Patents Issued in October 16, 2018
  • Patent number: 10099320
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet having high corrosion resistance is provided, which develops the sacrificial anticorrosion effect in both surfaces of the sheet, which has the brazing function in one of both the surfaces, and which prevents the occurrence of preferential corrosion. A channel forming component for a vehicular heat exchanger is also provided by utilizing the aluminum alloy brazing sheet. An aluminum alloy brazing sheet having high corrosion resistance includes an aluminum alloy core, a filler material clad on one surface of the core, and a sacrificial anode material clad on the other surface of the core, wherein the filler material, the sacrificial anode material, and the core have respective predetermined alloy compositions. A channel forming component for a vehicular heat exchanger is manufactured using the aluminum alloy brazing sheet having high corrosion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, UACJ Corporation
    Inventors: Sadayuki Kamiya, Shota Terachi, Kenji Negura, Makoto Ando, Atsushi Fukumoto, Yoshiyuki Oya, Akio Niikura
  • Patent number: 10099321
    Abstract: A soldering flux of the present invention contains, as a base resin, an acrylic resin (A) having an acid value of 0 to 70, and an acrylic resin (B) having an acid value of 30 to 230. The acrylic resin (A) is obtained by polymerization of a monomer mixture containing alkyl(meth)acrylate having an alkyl group having carbon atoms of 12 to 23. The acrylic resin (B) is obtained by polymerization of a monomer mixture containing alkyl(meth)acrylate having an alkyl group having carbon atoms of 6 to 10. The acid value of the acrylic resin (B) is higher than the acid value of the acrylic resin (A), and a difference between these two resins is 15 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: HARIMA CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Kosuke Inoue, Tetsuyuki Shigesada, Kenichi Takeshima, Takuji Sukekawa, Masao Murata
  • Patent number: 10099322
    Abstract: Methods for aircraft component repair and reclamation are provided. Cold spraying aircraft panels include identifying a fastener hole in an aircraft panel in need of repair, capturing the location of the fastener hole, and depositing cold spray material about the fastener hole for reclaiming the aircraft panel. Any excess material may be removed. Cold spraying hydraulic lines includes identifying a surface of the hydraulic line in need of repair, aiming a cold spray nozzle at the surface of the hydraulic line and depositing a cold spray material on the surface of the hydraulic line. Excess cold spray material may be removed as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignees: South Dakota Board of Regents, The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Christian Widener, Adam Well, Owen Britton, Brian James, Rob Hrabe, Victor Champagne
  • Patent number: 10099323
    Abstract: According to one aspect, a rotating structure comprises a hub having a mounting slot defined by a cavity surface and a body having an anchor structure disposed in the mounting slot. A wear member is disposed between the anchor structure and the cavity surface and the wear member has at least first and second portions of first and second material characteristics, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Bradley T. Fanton, Roy David Fulayter
  • Patent number: 10099324
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a wind turbine blade is described which utilizes a post-molding station in the manufacturing process. A blade shell forming part of a wind turbine blade is initially molded in a blade mold, the blade shell subsequently transferred to a post-molding station which allows for various post-molding operations to be carried out on the blade shell away from the mold, thereby increasing the productivity of the blade mold in the manufacturing process. The post-molding station may be operable to perform the closing of first and second blade shells to form a wind turbine blade, and may be formed from an adjustable structure which can provide relatively easy access to the contained blade shell for working thereon. Accordingly, the manufacturing equipment may be of reduced cost, combined with an increase in the overall productivity of the manufacturing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: LM WP Patent Holding A/S
    Inventor: Bernard Willem De Waal Malefijt
  • Patent number: 10099325
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a heat exchanger structure includes additively forming a top layer of a header after disposing a corrugated core within the header to retain the corrugated core within the header. Additively forming the top layer can include filling the corrugated core with powder until a suitable layer of powder overlays the corrugated core and the header and sintering the powder to form the top layer of the header.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Delavan Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Donovan, Sergey Mironets
  • Patent number: 10099326
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an automatic forming machine for plant growth supports, comprising a ring rolling system with a ring rolling unit, a mold system with a mold unit, and a welding system, which are all disposed on a machine frame, wherein the ring rolling unit can roll a metal wire and make the metal wire be formed into a ring with an opening in the mold unit; the mold system is for carrying the ring and making two free ends of the ring with an opening aligned or alternately overlap with each other; the welding system welds can weld the opening of the ring carried by the mold unit, causing the ring to become a closed ring. The present disclosure has a high automatic degree and can reduce the production time and labor cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Inventor: Yi Chou
