Patents Issued in August 13, 2019
  • Patent number: 10376906
    Abstract: A gas and liquid knife and a control method thereof are provided. The gas and liquid knife includes a chamber and a knife head. An ejection opening is provided at the knife head The knife head has a first knife lip and a second knife lip. The ejection opening is defined between a first inner wall of the first knife lip and a second inner wall of the second knife lip. The chamber is defined between the first wall plate and the second wall plate slidably connected with each other. The first knife lip connects to the first wall plate. The second knife lip connects to the second wall plate. The first knife lip and second knife lip moves relatively as the first wall plate and the second wall plate slides relatively, such that a minimum distance between the first inner wall and the second inner wall could be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongbo Zhang, Qingqing Ma, Zhaozeng Wu, Yubao Zi, Zuhong Liu
  • Patent number: 10376907
    Abstract: A device for producing droplets is disclosed. A disk assembly comprising a first disk mounted to a second disk is provided. The first disk comprises first openings. The second disk comprises second openings. The first openings and the second openings alternately align with one another such that, as a liquid passes through the first openings and the second openings, the liquid falls as a droplet as the first openings and the second openings skew apart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Sustainable Energy Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Larry Baxter, Aaron Sayre, David Frankman, Nathan Davis
  • Patent number: 10376908
    Abstract: A system of a special volume control manifold, containment case and changeable multi-pack solution containers for carpet cleaning and other solution needs. It is portable and relates commercial-grade mixers and a hand-carried spray wand that connects directly to a pressure system having a diluent such as water. The additives are controlled at a manifold header for precise dispersal to the sprayer wand and nozzle. The proportional flow system is made of the control manifold, a hose to each of the solution containers, a control valve for each solution container, a wand with a control valve, nozzle and means to connect an mixed solution hose, and the mixed solution hose between the wand and the manifold. This configuration facilitates the system attachment to a pressured diluent and additive solution containers to provide controlled mixing of the diluent and additive solution which is then transferred to the sprayer wand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Inventors: Chris Davey, Laura Davey
  • Patent number: 10376909
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present invention is a pump type dispenser which includes a pump held by a mouth portion of a container and configured to suction and pressure-feed a content liquid in the container, and a nozzle head having an internal passage through which the pressure-fed content liquid passes and driving the pump by being repeatedly pushed down and restored. The internal passage includes a vertical passage, a lateral passage, and a protrusion protruding toward an inner side in a joining portion between the vertical passage and the lateral passage, and a dispensing member disposed in the lateral passage includes a recessed portion which engages with the protrusion to prevent separation from the lateral passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mizushima, Tsuyoshi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10376910
    Abstract: A refillable container including: an outer container having an opening formed on top thereof; a cover configured to close the opening of the outer container; an inner container configured to store liquid and accommodated in the outer container; and a dispense pump provided on the cover and configured to pump the liquid content in the inner container and dispense the liquid content outside of the refillable container under a state in which the suction tube is stuck into a suction port of the inner container. The suction tube of the pump is inserted into the inner container when the opening of the outer container is closed by a cover. The cover includes a tubular wall portion fitted to an outer periphery of the outer container, and a distal end of the suction tube is positioned within an open end of the tubular wall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hideki Okude, Takaharu Noda
  • Patent number: 10376911
    Abstract: A wireless metered fluid dispenser brings discrete fluid dispense events inside of a fluid management system. The wireless metered fluid dispenser allows a customer to visually confirm the fluid being dispensed and provides automatic tracking of the fluid dispense event within a wireless tracking system. A volumetric flowmeter attached to the bottom of a container or funnel tracks the amount of fluid dispensed when pouring from a container. The volumetric meter is wirelessly connected to a computer system for the transmission of data, for the purpose of centralized control and billing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
    Inventor: Mark L. Bauck
  • Patent number: 10376912
    Abstract: An apparatus including a first device which moves a first portion of a soft, damp, slightly pressed slab out of alignment with a majority of the slab and thus introduces a first crack in the slab; and a device for spraying a first colored material into the first crack of the slab. The first device which moves the first portion of the slab out of alignment with the rest of the slab may include a first cylinder. The device for spraying the first colored material in the first crack of the slab may include a robotic apparatus. In at least one embodiment, the apparatus may also include a second device which moves a second portion of the slab out of alignment with the majority of the slab and thereby introduces a second crack in the slab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Inventor: Alex Xie
