Patents Issued in June 12, 2018
  • Container rinsing system and method
    Patent number: 9993855
    Abstract: A container rinsing system has a nozzle adapted to be positioned proximate an opening of the container and adapted to direct a supply of air in any orientation to the container. A vacuum member is positioned around the air nozzle and adapted to vacuum foreign particles away from the container. A system comprises an air source and a manifold having a manifold inlet, an ionization unit, and a plurality of manifold outlets along with a plurality of air nozzles. Each nozzle has a nozzle inlet, a nozzle outlet, and a nozzle passageway extending between the nozzle inlet and the nozzle outlet. The ionization unit is placed within the manifold, and the plurality of nozzles are located on the plurality of manifold outlets such that during operation air is ionized before entering the nozzles. The ionized air is used to clean containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: STOKELY-VAN CAMP, INC.
    Inventors: Rei-Young Amos Wu, Michael J. Mastio
  • Method and system for the remediation of contaminated earth from hazardous substances in a batch-wise ex-situ on-site manner
    Patent number: 9993856
    Abstract: Method and system for the remediation of contaminated earth from hazardous substances in a batch-wise ex-situ on site manner. At least one mobile earth moving equipment, at least one mobile tumbler reactor and at least one liquid-solid separator are organized at a location in the proximity of the contaminated site. Contaminated earth portions are collected from the contaminated site batch by batch in the mobile earth moving equipment and transferred to the mobile tumbler reactor at the location. The contaminated earth portions in the mobile tumbler reactor are dosed with cleaning agents and water washed in the reactor under agitation or tumbling. The mixture of water washed earth portions and wash water with cleaning agents transferred into the liquid-solid separator and the wash water with the cleaning agents is separated from the mixture in the separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    Inventor: Shyam Ramchandra Asolekar
  • Method for producing a sheet metal profile for a drawer pull-out guide and sheet metal profile produced thereby and drawer pull-out guide produced thereby
    Patent number: 9993857
    Abstract: A method relates to producing a sheet metal profile, in particular consisting of steel, for a drawer pull-out guide having at least one web projecting laterally, in particular perpendicularly, from a flat surface of the sheet metal profile and extending in the longitudinal direction of the sheet metal profile. In a first method step, from at least one flat surface of a sheet metal billet, there is extruded at least one web projecting laterally, in particular perpendicularly, and extending in the longitudinal direction of the sheet metal billet. In at least one further method step, preferably in 10 to 15 further method steps, the at least one web is squeezed together, i.e. is reduced in width and increased in height. The invention further relates to a sheet metal profile produced in this manner and to a drawer pull-out guide that comprises such a profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Schneider, Olaf Isele
  • Roll for hot rolling
    Patent number: 9993858
    Abstract: A roll for hot-rolling includes a body, wherein at least a part of an envelope surface of the body is made of a high speed steel that with reference to its chemical composition consists of the following elements, in weight %: 1-3 Carbon (C), 3-6 Chromium (Cr), 4.5-7 Molybdenum (Mo), 6-15 Tungsten (W), 3-14 Vanadium (V), 0-10 Cobalt (Co), 0-3 Niobium (Nb), 0-0.5 Nitrogen (N), 0.4-1 Yttrium (Y), eventualy distributed in the powder, and remainder iron (Fe) and unavoidable impurities, wherein contents of molybdenum (Mo) and tungsten (W) satisfy the formula Mo+0.5W=2.0-10.0 weight %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Menderes Kayhan, Jan-Erik Karlsson, Stephen Hewitt
  • Sheet metal blank
    Patent number: 9993859
    Abstract: A process includes flexible rolling of a strip made of a metallic material, wherein a thickness profile with different sheet thicknesses along the length of the strip is produced such that successive regions of the flexibly rolled strip each correspond to a target thickness profile of a sheet metal blank to be cut out of same; determining a measured thickness profile of a plurality of successive regions of the strip; calculating a target position in the strip for a sheet metal blank to be cut out of the strip depending on the generated measured thickness profile of at least two successive regions of the strip; cutting the flexibly rolled strip by at least one cutting device along the target position for producing the sheet meal blank. A plant is further provided for producing a sheet metal blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Muhr und Bender KG
    Inventors: Christoph Schneider, Harald Eichner, Joachim Ivo
  • Device and method for producing at least partially closed hollow profiles with rotatable die halves and low cycle time
    Patent number: 9993860
