Patents Issued in February 25, 2020
  • Patent number: 10569311
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to plumbing devices that include an elongated body and an adaptor. The elongated body can define a proximal end and a distal end. The adaptor can be disposed at or mounted to the proximal end of the elongated body. The adaptor can include a cavity. The cavity of the adaptor can be configured and dimensioned to receive therein at least a portion of plumbing equipment. Exemplary embodiments are also directed to methods of plumbing repair and plumbing device systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Moja Industries
    Inventors: John J. Oberto, Andrew Mirabelli
  • Patent number: 10569312
    Abstract: An excess sprayed coating removal device for removing excess sprayed coatings adhering to the inner surface of a crank chamber of a multi-cylinder engine includes: a rotatable nozzle inserted in a first small chamber, movable in a direction parallel to the axial direction of a cylinder bore communicating with the first small chamber, and jets high-pressure water toward the leading end side thereof; and at least a single of shields that are each inserted into a second small chamber adjacent to the first small chamber to face into a communication hole, the shields protecting from the high-pressure water a sprayed coating sprayed on the inner surface of the cylinder bore communicating with the second small chamber. The shields have a block portion in a region facing into the communication hole, the block portion configured to shut the high-pressure water jetted from the nozzle and passes through the communication hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroki Haremaki, Shunji Otani, Seiko Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 10569313
    Abstract: A treatment head for cleaning a container that has a valve arrangement that includes a tappet that is configured to move relative to the treatment head's housing to open the valve arrangement and fluid channels leading into the container. A first channel of the fluid channels has an annular fluid channel section and surrounds the second channel. A flow twister is disposed in either the first channel or in a line connected to the first fluid-channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventor: Hilmar Fickert
  • Patent number: 10569314
    Abstract: A jet nozzle and assembly for removing sludge deposits in oil storage tanks is provided. The jet nozzle can include a rigid conduit connectable to a pressurize liquid supply, a pivotal connection connected to the rigid conduit and a spray nozzle connected to the pivotal connection so that the spray nozzle can pivot around the proximal end of the spray nozzle. The assembly can include a manway cover attachable to a manway of a tank, a flange member provided on the manway cover with an aperture passing through the manway cover and inside the flange member, a valve connected to the flange member and a spool connected to the valve. A cover having an opening passing therethrough can be attached to the spool. The rigid conduit of the jet nozzle can be inserted through the opening in the cover so that the jet nozzle extends inside the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Inventor: Derek J. Hengen
  • Patent number: 10569315
    Abstract: A treatment method for resource recycling of hexavalent chromium-containing residues is provided. This method comprises steps as follows: 1) adding water to the hexavalent chromium-containing residues and mixing uniformly; 2) adding mineralizers to a solution obtained in step 1) and stirring sufficiently to obtain a mixed liquid; and the mineralizers are sodium chlorate, sodium perchlorate and hydrochloric acid; 3) treating the mixed liquid by a hydrothermal method or direct heating; 4) after the heating treatment, naturally cooling a solid-liquid mixture to room temperature for holding; 5) separating solid residues and a chromium-containing supernatant, and washing filtered residues with water and then drying; and 6) recycling a chromium-containing solution for returning to a work section, or for a treatment of recycling chromium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: South China University of Technology
    Inventors: Zhang Lin, Weizhen Liu, Xueming Liu, Wencong Rong
  • Patent number: 10569316
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for two-stage treatment of contaminated particulate material, such as soil, sediment, and/or sludge. The methods and systems utilize a thermal desorption process combined with a smoldering combustion process. The contaminated particulate material is first exposed to thermal desorption at high temperatures (e.g., greater than 150° C.) to form a heated contaminated particulate material. Next, a smoldering combustion process is initiated by introducing a combustion-supporting gas. The combined process can take place in the same or different treatment units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: Gregory P. Rockwell, Sean M. Mercer
  • Patent number: 10569317
    Abstract: A single-crystal diamond includes a pair of main surfaces facing each other, an impurity concentration being changed along a first direction in each of the main surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Nishibayashi, Natsuo Tatsumi, Takuya Nohara, Yutaka Kobayashi, Akihiko Ueda
  • Patent number: 10569318