  • Patent number: 10099327
    Abstract: A device for press-fitting an oil seal S that includes a fixing section F in which a hard ring S is embedded and a lip section L into a structure A. The device includes an air hammer AH that includes a hammer head 1. The hammer head 1 includes a pressing section 6 configured to abut the fixing section F and a holding section 7 configured to abut the lip section L, and a negative pressure space 8 is formed between the hammer head AH and the oil seal S between the pressing section 6 and the holding section 7. The hammer head 1 is provided with an air suction path 11 that is open to the negative pressure space 8 at one end and is connected to an air suctioning means 10 at the other end. Accordingly, the device holds by suction the oil seal S having a complicated shape without deforming it, and adequately press-fits it into a structure A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsunori Iwashita
  • Patent number: 10099328
    Abstract: An air bearing slide (20) arranged on a rotational table (11) includes a movable table (40) that has a workpiece placement surface (42a) and that floats due to pressure of compression air to be movable horizontally in any direction. A workpiece auto-centering apparatus includes: a plurality of stopper apparatuses (30) that include an abutment portion (31a) against which a workpiece W can abut to center the workpiece W, and a pressing apparatus that presses the workpiece (W) such that the workpiece (W) abuts against the abutment portion (31a) of the stopper apparatuses (30). Thus, the workpiece auto-centering apparatus and auto-centering method have a simple configuration and can perform a workpiece centering operation in short cycle time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Nakano
  • Patent number: 10099329
    Abstract: A machining tool assembly is provided for machining a blank to form a firearm lower receiver. The assembly includes a pair of side plates positionable on opposed sides of the blank to capture the blank therebetween. A template plate having a template aperture is adapted to be removeably attachable to the side plates. The template aperture is aligned with a top surface of the blank and is adapted for machining a cavity within the blank having a peripheral contour complimentary to a peripheral contour of the template aperture. A centering mechanism is adapted to be removeably attachable to the template plate, with the centering mechanism including an opening aligned with a corresponding void formed on the blank to align the blank with the template plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: 80 Percent Arms Inc.
    Inventor: Tilden Alan Smith
  • Patent number: 10099330
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system, an apparatus and a method for providing tools on a machine tool. The system includes a first tool magazine for accommodating a plurality of tools; a first feeding device which is adapted to remove tools from the first tool magazine and feed them to the spindle; at least one second tool magazine for accommodating a plurality of tools; a second feeding device which is adapted to remove tools from the second tool magazine and provide them at a predetermined transfer position; and a transfer apparatus which is adapted to feed tools removed from the second tool magazine to the first tool magazine, with the result that the second tool magazine serves as a supply magazine for the first tool magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: DECKEL MAHO PFRONTEN GMBH
    Inventors: Oliver Kraft, Sebastian Riedel, Michael Trenkle
  • Patent number: 10099331
    Abstract: A punching system adapted to punch a sheet metal includes a platform, a punching portion, a base portion and a turret device. The punching portion is disposed on the platform, and a first upper die is detachably installed in the punching portion. The base portion is disposed between the punching portion and the platform, and a first lower die is detachably installed in the base portion. The punching portion is adapted to move back and forth along a first direction relative to the platform. The turret device is adapted to move along a second direction relative to the platform, and the first direction is perpendicular to the second direction. A plurality of second upper dies and second lower dies are correspondingly installed on the turret device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Metal Industries Research & Development Centre
    Inventors: Pin-Jyun Chen, Hsin-Wei Chu, Chih-Hao Lin, Yu-Ting Lin
  • Patent number: 10099332
    Abstract: An electrospindle device includes at least one electrospindle extending about a vertical axis, the electrospindle including a motor, a shaft that rotates for transmitting motion, and an engagement portion for a toolholder in which a tool rotatably actuated by the shaft is mounted, the tool being actuated directly by the shaft; at least one toolholder support element including at least two toolholders; and at least one device for rotating the at least one toolholder support element, wherein operation of the at least one device for rotating the at least one toolholder support element brings a selected one of said at least two toolholders into vertical alignment with the engagement portion and extending in the vertical axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: MARIO BALDACCINI, MECCANICA DI PRECISIONE
