Patents Issued in August 16, 2018
  • Publication number: 20180229272
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for systems, apparatuses, and methods of securing screen assemblies. Embodiments include a system having a compression assembly with a compression pin and a pin assembly having a pin. The compression assembly may be attached to a first wall member of a vibratory screening machine and the pin assembly may be attached to a second wall member of the vibratory screening machine opposite the first wall member such that the compression assembly is configured to assert a force against a first side portion of a screen assembly and drive a second side portion of the screen assembly against the pin of the pin assembly. The pin assembly may include a pin that is internally or externally mounted and that is adjustable and/or replaceable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventor: Christian T. Newman
  • Publication number: 20180229273
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for fractionating crude biowaste (450) by at least one size separation step (30) and at least one of density separation (150), X-ray separation (160) and optical sorting (170) to form a cleaned biowaste (47) stream enriched in cellulosic material, a waste stream comprising inorganic compounds (151), and a plastics stream (175).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Ignacio Carvajo Lucena, Ana Isabel Vicente Garcia, Cristina Montejo Mendez, Santiago Marti Moscad
  • Publication number: 20180229274
    Abstract: In order to provide a method and device that allow sorting of light-alloy aluminium scrap, the disclosure proposes a method for sorting aluminium scrap and alloys thereof wherein the aluminium scrap is fed to a measuring station, where the electrical conductivity of each aluminium part is measured, and, depending on the result of the measurement, the part is transported further on a dedicated path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Boris KURTH, Gregor KURTH
  • Publication number: 20180229275
    Abstract: A work glove and method for trimming resinous plants is described. The invention can increase productivity, improve quality, and reduce mess in the work station. A kit containing the work glove and complementary cleaning solution is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventor: Keila Gracie
  • Publication number: 20180229276
    Abstract: A purge device is capable of removing particles adhering to a gas introduction port in a container or on surrounding areas of a purge nozzle. The purge device includes a nozzle that is able to blow a gas, and a purge controller that controls the nozzle to blow the gas therethrough in a state in which a bottom surface of a container to be purged faces the nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Tatsuo TSUBAKI, Masanao MURATA
  • Publication number: 20180229277
    Abstract: A purge device includes: a plurality of mounts on which containers are to be placed and that are grouped, a nozzle that is structured such that when a container is placed on the corresponding mount, a flow path to supply a purge gas to the container is opened, and a flow rate controller that adjusts a flow rate of the purge gas supplied into a group based on a number of containers in the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventor: Shinji ONISHI
  • Publication number: 20180229278
    Abstract: A cleaning apparatus for a flexible hose has a housing, a first reel and a second reel disposed in the housing, at least one of which is operable to spool the flexible hose, and a cleaning box disposed between the first reel and the second reel that cleans an outside surface of the flexible hose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Dave Myslenski, Bart Peetermans
  • Publication number: 20180229279
    Abstract: A drain cleaner includes a shroud with a closed end and an open end opposite the closed end, a drum assembly positioned within the shroud and rotatable relative to the shroud, a flexible cable stored within the drum assembly, and a handle assembly coupled to and extending rearwardly from the shroud. The handle assembly includes a motor, a grip, and an actuator to selectively energize the motor. The actuator is enclosed between the grip and the shroud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Hans T. Banholzer, Celene K. Mo, Nikos A. Gainacopulos, Jacqueline J. Beierle, Jeffrey Corbat, Sean T. Kehoe, Ryan James Denissen, Justin Miller
  • Publication number: 20180229280
    Abstract: The invention relates to apparatuses, machines, systems and methods for periodically washing and/or disinfecting the interior of individual containers having a polygonal base (e.g., rectangular), such as bins of the type used for the used for agricultural commodity collection, storage, and transport (agricultural bins), as well as other types of bins and containers. The systems of the present invention may be operable to automatically and thoroughly clean the interior of such bins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Lorin Reed, Jim Moshier
  • Publication number: 20180229281
    Abstract: A liquid treatment system includes: a filter casing including a structural wall, a first screen formed though the structural wall, and a second screen formed though the structural wall; and a liquid treatment cartridge configured for placement in the filter casing between the first and second screens. The liquid treatment cartridge includes a cartridge casing having an upper end and a lower end, and an inflatable seal surrounding the cartridge casing at an intermediary position between the upper end and lower end. A method of servicing a groundwater treatment installation includes: vertically displacing a liquid treatment cartridge within a filter casing having a structural wall, a first screen formed though the structural wall, and a second screen formed though the structural wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: W. Joseph Alexander, Gregory W. Lucier