  • Patent number: 10376913
    Abstract: A system for spraying a coating such as lacquer on the internal surface of a can body (2) comprising vacuum chuck gears (42) for each vacuum chuck (16). The vacuum chucks hold the can body as it rotates about a main process turret (10) and to a spray station (32, 34). A ring gear rotates independently of main turret rotation and further gearing connects the ring gear to a vacuum chuck drive motor (11). The spray system provides tight process control and allows flexibility of process revolutions or use of higher machine production speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Jonathan Coates
  • Patent number: 10376914
    Abstract: A product applicator system for distributing a liquid product accurately using low volume applications which minimize the quantity of product used and ensures more accurate results. The product applicator system generally includes a housing which includes a removable inlet port mount and outlet port mount. The positioning of the inlet and outlet port mounts on the housing is interchangeable. Supply hoses provide a product to the inlet port mount where the product is traversed through internal conduits to exit the housing via oscillating and overlapping spray heads. An internal motor provides oscillating motion to the spray heads. A rotator assembly which includes a rotator motor may be utilized to orient the housing in horizontal, vertical, or various diagonal orientations. The housing is adapted to either connect to a vehicle, be positioned on a stationary or movable platform, or be connected to a boom using boom connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Inventor: David R. Matson
  • Patent number: 10376915
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus, comprises: a discharge unit that discharges a liquid onto a substrate; a storage unit that stores a plurality of discharge conditions for the discharge unit; and a control unit that controls the discharge unit based on a discharge condition that is stored in the storage unit, wherein the control unit selects the discharge condition from the plurality of discharge conditions in accordance with a discharge spacing for discharging the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ken Katsuta
  • Patent number: 10376916
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for processing substrates are provided herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a process kit, the process kit comprising a first ring to support a substrate proximate a peripheral edge of the substrate; a second ring disposed about the first ring; and a path formed between the first and second rings that allows the first ring to rotate with respect to the second ring, wherein the path substantially prevents light from travelling between a first volume disposed below the first and second rings and a second volume disposed above the first and second rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC
    Inventors: Joseph M. Ranish, Kailash Patalay
  • Patent number: 10376917
    Abstract: A retractable nozzle assembly is configured for dosing or dispensing highly viscous materials. The retractable nozzle assembly may be fitted to a delivery device containing a highly viscous chemical product to be dispensed. The retractable nozzle assembly may be actuated by hand, by mechanical action, or by any electromechanical device such as a dispenser. The retractable nozzle assembly includes a first path through a central bore in which the material moves at relatively slower flow rate and a secondary flow path in which the material moves at a relatively faster flow rate. The difference in flow rates at the outlet of the nozzle between the two flow paths helps to eliminate stringing and tailing of the high viscosity chemical product during dispensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey J. Rospierski
  • Patent number: 10376918
    Abstract: A method for forming a dry coating film on a surface of an object to be coated including the steps of: setting a dry coating film thickness T not smaller than 300 ?m; formulating or preparing a colored paint containing a binder resin and a color pigment and satisfying conditions that (a) a scaly pigment having a prescribed shape is further contained, (b) a content of the scaly pigment is from 5 to 45 volume % in components forming the coating film, (c) a coating film having the thickness T hides the surface, and (d) a color difference between the coating film having the thickness T and a coating film having a thickness of 0.7 T is not smaller than 2.0; coating the surface with the colored paint until the surface is hidden; and drying the coating film, as well as a paint used therefor are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON PAINT MARINE COATINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kaji, Hideyuki Kondo, Atsuhiro Yamashita, Shinichi Ishihara
  • Patent number: 10376919
    Abstract: The present invention guides the linear vibrations of a needle, obtains stable vibrations and exhibits excellent impact strength, and makes thinness or widthwise compactness possible. A linear vibration motor equipped with: a needle equipped with a magnet and a spindle part; a frame for slidably supporting the needle in one axial direction; a coil for driving the magnet in the one axial direction, and affixed to the frame; and an elastic member for imparting an elastic force to the needle in opposition to the driving force imparted on the magnet. Furthermore, a guide groove extending in the one axial direction is provided in the needle or the frame, and a rolling body for rolling and being guided by the guide groove is provided in the other of the needle and the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Nidec Copal Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinori Katada