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for forming an at least in part closed hollow profile from a board a with a tool comprising a first half having an at least a U-stamp and at least an upper cavity and a second half having two identical at least in part U-shaped die cavities. The U-stamp and the upper cavity of the first tool half are each meshed with an at least in part U-shaped cavity when the tool is shut. The at least one U-stamp and the at least one upper cavity of the first tool half and the at least two at least in part U-shaped die cavities of the second tool half are arranged in a rotationally symmetrical manner to the rotational axis running in the closing direction of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG
    Inventor: Thomas Flehmig
  • Roller hemming apparatus
    Patent number: 9993861
    Abstract: A roller hemming apparatus is disclosed. A roller hemming apparatus for hemming an outer panel with respect to an inner panel according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include a tool body mounted at a front end of an arm of a robot, a pre-hemming roller mounted to a front side of a mounting block, which is disposed at a lower portion of the tool body, through a first mounting bracket, a main hemming roller mounted to a rear side of the mounting block through a second mounting bracket, and at least one heater mounted at a lateral side of the mounting block and configured to heat a flange portion of the outer panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SUNGWOO HITECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae Wook Yoon, Mun Yong Lee
  • Fin manufacturing apparatus
    Patent number: 9993862
    Abstract: A fin manufacturing apparatus includes an inter-row slit processing device having upper and lower blades with blade edges extending in a feed direction of a thin metal plate that serves as a material of a fin. The upper and lower blades are engaged with each other to form a perforated slit between rows on the fin. Each blade has a recess where the blade edge is partially recessed toward a ridge. Recess depth dimensions are smaller than a lapping amount of the blades when the blades are engaged with each other. At least one of the blades is slidable in a longitudinal direction of the blade edge to allow the recesses to be moved from overlapping positions to adjacent positions as viewed along a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the blade edges when the blades are engaged with each other over the lapping amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nao Hashimoto, Shouji Nobui, Takuya Haraguchi, Yoshito Katada
  • Low-emission cold-setting binder for the foundry industry
    Patent number: 9993863
    Abstract: The present invention relates primarily to a mixture that is suitable for use in the no-bake process for producing cores and molds for the foundry industry, and a reaction mixture comprising said mixture and an acid hardener (i.e. an acid catalyst). The present invention further relates to a method of producing a mixture according to the invention and a method of producing a mold or a core. The invention also relates to a mold or a core for producing metal objects and a kit comprising a mixture according to the invention and certain acid hardeners. The invention further relates to the use of a mixture according to the invention as cold-setting binder and the use of said mixtures or reaction mixtures in a no-bake process for producing metal objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: HUTTENES-ALBERTUS CHEMISCHE WERKE GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Fourberg, Gérard Ladégourdie, Norbert Benz, Eckard Piech
  • Method for producing a casting core for manufacturing cylinder heads
    Patent number: 9993864
    Abstract: A method for producing a casting core for manufacturing cylinder heads including the following steps: producing at least one core component, by a constructive method, with a contour for the formation of internal contours of a first cylinder head producing at least one further core component, by a constructive method, with a contour for the formation of internal contours of a further cylinder head; producing at least one sprue core component for feeding the molten mass during the casting method; and joining the two core components to the sprue core component in an opposing orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Segaud, Manfred Huber, Thomas Summer
  • Aluminum alloy products for manufacturing structural components and method of producing the same
    Patent number: 9993865
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy product for manufacturing structural components, made from direct chill casting ingots comprises, based on wt %: Zn 7.5˜8.7, Mg 1.1˜2.3, Cu 0.5˜1.9, Zr 0.03˜0.20, the balance being Al, incidental elements and impurities. The levels of Zn, Mg, Cu, and Zr in the aluminum alloy products satisfy the expressions of (a) 10.5?Zn+Mg+Cu?11.0; (b) 5.3?(Zn/Mg)+Cu?6.0; and (c) (0.24?D/4800)?Zr?(0.24?D/5000). D is the minimum length of a line section connecting any two points on the periphery of the cross section of the ingot and passing through the geometrical center of the cross section. 250 mm?D?1000 mm. The aluminum alloy products have a superior combination of strength and damage tolerance, and exhibit homogeneous and consistent performance on the surface, at various depths under the surface, and in the core of the product. A method of producing the aluminum alloy products is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: GRIMAT Engineering Institute Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Baiqing Xiong, Yongan Zhang, Baohong Zhu, Xiwu Li, Zhihui Li, Feng Wang, Hongwei Liu