    Inventor: Stefano Baldaccini
  • Patent number: 10099333
    Abstract: A working machine comprising a working head (1) having a spindle (10) and which is movable in a xyz working space and further comprising a clamping device (2,3) for clamping pieces (100) to be worked by said machine. The clamping device (2,3) comprises first (21, 31) and second (22,32) clamping means which are movable along a z direction between a first operative position, in which they are in clamping contact with pieces (100) to be worked, and a second non-operative position, in which they are at a distance from said pieces (100), said first (21, 31) and second (22, 32) clamping means being fixed with respect to an xy working plane when in said first operative position and being movable together with said working head (1) in said xy working plane when in said second non-operative position, said first (21, 31) and second (22, 32) clamping means being alternatively moved between said first and second position during a working cycle of said working machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Belotti S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Belotti
  • Patent number: 10099334
    Abstract: A machining system with a configuration in which working machines, including a machine tool, are configured to be disposed in a line, and in which multiple working machines perform operations on one work in order, is provided. The machining system includes: a base; and multiple working machine modules which are mounted on the base and are arranged in an arrangement direction, and has a configuration in which each of the multiple working machine modules is capable of being drawn out from the base along a track extending in an intersecting direction intersecting with the arrangement direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Nagato, Shigefumi Suzuyama, Kenji Mizuta, Toshifumi Suzuki, Tadashi Takeuchi, Kazutoshi Sakai, Kazuya Furukawa, Atsushi Kamiya, Shinya Kumazaki, Jun Yanagisaki, Osamu Nagai
  • Patent number: 10099335
    Abstract: A holder system for mounting and aligning a machining device to a rotary transfer machine. The holder system includes a holder with a first part being mountable on a machine or being part of a machine as well as a second part which is releasably coupled to the first part in a defined first position. The second part is coupled to a third part, the third part coupled with the machining device. Positioning features are located between the second part and the third part to allow moving the third part relative to the second part in at least one spatial direction. Further, the holder system includes at least one alignment station that can releasably couple the second part of the holder to the alignment station in the first defined position and a measuring device configured to measure the position of the third part or of the machining device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: MIKRON SA AGNO
    Inventors: Luciano Lagger, Walter Sayer
  • Patent number: 10099336
    Abstract: A tool sharpener has a guide assembly to support a cutting tool adjacent an abrasive medium. A drive assembly advances the abrasive medium with respect to the guide assembly. A control mechanism provides a first control input value to move the medium and achieve a first material take off (MTO) rate during a coarse sharpening operation upon the tool. A second control input value from the control circuit moves the medium to achieve a lower, second MTO rate during a fine sharpening operation. The control mechanism transitions the medium from the first MTO rate to the second MTO rate responsive to a timer mechanism indicating a conclusion of a predetermined elapsed time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Darex, LLC
    Inventor: Daniel T. Dovel
  • Patent number: 10099337
    Abstract: A lens processing system used for removing a lens blank (98, 110) from an edging block (40). The system includes an elongated collet (22) that engages the mating edging block (40). The block (40) includes an enlarged groove (41) that receives a pair of blades (65, 66) extended upwardly from the floor (75) of the collet (22). Each lens blank (98,110) is formed to include a series of surface markings (191,192) to verify proper functioning of the edging machine that forms a finished lens. Each lens blank also includes a series of circular markings (117,133) arranged in diagonal rows to verify the accurate drilling of bores with the lens blank (98,110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Inventor: James Gregory Goerges
  • Patent number: 10099338
    Abstract: A portable booth assembly for receiving a work piece to facilitate working on a work area of the work piece including a housing and an inner core disposed within an interior area of the housing is provided. The portable booth assembly includes an aperture that is formed in the housing and the inner core. The aperture is configured to receive the work piece. The inner core defining the aperture is configured to be supported by the work piece if the work piece is large, or support the work piece if the work piece is small, and isolate the work area within the portable booth assembly. The portable booth assembly further includes a cut out formed in the housing. The cut out is configured to enable access to the work area for working on the work area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Bernard L. DiAntonio, Antonio Paesano
