Patents Issued in October 15, 2019
  • Patent number: 10441978
    Abstract: A fiber sheet having both a bulky feel and softness is provided. A fiber sheet (1) is provided with a surface sheet layer (5) and a softness imparting layer (6). The fiber sheet (1) is subjected to embossing and a binder is applied to the fiber sheet (1). The softness imparting layer (6) is constituted by a plurality of fibers; and the fibers exist densely in a compressed state in a region of a boundary face between the surface sheet layer (5) and the softness imparting layer (6). Additionally, the surface sheet layer (5) is a paper material formed from pulp paper or a material including pulp as a principal raw material; and the softness imparting layer (6) is formed from crushed pulp or a material including crushed pulp as a principal raw material. Furthermore, the surface sheet layer (5) is manufactured by a paper making process; and the softness imparting layer (6) is formed by laminating crushed pulp along a flow of an airflow on a surface of the surface sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Inventor: Kikuo Yamada
  • Patent number: 10441979
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a cleaning apparatus including a substrate cleaner and a member cleaner. The substrate cleaner has a substrate cleaning member placed over a first region to be opposite a substrate and a second region different from the first region. The member cleaner is placed adjacent to the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Takagi, Dai Fukushima, Jun Takayasu
  • Patent number: 10441980
    Abstract: A nozzle cleaning device for cleaning suction nozzle 62, wherein the jetting direction of water jetted towards the tip section of the suction nozzle is changed by a tapered second internal surface 374 of socket 370. Accordingly, for example, not only is it possible to appropriately remove items adhering to the lower surface of the tip of the suction nozzle, it is possible to remove items adhering to the side surfaces of the tip of the suction nozzle by applying water. The suction nozzle is cleaned while being supported by nozzle pallet 152; after the suction nozzle is cleaned, the suction nozzle is held by a holding tool and removed from the nozzle pallet. Accordingly, the suction nozzle removed from the nozzle pallet is individually dried by the nozzle drying device. Thus, it is possible to appropriately dry the suction nozzle after cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumi Hoshikawa, Kenji Shimosaka
  • Patent number: 10441981
    Abstract: Method and system for clearing a pipe system from its contents, the pipe having a proximal end and a distal end, the method including providing an air supply to the pipe system at the proximal end by applying an air pressure decreasing from an initial pressure as the bulk of the pipe contents get discharged gradually at the distal end for obtaining a contents flow in the pipe system. The method further includes determining a volume of air supplied to the pipe system by the air supply, determining an estimated contents travel speed from the volume of the air supplied to the pipe and regulating the air supply to the proximal end of the pipe for obtaining a predetermined pipe contents travel speed using the estimated contents travel speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FLUIDOR EQUIPMENT B.V.
    Inventor: Robbert Christianus Antonius Wouters
  • Patent number: 10441982
    Abstract: A plug for rolling of a seamless steel pipe, the plug having an oxide layer composed of a cobalt-base oxide on a surface of a coating layer formed by coating a surface of a base metal with cobalt or a cobalt-base alloy, a method for manufacturing the plug and a method for manufacturing a seamless steel pipe using the plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Iguchi, Tatsuro Katsumura, Hideto Kimura
  • Patent number: 10441983
    Abstract: A lock ring that has a first ring half, a second ring half and a latch assembly. The first ring half includes a nest opening on a front portion of the first ring half, a back end portion of the first ring portion hingedly connected to a back end portion of the second ring half. The latch assembly is connected to a front portion of the second ring half. The latch assembly includes a connection arrangement and a spring system. The connection arrangement is designed to be releasably positionable in the nest opening. The spring system is designed to cause the front portions of the first and second ring halves to be drawn toward one another when the connection arrangement is positioned in the nest opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Barnes Group Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Gaines, Marc Pentecost, Dan Frank, Steve Reilly
  • Patent number: 10441984
    Abstract: A portable, self-contained conduit bender having a housing configured to house a reductive gear set, thereby improving safety and extending the life of the conduit bender by limiting exposure of the reductive gear set to dust and debris. The conduit bender includes a motor configured to drive a driven shaft at a first rotational output, a reductive gear set operably coupling the driven shaft to an output shaft, the reductive gear set configured to reduce the first rotational output of the driven shaft to a second rotational output of the output shaft, a housing defining an interior cavity configured to house the reductive gear set, such that only a portion of the output shaft emerges from the interior cavity, and a bender shoe coupleable to the output shaft, the bender shoe defining an arcuate channel configured to receive conduit during bending operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Inventor: Todd Brochman
  • Patent number: 10441985
    Abstract: A bending head for an automatic bending machine includes a frame. A first rotationally driven bending roll is arranged in the frame. A bending arm is transversely arranged below the first bending roll and is coupled to a bi-directional drive, with an end of the bending arm rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the first bending roll. A rotatable second bending roll is mounted to an opposite end of the bending. A bending support is configured with the first and second bending rolls. The second bending roll is rotationally coupled to the first bending roll in a forced torque transmission manner for mutual counter-direction rotation of the first and second bending rolls. The bending rolls have axially symmetric reduced lateral circumferential sections. The bending roll controls an angle of mutual rotation of both of the first and second bending rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: MSV Systems CZ s.r.o.