  • Press forming apparatus and press forming method for a semi-solid metal material
    Patent number: 9993866
    Abstract: Provided is a press forming apparatus for a semi-solid metal material, including: a slide caused to make a reciprocating linear motion; a sub-slide mounted so as to be movable relatively to the slide; a fluid pressure mechanism interposed between the slide and the sub-slide, which is capable of moving the sub-slide relatively to the slide by fluid pressure; an upper die mounted to the sub-slide; and a lower die. The press forming apparatus is configured to press-form the material while applying predetermined pressure to the material for a predetermined period by bringing, along with descent action of the slide, the upper die into contact with the material fed into the lower die, then stopping the slide at a predetermined position, and moving the upper die mounted to the sub-slide relatively to the slide by the fluid pressure mechanism under a state in which the slide is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: AIDA ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Nakamura, Yuji Abe, Setsuo Toda
  • High-pressure casting method and high-pressure casting device
    Patent number: 9993867
    Abstract: Provided is a high-pressure casting method and a high-pressure casting device which are capable of safe and high-quality casting of a high-fusion-point metal having a fusion point exceeding 1000 K. After melting a casting material (1) inside a melting container (2) of cartridge type, the melting container (2) is linearly moved to pass through a guide (14) attached to a casting port bush (13) to thereby be communicated with the casting port bush (13). The melting container (2) is brought into close contact with the guide (14) and is setting to a cooling state. After the elapse of prescribed time, a plunger (50) is brought into contact with a plunger tip (4), and is immediately transferred together with a molten metal to the casting port bush (13). The molten metal is pressurized inside the casting port bush (13), and is injection-filled into a cavity (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: FUKUI PREFECTURAL GOVERNMENT
    Inventor: Koichi Tomita
  • Control device for the advancing motion of a casting plunger
    Patent number: 9993868
    Abstract: A device is provided for controlling the advancing movement of a casting plunger in a casting chamber of a cold-chamber die casting machine by way of an actuating signal, the advancing movement comprising a chamber filling movement phase from a partial filling position, with a partially filled casting chamber starting volume, to a full filling position, with a filled casting chamber remaining volume. In the device, a respective associated progression of an actuating signal is provided for different specified sets of values of a plurality of process parameters that influence the movement of the molten material in the casting chamber during the chamber filling movement phase, which progression is defined as the most suitable actuating signal progression for the particular set of parameter values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Oskar Frech GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Norbert Erhard, Peter Maurer
  • Directional solidification of polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) drill bits
    Patent number: 9993869
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotary drill bit includes forming a mold having an inner surface and an outer surface, locating a metal mandrel within the mold, packing the mold around at least part of the mandrel with particulate matrix-forming material and installing an insulating material around at least an upper portion of the outer surface. The material is infiltrated in a furnace with a molten binding alloy and the mold including the insulating material is removed from the furnace, directionally solidifying the material and binding alloy in portion of the bit, wherein the directional solidification proceeds from the lower portion of the outer surface in an upward and outward direction to form a solid infiltrated matrix bonded to the mandrel by cooling of the mold with the insulating material disposed around at least the upper portion of the outer surface of the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: William Brian Atkins, Jeffrey Thomas
  • Heated control pin
    Patent number: 9993870
    Abstract: A control pin for controlling the flow of molten metal through a down spout in a casting process is provided. The control pin comprises a body having an elongated shape, a lower portion insertable in the down spout, and a terminal end, opposite the lower portion. The body includes a central core, preferably a hollow tube or a rod of alumina or mullite; a heating element disposed around the central core, and an intermediate layer surrounding the central core and encasing the heating element, the intermediate layer being made of a solidified ceramic putty. Finally, an outer shell, preferably made of woven fiber reinforcing fabric in a matrix of ceramic, surrounds the intermediate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: PYROTEK HIGH-TEMPERATURE INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS INC.