  • Patent number: 10099339
    Abstract: A chemical mechanical polishing apparatus includes a polishing zone having a wafer entrance and a wafer exit, first wafer platform, polishing module, slurry injection module, polishing cleaning module, and film-thickness measuring module. The first wafer platform includes a wafer loading region, and is able to move from the wafer entrance to the wafer exit along a first direction. The polishing module is located in the polishing zone, including a polishing belt extended along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and is able to move along the second direction. The slurry injection module is configured for injecting slurry towards a wafer to-be-polished by the polishing module. The polishing cleaning module is located on one side of the polishing module along the first direction for cleaning the wafer. The film-thickness measuring module is located on another side of the polishing module along the first direction for measuring the thickness of the wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL (SHANGHAI) CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ken Wu, Yuntao Jiang, Jun Yang
  • Patent number: 10099340
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polishing apparatus that polishes a substrate by causing the substrate to be in slide contact with a polishing pad. The polishing apparatus includes a pad temperature control mechanism configured to control a surface temperature of the polishing pad, which includes a pad contact member that comes in contact with the surface of the polishing pad and a liquid supply system configured to supply a temperature-controlled liquid to the pad contact member. The pad contact member includes a liquid flow path therein, and the liquid flow path communicates with a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet connected to the liquid supply system. At least one planar baffle is disposed in the liquid flow path, and the baffle has a space therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Ebara Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Motoshima
  • Patent number: 10099341
    Abstract: A representative power tool has a spindle transmitting a motor driving force to a tool accessory, a tool accessory holding member movable between a holding position and a tool accessory releasing position, a lock mechanism movable between an engaging position for locking the tool accessory holding member in the holding position and a disengaging position for releasing the lock, an inner housing housed in a body housing and houses at least part of the lock mechanism, and an operation mechanism. The operation mechanism includes a handle part, a switching part that switches the lock mechanism between the engaging position and the disengaging position according to the handle part operation, and a switching connection part that is separated from the inner housing when the lock mechanism is placed in the engaging position and comes into contact with the inner housing when the lock mechanism is placed in the disengaging position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yonosuke Aoki
  • Patent number: 10099342
    Abstract: A truer includes: a core formed into a truncated cone; and an abrasive grain layer fixed onto an outer peripheral surface of the core. The core includes: a base that is a small-diameter portion of the truncated cone and has a disc shape; and a tubular member extending from an outer peripheral edge of the base in the direction in which a rotation axis of the truncated cone extends. The tubular member has a hollow tubular shape. The tubular member includes an outer peripheral surface tapered so that a portion of the tubular member opposite to the base and adjacent to an extremity of the tubular member is a large-diameter portion of the truncated cone. A recess opening toward the extremity is defined inward of the tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10099343
    Abstract: An abrasive disc for use with a sanding tool having a plurality of dust collection holes includes a hole pattern consisting of six openings arranged for substantial alignment with the dust collection holes provided in the sanding tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Brian D. Goers
  • Patent number: 10099344
    Abstract: A sublimating and abrasive media blasting system including an air compressor, a sublimating blasting unit operably connected to the air compressor and configured to supply a sublimating material, and an abrasive media container operably connected to the air compressor and configured to supply an abrasive media. The blasting system also includes a blasting applicator assembly operably connected to the abrasive media container and to the sublimating blasting unit such that the blasting applicator receives the sublimating material and the abrasive media. The blasting applicator assembly includes an applicator operably connected to the sublimating blasting unit, a first trigger configured to control a flow of the sublimating material and a second trigger configured to control a flow of the abrasive media, an injector, and a nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Inventors: Joseph P. Sergio, Anthony P. Sergio, Alan C. Scott
  • Patent number: 10099345
