Abstract: A torque wrench for use in driving fasteners is provided. The wrench includes an electronics unit disposed within a housing engaged with the body of the wrench that is capable of sensing and measuring the torque applied to a fastener by the wrench and providing an output of the level of torque to the user. The data sensed by the electronics unit can be utilized to provide feedback to the user regarding the operation of the wrench, and to monitor the overall operation of the wrench for calibration purposes, among other functions. During use, the wrench can provide the user with visual, audible and tactile feedback regarding the operation of the device relative to stored maximum torque values stored in the electronics unit. The housing for the electronics unit can be formed to be a single use component of the tool or can be designed for multiple uses with a configuration that can be engaged with cradles forming the body of the wrench having various different configurations.

Abstract: A hinge pin extractor operable to urge a pin out of engagement with a hinge assembly can include a base, a receiver, a plunger, and a lever. The receiver can be mounted to the base and configured to engage a portion of the hinge assembly. The plunger can be mounted to the base and configured to urge a pin of the hinge assembly out of engagement during movement from the first end limit of travel to the second end limit of travel. The lever can be pivotally engaged with the base and disposed to engage the plunger to move the plunger along the rectilinear path. The lever and the base and the plunger can be engaged such that pivoting motion of the lever is transmitted to rectilinear motion of the plunger through at least one fulcrum defined in the base.

Abstract: A valve strainer basket of an interceptor-type or control-type steam valve is removed from its nested orientation within a counter bore and valve rim of the valve casing. A strong back beam straddles the casing rim over the strainer basket. It is coupled to the strainer basket, such as by engagement of threaded rods into threaded apertures formed in the strainer basket rim. Biasing cylinders, such pressurized fluid cylinders or screw jacks, are interposed between the casing rim and opposite ends of the strong back beam. When the biasing cylinders are actuated, the strong back beam rises, lifting and separating the strainer rim from its nested engagement with the counter bore of the valve casing.

Abstract: A fastener driving tool comprises a hand-held casing having a movable and drivable energy transmission element including a driving member, wherein the driving member acts to drive a fastener, a locking element, and a sensor member for determining an operational state of the fastener driving tool, wherein a driving process is released only if the operational state prevails, wherein the locking member is arranged in a locking manner in a path of the energy transmission element if the non-operational state prevails, wherein, once a driving process has been triggered, the locking member can stop the energy transmission element.

Abstract: A hand tool device has a tool spindle and a hammer mechanism which includes a hammer and at least one curve guide driving the hammer at least during a hammer drilling operation. The tool spindle has at least one bearing surface on which the hammer is movably supported in at least one operating state.

Abstract: A knob assembly for a power tool comprising: a knob having a slot and knob recess, the slot and knob recess intersecting each other at an intersection within the knob; a latch slideably mounted within the slot; a peg located within the knob recess; wherein the peg and latch engage with each other via the intersection in order for the peg to retain the latch within the slot and for the latch to retain peg within the knob recess.

Abstract: A power tool includes a housing and a handle having two ends moveably mounted to the housing via respective mountings, at least one mounting comprising a passageway formed in one end of the handle and a rod attached at one end to the housing. The rod's shaft axially slides within the passageway, enabling the handle end to move relative to the housing. A cavity within the handle end adjacent the passageway receives the rod, which has a second end within the cavity. A flange mounted adjacent the rod's other end within the cavity, unable to pass through the passageway, moves within the cavity relative to the passageway as the handle's end moves relative to the housing. A biasing mechanism within the cavity, between an internal wall of the cavity and the second end of the rod, biases the flange towards the passageway, and the handle end away from the housing.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a novel technique for releasing an intervening member of a driving member. A representative screwdriver is provided with a motor and a driving mechanism. The driving mechanism has a spindle, a lock sleeve, rollers, a driving gear, a retainer and a spring receiver. When driven with the rollers held between the lock sleeve and the driving gear, the spindle is rotated in a normal direction. The lock sleeve has an inclined part and the retainer has an inclined part. The lock sleeve and the retainer move with respect to each other in the axial direction and the circumferential direction by sliding contact between the inclined parts. This relative movement in the circumferential direction is utilized to release the holding of the rollers.

