Patents Issued in May 21, 2019
  • Patent number: 10293391
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to a coil sampling stand apparatus which generally has a frame, at least two rollers operatively coupled to the frame, a roller drive operatively coupled to at least one of the at least two rollers, and a peeler assembly comprising a peeler (e.g., peeler, knife, member with an edge, or the like) that is configured to engage and disengage a coil between the at least two rollers. The steel coil may be positioned onto the at least two rollers on the frame of the coil sampling apparatus. The peeler is engaged with the coil and the coil is rotated in order to allow the peeler to peel a tail edge of a layer of the coil off the coil and pass the tail edge and layer of the coil peeled off of the coil under at least one of the rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: NUCOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Montgomery Keyt
  • Patent number: 10293392
    Abstract: This coiler device provided with a chute guide has: pinch rollers that lead a metal sheet carried in along a path line to a coil-up line that is curved from the path line; a mandrel that is disposed ahead of the coil-up line and coils up the metal sheet; and a chute guide that guides the upward-facing surface side of the metal sheet at the coil-up line and introduces the metal sheet to the coil-up opening of the mandrel. A configuration is adopted such that the chute guide has: a main body frame; and a liner that is attached to the main body frame, forms at least a portion of the guide surface that guides the metal sheet, has a lower coefficient of friction than the main body frame, and has a lower hardness than the metal sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES JAPAN, LTD., JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Matsumoto, Koichi Arai, Takayuki Endo, Takao Uchiyama, Tsutomu Sugiyama, Takeshi Chiba
  • Patent number: 10293393
    Abstract: A deck anchor assembly a deck leverage anchor body configured to engage a frame deck and a first coupler yoke configured to couple a second coupler yoke assembly thereto. The second coupler yoke assembly comprises a base portion having second yoke extensions extending therefrom and a swivel post extending from the base portion opposite the second yoke extensions. The swivel post is mounted to the first coupler yoke using a fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Inventor: Michael J. Marx
  • Patent number: 10293394
    Abstract: A sheet material bending system includes a tool changing apparatus that changes tools between a press brake and a tool stocker. The tool stocker is arranged behind the press brake. To change tools from the front and rear of the tool stocker, the front and rear of the tool stocker are opened. The tool changing apparatus has a pivot that is movable in front-rear, left-right, and up-down directions and is rotatable around an axis extending in the up-down direction. A front end of the pivot is provided with tool holding units to hold tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: AMADA COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Masaaki Sato
  • Patent number: 10293395
    Abstract: A machine for bending a thread-like material such as a pipe, a section iron, a bar, or the like, briefly a “pipe”, provided with a system for simultaneously loading a pipe to be bent and unloading another, already bent pipe, comprising a vertical hinge provided with a bending head provided with a motor for driving the bending head into rotation about an axis orthogonal to the hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: CRIPPA S.p.A.
