Patents Issued in August 14, 2018
  • Patent number: 10046344
    Abstract: A composite structure formation method includes the steps of storing a plurality of pre-formed controlled particles in a storage mechanism, supplying the controlled particles from the storage mechanism to an aerosolation mechanism constantly, disaggregating the supplied controlled particles into a plurality of the fine particles in the aerosolation mechanism to form an aerosol in which an entire contents of the controlled particles including the fine particles are dispersed in the gas; and spraying all of the fine particles in the aerosol toward the substrate to form a composite structure of the structure and the substrate. The controlled particles are controlled so that bonding strength between the fine particles includes a mean compressive fracture strength sufficient to substantially avoid disaggregation during the supply step, but which permits the controlled particles to be substantially completely disaggregated in the disaggregation step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Toto Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Hatono, Masahiro Mizukane, Osamu Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10046345
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods and to a device for providing a composition containing hyaluronic acid, in particular for cosmetic or medical purposes. This disclosure teaches that hyaluronic acid can be stored in a dose-metering device and that potable water from a potable water network can be mixed with hyaluronic acid using the dose-metering device such that a composition containing hyaluronic acid is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: BWT Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jürgen Johann
  • Patent number: 10046346
    Abstract: A dispenser includes a housing, a cartridge, and a pump assembly. The housing has a first liquid disposed therein, and the cartridge has a second liquid disposed therein. The pump assembly includes a tube. The first liquid is drawn from the housing into the tube through a first inlet in the tube when the pump assembly is actuated, and the second liquid is drawn from the cartridge into the tube through a second inlet in the tube when the pump assembly is actuated. The first and second liquids are combined within the tube to form a mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Joseph R. Knorr, Michael Amoafo
  • Patent number: 10046347
    Abstract: A head (4) of a trigger dispensing device for liquids includes an auxiliary body (30) for the connection with a neck (10) of a bottle (2). The auxiliary body (30) includes a closure base (32) suitable to close a mouth (13?) of the bottle (2) and dual constraints suitable to snap-engage with the neck (10) forming between the auxiliary body (30) and the neck (10) a constraint both to the relative rotation and to the separation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: GUALA DISPENSING S.p.A.
    Inventor: Riccardo Alluigi
  • Patent number: 10046348
    Abstract: The invention relates to a metering dispenser for putting out pasty or viscous material, comprising a dispenser housing, a cartridge arranged therein, an applicator and a pump unit. The metering dispenser according to the invention is provided with an actuating device which is formed by a push button, wherein the pump unit is activated by pushing the push button into the housing in order to put out the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Inventor: Gerhard Brugger
  • Patent number: 10046349
    Abstract: A pump dispenser includes a housing, a piston structure, a spring, a trigger and a valve. The housing has a front cylinder part and a rear inverted-L-shaped grip part that are integrally formed, a nozzle base that is attached to the housing and that has a front nozzle part mounted thereon. The piston structure is configured of a hollow-shaped piston and a hollow-shaped piston shaft and that slides inside the cylinder part. The spring presses the piston structure upward. The trigger is positioned above the housing, has a front tip rotatably mounted on the housing, and has a mid part where a tip of the hollow-shaped piston shaft abuts. The valve rod is disposed at a center part of the cylinder part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: CANYON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Tada, Mitsuaki Shaduki
  • Patent number: 10046350
    Abstract: A process includes setting a preset temperature; setting up a counter, wherein a first number is displayed on the counter in response to a water control switch switching from a low position to a high position, a second number is displayed on the counter in response to the water control switching from the high position to the low position; setting a target temperature in response to a first determination as to whether the first number or the second number is displayed on the counter, wherein the target temperature is equal to the preset temperature in response to the first number being displayed and the target temperature is equal to preset temperature less an adjustment temperature in response to the second number being displayed; and maintaining the target temperature for a period of time, then restoring the target temperature to the preset temperature after the period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SHANGHAI KOHLER ELECTRONICS, LTD.
