigment, and exhibiting excellent coating film performance, such as water resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: KANSAI PAINT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke TAKAYAMA, Hironori TONOMURA, Naoto MATSUSHIMA, Shuichi NAKAHARA
  • Publication number: 20180021811
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a transducer controller is configured to form a drive signal with a first frequency to drive a transducer. The drive signal has a period and a half-period and drives the transducer for a first portion of the half-period. The transducer controller is configured to, for a second portion of the half-period, sense a voltage formed by the transducer, measure portions of the voltage and estimate a phase error between the first frequency and a resonant frequency of the transducer, and to adjust the first frequency to a second frequency that reduces the phase error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Jiri KUTEJ, Pavel HORSKY
  • Publication number: 20180021812
    Abstract: A vibration motor includes a stationary portion including a casing and a coil; a vibrating body including a weight and a magnet, the vibrating body being supported so as to be vibratable in one direction relative to the stationary portion; an elastic member located between the stationary portion and the vibrating body; and a top plate portion that is disposed above the vibrating body in an up-down direction that is perpendicular to the one direction. The magnet is disposed above the coil, and the top plate portion faces the magnet in the up-down direction. The magnet includes a set of first magnets that generate magnetic forces that are opposite to each other in the up-down direction and one or more second magnets that are interposed between the first magnets and each generate a magnetic force in the one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Tomohiro AKANUMA, Mitsuru OI, Takashi MORI, Satoshi NAKAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20180021813
    Abstract: An ultrasound array for acoustic wave transmission comprising at least one capacitive micro-machined ultrasound transducer (CMUT) cell (6), wherein the CMUT cell comprises a substrate (4) having a first electrode (7); a cell membrane (5) having a second electrode (7?), which opposes the first electrode with a cavity (8) there between, wherein the membrane is arranged to vibrate upon the cell activation; and an acoustic window layer (13), overlaying the cell membrane, and having an inner surface opposing the cell membrane and an outer surface; the acoustic window layer is in a direct contact with the cell membrane and comprises a first layer comprising molecules of antioxidant and a polymeric material, wherein the polymeric material consists of hydrogen and carbon atoms and has a density equal or 3 below 0.95 g/cm and an acoustic impedance equal or above 1.4 MRayl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: LUCAS JOHANNES ANNA MARIA BECKERS, FRANCISCUS JOHANNES GERARDUS HAKKENS, PETER DIRKSEN
  • Publication number: 20180021814
    Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor includes a piezoelectric body including a transmission region for an ultrasonic wave and a reception region for a reflected wave of the ultrasonic wave, a common electrode in the transmission region and the reception region, a transmission electrode in the transmission region, a reception electrode in the reception region; and a semiconductor element that is electrically connected to the transmission electrode and the reception electrode and switches an electrical path between a conductive state and a non-conductive state. The semiconductor element puts the path into the conductive state after application of the alternating-current voltage is stopped. Thus, a reverberation signal, output from the reception region in accordance with a reverberant vibration of the ultrasonic wave, is fed back to the transmission electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Kosuke WATANABE, Satoshi ICHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20180021815
    Abstract: A system and downhole tool comprising an ultrasonic transducer with a piezoelectric material embedded in a backing and a method of determining a parameter using the ultrasonic transducer. A self-noise of the transducer can be reduced by the piezoelectric material being at least partially embedded in the backing. The ultrasonic transducer can include an encapsulating material that encapsulates the backing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jing Jin, Yao Ge, Batakrishna Mandal
  • Publication number: 20180021816
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a screening device for separating dry granular material into a fine fraction and a coarse fraction. The device comprises a drum screen defined by an open rotatable frame, which frame defines a circumferential wall, and a sheet-like screen arranged over the circumferential wall of the frame, a driving device by means of which the drum screen is rotatably driven, a feed opening at a short end of the drum screen and a discharge opening at the opposite short end of the drum screen. The screening device comprises a vibration device which rotates along with the drum screen, which vibration device comprises one or more vibrating elements mounted to the drum screen, which set the drum screen vibrating in use. The invention further relates to the screening of granular material using such a device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Oijense Bovendijk B.V.