Abstract: Armrest heat shield and handheld device systems and methods are shown and described. In one embodiment, the armrest heat shield includes a guard and a clamp. In another embodiment, a handheld device includes an elongated shaft, a gas powered motor, a cutting assembly, and an armrest heat shield aligned sustainably parallel on the shaft above the motor.

Abstract: A tool head for easy attachment and detachment to a handle is provided for configurations such as axes, picks, shovels, sledges, hatches, and hoes. The tool head includes two clamps, one clamp being threadingly engaged on a shaft that freely rotates within the tool head. To attach the tool head to a handle, the user rotates the shaft which moves the clamps together and compresses the handle there between first clamp moves towards a second clamp. To detach, the shaft is counter rotated thereby decompressing the handle. When detached from a handle, the clamps turn and nest in two cutouts within the tool head allowing for compact storage or packing. Integrally formed features that include scraper, blade, wrenches, gut hook, cord cutter, carabineer, and the like provide the user in the field needed tools when fashioning a handle from a sapling or stick.

Abstract: A multi-position storage system including a first housing, and a second housing. The second housing is connected to the first housing. The second housing is capable of being moved from a first position with respect to the first housing to a second position with respect to the first housing.

Abstract: A pipe spacing wedge system including a pipe spacing wedge assembly, with the pipe spacing wedge assembly including a wedge-body. The wedge-body may be defined by a front-side, a back-side, a right-edge, a left-edge, a top-edge, and a bottom-edge. The front-side of the wedge-body includes a plurality of stepped surfaces and the top-edge includes a sharp point. The pipe spacing wedge assembly is structured and arranged to assist a user in setting a variety of specific gap-distance between sections of pipe and pipe spacing wedge assembly is intended to be driven between the two sections of pipe by the user to set the gap-distance.

Abstract: A method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium, the method including receiving notifications from a plurality of agents, the notifications being associated with the plurality of agents sensing aspects of an environment; determining, based at least in part on the received notifications from the plurality of agents, a situational model of the environment from the notifications; determining a status of the environment based on the situational model; and reporting the status of the environment to at least one of the plurality of agents.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for confining movement actions of a robot and a method thereof, the system comprising a virtual wall device and a robot, the virtual wall device is configured to receive a barrier detection signal in a predetermined receiving range and to emit a virtual wall signal, through the virtual wall signal, a work space can be virtually divided into a first work area and a second work area. The robot continuously emits the barrier detection signal during its operation and is able to receive the virtual wall signal; when the robot gets into the predetermined emitting range and receives the virtual wall signal, the robot decides to get across or escape by checking the information from the virtual wall signal with its passing record. Therefore, the system can be applied to confine the robot to operate in the first work area or the second work area.

Abstract: Three-dimensional visual servoing for positioning a robot in an environment is facilitated. Three-dimensional point cloud data of a scene of the environment is obtained, the scene including a feature. The three-dimensional point cloud data is converted into a two-dimensional image, and a three-dimensional position of the feature is identified based on the two-dimensional image. An indication of the identified three-dimensional position of the feature is then provided.

Abstract: A robot teaching position correcting method and system is provided. The robot is driven to move along wafer pick-and-place operation paths defined by a sequence of waypoints. Distances between the waypoint and a wafer supporter of the wafer carrier above the waypoint are detected by upper sensors provided on a top surface of the robot when the robot is positioned at the waypoint. Then, the position parameter of the waypoint is corrected accordingly, so as to ensure safe wafer handling.

Abstract: A robotic mechanical manipulator structure includes a first link and a second link rotatably coupled to the first link by a rotatable joint. A first high hardness cable guide is disposed in the first link. A first cable is connected between the first link and the second link to move the first link relative to the second link in a first direction around the joint, the first cable connected to the first link at a first anchor point, and passing through the first high hardness cable guide in the second link.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments relate to improvements in soft robotic systems that permit a soft robotic end effector to be a self-contained system, without reliance on a tether to deliver inflation fluid to the actuator(s) of the end effector. According to some embodiments, a robotic system may be provided including a soft actuator and a hub. The body of the hub may include an integrated pressure source configured to supply inflation fluid through the actuator interface to the soft actuator. The pressure source may be, for example, a compressor (such as a twin-head compressor) or a reaction chamber configured to vaporize a fuel to create a high-temperature pressurized gas and deliver the pressurized gas to the actuator One or more accumulators may receive inflation fluid (or a partial vacuum) from the compressor over time, and store the inflation fluid under pressure, thus allowing actuation over a relatively short time period.