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a blast treatment method includes: setting a blast treatment condition for a composite material to make a degree of activation on the surface of the composite material within an appropriate range, based on reference information; and manufacturing a blast treated product by the blast treatment of the composite material under the blast treatment condition set to make the degree of the activation within the appropriate range. The reference information shows a relation between a strain amount of a test piece caused by blast treatment under a predetermined blast treatment condition and a degree of activation on a surface of a sample of a composite material by blast treatment, for activating the surface of the sample before painting or bonding, under the predetermined blast treatment condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Kondo, Hirotsugu Takazawa, Shinya Matsuo, Tatsuo Nakahata, Osamu Shibasaki, Ryohei Ono
  • Patent number: 10099346
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to PDCs, methods of fabricating PDCs, and applications for such PDCs. In an embodiment, a PDC includes a substrate and a pre-sintered PCD table including an interfacial surface that is bonded to the substrate. The pre-sintered PCD table may be substantially free of leaching by-products in a region at least proximate to the interfacial surface. In an embodiment, a method of fabricating a PDC includes providing an at least partially leached PCD including an interfacial surface. The method includes removing at least some leaching by-products from the at least partially leached PCD table. After removing the at least some leaching by-products, the method includes bonding the interfacial surface of the at least partially leached PCD table to a substrate to form a PDC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: US SYNTHETIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael A. Vail, Kenneth E. Bertagnolli
  • Patent number: 10099347
    Abstract: Polycrystalline elements include a substrate and a polycrystalline table attached to an end of the substrate. The polycrystalline table includes a first region of superabrasive material having a first permeability and at least a second region of superabrasive material having a second, lesser permeability, the at least a second region being interposed between the substrate and the first region. Methods of forming a polycrystalline element involve attaching a polycrystalline table including a first region of superabrasive material having a first permeability and at least a second region of superabrasive material having a second, lesser permeability to an end of a substrate, the at least a second region being interposed between the first region and the substrate. Catalyst material is removed from at least the first region of the polycrystalline table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Lyons, Danny E. Scott, Anthony A. DiGiovanni, Derek L. Nelms
  • Patent number: 10099348
    Abstract: A bead manipulating tongs is provided. The tongs have a pair of elongated polymeric clenching arms, a polymeric clamp being formed on the interior surface of at least one of the elongated clenching arms, and a bead manipulating tool grasped by the polymeric clamp. The elongated clenching arms have a generally U-shaped profile with the open portion of the U of each arm facing the other, the uprights of the U on each arm forming a generally perimetral wall about a portion thereof. An interruption is formed in the perimetral wall of the elongated clenching arm proximate the polymeric clamp. The head of the bead manipulating tool is congruent to the interruption in the perimetral wall of the elongated clenching arm. A spring positioned between the elongated clenching arms urges one end of each of the elongated clenching arms into engagement with an end of the other elongated clenching arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: DPG USA INC.
    Inventor: Nikhil Gupta
  • Patent number: 10099349
    Abstract: A retainer hoop of an elastic member to restrain the elastic member from moving off a hoop spring of a tool, or from moving off a designated portion of the hoop spring. The elastic member can be retained on a portion of the hoop spring by a tube surrounding a portion of the elastic member, or from a bend or combination of bends in the hoop spring itself. The elastic member is therefore restrained from moving to an area where failure can occur more likely if the tool is dropped or if the tool applies a larger load than is conventionally applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Snap-on Incorporated
    Inventors: Christopher Thompson, Daniel M Eggert, Anup A Gupte
  • Patent number: 10099350
    Abstract: A rotary tool is disclosed. The rotary tool can include a first arm and a second arm pivotally coupled to one another at a joint. Ends of the first and second arms are positionable at a variable distance from one another by pivoting the first and second arms at the joint. The rotary tool can also include a first rotatable driver disposed at the end of the first arm, a second rotatable driver disposed at the end of the second arm, and a third rotatable driver disposed at the joint. In addition, the rotary tool can include a drive train operably coupled to the first, second, and third rotatable drivers to transfer torque, such that an input torque applied to one of the first, second, and third rotatable drivers causes torque output at the other rotatable drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Matthew R. Gates, Rolland Stpierre, Ryan William Carley
  • Patent number: 10099351
