Patents Issued in September 20, 2018
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Publication number: 20180264568Abstract: A method for machining the tooth flanks of a bevel gear workpiece includes carrying out correction machining of a concave tooth flank and a convex tooth flank of at least one tooth gap by, after machining using a first machine setting, cutting free of the concave tooth flank by the bevel gear workpiece executing a workpiece rotation in a first rotational direction having a predefined first absolute value in relation to a gear-cutting tool and/or cutting free the convex flank by the bevel gear workpiece executing a workpiece rotation in another rotational direction having a predefined second absolute value in relation to the gear-cutting tool, and finish machining the concave tooth flank using a second machine setting, which differs from the first machine setting, and finish machining the convex tooth flank using a third machine setting, which differs from the second machine setting.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Jürgen Weber
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Publication number: 20180264569Abstract: A method of grinding 3-face ground cutting blades for producing gears by a face hobbing cutting process wherein the correct initial blade spacing angle ? is achieved while providing the desired values for the effective cutting edge hook angle and the effective side rake angle as well as providing a complete cutting blade front face clean-up.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Hermann J. Stadtfeld, Markus J. Bolze, Anthony J. Norselli
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Publication number: 20180264570Abstract: A manufacturing environment having a machine tool, a measuring device, a storage medium, and having a computer programmed to control: a) chip producing machining of a first workpiece in a machine tool, b) acquiring at least two machine parameters of the machine tool during the chip producing machining of the first workpiece, c) storing the machine parameters in the storage medium, wherein the storing is performed with assignment to the first workpiece, and d) repeating steps a) to c) for a number of n workpieces; and, after one of steps a) to d), or later, triggering a testing method including: (i) selecting at least one of the workpieces, (ii) performing an automated test of the at least one selected workpiece using the measuring device, or (iii) performing a processor-controlled evaluation of the automated test to classify the at least one selected workpiece as a good part, or a reject part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Thomas Schenk, Olaf Vogel
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Publication number: 20180264571Abstract: A fitting threading adapter includes a pin shaped to engage at least one of an interior of a mandrel and locking dogs on a powered threading machine. The adapter includes a box end shaped to surround and apply rotation to a fitting threadedly engaged to a threaded end of another fitting or a pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Russell Dwayne Woolverton
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Publication number: 20180264572Abstract: In a fixing structure and fixing method of a wire bobbin, the wire bobbin is abutted against the regulating member with the bolt inserted into the insertion hole of the wire bobbin. Then, a nut is inserted into a through hole while being kept inclined so that the axis of the through hole is substantially aligned with the axis of the bolt. Thereafter, the inclination of the nut is returned so that the axis of threaded hole becomes substantially aligned with the axis of the bolt, and then the nut is turned so as to insert part of a tapered portion into the insertion hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Meguru Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20180264573Abstract: The present invention provides a non-contact wire array tension control device for controlling a plurality of tension respectively corresponding to a plurality of electrical discharge wires, including delivering spools and electromagnets. The delivering spool has a magnetic end and a wire outputting end, the wire outputting end is coupled with an electrical discharge wire for outputting the electrical discharge wire. A plurality of electromagnets are coupled to the corresponding magnetic end for controlling a spin rate of the corresponding delivering spool, wherein the spin rate of the corresponding delivering spool is controlled by adjusting a magnetic force generated by the electromagnet. Moreover, a magnetic direction of the electromagnet is parallel to an axial direction of the delivering spool. The invention uses the electromagnets to control the magnetic damping force of the delivering spools for simultaneously controlling the tension of the electrical discharge wires by non-contact method.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Shun-Tong Chen, Li-Wen Huang, Jin-Ping Guo, Ting-Cheng Bai
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Publication number: 20180264574Abstract: A joining device for producing an exhaust gas system for an internal combustion engine comprises a device base, a frame, and at least two joining units that can be operated simultaneously are fastened to the frame. The frame extends essentially vertically starting from the device base. In a method for producing the exhaust gas system, at least one joining unit of a joining device is oriented to a geometry of the exhaust gas system that is to be produced, at least three components or assemblies of the exhaust gas system are positioned in the joining device, and the components or assemblies are simultaneously connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Alfred BLUEML
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Publication number: 20180264575Abstract: A welding system includes a feeder that advances a self-shielded flux-cored welding electrode toward a weld puddle. A power supply provides a welding output to the electrode to generate an arc, and a controller controls the welding output. The controller controls the power supply to provide a background welding output to the electrode before a shorting event between the electrode and a workpiece is detected. The controller monitors the welding output to detect both the shorting event and the clearance thereof. Upon detecting clearance of the short, the controller automatically switches the welding output to a minimum magnitude fixed current welding output. After the predetermined duration, the controller automatically switches the welding output from the minimum magnitude fixed current welding output back to the background welding output until another shorting event is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Steven R. Peters, David Earle Mooney, JR.