  • Publication number: 20180229282
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device and method for remedying a heavy-metal-polluted soil with a microorganism, and relates to a device for remedying a metal-polluted soil and a remediation method thereof. The present disclosure solves the problem that a remediation microorganism cannot be extracted from the soil. The device comprises a main plate and a plurality of microorganism-extracting chambers, wherein the main plate is connected to the microorganism-extracting chambers; the microorganism-extracting chamber are filled with a filler; a tail end of the microorganism-extracting chambers is spiky, and openings are separately provided on a side wall of the microorganism-extracting chambers. The method comprises: I, adding a nutrient medium to the soil, and then inoculating a remediation microorganism; and II, inserting the above device into the soil for 6˜8 days, and then taking it out. The method can remedy heavy-metal-polluted soil in a short time with a high removal rate of the heavy metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Zimin Wei, Xu Zhang, Beidou Xi, Xinyu Zhao, Yuanfeng Li, Liming Jia, Tiejun Wen, Mingxiao Li, Tianxue Yang
  • Publication number: 20180229283
    Abstract: A composition useful for removing energetic compounds from contaminated environments. The composition includes a supported reactant including an adsorbent with high affinity for energetic compounds. Further, the composition includes a first bioremediation material comprising at least one organism capable of degrading an energetic compound and a polymeric substance fueling the first bioremediation material during the degrading of the energetic compound. Additionally, the composition includes a second bioremediation material breaking the polymeric substance into smaller molecules over a degradation time period to provide the fueling of the first bioremediation material in a time-release manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventor: SCOTT NOLAND
  • Publication number: 20180229284
    Abstract: A method of shear forming a component comprises the steps of: (i) providing a pre-formed metallic sheet blank, the sheet blank having a first surface and an opposite second surface, the perpendicular separation between the first surface and the second surface defining a thickness of the sheet blank; (ii) applying a surface modification process to the first surface of the sheet blank to reduce a surface roughness of the first surface to a first predetermined roughness value; (iii) positioning the second surface of the sheet blank against a mandrel; and (iv) applying a roller to the first surface of the sheet blank in a shear forming operation to form the sheet blank into the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Martin TUFFS, Craig A. JOHNSON
  • Publication number: 20180229285
    Abstract: In a method for monitoring a functional state of a shaping tooth arrangement on a forming tool, at measurement times which are temporally staggered with respect to each other at a plurality of measurement locations on the shaping tooth arrangement, a tooth arrangement force is measured which acts on the shaping tooth arrangement. At each of the measurement times for each of the measurement locations an instantaneous local tooth arrangement force is thereby determined. A previous instantaneous local tooth arrangement force and a subsequent instantaneous local tooth arrangement force are correlated with each other to determine a local state identification value. On the basis of the local state identification values associated with the measurement locations, information is obtained relating to the functional state of the shaping tooth arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: SERJOSHA HEINRICHS, DENNIS BEIHOFER, MICHAEL MARRE, MATTHIAS KLUGE
  • Publication number: 20180229286
    Abstract: A sheet material bending system includes a tool changing apparatus that changes tools between a press brake and a tool stocker. The tool stocker is arranged behind the press brake. To change tools from the front and rear of the tool stocker, the front and rear of the tool stocker are opened. The tool changing apparatus has a pivot that is movable in front-rear, left-right, and up-down directions and is rotatable around an axis extending in the up-down direction. A front end of the pivot is provided with tool holding units to hold tools.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: AMADA COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki SATO
  • Publication number: 20180229287
    Abstract: A die (30) for ironing working, the die (30) having a carbon film 50 covering at least a working surface (41) thereof, the carbon film (50) exhibiting such a Raman spectrum that an intensity ratio represented by the following formula (1): ID/IG??(1) wherein ID is a maximum peak intensity at 1333±10 cm?1 in the Raman spectrum of the surface of the carbon film, and IG is a maximum peak intensity at 1500±100 cm?1 in the Raman spectrum of the surface of the carbon film, is not less than 1.0, and the surface of the carbon film 50 being a smooth surface having an arithmetic mean roughness R of not more than 0.1 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuho KUMAGAI, Kenichi TAKAO, Ryozo SHIROISHI, Masahiro SHIMAMURA, Naoya MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180229288