  • Patent number: 10376920
    Abstract: This abstract replaces all prior versions of abstract in the application. The linear vibration motor comprises a movable element that is equipped with a magnet portion and a weight portion; a frame that contains the movable element; a coil that is secured to the frame and that drives the magnet portion along an axial direction; an elastic member that is disposed within the frame and that applies, to the movable element, an elastic force that repels the driving force that is applied by the magnet portion; and a guide shaft 8 that is borne on the frame and that guides reciprocating motion of the movable element along the axial direction, wherein: the elastic member rotationally biases the movable element in one direction around the guide shaft 8, and the frame comprises a slide bearing portion (a slide plate) for bearing slidably a portion of the rotationally biased movable element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Nidec Copal Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Katada, Shin Odajima, Shiori Ishii, Noboru Segawa
  • Patent number: 10376921
    Abstract: A vibrator for generating vibrations. An exciter cell having rotationally drivable unbalanced masses that are rotatably supported in an exciter cell housing and having an adjustment unit for adjusting the phase position of the unbalanced masses relative to one another. The adjustment unit is configured as a planetary gearing that has at least two input trains to which the unbalanced masses of the exciter cell are coupled that are adjustable in phase relative to one another and that has an adjustment input train for changing the phase position of the output trains of the planetary gearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Hausladen, Viktor Schindler
  • Patent number: 10376922
    Abstract: The disclosure features material separators for screening excavated material (e.g., rocks from soil.) In some implementations the materials separators include (a) a supporting frame; (b) a screening surface mounted at an incline on the supporting frame, the screening surface comprising a plurality of fixed bars that are attached to the frame in a manner to resist upward movement, and a plurality of shift bars that are attached to the frame at their upper and lower ends, in a manner to allow upward movement; and (c) a shift bar actuator, positioned between the upper and lower ends of the shift bars, the shift bar actuator being configured to impart a two-stage movement to the shift bars, whereby during a first stage the upper ends are first displaced vertically, and during a second stage the lower ends pivot upward about the upper ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Inventor: Michael David Snow
  • Patent number: 10376923
    Abstract: A contactor is positioned coaxially with and substantially within at least one separator, and otherwise is configured to receive aerosolized target particles of interest as a sample. The use of a plurality of separators that are coaxial with each other and the contactor increases the number of separations involving target particles and other constituents of air at a sampling point, whereby in some embodiments the separators are rotatably configurable relative to each other and to the contactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: HOLLISON, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin E. Humphrey, Anthony D. Bashall
  • Patent number: 10376924
    Abstract: A novel separation screen, a separation apparatus utilizing the separation screen, and a method for product separation are disclosed herein. The separation apparatus includes a housing defining a separation chamber having an inlet and a plurality of outlet orifices. A separation screen, which is located within the separation chamber, has a plurality of openings having fixed, non-uniform sizes. The separation apparatus also includes an adjustable feed placement device located upstream from the separation screen to direct a feed stream to a selected region of the separation screen to achieve a desired size distribution in each of the product streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Frito-Lay North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin C. Cogan, Joseph H. Gold
  • Patent number: 10376925
    Abstract: For sorting silkworm chrysalises, a feed mechanism positions silkworm chrysalises on a delivery mechanism. The delivery mechanism receives and carries the silkworm chrysalises from the feed mechanism. A detection mechanism detects a female silkworm chrysalis based on an optical wavelength emitted by the female silkworm chrysalis. A sorting mechanism that sorts the silkworm chrysalises, putting female silkworm chrysalises into a female collecting box, and male silkworm chrysalises into male collecting box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: China Jiliang University
    Inventor: Zhao Mingyan
  • Patent number: 10376926
    Abstract: An inspection and sorting system sorts conveyed articles. The system is provided with a conveyance device, an X-ray inspection device, and a sorting device. The conveyance device conveys inspection articles. The X-ray inspection device inspects the conveyed inspection articles. The sorting device has an air sorting mechanism that sorts the conveyed inspection articles in a sorting operation. The sorting device has a sorting information receiving component, a reference signal receiving component, and a sorting mechanism control component. The sorting information receiving component receives sorting information relating to the sorting of the inspection articles based on an inspection result of the X-ray inspection device. The reference signal receiving component receives a fixed-interval reference signal relating to the conveyance by the conveyance device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: ISHIDA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Makino, Kazuyuki Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10376927