Abstract: A base member comprising a vertical fin member, a vertical fin stopper surface, a trigger arm recess, and a base guidance slot. A left jaw member comprising a left jaw portion, a left lever portion, a left guidance slot, a left fastening hole, and a trigger release screw. A right jaw member comprising a right jaw portion, a right lever portion, and a right guidance slot. A trigger arm member comprising a trigger hook and a curved trigger end. A top member comprising a top guidance slot, a left spring hole, a right spring hole, a left bottom recess, a right bottom recess, a left spring recess, and a right spring recess. A left spring tension screw received through the left spring hole and a left spring spacer retained in the left spring recess. A bumper member with a bumper surface, a left elongated member, and a right elongated member.

Abstract: A device for picking articles includes a supporting unit and a plurality of gripper heads equipped with respective mechanisms for gripping an article and movable relative to the supporting unit along a picking direction. The gripper heads are divided into at least first gripper heads and second gripper heads. The device includes at least a first picking unit, applied to the supporting unit and on which the first gripper heads are positioned in mutually aligned configuration along a first alignment direction, and a second picking unit, applied to the supporting unit and on which the second gripper heads are positioned in mutually aligned configuration along a second alignment direction transversal to the first alignment direction.

Abstract: An attaching and detaching device that detachably attaches two structures includes a base fixed to one structure of the two structures and formed in a tabular shape, one or more engaging members supported by the base movably along a surface direction of the base and configured to engage with the other structure, an urging member configured to urge the engaging member toward an engaging direction in which the engaging member engages with the other structure, and a releasing mechanism including an operation lever configured to perform operation for moving the engaging member in a direction opposite to the engaging direction and releasing an attached state in which the two structures are attached to each other.

Abstract: The present invention first provides a utility knife with a replaceable blade, comprising a knife handle, a blade holder, a blade and a locking device that locks the blade in the blade holder. The blade holder and the blade are enabled to switch between a first position and a second position. When the blade holder and the blade are in the first position, the blade is used for cutting operation, and when the blade holder and the blade are in the second position, both the blade holder and the blade are received in the knife handle. The utility knife further includes a restriction means which is thus arranged as, when the blade holder is in the second position and the locking device is in unlocked state, the restriction means is used for preventing the detachment of the blade from the blade holder by confining the movement of the blade relative to the blade holder.

Abstract: Provided is a pair of scissors, which can cut an object efficiently with lighter force, and makes it easy to cut a cardboard and the like since the pin joint does not hinder the cutting. The pair of scissors comprises: a first handle portion operated by a thumb; a second handle portion operated by other fingers; a first blade portion which connects to the first handle portion; and a second blade portion which connects to the second handle portion; first and second protruding portions which protrude the first blade portion and the second blade portion to the second handle portion side from a position where the first blade portion and the second blade portion intersect each other; and a pin joint that rotatably joins both of the first protruding portion and the second protruding portion to each other.

Abstract: A cutting apparatus for trimming an article, the apparatus has a manually grasped power element with a reciprocating arm having a removably engagable rotatable couple including a selectable rotational index position lock. Also included is a cutting head assembly that is removable and rotationally indexable relative to the power element, the cutting head having a pair of cutting blades for trimming the article. Wherein operationally, the reciprocating arm drives the cutting blades that have scissor movement with the cutting head selectably rotatable to the power element, user wrist fatigue is reduced, also with the cutting head being removable from the power element, the cutting head assembly is easier to clean.

Abstract: A shaving apparatus provided with at least one cutting unit including external and internal cutting members drivable relative to each other. The internal cutting member includes at least one cutting element with a cutting edge movable along a cutting path while being driven in a driving direction. The external cutting member includes at least one hair-entry aperture bounded by at least first and second wall portions of the external cutting member, at least the first wall portion having a cutting edge for cooperation with the internal cutting member cutting edge. An edge portion of the second wall portion facing a plane along the cutting path, in a cross section taken substantially perpendicularly to the plane along the cutting path, touches a virtual circle in at least two contact points on the virtual circle.