    Inventors: Claudio Bargna, Domenico Fulco
  • Patent number: 10293396
    Abstract: One embodiment of a mirror or reflective surface is set onto a ridged material. The mirror or reflective surface is set at a precise angle by support legs that inserted into holes in the ridged material. The support legs can also be placed in storage notches in ridged material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Inventor: Jason Edward Smith
  • Patent number: 10293397
    Abstract: To provide a metal wire and an electric wire of high mechanical strength and high ductibility that have sufficiently increased ductibility as well as sufficiently increased mechanical strength. A metal wire manufactured at least by being subjected to an extension in which a metal wire is extended in an axial direction, and having a hardness distribution in which hardness decreases toward a specific peripheral portion from a central portion in a cross-section orthogonal to axis, whereby a softened peripheral portion becomes to show a good malleability as well as a high resistance to cracking, so as to attain an improvement of mechanical strength and ductibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Junichiro Tokutomi, Kenichi Hanazaki, Jun Yanagimoto
  • Patent number: 10293398
    Abstract: The underlying invention relates in particular to a forming machine, having an electromagnetic linear motor with a linear mover and multiple coil units each with a predetermined coil pole pitch (S) which is measured in the direction of the movement axis. The linear mover includes, in an alternating arrangement along the longitudinal axis (L) thereof, first permanent magnets which are magnetized transversely to the longitudinal axis with a predetermined first magnetic pitch (T1) and second permanent magnets which are magnetized in the direction of the longitudinal axis (L) with a predetermined second magnetic pitch (T2), wherein a ratio of coil width (S) to first magnetic pitch (T1) is 3:1, and wherein a ratio of first magnetic pitch (T1) to second magnetic pitch (T2) is 2:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Langenstein & Schemann GmbH
    Inventor: Markus Otto
  • Patent number: 10293399
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for casting a metal strip with a cross sectional form which varies along the length of the strip. One embodiment of the apparatus includes opposing cooling systems, a positionable molten metal feed system between the opposing cooling systems, and a form adjustment system. The form adjustment system may include at least one dam to determine, at least in part, the cross sectional form of a molten metal feed to the opposing cooling systems. In this way, it is possible to determine the cross sectional form of the solidified metal strip. The dam is moveable during operation of the apparatus to vary the cross sectional form of the molten metal feed to the opposing cooling systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Cambridge Enterprise Limited
    Inventors: Julian M. Allwood, Martin McBrien
  • Patent number: 10293400
    Abstract: A method for setting a conicity of a die of a strand casting installation during a casting procedure, including the steps of: measuring temperature values along a centric measuring path running in a casting direction along an adjustably disposed die wall; measuring temperature values along a peripheral measuring path running in a casting direction along the adjustably disposed die wall, wherein the peripheral measuring path runs between the centric measuring path and a lateral periphery of the die wall, and a spacing of the peripheral measuring path from the lateral periphery of the die wall is smaller than a spacing of the centric measuring path from the other lateral periphery of the die wall; determining a centric temperature distribution curve along the centric measuring path from the temperature values measured along the centric measuring path; determining a peripheral temperature distribution curve along the peripheral measuring path from the temperature values measured along the peripheral measuring pa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk Lieftucht, Artemy Krasilnikov, Felix Max Fanghänel
  • Patent number: 10293401
    Abstract: A full-servo multi-axis mold clamping device for a die-casting machine, including at least one main body, including a servo motor, actuating arm and mold fixing slide block, one end of the servo motor having a deceleration mechanism coupled eccentrically to the actuating arm, another end of the actuating arm being coupled pivotally to the mold fixing slide block; whereby, the actuating arm is driven to rotate to drive the mold fixing slide block to move to and fro when the servo motor is running.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: T-SOK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kun-Szu Kao
  • Patent number: 10293402
    Abstract: A gooseneck operation device of a full-servo multi-axis die-casting machine includes a gooseneck operation device body, which includes a servomotor, a first transmission arm, a second transmission arm, and an injection unit. The servomotor includes a speed reduction mechanism, which is mounted, in an eccentric manner, in a spindle hole formed in the first transmission arm. The second transmission arm includes a rotatable joint section rotatably mounted to an opposite end of the first transmission arm and a transmission section that is provided with two bifurcation sections. The injection unit includes projection sections coupled to the bifurcation sections such that the operation of the servomotor causes the first and second transmission arms to drive the transmission section to rotate and make the bifurcation sections to oscillate frontwards and rearwards with the rotation of the transmission section so as to drive the injection unit to operate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: T-SOK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kun-Szu Kao