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods of operating the same are described. A method may include receiving a card from a first storage compartment. The method may include analyzing the card using a first sensor to obtain characteristic information of the card. The method may include identifying a group associated with the characteristic information. The method may include identifying a second storage compartment associated with the group. The method may include sorting the card to place the card into the second storage compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Inventor: Darren Davison
  • Patent number: 10376928
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cleaning blade, having an elastic body formed of a rubber base material molded product, and a surface treatment layer on at least an area of the elastic body to be brought into contact with a cleaning object. The surface treatment layer is formed by impregnating a surface portion of the elastic body with a surface treatment liquid containing an isocyanate compound and an organic solvent, and hardening the liquid. The surface treatment layer has an indentation elastic modulus of 21 MPa to 56 MPa. The elastic body has an indentation elastic modulus greater than 20 MPa and 35 MPa or less. The difference in indentation elastic modulus between the surface treatment layer and the elastic body is 1 MPa to 21 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: SYNZTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Osajima, Shuang Wang, Shuji Abe, Hiroyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 10376929
    Abstract: An apparatus which can polish an entirety of a surface of a substrate, such as a wafer, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a substrate holder configured to hold a substrate and rotate the substrate; and a polishing head configured to rub a polishing tool against a first surface of the substrate to polish the first surface. The substrate holder includes a plurality of rollers which can contact a periphery of the substrate. The plurality of rollers are rotatable about their respective own axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Ishii, Masayuki Nakanishi, Keisuke Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 10376930
    Abstract: A rotating cleaner (1) comprising a housing (2) which has a cavity (10) and an inlet (9) which is connectable to a fluid supply line, a shaft (5) extending in sections into the cavity (10), a sprayer body (3) which is non-rotatably connected with the shaft (5) and has an outlet (8), and further comprising a sliding bearing for rotatably supporting the shaft (5) in the housing (2), said sliding bearing having a rotating bearing surface (23), an idle bearing surface (22) and a bearing gap. To improve the cleanability and the rotational characteristics of the rotating part, it is proposed that the rotating bearing surface (23) and the idle bearing surface (22) are each formed as a contiguous surface for supporting the shaft (5) in the radial and axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: GEA TUCHENHAGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Kai Becker, Richard Collins
  • Patent number: 10376931
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gel for removing a graffiti from a surface of a solid substrate, consisting of a colloidal solution comprising an inorganic viscosifying agent, at least one solvent, optionally at least one surfactant, and optionally at least one dye and/or pigment. The invention also relates to a method for removing a graffiti from a surface of a solid substrate, wherein the gel is applied to said surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Amelie Ludwig, Frederic Goettmann, Fabien Frances
  • Patent number: 10376932
    Abstract: Methods of cleaning internal portions of additively manufactured components are provided, together with an apparatus for carrying out the cleaning. The methods use an impacting element which is contained within the internal portion and the component is vibrated to clean material from the component and leave one or more hollow portions. Various embodiments for retaining the impacting element are set out, which preferably use a grid which allows loosened powder to fall out of the component and, optionally, be recycled for use in further manufacturing processes. The methods are described in relation to components for gas turbine engines but have wider application in relation to any additively manufactured component in which it is desired to have a hollow internal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Peter Williamson, Richard Hawley, David Neely
  • Patent number: 10376933
    Abstract: A swab device for cleaning the barrel of a paintball gun has a shaft and a sleeve is slidably mounted over the shaft. An absorbent material is wrapped about the sleeve. A cap member is pivotally attached to a distal end of the shaft by a spring that biases the cap to a retracted position where it faces outward from a side surface of the shaft so the cap extends along a plane spaced from and substantially parallel to an axis of the shaft. The cap can be pivoted by the sleeve to a deployed position where it is substantially perpendicular to the axis of the shaft. The cap has a resilient circumferential portion that engages an inner surface of the barrel when the cap is in the deployed position to clean (e.g., squeegee) the inner surface of the barrel while the absorbent material absorbs any liquid from broken paint balls in the barrel as the shaft is pulled out of the barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: HK ARMY INC.