    Inventors: Sylvain Tremblay, Jens Bouchard, Michael Bouchard
  • Silver powder, method for producing same, and conductive paste
    Patent number: 9993871
    Abstract: A silver powder, including: an organic substance on a surface of the silver powder, the organic substance containing at least one carboxyl group and at least one hydroxyl group in one molecule of the organic substance, wherein a BET specific surface area of the silver powder is 0.1 m2/g or more but 2.0 m2/g or less, and wherein a cumulative 50% point of particle diameter (D50) of the silver powder in a volume-based particle size distribution of the silver powder as measured by a laser diffraction particle size distribution analysis is 0.1 ?m or more but 6.0 ?m or less, and a ratio of [(D90?D10)/D50] is 3.0 or less, where D50 is the cumulative 50% point of particle diameter, D90 is a cumulative 90% point of particle diameter of the silver powder, and D10 is a cumulative 10% point of particle diameter of the silver powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: DOWA Electronics Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taro Nakanoya, Hiroshi Kamiga
  • Fluidized bed for degassing and heat treating powders
    Patent number: 9993872
    Abstract: A method includes introducing metallic powder into a fluidizing chamber of a fluidized bed reactor. A fluidization gas is flowed into the fluidizing chamber. The metallic power becomes entrained in the flow of the fluidization gas. Adsorbed water is removed from the metallic powder by exposing the metallic powder to the fluidization gas for a duration of time and at a treatment temperature to cause the adsorbed water to be removed from the metallic powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron T. Nardi, Michael A. Klecka, Ying She, Zissis A. Dardas
  • System and method for three-dimensional printing
    Patent number: 9993873
    Abstract: A system and method for three-dimensional printing are provided. One three-dimensional printing system includes a first printing surface configured to hold a first three-dimensional object. The three-dimensional printing system also includes a second printing surface configured to hold a second three-dimensional object. The three-dimensional printing system includes at least one printing head disposed adjacent to the first and second printing surfaces for printing the first and second three-dimensional objects. A vertical position of the first printing surface is controlled independently from a vertical position of the second printing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael Andrew Kovalcik, Eric Alan Estill, Donnell Eugene Crear
  • Composition and processing of metallic interconnects for SOFC stacks
    Patent number: 9993874
    Abstract: A chromium-iron interconnect includes at least one of Fe rich regions in the interconnect and carbon in the interconnect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignees: BLOOM ENERGY CORPORATION, STACKPOLE INTERNATIONAL POWDER METAL, ULC
    Inventors: Rohith Shivanath, Brendan Ayre, Tad Armstrong, Michael Gasda, Daniel Darga, Harald Herchen, Chockkalingam Karuppaiah, Brandon Dawson, Ravi Oswal
  • Methods for fabrication of nanostructures
    Patent number: 9993875
    Abstract: Systems and methods for fabricating nanostructures using other nanostructures as templates. A method includes mixing a dispersion and a reagent solution. The dispersion includes nanostructures such as nanowires including a first element such as copper. The reagent solution includes a second element such as silver. The second element at least partially replaces the first element in the nanostructures. The nanostructures are optionally washed, filtered, and/or deoxidized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: NTHDEGREE TECHNOLOGIES WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Vera N. Lockett, Mark D. Lowenthal, William J. Ray, John Gustafson
  • Cutting tool holder with vibration damping weight assembly
    Patent number: 9993876
    Abstract: A cutting tool holder has a holder body and a vibration damping weight assembly. The holder body has opposing first and second side surfaces and a top surface extending therebetween, and an insert mounting portion located at a front end of the holder body adjacent to the top surface. A weight aperture opens out to the first and second side surfaces and has an aperture inner surface. The weight assembly is located within the weight aperture, having a first and second weight portions, a damping ring located along the aperture inner surface, and an actuating member interfacing and urging the first and second weight portions away from one another, such that each weight portion presses against the damping ring within the weight aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil Hecht, Ofir Zagagy, Jony Saffouri, Ilya Men
  • Parting blade and blade holder configured for conveyance of pressurized coolant
    Patent number: 9993877
    Abstract: A cutting tool assembly includes a parting blade and a blade holder for holding same. The cutting tool assembly is configured for conveying pressurized coolant via the holder to a cutting portion of the parting blade. The blade holder includes a deceleration chamber configured for reducing the impact of the pressurized coolant against the parting blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventors: Asaf Malka, Dmitry Gal, Shimon Athad
  • Coated cutting tool
    Patent number: 9993878
    Abstract: A coated cutting tool includes a substrate and a coating layer formed onto the surface of the substrate. The coating layer contains an ?-type aluminum oxide layer. A residual stress value at the (116) plane of the ?-type aluminum oxide layer is greater than 0. A residual stress value at the (012) plane of the ?-type aluminum oxide layer is smaller than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kinya Takahashi, Hiroyuki Satoh