    Inventor: Koos Jacobus Schenk
  • Publication number: 20180021817
    Abstract: Printed transactional documents are enclosed in a document size-inclusive envelope that gives the appearance of being a traditional windowed envelope in which the send address shows through from the address vehicle page inside, but actually has the address printed on an adhered patch that shows through the window, keeping the data inside more protected and allowing production processes to be more efficient, and the patch or envelope has a serialized identifier that ensures the address printed on the patch and seen in the window corresponds with the document on the inside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventor: Frank W. Delfer
  • Publication number: 20180021818
    Abstract: A cleaning assembly for cleaning one or more wafer edge handling contact surfaces of wafer handling equipment includes a substrate and a cleaning ring. The substrate includes an edge portion that extends about the body of the substrate. The cleaning ring is reversibly attachable to the edge portion of the substrate. The cleaning ring is formed from a deformable material. The substrate and cleaning ring are sized for compatibility with a front opening unified pod (FOUP) or a wafer cassette of a semiconductor fabrication facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: William VanHoomissen, Val Estrin, Eric Jong
  • Publication number: 20180021819
    Abstract: A pressure-washer unit, a cart, and a fixed mount, with the pressure washer able to be mounted to the cart in a mobile (e.g., rollable) configuration and also able to be mounted to the fixed mount in a stationary (e.g., wall-mounted) configuration. In some embodiments, the pressure washer can be used in a third hand-held configuration without the cart or the fixed mount. Typical embodiments include a multi-use locating mechanism for proper positioning of the pressure washer for locking it to the cart and the fixed mount, and a multi-use coupling mechanism for locking the pressure washer on the cart and the fixed mount for use and/or storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: AR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Mike SCHALLER, Maureen CARROLL, Jeff JUSKOWICH, Yi XIAGANG, Ge XINGJUN, Ding JUNKUI
  • Publication number: 20180021820
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus configured and adapted to provide less carryover in an automated clinical analyzer are disclosed. The methods include immersing a pipette into a neutralizing liquid vessel and aspirating a neutralizing liquid (e.g., a hypochlorite solution) into an interior of a pipette. The aspirated portion of the neutralizing liquid used to cleanse the pipette interior is then dispensed back into the neutralizing liquid vessel, rather than disposing of the used neutralizing liquid to a waste station. Apparatus and systems configured to carry out the methods are provided, as are other aspects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Gebauer, Moses Peter
  • Publication number: 20180021821
    Abstract: A fluid manifold comprised of a manifold adapted to deliver fluid directly into a gap formed between a surface of a substrate and an acoustic transducer. The fluid is delivered into the gap at a variable rate along a length of the manifold. Preferably, the manifold includes a plurality of apertures positioned along the length of the manifold for dispensing the fluid into the gap at the variable rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Product Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Mark J. Beck, Eric G. Liebscher
  • Publication number: 20180021822
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for cleanliness of transmission windows for directed energy devices. A positive pressure gas chamber is fixed to the transmission window of a directed energy device, e.g., a laser or high power microwave. A gas source is connected to the positive pressure chamber in order to provide pressurized gas. The gas flows into the positive pressure chamber, and exits the positive pressure chamber through openings, thus pushing particulates out of the positive pressure chamber. The gas continues to flow during directed energy use, thus preventing undesirable material, e.g., dirt and moisture, from depositing on the transmission window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Frank Joseph Bantell, Nackieb M. Kamin
  • Publication number: 20180021823
    Abstract: A glass pipe cleaner comprising, in operative combination, a threaded reducer, a staged telescopic boot, an end clamp, and a worm drive clamp. The threaded reducer is configured for mounting onto a conventional water faucet. Once mounted, a user inserts a mouth end portion of a glass pipe, into the staged telescopic boot and cinches the mouth end portion in position by tightening the worm drive clamp over an exterior of the staged telescopic boot. In operation, hot water is pressurized by the threaded reducer and floods an intermediary tube of the glass pipe with extreme force. The force of the pressurized hot water removes deposits from walls of the intermediary tube of the glass pipe. Dirty water carrying the removed deposits flows out of a second end of the glass pipe into a sink for easy disposal. In another embodiment, the glass pipe cleaner includes a waste bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventor: Douglas Miranda
  • Publication number: 20180021824
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the invention, a rolling equipment includes two coiler furnaces; a plurality of mill stands provided between the two coiler furnaces, the plurality of mill stands being for reverse rolling; and an induction heater provided between the plurality of mill stands, the induction heater implementing a heated temperature increase in a designated reverse rolling or in each reverse rolling, the heated temperature increase being in a hot strip longitudinal direction and width direction. Thus, the hot strip temperature distribution can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi MORITA
