Patents Issued in December 10, 2019
  • Patent number: 10500613
    Abstract: An article induction system for preparing a stream of articles, such as mail parcels, for processing employs a series of conveyors operating under control of a controller for feeding articles to an operator at a cull belt at an optimal paced rate. The article induction system includes a destacking section, a separation and alignment section, a buffer section and a culling section manned by an operator. A controller controls the speed of each component based on measurements provided by sensors so as to feed articles to the operator at a desired paced rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Laitram, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Stephen G. Wargo
  • Patent number: 10500614
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a methods and apparatuses for cleaning exhaust systems, such as exhaust systems used with process chambers for the formation of epitaxial silicon. The exhaust system includes a remote plasma source for supplying ionized gas through the exhaust system, and one or more temperature sensors positioned downstream of the remote plasma source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Martin A. Hilkene, David K. Carlson, Matthew D. Scotney-Castle
  • Patent number: 10500615
    Abstract: To improve cleaning properties of a transport belt which transports a recording medium. A recording apparatus includes a transport belt (2) which supports and transports a recording medium (P), a recording head (6) through which ink is discharged onto the recording medium (P), and a cleaning portion (10) for the transport belt (2). The recording apparatus has a first cleaning mode in which the cleaning portion (10) cleans the transport belt (2) during transporting of the recording medium (P) by the transport belt (2) and a second cleaning mode in which the cleaning portion (10) cleans the transport belt (2) during a period except for transporting of the recording medium (P) by the transport belt (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Itaru Kozuma
  • Patent number: 10500616
    Abstract: An apparatus includes: a sprinkler configured for spraying liquid; a conduit with a nano-particle coated surface; a sensor associated with the conduit, wherein the sensor is configured to detect a signal corresponding to a film deposition on the nano-particle coated surface; and a controller coupled with the sensor and the sprinkler, wherein the controller is configured to regulate liquid spraying of the sprinkler over the nano-particle coated surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Li-Hsing Chien, Yung-Ti Hung, Rouh Jier Wang, Yu-Te Chang
  • Patent number: 10500617
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a substrate liquid treatment apparatus includes: a tank that stores a processing liquid; a circulation line connected to the tank, through which circulation line a circulation flow of the processing liquid that leaves the tank and then returns back to the tank; a processing unit that processes a substrate by supplying the processing liquid, distributed from the circulation line, to the substrate; a return line that returns, to the tank, the processing liquid discharged from the processing unit after being supplied to the substrate; a cleaning nozzle that discharges a cleaning liquid onto an inner wall surface of the tank to clean the inner wall surface by the cleaning liquid; and a cleaning line that supplies the cleaning liquid to the cleaning nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventor: Shogo Mizota
  • Patent number: 10500618
    Abstract: Apparatus and method are provided for remediating trichloroethylene-polluting soils by integrated rotated migration and PRB. The apparatus includes a device of electrokinetic remediation, a PRB and a device of injection of surface active agents. The main components of the device of electrokinetic remediation and PRB include cathode, anode, electrode chamber and PRB. A liquid injection pipe is installed between various electrodes and PRBs. The operation of each device is controlled by each control system. The disclosure integrated rotated migration and PRB for remediating contaminants. Surface active agents is helpful for dispersing TCE from soil. The arrangement of the electrode and the PRB greatly shortens distances and time of pollutant migration, which accelerate the speed of remediation and reduce post-processing procedures. In the process of treatment, the three technical methods promote each other, and have the advantages of good repair effect, short time, no secondary pollution and easy operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hongwei Lu, Lixia Ren, Li He, Yizhong Chen, Jing Li
  • Patent number: 10500619
    Abstract: A rolling system includes an induction heater, temperature detectors, a finishing mill, and a power setting calculation device. The power setting calculation device generates a temperature distribution pattern in a plate thickness direction of a steel material at a temperature control position in an upstream side. The power setting calculation device calculates a volume average temperature of the steel material at a temperature control position in a downstream side, at a time when the steel material moves to the temperature control position in the downstream side from the temperature control position in the upstream side, based on the generated temperature distribution pattern. Then, the power setting calculation device calculates an electric power necessary for the induction heater so that the calculated volume average temperature follows a target temperature of the steel material at the temperature control position in the downstream side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruki Inami, Naohiro Kubo