  • Eddy current vibration absorber assembly for cutting tool
    Patent number: 9993879
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a cutting insert mounted to a head attached to a collar at a first end of the cutting tool. A shank is located at a second, opposite end of the cutting tool. A central cavity extends inwardly from the first end toward the shank. An eddy current vibration absorber assembly is disposed within the central cavity. The eddy current vibration absorber assembly includes an absorber mass made of an electrically conductive material, a magnetic material proximate the absorber mass, and a support member for supporting the absorber mass within the central cavity. The eddy current vibration absorber assembly is tuned by selectively adjusting a distance between the absorber mass and the magnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC
    Inventors: Samuel Eichelberger, Tony Schmitz, Shi Chen, Igor Kaufmann
  • Tool holder
    Patent number: 9993880
    Abstract: A tool holder includes a basic body, in which a tool receiving region is located, a circular cylindrical clamping chuck having several joints and an external thread which has an external pitch angle, as well as a union nut having an internal thread which has an internal pitch angle. The union nut has a stopping face on the basic body or on the clamping chuck. The external pitch angle is different from the internal pitch angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Simtek AG
    Inventor: Norbert Seifermann
  • Idexable drill insert
    Patent number: 9993881
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a quadrangular indexable drill insert. The drill insert includes a substantially flat top surface, a bottom surface and a side surface adjoining the top and bottom surfaces. The side surface comprises four identical cutting edges intersecting the top surface; each cutting edge comprises a first part edge oriented inwardly towards axis of the drill body. A second part edge tangential to an imaginary inscribed circle diameter connected to the first part edge through a convex curve. A third part connected to the second part edge through concave curve and a fourth part edge connected to the third part edge though a convex curve. The insert further includes a curved nose portion at four corners, each adjoining a first part edge of one cutting edge with a fourth part edge of a succeeding cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INDIA LIMITED
    Inventor: Karthic Ramesh
  • Roughing end mill
    Patent number: 9993882
    Abstract: In a roughing end mill, an end mill main body is provided with: a peripheral cutting edge; an end cutting edge; and a corner cutting edge formed between the peripheral cutting edge and the end cutting edge. A roughing part having a waveform pattern of recesses and protrusions is formed in the peripheral cutting edge, and a phase of the recesses and protrusions of the roughing part of one chip discharge flute is shifted with respect to that of the other chip discharge flute adjacent to the one chip discharge flute. A foremost protrusion of the roughing part of one peripheral cutting edge is located closer to a distal end of the end mill main body than those of the other peripheral cutting edges, a peak of the foremost protrusion of the one peripheral cutting edge is aligned with another peak of the corner cutting edge adjacent to the one peripheral cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Fukata
  • Multi-flute ball end mill
    Patent number: 9993883
    Abstract: A multi-flute ball end mill comprising a shank portion, a cutting edge portion having a ball-shaped tip portion, and 3 or more cutting edges formed in the cutting edge portion; each cutting edge being constituted by a peripheral cutting edge having a twist angle ? of 35-45°, and a ball-end cutting edge having a twist angle ? at the outermost peripheral point, the twist angle ? and the twist angle ? meeting the relation of ????7°, such that the ball-end cutting edge is smoothly connected to the peripheral cutting edge; the ball-end cutting edge having a radial rake angle of ?37° to ?11°; the peripheral cutting edge having a radial rake angle of 2-8°; and a center-lowered, inclined cutting edge integrally extending from a tip end of each ball-end cutting edge to a rotation center point, in a tip end portion of the ball portion near the rotation center point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Tool Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinjiroh Sakai
  • Double-sided tangential cutting insert
    Patent number: 9993884
    Abstract: A double-sided tangential cutting insert comprising a pair of cutting rake faces, a pair of major side surfaces and a pair of opposing minor side faces each having a twisted convex shape. Each of the cutting rake faces is defined between a pair of main cutting edges, a pair of full nose cutting edges, and a pair of opposing convex minor cutting edges. Each of the minor side faces is defined between one of the convex minor cutting edges at one of the rake faces and one of the convex minor cutting edges at the other one of the rake faces wherein, at each minor side face, a ridge line interconnects an apex of the convex minor edge at the one of the rake faces and an apex of the convex minor cutting edge at the other one of the rake faces. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Xiangdong Daniel Fang, Michael R. Cripps, Jean-Luc Daniel Dufour, David J. Wills
  • Pressing tool
    Patent number: 9993885