  • Patent number: 10293403
    Abstract: A full-servo multi-axis injection device for a die-casting machine, including a main body, including a hollow frame, servo motor, screw rod, transmission unit, and injection unit, the servo motor being configured on a top of the frame, one end of the servo motor having a deceleration mechanism in connection with one end of the screw rod, another end of the screw rod being in connection with the transmission unit, another end of the transmission unit the injection unit, and the injection unit having at least one input and at least one output. Whereby, the servo motor drives the screw rod to rotate upon running, and the transmission unit converts the rotation of the screw rod to a vertical reciprocating movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: T-SOK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kun-Szu Kao
  • Patent number: 10293404
    Abstract: A full-servo multi-axis die-casting machine includes an injection device body, a gooseneck operation device body and a plurality of mold locking device bodies. The injection device body includes a hollow first frame, a first servomotor, a screw, a transmission unit and an injection unit, so that the screw is caused to rotate by the first servomotor and is converted by the transmission unit into vertical reciprocal movement. The gooseneck operation device body includes a second servomotor, a first transmission arm and a second transmission arm, so that the first transmission arm and the second transmission arm are driven by the second servomotor to allow bifurcation sections to oscillate with rotation of the transmission section. The mold locking device bodies each include a third servomotor, a third transmission arm and a mold retention slide block, so that the mold retention slide block is reciprocally movable in the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: T-SOK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kun-Szu Kao
  • Patent number: 10293405
    Abstract: A casting and molding equipment for producing an amorphous alloy structural unit, including an injection system, an alloy melting system, a material feeding system, a mold system, a vacuum system, and a protective gas supply system. The injection system includes an injection tube, an injection mechanism, and a plunger rod; the plunger rod is adapted to move along an inner wall of the injection tube, and the injection mechanism is configured to control a moving direction and moving speed of the plunger rod. The alloy melting system includes a melting chamber and a heating unit; the heating unit is configured to melt an alloy material in the melting chamber; the heating unit includes an induction coil or resistance wire; the melting chamber is disposed in the injection tube, and the heating unit is disposed out of the injection tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: DONGGUAN EONTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huameng Fu, Haifeng Zhang, Aimin Wang, Zhengwang Zhu, Hongwei Zhang, Hong Li, Yangde Li, Weirong Li, Tiezhuang Tang
  • Patent number: 10293406
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a flaky metal pigment that is reduced in particle size. According to the flaky metal pigment of the present invention, in the case where the flaky metal pigment is measured by a flow-type particle image analyzer, P50 showing a 50% cumulative frequency of a diameter equivalent to an area circle in a number distribution is less than 0.500 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: TOYO ALUMINIUM KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takayuki Nakao
  • Patent number: 10293407
    Abstract: A water-atomized metal powder is produced by dividing a molten metal stream into a metal powder by making injection water having a liquid temperature of 10° C. or less and an injection pressure of 5 MPa or more impinge on the molten metal stream and cooling the metal powder. Cooling with injection water having a liquid temperature of 10° C. or less and an injection pressure of 5 MPa or more enables can be performed not in the film boiling region but in the transition boiling region from the beginning of cooling. A gas-atomized metal powder may also be produced by dividing a molten metal stream into a metal powder by making an inert gas impinge on the molten metal stream and cooling the metal powder with injection water having a liquid temperature of 10° C. or less and an injection pressure of 5 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Nakaseko, Naomichi Nakamura, Yukiko Ozaki
  • Patent number: 10293408
    Abstract: A method and device for producing shots are provided where the yield is improved. In a space (5) for forming molten drops, which space is surrounded by water (1) in a tank (20), by a cover (3) to cover an area surrounding a disc (2) that is located above the water and rotates, and by a tundish (4) that penetrates through the cover, a gas is discharged though an opening (6) that is formed in the cover and the film (9) of the water is formed on the inner surface of the cover. The molten metal (10) flows through the hole (11) in the bottom of the tundish to be supplied onto the rotating disc. The molten drops are formed by centrifugal force from the molten metal that has been supplied to the disc. Then the molten drops are caused to collide with the film of the water on the inner surface of the cover, to be divided into the droplets that are smaller than the molten drops. The droplets are cooled and solidified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SINTOKOGIO, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Ishikawa, Naoya Tanuma, Tomohiro Togari