    Inventor: Karel Vondracek
  • Patent number: 10441986
    Abstract: A computer controlled method for bending profiles for making insulating frames for double and triple glass pane glazings comprises at least the steps of: automatically feeding the profile to a profile machining section; immediately bringing the profile to a bending position, in which the profile is heated directly by hot air jets to a malleable condition at the bending position without moving the profile in its malleable condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: LOMBARDA MACCHINE S.R.L.
    Inventor: Giovan Battista Lattuada
  • Patent number: 10441987
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for bending pipes, in particular coated pipes, in a preferred manner insulated pipes and/or pipes that are coated with PU foam/PUR rigid foam, for pipelines, said device having a basic body which can be positioned in the pipe and on which a running gear unit is provided for movement in the pipe and having at least three contact elements for producing a contact with an inside wall of the pipe for introducing a bending force, wherein at least two contact elements are provided on one side of the basic body on the ends of the basic body, and at least one contact element is arranged on the opposite side of the basic body, and wherein at least one of the contact elements is provided so as to be movable in relation to the basic body in the direction of the inside wall of the pipe by means of a force-introducing element. In addition the invention relates to a method for bending such pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Maats Beheer B.V.
    Inventor: Oliver Baum
  • Patent number: 10441988
    Abstract: An apparatus for checking an inclination of a cushion pad includes: a plurality of height position detectors that detect a plurality of respective height positions in a vertical direction at a plurality of positions different in a horizontal direction of the cushion pad; an inclination measurement unit that measures information on an inclination of the cushion pad in accordance with the plurality of height positions detected by the plurality of respective height position detectors; and an input/output unit that outputs the information on an inclination of the cushion pad measured by the inclination measurement unit to a display or a printer in a visible manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Aida Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadahiro Kondo, Junji Makabe
  • Patent number: 10441989
    Abstract: According to the manufacturing method of the invention the line component, in particular an additively fabricated line component, comprises a line element for conducting a fluid from a first opening to a second opening, and a line branching connected with the line element for conducting the fluid to a third opening, wherein an outer region of the line component is designed load-compliant by means of a numerical optimization program and thereby includes a multitude of irregular topological structures in its outer region. In the manufacturing method of the line component a notch is incorporated on the inside of the line element, which serves to relieve a tension in a highly loaded state of the line component or the line element, a particle-filled gas stream is guided through the interior of the line component, in order to smooth the inside of the line component and/or the line component is subjected to a pressurization, in order to produce a plastic deformation on an inner surface of the line component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Aerospace Lindenberg GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar Kroll, Frank Schubert, Stefan Demmig, Sebastian Blümer, Alexander Altmann, Camille Kunzi, David Hölzler, Gerhard Hummel
  • Patent number: 10441990
    Abstract: A crossbar support assembly that supports a crossbar includes a support post, a bracket, a riser, and a lock assembly. The bracket is secured to a distal end of the support post. The lock assembly is configured to releasably secure the riser to the bracket. The lock assembly includes a locked configuration and an unlocked configuration. In the locked configuration the riser is inhibited from moving with respect to the bracket. In the unlocked configuration the riser is permitted to move with respect to the bracket. The crossbar support assembly may include an adjustment assembly that adjusts a position of the riser with respect to the bracket when the lock assembly is in the unlocked configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Thoney R. Charles
  • Patent number: 10441991
    Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a cylindrical container using a metal sheet on at least one surface of which the metal is exposed. The method includes: obtaining a blank having a hexagonal shape from the metal sheet; and processing the blank into a cylindrical shape by pressing a central part of the blank with a punch in a state in which a peripheral part of the blank is clamped between a die for drawing process and a blank holder. The method is characterized by the following features. At least one of the die for drawing process and the blank holder has a groove-formed area at a portion of a surface thereof. The portion corresponds to a side of the blank. The groove-formed area is formed with a plurality of grooves along the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Ikeda, Shinichi Taya, Kota Sadaki