    Inventor: Jason Pineda
  • Patent number: 10376934
    Abstract: A method for cleaning a machine for liquid or semi-liquid products, the machine includes: a first container intended to contain a liquid or semi-liquid basic mixture or finished product and also provided with related means for thermal treatment of the liquid or semi-liquid basic mixture or finished product and a mixer. The method includes, in time sequence, the following steps: a) emptying the basic mixture contained in the first container; b) washing said first container with a washing fluid; c) at least partly filling the first container with a cleaning fluid and subjecting the cleaning fluid in the first container to a pasteurizing thermal treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: ALI GROUP S.R.L.—CARPIGIANI
    Inventors: Roberto Lazzarini, Andrea Cocchi
  • Patent number: 10376935
    Abstract: An automated system and method for washing bins. The system includes an infeed conveyor zone having a first conveyor platform for transporting the bins in a conveying direction. The system also includes a bin rotator disposed next to the infeed conveyor zone and rotates upward to allow the bins to be flipped and then loaded onto the first conveyor platform. The system further includes a bin washer zone located downstream from the infeed conveyor zone and having a second conveyor platform for receiving and transporting the bins in the conveying direction. The bin washer zone has sprayers for washing and sanitizing the bins with pressurized liquid. A flipping zone is located downstream from the bin washer zone for allowing the bins to be flipped and transferred onto an outfeed zone that allows the bins to be transported into a loading position at the end of the outfeed zone for reuse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Inventor: Jorge Cabrera
  • Patent number: 10376936
    Abstract: An apparatus including a sensor configured to sense total pressure within an inner chamber of a housing, and to sense differential pressure between the inner chamber of the housing and work area outside of the housing; a computer processor configured to receive signals from the sensor based on the total pressure and the differential pressure; and wherein the computer processor controls the rate at which the flapper oscillates based on the total pressure signal from the sensor, to thereby control the direction of flow of air from the inner chamber of the housing through the plurality of openings of the blade, through the plurality of openings of the teeth, for optimum containment with ultra stable vortex inside the chamber; and controls the rate at which exhaust damper modulates based on differential pressure signal to maintain constant face velocity at the apparatus user opening and out an exhaust opening of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Inventor: Gurmeet Singh
  • Patent number: 10376937
    Abstract: The present invention provides an outer layer material for a composite roll for rolling, in which the strength of secondary eutectic carbides can be increased by reducing a B amount in the secondary eutectic carbides and surface roughening resistance can be improved, and a composite roll for rolling in which this outer layer material is used in an outer layer. The outer layer material for a composite roll for rolling of the present invention is an outer layer material for a composite roll for rolling containing C in an amount of 1.8 mass % or more and 2.5 mass % or less, Si in an amount of more than 0 mass % and 1.0 mass % or less, Mn in an amount of more than 0 mass % and 1.0 mass % or less, Ni in an amount of more than 0 mass % and 0.5 mass % or less, Cr in an amount of more than 3.0 mass % and 8.0 mass % or less, Mo in an amount of more than 2.0 mass % and 10.0 mass % or less, W in an amount of more than 0 mass % and 10.0 mass % or less, V in an amount of more than 0 mass % and 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Tsujimoto, Tsuyoshi Odan, Hiroyuki Kimura
  • Patent number: 10376938
    Abstract: A device for lateral guidance (1) of a metal strip (2) moving on a metal belt conveying device, including at least one base body module (7) includes an essentially vertical guiding plane (10), at least one wear body (12) having a wear surface (12a) can be rotated into several defined rotational positions in a controlled manner. The wear surface (12a) is substantially planar, and in all of its defined rotational positions, is parallel to the guiding plane (10). Further, a method for lateral guidance of metal strips (2) moving on a metal belt conveying device includes, after a first metal strip has passed through the metal belt conveying device, and prior to a second metal strip entering the metal belt conveying device, the wear body (12) is rotated from a first to a second defined rotational position in a controlled manner, wherein in all defined rotational positions, the wear surface (12a) is parallel to the guiding plane (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Frauenhuber, Walter Grabner, Friedrich Moser, Juergen Schiefer