    Abstract: Systems and methods of forming articles using electromagnetic radiation are disclosed. In some aspects, the system includes a plurality of forming modules movably mounted relative to an infeed mechanism. The infeed mechanism is configured to supply pre-form articles to the plurality of forming modules, and each of the plurality of forming modules includes a multi-segment mold disposed about an electromagnetic coil. The electromagnetic coil is configured to impart an electromagnetic force on the pre-form articles when supplied with electrical energy that urges the pre-form articles into contact with the multi-segment mold to produce the formed containers. The multi-segment mold having a plurality of segments, each segment including a mold insert having an inner surface. The plurality of inner surfaces defining a desired shape of the formed containers. Each mold insert being comprised of a material that comprises at least one of small pores, grooves, pockets and crevices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventor: Richard H. Lee
  • Publication number: 20180229289
    Abstract: A method to improve the collapse resistance of metallic tubular products is disclosed. The method comprises identifying the types of stress that can be applied in order to change the residual stress profile of metallic tubular products, such as those that have completed a straightening process, and results in a residual stress profile that improves collapse resistance. The metallic tubular product is subjected to radial compression processing to control the residual stress profile and to enhance collapse resistance. The radial compression process may be used after the tubular product has been subjected to a straightening process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Peter W. MOORE, Bisen LIN
  • Publication number: 20180229290
    Abstract: The invention relates first to a device for applying a pressing force, comprising two pressing jaws (25, 26) which can be moved linearly relative to each other via a hydraulic piston-cylinder assembly (8). Additionally, an actuation cone (13) is provided for an expanding device (36), said cone carrying out a forward and rearward movement depending on an actuation of the hydraulic piston-cylinder assembly (8). In order to advantageously develop the device, the actuation cone (13) is connected to the hydraulic piston (9) of the hydraulic piston-cylinder assembly (8) for the forward and rearward movement. The invention further relates to a device for applying a pressing force, comprising two pressing jaws which can be moved linearly relative to each other and which can be held in receiving areas and to a pair of pressing jaws.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Egbert Frenken, Roman Bobowicz
  • Publication number: 20180229291
    Abstract: A staking tool is disclosed. The staking tool may include a main body, at least one punch disposed within the main body, and an actuator in mechanical communication with the at least one punch. The actuator may be configured to drive the at least one punch from a first position to a second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Magdalena Gaca, Adrian Adam Klejc, Mateusz Dolecki
  • Publication number: 20180229292
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates slip techniques for lost casting cores. The teachings thereof may be embodied in methods for producing a slip for use in casting, e.g., for production of complex metal blades in gas turbines. Some embodiments may include methods for producing a slip comprising: mixing at least one inorganic constituent with at least one first binder; and forming a slip with the mixture. The first binder may include a mixture of at least one epoxy resin and at least one sterically hindered amine as hardener.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hermann Boedinger, Stefan Denneler, Carsten Schuh, Matthias Uebler
  • Publication number: 20180229293
    Abstract: A method of treating a surface of a mold. The method includes forming dimples on a surface of a mold by ejecting substantially spherical ejection-particles so as to bombard the surface of the mold. The dimples are formed so as to satisfy a condition defined by the following formula: 1+3.3e?H/230?W?3+13.4e?H/1060 wherein W is an equivalent diameter (?m) of the dimples and H is a base metal hardness (Hv) of the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Keiji MASE, Shozo ISHIBASHI, Yusuke KONDO
  • Publication number: 20180229294
    Abstract: The mold steel according to the present invention contains 0.35<C<0.55 mass %, 0.003?Si<0.300 mass %, 0.30<Mn<1.50 mass %, 2.00?Cr<3.50 mass %, 0.003?Cu<1.200 mass %, 0.003?Ni<1.380 mass %, 0.50<Mo<3.29 mass %, 0.55<V<1.13 mass %, and 0.0002?N<0.1200 mass %, with a balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and satisfies 0.55<Cu+Ni+Mo<3.29 mass %, and the molding tool according to the present invention contains a mold and/or a mold component formed of the mold steel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: DAIDO STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masamichi KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20180229295
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for using cloth filters in automated vertical molding, comprised of the steps of configuring a modular cloth filter setter having a housing, an upper jaw, and a lower jaw, wherein the upper jaw and lower jaw are selected to correspond to the size of a cloth filter, fixedly attaching the housing of the modular cloth filter setter to a mechanical arm, securing the cloth filter between the upper jaw and the lower jaw, creating a sand mold from a quantity of compressed sand, creating at least one print aperture for insertion of a cloth filter, and placing the cloth filter in the print aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventor: Michael Roberts