    Abstract: A hand held power tool, for delivering a torque to a joint, includes a housing that houses a motor arranged to drive an input shaft; an output shaft arranged to provide a torque to the joint; and a planetary gear connecting the input shaft to the output shaft. A flywheel is arranged to rotate freely with respect to the housing. A cam block, loosely fitted inside the housing, is rotatively connected to a part of the planetary gear and connected to the housing via a cam profile, wherein an interaction between the cam block and the cam profile will force the cam block into contact with the flywheel when the cam block is rotated. Thus, any counterforces acting on the output shaft will be provided to the flywheel via the planetary gear, such that the operator will not need to provide any counterforces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Atlas Copco Industrial Technique AB
    Inventor: Robin McGougan
  • Patent number: 10099352
    Abstract: In a torque wrench system with a drive unit (2) and a ratchet unit (3), which can releasably be assembled to a wrench unit, wherein drive unit (2) and ratchet unit (3) releasably are rigidly connected with each other in the assembled condition, the drive unit (2) includes a first drive coupling element (5) and the ratchet unit (3) includes a ratchet (18) and a second drive coupling element which is in driving engagement with the ratchet (18) and, in the assembled condition of drive unit (2) and ratchet unit (3), also with the first drive coupling element (5) for driving the ratchet (18), the drive unit (2) includes at least one latch (7) which is movable from an unlocking position, in which the drive unit (2) and the ratchet unit (3) are releasable from each other, into a locking position, in which the drive unit (2) and the ratchet unit (3) are rigidly connected with each other in the assembled condition, and back, and at least one actuating element (9) with which the at least one latch (7) is movable from t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Inventors: Jorg Hohmann, Frank Hohmann
  • Patent number: 10099353
    Abstract: An operation switch sends an ON signal to a control processor indicating the operation switch is triggered by a user. A magnetic sensor sends a sensor signal to the control processor based on a displacement of a chip rod in a rearward direction. In the case where the sensor signal has not yet been sent, the control processor performs a control in a first mode where a brushless DC motor is not driven. In the case where sensor signal is sent, control processor performs a control in a second mode wherein the brushless DC motor is driven. An output in the first mode is lower than in the second mode. Because of this manner of construction, even if an ON input is triggered and held by the user, electric power is conserved while the operation switch is switched on and a hexagonal nut is not fastened, improving power consumption efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Nishimiya, Kazunori Tsuge, Nobuyasu Furui
  • Patent number: 10099354
    Abstract: A latch and catch arrangement is disclosed, whereby a sleeve supporting a flexible hinge with an extended finger is oriented over a fluid connection to a socket guide. An alignment via a latch and catch between the sleeve and tool collar orients a flexible hinge, which may be of reduced thickness, over a bearing in a guide. The finger moves upward when a tool is inserted into a tool socket, and the flexible hinge, properly oriented by the alignment catch/latch, keeps the finger in the tool socket while allowing necessary movement to insert and remove a tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: ECA Medical Instruments
    Inventors: David Ivinson, David Tory
  • Patent number: 10099355
    Abstract: A torque output tool includes a torque output assembly for outputting torque, a transmission mechanism for driving the torque output assembly to rotate about a central axis, a prime mover for driving the transmission mechanism, and a housing for containing the prime mover. The torque output assembly includes a torque output element including an insert hole, an inner transmission surface for driving a first work head inserted in the insert hole, an outer transmission surface for driving a second work head mounted on the torque output element, a magnetic element for attracting the second work head driven by the torque output element, and a bracket for supporting the magnetic element outside the insert hole. The inner transmission surface is located inside the insert hole and the outer transmission surface is located outside the insert hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Chervon (HK) Limited
    Inventor: Liang Chen
  • Patent number: 10099356
    Abstract: An adjusting assembly of a brake cylinder installation device is provided, including: a fixing member; a guiding member, connected to the fixing member along an axis thereof, the guiding member having a plurality of sliding grooves therethrough and around the axis; a rotatable body, rotatably arranged between the fixing member and the guiding member, the rotatable body having a plurality of guiding grooves which correspond to the sliding grooves; a plurality of positioning pillars, respectively arranged between the sliding grooves and the guiding grooves, when the rotatable body rotates, the positioning pillars move linearly within the sliding grooves; wherein each said positioning pillar further includes a barrel portion and a rod portion which are retractably connected with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: BO CHEN HUNG CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming-Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 10099357