  • Patent number: 10376939
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tool unit (12) for an extrusion machine (1) with a scraping element (51), a tool element (49) with an expanding channel (50) receiving the scraped extrusion material (3) and a die (53). The tool unit (12) includes a receiving cage (42) with first and second receiving cage parts (43, 44). In the first receiving cage part (43) there is a tool element (49) inserted in a receiving channel (48). In the second receiving cage part (44) a receiving chamber (52) facing the first receiving cage part (43) is formed, in which at least the die (53) is received and supported by a support surface (56). In the tool element (49) as well as in the first receiving cage part (43) a common receiving groove (62) is formed with at least one groove base surface (63, 64), in which the scraping element (51) is inserted loosely and is supported. The invention also relates to an extrusion machine (1) as well as to a method for changing the friction wheel (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: ASMAG-Holding GmbH
    Inventor: Johann Vielhaber
  • Patent number: 10376940
    Abstract: A method of cleaning can bodies having a continuous sidewall closed at one end by an integral bottom portion opposite an open end is described. A can body transporter is populated a plurality of can bodies. The transporter transfers can bodies through a can body washer apparatus from an entry end to a delivery end. A plurality of spray bars are located between the entry end and the delivery end and delivers a washing solution to the plurality of can bodies. A substantially constant can body population density is maintained on the can body transporter by controlling a speed of the can body transporter relative to a rate of production of can bodies produced by an upstream can body making apparatus. A time duration of an exposure of the plurality of can bodies to the solution is controlled by regulating delivery of the solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: REXAM BEVERAGE CAN COMPANY
    Inventors: Howard Wong, Chad Valien
  • Patent number: 10376941
    Abstract: A press forming method includes a first process of obtaining a pressing force applied to each portion of a tool by an workpiece material during press forming while independently driving the respective each portion of the tool divided into multiple portions and press forming the workpiece material, and a second process of adjusting at least one of an applied driving force, an applied driving speed, and an applied driving timing for each portion of the tool to cause a processing portion of the workpiece material in which the state approaching an overload state is detected based on the pressing force to flow to other processing portions of the workpiece material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Wada, Shuji Yamamoto, Mitsuharu Yamagata
  • Patent number: 10376942
    Abstract: A water jet peening device includes a sealed vessel provided to cover a surface of a welded portion, and adapted to be in a sealed state where an internal pressure is higher than an outside, a jet nozzle adapted to jet high-pressure water to create a cavitation bubble toward the surface of the welded portion, inside the sealed vessel, and a pressure control hole adapted to be able to adjust the internal pressure of the sealed vessel. The water jet peening device can efficiently reform a tensile residual stress on the surface of the welded portion to a compressive residual stress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaharu Maeguchi, Yuichiro Nomura, Kazuya Tsutsumi, Nobuyuki Hori
  • Patent number: 10376943
    Abstract: A frozen forming method for a large-size thin-walled aluminum alloy component using an aluminum alloy tailor-welded plate is described. An aluminum alloy tailor-welded plate is cooled to a temperature with a cryogenic fluid medium, and temperature of a weld zone is regulated to be lower than that of a base metal zone; and the component is fabricated by a tool integrally with aluminum alloy tailor-welded plate, by placing aluminum alloy tailor-welded plate onto tool; assembling tool and filling with cryogenic fluid medium so temperature of tool is ?150 to ?196 degrees Celsius; and apply pressure to deform the aluminum alloy tailor-welded plate when temperature of a weld zone reaches ?150 degrees Celsius to ?196 degrees Celsius, thereby facilitating forming the aluminum alloy tailor-welded plate to a designed shape of the aluminum alloy component; and disassembling the tool, and taking out the aluminum alloy component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Inventor: Shijian Yuan
  • Patent number: 10376944