  • Patent number: 10293409
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a machine tool includes two fixed modules and two movable modules each of which having a main spindle, a headstock, and a tool post being integrally formed, and a bed on which these are installed. The movable modules are provided on the bed to be movable in the Y-axis direction, the fixed modules are fixed on the bed on the opposite sides of the these movable modules, and a recess is provided next to the fixed module, the recess being formed by cutting out the bed. The movable modules are movable such that the axis lines of the main spindles of the movable modules are aligned with the axis line of the main spindle of the fixed module or the fixed module. The movable module is movable to the opposite position of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaichi Nakaya, Mamoru Kubota, Sakae Nakazawa, Kazuhiko Sannomiya
  • Patent number: 10293410
    Abstract: A deburring tool includes a deburring head and a shaft portion connected to the deburring head. The deburring head includes a conical hollow body, a primary cutting edge and a secondary cutting edge both formed on the conical hollow body. The conical hollow body has at least one flute extending between interior and exterior conical surfaces of the conical hollow body, and at least one recessed cutout defined in the interior conical surface. The primary cutting edge is formed at a junction of a wall surface of the flute and a bottom surface of the recessed cutout. The secondary cutting edge is formed at a junction of a wall surface of the recessed cutout and the interior conical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Inventor: Tsai Shun Yu
  • Patent number: 10293411
    Abstract: A cutting tool according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes an attaching portion, a cutting portion having a core portion and a surface portion, and a joint portion. The attaching portion includes a hard component and a hard material. The hard component is at least one selected from the group consisting of TiC, TiCN, W, WC, Al2O3, and a combination of at least one of CBN and diamond and at least one of W and WC. The hard material includes one or two or more types of iron group elements, and has a Young's modulus of not more than 350 GPa. The core portion includes a cemented carbide material. The surface portion includes PCD or CBN. The cutting portion has a chamfer portion. The surface portion includes a groove, a flank face, and a cutting edge. The cutting edge extends toward the attaching portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Taisuke Higashi, Yusuke Matsuda, Satoru Kukino, Takashi Kanda, Katsumi Okamura
  • Patent number: 10293412
    Abstract: Backing and clamping chuck jaw part (110, 120), respectively, arranged to engage with each other such that respective contact surfaces (113, 123) a rearranged to come into contact with each other so as to together form a chuck jaw (100) for a chuck (10). The invention is characterized in that the backing chuck jaw part is manufactured from a harder metal material than a metal material from which the clamping chuck jaw part is manufactured, in that a the backing chuck jaw part comprises a convex structure (126), and in that the convex structure is arranged to engage with a corresponding concave structure (116) of the clamping chuck jaw part so that the said concave structure is permanently deformed as a result of an engagement between said structures resulting from the chuck jaw parts first being arranged in a contacting orientation and thereafter being pressed together into an engagement orientation, in which contact is established between said contact surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: M.P.C.-System AB
    Inventor: Bo Karl Ragnar Svensson
  • Patent number: 10293413
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic expansion chuck having an end on the tool side; and an end on the machine side. A shaft is disposed on the end on the machine side for clamping the expansion chuck in a machine tool. An expanding bushing is disposed on the end on the tool side and surrounded by a pressure chamber and can be radially deformed for clamping a tool under the action of a pressure medium received in the pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: KENNAMENTAL INC
    Inventors: Michael Schuffenhauer, Josef Herud
  • Patent number: 10293414
    Abstract: A drilling method for forming a plurality of through-holes in a plate member includes: a first step of fixing at least one jig, which has a clearance hole, on a bed of a machine tool; a second step of placing the plate member on the at least one jig and fixing the plate member on the bed; a third step of operating the machine tool so that a leading end portion of a drilling tool of the machine tool is inserted into the clearance hole, and forming a first through-hole at a position of the plate member corresponding to the clearance hole; a fourth step of passing a fixing member through the first through-hole, and fixing the plate member on the at least one jig using the fixing member; and a fifth step of operating the machine tool to form a second through-hole other than the first through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Matsubara, Junji Noda