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Publication number: 20180264576Abstract: An arc welder includes a welding power supply, a forward/reverse welding wire feeder, and a controller for the power supply and the wire feeder. Welding is implemented by repeating unit welding steps each including a short circuit stage with the welding wire and a base material being short-circuited and an arc stage with an arc being generated between the wire and the material. A transition period continues from a starting point of the arc stage till the wire feeding rate reaches a forward maximum. An average welding current is defined as an average of the welding current during the short circuit and arc stages. Within the transition period, the controller sets a current suppression period during which welding current is smaller than the average welding current. Transition period length T0 and current suppression period length T1 are set to satisfy the inequality 0<T1/T0?0.8.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Akihiro IDE
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Publication number: 20180264577Abstract: Embodiments of welding systems and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a welding system includes a waveform generator to generate a welding waveform with an adjustable DC offset and duty cycle. A sensor of the welding system senses a welding parameter at a welding electrode during a welding operation. A controller of the welding system is coupled to the sensor and the waveform generator and compares the welding parameter to a pre-defined parameter. The controller adjusts at least one of the DC offset and the duty cycle of the welding waveform in response to comparing the welding parameter to the pre-defined parameter to control a stick-out distance of the electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Steven R. Peters
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Publication number: 20180264578Abstract: Methods and apparatus to determine heat input to a weld are disclosed. An example welding-type power supply includes a power converter to convert input power to output welding-type power, and a controller configured to: during a welding-type operation, calculate average instantaneous power values of the welding-type operation for discrete, non-overlapping time periods by multiplying voltage measurements and corresponding current measurements; identify an end of the welding-type operation; determine a duration of the welding-type operation; calculate a total average instantaneous power of the welding-type operation based on the average instantaneous power values for the time periods and the duration of the welding-type operation; and output a first value representative of the total average instantaneous power and a second value representative of the duration of the welding-type operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Christopher Hsu, Jake Zwayer
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Publication number: 20180264579Abstract: A system and method for wirelessly controlling, monitoring, and updating various welding parameters from a remote device using a single remote control. The remote does not need to have the software to communicate with the welding-type system prior to initiating communications with the welding-type system. Rather, the welding-type system can provide a code download to the remote to perform an over-the-air programming of the remote to configure the remote to control the welding-type system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Marc L. Denis, Michael A. Gill, Todd G. Batzler
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Publication number: 20180264580Abstract: The disclosed technology generally relates to welding, and more particularly to a consumable welding wire for metal arc welding, and a method and a system for metal arc welding using the consumable welding wire. In one aspect, a method of arc welding includes providing a welding wire comprising one or more alkaline earth metal elements. The method additionally includes applying power to the welding wire to generate a plasma arc sufficient to melt the welding wire. The method further includes depositing molten droplets formed by melting the welding wire onto a workpiece at a high deposition rate while regulating to maintain a substantially constant power delivered to the plasma arc.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: John Benjamin Schaeffer, Steven R. Peters, Badri K. Narayanan, Yen-Chih Liao
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Publication number: 20180264581Abstract: A portable drawn arc stud welder apparatus with a lithium ferrophosphate (LFP) battery and stud weld battery control system (SWBCS) is provided for welding a stud onto a workpiece. The portable drawn arc stud welder apparatus includes a housing, an LFP battery disposed in the housing and including a plurality of LFP battery cells, a weld stud gun configured to hold a stud and is electrically connected to the LFP battery for receiving energy from the LFP battery to pass a current through the stud and the workpiece to form a weldment. The SWBCS is disposed in the housing and electrically connected to the LFP battery of the portable drawn arc stud welder apparatus. The SWBCS includes a computer, a memory, and instructions therein to implement control and monitoring of the operation of the portable drawn arc stud welder apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Nelson Stud Welding, Inc.Inventors: Scott J. Schraff, Jeffrey Krupp, Stephen D. Brooks