    Abstract: Provided is a pipe joining body in which a wire rod and a tubular member are joined. The wire rod includes a concave portion formed by plastically deforming a part of an outer periphery of the wire rod. The tubular member includes a deformed portion that is formed so as to enter the concave portion by inserting the wire rod into the tubular member and by pressing a portion of the tubular member covering the concave portion toward the concave portion to plastically deform the portion. A maximum displacement amount of the tubular member when the deformed portion is formed is not larger than a maximum displacement amount of the wire rod by the plastic deformation when the concave portion is formed. The concave portion is formed by bringing a mold having a convex surface into contact with the part of the outer periphery of the wire rod to press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shingo Horii
  • Patent number: 10376945
    Abstract: A workpiece transport device is used in a press machine. The workpiece transport device includes a pair of supports and drive mechanisms. The pair of supports support a holder useable to hold a workpiece, so as to allow movement in a transport direction of a workpiece. The drive mechanisms are provided to the pair of supports. The drive mechanisms are configured to move the supports in an up and down direction and a width direction. Each drive mechanism includes a first drive component and a second drive component with each including an electric motor as a drive source, a first link mechanism connecting the first drive component and the support, and a second link mechanism connecting the second drive component and the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: KOMATSU INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Akashi
  • Patent number: 10376946
    Abstract: A system and method of making a one-piece expanded metal gutter cover having a solid edge margin is disclosed. The system and method involves feeding a continuous web of solid metal to an expanding station, expanding the continuous web at the expanding station to form an expanded web of material having a screen section of expanded metal and a solid section of non-expanded metal, cutting the continuous web to form a gutter cover blank having screen and solid sections, and slitting the solid section of the gutter cover blank to remove a wavy side edge of the blank and create a substantially straight side edge extending along the blank. A system for carrying out this method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Inventor: James E. Ealer, Sr.
  • Patent number: 10376947
    Abstract: A wire wrap screen manufacturing method for a given screen diameter involves simultaneous winding of parallel wires that begin in circumferentially offset locations on one end of a perforated base pipe that has circumferentially spaced support rods saves fabrication time. Each of the ends of the wires lie in a common plane to allow fitting an end cap for sealing or to just continuously weld at the ends of the wires to seal the assembly to the base pipe. The spot welds to the support rods occur as the wire is wound over such rods. Equal initial circumferential spacing of the start locations for the wires is preferred although asymmetrical spacing is preferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Jai K. Koli, Syed Mohamed Mohammed Hussain
  • Patent number: 10376948
    Abstract: An apparatus to feed bars is disclosed that comprises a feed device suitable to support a plurality of bars and to make them available to a transfer device. The transfer device is configured to transfer the bars, received from the feed device, toward a delivery zone, and comprises at least one gripping and holding element, configured to take at least one bar from the feed device and to transfer it, by means of rotation around an axis of rotation, toward the delivery zone. The axis of rotation is located, during use, substantially parallel to the longitudinal development of the bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: M.E.P. Macchine Elettroniche Piegatrici S.p.A.
    Inventor: Giorgio Del Fabro
  • Patent number: 10376949
    Abstract: A method for coupling a first structure to a second structure is disclosed. The method includes providing a rivet having a shaft with a first end and a second end, a head positioned at the first end, and a cavity formed in the second end and extending along an axis of the shaft. The method also includes positioning the first structure and the second structure against each other and inserting the second end through the first structure and the second structure until the head contacts the first structure and the second end extends past the second structure. The method further includes positioning a first flat tool and a second flat tool against the head and the second end, respectively, and moving the first flat tool and the second flat tool toward each other until the second end expands radially against the second structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Wabash National, L.P.