  • Patent number: 10293415
    Abstract: A shaft portion and a blade portion provided on a side surface of the shaft portion are included, and the blade portion includes cutting blades arranged in a plurality of lines on a side surface of the shaft portion along a peripheral direction, and arranged in a plurality of stages in an extending direction of a shaft center of the shaft portion in each line. Further, the cutting blade has a radial-direction clearance angle, a tip end-side clearance angle, and a base end-side clearance angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: NAGOYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLGY, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., DMG MORI CO., LTD., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Aero Engines, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Yamasaki, Shiro Nagami, Junichi Marui, Yoshiki Nishioka, Fumihiro Itoigawa, Kiichi Meguro, Yohei Oda
  • Patent number: 10293416
    Abstract: A hydraulic rolling-cut shears, including: a horizontally disposed hydraulic cylinder; a shear mechanism including an upper tool post and a lower tool post; a linkage mechanism including a first upper connecting rod, a first lower connecting rod, a second upper connecting rod, a second lower connecting rod, and a synchronous connecting rod; and supports including a hydraulic cylinder support and a guiding rod support. The hydraulic cylinder is hinged to and disposed on the hydraulic cylinder support through a first pin. One end of the first upper connecting rod, one end of the first lower connecting rod, and one end of the synchronous connecting rod are hinged to one end of a piston rod of the hydraulic cylinder via a second pin. The first upper connecting rod, the synchronous connecting rod, and the first lower connecting rod are disposed at one side of the hydraulic cylinder support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Qingxue Huang, Zhibing Chu, Lifeng Ma
  • Patent number: 10293417
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for sawing a long profile (3) in that a sawing disc (2) having teeth (6) arranged around a circular outer circumference of the sawing disc (2) is rotated freely, the sawing disc (2) is advanced from a freely rotating position to an outer wall of the long profile (3), and a zero tooth (Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4) engages as the first of the teeth (6) in the material of the outer wall, wherein, during the free rotation of the sawing disc (2), lateral runouts (d) of the teeth (6) are determined, and a tooth (6) having a minimum lateral runout (d) is determined and used as the zero tooth (Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Rattunde AG
    Inventor: Ulrich Rattunde
  • Patent number: 10293418
    Abstract: A modular circular saw includes a base, a worktable disposed on the base and a workpiece supporting unit. The workpiece supporting unit has two supporting frames respectively and correspondingly located on two lateral sides of the worktable; each workpiece supporting unit has a supporting shaft and two corresponding extending shafts. Each extending shaft has one end pivotally connected to the base, another end of the extending shaft is pivotally connected to one end of the supporting shaft, correspondingly. When the workpiece supporting unit is in an extended position for receiving a workpiece, the two supporting shafts are substantially co-planar with the worktable, such that the two supporting shafts provides extra support to a workpiece of large size. When the workpiece supporting unit is in a folded position, the two supporting shafts are located above the worktable for minimizing the size of the saw and for allowing the user to grip the saw for easy transportation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: REXON INDUSTRIAL CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Hung Jung Chiang, Thing-Tai Chou
  • Patent number: 10293419
    Abstract: An accessory tool for an oscillating power tool includes a blade portion including a first lateral edge portion, a second lateral edge portion, and a leading edge portion, the leading edge portion defining a cutting edge. A reinforcement structure extends linearly across the blade portion from a first position located on the leading edge portion proximate the first lateral edge portion to a second position located on the second lateral edge portion and spaced apart from the leading edge portion. The reinforcement structure defines a cutting zone that encompasses a leading region of the blade portion between the reinforcement structure and the leading edge portion, the reinforcement structure being configured to increase a stiffness of the blade portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jeremy Rubens, Brad Padget
  • Patent number: 10293420
    Abstract: Adjustable blade guide assemblies and their methods of use are described. An adjustable blade guide assembly includes two lateral blade guides arranged to support opposing sides of a blade and a rear blade guide arranged to support a rear edge of the blade. The blade guides are moveable relative to the blade. The blade guide assembly includes biasing members associated with each blade guide which urge the blade guides in a direction away from the blade. Locking interfaces associated with each blade guide restrict displacement of the blade guides relative to the blade when the locking interfaces are in a locked configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Rikon Power Tools, Inc.