    Inventors: Minghui Zhu, Haixing Sun, Bo Hu
  • Patent number: 10046351
    Abstract: A pump system for pumping a fluid includes a motor housing, a motor, a rod, a positive displacement pump, a position sensor, and a controller. The motor is located within the motor housing. The rod is connected to and driven by the motor and the positive displacement pump for moving a fluid is driven by the rod. The position sensor produces a rod position signal that is a function of a position of the rod, and the controller produces a drive signal for driving the motor as a function of the rod position signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
    Inventors: Mark J. Brudevold, Benjamin R. Godding, Joseph E. Tix, Daniel P. Ross
  • Patent number: 10046352
    Abstract: A contact nozzle for coating an elastic strand with an adhesive. Air is discharged at the adhesive in contact with the strand, causing the adhesive to spread around the periphery of the strand. The air assists with release of the adhesive from the nozzle and also cleans the nozzle to discourage adhesive build-up on the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Joel E. Saine, Charles P. Ganzer
  • Patent number: 10046353
    Abstract: A microscale stamp for transfer printing includes (a) a stamp body comprising a shape memory polymer having a glass transition temperature (Tg) and (b) one or more protruding structures attached to a surface of the stamp body. The shape memory polymer comprises a deformable state at temperatures above Tg and a rigid state at temperatures below Tg. The one or more protruding structures comprise a material which is different from the shape memory polymer and which has a Young's modulus greater than a storage modulus of the shape memory polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    Inventors: Seok Kim, Jeffrey D. Eisenhaure
  • Patent number: 10046354
    Abstract: Provided are a blade device equipped with a blade member which can accurately adjust pressing force due to a blade member, and a printing machine and a coating device equipped with the blade device. A blade device according to the present invention has: a blade member contacting with a plate roll to which coating material is to be applied; an upper holder contacting with the blade member from one surface side of the blade member; a lower holder contacting with the blade member from another surface side of the blade member; a tube contacting with the blade member and configured to expand and contract by pressure of fluid; and a tube positioning part which is provided on the upper holder and positions the tube closer to the roller, in a direction in which the blade member extends, than a tip end of the lower holder is. The tube adjusts a pressing force, of the tip end of the blade member, against the roller by being expanded or contracted while being held by the tube positioning part and the blade member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Chiba Machine Industry Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Sumiyoshi
  • Patent number: 10046355
    Abstract: A dispenser for a fluid material includes a handle portion and a cartridge having the material to be dispensed. The cartridge is easily mounted to the handle portion or removed, whereby the handle portion may be used with a variety of cartridges, each of which may contain a selected material. The handle portion includes a plunger that is moved linearly by actuation of a trigger mechanism, which is engaged by a user's finger. The trigger mechanism is configured to release pressure applied to the plunger quickly upon release of pressure on the trigger and to allow the plunger to move away from the cartridge to ensure release of pressure in the material to be dispensed to prevent dripping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Adhesive Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard A. Belanger, Peter S. Melendy
  • Patent number: 10046356
    Abstract: This coating device according to the present invention comprises a slit nozzle (30); a liquid supply path (10) for a coating liquid; a pneumatic transportation device (20) for transporting the coating liquid pneumatically; a liquid supply valve (50) for opening/shutting the liquid supply path (10); a pump (40) configured so as to be capable of suctioning the coating liquid inside the slit nozzle (30); a residual-pressure removal means (80) for removing the residual pressure inside the slit nozzle (30); and a control section (70) for controlling the operation of the liquid supply valve (50), the pump (40), and the residual-pressure removal means (80); wherein the coating liquid remaining inside the slit nozzle (30) is suctioned at the end of coating after pumping of the coating liquid is stopped and the residual pressure inside the slit nozzle (30) is removed. With this configuration the coating device improves responsive at the end of the coating without a complicated control procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: TAZMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ikagawa, Naoki Tsuo
  • Patent number: 10046357
    Abstract: A method of texturing a wall or ceiling with non-acoustical joint compound by providing a collapsible bag having an opening at its top and is adapted to contain non-acoustical joint compound for forming a textured coating on the wall or ceiling and providing a spray nozzle having a low pressure input port, a joint compound suction port attached to the opening at the top of the collapsible bag, and an output port for spraying the non-acoustical joint compound. A low pressure stream of air from an air gun attached to the low pressure input port urges a small quantity of the non-acoustical joint compound to be sprayed out of the spray nozzle when the bottom of the collapsible disposable bag is raised above its top to either allow or force the joint compound to flow into the suction port and into the interior of the spray nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: EZ-PRO TEXTURE INC.