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Publication number: 20180264582Abstract: A mechanism for releasing a pair of electrode caps from a pair of electrode cap holders of a spot welding gun. A rotatable member (11) which can be rotated about an axis (x) has an axially extended through cavity (19) with an inner cylindrical wall in which there are formed two axially spaced sets of niches (20, 21). The niches each have a curved axial wall (20c, 21c) with an eccentric profile relative to the axis of rotation (x). The niches of each set have depths and curvatures progressively increasing in a same circumferential direction. Two sets of gripping rollers (24, 25), partially received in the two sets of niches (20, 21), are provided for gripping two electrode caps (E) on a same welding gun.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2015Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Sinterleghe S.r.lInventors: Eugenio TEDESCHI, Giuseppe PALOPOLI
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Publication number: 20180264583Abstract: A method for producing a component structure of two components includes subjecting the components to beam energy for melting in a contact region. A variation of beam current is set to melt the components in the contact region over a defined component depth less than the perpendicular distance between sides of the contact region. A defined beam current pulse is periodically imparted to the variation of the beam current, to melt the components at least approximately over the entire perpendicular distance between the sides of the contact region and to produce in the region of the second side weld regions of a weld root of the weld connecting the components projecting from the contact region and form a pattern which representative of a weld quality. Between the weld regions there is no melting of the components in the region between the defined component depth and the second side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Dirk METZLER, Stefan LONGERICH
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Publication number: 20180264584Abstract: A method of manufacturing a liquid-cooled jacket, includes a preparation step which includes placing a sealing body on a stepped portion to allow a step side surface and a sealing-body side surface of the sealing body to butt each other, and a primary joining step which includes allowing a primary joining rotary tool to move once around the sealing body, while moving the rotary tool along a butted portion formed in the preparation step, to carry out friction stir welding. The primary joining step includes employing the primary joining rotary tool provided with a stirring pin having a length dimension greater than a thickness dimension of the sealing body, and carrying out friction stirring with only the stirring pin being brought into contact with a jacket body and the sealing body.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Hisashi HORI, Nobushiro SEO
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Publication number: 20180264585Abstract: A high-tensile-strength shank assembly includes a shaft assembly. A first distal end is configured to releasably engage a friction plug assembly. A second distal end is configured to releasably engage a friction pull welder assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: JUSTIN ANDERSON LITTELL, Damon Cleghorn
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Publication number: 20180264586Abstract: A friction stir welding tool comprising a composite of a tungsten-rhenium alloy and hafnium carbide particles, wherein a crystallite size of the tungsten-rhenium alloy is no more than 100 nm, wherein the hafnium carbide particles are dispersed within the tungsten-rhenium alloy, a method of fabricating the friction stir welding tool, and a method of friction stir welding a metal joint using the tool. Various embodiments of the friction stir welding tool, the method of fabricating the tool, and the method of friction stir welding using the tool are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: King Fahd University of Petroleum and MineralsInventors: Zafar IQBAL, Abdelrahman N. Shuaib, Necar Merah, Nouari SAHEB
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Publication number: 20180264587Abstract: To provide a method for joining metal members, in which joining can be performed at relatively lower temperature, and deformation caused when joining the metal members can be reduced. The present invention includes a step of joining a plurality of metal members with a sheet sandwiched between the joining surfaces of the plurality of metal members, wherein the sheet is obtained by forming an organic acid metal salt film on the surface of a metal sheet; wherein aluminum or an aluminum alloy is used as the metal members, and a sheet made of any one of zinc, copper and magnesium is used as the metal sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2015Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: National University Corporation Gunma UniversityInventors: Shinji KOYAMA, Xiaojuan MA, Tatsunori TSUNETOU, Tsukasa AKIYAMA, Yohei TOMIKAWA