    Inventors: Wuzheng Duan, Jiquan Jiang
  • Patent number: 10293421
    Abstract: A shroud for circular saws is provided. The shroud attaches to the shoe of a circular saw and includes a blade opening to allow the saw blade to pass through the shroud. Dust is collected from the front and back of the blade and directed to a vacuum through an internal plenum. The shroud may include vertical hoods which extend up from the front and back of the blade opening and cooperate with the circular saw blade guard to capture dust and debris. The bottom of the shroud may include wheels to assist in using the shroud and saw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: DUSTLESS DEPOT, LLC
    Inventors: Kendall Hansen, Kyle Alan Bjork
  • Patent number: 10293422
    Abstract: A blade is usable with a reciprocating saw. The blade includes an attachment portion configured to couple to the reciprocating saw and a body extending from the attachment portion. The body includes a first profile portion and a second profile portion extending from the first profile portion. The second profile portion has a height less than a height of the first profile portion. The blade also includes a plurality of teeth formed on the body and defining a toothed cutting edge. The blade also includes a tip portion formed at a distal end of the second profile portion and terminating in a pointed tip. The pointed tip is configured to punch a hole through the workpiece and includes a toothless cutting edge extending substantially parallel to the toothed cutting edge. The toothless cutting edge extends from the toothed cutting edge to the pointed tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Austin J. Kazda, Ryan J. Malloy, Robert W. Butzen, Andrew J. Schulz, Roger D. Neitzell, Courtney D. McCool
  • Patent number: 10293423
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for the gear manufacturing machining of a workpiece by a diagonal-generating method, in which the workpiece is subjected to gear tooth machining by the rolling off of a tool, wherein an axial feed of the tool takes place during the machining with a diagonal ratio given by the ratio between the axial feed of the tool and the axial feed of the workpiece. According to the present disclosure, the tool has a conical basic shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Wuerfel
  • Patent number: 10293424
    Abstract: The disclosure describes techniques for joining a first part including a ceramic or a CMC and a second part including a ceramic or a CMC using brazing. A technique may include positioning a filler material in a joint region between the first and second parts and a metal or alloy on a bulk surface of the filler material. The metal or alloy may be locally heated to melt the metal or alloy, which may infiltrate the filler material. A constituent of the molten metal or alloy may react with a constituent of the filler material to join the first and second parts. Another technique may include depositing a powder that includes the filler material and the metal or alloy in the joint region. Substantially simultaneously with depositing the powder, the powder may be locally heated. A constituent of the molten metal or alloy may react with a constituent of the filler material to join the first and second parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Sean E. Landwehr, Scott Nelson, Jacque Sue Bader
  • Patent number: 10293425
    Abstract: A welding system or an enterprise using welding systems can communicate with cloud-based resources for the provision of services and products to facilitate the welding operations. The communications may be via wired or wireless media, and may be direct, or through other components, such as enterprise networks, peripheral devices, and so forth. The cloud-based resources may provide for storage of data, particularly welding data, processing of data, welding protocols, specifications and processes, financial transactions for the purchase, licensing or use of welding-related products and services, welding training, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Martin Hutchison
  • Patent number: 10293426
    Abstract: A welding gun assembly having a connection between a diffuser and the inner gun tube which provides increased strength between the diffuser and the gun tube to prevent inadvertent damage to the welding torch and upstream components. The diffuser comprises an engagement portion which engages with, and overlaps, at least a part of a sturdier portion of the inner gun tube. This engagement provides a stronger and more stable connection between the gun tube and the diffuser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.
    Inventor: Jeffrey L. Kachline
  • Patent number: 10293427
    Abstract: A welding gun assembly having a connection between a diffuser and the inner gun tube which provides increased strength between the diffuser and the gun tube to prevent inadvertent damage to the welding torch and upstream components. The diffuser comprises an engagement portion which engages with, and overlaps, at least a part of a sturdier portion of the inner gun tube. This engagement provides a stronger and more stable connection between the gun tube and the diffuser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.
    Inventor: Jeffrey L. Kachline
  • Patent number: 10293428
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for fastening dissimilar metals like steel and aluminum utilizes a steel rivet and a spot welding machine. The rivet and metals are stacked and the heat from the welder's electric current softens the lower melting point aluminum allowing the rivet to penetrate the aluminum and weld to the steel layer. The fastener may be used to join stacks with several layers of different materials and may be used to apply a threaded socket or stud made from steel or titanium to an aluminum or magnesium alloy structure. Layers of non-conductive materials like plastic and ceramics may also be affixed to a conductive layer using the fastener made from a compatible material that extends through a pilot hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Arconic Inc.