  • Patent number: 10441992
    Abstract: An actuator assembly for dynamically or manually positioning a dome die and clamp ring of a can bottom former assembly. The actuator assembly is also usable for other purposes where accurate and repeatable adjustments in position are needed. The actuator assembly may include an anchor member and at least one torsion rod having a torque end and an actuation end, with 2 bends at or near the actuation end, such that a torque applied to the torque end creates a substantially linear actuation force at or near the actuation end of the torsion rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Pride Engineering, LLC
    Inventor: Rick Swedberg
  • Patent number: 10441993
    Abstract: A system for twisting wire that includes an upper portion having a plurality of upper clamps configured to retain an upper wire end corresponding at least one wire pair. The upper portion may be selectively adjustable between a first vertical position and second vertical position. The system also includes a lower portion, disposed on vertically below the upper portion. The lower portion may include a plurality of lower clamps, each of the plurality of lower clamps may be configured to retain a first lower wire end and a second lower wire end corresponding to the at least one wire pair. The system may further include a controller configured to selectively rotate each of the lower clamps in response to instructions corresponding to a twisting program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Lear Corporation
    Inventors: Jessica Arlene Galdamez Morales, Jose Mayorga, Arnold Martinez, Melvin Fuentes
  • Patent number: 10441994
    Abstract: A net and method for creating the same, the net comprising: cables in two or more directions, wherein the cables in each of the directions are made of at least a first construct or a second construct, wherein each cable of a first construct in the first direction has neighboring cables in the first direction made of the second construct, and each cable of the first construct in the second direction has neighboring cables in the second direction made of the second construct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Inventor: Moshe Ore
  • Patent number: 10441995
    Abstract: The disclosed production method includes a die forging step of obtaining a forged blank with flash having a crankshaft shape, and a trimming step of removing the flash from the forged blank while nipping the forged blank with a pair of holding dies. In the forged blank, at least one of the rough crank arms have, in a region near an adjacent rough pin, a first excess portion protruding from an outer periphery of a side portion of the rough crank arm. When the forged blank is nipped with the pair of holding dies, the first excess portion is deformed by the pair of holding dies to bulge toward an adjacent rough journal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Takamoto, Kenji Tamura, Tomohisa Yamashita, Kunihiro Yabuno, Ken Yoshino, Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Junichi Okubo, Koichiro Ishihara
  • Patent number: 10441996
    Abstract: A collapsible core is provided for attachment to a mold half of a casting mold, particularly a diecasting mold. The collapsible core can take the form of a removable collapsible core which can be detachably mounted on the mold half on the mold cavity side. A collapsible core can have a core cylinder body of at least two first core sections in the form of cylinder segments and at least two second core sections in the form of cylinder segments arranged alternating with the first sections over the circumferential direction. The first and the second core sections are retained moveably relative to one another. The relative movement here between the first and the second core sections consists of an axial relative movement component between the first and the second core sections and a radial collapsing movement of the first and/or the second core section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Oskar Frech GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Ronny Aspacher, Herbert Trebes, Norbert Erhard
  • Patent number: 10441997
    Abstract: A metal casting method and a plastic injection molding method in which an insert is molded in molten material such that no molten material enters the interior of the insert. The usage of a wire thread insert as insert has the advantage that for example in an aluminum cast part thread holes can be produced already as part of the casting process. For this purpose, the casting mold, the insert, as well as the casting method are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: Böllhoff Verbindungstechnik GmbH, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Stumpf, Francisco Tovar, Marco Haesche, Franz-Josef Wöstmann, Christoph Pille, Michael Heuser, Tobias Beyer
  • Patent number: 10441998