    Abstract: A motorized manually operated pressing tool, in particular a crimping tool, with a fixed holding part, in which at least one pressing jaw is pivotably mounted about a pivot axis. The pressing jaw forms a working area and an impingement region extending in the longitudinal direction of the pressing jaw. In order to carry out a pressing operation the impingement region can be acted upon with an impinging part that is movable relative to the impingement region. The impinging part is movable in the longitudinal direction of the impingement region by exertion of manual force and by a motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: GUSTAV KLAUKE GMBH
    Inventor: Egbert Frenken
  • Method and device for the face-side chamfering of gear teeth of a workpiece
    Patent number: 9993886
    Abstract: Method for the face-side chamfering of gear teeth of a workpiece (20) in a CNC-controlled multiaxis machine including inserting a tool (100) in the multiaxis machine, wherein the tool (100) has at least one cutting tooth (111) having a first rake face and a second rake face, driving the tool (100) in a first rotational direction, executing first CNC-controlled relative movements while the tool (100) rotates in the first rotational direction to chamfer a first face-side edge (24) of a first tooth of the gear teeth using the first rake face of the tool (100), and executing second CNC-controlled relative movements while the tool (100) rotates in the first rotational direction, to chamfer a second face-side edge (25) of the first tooth or another tooth of the gear teeth using the second rake face of the tool (100), and apparatus therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: KLINGELNBERG AG
    Inventor: Olaf Vogel
  • Method and apparatus for chamfering and deburring gear cut workpieces
    Patent number: 9993887
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and to an apparatus for chamfering and deburring gear cut workpieces, especially of large-volume gear cut workpieces, using a deburring apparatus which is arranged on or at the cutting head of a gear cutting machine and which at least partially utilizes the machine axes of the gear cutting machine to chamfer and to deburr gear teeth along a tooth contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Zeller
  • Wire electrical discharge machine
    Patent number: 9993888
    Abstract: A wire electrical discharge machine recognizes that the finished piece (core) has been separated from the piece of work as a result of electrical discharge machining, allows fluid to be jetted against the finished piece (core) from the lower nozzle so that the finished piece (core) floats upward, recognizes that the finished piece (core) has floated upward by a predetermined amount on the basis of the completion of the process program or the information gained from the sensor, and allows the core removal unit to catch the finished piece (core) for removal and collection after it has been recognized that the finished piece (core) has floated upward by the predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Kasai, Kaoru Hiraga
  • Oil composition for electrical discharge machining
    Patent number: 9993889
    Abstract: An electrical discharge machining oil composition of the invention includes an organic acid metal salt and a base oil, in which the organic acid metal salt is an organic acid salt of a metal having an electronegativity on Pauling scale of 2 or less, and the present composition has a volume resistivity at 80 degrees C. of 2×10?5 T?·m or more and a kinematic viscosity at 40 degrees C. in a range from 0.5 mm2/s to 10 mm2/s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignees: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD., Nagaoka University of Technology
    Inventors: Tomohiko Kitamura, Yasushi Fukuzawa, Ken Yamashita, Daiki Hanaoka
  • System and method for data exchange and control with a wireless remote control for welding systems
    Patent number: 9993890
    Abstract: A system and method for wirelessly controlling, monitoring, and updating various welding parameters from a remote device using a single remote control. The remote does not need to have the software to communicate with the welding-type system prior to initiating communications with the welding-type system. Rather, the welding-type system can provide a code download to the remote to perform an over-the-air programming of the remote to configure the remote to control the welding-type system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Marc L. Denis, Michael A. Gill, Todd G. Batzler
  • Welding parameter control via welder motion or position monitoring
    Patent number: 9993891
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, a wireless sensor module includes a motion or position sensor configured to detect a defined motion or position of a welding operator. The wireless sensor module also includes memory circuitry configured to store the defined motion or position and an adjustment of an operating parameter of a welding system which corresponds to the defined motion or position. A processor of the wireless sensor module is coupled to the motion or position sensor and the memory circuitry, where the processor is configured to retrieve the adjustment of the operating parameter from the memory circuitry upon detection of the defined motion or position by the motion or position sensor. The wireless senor module further includes a wireless communication device coupled to the processor and configured to transmit the adjustment of the operating parameter to the welding system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Indra Budiman Wiryadinata
  • Welding method and apparatus
    Patent number: 9993892
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for joining first and second sheet metal parts includes a support where the first and second parts are positioned with an edge of the second part surrounded by a beading flange of the first part. A joining electrode is positioned adjacent to the beading flange and a counter-electrode is positioned adjacent to the second part. An abutment of a tong-type welding apparatus in placed in contact with the support, and the joining electrode and the abutment are urged toward one another to press or clamp the beading flange between the joining electrode and the support. An electric current is applied to the beading flange using the joining electrode and the counter-electrode to weld the parts together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dietmar Rotheut, Guido H. Mueller