    Inventors: Donald J. Spinella, Daniel Bergstrom
  • Patent number: 10293429
    Abstract: A spot welding quality check system, which can be easily used and can be adapted to various situations. The check system has: a pair of electrodes configured to move toward or away from each other and apply current to a workpiece while pressurizing the workpiece; a displacement detecting part which detects an amount of displacement between the electrodes during spot welding; a checking part which estimates as to whether welding quality is good or poor by using an inner function, based on the detected amount of displacement; a correction receiving part which receives a correction by an operator regarding the estimated welding quality; and a learning part which updates the inner function based on an estimation result when the correction receiving part does not receive the correction, and updates the inner function based on a content of the correction when the correction receiving part receives the correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Amagata
  • Patent number: 10293430
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for detecting the mechanical forces at the welding pin tip during friction stir welding, having the following features: a) a strip-shaped sensor (3) at a long side of a tool cup (9) holding a welding pin pen (12) by way of a pin shaft (13) using a tool receiving cone (14), and also holding a welding shoe (11); b) a conical narrowed portion (20) in the further region of the tool-receiving cone (14), which serves to receive a sensor (18) for detecting the axial force, the torque and the bending moment at the welding pin pen (12); c) a further narrowed portion in the front region of the tool-receiving cone (14), having three sensors (24) distributed across the circumferences at a distance of 120 degrees; d) a sensor signal amplifier having a rotor antenna (19) for receiving, amplifying and forwarding all detected measurement values, said measurement values being forwarded by a static antenna (17) to a machine control; and e) an inductive power supply system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: GRENZEBACH MASCHINENBAU GMBH
    Inventor: Markus Weigl
  • Patent number: 10293431
    Abstract: A friction stir spot welding apparatus includes a pin member, a shoulder member, a rotation driver, a forward/backward movement driver, and a controller. The controller controls the forward/backward movement driver, such that the pin member and/or the shoulder member press workpieces before a clamp member presses the workpieces, and then controls the rotation driver and the forward/backward movement driver, such that the pin member and the shoulder member stir the workpieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Okada, Junichi Tamura, Kenichi Kamimuki
  • Patent number: 10293432
    Abstract: A hand displaceable laser welding gun is configured with an elongated support column extending along a longitudinal axis and made from lightweight material. A support plate is displaceably mounted to the column while supporting thereon an optical head axially which is provided with optics. The optics is configured to direct a laser beam along a path towards a welding zone through a protective window of the optical head. The laser welding gun further is structured with a first arm mounted to the support plate and extending along a longitudinal axis of the gun diametrically opposite to the optical head. The inner surface of the displaceable arm has an inner surface defining a tunnel which is aligned with the optical head and axially traversed by the laser beam, a first axially flowing stream of pressurized gaseous medium, and a second axially flowing stream of gaseous medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: IPG PHOTONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Valentin Fomin, Anton Starovoytov, Andrey Abramov, Valentin Gapontsev, Artjom Fuchs, Ingo Schramm, Eugene Shcherbakov, Holger Mamerow, Andreas Michalzik
  • Patent number: 10293433
    Abstract: A laser processing method which can efficiently perform laser processing while minimizing the deviation of the converging point of a laser beam in end parts of an object to be processed is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Atsumi, Koji Kuno, Masayoshi Kusunoki, Tatsuya Suzuki, Kenshi Fukumitsu, Fumitsugu Fukuyo
  • Patent number: 10293434
    Abstract: A method for forming a dispersion strengthened alloy. An alloy material (8) is melted with a heat source (28) to form a melt pool (30) in the presence of a flux material (26), and strengthening particles (36) are directed into the melt pool such that the particles are dispersed within the melt pool. Upon solidification, a dispersion strengthened alloy (44) is formed as a layer or weld joint bonded to an underlying substrate or as an object contained in a removal support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Gerald J. Bruck, Ahmed Kamel
  • Patent number: 10293435
    Abstract: The pressure-sensitive adhesive film according to the present invention comprises a resin film as a substrate and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided at least on a face of the resin film. The resin film has a multi-layer constitution consisting of at least two layers. The resin film has a laser beam reflectance of 5% or higher, but 40% or lower in a wavelength range of 1000 nm to 1100 nm, and has a laser beam transmittance of 5% or lower in the said wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION, NITTO EUROPE N.V.