    Abstract: Molten metal M is raised to the vicinity of a gate 11 of a cavity 9C by increasing the pressure in a holding furnace 5 with gas, and thereafter the cavity 9C is filled with the molten metal M by decreasing the pressure in the cavity 9C by suction and further increasing the pressure in the holding furnace 5. Thereafter, the decompression of the cavity 9C is stopped after a preset filling time, and the compression of the holding furnace 5 is stopped when solidification of the molten metal M is completed. In this way, the suction is minimized, and it becomes possible to employ a simple decompression part 14. A reduction in equipment cost and production cost is thereby achieved, and a reduction in casting cycle time is also achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Masuta, Shunsuke Ota
  • Patent number: 10441999
    Abstract: A molten metal processing device including a molten metal containment structure for reception and transport of molten metal along a longitudinal length thereof. The device further includes a cooling unit for the containment structure including a cooling channel for passage of a liquid medium therein, and an ultrasonic probe disposed in relation to the cooling channel such that ultrasonic waves are coupled through the liquid medium in the cooling channel and through the molten metal containment structure into the molten metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: HANS TECH, LLC
    Inventors: Qingyou Han, Lu Shao, Clause Xu
  • Patent number: 10442000
    Abstract: Provided are a titanium-based powder excellent in fluidity and shape retention property, and an ingot and a sintered article obtained using the titanium-based powder as a material. The titanium-based powder has an average circularity of 0.815 or more and less than 0.870, a CV value of particle sizes of 22 or more and 30 or less, and an angle of repose of 29 degrees or more and 36 degrees or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: TOHO TITANIUM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo Fukada, Osamu Kanou, Shigehisa Takenaka
  • Patent number: 10442001
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for the additive manufacture of components through the layered bonding of powder particles to one another and/or to a semi-finished product or substrate already produced, using selective interaction of the powder particles with a high-energy beam, wherein, during the bonding of the powder particles into a layer made of powder particles with the aid of the high-energy beam, a gas flow, which has a flow direction having a directional component directed at least partially parallel to the layer of powder particles, is provided across the layer of powder particles and/or the bonding region in the layer of powder particles, wherein the directional component of the gas flow directed at least partially parallel to the layer of powder particles during the bonding of the powder particles in a layer is generated in at least two directions, which have oppositely directed directional components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AG
    Inventors: Andreas Jakimov, Thomas Hess, Georg Schlick, Alexander Ladewig
  • Patent number: 10442002
    Abstract: This relates to a method for manufacturing a shell-like structural component for a vehicle using additive layer manufacturing. In a step of the method, a first material is applied to a region of the shell-like structural component. In another step of the method, the region of the shell-like structural component is heated by a laser beam such that the first material is added to the shell-like structural component. The shell-like structural component comprising the first material is cooled in another step such that an internal stress is generated within the shell-like structural component resulting in a bending of the shell-like structural component. This further relates to a shell-like structural component which is manufactured by a method using additive layer manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Hermann Benthien, Matthias Hegenbart
  • Patent number: 10442003
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides three-dimensional (3D) printing methods, apparatuses, systems and/or software to form one or more three-dimensional objects, some of which may be complex. The three-dimensional objects may be formed by three-dimensional printing using one or more methodologies. In some embodiments, the three-dimensional object may comprise an overhang portion, such as a cavity ceiling, with diminished deformation and/or auxiliary support structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Velo3D, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimon Symeonidis, Rueben Joseph Mendelsberg, Tasso Lappas, Nina Cathryn Bordeaux, Gregory Ferguson Brown, Peter Robert Stone, Benyamin Buller, Brian Charles Spink, Zachary Ryan Murphree
  • Patent number: 10442004
    Abstract: A pipe cutter with gauge and reamer/beveller of the cut edges of pipe. On the body of the pipe cutter there is at least one gauge; between it and the body a cavity is delimited capable of accepting the end of a pipe (t); each gauge having on its end a mouth that varies its diameter between a minimum (d1) at its base and a maximum (d) that coincides with the gauge of the pipe (t) it accepts. There is also at least one blade on each existing gauge or on a beveller equipped with one or several portions (S) with at least one blade on each of them. A pipe (t) is inserted in the corresponding gauge, first gauging the diameter of its cut edge and then the blades simultaneously bevel and ream the cut pipe (t) edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: ROTHENBERGER, S.A.