  • Patent number: 10500620
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing parts is provided. The method includes cold rolling a substrate with work cylinders whose work surface has a roughness Ra2.5 of less than or equal to 3.6 ?m, depositing the metal coating on at least one face of the annealed substrate by electrodeposition to form the metal sheet and deforming the cut metal sheet to form the parts. The outer surface of the metal coating has a waviness Wa0.8 of less than or equal to 0.5 ?m after the deformation step. A part and vehicle are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: ARCELORMITTAL
    Inventor: Hervé Derule
  • Patent number: 10500621
    Abstract: A method for machining rolled stock (6) in a rolling train (2), the train including at least one rolling block (20, 20a, 20b) having at least two rolling stands (4) with each stand including at least one roll (13). Each rolling stand (4) has a separate drive (8) with a speed controller (14) for its roll (13). A time (tzw) that is dependent on the point in time (tB) that an actual loading moment is applied to the drive (8) of the first rolling stand (4) of the rolling block (20, 20a, 20b), for controlling the speed of the drive (8). An additional value (ZW), dependent on an expected actual loading moment, is fed to the speed controller (14) of each drive (8). Also, a rolling train (2) for machining rolled stock (6), is disclosed having the features above and having an open-loop/closed-loop control unit (24), in which software for the method is implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES GERMANY GMBH
    Inventor: Bernhard Weisshaar
  • Patent number: 10500622
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coil transport pallet (8) for transporting a wound coil (6), with a support device (35) for temporarily supporting the wound coil (6), with a coupling unit (40) for coupling to a coil transport vehicle (11) and/or with rolling and/or sliding surfaces (29) for interaction with a ground conveyor device (15), wherein the coil transport pallet (8) has a through-opening (50) for guiding a pressing element (51) of a pressing mechanism (52) therethrough, for pressing at least one winding layer (49) and/or winding layer end (78) against the wound coil (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SMS Group GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fuchs, Helmut Hoefer, Andreas Kastner, Carsten Heide, Martin Luebke, Thomas Holzhauer
  • Patent number: 10500623
    Abstract: A bending machine for sheet metal comprises a bending assembly (2) provided with a tool holder crosspiece (3) which is mobile and supports a set (20) of bending tools (40, 41, 42, 43, 44) which are aligned, and mutually positionable, along a first longitudinal direction (A) so as to form predetermined compositions (C1, C2, C3, C4) of bending tools suitable to bend a workpiece (50) according to respective defined bending lines; the bending assembly (2) comprises a moving assembly (5, 6) to move the bending tools (40, 41, 42, 43, 44) along the crosspiece (3), the set (20) of bending tools comprises, arranged adjacent and in sequence starting from an end (3a) of said crosspiece (3): four first bending tools (41) having a width of X+p, one second bending tool (42) having a width of X+2·p, one third bending tool (43) having a width of X+3·p, one basic bending tool (40) having a width of X, three third bending tools (43), one fourth bending tool (44) having a width of X+4·p, two basic bending tools (40), one first
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SALVAGNINI ITALIA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Nicola Meneghetti
  • Patent number: 10500624
    Abstract: A press forming method for forming a press-formed product having no flange portion from a blank by performing a crash forming process while using a die and a punch, the press-formed product including at least a top portion and a side wall portion continued from the top portion via a connecting portion and being structured so that either all or a part of the side wall portion curves toward an outside of the press-formed product to form a convex shape in a planar view, the press forming method including forming the side wall portion while keeping a tip end portion of the blank in continuous contact with a side wall forming portion of the die and causing the die to impose no restraint on any part other than the tip end portion of the blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Ageba, Akinobu Ishiwatari, Jiro Hiramoto
  • Patent number: 10500625
    Abstract: A method and die set for manufacturing a metal component with a three-dimensional edge from a blank as a raw material. The blank is cut from a metal sheet and has a curve-shaped curved edge portion with two ends. The method includes providing a bend formation line and forming the three-dimensional shape using a first die and a second die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Fujii, Toyohisa Shinmiya, Kinya Nakagawa, Yuji Yamasaki, Katsuhiro Ochi