    Inventors: Kenta Yamashita, Mitsushi Yamamoto, Donald Pinxten, Bert Cryns
  • Patent number: 10293436
    Abstract: Forming holes in a material includes focusing a pulsed laser beam into a laser beam focal line oriented along the beam propagation direction and directed into the material, the laser beam focal line generating an induced absorption within the material, the induced absorption producing a defect line along the laser beam focal line within the material, and translating the material and the laser beam relative to each other, thereby forming a plurality of defect lines in the material, and etching the material in an acid solution to produce holes greater than 1 micron in diameter by enlarging the defect lines in the material. A glass article includes a stack of glass substrates with formed holes of 1-100 micron diameter extending through the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Sasha Marjanovic, Garrett Andrew Piech, Shyamala Shanmugam, Sergio Tsuda, Robert Stephen Wagner
  • Patent number: 10293437
    Abstract: A method of working a gas turbine engine component, for example, a turbine airfoil platform having a heat crack, is disclosed. The presented method may allow turbine airfoils to be repaired, modified, manufactured or otherwise worked and subsequently assembled into a turbine section of a gas turbine engine. This method may help to reduce the costs of operating a gas turbine engine by allowing damaged turbine airfoils to be repaired rather than discarded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jason Eric Huxol, Hector Martinez, Mark Towner, Jose M. Quinones, Michael Everett
  • Patent number: 10293438
    Abstract: A welded shaped steel manufacturing device for weld-connecting a butt portion of a web member having an end butting perpendicularly against a flange member and thereafter correcting in shape the flange member subjected to thermal deformation caused by heat input during welding, the device includes: a corrective device including flange-member correcting rollers arranged for respective ends of the flange member, each configured to press each end on a web-member side of the flange member so as to correct the thermal deformation over a range of the flange member from each end thereof to the butt portion thereof against the web member, and web-member supporting rollers configured to support a web surface of the web member, wherein the flange-member correcting rollers arranged for the respective ends of the flange member apply independent pressures to the respective ends so as to correct the thermal deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Asada, Yasuhiro Sakurada, Tooru Ienari
  • Patent number: 10293439
    Abstract: A soldering apparatus including a flux-applying device having a nut that is fitted into the soldering apparatus and the flux-applying device can change a fixed position of the nut easier than that of a convention example even if any adhered matters generated when each apparatus or device is used for a long time are adhered. The nut screws on to the screw shaft having a predetermined length. The nut is provided with at least one non-meshing part that does not mesh with the screw shaft and is formed parallel to a movement direction thereof. The non-meshing part extends from a forward end of the nut to a rear end thereof along whole length of the nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Senju Metal Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Sugihara, Hiroshi Taguchi, Tsutomu Hiyama
  • Patent number: 10293440
    Abstract: One aspect of the invention provides a method of forming an energy-dissipative tube. In one embodiment, the method includes: extruding a resin layer over an outer surface of corrugated stainless steel tubing and impregnating the resin layer with metal particles. In another embodiment, the method includes: extruding a resin layer comprising a fire retardant over an outer surface of corrugated stainless steel tubing and impregnating the resin layer with metal particles. In another embodiment, the method includes: extruding a resin layer comprising between about 20% to 60% magnesium hydroxide, aluminum trihydrate, or halogenated fire retardants by weight over an outer surface of corrugated stainless steel tubing and impregnating the resin layer with metal particles selected from the group consisting of: copper, aluminum, gold, silver, and nickel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Titeflex Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Duquette, Brian Coppola