    Inventor: Steven Robert Lehr
  • Patent number: 10046358
    Abstract: A method for coating a plastic component with a paint, wherein in a flooding step a surface of the plastic component to be coated is provided with paint by applying it to a flooding area and with a paint layer by the paint flowing off through a draining area. In order to make possible the coating of complex three-dimensional components, and before the execution of the flooding step, the draining area is provided with paint in a spraying step or alternatively in a separate preceding flooding step so that a paint coating is formed in the draining area, which consists of sprayed or separately flooded paint and flooded paint, and a paint coating is formed in the flooding area of the surface to be coated, which consists only of the flooded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Sandra Kuhn, Steffen Nothdurft, Stefano Cordero, Manfred Tauss
  • Patent number: 10046359
    Abstract: An oriented film includes first to fourth regions having first to fourth orientation angles. First polarized light having a first intensity is radiated onto the first and second regions of a photosensitive film. Second polarized light having a second intensity is radiated onto the second and third regions of the photosensitive film. Third polarized light having a third intensity is radiated onto the first to fourth regions of the photosensitive film. The polarization angles of the first to third polarized light are different from each other. The second polarization angle is larger than the first polarization angle. The third polarization angle is larger than the second polarization angle. The polarization angle of the second or third polarized light radiated onto the third region is less than the third alignment angle. The third intensity is lower than the first intensity and the second intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mihoko Okawa, Hideki Ochiai, Kota Aono, Yuki Kotegawa
  • Patent number: 10046360
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing an aluminum electrode using a solution process and an aluminum electrode manufactured thereby. The manufacturing method includes the steps of: manufacturing an aluminum precursor solution for the solution processing using AlH3 as a basic material before forming aluminum; coating the aluminum precursor solution on a substrate through the solution process and drying the aluminum precursor solution; and forming a low work function aluminum electrode through a low-temperature baking process at the temperature of at most 150° C. The method for manufacturing the aluminum electrode according to the present invention improves a thermal defect of the electrode due to a high-temperature baking process, prevents excessive loss of raw materials, and can manufacture aluminum electrodes of various sizes with area ranging from small to large at relatively low costs and by a simple process under atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials
    Inventors: Hye Moon Lee, Dong-Won Lee, Jung-Yeul Yun
  • Patent number: 10046361
    Abstract: A component is conveyed in a conveyor direction through a painting installation by conveyor. The component surface of the component to be painted is subdivided into surface painting modules which lie one behind the other in the conveyor direction. The individual painting modules of the component surface are painted one after the other using a multi-axis painting robot that has an atomizer. The painting robot guides the atomizer, within each one painting module, along a painting path and across the component surface of the painting module. The painting path has at least one path section running transverse to the component edge. Within the painting module, the painting path can comprise at least one path section that runs substantially parallel to the component edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Dürr Systems GmbH
    Inventor: Udo Wolf
  • Patent number: 10046362
    Abstract: A vibration generating unit includes a proximal side vibration transmitting section extended from a proximal end of the ultrasonic transducer toward a proximal direction. A proximal end of the proximal side vibration transmitting section is placed at a position apart from a reference antinode position toward the proximal direction by an extending dimension equal to an integral multiple of a half wavelength, when the reference antinode position is the closest to the ultrasonic transducer among antinode positions placed on the proximal direction side with respect to the ultrasonic transducer. The vibration generating unit includes an amplitude increasing section increasing an amplitude of the ultrasonic vibration transmitted toward the proximal direction in the proximal side vibration transmitting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsunetaka Akagane
  • Patent number: 10046363
    Abstract: Screening members, screening assemblies, methods for fabricating screening members and assemblies and methods for screening materials are provided for vibratory screening machines that incorporate the use of injection molded materials. Use of injection molded screen elements provide, inter alia, for: varying screening surface configurations; fast and relatively simple screen assembly fabrication; and a combination of outstanding screen assembly mechanical and electrical properties, including toughness, wear and chemical resistance. Embodiments of the present invention use a thermoplastic injection molded material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Derrick Corporation
    Inventor: Keith F. Wojciechowski
  • Patent number: 10046364
    Abstract: A modular exciter beam fitted to a vibratory screen assembly. The exciter beam spans between opposing side walls of the screen assembly. The modular exciter beam provides mounting for a pair of exciter mechanisms which are located substantially inside the side walls of the screen assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Schenck Process Australia Pty. Lt.