  • Patent number: 10500626
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a molded material by molding processes including at least one drawing-out process and at least one drawing process performed after the drawing-out process, in which a width of a punch 31 used in the drawing-out process on a rear end side is wider than a width of the punch on a distal end side, and an ironing process is performed on a region corresponding to a flange of a base metal sheet 2 by pushing the base metal sheet together with the punch 31 into a pushing hole 30a, and the drawing process is carried out using a die and a drawing sleeve, and processing is performed on a region subjected to the ironing process in the drawing-out process, while maintaining a constant mold gap between the die and the drawing sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Nippon Steel Nisshin Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naofumi Nakamura, Yudai Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10500627
    Abstract: A disclosed forming system is a forming system which expands and forms a metal pipe in a die. The forming system includes a preliminary forming apparatus which preliminarily forms a metal pipe material, a forming apparatus which includes a gas supply unit which supplies gas into the preliminary-formed and heated metal pipe material to expand the metal pipe material and a main body portion to which the die is attached, and a cutting device which cuts at least a portion of the formed metal pipe. The gas supply unit is provided so as not to be disposed on a first straight line which connects the preliminary forming apparatus and the main body portion in a plan view and a second straight line which connects the cutting device and the main body portion in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Ishizuka, Masayuki Saika, Norieda Ueno, Takashi Komatsu
  • Patent number: 10500628
    Abstract: In a method and an apparatus for reducing the cutting impact in a hydraulically-driven precision blanking press, the force necessary to reduce the cutting impact as a counterforce is generated directly in the pressure chamber of the drive piston such that the counterforce acts directly on the cutting punch and so that the design of the press can be simplified, costs can be reduced, no additional external hydraulic-mechanical means for reducing the cutting impact are needed, and so that the loads on the press and the die can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Feintool International Holding AG
    Inventors: Hans-Ruedi Honegger, Andreas Walther, Alex Wehrli
  • Patent number: 10500629
    Abstract: A process for forming a sheet metal component. The process includes rigidly clamping a piece of sheet metal to a clamping fixture and plastically deforming the sheet metal to produce a shaped component during a first manufacturing step. The shaped component has a first amount of springback. During a second manufacturing step, a pair of electrodes applies one or more pulses of electrical current at one or more locations on the shaped component while the shaped component is still rigidly clamped to the clamping fixture during. The one or more pulses of electrical current applied to the shaped component provide an electrically-assisted manufactured (EAM) shaped component. The EAM shaped component has a second amount of springback that is less than the first amount of springback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: The Penn State Research Foundation
    Inventor: John Timothy Roth
  • Patent number: 10500630
    Abstract: A method is provided for determining the shape of a surgical linking device that is to be attached to a bony body structure such as the spinal column based on digitized locations of a plurality of attachment elements engaged to the bony structure. The method is implemented by a computer system through a GUI to generate an initial bend curve to mate with the plurality of attachment elements. The initial bend curve may be simplified based on user input to the GUI to reduce the number of bends necessary to produce a well-fitting linking device and may be altered to help obtain the goals of surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: NuVasive, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Isaacs
  • Patent number: 10500631
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a one-hand handled riveter, which includes a housing with a left handle on the bottom, and a right handle. The mentioned left handle and right handle are all covered by a handle cover. The mentioned housing is installed with a rivet head and the rivet head is equipped with a pull rod on the rear end. The right handle is connected to the pull rob by the top end. Both sides of the top end of the right handle, are equipped with a support arm. The support arms are connected with the pull rod through a positioning shaft by the top end, and the two support arms are connected to a connecting rod through a pin shaft by the bottom end. And a connecting shaft is arranged to the end of the two connecting rod far away from the support arm. Two L-shaped connecting pieces are respectively connected to two ends of the connecting shaft. A connecting hole is arranged to the front and rear ends of the L-shaped connecting piece, and the connecting shaft passes one of the holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Inventor: Jianming Yuan