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus and a cutting blade is capable of restraining a highly-viscous substance from bending while preventing damage to a blade edge part. A pair of the cutting blades are configured for an approaching/separating movement, and the cutting blades are arranged with blade edge parts facing each other while having thickness directions oriented in the same direction. The cutting blades each have a gradually increasing thickness increased from a blade edge leading end toward a blade root part and have blade edge parts that are offset from one another in the thickness direction of the cutting blades. Each of the cutting blades has a surface in the thickness direction made of a material having a hardness lower than the blade edge part of the other cutting blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: NITTAN VALVE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaharu Takahashi, Kazuhiro Ohyou
  • Patent number: 10569319
    Abstract: A sheet metal straightener uses a direct coupled eccentric drive for improved pilot release. A motor, coupled to an eccentric bearing, causes connecting arms to reciprocate. At least one of the banks of rollers is coupled to a pivot hinge, and the connecting arms are coupled to a pivoting bank of rollers, causing the pivoting bank to index toward the other bank of rollers in an engaged position for material straightening, and to index away from the other bank of rollers in a relaxed position for pilot release. The pivoting roller bank is preferably a top roller bank positioned above the lower bank. The motor rotates 360 degrees to complete a full cycle, from fully engaged at 0/360 to fully relaxed at 180. The width and degree of roller engagement may be variable to account for different materials and thicknesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Inventors: Bruce R. Grant, Akshai Nakkana, Ervin Lee Brooks
  • Patent number: 10569320
    Abstract: An angle-indicating tube bender apparatus, system, and method is disclosed. Namely, the presently disclosed subject matter provides a tube bender comprising an angle indicator device that is used to measure and indicate the angle of the tube during the bending process. The angle indicator device can be, for example, a digital protractor, digital angle gauge, or digital angle locator. Further, the tube bender may comprise laser technology that is used to project guiding lines or markers from the bender head for guiding the user. In one example, the guiding lines or markers are projected in a crosshair beam pattern that can be used to ensure the accuracy of one bend with respect to another bend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: WAHOO INNOVATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Robert Lee Nobles
  • Patent number: 10569321
    Abstract: A device for flow-forming workpieces having a rotatable first, outer forming tool for acting upon an outer contour of a first workpiece in the form of a hollow body. The device also has a first, inner forming tool for acting upon an inner contour of the workpiece. The first workpiece can be set in rotation about a first workpiece axis and can be plastically deformed by a pressure applied by the first, inner forming tool and the first, outer forming tool in a forming zone formed between the first forming tools by the material being made to flow between the first forming tools. The device has a drive for driving the first, outer forming tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Repkon Machine and Tool Industry and Trade Inc.
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz Köstermeier
  • Patent number: 10569322
    Abstract: An improved forged wheel trimming die, including a connecting rod, a lower die base lower plate, a bottom plate, a stripper guide pillar, a knockout rod, an ejector block, a lower die base stiffened plate, a lower die base upper plate, a lower die, a stripper plate, follow-up retainer plates, a shearing blade and a trimming rod. The improved forged wheel trimming die has the advantages that by adding two follow-up retainer plates to the stripper plate of the die, burrs of a forged wheel blank are constrained along the radial direction during the cutting, thereby avoiding breakage due to excessive deformation; in this way, the burrs can be protected from damage and knocked out successfully by the knockout rod after being cut off from the blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CITIC Dicastal CO., LTD
    Inventor: Rui Li
  • Patent number: 10569323
    Abstract: A method for loading blanks to a head of the stamping press line includes providing a stack of blanks at a pick-up position; loading blanks from the stack of blanks to the head of the stamping press line; before the stack of blanks is exhausted, creating a buffer by raising a predetermined number of blanks from the top of the stack to a position above the stack; and loading blanks from the buffer to the line while replacing the stack of blanks with a new stack of blanks. A handling system for creating a buffer includes one or more buffer robots with one or more supporting tools on which the blanks can be held, and one or more separating tools to separate one or more blanks at the top of the stack from the underlying blank of the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Roger Pons Bertran, Ramon Casanelles Moix
  • Patent number: 10569324
    Abstract: A method is described for making a retort container having one or two metal ends. A heat-sealable material is present on one or both of the container side wall and the/each metal end. The/each metal end is seamed onto the container body, and the resulting container assembly is conveyed on a conveyor adjacent to an induction sealing head and then adjacent to a cooling device. A pressure belt engages the upper end of the container assembly to keep the metal end from coming off the container body during the induction heating and cooling processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SONOCO DEVELOPMENT, INC.