    Abstract: A floor nailing gun applicable to a floor having a lateral side with a recess structure or a protrusion structure includes a floor nailing gun main body that has a base plate for matching an upper surface of the floor, a supporting seat for matching the ground, and a positioning block used for matching the recess structure or the protrusion structure of the lateral side of the floor. The base plate and the supporting seat are respectively disposed on upper and lower sides of the floor nailing gun main body by a fastener. The positioning block is fastened between an end portion of the floor nailing gun main body such that the positioning block is positioned between the base plate and the supporting seat. The positioning block comprises at least two positioning surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: TAIZHOU DAJIANG IND. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Jun Yang, Zai-Jun Zhu, Song-Song Shao
  • Patent number: 10099358
    Abstract: A gripping tool for extracting a pin during a surgical procedure, the gripping tool including: two lever arms, each arm having a nose end and a handle end, the two lever arms joined together proximate to but spaced apart from the nose end by a bridging portion, the bridging portion including a central fulcrum region; the nose ends of each the lever arms having one or more teeth adapted to interlock with the one or more teeth of the other lever arm; each nose end having a longitudinal aperture therein extending through the interlocking teeth adapted, in use, to align and receive the pin; such that in use, urging together the handle ends of the lever arms causes the nose ends to move relative to each other such that the interlocking teeth misalign and grip the pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Enztec Limited
    Inventors: Iain Alexander McMillan, Simon John Faichen Davis
  • Patent number: 10099359
    Abstract: A pneumatic hammer has a conversion mechanism with a rotatable input member coupled to the motor and adapted to convert a rotational movement of the input member into a reciprocating movement of an output member. The input member is formed as a first carrier which supports a first planet gear. A first sun gear is coaxially arranged with the first carrier, and is rotatingly driven by the drive motor. A first ring gear is movable parallel to the first axis of rotation between a first position and a second position. A second gear is rotatable around a second axis of rotation parallel to the first axis of rotation. The second gear meshingly engages with the first ring gear when the first ring gear is in the second position, and is disengaged from the first ring gear when the first ring gear is in the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: Ana-Maria Roberts
  • Patent number: 10099360
    Abstract: A tool socket 2 for a hand-held power tool has a tubular main body 17 and a dust cap 27. The main body 17 has an end face 19 that is adjoined by a cylindrical or prismatic outer surface 36. As seen in the insertion direction 20, the dust cap 27 consecutively has a sealing ring 28, a middle section 29 and a seat 30. As seen in the insertion direction 20, the sealing ring 28 is arranged in front of the end face 19 of the main body 17. The seat 30 has a cylindrical or prismatic inner surface 35 that is in contact with the outer surface 36 of the main body 17. The middle section 29 has a conical inner surface 39 whose inner diameter 40 decreases in the insertion direction 20 down to the inner diameter 37 of the seat 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Meixner, Udo Hauptmann
  • Patent number: 10099361
    Abstract: A combination gripping and cutting tool for cutting pipe and gripping can lids includes a pair of handles that are rigid. Each handle comprises a grasp that is arcuate. The handles are pivotally coupled, such that the grasps are opposing. A support, which is arcuate, extends transversely from a respective grasp. A channel is positioned in the support. A blade that extends transversely from a respective grasp is complementary to and positioned through the channel. Each of a pair of cutouts is positioned in a respective grasp. The cutouts are arcuate and opposing. Each of a pair of grips is coupled to a respective cutout. The grips are configured to engage a lid of a can when the grasps are pivoted inwardly. The handles are positionable with the support separated from the blade, such that a pipe is positionable between the blade and the support for cutting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Inventor: Bobby Locke
  • Patent number: 10099362
    Abstract: A handle assembly for a container, the container having a pivotally mounted pressure plate for dispensing a seaming compound, includes a connector plate configured for removably coupling to the pressure plate, a first handle for gripping with a first hand of a user, and a second handle for gripping with a second hand of the user. Each of the first handle and the second handle is coupled to the connector plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: AXIA ACQUISITION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark S. Wilson, Matthew W. Jungklaus
  • Patent number: 10099363