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Publication number: 20180264588Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward utilizing pulsed laser light to melt and displace material along a surface. As may be consistent with one or more embodiments, material at respective regions of a surface is melted and displaced using pulsed laser light. The melting and displacement at different ones of the regions is carried out to facilitate different displacement at each region. Such an approach may be used by varying characteristics, such as fluence, of the pulsed laser light at each region. In this contexts, surfaces can be smoothed, and structures can be formed on the surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Justin D. Morrow, Frank E. Pfefferkorn
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Publication number: 20180264589Abstract: A laser beam irradiation apparatus including a laser source configured to emit light; a collimator configured to collimate the emitted light; a scanner configured to adjust the collimated light to change an irradiation direction thereof; a first lens part configured to focus the adjusted light to irradiate a laser beam on a sealing part; a camera configured to receive visible light passing through the scanner; a heat sensing part configured to receive infrared (IR) light passing through the scanner; and a control part configured to control a moving direction and an intensity of the laser beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Jung-Min LEE, Alexander Olowinsky, Elmar GEHLEN, Heidrun KIND, Arnold GILLNER
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Publication number: 20180264590Abstract: A sensor is provided near an additive manufacturing (AM) part during fabrication to provide information about the condition of the additive material during fabrication. Sensor measurements are used for in situ monitoring and control of the AM system. By placing a sensor at this location, information at or near this location may be collected and then analyzed to determine if the AM process is proceeding acceptably, or if real-time modifications to the process should be made to improve the performance of the process. Conditions monitored by the sensor may include the melt pool dimensions, the temperature ahead of and at the melt pool, properties of the powder bed such as temperature and particle size distribution, local powder conditions, prior layer condition, and applied layer condition behind the laser. A control system uses these monitored conditions to adjust and control the ongoing AM fabrication process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: JENTEK Sensors, Inc.Inventors: Neil J. Goldfine, Zachary M. Thomas, Todd M. Dunford
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Publication number: 20180264591Abstract: The invention relates to a method for guiding a machining head, in particular a laser machining head (10), along a track (23) to be machined, in which a line of light (16) is projected onto the track (23) to be machined, transversely with respect to the latter, at a distance (d) in front of the machining point (14) in the machining direction, in which, from images of the line of light (16) recorded continuously during the machining, the position y(Pn) of the track (23) in front of the machining point (14) is determined, and in which the machining point (14) is aligned with the track (23) as soon as the machining point (14) reaches the respective point (Pn) on the track (23) for which the position y(Pn) of the track (23) was determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Fabian Agrawal, Stefan Birmanns, Joachim Schwarz, Eric Supernok
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Publication number: 20180264592Abstract: The present invention relates to a processing device for modifying a surface or an interior of an object to be processed by using an ultrashort pulse laser, the device including: a stage for loading an object to be processed; a laser beam radiating device including a laser source generating an ultrashort pulse laser beam, and a laser processing optical system for radiating laser beam toward the object to be processed loaded on the stage; a laser beam controller capable of setting a laser process condition and three-dimensional spatial coordinates of the object to be processed; and a scanning electron microscope through which the surface of the object to be processed is observed, and a method of modifying, by using the processing device, an object to be processed by cutting a part thereof or processing a surface thereof by using an ultrashort pulse laser.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: LASERNICSInventors: Yunseok KIM, Jooho YOU
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Publication number: 20180264593Abstract: The present invention relates to a laser device for annealing coatings deposited on large-width substrates, said device being formed from a plurality of laser modules that may be juxtaposed without particular limitation, wherein the laser modules generate elementary laser lines that combine with one another in the length direction to form a single laser line, each elementary line having an overlap in the length direction with one or two adjacent elementary laser lines; and at least two adjacent elementary laser lines have an offset with respect to one another in the width direction, said offset being smaller than half the sum of the widths of said at least two adjacent elementary laser lines; the overlap of said at least two adjacent elementary laser lines is such that, in the absence of offset, the power-per-unit-length profile of the single laser line has a local maximum level with the zone of overlap.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Brice DUBOST, Emmanuel MIMOUN, Lorenzo CANOVA, Nicolas DESBOEUFS