    Inventors: Gordon Ashley, Simon Gerard Mann, James Matthew Burgess, Philip Morris, Rotem Shalem, Martin Thomaier
  • Patent number: 10046365
    Abstract: A multi-deck screening assembly includes upper and lower screen decks, each having first and second deck sections. The upper deck's first deck section has first-size grading apertures, and its second deck section is downstream of the first deck section with second-size grading apertures larger than the first-size apertures. The lower deck's first section has third-size grading apertures and its second section is downstream of its first section with fourth-size grading apertures larger than the third-size apertures. A gap between the lower deck's first and second sections allows oversize material from the lower deck's first section to pass through to a first collection region. A diverter is positioned between the upper and lower decks and over the gap, whereby material from the upper deck collected on the diverter passes onto the lower deck's second section, thereby preventing undersize material that passes through the upper deck from passing directly through the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: CDE Global Limited
    Inventors: Christopher McKeown, Kevin Vallelly
  • Patent number: 10046366
    Abstract: A sieving apparatus for fractionating a grain product comprises a top chamber separated from a bottom chamber by a sieve; a top chamber cover defined by a plurality of openings that allow substantially vertical entry of an air stream into the top chamber when the interior of the sieving apparatus is under vacuum via first exit port in a side wall of the bottom chamber for exit of air; an inlet port in a sidewall of the top chamber, the inlet port configured for feeding of dry grain particles into the top chamber and for substantially horizontal entry of air into the top chamber; and a first exit port in a sidewall of the bottom chamber for exit of air and exit of a first grain fraction from the bottom chamber when the interior of the sieving apparatus is under vacuum via the exit port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: GRAINFRAC INC.
    Inventor: Thavaratnam Vasanthan
  • Patent number: 10046367
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer readable media for material separation and conveying using tuned waves are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Inventors: Spencer Allen Miller, Reza Khoshnoodi
  • Patent number: 10046368
    Abstract: A device and a method for processing parent parts and for sorting waste parts thereby separated. For this purpose, an optical detection unit is provided, which is configured to detect at least one geometric feature G of each waste part and to generate a control signal S corresponding to the at least one detected geometric feature G. The control signal S is transmitted to a sorting unit. The fed waste part is sorted depending on the received control signal S. It is thus possible to assign the separated waste parts to a specific parent part. This in turn enables an assignment and determination of the material of which the waste part consists, which specifically corresponds to the material of which the parent part consists. This enables the waste parts to be separated into different categories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: SCHULER PRESSEN GMBH
    Inventors: Daniel Pietzka, Daniel Sawatzki, Michael Werbs
  • Patent number: 10046369
    Abstract: A micro-irrigation system cleaning method adds a formulation which contains a water-soluble organic acid which has a pK(1)a of less than about 4.0, and optionally a water-soluble phosphonate dispersant. The cleaning continues for a time period of from three to twenty-four hours in a static environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Inventors: John C. Miller, Deborah L. Miller
  • Patent number: 10046370
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a substrate processing apparatus including: a processing chamber configured to process a substrate; a fluid supply source configured to supply a substrate processing fluid used in processing for the substrate in a predetermined pressure; a constant pressure supplying path configured to supply the substrate processing fluid from the fluid supply source to the processing chamber in a predetermined pressure without boosting the pressure of the substrate processing liquid; a boosted pressure supplying path configured to boost the pressure of the substrate processing fluid from the fluid supply source into a predetermined pressure by a booster mechanism and supply the pressure boosted substrate processing fluid to the processing chamber; and a control unit configured to switch over the constant pressure supplying path and the boosted pressure supplying path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Gentaro Goshi, Kazuyuki Mitsuoka, Gen You, Hiroki Ohno, Takehiko Orii, Takayuki Toshima
  • Patent number: 10046371