  • Publication number: 20180229296
    Abstract: An apparatus and a system including a casting pit; a mold including a reservoir and a cavity; a coolant feed operable to introduce a coolant to a periphery of a metal emerging from the mold cavity; an array of water vapor exhaust ports about at least the top periphery of the casting pit; a mechanism to introduce an inert fluid into the coolant feed. A method for a direct chill casting including, after detecting a bleed out, exhausting generated gas from the casting pit at a flow volume rate that is enhanced relative to a flow volume rate prior to detecting bleed out or run out; introducing an inert gas into the casting pit; and introducing an inert fluid into a coolant feed to the casting mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Ravindra V. Tilak, Rodney W. Wirtz, Ronald M. Streigle
  • Publication number: 20180229297
    Abstract: A casting apparatus includes an upper frame to which an upper mold is attached, a lower frame to which a lower mold is attached, an opening/closing mechanism, a first main link member whose central portion is provided with a rotating shaft, a first auxiliary link member whose central portion is provided with a rotating shaft, and a drive unit. The upper frame, the lower frame, the first main link member, and the first auxiliary link member constitute a first parallel link mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicants: SINTOKOGIO, LTD., SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukiyoshi FUNAKOSHI, Keishiro KANEDA, Hisashi HARADA
  • Publication number: 20180229298
    Abstract: Casting method and cast manifold are provided. The method allows configuring conduits, such as conduits (46, 48) in a fuel feed boss (20) and/or a base rocket (13), which are part of the manifold for removing a ceramic core (44) from the cast without forming extraneous holes in the body of the manifold. Absence of such extraneous holes in turn allows eliminating sealing plugs and welds, which otherwise would be needed for sealing the extraneous holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Erick J. Deane, Miguel Bascones, Charalambos Polyzopoulos, Abhijeet Tiwary
  • Publication number: 20180229299
    Abstract: In one aspect, compositions comprising copper-silica (Cu—SiO2) core-shell nanoparticles are described herein. The core-shell nanoparticles comprise copper (Cu) core components and silica (SiO2) shell components encapsulating the core components. In some embodiments, the nanoparticle compositions comprise a continuous aqueous phase and a population of copper-silica (Cu—SiO2) core-shell nanoparticles dispersed in the aqueous phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Cameron Crane, Jingyi Chen, Feng Wang
  • Publication number: 20180229300
    Abstract: Support structures are used in certain additive fabrication processes to permit fabrication of a greater range of object geometries. For additive fabrication processes with materials that are subsequently sintered into a final part, an interface layer may be fabricated between the object and support in order to inhibit bonding between adjacent surfaces of the support structure and the object during sintering. Interface layers suitable for manufacture with an additive manufacturing system may resist the formation of bonds between a support structure and an object during subsequent sintering processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Jonah Samuel Myerberg, Michael Andrew Gibson, Ricardo Fulop, Matthew David Verminski, Richard Remo Fontana, Christopher Allan Schuh, Yet-Ming Chiang, Anastasios John Hart
  • Publication number: 20180229301
    Abstract: An integrated build and material supply system (12) for an additive manufacturing apparatus comprises a building compartment (24) adapted to accommodate an object (50) to be formed by means of additive manufacturing and a storage compartment (22) adapted to store a build material for forming said object. A volume of said building compartment and a volume of said storage compartment are variable in size, and said system is adapted to re-allocate at least a portion of a volume previously allocated to said storage compartment to said building compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Alejandro Manuel De Pena, Fernando Juan, Pau Martin
  • Publication number: 20180229302
    Abstract: A powder processing machine includes a work bed, a powder deposition device operable to deposit layers of powder in the work bed, an energy beam device operable to emit an energy beam with a variable beam power and scan the energy beam in a path across the powder in the work bed with a variable beam scan rate to melt and fuse regions of the powder, a sensor operable to detect process characteristics in the work bed by location in the work bed during scanning of the energy beam and produce signals representative of the process characteristics and locations, and a controller in communication with the sensor to receive the signals. The controller is configured to identify anomalies in the process characteristics and responsively adjust at least one of the beam power or the beam scan rate at the locations of the anomalies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: David Ulrich Furrer, Sergei F. Burlatsky
  • Publication number: 20180229303