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Publication number: 20180264594Abstract: There is disclosed a system and method for laser cutting of human allograft tissue. One embodiment includes a laser canister having a housing fabricated with a sterilizable material. The housing defines an interior portion, an exterior portion, and a selectively operable opening into the interior portion. The selectively operable opening includes a hermetic seal to maintain a sterile environment from the exterior portion when the selectively operable opening is closed. The canister includes an infrared (IR) transmissive optical window disposed in the housing and configured to allow a laser beam to penetrate therethrough to the interior portion. The canister also includes an insert within the interior portion configured to support human allograft tissue in a sterile environment, the insert being removable from the housing to move the human allograft tissue into another sterile environment after the housing has been exposed to a non-sterile environment. Other embodiments are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Meghan Gabriel, Raymond Klein
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Publication number: 20180264595Abstract: Apparatuses include a laser cutter positioned within an enclosure that is capable of cutting printed sheets; however, this cutting produces debris made up of airborne dust of the sheet material and marking material. An air duct is capable of drawing an air stream of air and the debris out of the enclosure. A dispenser is positioned within the air duct where the air duct connects to the enclosure. The dispenser is capable of dispensing a dry powder of calcium carbonate into the air stream. The dry powder attaches to the debris. The combination of the dry powder and the debris forms waste, and a filter device (that is connected to the air duct) filters the waste. The filter device is capable of separating the air from the waste, to collect the waste and release the air free of the waste to areas outside the filter device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventor: Mark A. Adiletta
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Publication number: 20180264596Abstract: A manufacturing method of a spark plug in which an electrode has a noble metal tip joined to an electrode body by laser welding. The manufacturing method includes a fixing step and first and second separate welding steps. In the fixing step, the noble metal tip is fixed to the electrode body so as to define a joint interface of a first surface of the noble metal tip and a second surface of the electrode body. In the first welding step, laser welding is performed on a first zone of the joint interface excluding at least a part of a region of the noble metal tip fixed by the fixing step. In the subsequent second welding step, laser welding is performed on a second zone of the joint interface including an unwelded portion of the joint interface left without being welded by the first welding step.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.Inventor: Masahiro INOUE
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Publication number: 20180264597Abstract: A laser processing apparatus 10 includes a continuous-wave laser oscillator 12 for generating a continuous-wave laser beam, a condenser lens 18 for concentrating a continuous-wave laser beam onto a workpiece, and a delay time setting means for calculating an energy value for each processing by a continuous-wave laser beam irradiation on the basis of processing data and accumulating the calculated energy value, and setting a predetermined delay time between the processings when the accumulated energy value exceeds a predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Hiroyuki YAMAGISHI, Toshitaka NAMBA
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Publication number: 20180264598Abstract: An improved scanning strategy, having a waveform hatch pattern for scanning an energy source during an additive manufacturing build process. A waveform hatch pattern is formed on each layer of the build so as to increase the variance between layers and/or improve the microstructure of the completed component. In one aspect, a first layer is formed by scanning a laser in a series of hatch lines formed as a first pattern that oscillates about an axis. Each subsequent layer is formed as a series hatch lines formed in a pattern that is varied in geometry from a previous and subsequently formed layer. By varying the pattern when forming each layer, the desired variance in each layer can be achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Justin MAMRAK
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Publication number: 20180264599Abstract: Disclosed herein is a laser processing apparatus including a controller. The controller includes a coordinate storing section for storing the Y coordinate of a characteristic point having a predetermined positional relation to each division line formed on a wafer as a reference value with respect to a reference position where the focal point of a laser beam to be focused by a focusing unit coincides with a predetermined position on each division line in a Y direction as an indexing direction, a deviation detecting section for detecting the amount of deviation of the Y coordinate of the characteristic point imaged by an imaging unit after indexing each division line of the wafer in the Y direction by the operation of a Y moving unit, from the Y coordinate stored as the reference value in the coordinate storing section, and a determining section for determining whether or not the amount of deviation detected by the deviation detecting section is greater than an allowable value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Yutaka Kobayashi, Taiki Sawabe, Hidetoshi Mannami, Kohei Tanaka, Wakana Onoe