    Abstract: The substrate treating apparatus includes a process chamber in which an organic solvent remaining on a substrate is dissolved by using a fluid, that is provided as a supercritical fluid, to dry the substrate and a recycling unit including a recycler separating the organic solvent from the fluid discharged from the process chamber to recycle the fluid. The recycler includes a column having a space in which an absorbent for absorbing the organic solvent is stored, a supply tube supplying the fluid discharged from the process chamber into the space of the column, a discharge tube discharging the fluid from which the organic solvent is separated in the column, a gas supply tube supplying a purge gas into the column so that the organic solvent is separated from the absorbent, and an exhaust tube exhausting the purge gas containing the organic solvent to the outside of the column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Semes Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eun-Sun Jung, Woo-Young Kim, Chan-youn Heo
  • Patent number: 10046372
    Abstract: A liquid processing apparatus includes a plurality of liquid processing units, a plurality of individual exhaust paths, a common exhaust path, a first outside air intake section, a first regulation valve, a second outside air intake section, and a second regulation valve. The liquid processing units perform a liquid processing on a processing target object. An exhaust gas from an inside of the liquid processing unit flows in the individual exhaust paths. The exhaust gas from the individual exhaust paths flows in the common exhaust path. The first outside air intake section is formed at the most upstream side to introduce outside air. The first regulation valve is provided in the first outside air intake section. The second outside air intake section is formed at a downstream side of the common exhaust path from the connection. The second regulation valve is provided in the second outside air intake section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Kazuya Goda, Yoshifumi Amano, Nobuya Yamamoto, Go Ayabe
  • Patent number: 10046373
    Abstract: There is provided a titanium cast product for hot rolling composed of commercially pure titanium, the titanium cast product including: a microstructural refinement layer having acicular microstructure on an outermost layer of a surface layer to be rolled; and an inside microstructural refinement layer having acicular microstructure provided in an inside of the microstructural refinement layer. Cast solidification microstructure is present more inward than the inside microstructural refinement layer. The microstructural refinement layer has finer microstructure than the inside microstructural refinement layer. The microstructural refinement layer is present in a range of a depth of 1 mm or more and less than 6 mm from the surface. The inside microstructural refinement layer is present in an inside of the microstructural refinement layer in a range of a depth of 3 mm or more and 20 mm or less from the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Fujii, Tomonori Kunieda, Yoshitsugu Tatsuzawa, Kenichi Mori, Kazuhiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10046374
    Abstract: Rods with the transverse cross-section surface area of at least 150 mm2 and tensile strength UTS above 1200 Mpa is produced using a plastic deformation that consisted of one-pass hydrostatic extrusion of the billet 1 made of austenitic steel, with the initial temperature of the billet being below 100° C. The reduction R of the transverse cross-section surface area of the biller (1), which takes place during the extrusion, is at least 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: INSTYTUT WYSOKICH CISNIEN POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK
    Inventors: Waclaw Pachla, Mariusz Kulczyk, Jacek Skiba, Konrad Wojciechowski
  • Patent number: 10046375
    Abstract: In some aspects of the invention, tool components for processing of plate-like workpieces, the tool component include an end face adjoined by a tool region provided for regrinding, the tool region being configured to undergo regrinding as a result of wear; and at least one identification mark located on the tool component to indicate the amount of shortening of the tool region as a result of regrinding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Buettner, Wolfgang Laib, Arnim Bruechle, Markus Hees, Yakup Coskun
  • Patent number: 10046376
    Abstract: A guided keeper assembly and related method includes a cylindrical base that mounts to a die member using a multi-piece, interlocking flange. The flanges have outer fastener holes and inner arcuate walls that matingly engage a complimentary profile on the outer surface of the base to axially interconnect the same. The flanges also have male and female end connectors which snap lock together around the base in an assembled condition. Mounting screws pass through the fastener holes in the flanges and are anchored in the die member to securely retain the guided keeper assembly in place. A retainer ring is mounted in an associated groove in the base over the heads of the screws to prevent unintentional unfastening of the screws from the die member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: STANDARD LIFTERS, INC.