    Inventor: Cesar Sainz de Diego
  • Patent number: 10442005
    Abstract: A workpiece applied for use with a cutting machine comprises a first outer surface, a second outer surface and a third outer surface. The third outer surface intersects the first outer surface and the second outer surface to define an extrusion-acting portion having an extruding portion. The workpiece can be used to form a cutter or a trimmed portion thereof. Accordingly, rapid production of cutters by molding machines can be realized, and blades of the molding machine for machining a produced cutter become readily replaceable. While a blade portion is machining, the extrusion-acting portion is applied to support and guide the workpiece, such that the surface machined by the blade portion can be extruded and polished simultaneously. Thus, machining qualities of the cutter, including finish, straightness and roundness, manufactured by applying the workpiece for the molding machine can be significantly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SHANGHAI RUIGAO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yi-Qun Yang
  • Patent number: 10442006
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a cutting insert includes an upper surface having a polygonal shape and includes a corner, a side surface adjacent to the upper surface, a cutting edge and a protrusion. The cutting edge is located at a ridge part in which the upper surface intersects with the side surface and includes a corner part located at the corner. The protrusion is located on the upper surface. The protrusion includes a first protrusion on a bisector of the corner in a top view. The protrusion further includes a second protrusion adjacent to the first protrusion in a direction orthogonal to the bisector. The second protrusion is closer to the corner than the first protrusion in the top view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Inoue
  • Patent number: 10442007
    Abstract: A composite polycrystal contains polycrystalline diamond formed of diamond grains that are directly bonded mutually, and compressed graphite dispersed in the polycrystalline diamond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sumiya, Takeshi Sato
  • Patent number: 10442008
    Abstract: A tool holder having a main body for coupling the tool holder to the spindle of a machine tool and having a clamping surface connected thereto for clamping a tool, characterized in that the tool holder has at least one portion shaped in one piece by primary shaping, which in its interior has one or more cavities that form an enclave in the portion shaped by primary shaping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Franz Haimer Maschinenbau KG
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Patent number: 10442009
    Abstract: A power tool including a motor and a rotatable spindle driven by the motor to hold and drive a first bit. There is a recess located on the spindle. The power tool also includes a removable chuck with a lock member and a locking collar. The locking collar includes a locking position in which the locking collar biases the lock member into the recess to retain the chuck on the spindle. The locking collar also includes a release position in which the lock members are able to exit the recess and the chuck is able to be removed from the spindle by a user. The locking collar is axially movable from the locking position to the release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Oleksiy Sergyeyenko, Sean Bailey
  • Patent number: 10442010
    Abstract: Provided are methods for verifying sequences of different operations and controlling processing order in accordance with these sequences. Also provided are apparatuses for executing these methods. A method may involve determining a current configuration of an indicator positioned on a part. This operation may be performed using a tester coupled to a processing portion. If the current configuration of the indicator corresponds to this particular processing portion, then the part is processed using this processing portion. The indicator is then changed to a new configuration corresponding to another processing portion for performing the next operation in the sequence. The processing is only performed if the indicator has the current configuration corresponding to the processing portion. Otherwise, the operation is not performed, and the current configuration of the indicator not changed retained. The indicator may be a mechanical device or an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Wesley Edward Holleman, Mark Douglas Fuller
  • Patent number: 10442011
    Abstract: A flat flywheel body fabricated by water jet cutting has radial spoke pairs with a display hanger slot in between and flywheel weights circumferentially extending at their peripheral ends. Resilient thin attachment rims for the saw blades are circumferentially connecting the flywheel weights and provide together with them a continuous peripheral sliding surface. A two piece arbor is connected to a central continuous spline of the flywheel body. The peripheral saw blades are bent into concentric curvature by radially clamping them onto the blade attachment rims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: ME3, INC
    Inventor: John D. Davis
  • Patent number: 10442012
    Abstract: A machining tool (1) comprises a clamping section (2), which extends along a central axis (M), a cutting section (3), which adjoins the clamping section (2) and has a nominal diameter (DN), and at least one cooling duct (4), which preferably extends in the clamping section (2) and in the cutting section (3), wherein the cross-sectional shape of the cooling duct (4) is arranged in a cross-sectional region (Q) of the respective section (2, 3) in which the equivalent stress under a machining load has a value which is as small as possible, and/or wherein the cross-sectional shape of the cooling duct (4) is defined by an inner curve segment (5), an outer curve segment (6), which is arranged at a distance from the latter, and by means of two tangents (7) connecting the two curve segments (5, 6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Mikron Tool SA Agno