    Inventors: Rodney P. Ehrlich, David P. Kunkel
  • Patent number: 10376950
    Abstract: A blade has a blade, passage extending in a blade height direction, a platform passage formed inside a platform, and a communication passage leading from an outer surface of a shaft-mounted part through the platform passage to the blade passage. An inner surface defining an inflow passage portion of the platform passage includes a shaft-side inner surface that faces a gas path side. The shaft-side inner surface spreads in a direction having more of a component of a blade thickness direction than a component of the blade height direction. An inner surface defining the communication passage joins to the shaft-side inner surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Takamura, Satoshi Hada, Hidekatsu Atsumi, Tomofumi Shintani
  • Patent number: 10376951
    Abstract: [Object] There are provided a manufacturing method and a manufacturing apparatus that obtain a high-quality conductive metal sheet in a short time. [Solution] The invention includes: applying a magnetic field to the raw material or the pre-product in a thickness direction by a magnetic field unit including permanent magnets; making alternating current flow in at least one of the raw material and molten metal of the pre-product so that the alternating current intersects the magnetic field in at least the front and the rear of a lengthwise direction of the magnetic field unit; and applying vibration to at least one of the raw material and the molten metal of the pre-product by an electromagnetic force generated due to the intersection to modify the molten metal and form the conductive metal sheet in which all of the molten metal is solidified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Inventor: Kenzo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10376952
    Abstract: A molding machine cylinder comprising a lining layer having a structure comprising 20-50% by area of tungsten carbide particles and 1-10% by area of tungsten-based metal carboboride particles in a nickel-based alloy matrix, and containing 1-7.5% by mass of Fe, can be produced by a centrifugal casting method comprising a first step of heating at higher than 1140° C. and lower than 1200° C., and a second step of heating at 1080-1140° C. after melting the raw material powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masatsugu Uchida, Kiyoshi Furushima
  • Patent number: 10376953
    Abstract: A die-casting piston having a receiving unit attachable to a piston rod, which includes a cooling device and a connecting device for the piston rod. A hollow cylindrical carrier body of a cup-shaped design has a melt-side end face, on whose lateral surface at least one hollow cylindrical sliding body is mountable. An end ring is disposed between the end face of the carrier body and an end face of the sliding body, which is used as a front-end first holding element for the at least one hollow cylindrical sliding body. The carrier body is axially mountable on the receiving unit, extending over the cooling device, and may be locked to the receiving unit and released again with the aid of a connecting device, the connecting device being disposed axially downstream from the sliding body on the side facing away from the end face of the carrier body, and the connecting device being a bayonet joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Wieland-Werke AG
    Inventors: Gabriel Vida, Gerhard Kanzok
  • Patent number: 10376954
    Abstract: Method for automatically replacing the spout nozzle of a slide closure with a robot for manipulating the slide closure with an appropriate apparatus, the spout nozzle being able to be clamped against the slide plate of the slide closure by a carrying ring that can be released by turning. During the changing procedure, the carrying ring is turned with a defined torque, by means of which the new spout nozzle is clamped with a likewise defined tension force against the slide plate. In this way, operational reliability of the slide closure is guaranteed, independently of any tolerance and other deviations. The apparatus for implementing the method includes a gripping lance with clamping jaws for manipulating the spout nozzle and a gripping ring with catches for manipulating the carrying ring. The gripping ring can be actuated by a hydraulic rotation cylinder. A pneumatic cylinder is used to actuate the gripping lance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Refractory Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ivo Infanger, Bruno Hugener
  • Patent number: 10376955
    Abstract: A shaped charge liner including a composition of powders. The composition may include one or more of an aluminum metal powder and a titanium metal powder, a bronze metal powder, a tungsten metal powder and a graphite powder. Each powder of the composition may include grain size ranges that are different from one or more other powder grain size ranges. The bronze metal powder may include two or more different grain size ranges, and in some instances three or four different grain size ranges. A method of making the shaped charge liner and shaped charge with such liner having the composition of powders is also disclosed, as is a shaped charge including such shaped charge liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: DynaEnergetics GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Joern Olaf Loehken