    Inventors: Scott M. Breen, Joel T. Pyper
  • Patent number: 10046377
    Abstract: A method and an end effector for installing an element over a member associated with an object. An end effector may be attached to the object. The element may be loaded onto an element installer by an element loader of the end effector. The element may be installed onto the member associated with the object by the element installer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Edward John Batt
  • Patent number: 10046378
    Abstract: A bending robot takes out a workpiece stored on a stacker while contacting its end face with a storage reference flat plane of the stacker, and then supplies it to a bending machine. The bending robot includes a main body movable parallel to the storage reference flat plane, an arm portion supported by the main body and capable of positioning above the stacker, and a distance sensor provided in the arm portion for measuring a distance to the workpiece stored on the stacker in a contactless manner. According to the bending robot, bending can be done with high efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: AMADA HOLDING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuaki Kato, Atsushi Yamagishi, Daiya Uchida
  • Patent number: 10046379
    Abstract: What is disclosed is a fin forming machine for making fins for heat exchanger cores, or the like, in which the fin forming machine has three major drives and separate controls; the top and bottom drives control the vertical opening and closing of fin forming dies under programmable control in accordance with CNC technology; and a center drive under the control of a separate programmable system which controls horizontal movement of the feedstock into intersection with the top and bottom forming dies to incrementally halt the movement of the feedstock as it intersects with the forming dies upon convergence during fin formation and then advances it a controllable distance for the next fin forming action. These three drive systems being seamlessly variable and controllable during operation, maintain a high degree of calibration of the formation of each fin to maintain fin height and spacing within very close tolerances, which calibrations are achieved without shutting down machine operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Inventor: Robert Greenwood
  • Patent number: 10046380
    Abstract: A twist application device, including a feeder (1) for feeding conductor ends (2a . . . 2c) of at least two conductors (3a . . . 3c), and a rotatably mounted twist application head (4) for twisting the said conductors (3a . . . 3c). The twist application device also includes a controller (7), connected with a drive (8) for first clamping jaws (5a . . . 5f) of the feeder (1), and is equipped for control of the latter. The distance (a) between clamped conductor ends (2a . . . 2c) is set at an adjustable value before the transfer of the conductor ends (2a . . . 2c) from the feed device (1) into the twist application head (4). A method of twisting at least two conductors (3a . . . 3c), in which the referred-to distance (a) is set at an adjustable value before clamping of the conductor ends (2a . . . 2c) in the second jaws (6a, 6b) of the twist application head (4). In alternative aspect, a feed device (1) for feeding conductor ends (2a . . . 2c) of conductors (3a . . . 3c) into a further processing device (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Schleuniger Holding AG
    Inventors: Uwe Keil, Roland Kampmann
  • Patent number: 10046381
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for positioning an end effector relative to a fuselage assembly. A configuration of the fuselage assembly may be determined. The end effector may be positioned relative to the fuselage assembly based on the configuration determined. A set of actual reference locations may be identified for a set of reference points on the fuselage assembly. The end effector may be positioned at an operation location based on the set of actual reference locations identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Harinder S. Oberoi, John Willard Dorsey-Palmateer, Yuanxin Charles Hu, Branko Sarh, Kevin Marion Barrick, Melissa Ann Findlay, Jorge Alberto Arriaga, Gregory Gudzinski
  • Patent number: 10046382
    Abstract: A method of casting a low alloy steel using a mold is disclosed. The method includes receiving the mold having a foam pattern disposed within a sand casing. The received foam pattern is coated with a permeable refractory coating and is disposed between compacted sand and the sand casing. The method further includes pouring a molten metal comprising a low alloy steel having a carbon content in a range from about 0.1 to about 0.4 percent into the mold so as to vaporize the foam pattern and remove gasification products through the permeable refractory coating, to form a low alloy steel casting. Further, the method includes removing the low alloy steel casting from the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Qi Zhao, Steven Robert Hayashi, Brian Victor Moore, Daniel Tribeni Persaud, Michael Douglas Arnett, Junyoung Park