    Inventors: Mattia Genini, Alberto Gotti, Markus Schnyder
  • Patent number: 10442013
    Abstract: A cutting insert of an embodiment of the present invention includes an upper surface, a lower surface, a side surface connected to each of the upper surface and the lower surface, and an upper cutting edge located at an intersection of the upper surface and the side surface. The lower surface includes a mount part having alternately three first top portions spaced a distance a away from a central axis extending between the upper and lower surfaces and three second top portions spaced a distance b away from the central axis in a bottom view. The mount part further has a concave part including at least the central axis. The second top portions are located closer to the upper surface than the first top portions. A cutting tool with the cutting insert, and a method of manufacturing a machined product by using the cutting tool are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Shibata
  • Patent number: 10442014
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a holder includes a body part elongated from a first end part to a second end part along a rotation axis. The body part includes a first member, a second member, and a third member. The first member is located on a side of the first end part, and includes a pocket to receive a cutting insert. The second member is located closer to the second end part than the first member, and includes at least one cavity inside the second member. The third member is located closer to the second end part than the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki Yamamichi
  • Patent number: 10442015
    Abstract: A cutting tool may include a cutter body, and a cutting insert group coupled to the cutter body, wherein the cutter body includes a working length, wherein the cutting insert group forms a continuous cutting edge, and wherein the continuous cutting edge extends continuously through the working length of the cutter body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Robert P. Davis
  • Patent number: 10442016
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a cutting insert includes a body member and a cutting member. The body member is a columnar body, and includes: an upper surface; a lower surface; and an outer side surface between the upper surface and the lower surface. The cutting member is located at a corner part of the outer side surface in the body member. The cutting member includes: at least three surfaces being exposed; and a cutting edge at an intersecting portion of two of the at least three surfaces. The body member includes a through hole penetrating through the upper surface and the lower surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10442017
    Abstract: The invention refers to a mandrel holder for a pipe cutter having a nearly C-shaped bracket, which supports counter-pressure rollers on one end and is connected, at the other end, to a longitudinal handle containing an adjustment device carrying a cutting wheel, these components defining a tool plane through which a vertical axis passes, which extends between and axially parallel to the counter-pressure rollers and the cutting wheel. The tool plane contains the cutting point of the cutting wheel. The mandrel holder contains a coupling portion designed to radially and axially encompass an arc-shaped portion of the C-shaped bracket, an outer longitudinal portion extending from the coupling portion axially parallel to the vertical axis up to an end piece, and an inner longitudinal portion which extends from the end piece along the vertical axis back approximately to the tool plane and has a rotatable mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Inventor: Sonja Maria Bilz
  • Patent number: 10442018
    Abstract: A rail system for a power tool has a base defining a work surface for supporting a workpiece, a support mounted to the base, a number of elongated rails slidably supported by the support for movement relative thereto, a yoke engaged to the number of elongated rails for movement with the elongated rails, and a power tool assembly supported by a yoke for performing an operation on the workpiece. A rail stop is movably mounted to one of the support and the yoke, the rail stop including a stop surface adapted to abut the other of the support and the yoke when the rail stop is in a first position between the yoke and the support. The rail stop is movable to a second position different from the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Plamen V. Marinov, Gwendolyn McDonald, Darek Smolinski
  • Patent number: 10442019
    Abstract: A feed/clamp apparatus includes a feed vise mechanism provided upstream from a cutting position, and a downstream vise mechanism provided just downstream from the cutting position. The feed vise mechanism includes first/second feed vise jaws, a downstream moving cylinder for moving the first feed vise jaw, and a downstream shifting cylinder for shifting the second feed vise jaw. The downstream vise mechanism includes first/second downstream vise jaws, a downstream moving cylinder for moving the first downstream vise jaw, and a downstream shifting cylinder for shifting a second downstream vise jaw. A vise surface of the second downstream vise jaw is located on one side of the vise reference position when the downstream shifting cylinder is located its stroke end on the one side. A thrust force of the downstream shifting cylinder toward the one side is made equal to a thrust force of the downstream moving cylinder toward another side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: AMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD., AMADA MACHINE TOOLS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masataka Kitai
  • Patent number: 10442020