Abstract: A pipe cutter for cutting a pipe includes a cutting head assembly having a first carriage and a second carriage spaced apart to define a cutting area. The first carriage supports a cutting mechanism, and the second carriage is configured to support a pipe within the cutting area. The carriages have a locked state and an unlocked state such that when the carriages are in the unlocked state, the carriages are movable relative to each other and biased into the cutting area. The pipe cutter also includes a drive assembly configured to rotate the cutting head assembly and a locking mechanism configured for changing the carriages from the unlocked state to the locked state and for holding the carriages in the locked state. The locking mechanism includes an actuation member rotatably coupled to the first carriage.

Abstract: A vacuum table for securing a sheet of material. The vacuum table includes a top plate that is porous, a perimeter vacuum chamber disposed beneath a perimeter of the top plate, and interior vacuum chambers bound by the perimeter vacuum chamber and disposed beneath a target area of the top plate that is inside the perimeter of the top plate.

Abstract: A rotating log saw clamp for clamping a product roll to be sawn. The rotating log saw clamp includes a first portion disposed for rotation about an axis and a second portion disposed for rotation with the first portion and movable relative to the first portion between an open position and a clamping position. The second portion is rotatable from the clamping position to the open position by relative rotation of the first and second rotating portions.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for manufacturing a notched corner board is disclosed. The method includes cutting bent board stock into fixed lengths; forming a slit in or near an end of the corner board; and bending/folding a part of the corner board between the end and the slit to create a notch or flap in the corner board. The apparatus includes one or more cutting tools configured to form a slit in or near a first end of the corner board, a support block configured to support the corner board as the slit is formed, one or more rollers configured to move the corner board towards the cutting tool(s), a frame to which the cutting tool(s), the support block, and the roller(s) are directly or indirectly attached, a motor, and a punch. The motor controls movement of the punch to form the notch in the corner board.

Abstract: A planer head includes a cylindrical body having a first end, a second end and a crenelated curved face extending therebetween and including a plurality of pockets receiving a plurality of knives and knife holders. A clamping assembly connects each of the plurality of knife holders to their corresponding knives by frictional engagement. The clamping assembly includes at least one pair of clamping elements, each being disposed on a corresponding one of the first and second ends of the body. When moved in the longitudinal direction toward each other, the at least one pair of clamping elements forcing the plurality of knife holders in the radial direction thereby engaging in friction the knife holders with their corresponding knives and knife pockets of the body. A number of pairs of clamping elements is lower than a number of at least one of knives and knife holders. A kit for a planer head assembly, a clamping assembly, and a planer body are also presented.

Abstract: A machining device, including: a cart, for carrying a master-piece and a work-piece; a rail, for allowing manual sliding of the cart along the rail thereabove; a first vice for securing the master-piece, the first vice being fixed to the movable cart; a second vice for securing the work-piece, the second vice being fixed to the movable cart; a limiting element, for limiting the manual sliding of the cart upon meeting of the master-piece with the limiting element; and a protrusion including at least two points extending downwards from the rail; thereby the machining device utilizes parallelism between the channel and a cutting blade of the table saw.

Abstract: A riving knife mounting assembly rigidly and accurately positions the riving knife relative to the cutting blade by way of a simple and intuitive mechanism. Interaction between a clamping plate and a locking plate engage opposite sides of the riving knife to hold the riving knife in place, and provides a sensible indication that the two components are properly mated. A cam lever assembly allows loosening or tightening the clamping plate and locking plate together about the riving knife by simply rotation of the lever. A spring assembly maintains pressure on the riving knife even in the loosened position to maintain proper positioning of the components. The clamping plate is part of a mounting bracket that is mounted to a motor arm movable with the drive assembly, and includes adjustment screws for adjusting the orientation of the riving knife relative to the cutting blade in multiple degrees of freedom.

Abstract: A heating system is provided having a plurality of heated zones, with at least a first zone and a second zone. The first zone receives variable input moisture fiberglass over a first conveyor system and comprises a first compression system above the first conveyor system. Each zone has a fire box at the top and an exhaust stack. Heated air is up drafted through the bottom of the first zone, where the heated air flows from the bottom through the conveyor belt, through the fiberglass media, through the tensioned compression chain, and out the exhaust stack of the first zone. The first zone establishes fiberglass loft, with the second zone providing cure of the fiberglass.