  • Apparatus and method for treating surface of strip casting twin roll
    Patent number: 9993893
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating a surface of a strip casting twin roll includes: a laser machining unit configured to form dimple patterns on a surface of a rotating casting roll using a laser; a machining region processing unit, wherein if the casting roll is rotated by a critical angle, the machining region processing unit calculates a size and a position of a machining region, in which a dimple pattern will be formed, based on image information obtained by imaging the machining region; and a laser beam absorbing unit, wherein if the size of the machining region is smaller than a size of the dimple pattern, the laser beam absorbing unit places a screen at an overlap start position from which the machining region and the dimple pattern start to overlap each other, so as to absorb a laser beam emitted toward a peripheral region of the machining region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Suk Kyun Hwang, Ji Woo Im, Sun Mi Kim
  • Compact radiation detector
    Patent number: 9993894
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting radiation is provided. In embodiments, at least one sensor is disposed on a surface of a wafer-like substrate. At least one sensor medium is fixed relative to the substrate, optically or electrically coupled to the sensor, and separated from the sensor by no more than the substrate thickness. An electronic signal-processing circuit is connected to the sensor and configured to produce an output when the sensor is stimulated by a product of an interaction between the sensor medium and impinging radiation. The sensor is configured to collect, from the sensor medium, charge and/or light produced within the sensor medium by interactions with impinging radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Mark S. Derzon, Randolph R. Kay, Paul C. Galambos, Ronald F. Renzi, Ronald P. Kensek, Mark A. Grohman, Thomas Kerr Lemp, Subhash L. Shinde, Gregory Robert Bogart, Liam D. Claus
  • Method and device for structuring the surface of a hard material coated solid body by means of a laser
    Patent number: 9993895
    Abstract: In the method for structuring at least one area of a solid body surface provided with a ta-C coating, by means of a first laser, preferably an excimer laser having pulse durations in the nanosecond range, a first structure is produced upon which a second, ripple-like structure is superposed by means of a second laser, preferably having pulse durations in the femtosecond range. Preferentially, the excimer laser structuring is carried out according to the mask projection technique and the femtosecond laser structuring according to the focus technique. This method allows the rational manufacture of very complex, extremely fraud-resistant authentication features and/or of esthetically attractive, optical diffraction effective colored patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Boegli-Gravures SA
    Inventors: Charles Boegli, Steffen Weissmantel, Günter Reisse, Andy Engel, Rene Boettcher, Werner Steffen
  • Method for laser welding of materials having different thicknesses
    Patent number: 9993896
    Abstract: A laser welding method for welding materials having different thicknesses includes abutting two plates having different thicknesses such that one surface of the thin plate and one surface the thick plate are made flush with each other; and thereafter welding the plates by applying a laser beam to abutting surfaces thereof, wherein the laser beam is directed obliquely relative to an abutting end face of the thick plate, a target position of the laser beam is determined on the abutting end face of the thick plate, and a target position depth D on the abutting end face of the thick plate is determined based on the formula t/3?D?t where t is a thickness of the abutting end face of the thin plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Hosomi, Kenji Ogawa, Takefumi Nakako, Keiji Yamamoto
  • Multi-layered aluminium brazing sheet material
    Patent number: 9993897
    Abstract: Multilayered brazing sheet material including an aluminum core alloy layer having a first brazing clad layer material on one face of the core layer and a second brazing clad layer material on the other face of the core material, and an inter-layer between the core layer and the first brazing clad layer material, wherein the core layer is 3xxx-series aluminum alloy having, in wt. %, up to 0.4% Si, up to 0.5% Fe, 0.4% to 0.75% Cu, 0.6% to 1.1% Mn, up to 0.04% Mg, up to 0.2% Cr, up to 0.25% Zr, up to 0.2% Ti, up to 0.15% Zn, balance aluminum and impurities, wherein the first brazing layer and the second brazing layer are 4xxx-series aluminum alloy having 7% to 14% Si and up to 2% Mg, balance aluminum and impurities, and wherein the inter-layer is aluminum alloy of the 1xxx-series alloys.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: ALERIS ROLLED PRODUCTS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Steven Kirkham, Bernd Jacoby
  • Method and apparatus for preplacement of metal filler powder and flux powder for laser deposition
    Patent number: 9993898