  • Patent number: 10046383
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing Cu—Sn coexisting steel produces a good quality surface even after hot rolling. The steel is manufactured by continuous casting a molten steel that contains C: 0.04 to 0.20%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.20 to 2.50%, P: no more than 0.05%, S: no more than 0.02%, Cu: 0.20 to 1.50%, Sn: 0.06 to 0.50%, Al: 0.06 to 1.00% and Ni: 0.05 to 1.00% by mass, and Fe and impurities as the remainder. The composition of the molten steel is defined as [Al]/(3[Si]+[Mn])?0.050, [Ni]/([Cu]+5[Sn])?0.10 and [Al]/[Ni]?0.20 if the content of an element X in the molten steel is represented as [X], an internal oxidation layer is formed in a process of cooling a slab, and Al2O3 is contained by the internal oxidation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotsugu Yoshida, Hirofumi Nakamura, Takayuki Kamimura, Nobuo Otsuka
  • Patent number: 10046384
    Abstract: A side dam for a continuous twin roll caster with a body of refractory material shaped to form a side dam and having edge portions adapted to engage end portions of casting rolls of a twin roll caster and having a nip portion adapted to be adjacent a nip between the casting rolls and having upper portions extending across the side dam to form a lateral restraint for a casting pool of molten metal during operation in the twin roll caster; and a pocket between 5 and 50 mm in depth formed in the body between the edge portions and forming shoulder portions in the body between the edge portions and the pocket adapted to be worn as a casting campaign continues until the pocket is reached and continuing to be worn away at level of base portions of the pocket until casting is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Nucor Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Keown, Tao Wang, Rama Ballav Mahapatra
  • Patent number: 10046385
    Abstract: The present invention provides a die cast component, in particular a water outlet fitting, containing a base body (1) produced from metal or a metal alloy by the die casting method and having a cavity in which a number of openings (2, 3, 4) are provided by which the cavity is accessible from the outside, the cavity being at least partially filled with a casting core (5) that is in two-dimensional contact with the inside of the base body (1) and in which at least one channel (6) is provided for the conveyance of fluid, the casting core (5) being made of a material the melting point of which is lower than the melting point of the material from which the base body (1) is produced, and that the outside of the casting core (5) rests with at least substantially all of its surface against the inside of the base body (1). Furthermore, the invention also provides a method for producing this type of die casting component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: HDO Druckguss-und Oberflaechentechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Gossing, Arno Lauterbach, Peter Kiessler, Andreas Oeffler, Josef Stuempel, Ulrich Franke, Heinz Herberhold, Dieter Stollburges
  • Patent number: 10046386
    Abstract: The present invention is a casting machine for casting parts in a mold out of a metal using a metal feedstock. The machine feeds solid metal feedstock into a processing cylinder formed in a thermally conductive block and a heater elevates the temperature of the feedstock as it passes along the said processing cylinder first and second ends, the first end of the processing cylinder being configured to receive. The feedstock becomes more liquid and is transferred to an injector cylinder formed in the thermally conductive block adjacent the processing cylinder. The injector cylinder has a shooting pot coupled to the second end of the processing cylinder by a passage configured to permit feedstock to pass from the processing cylinder into the shooting pot from where is it injected into a mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Inventor: Ashley Stone
  • Patent number: 10046387