Abstract: A method for densifying a fibrous mat, such as scrim, to achieve a uniform mat density, including a set of parallel bars each having a row of pins extending downward therefrom which can engage the mat fibers, a plurality of shafts along which the bars slide so as to maintain the bars parallel, a plurality of extendable accordion linkages connecting the set of bars, and a linear positioning assembly having a reciprocating drive mechanism coupled to one of the bars which can move the bars in response to an actuation signal. As the drive mechanism retracts the bar to which it is coupled the spacing between the rows of bars is decreased uniformly and the rows of pins draw the fibers together and compress them uniformly across the width of the mat.

Abstract: A chisel holder for a ground processing machine includes a base portion including a chisel receiver and a holder receiver. The chisel receiver includes a chisel introduction region for receiving a threaded shaft of a chisel. The holder receiver is configured to receive an internally threaded nut. The holder receiver includes at least one retention face configured to secure the nut against rotation at a peripheral side or the nut.

Abstract: A splitting apparatus comprising a first splitting blade having a smooth top with a width X and a shoulder angle of less than the friction angle, relative to a point in the middle of the top, and a second splitting blade disposed opposite the first splitting blade, the second splitting blade having a smooth top with a width Y and a shoulder angle of less than the friction angle, relative to a point in the middle of the top.

Abstract: A component feed nozzle includes a housing, which has a component inlet and a component outlet, a piston-shaped closing body, which is slidably supported in the housing and which can be moved back and forth axially. The component outlet is closed by the front end of the closing body in a first position and the component outlet is released or opened in a second position. The component feed nozzle has a membrane seal, which is fastened to the rear end of the closing body and to the housing in such a way that the closing body is completely on one face of the membrane seal. The housing and/or the closing body are designed in such a way that the component reaches all surfaces of the closing body and thus the component pressure is applied to the complete effective surface of the membrane.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a turbine engine blade out of composite material including fiber reinforcement densified by a matrix, the method including using multilayer weaving to make a first fiber that has a first portion forming a blade root preform and extended by a second portion, the second portion forming a tenon preform; using multilayer weaving to make a second fiber preform, the second preform including a first portion made up of two skins defining between them an internal housing, the first portion forming an airfoil preform, and a second portion extending from an outside surface of the skins, the second portion forming a platform preform; assembling the first preform with the second preform in the non-consolidated state by engaging the second portion of the first preform in the internal housing; and co-densifying the first and second preforms as assembled together in this way to obtain a turbine engine blade.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for cooling a plurality of preforms made of thermoplastic material which continuously move on a conveyor belt. The apparatus includes a cylindrical casing with a vertical extension formed by two coaxial cylinders, such a casing contains a guide crossed by a chain or a cable for transporting the preforms therein. The guide, which forms a closed path, comprises a first helical stretch, which raises from the lower plane starting from a station in which the preforms coming from a conveying device are hooked by the chain or by the cable, a second straight stretch, which returns the preforms to the lower plane once they have reached the upper plane, and a third flat stretch at the height of the lower plane, which returns the preforms to the arrival station. The helical stretch of the guide is contained within a cooling tunnel formed in the gap between the two walls of the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder of said casing.

Abstract: A method of producing a mold includes obtaining a master mold, the master mold including surface details; exposing a curable material to the surface details; and curing the curable material with the surface details. A mold includes a surface for molding a composite part, the surface including surface details, wherein the mold is made of phenolic material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing leaf springs from a fiber composite material, for which a plurality of layers of fibers soaked or impregnated with synthetic resin in order to build up a not yet hardened unfinished leaf. The unfinished leaf spring is arranged in a compression mold, and the unfinished leaf spring is hardened under the influence of a predetermined pressing force and temperature curve over time to give a finished leaf spring. In order to reduce production costs, according to the invention a plurality of unfinished leaf springs are arranged vertically one above the other in the compression mold and the unfinished leaf springs are simultaneously hardened in the compression mold to give leaf springs.