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Publication number: 20180264600Abstract: A laser welding apparatus includes a measuring unit that measures a penetration depth of a molten pool by interferometry, and a controller that controls the measuring unit. The measuring unit includes a light source emitting a laser beam for measurement, a splitter that splits the laser beam into a measuring beam and a reference beam, a light-receiving element receiving an interference beam synthesized from the measuring beam reflected from the molten pool and the reference beam reflected from the reference mirror, a scanning mechanism that varies an application position of the measuring beam travelling toward the molten pool, and an image-capturing unit that captures an image of the molten pool. The controller determines a deepest portion of the molten pool based on the image captured by the image-capturing unit, and controls the scanning mechanism such that the measuring beam travelling toward the molten pool is applied to the deepest portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroki Sugino
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Publication number: 20180264601Abstract: Provided is a solder alloy having a composition suitable for soldering a module obtained by joining an aluminum substrate to a component wherein a main body, in which the area of an electrode on a side surface is not more than 30% of the total area of the side surface, is comprised of a ceramic. The solder alloy has an alloy composition comprising, in terms of mass %, 3-10% of Sb, 0-4% of Ag and 0.3-1.2% of Cu, with the remainder consisting of Sn. Furthermore, the alloy composition may contain, in terms of mass %, a total of 0.15% or less of one or more elements selected from among Ni and Co and/or a total of 0.02% or less of one or more elements selected from among P and Ge.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Minoru Ueshima, Takeshi Sakamoto, Rei Fujimaki
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Publication number: 20180264602Abstract: The present inventive concept discloses design providing for the mounting of a CNC cutting machine upon a sturdily framed wheeled vehicle. The “vehicular cutting machine” can then be transported upon its own integral structure, to practically any jobsite. This mobility is a particular advantage to the customer at the jobsite where there is a requirement for a smaller number of precision parts in a short time during a plant or facility start-up, shutdown, or power outage. The inventive concept presents a method of use of CNC cutting machines that has not been used in the metal-cutting industry, oftentimes because of harsh road environments or the sheer difficulty of designing and building a self-powered, self-equipped CNC cutting machine. The present inventive concept negates the problems previously encountered by the prior art, and makes possible a cutting machine which is transportable and immediately available for operation upon reaching a designated website.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Garrie Brian Bales
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Publication number: 20180264603Abstract: A pneumatic chamber 20 is configured to include a first pneumatic chamber 21 pressurizing a first piston 11 and a second pneumatic chamber 22 pressurizing a second piston 12. The first pneumatic chamber 21 communicates with the second pneumatic chamber 22. The hydraulic pressure generating unit 55 is internally provided with a hydraulic chamber 30, and the hydraulic chamber 30 is configured to have a first hydraulic chamber 31 pressurized by the first pneumatic chamber 21 via the first piston 11 and a second hydraulic chamber 32 pressurized by the second pneumatic chamber 22 via the second piston 12. The hydraulic pressure generating unit 55 is movable in a thrust direction in a cylinder 2, and the second hydraulic chamber 32 has a function of fixing the moving hydraulic pressure generating unit 55 in the cylinder 2 by causing a thin portion 15 to be elastically deformed in a radial direction due to hydraulic pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Shigehiro ARAI
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Publication number: 20180264604Abstract: The present invention provides a new and improved remotely activated connecting device for connecting a wellhead and or Christmas tree positioned on a wellhead to a fracking tree that may comprise a collet system for selectively engaging and disengaging from a threaded and or spiral shoulder that may utilize hydraulics for same.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Benton Frederick Baugh, Stephanie Tritchler, Christopher David Rekieta