    Abstract: An adjustable hand tool collecting rack includes a base formed with multiple T-shaped rails thereon. Each rail includes an elongated stub having two opposite sides each having a wing laterally extending therefrom. Multiple partition boards are transversally slidably mounted onto the base, wherein each partition board is vertical relative to the tool supporting surface of the base. Each partition board has multiple T-shaped grooves defined in a sliding side thereof, wherein each T-shaped groove is slidably coupled with a corresponding one of the T-shaped rails. Multiple protrusions laterally extend from two opposite faces of each of the multiple partition boards. Each protrusion has a lower side aligns with a contour of a top portion of a corresponding one of the multiple T-shaped grooves and the lower side of each of the multiple protrusions abuts a top portion of a corresponding one of the multiple rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Inventor: Chih-Chien Hsieh
  • Patent number: 10099364
    Abstract: A robot includes: a base; a first arm provided on the base rotatably about a first rotation axis; and a second arm provided on the first arm rotatably about a second rotation axis that is a different axial direction from an axial direction of the first rotation axis. The first arm and the second arm can overlap with each other, as viewed from the axial direction of the second rotation axis. The first arm is bent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hidekatsu Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 10099365
    Abstract: In a work machine including an articulated robot which is provided with a work head and moves the work head, imaging devices which image at least part of a workpiece or part of the work machine are attached to a distal end of the robot, and a target operation position of the robot is corrected on the basis of position data regarding a plurality of feature points of the workpiece, created on the basis of imaging data obtained through imaging performed by the imaging devices and design data of the workpiece, or position data regarding a plurality of feature points set for the work machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi Fujita, Seigo Kodama, Ryo Nagata
  • Patent number: 10099366
    Abstract: A robot includes a robot arm having an nth (n is an integer equal to or more than one) arm and an (n+1)th arm, the nth arm is rotatable about an nth rotation shaft, the (n+1)th arm is provided on the nth arm rotatably about an (n+1)th rotation shaft in a shaft direction different from a shaft direction of the nth rotation shaft, and, while a distal end of the robot arm is moved from a first point to a second point, a first operation such that the nth arm and the (n+1)th arm overlap as seen from the shaft direction of the (n+1)th rotation shaft and a second operation of rotating the nth arm are performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Toshimitsu, Kazushige Akaha, Kazuto Yoshimura, Katsuji Igarashi
  • Patent number: 10099367
    Abstract: A joint driving device includes: a reduction gear output shaft that transmits a torque to a second link; a transmission shaft that transmits reaction of the torque to a first link; a transmission shaft outer cylinder arranged on the outer circumference of the transmission shaft and connected to the transmission shaft; a reduction gear output shaft outer cylinder arranged in the outer circumference of the reduction gear output shaft and connected to the reduction gear output shaft; and a wire body arranged between the first link and the second link and including at least one of a wire and a pipe. The transmission shaft includes the motor frame as at least a part. The wire body is housed in a space between the transmission shaft outer cylinder and the transmission shaft, and a space between the reduction gear output shaft outer cylinder and the reduction gear output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tomokazu Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 10099368
    Abstract: A system adapted for supporting workflow in a three-dimensional space which provides, among other things, hands-free control and adjustment of lighting within the three-dimensional space. The system of the present invention is also adapted for delivering, tracking, and retrieving tools in the three-dimensional space. The system of the present invention includes various subsystems, which are referred to herein as modules, that both act independently and co-dependently, as will be described in greater detail below, in conjunction with a central control computer module. The modules consist, in an exemplary embodiment, of the cable robot module, the central computer module, the imaging module, the illumination module, and the object manipulator module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Inventor: Brandon DelSpina
  • Patent number: 10099369
    Abstract: A method of generating a configuration of a robotic hand for automatically grasping a first object, the robotic hand comprising a plurality of parts, is provided. The method comprises: receiving data representing the first object; receiving a plurality of first models generated based upon an example grasp of a second object, the example grasp being based upon a configuration of the robotic hand for grasping the second object in which a plurality of parts of said hand contact said second object, each of said plurality of first models representing a relationship between a respective part of the robotic hand and a property of the second object associated with said part of the robotic hand; and processing the data representing the first object based upon the plurality of first models to determine said configuration of the robotic hand for automatically grasping the first object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: The University of Birmingham
    Inventor: Marek Kopicki