  • Patent number: 10500632
    Abstract: A self-piercing rivet installation apparatus includes a rigid C-frame and a drive spindle translatable along a rivet installation axis through a first jaw of the rigid C-frame. An installation head has an installation head mounting end mountable to a leading end of the drive spindle. A mounting post having a mounting post root end is matingly engaged with a jaw socket defined coaxially with the rivet installation axis in a second jaw of the rigid C-frame. A coupling tube has a coupling tube mounting end. A riveting anvil is removably mounted to the coupling tube to form an anvil mounting assembly. The anvil mounting assembly is alternatively mountable on the drive spindle and the mounting post. The installation head is alternatively mountable on the mounting post and the drive spindle opposite the anvil mounting assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: PENN Automotive, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Lewis, Srecko Zdravkovic
  • Patent number: 10500633
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an airfoil includes the steps of depositing multiple layers of powdered metal onto one another. The layers are joined to one another with reference to CAD data relating to a particular cross-section of an airfoil. The airfoil is produced with leading and trailing edges joined by spaced apart pressure and suction sides to provide an exterior airfoil surface. An exterior wall provides the exterior airfoil surface at the leading edge. An impingement wall is integrally formed with the exterior wall to provide an impingement cavity between the exterior wall and the impingement wall. Multiple impingement holes are provided in the impingement wall. The impingement holes are spaced laterally across the impingement wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley, Mark F. Zelesky, Dominic J. Mongillo, Jr., Matthew A. Devore, Steven Bruce Gautschi, Benjamin T. Fisk
  • Patent number: 10500634
    Abstract: A feeder system for metal casting comprising a feeder sleeve mounted on a tubular body. The tubular body has a first end and an opposite second end and a compressible portion therebetween so that upon application of a force in use, the distance between the first and second ends is reduced. The feeder sleeve has a longitudinal axis and comprises a continuous sidewall extending generally around the longitudinal axis that defines a cavity for receiving liquid metal during casting, the sidewall having a base adjacent the second end of the tubular body. The tubular body defines an open bore therethrough for connecting the cavity to the casting. The feeder sleeve has at least one cut-out that extends into the sidewall from the base and the second end of the tubular body projects into the cut-out to a fixed depth. The cut-out can be a groove which is separate from the cavity. The invention also resides in a process employing the feeder system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: FOSECO INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Christof Volks, Harun Öztürk
  • Patent number: 10500635
    Abstract: An apparatus for continuous or semi-continuous low pressure casting of metal, in particular directly-cooled (DC) casting of extended objects such as a rods, bars or billets of aluminium. The apparatus includes a frame construction with at least one chill or mould having a mould cavity that is provided with an upwardly open inlet and an outlet with cooling means. The inlet of the mould is connected to a distribution chamber receiving liquid metal from a metal store such as a holding furnace via a metal supply channel or launder. A flexible launder section is provided between the launder and the metal distribution chamber whereby the frame construction with the moulds and distribution chamber can be raised and lowered to enable complete filling of metal to the moulds. Subsequently it is possible to control the metal level in each respective mould cavity in relation to the metal level in the launder and thereby controlling the low pressure casting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: NORSK HYDRO ASA
    Inventors: Geir Atle Røen, Daniel Anders Sjølset, Arild Håkonsen, Rune Ledal, John Erik Hafsås, Ulf Håkon Tundal
  • Patent number: 10500636
    Abstract: A casting nozzle comprises an elongated body defined by an outer wall and comprising a bore defined by a bore wall and extending along a longitudinal axis, X1, from a bore inlet to a downstream bore end, said bore comprising two opposite side ports, each extending transversally to said longitudinal axis, X1, from an opening at the bore wall defining a port inlet adjacent to the downstream bore end, to an opening at the outer wall defining a port outlet which fluidly connects the bore with an outer atmosphere. Upstream from, and directly above each port inlet, one or two flow deflectors protrude out of the bore wall and extend from an upstream deflector end remote from the port inlet to a downstream deflector end close to the port inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: VESUVIUS USA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Johan Richaud, Martin Kreierhoff, Christian Warmers