    Abstract: A powder processing machine includes a work bed, a powder deposition device operable to deposit powder in the work bed, at least one energy beam device operable to emit an energy beam with a variable beam power and direct the energy beam onto the work bed with a variable beam scan rate to melt and fuse regions of the powder, and a controller operable to dynamically control at least one of the beam power or the beam scan rate to change how the powder melts and fuses. The controller is configured to determine whether an instant set of process parameters falls within a defect condition or a non-defect condition and adjust at least one of the beam power or the beam scan rate responsive to the defect condition such that the instant set of process parameters falls within the non-defect condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Sergei F. Burlatsky, David Ulrich Furrer, Rebecca L. Runkle, Jesse R. Boyer, Christopher F. O'Neill
  • Publication number: 20180229304
    Abstract: First subareas of a layer of powder applied on a substrate are heated locally with a process beam so as to heated, but not yet interconnect the grains of the powder in the first subareas. A temperature profile of the applied layer is evaluated proximate to the first subarea as a function of the distance from the respective first subarea and/or the time. The local thermal conductivity and/or local diffusivity are determined for the respective first subarea based on the temperature profile. Second subareas of the applied layer which at least partially overlap the first subareas are then heated locally with the process beam so as to interconnect the grains of the powder in the second subareas. A process variable of the process beam influencing heating of the second subareas is determined based on the local thermal conductivity or diffusivity previously determined for the at least partially overlapping first subarea.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Jürgen Zettner
  • Publication number: 20180229305
    Abstract: A computer program product is configured for forming at least one three-dimensional article through successive fusion of parts of a powder bed, which parts correspond to successive cross sections of the three-dimensional article, by: providing a model of the at least one three-dimensional article; applying a first powder layer on a work table; directing a first energy beam from a first energy beam source over the work table causing the first powder layer to fuse in first selected locations according to corresponding models to form a first cross section of the three-dimensional article, where the first energy beam is fusing at least a first region of a first cross section with parallel scan lines in a first direction; varying a distance between two adjacent scan lines, which are used for fusing the powder layer, as a function of a mean length of the two adjacent scan lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventor: Mattias Fager
  • Publication number: 20180229306
    Abstract: A composite sintered body cutting tool, in which tungsten is reduced, is made of a TiCN-based cermet and WC-based cemented carbide. The cutting tool has an angle of less than 90 degrees formed by a rake face and a flank face. The rake face including a cutting edge contains WC-based cemented carbide including 4% to 17% by mass of iron group metal components with a remainder being WC. The thickness of the carbide is 0.05 to 0.3 times the thickness of the composite sintered body. The TiCN-based cermet which is a base body of the cutting tool includes 4% to 25% of the iron group metal components, less than 15% of W, 2% to 15% of Mo, 2% to 10% of Nb, and 0.2% to 2% of Cr. The cermet may contain iron group metal Co and Ni, where, Co/Co+Ni is 0.5 to 0.8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto IGARASHI, Akihiro MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20180229307
    Abstract: The invention relates in particular to a machine (1) for additive manufacturing by the sintering or melting of powder (2) using an energy beam (3) acting on a powder layer (23) in a working zone (4), said machine comprising a device for producing a layer of said powder, said device comprising: means (5) for storing the powder, means (6) for distributing the powder able to travel over the working zone in order to distribute the powder in a layer (23) having a final thickness (24) adapted to additive manufacturing, feeding means (7) able to transfer the powder from the storage means (5) to the distributing means (6), dosing means (8) able to control the quantity of powder transferred from the storage means (5) to the distributing means (6), said machine being characterised in that: the storage means (5) are located above the working zone (4), the feeding means (7) utilise gravity, and the feeding means (7) and the dosing means (8) are able to move with the distributing means (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: FRÉDÉRIC PIALOT, GILLES WALRAND, PIERRE WIEL
  • Publication number: 20180229308
    Abstract: Novel metallic systems and methods for their fabrication provide an extreme creep-resistant nano-crystalline metallic material. The material comprises a matrix formed of a solvent metal with crystalline grains having diameters of no more than about 500 nm, and a plurality of dispersed metallic particles formed on the basis of a solute metal in the solvent metal matrix and having diameters of no more than about 200 nm. The particle density along the grain boundary of the matrix is as high as about 2 nm2 of grain boundary area per particle so as to substantially block grain boundary motion and rotation and limit creep at temperatures above 35% of the melting point of the material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Laszlo J. Kecskes, Kristopher A. Darling, Rajiv S. Mishra, Yuri Mishin, Kiran N. Solanki, Mansa Rajagopalan