  • Publication number: 20180021825
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the invention, a descaling system is provided that includes multiple descaling headers, a common pipe, a connection pipe, a pump, a drive device, a branch pipe, a valve, and a control device. The multiple descaling headers are provided in a rolling line. The common pipe is connected to each of the multiple descaling headers. The connection pipe is connected to the common pipe. The pump is connected to the connection pipe and supplies high pressure water to each of the multiple descaling headers via the connection pipe and the common pipe. The drive device controls the driving of the pump. The branch pipe is connected to the connection pipe. The valve is provided in the branch pipe and controls the opening/closing of the branch pipe. The control device includes a data collector, a pressure calculator, a pump controller, and a protector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zijun LU, Kei KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20180021826
    Abstract: An apparatus for preparing a tube end for rod drawing with a floating mandrel has a releasable holder for the tube end centered on an axis, a frustoconical and spreadable floating mandrel, and a device for inserting the mandrel into the tube end and spreading the mandrel to flare the tube end. The apparatus further has a feed mechanism for inserting the floating mandrel into the tube end and/or a deforming device for making at least one indentation in the tube for holding the floating mandrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Hardy Jurgen, Thomas Winterfeldt
  • Publication number: 20180021827
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed with a continuous straw forming process for spiral winding boron-coated foil into a rounded tube or cylinder with an overlap and tight contact between the spiral edges, and a welding process utilizing a high precision fiber laser to weld the spiral seem forming a straw tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventor: Jeffrey L. Lacy
  • Publication number: 20180021828
    Abstract: Apparatus (1) for inspecting and sampling a wound coil (2) of metal strip (3) having a supporting arrangement for the wound coil (2). The supporting arrangement has at least two base rollers (4) arranged adjacent to one another. The rollers have roller axes (5) extending parallel to one another and onto which the coil (2) is placed for support. An inspection device (6) is arranged alongside the supporting arrangement. The inspection device (6) performs an inspection of the metal strip (3) at least when the metal strip (3) is a thin metal strip. A sampling device (10) arranged opposite the inspection device (6) with respect to the supporting arrangement, such that the supporting arrangement is located between the inspection device (6) and the sampling device (10). The sampling device (10) has a separating device (12) which takes a sample of the metal strip (3) when the metal strip (3) is a thick metal strip (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Lukas PICHLER, Alois SEILINGER
  • Publication number: 20180021829
    Abstract: A producing method to be disclosed is a producing method for producing a formed metal item that includes a tubular part with a slit. This producing method includes a step (i) of forming U-shaped part having a U-shaped cross section by deforming a metal plate, and a step (ii) of forming the tubular part with the slit by deforming the U-shaped part using a die assembly with a protruding part in such a manner that two end parts of the U-shaped part clamp the protruding part. In step (ii), a cross-section peripheral length LH of the tubular part is made shorter than a cross-section length LU of the U-shaped part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Masahiko SATO, Tohru YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20180021830
    Abstract: A method for forming a tubular body, comprising the following steps: making available a tubular body having a first and a second tube end, filling the tubular body with a liquid, closing the tubular body, and forming the tubular body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Jochen RÖER, Gerrit KUIPER, Sven WOLLGAM, Falk MIDDELSTÄDT
  • Publication number: 20180021831
    Abstract: A press forming method for forming a press-formed product having no flange portion from a blank by performing a crash forming process while using a die and a punch, the press-formed product including at least a top portion and a side wall portion continued from the top portion via a connecting portion and being structured so that either all or a part of the side wall portion curves toward an outside of the press-formed product to form a convex shape in a planar view, the press forming method including forming the side wall portion while keeping a tip end portion of the blank in continuous contact with a side wall forming portion of the die and causing the die to impose no restraint on any part other than the tip end portion of the blank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo AGEBA, Akinobu ISHIWATARI, Jiro HIRAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180021832
    Abstract: An outer bend radius is cold formed in an outer position within a final arc of the angled corner with an outer bend radius male die member. A central bend radius is cold formed in a central position spaced from the outer position and within the final arc of the angled corner with a central bend radius male die member. An inner bend radius is cold formed in an inner position that is spaced from the outer and central positions and the inner position is within a final arc of the angled corner with an inner bend radius male die member. The angled corner is transferred between each of the bend radii male die members using a continuous advanced high strength metal sheet in which the angled corner is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Dajun Zhou, Changqing Du, Robert D Miller, Jugraj Singh