Abstract: A mold thermal controlling device including a first trench, a first temperature control layer and at least a temperature control tunnel is provided. The first temperature control layer includes a first temperature control face, and the first temperature control layer forms a first temperature control trench forming at least a part of the inner surface of the first trench. The first temperature control trench is configured to accommodate a mold and touch with the mold through the first temperature control face. The temperature control tunnel is disposed in the first temperature control layer, and the temperature control tunnel is configured to inject a heated fluid or a cold fluid. When the mold is contained in the first temperature control trench, the first temperature control surface is located between the mold and the temperature control tunnel. A hot press system is also provided.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention describe methods and apparatus for mixing chemical components in the manufacture of polyurethane foam. The chemical components include a polyol and different blowing agents. The blowing agents are injected directly into a mixing chamber (100) at different height levels according to their boiling points. The mixing chamber allows continuous discharge of the mixture into a static mixer (400) for further mixing before being stored into a storage tank (600). The blowing agents are chemical compounds selected from the group consisting of hydrocarbon-containing compounds, hydrofluorocarbon-containing compounds or hydrofluoroolefin-containing compounds.

Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus for manufacturing a foam molded product in which a foam molded product (1A, 1B) is formed by integrally adhering together a foam body (2) that is formed by the foaming of a foaming raw material, and an air-permeable component (3). A cavity (23) is provided between a plurality of mold components (21, 22, 31) and is defined by respective cavity surfaces (21a, 22a, 31a) of the mold components (21, 22, 31).

Abstract: In a plastic nut for a ball screw formed by injection molding fiber reinforced plastic, the reduction in precision over time due to wear is minimized. A thread groove is ground until the fibers in matrix plastic are exposed on the surface of the thread groove.

Abstract: A container comprises: a body having a neck extending to a mouth defining a body opening; a spout fitment having a spout within the body opening, an outer wall surrounding an upper portion of the neck, and an intermediate wall between the outer wall and the spout; and a cap having sidewall. An external thread of the cap sidewall is engaged to an internal thread of the intermediate wall. The spout fitment has one or more projections extending mouthward from the outer wall in backlocked engagement with one or more features of the neck.

Abstract: A system for manufacturing a two-part fastener may include a fastener-molding housing and an actuating assembly. The fastener-molding housing may include a fastener mold having a first mold section connected to a second mold section through a flash connection mold section. The fastener mold is configured to receive fastener-forming material to form a pre-engaged fastener having a first fastener portion within the first mold section and a second fastener portion within the second mold section. The first fastener portion is temporarily secured to the second fastener portion through a flash connection portion formed within the flash connection mold section. The an actuating assembly includes a stripper plate, a connecting member, and at least one ejection member. The connecting member is configured to securely retain the first fastener portion.

Abstract: A method for producing a cable with a resin mold including a cable section comprising an electric wire and a sheath comprising a synthetic resin covering the electric wire, and a resin mold section into which a portion of the sheath is molded by a resin is provided. A portion of the cable section is received in a receiving space in a die formed with a molten resin inlet, an inflow passage, and a resin reservoir therein. A molten resin is injected from the inlet into the receiving space. A portion of the injected molten resin flows through the inflow passage and is retained in the resin reservoir. The portion of the sheath is molten by heat of the molten resin. The molten resin is solidified to thereby form a molded resin product. Its unnecessary portion solidified in the resin reservoir is removed from the molded resin product.

Abstract: A thin multilayer container having favorable gas barrier properties is provided using a technique applicable to the molding of the thin multilayer container, by means of ensuring the gas barrier properties at a joint of ends of a film, when the container is molded with disposing the film having the gas barrier properties in a portion to be a container trunk portion. When molding the container with disposing in advance the film having the gas barrier properties in the portion to be the container trunk portion, while a container surface resin is fed from an injection molding nozzle into a container trunk forming portion of a mold, a gas barrier resin is fed into a position corresponding the joint of the label film as an intermediate layer between a portion of the container surface resin being spread along a core mold and a portion of the container surface resin being spread along a cavity mold.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to machines and methods for reaction injection molding. In particular, the present disclosure provides small format reaction injection molding machines having exchangeable molds and reactant material tanks, as well as molds configured for use therein and associated componentry.