  • Publication number: 20180229309
    Abstract: Pipe machining apparatuses and methods of operating are provided. In one aspect, a pipe machining apparatus includes an advancement mechanism coupled to a frame and adapted to move relative to the frame between a first position, in which the advancement mechanism is in a travel path of an advancement member and is adapted to be engaged by the advancement member to advance a tool, and a second position, in which the advancement mechanism is positioned out of the travel path of the advancement member and is not adapted to be engaged by the advancement member. In another aspect, a pipe machining apparatus includes multiple motors and pinion gears engaged with a gear rack of a tool carrier. In a further aspect, a pipe machining apparatus includes a race wiper. In yet another aspect, a pipe machining apparatus includes a race lubrication member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Kenneth R. Pierce, Michael W. Gearhart
  • Publication number: 20180229310
    Abstract: A chuck device includes a chuck main body, an exchange member, an axial direction regulating mechanism, and a circumferential direction regulating mechanism. The axial direction regulating mechanism has a circumferential groove section, which extends in the circumferential direction, that is recessed into one of the chuck main body and the exchange member and a radially protruding section, which is able to protrude in the radial direction, that is disposed in the other of the chuck main body and the exchange member. The circumferential direction regulating mechanism has an axially recessed section, which is recessed in the axial direction, that is disposed in one of the chuck main body and the exchange member and an axially protruding section, which is able to protrude in the axial direction, that is disposed in the other of the chuck main body and the exchange member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya MIURA, Toshitaka KIMURA, Takenobu IMAMICHI, Masato ANDO
  • Publication number: 20180229311
    Abstract: A method of forming a receiver 130 comprises arranging first structures 120a in a first set 117 and second structures 120b in a second set 119 such that the first structures 120a and the second structures 120b extend within an interior space 136 of the receiver 130 in a direction normal to a longitudinal central axis 112 of the interior space 136. The method further comprises indirectly bonding the first set 117 of the first structures 120a to the second set 119 of the second structures 120b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Steven Graham Wallace
  • Publication number: 20180229312
    Abstract: A temporary part is mounted onto the chuck of the diamond turning machine. A diamond turning tip of the diamond turning machine is used to form a reference surface on the temporary part, registering a baseline for a motion control system of the diamond turning machine. While the temporary part remains mounted to the diamond turning machine, a workpiece is mounted onto the temporary part, and the diamond tip is controlled relative to the reference surface to diamond turn a surface profile on the workpiece. Because the baseline established by the reference surface compensates for positional variations from mounting parts directly onto the chuck of the diamond turning machine, the length of the workpiece can be shaped to a designated length with a high degree of accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventor: Ronald S. Maynard
  • Publication number: 20180229313
    Abstract: An acoustic perforation method and assembly for forming holes or perforations into a face sheet of a sandwich panel without damaging a honeycomb core thereof. The method may include photographing or otherwise scanning the face sheet bonded to the honeycomb core after cure, then detecting locations of cell walls of the honeycomb core via image processing or analysis of scan data obtained. For example, discolorations on the face sheet or coatings applied thereto may indicate locations of the cell walls of the honeycomb core. A perforation pattern may then be generated or altered based on the detected locations of the cell walls, and a perforation device may be commanded to perforate the face sheet in accordance with the perforation pattern at locations where the cell walls are not located.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Matt D. Bickhard, Mark Wadsworth, F. Stephen Corby, Brian Kitt
  • Publication number: 20180229314
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for processing cylinder walls of internal combustion engines (1), including a cutting element (4). The cutting element (4) is arranged on a rotary cutting ring (3). The cutting element (4) has a slit contour (5) with a plurality of cutting edges (6) arranged next to each other in a direction of an axis of rotation of the rotary cutting ring. And, the individual cutting edges (6) face in a direction of rotation of the rotary cutting ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventor: Josef LIFKA
  • Publication number: 20180229315