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Publication number: 20180264605Abstract: A method for installing an adjustable camshaft may include inserting an adjustable camshaft in an installation device. The camshaft may include an outer shaft surrounding an inner shaft. The installation device may enable alignment of at least one cam rotatably mounted on the outer shaft. The method may include aligning the at least one cam by pushing an alignment pin through a radial passthrough opening in the at least one cam and through a drillhole in the inner shaft congruent therewith. The method may include non-rotatably connecting the at least one cam to the inner shaft by pushing a connecting pin into the passthrough opening and the drillhole in a direction opposite a direction the alignment pin was pushed. Non-rotatably connecting the at least one cam to the inner shaft may include detachably coupling the connecting pin and the alignment pin in a positive locking manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Thomas Flender, Stefan Steichele
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Publication number: 20180264606Abstract: A multiple heat source-type preheating device for a machining apparatus is provided. The multiple heat source-type preheating device for a machining apparatus includes a first heat source provision module and a second heat source provision module. The first heat source provision module is installed to be moved along a portion of a material to be machined along with a spindle adapted to rotate a tool at high speed, and is configured to preheat the portion of the material to be machined by providing a heat source thereto. The second heat source provision module is installed to be moved along with the first heat source provision module, and is configured to preheat the portion of the material to be machined by providing a heat source thereto while preceding or following the first heat source provision module.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Choon-Man LEE, Wan-sik WOO, Won-jung OH
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Publication number: 20180264607Abstract: A jig for supporting a display screen including a platform, a stop and a support is provided. The stop is located on the platform. The support is located at one side of the platform and includes an arcuate surface for supporting the display screen, wherein the display screen is placed on the stop before turning over and is supported by the arcuate surface after turning over. The jig adopts the arcuate surface to contact a surface of a supported object. When turning the supported object over, contact area between the supported object and the arcuate surface can be constantly changed, so that a force exerted on the supported object is even so as to avoid a cracking of the supported object.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Feiluan GE
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Publication number: 20180264608Abstract: A machine tool is equipped with a second supply pipe having elasticity and having one end side fixed to a spindle head and the other end side fixed to an arm portion, a cover provided within a machining area, and rollers. When the spindle head is moved in a direction to come close to the arm portion, the second supply pipe is bent and then a portion of the second supply pipe is brought into abutment against the cover. The rollers are provided at a portion of the cover against which the second supply pipe is brought into abutment, and are configured to reduce friction between the cover and the second supply pipe when the second supply pipe moves relative to the cover in an abutment state against the cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: FANUC CORPORATIONInventor: Keita Asano
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Publication number: 20180264609Abstract: The invention provides a machine tool capable of facilitating a process of switching product ejecting apparatuses. The machine tool comprises a spindle which rotates a workpiece around an axis of the spindle, an actuator which reciprocates a rod arranged parallel to the axis of the spindle, and a coupler switched between a coupling position and a standby position. The coupler connects the rod and an ejecting shaft inserted in the spindle when held in the coupling position. The coupler is not connected to at least the ejecting shaft when held in the standby position. The ejecting shaft along with the coupler is moved in the direction of the axis of the spindle according to reciprocation of the rod when the coupler is held in the coupling position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Koji MASUDA, Takayuki ISHIKAWA, Motohiro KAWAMURA
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Publication number: 20180264610Abstract: The invention provides a machine tool capable of facilitating a process of mounting a fluid supplying unit to a spindle supporting unit. The machine tool comprisies a rotating unit including a spindle provided with a workpiece chucking unit, a supporting unit which rotatably supports the spindle around a spindle axis, and a fluid supplying unit removably mounted on the supporting unit to supply fluid to the chucking unit via the spindle. The fluid supplying unit has an insert to be received in the rotating unit in the direction of the spindle axis. A labyrinth clearance is formed between the outer circumferential surface of the insert and the inner circumferential surface of the rotating unit when the fluid supplying unit is mounted on the supporting unit. The labyrinth clearance allows rotation of the rotating unit and restricts leak of fluid from the spindle when the rotating unit is rotated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Hiroyuki Ogasawara, Motohiro Kawamura