  • Publication number: 20180021833
    Abstract: The invention provides a hot press machine which reduces the cooling time of a superposed member and enhances the productivity. A hot press machine of the invention includes a first die, a second die disposed on the first die, a first refrigerant flow passage for guiding a refrigerant into the first die or the second die, a plurality of grooves formed in a press forming surface of the first die or the second die, and a second refrigerant flow passage for guiding a refrigerant into the grooves. The hot press machine performs press forming and quenching by pressing a superposed member between the first die and the second die, the superposed member comprising a first steel sheet and a second steel sheet superposed and joined on the first steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: TOA Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasutaka SUZUKI, Tadashi IWANUMA, Satoshi MIZUSHINA
  • Publication number: 20180021834
    Abstract: A mold for use in producing an in-vivo indwelling member having a linear primary coil formed in a three-dimensional shape includes a transformable member transformable between an assembled state and an unfolded state, the transformable member has, in the assembled state, an outer portion that is arranged at an outer side and an inner portion that is arranged at an inner side of the outer portion, with being connected to the outer portion, and the outer portion and the inner portion have holding portions for holding the primary coil. The mold makes it possible to easily produce an in-vivo indwelling member having a three-dimensional shape that allows the in-vivo indwelling member to be stably arranged within a bulge such as an aneurysm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shohei SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20180021835
    Abstract: A method of forming which forms a metal sheet so that it does not break without changing the material of the metal sheet and the forming process, comprising bonding a reinforcement to part of the metal sheet and then forming the metal sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro SAITO, Tohru YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20180021836
    Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a tooth-shaped component including drawing process of draw-forming a workpiece so as to obtain a cylindrical container which has a bottom surface portion and a side surface portion; diameter-reducing process of reducing a diameter of a particular part in which a tooth tip portion is to be formed in the side surface portion of the cylindrical container, so as to increase a thickness of a corner portion such that an external shape of the corner portion between the bottom surface portion and the side surface portion satisfies the following conditional expression (1); and tooth shape-forming process of forming the tooth tip portion in the particular part of the cylindrical container reduced in diameter in the diameter-reducing process, so as to obtain a tooth-shaped component which has the bottom surface portion, the side surface portion, and the tooth tip portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuharu YAMAGATA, Shuji YAMAMOTO, Yasushi TSUKANO
  • Publication number: 20180021837
    Abstract: An electrohydraulic forming device includes a mold, a tank having a first wall, and a first electrode and second electrode both placed in the tank and adapted to generate an electrical discharge to create at least one pressure wave. The first wall is rotationally symmetric about an axis of revolution, the electrodes have axes of revolution that are coincident with the axis of revolution of the first wall, and the first wall has a concavity oriented towards the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Gilles Avrillaud, Julien Fuzeau
  • Publication number: 20180021838
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a bending and molding production line, comprising an unwinding mechanism, a feeding and straightening device, a cutting-off mechanism, a bending and molding device and a material loading mechanism, wherein the bending and molding device comprises a base, the base is provided with two transverse sliding bases, the base is provided with a transverse driving device driving the transverse sliding bases, the base is provided with a central clamping device between the two transverse sliding bases, the transverse sliding bases are provided with a longitudinal sliding base in a sliding manner and are provided with a longitudinal driving device driving the longitudinal sliding base to slide, the longitudinal sliding base is provided with a bending and molding device, one side, close to the central clamping device, of the transverse sliding base at the left side is provided with a left clamping device capable of movably extending to clamp the tubular product, and one side, close to the c
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Wenxian TANG, Jian ZHANG, Hongcai LIN, Yang ZHANG, Qinfeng LI, Zhigao TAO, Xia LI, Shuyan WANG
  • Publication number: 20180021839
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic press-molded article manufacturing system using a double robot line for a tandem press line and, more specifically, to an automatic press-molded article manufacturing system using a double robot line for a tandem press line, wherein a plurality of destackers and positioners are disposed, each group having two robots is separately disposed and moves alternately, so as to continuously and rapidly transfer and supply the raw material in proportion to a press working time, in a raw material transfer process, a material supply process, an article supply process, and a product withdrawal process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventor: Dae Gil LEE
  • Publication number: 20180021840