    Abstract: An accessory for a power tool includes a blade and a coupling. The coupling includes a blade portion, a tool portion, and a transition. The blade portion is fixedly coupled to the blade. The tool portion is configured to be removably coupled to the power tool. The tool portion also includes an opening. The transition extends between the blade portion and the tool portion, and the transition includes a first transition region, where the transition intersects with the blade portion, and a second transition region, where the transition intersects with the tool portion. The first transition region includes a first arc having a center that is arranged between the first arc and the opening, and the second transition region includes a second arc having a center that is arranged between the second arc and the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christopher Ryan Dvorak, Noel Francis, Jeremy Rubens
  • Patent number: 10442021
    Abstract: An insert portion (3) of a reamer (1) is fixed, using screws (8), to a leading end portion of a body (2A). The insert portion (3) is configured by overlaying an insert (4) for finish machining and an insert (5) for rough machining, and forms a right hand cut right hand helix. On respective mating faces of the inserts (4, 5), convex portions and concave portions of the mating face of the insert (4) overlap with concave portions and convex portions of the mating face of the insert (5). The reamer (1) can enlarge a hole formed in a workpiece or change a shape of the hole. The inserts (4, 5) simultaneously cut an inner peripheral face of the hole, and can thus perform rough machining and finish machining in one pass. By overlapping the convex portions and the concave portions of each of the mating faces of the inserts (4, 5), they partially overlap in their respective thickness directions. A protrusion length of the insert portion (3) can thus be shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: OSG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiro Osawa, Tomonori Yoda
  • Patent number: 10442022
    Abstract: In wire-electrical discharge machine and a numerical control apparatus thereof and a numerical control apparatus for controlling a machine tool, optional minute blocks are automatically created in front of and behind a connecting point, which is a joint of a block to which an offset command is instructed, and an offset value is exchanged between the minute blocks so that a correct offset value is set in a desired block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuo Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10442023
    Abstract: A simulation apparatus of a wire electric discharge machine that performs machining to cut out a core from a workpiece calculates a position and a length of a welding part used to weld the core to the workpiece, calculates an evaluation value of the position and the length, and performs machine learning of the adjustment of the position and the length. In the machine learning, the position and the length of the welding part and the evaluation value are acquired as state data, a reward is calculated based on the state data and calculated reward conditions, and the machine learning of the adjustment of the position and the length of the welding part is performed using the calculated reward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenichiro Shirai
  • Patent number: 10442024
    Abstract: A welding apparatus includes a housing having facing surfaces in the axial direction, and a welding head turning gear and first to third ring gears inside of the housing. A guide surface is formed on the facing surfaces. The welding head turning gear is coupled to a guide member, and the first to third ring gears are supported by the welding head turning gear and the guide member. Since a roller provided to the guide member rolls on the guide surface to rotatably support the first to third ring gears with respect to the housing, the welding apparatus can be lighter in weight and more compact compared to a conventional welding apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: CUTLAND JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Mori
  • Patent number: 10442025
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, a portable metal working robot system includes a metal working tool configured to perform a metal working process on one or more metal parts. In addition, the portable metal working robot system includes communication circuitry configured to receive control signals from a control system located remotely from the portable metal working robot system. The portable metal working robot system also includes control circuitry configured to control operational parameters of the portable metal working robot system in accordance with the received control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Jerald Edward Jones, Valerie Lisa Rhoades, Todd Earl Holverson, John Henry Gaffney, III, Mark Dietrich Mann, Adam Nathan Cuneo
  • Patent number: 10442026
    Abstract: Embodiments of a welding power supply include an engine adapted to drive a generator to produce a first power and a energy storage device adapted to discharge energy to produce a second power. The welding power supply also includes control circuitry adapted to detect a commanded output. The control circuitry is adapted to meet the commanded output by controlling access to power from the energy storage device to produce the second power when the commanded output is below a first predetermined load level. The control circuitry is further adapted to meet the commanded output by controlling access to power from the engine and the energy storage device to produce the first power and the second power when the commanded output is above a second predetermined load level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Patrick Albrecht, Allen R. Sykes
  • Patent number: 10442027
    Abstract: A welding system includes components equipped with digital communications circuitry for synchronization and coordination of tasks associated with the welding operation. The tasks may be initiated and terminated independently or in coordination based upon synchronization of this circuitry. Certain of the tasks may be performed by the components in an open-loop manner or in a closed-loop manner based upon feedback of welding parameters. Moreover, certain tasks may be independent of one another, or interdependent although carried out in parallel by the different system component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Bryan Dustin Marschke, James Donald Borowski, Peter D. Mehn