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a tool body having a peripherally disposed outer insert receiving pocket and an interiorly disposed inner insert receiving pocket with a cutting insert resiliently clamped therein. The tool body includes a through recess at least partially circumferentially bounded by a recess circumferential surface. A resilient clamping member extends into the through recess. The inner insert receiving pocket is formed by the resilient clamping member and a recess pocket portion of the recess circumferential surface. A chamfering cutting insert may be retained by the resilient clamping member, without the use of an additional, separate clamping device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventor: SHIMON ATHAD
  • Publication number: 20180229316
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tool for forming a joint in an interlocking side-lapped seam formed between first and second structural decking panels. The decking tool may include a frame, actuator, and arms with jaws, wherein the actuator forms a structural component of the decking tool and is located between the frame and the arms with the jaws. Moreover, the decking tool may further comprise one or more shields and jaw guards. The one or more shields may cover the arms on at least one side for protection. The one or more jaw guards may be utilized with or without the shields, and may or may not be integral with the shields. The one or more jaw guards have a number of benefits, such as protecting the jaws, positioning the jaws, being utilized as levers to help remove the jaws, and being utilized to prevent separation of the side-lap seam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventor: Christopher Lawrence Brown
  • Publication number: 20180229317
    Abstract: A dust collector in one aspect of the present invention comprises a dust collection portion, a communication portion, and an interlock operation control portion. When the communication portion receives an interlock command transmitted from an electric working machine, the interlock operation control portion makes the dust collection portion operate interlocking with the electric working machine. The interlock operation control portion includes a storage portion, in which identification information specific to the electric working machine with which the dust collection portion is to be made to perform the interlock operation is stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hitoshi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20180229318
    Abstract: Saw blades and methods of machining saw blade tooth profiles of saw blades. The saw blades include a blade body and a plurality of teeth defined by the blade body. Each tooth includes a tooth back, a tooth tip, a tooth face, and a tooth gullet. In at least one tooth, a relief region extends toward the tooth back and separates the tooth face from the tooth gullet. The methods include supporting the saw blade with a blade support structure and advancing the saw blade with a blade advance structure. The methods also include dry-machining a finished tooth profile in a working portion of the saw blade in a single pass. The dry-machining includes dry-machining with an end mill by operatively translating the end mill relative to the saw blade and within a plane that is at least substantially perpendicular to an end mill rotational axis of the end mill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Derek Clark, Clifton Koski, II, Larry McMaster
  • Publication number: 20180229319
    Abstract: An electric discharge machining (EDM) system includes an electrode set having a plurality of electrodes. Each electrode is electrically-isolated from the other electrodes. The EDM system includes a power supply configured to generate an electric discharge between a workpiece and the electrode set to remove material from the workpiece. The power supply includes a multi-loop driver system and an AC-to-DC component that outputs DC electric power. The multi-loop driver system includes a plurality of power loop circuits coupled to an output of the AC-to-DC component. Each power loop circuit is electrically-isolated from other power loop circuits and is coupled to at least one electrode. The multi-loop driver system includes a drive controller coupled to the power loop circuits. The drive controller is configured to transmit at least one control signal to at least one power loop circuit to drive the AC-to-DC component to generate the electric discharge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Yuanfeng Luo, Richard Leigh Adrian, Allan Richard Bridges, Nouman Usmani
  • Publication number: 20180229320
    Abstract: A controller controls cutting of simultaneously cutting wafers by performing electrical discharge machining while moving a workpiece relative to cutting wire sections in a direction at right angles to the cutting wire sections in a plane perpendicular to the axial direction of main guide rollers and leaving a connection at which a part of each wafer that has been incompletely cut is still connected to the workpiece, and shape correction of causing the cutting wire sections to perform scanning while performing electrical discharge machining along a path of the cutting wire sections in a cutting direction at the time of the cutting to simultaneously correct the shape of a plurality of cut surfaces that are cut at the time of the cutting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hidetaka MIYAKE, Takashi HASHIMOTO, Takashi YUZAWA
  • Publication number: 20180229321
    Abstract: A method and a system of balancing a shaft for an axle assembly. The method may include using an electrical resistance welder to weld a balance weight to a shaft proximate an imbalance location using an insert or brazing material. The insert material may have a lower liquidus temperature than a liquidus temperatures of the shaft and balancing weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Yang Zhai, Richard A. Dlouhy