    Abstract: A die casting machine includes a stationary die half, an ejector holder block, and die core pieces that extend through the ejector holder block, defining a die cavity when closed. An ejector box backstops the closed ejector holder block and die core pieces. Melt is injected into the die cavity. After a first dwell time, the ejector box is retracted away from the ejector holder block while a closing force is simultaneously applied to maintain the ejector holder block closed on the stationary die half, and the die core pieces are retracted out of the die cavity. After a second dwell time, the melt completely freezes and the ejector block is separated from the stationary die half, opening the die cavity from which the resulting die cast block can be retrieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Exco Engineering, a Division of Exco Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Warren J. Bishenden
  • Patent number: 10046388
    Abstract: Methods for manufacturing a metal foam and a metal foam reinforced back plate may be used to provide high-strength and low weight structural elements in portable information handling systems. A method for manufacturing a metal foam may include selectively adding iridium oxide and ceramic particulate to a light-metal allow to create desired mechanical properties of the metal foam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventor: Deeder Mohammad Aurongzeb
  • Patent number: 10046389
    Abstract: A method of forming a component having an internal passage defined therein includes forming a precursor core having a shape corresponding to a shape of the internal passage, and forming a hollow structure around the precursor core. The method also includes removing the precursor core from within the hollow structure, and disposing an inner core within the hollow structure to form a jacketed core. The method further includes positioning the jacketed core with respect to a mold, and introducing a component material in a molten state into a cavity of the mold, such that the component material in the molten state at least partially absorbs the hollow structure from a portion of the jacketed core within the cavity. Additionally, the method includes cooling the component material in the cavity to form the component. The inner core defines the internal passage within the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Stanley Frank Simpson
  • Patent number: 10046390
    Abstract: A coupling device is fixed to a ladle shroud for reversibly coupling an inlet orifice of said ladle shroud to a collector nozzle fixed to the outside of a bottom floor of a ladle in a metal casting installation, by means of at least a first and second elongated latch pivotally mounted on a hinge, such that the latch can pivot from a fixing position to an idle position. The idle position of the latches allows the engagement of the ladle shroud into its casting configuration about the collector nozzle, and the fixing position of the latches engages catches provided on said latches into matching fasteners located on the gate frame holding the collector nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: VESUVIUS GROUP S.A.
    Inventor: Mariano Collura
  • Patent number: 10046391
    Abstract: A die apparatus capable of removing powder adhering to cut surfaces so as to securely form a cavity in a desired shape includes divided dies reciprocatingly driven by sliders to comes into contact with one another so as to form a cavity. Punches are inserted into the cavity from above and below the cavity. Each divided die is provided with cut surfaces that come into contact with the other divided dies. A gas passage connected to a gas injection port that injects gas from the cut surface is formed in each divided die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: KOBAYASHI INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiyomitsu Itou
  • Patent number: 10046392
    Abstract: Crack-free powder-based, near net shaped parts are fabricated using a die assembly and cold isostatic pressing. Soft materials are introduced on both sides of die components in order to balance compression loads applied to the die component, and thereby avoid deformation of the die component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Sami M. El-Soudani, Daniel Gordon Sanders, Shinichi Yajima
  • Patent number: 10046393
    Abstract: A lamination molding apparatus capable of supplying a material powder steadily to a recoater head, is provided. A lamination molding apparatus including a chamber covering a desired molding region and being filled with an inert gas having a desired concentration; a recoater head moving in the chamber to supply a material powder on the molding region to form a material powder layer; and a material supplying unit to supply the material powder to the recoater head; wherein the recoater head includes a material holding section to hold the material powder; and a material discharging opening to discharge the material powder in the material holding section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Okazaki, Tsuyoshi Saito