    Abstract: A power tool includes a motor having an output shaft, an extensible member driven by the motor, a working assembly movable in response to contact with a distal end of the extensible member, a first sensor configured to detect a home position of the extensible member, a second sensor configured to detect rotation of the motor output shaft, and a controller in electrical communication with the first and second sensors. The controller is configured to drive the motor output shaft in a first rotational direction a predetermined number of revolutions counted by the second sensor, thereby displacing the extensible member from the home position. The controller is also configured to drive the motor output shaft in an opposite, second rotational direction to thereby return the extensible member until the home position is detected by the first sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Troy C. Thorson, Jeffrey M. Wackwitz, Kyle J. Radovich, Jonathon R. Gasteiner
  • Publication number: 20180021841
    Abstract: In a case of a “mark left” type, a slit is formed on a line side (slit side) of a joint portion. The slit is formed, for example, with a scroll saw. By the formation of the slit, a length of the joint portion in a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of a single ring is set to approximately 0.7 mm. In a case of a “mark removed” type, a slit and a slit are formed respectively on the line side (slit side) and a side opposite thereto of the joint portion. Those slits are formed, for example, with the scroll saw. By the formation of those slits, the length of the joint portion in the direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the single ring is set to approximately 0.8 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: MOKUMEGANEYA Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20180021842
    Abstract: A ring rolling process and corresponding apparatus are disclosed. A ring shaped workpiece is provided, the ring shaped workpiece having a principal axis, an inner radial surface, an outer radial surface, a first axial surface and a second axial surface. The workpiece is subjected to radial pressure between a forming roll 150a acting on the outer radial surface and a mandrel roll 152a, 152b acting on the inner radial surface, at a radial roll bite region. A first axial roll 154a and a second axial roll 156a are provided at the first axial surface and the second axial surface respectively, to subject the workpiece to axial pressure. The first and second axial rolls 154a, 156a are provided at an angular position, measured around the workpiece and with respect to the principal axis, within ±10° of said radial roll bite region. Multiple circumferential constraint rolls are provided around the outer radial surface or inner radial surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Julian ALLWOOD, Christopher CLEAVER
  • Publication number: 20180021843
    Abstract: A progressive cold forming machine and a robot for automatically changing a cutoff cassette, tooling cassettes, a transfer slide and transfer cam. A loading area adjacent the machine and robot has provisions for supporting a tooling cassette pallet and a transfer slide and camshaft pallet and a holding area for temporarily receiving some of the componentry being exchanged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Aaron T. Hall, Douglas M. Hoerig, James A. Gase
  • Publication number: 20180021844
    Abstract: A drive unit is configured for a stamping rivet setting device and has an electric direct drive which contains motor components that concentrically surround a control element which can be linearly moved in the axial direction. In order to absorb the required torques while allowing a compact construction of the device, in particular in relation to a component side, a drive housing has an asymmetrical configuration in a connecting region between a main part and a guide part in which the control element is guided, for the purpose of asymmetrical torque transmission. In addition or alternatively thereto, the highly compact construction achieves an efficient cooling by an inner cooling unit, in particular air flowing through a free inner space in which the motor components are arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventor: ANDREAS SKOLAUDE
  • Publication number: 20180021845
    Abstract: A system for rivet setting comprising an anvil having an anvil face and a plunger having a sensor coupled to a control system that measures the distance between the anvil face and the work surface during the rivet setting process and stops the rivet driver when the driven rivet head achieves a desired head height above the work surface. In preferred embodiments, the control system also communicates the stage of the rivet driving cycle to the operators to expedite the rivet driving process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventor: David L. LeMieux
  • Publication number: 20180021846
    Abstract: A circular hydraulic press reforms and resizes a chamber opening in a combustion chamber housing. The press comprises a bar having a U-shaped end and a pair of free ends. The press comprises a panel having a C-shaped edge, a mounting edge, and a pair of slotted edges. The U-shaped end of the bar and the C-shaped edge of the panel buttress the perimeter of the chamber opening. The slotted edges and a pair of tubes on the slotted edges slidably receive the free ends of the bar to enable displacement of the panel towards the bar. A disk having a predetermined annular shape and circumference positions in the chamber opening. A hydraulic piston displaces the C-shaped edge of the panel towards the U-shaped end of the bar to press the chamber opening against the disk, and thereby reform the disk to substantially the same shape and circumference as the disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventor: Raul G. Pena Gil
  • Publication number: 20180021847
    Abstract: A sprue for a low-pressure casting device includes a stalk connection part to be connected to a stalk, a molten metal reservoir and a cavity connection part to be connected to the cavity. The shape of the molten metal reservoir is such that the perimeter of the cross section perpendicular to the flow direction of molten metal gradually increases toward the cavity connection part while the area of the cross section remains constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Yuta Sugiyama, Carl Schubeler, Giichirou Okamura