  • Patent number: 10500637
    Abstract: The invention discloses a silver-chromium alloy nanowire having a diameter of 18 to 60 nm, a length of 5 to 100 ?m, wherein a molar ratio of the silver to chromium is 1:0.01-3. The preparation method of the silver-chromium alloy nanowire comprises the steps of: a. preparing a reaction solution: formulating a silver source, a chromium source, polyvinylpyrrolidone and a reductive agent into a reaction solution, or adding the materials into deionized water to formulate a reaction solution; and b. performing a reductive reaction: performing a reductive reaction by maintaining the reaction vessel at a temperature of 120° C. to 200° C. for 2-10 hours to obtain a silver-chromium alloy nanowire suspension. The minimum diameter of the silver-chromium alloy nanowire of the present invention may reach 18 nm and its length is usually 20 ?m or above. Thus, it has a broad application prospect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xiaoming Sun, Cheng Wang
  • Patent number: 10500638
    Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is a lubricant to be incorporated into a powder metallurgical mixed powder containing an iron-based powder. The lubricant includes a flaky organic material having an average particle diameter of from 0.1 ?m to less than 3 ?m. Another aspect of the present invention is a powder metallurgical mixed powder which contains an iron-based powder and the lubricant. Yet another aspect of the present invention is a method for producing a sintered compact. The method includes the step of mixing materials to give a powder metallurgical mixed powder containing an iron-based powder and the lubricant. The powder metallurgical mixed powder is compacted using a die to give a powder compact. The powder compact is sintered to give a sintered compact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Ito, Eiichiro Yoshikawa, Nobuaki Akagi, Yuji Taniguchi, Mitsuhiro Sato
  • Patent number: 10500639
    Abstract: A method of making an article includes depositing a plurality of layers to form a three-dimensional preform, sintering the preform to form a sintered preform, and infiltrating the preform with at least one metal to form the article. At least one layer of the plurality of layers is formed from a beryllium-containing composition including beryllium powder. The infiltrating metal can be selected from aluminum and magnesium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Materion Corporation
    Inventor: James Andrew Yurko
  • Patent number: 10500640
    Abstract: Systems and methods for volumetrically fabricating 3D objects. The system includes at least a controller operably connected to a build volume and one or more energy sources. The build volume defines a volumetric buildable size of the object to be fabricated and includes media for fabricating the object therein. The energy source(s) is configured to emit at least a first and second energy beam therefrom. The controller is configured to direct the first and second emitted energy beams towards an intersecting point in the build volume to begin fabricating the media therein. The energy from each of the first and second beams is not sufficient to fabricate the object out of the media. The object is fabricated once multiple beams intersect, as collectively, the energy of the intersecting beams is sufficient to fabricate the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Heiko Claussen, Livio Dalloro, Joshua S. McConkey
  • Patent number: 10500641
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus including a build chamber, build platform lowerable in the chamber so layers of flowable material can successively form across the platform, laser for generating a laser beam, scanning unit for directing the laser beam onto each layer to selectively solidify the material and a processor for controlling the scanning unit. The processor controls the scanning unit directs the laser beam to solidify a selected area of material by advancing the laser beam many times along a scan path. On each pass, the laser beam solidifies spaced apart sections of the scan path, each subsequent pass solidifying sections that are located between sections solidified on a previous pass. The processor controls the scanning unit to direct the laser beam to solidify selected area of material by solidifying sub-millimetre sized sections of non-continuously area and in an order such that consecutively solidified sections are spaced apart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: RENISHAW PLC
    Inventors: Michael Joseph McClelland, Ceri Brown, Ravi Guttamindapalli Aswathanarayanaswamy
  • Patent number: 10500642
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to thermoelectric materials prepared by self-propagating high temperature synthesis (SHS) process combining with Plasma activated sintering and methods for preparing thereof. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to the new criterion for combustion synthesis and the method for preparing the thermoelectric materials which meet the new criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xinfeng Tang, Xianli Su, Qiang Zhang, Xin Cheng, Dongwang Yang, Gang Zheng, Fan Fu, Tao Liang, Qingjie Zhang
  • Patent number: 10500643