    Abstract: Forming respective packets (20, 21, 46, 50, 52, 70, 82, 84) of filler metal powder (24) and flux powder (26) for adjacent placement on a working surface (30) for laser deposition of the metal. Each packet may be formed of a sacrificial sleeve (22) or adjacently seamed sheets (72A-D), which may include flux fibers such as alumina, zirconia, basalt, or silica. A packet (56) of flux may be disposed centrally inside a packet (56) of metal or vice versa. A connected stack (70, 82, 84) of three packets (74A-C, 86A-C) may be formed by seaming (76A-B) four stacked sheets (72A-D) around common edges and filling the three resulting spaces between the sheets with a respective vertical sequence of metal/flux/metal or flux/metal/flux powders. Quilting and intermediate stitching may provide for precise control of material distribution and facilitate feeding of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Gerald J. Bruck, Ahmed Kamel
  • Vehicle body manufacturing apparatus
    Patent number: 9993899
    Abstract: A vehicle body manufacturing apparatus includes: a jig that holds one work of the vehicle body, positions the one work to the another work, and joins the works together at a joint section; a welding gun that welds a weld portion in the joint section by an electrode that is moved along a pressure axis and pressed against the weld portion; and a welding position fixing member that regulates the pressure axis, along which the electrode is moved, within a setting area, the welding position fixing member being movable in a coaxial direction to the pressure axis along which the electrode is moved, being contactable with the joint section to interpose the joint section between the jig and the welding position fixing member, and having a controllable pressure at a time of welding the weld portion by the electrode, which is moved at the time of welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noboru Sakamoto
  • Method for positioning welding clamp
    Patent number: 9993900
    Abstract: A method for positioning a welding clamp includes: a first step of determining a reference clamp position on a first workpiece (STEP 2); a second step of determining a first workpiece state in welding and determining the presence or absence of a site having a deflection larger than a predetermined deflection amount in the first workpiece (STEPs 3 to 5); and a third step of, if the second step determines the presence, determining the site as an additional clamp position (STEP 6). The method suitably determines a limited number of clamp positions that cause no welding target workpiece deflection exceeding the predetermined deflection amount by repeating the second step and the third step until the second step determines the absence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Hasegawa, Susumu Yamashita
  • Clamping device
    Patent number: 9993901
    Abstract: A boot band for fixing a boot that is mounted to a constant velocity universal joint is clamped. The boot band and the constant velocity universal joint are aligned in phase with each other in a circumferential direction. An axial position of a clamping portion is thereafter aligned with an axial position of the boot band. Then, the boot band is clamped by the clamping portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hatano, Nao Ishiyama, Shinya Inui, Yuuki Ogata
  • Machine tool
    Patent number: 9993902
    Abstract: A machine tool includes a door used for opening and closing an opening of a frame and a tool exchanger arm used for exchanging a tool between a tool magazine and a main shaft. The machine tool further includes an interlocking mechanism provided between the door and the tool exchanger arm. The interlocking mechanism works in an interlocking relationship with tool exchanging operation by the tool exchanger arm to open and close the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: KOMATSU NTC LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Kanda
  • Workpiece supply device and machine tool
    Patent number: 9993903
    Abstract: A workpiece supply device is provided that is capable of supplying a workpiece to be machined next in a supplying area of the workpiece outside a machining area while the machining area is closed to control scattering of cutting fluid from the machining area during the machining of the workpiece. A machine tool includes a machining room of the workpiece, a loader room, a dividing wall having an opening part, a main spindle, a workpiece supply device, a delivery device, and an ejection device. The workpiece supply device includes a workpiece holder, a movement mechanism, a cover member, and a coil spring. The coil spring biases the cover member to close the opening part by the cover member such that the workpiece holder holds the workpiece in the loader room during the machining of the workpiece in the machining room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignees: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shingo Itoh
  • Machine tool feed axis position controller with runout correction of tool cutting edges
    Patent number: 9993904
    Abstract: A position controller includes a position detector, a speed command operator, a first adder, a torque command operator, a second adder, a drive unit, a runout amount correcting device, and a third adder. The runout amount correcting device is configured to employ a value related to deviation between a command value and a detection value in physical quantity of a movable part as a reference signal. The runout amount correcting device is configured to calculate a position correction amount from rotation angle information of the main spindle and the reference signal. The runout amount correcting device is configured to estimate a runout amount of a cutting edge of the tool from the reference signal. The runout amount correcting device is configured to calculate the position correction amount such that influences of the respective cutting edges appearing in the reference signal are leveled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Okuma Corporation
    Inventor: Masashi Miyaji