  • Publication number: 20180021848
    Abstract: A core for use in casting an internal cooling circuit within a gas turbine engine component, the core including a core body with an outer skin in which a core body additively manufacturing binder is locally eliminated. A method of manufacturing a core for casting a component, including casting a core body for at least partially forming an internal passage architecture of a component; and forming an outer skin on the core body in which a core body binder is locally eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas N. Slavens, James T. Auxier
  • Publication number: 20180021849
    Abstract: Mould provided with a detection system of the level a liquid metal within a crystallizer of the mould in which the detection system is based on the transmission of at least one detection signal transmitted towards the crystallizer and a phase of reception of at least one received measuring signal dependent on the transmitted detection signal and mould and continuous casting machine provided with said mould.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Stefano DE MONTE, Stefano SPAGNUL, Isabella MAZZA
  • Publication number: 20180021850
    Abstract: Methods for making a tribological bearing wear surface for a compressor component are provided. Such methods involve semi-solid metal casting, where an admixture of solid lubricant particles and a metal alloy material is heated to melt the metal alloy material, while the lubricant particles remain in a solid phase. The alloy material and solid lubricant have substantially different densities. The metal alloy material may be a copper, iron, or aluminum alloy, for example. The method further comprises mixing and cooling the admixture to form a semi-solid slurry admixture. Next, the method comprises introducing the semi-solid slurry admixture into a die. Finally, the semi-solid slurry admixture in the die is solidified to form a solid component having the solid lubricant particles homogenously distributed within a metal alloy material matrix, thus forming a metal matrix composite. Compressor components made from such methods are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Roxana E.L. Ruxanda, Marc J. Scancarello, Christopher S. Rice, Kenneth P. Young
  • Publication number: 20180021851
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of clock machining, in particular to a method for manufacturing clock hardware by means of blocky metallic glass. According to the present invention, the rapid cooling technique is adopted, complicated hardware can also be formed at a time, errors are extremely small, the precision is high, smooth surfaces can also be formed on the edges of the gear teeth of a manufactured gear, and the clock movement assembly accuracy is improved; the manufacturing technique is simple, the production time is short, the production efficiency is high, the required effect can be achieved without polishing the surface of the manufactured hardware, the product quality is improved, labor is greatly saved, time is saved, and environmental friendliness is achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventor: Chi Fai WONG
  • Publication number: 20180021852
    Abstract: To provide a system and a method for transporting molten metal, in which feeding an alloyed metal to a ladle for reaction is automated, in which transporting molten metal from the ladle for reaction to the pouring machine is automated, and in which a cast product with stable qualities is safely produced. The system (1) for transporting molten metal from a furnace (F) to a pouring machine (100) comprises a ladle (10) for reaction, a device (50) for feeding an alloyed metal, a ladle (60) for pouring, a bogie (20) for receiving molten metal that has a mechanism for transferring, and a bogie (70) for transporting the ladle for pouring, and a pouring machine (100). The bogie for receiving molten metal that has a mechanism for transferring has a controller for the bogie for receiving molten metal that has a mechanism for transferring. The bogie for receiving molten metal that has a mechanism for transferring has a controller for the bogie for receiving molten metal that has a mechanism for transferring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicants: SINTOKOGIO, LTD., FUJIWA DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi NISHIDA, Masanori HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20180021853
    Abstract: A dust core contains a powder of a crystalline magnetic material powder and a powder of an amorphous magnetic material. The sum of the content of the crystalline magnetic material powder and the content of the amorphous magnetic material powder is 83 mass percent or more. The mass ratio of the content of the crystalline magnetic material powder to the sum of the content of the crystalline magnetic material powder and the content of the amorphous magnetic material powder is 20 mass percent or less. The median diameter D50 of the amorphous magnetic material powder is greater than or equal to the median diameter D50 of the crystalline magnetic material powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Kinshiro TAKADATE, Hisato KOSHIBA, Shokan YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20180021854
    Abstract: Provided are a titanium-based powder excellent in fluidity and shape retention property, and an ingot and a sintered article obtained using the titanium-based powder as a material. The titanium-based powder has an average circularity of 0.815 or more and less than 0.870, a CV value of particle sizes of 22 or more and 30 or less, and an angle of repose of 29 degrees or more and 36 degrees or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: TOHO TITANIUM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo FUKADA, Osamu KANOU, Shigehisa TAKENAKA