    Abstract: The invention provides a green chemistry, aqueous method to synthesize gold nanoparticles directly from bulk gold sources. The method involves the ultrasonication of bulk gold in water in the presence of an alkythiol species and a quaternary ammonium surfactant. An organic bilayer forms on the surface of the gold which renders it susceptible to material ejection from the violent collapse of cavitation bubbles. This ejected material is stabilized in solution by the formation of an organic bilayer and can be easily separated. It can then be subjected to an aqueous digestive ripening step to give a gold nanoparticle ensemble with a well-defined plasmon resonance. This method is applicable to a number of different sources of bulk gold. The method can be applied to an environmentally important problem; the recovery of gold from electronic waste streams. For example, gold nanoparticles can be extracted directly from the surface of SIM cards, with no prior manipulation of the cards necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Dale L. Huber, John Daniel Watt, Jonathan Chavez, Lauren Marie Ammerman
  • Patent number: 10500644
    Abstract: Provided a production method for reducing the content level of sulfur and carbon which are impurities in nickel powder to improve the quality of nickel powder produced by a complexing reduction method. The method of producing nickel powder having low carbon and sulfur concentrations includes: a complexing treatment of adding a complexing agent to a nickel sulfate aqueous solution to form a solution containing nickel complex ions; maintaining the solution containing nickel complex ions at a solution temperature of 150 to 250° C. in a pressure vessel and blowing hydrogen gas into the solution containing nickel complex ions to perform hydrogen reduction to produce nickel powder; washing the nickel powder with water; and then roasting the nickel powder washed with water in a mixed gas atmosphere of nitrogen and hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitomo Ozaki, Shin-ichi Heguri, Kazuyuki Takaishi, Osamu Ikeda, Hideki Ohara, Tomoaki Yoneyama, Yohei Kudo
  • Patent number: 10500645
    Abstract: A method of synthesizing silver nanoparticles using mint can include providing a solution including silver nitrate, providing an extract of mint, mixing the silver nitrate solution and the extract solution to form an aqueous mixture, and resting the aqueous mixture for a period of time to form the silver nanoparticles. The mint can be mint grown and harvested in Medina, Saudi Arabia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: King Saud University
    Inventor: Fozeyah Saleh Almiman
  • Patent number: 10500646
    Abstract: A tube scraping tool comprises: a handle; and a blade, carried by the handle. The tool has first and second laterally spaced apart portions for engaging the tube outer diameter (OD) surface during a drawing of the tool along the tube. The blade has a cutting edge trailing the first and second portions during the drawing and laterally between the first and second portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Georg Fischer Central Plastics LLC
    Inventors: Michael D. Smith, Steven W. Vanantwerp
  • Patent number: 10500647
    Abstract: A cutting tool holder of the kind in which the fastening screw (securing member) remains engaged with the tool holder seat during mounting/dismounting of the cutting insert. The seat is further formed with a support surface configured for engaging and providing support to the head portion of the securing member at least in the securing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: NO SCREW LTD.
    Inventor: Gershon Harif
  • Patent number: 10500648
    Abstract: An elongated tool holder includes a tool anti-vibration component having a component housing portion and an anti-vibration arrangement. The anti-vibration arrangement includes an enclosed interior component cavity formed in the component housing portion. The anti-vibration arrangement also includes a vibration absorber portion disposed within the component cavity that is integrally formed with the component housing portion to have unitary one-piece construction therewith. The vibration absorber portion includes a vibration absorbing mass and at least one elastic suspension member through which the vibration absorbing mass is connected to the component housing portion. The component cavity includes an oscillating space located between an inner surface of the component housing portion and the vibration absorber portion. The vibration absorbing mass is configured to oscillate within the oscillating space upon elastic deformation of the at least one suspension member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventor: Jony Saffouri
  • Patent number: 10500649
    Abstract: When a wheel clamp is used, width of a wheel is detected first, a first servo motor drives a lead screw to rotate, a supporting block and a lifting plate are automatically adjusted to appropriate heights via a nut, a manipulator puts the wheel onto end face blocks, air-tight devices are pressed down, an oil cylinder drives a chuck so that clamping jaws expand the central hole of the wheel, meanwhile, four air cylinders drive clamping blocks to compact outer side of the wheel, and the wheel is completely positioned; at this moment, a bolt hole of the wheel can be drilled; after machining, second servo motor drives right shaft, right lug plate and a turnover part to rotate certain angles via second decelerator; high pressure oil is introduced into cavities between ipsilateral expansion sleeves and end covers, and left and right shafts are separately locked by ipsilateral expansion sleeves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: CITIC Dicastal CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bowen Xue, Jiandong Guo, Yongwang Zhao