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Publication number: 20180264611Abstract: The present invention relates to a tool holder for accommodating a tool, having a housing, a transmitting element, movably arranged in the housing, for transmitting a movement to the tool accommodated at a first end portion of the tool holder, a fastening portion at a second end portion of the tool holder, located opposite the first end portion of the tool holder, for fastening the tool holder to a machine tool, and a coolant line portion for conducting coolant from the second end portion of the tool holder to the first end portion of the tool holder, wherein the coolant line portion has a first section extending through the transmitting element, wherein the first section is configured at least in part as a bore in the transmitting element.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Gaston SCHWENK, Jens KETELAER, Manuel PRAETORIUS
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Publication number: 20180264612Abstract: A cooling system of machine tool body casting includes a body casting, a cooling device, and a fan. The body casting is provided with an inner space, an inlet end, and an outlet end. The inlet end and the outlet end are connected with the inner space. The cooling device is disposed at the inlet end. The fan is disposed on one side of the cooling device for inputting external air, such that the external air is input into the inner space and discharged from the outlet end. Therefore, the fan triggers the cold air to flow in the inner space for cooling down the heat of the body casting.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: CHENG-TSUNG CHANG
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Publication number: 20180264613Abstract: An abnormality detection apparatus includes a machine learning apparatus for learning waveform data concerning a physical quantity detected when a machine tool is normally operating. The machine learning apparatus observes the waveform data concerning the physical quantity detected when the machine tool is normally operating, as a state variable indicating a current environmental state, and learns a feature of the waveform data concerning the physical quantity detected when the machine tool is normally operating, using the observed state variable.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Takayuki TAMAI, Shinji OKUDA
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Publication number: 20180264614Abstract: The invention relates to a linear guiding device (1) for a feed axis (2), preferably a machine tool (3), comprising at least the following components: At least one sensor surface (4) of the linear guiding device (1) for linearly guiding a carriage (5) or a spindle nut (6); at least one microsensor (7), preferably at least one strain gage (8, 9, 10, 11, 12) and/or at least one resistance temperature sensor (13, 14), for detecting an expansion and/or compression and/or temperature of at least one sensor surface (4), wherein at least one microsensor (7) is permanently connected to at least one sensor surface (4). With the present invention, a load on a linear guiding device can be directly measured during the machine's operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Cord WINKELMANN
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Publication number: 20180264615Abstract: Driver support assemblies to work in concert with a setup assembly are provided. Setup assemblies to work in concert with a driver support assembly and a cutting assembly are provided. Cutting assemblies configured to work in concert with a driver support assembly are provided. Driver tip cutting assemblies are provided. Methods for cutting the tip of a driver shaft are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventor: Marc Eberlein
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Publication number: 20180264616Abstract: A double-station wheel burr removing device is provided, comprising clamping drive systems, lifting drive systems, a left burr brushing system, a right burr brushing system, a rotary switching system and the like. The double-station wheel burr removing device in use can simultaneously remove burrs on two wheels having different heights and different diameters at the end face of the upper rim, the valve hole, the lateral cutting position of the upper rim and the riser, so the production efficiency is very high; and simultaneously, the device has the characteristics of high automation degree, advanced process, strong generality, safety and stability.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Bowen Xue, Yong Li, Jiandong Guo, Yongwang Zhao
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Publication number: 20180264617Abstract: The present application discloses a multifunctional wheel burr removing device, comprising a synchronous clamping drive system, a left burr brushing system, an upper burr brushing system and a right burr brushing system. The multifunctional wheel burr removing device in use may remove burrs on end faces of upper rims, wheel wells, cutting positions of sides of upper rims and fronts of wheels having different diameters and different heights, so the production efficiency is very high; and simultaneously, the device has the characteristics of high automation degree, advanced process, strong generality, safety and stability.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: CITIC Dicastal CO.,LTDInventors: Bowen XUE, Dongguang YANG, Qiufang LI, Jiandong GUO, Yongwang ZHAO