  • Patent number: 10500650
    Abstract: A positioning device for drilling including a positioning base which is provided with a positioning through hole, and a plurality of clamping assemblies which are provided on the positioning base and circumferentially spaced round a central axis a, as center, of the positioning through hole. Each of the clamping assemblies includes an abutting part having an adjustable distance from a central axis of the positioning through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiabin Xie, Zailin Hong, Xiaoguang Hong
  • Patent number: 10500651
    Abstract: A hole cutter has a cylindrical blade body including a cutting edge and one or more axially-elongated apertures formed within a side wall of the blade body. The axially-elongated aperture is configured to receive a lever, such as a screwdriver, therethrough. Each axially-elongated aperture includes a first fulcrum axially spaced adjacent to the cutting edge, a second fulcrum axially spaced further away from the cutting edge than the first fulcrum, and optionally a third fulcrum axially spaced between the first and second fulcrums. A lever, such as a screwdriver, can be inserted into the aperture and placed against each of the fulcrums to lever slugs out of the interior of the blade body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: BLACK & DECKER INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Thomas Novak, Matthew Christopher Green
  • Patent number: 10500652
    Abstract: A hole cutter has a cylindrical blade body including a cutting edge and one or more axially-elongated apertures formed within a side wall of the blade body. The axially-elongated aperture is configured to receive a lever, such as a screwdriver, therethrough. Each axially-elongated aperture includes a first fulcrum axially spaced adjacent to the cutting edge, a second fulcrum axially spaced further away from the cutting edge than the first fulcrum, and optionally a third fulcrum axially spaced between the first and second fulcrums. A lever, such as a screwdriver, can be inserted into the aperture and placed against each of the fulcrums to lever slugs out of the interior of the blade body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: BLACK & DECKER INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Thomas Novak, Matthew Christopher Green
  • Patent number: 10500653
    Abstract: Thermally laminated foam boards, methods for making thermally laminated foam boards, apparatus for making thermally laminated foam boards, smaller foam pieces made from thermally laminated foam boards, methods for making smaller foam pieces from thermally laminated foam boards, parts made from thermally laminated foam boards, methods for making parts from thermally laminated foam boards, and tools for making parts from thermally laminated foam boards are disclosed. The thermally laminated foam boards are made by thermally bonding at least two polystyrene boards together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: John F. Budinscak, Jr., Jeffrey J. Van Sloun
  • Patent number: 10500654
    Abstract: A modular cutting tool includes a cutting head, a shank and a mechanism which assists in assembling and locks the cutting head to the shank. The cutting head includes a cutting portion rotatable about a central longitudinal axis and a cylindrical skirt extending axially from the cutting portion and terminating at a contact face disposed perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The skirt has a number of curved inner surfaces which generally define a bore disposed about the longitudinal axis. The shank includes a cylindrical portion of a first diameter disposed about the central longitudinal axis and a central protrusion disposed in the bore of the cutting portion. The central protrusion has a second diameter less than the first diameter and extends longitudinally from a contact face disposed perpendicular to the longitudinal axis at a leading end of the cylindrical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC
    Inventors: Li Ning, Nicholas Henry
  • Patent number: 10500655
    Abstract: A table saw has a base assembly, a table assembly supported by the base assembly, the table assembly, and a saw assembly supported by at least one of the table assembly and the base assembly. The saw assembly has a saw blade extending through the table assembly. The base assembly has at least one foot having a substantially horizontal surface, a substantially vertical surface, and a curved surface disposed between the substantially horizontal surface and the substantially vertical surface. The substantially vertical surface is substantially coplanar with a surface of the table assembly so that the table saw can be disposed on the substantially vertical surface and the surface of the table assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: BLACK & DECKER INC.
    Inventors: Warren A. Ceroll, James D. Schroeder, Peter Chaikowsky, Floyd E. Moreland, Ross A. Billings, Christian V. Elder, Jeremy D. Leasure
  • Patent number: 10500656
    Abstract: A power tool system includes at least one power tool which has at least one workpiece support unit that is configured to support a workpiece during machining, and also includes at least one machining tool device which extends through a workpiece support surface of the workpiece support unit in at least one operating state. The machining tool device includes at least one cutting strand that is configured to be driven in circulation. A ratio of a maximum height of the workpiece support unit to a maximum cutting depth of the machining tool device is less than 4.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Lutz, Robin Schuler, Uwe Engelfried
  • Patent number: 10500657
    Abstract: One or more workpieces having a desired gear geometry may be produced by means of a suitably dressed tool which is respectively dressed by a dresser after the carrying out of one or more machining steps before further machining steps are carried out at the same workpiece or at further workpieces. A relative position between the dresser and the tool may be changed by a corresponding additional adjustment of the axes of movement of the dressing machine in a later dressing process with respect to an earlier dressing process in addition to the smaller center distance resulting from the smaller tool diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Wuerfel
  • Patent number: 10500658
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with: gear chamfering tools that perform cutting for chamfering a tooth profile ridge section of a gear to be cut; tool holding parts for holding the gear chamfering tools at one end portion thereof; substantially linear movement means which cause substantially linear movement of the other end portion opposed to the one end portion for holding the gear chamfering tools in the tool holding parts; and circular movement means for causing circular movement of an intermediate portion between the one end portion for holding the gear chamfering tools and the other end portion subjected to the substantially linear movement by the substantially linear movement means in the tool holding parts. By combining the substantially linear movement means and the circular movement means, substantially elliptical movement of tip end parts of the gear chamfering tools is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINE TOOL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi Masuo
  • Patent number: 10500659
    Abstract: A toothed workpiece having a modified surface geometry may be produced by a diagonal machining method by means of a modified tool. The modification of the tool can be described at least approximately at least locally in the generating pattern in a first direction of the tool by a linear and/or quadratic function; the coefficients of this linear and/or quadratic function are formed in a second direction of the tool which extends perpendicular to the first direction. A pitch and/or crowning of the modification varies in dependence on the angle of rotation of the tool and/or on the tool width position, and a tooth thickness of the modified tool varies in a non-linear manner in dependence on the angle of rotation of the tool and/or on the tool width position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Wuerfel
  • Patent number: 10500660
    Abstract: A wire electric discharge machine provided with a disconnection repairing unit includes a core-fixing-end-position storing unit for storing a core fixing end position of a depositing and accumulating operation machined most lately among positions at which the depositing and accumulating operation for machining wastes by a core fixing function ends in a machining shape currently being machined and a disconnection repairing unit for executing automatic connection between a disconnection position and the core fixing end position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shouta Irie, Kaoru Hiraga
  • Patent number: 10500661
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for controlled processing of high temperature bonding systems via devices to control heating and cooling systems of a high temperature heating bonding includes use of a sinter fixture device including a plate surface, that is shaped to contact and conform to a contacting surface of a TLPS substrate assembly, and a plurality of channels below the plate surface within a base body of the sinter fixture device shaped to receive heating and cooling elements. A first set of the one or more channels includes a plurality of cross-channels, a cooling medium inlet, and a cooling medium outlet, which cross-channels, cooling medium inlet, and cooling medium outlet are in fluid communication with one another. A second set of the one or more channels includes a plurality of heating element passageways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Hannes Martin Hinrich Greve, F. Patrick McCluskey, Shailesh N. Joshi
  • Patent number: 10500662
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for feeding a stream of hot gas to a printed circuit board during convection soldering in a soldering installation. The feed device comprises a nozzle plate (1) having at least one drilled hole (3), which opens into a hot gas nozzle (2) arranged on the nozzle plate (1) and having a nozzle opening (4). The invention is defined in that the hot gas nozzle is formed by a flexible helical spring (2). The invention permits the nozzle plate with the hot gas nozzles to be advanced right up to the printed circuit board under all peripheral conditions which occur. In particular, the printed circuit board can, for instance, be advanced right up to the nozzle plate even when a central support for the printed circuit boards or some other disruptive contour is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: ERSA GMBH
    Inventors: Lothar Endress, Hermann Beck