    Inventors: Trevor Price, Jeremy Morin
  • Patent number: 10569325
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for producing an internal combustion engine piston having at least one cavity which is filled with an alkali metal cooling medium and is subsequently closed. The at least one cavity longitudinally extends from a central point into the piston body toward the piston circumference. The invention further discloses a piston produced according to the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH
    Inventor: Eberhard Weiss
  • Patent number: 10569326
    Abstract: A thin slab nozzle contains a central bore extending downstream along longitudinal axis X1 from an inlet orifice at an upstream end. The central bore comprises an upstream bore portion with a height Ha, in communication with a converging bore portion of height He, in communication with a thin bore portion of height Hf ending at the upstream end of a divider, and first and second front ports separated from one another by the divider and coupled to the central bore portion at least partially at the converging bore portion. X2 is a transverse axis, normal to X1, along which the nozzle becomes thinner in a downstream portion. In a section of the thin slab nozzle along a symmetry plane ?1 defined by X1 and by X2, the bore wall of the converging bore portion is curved at all points, and Hf/He?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignees: ARVEDI STEEL ENGINEERING S.P.A., VESUVIUS U.S.A. CORPORATION
    Inventors: Giovanni Arvedi, Andrea Teodoro Bianchi, Johan Richaud
  • Patent number: 10569327
    Abstract: A die casting system includes a die including at least one die component that defines a die cavity, a spar received within a portion of said die cavity, a shot tube in fluid communication with the die cavity, and a shot tube plunger moveable within the shot tube to communicate a molten metal into the die cavity to cast a hybrid component. The spar establishes an internal structure of the hybrid component, and one of the internal structures and an outer structure of said hybrid component is an equiaxed structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Steven J. Bullied, John Joseph Marcin, Carl R. Verner
  • Patent number: 10569328
    Abstract: A method of making an assembly having a cast iron subassembly. The method may include providing a steel insert having a first joining surface and bonding the steel insert to a cast iron part to form a cast iron subassembly such that the first joining surface may be an exterior surface of the cast iron subassembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: ArvinMeritor Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Melekian
  • Patent number: 10569329
    Abstract: Metal nanoparticles and compositions derived therefrom can be used in a number of different applications. Methods for making metal nanoparticles can include providing a first metal salt in a solvent; converting the first metal salt into an insoluble compound that constitutes a plurality of nanoparticle seeds; and after forming the plurality of nanoparticle seeds, reacting a reducing agent with at least a portion of a second metal salt in the presence of at least one surfactant and the plurality of nanoparticle seeds to form a plurality of metal nanoparticles. Each metal nanoparticle can include a metal shell formed around a nucleus derived from a nanoparticle seed, and the metal shell can include a metal from the second metal salt. The methods can be readily scaled to produce bulk quantities of metal nanoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Kuprion Inc.
    Inventor: Alfred A. Zinn
  • Patent number: 10569330
    Abstract: The present invention provides various passive electronic components comprising a layer of coated particles, and methods for producing and using the same. Some of the passive electronic components of the invention include, but are not limited to conductors, resistors, current collectors, capacitors, piezoelectronic devices, inductors and transformers. The present invention also provides energy storage devices and electrode layers for such energy storage devices having passive, electrically-conductive particles coated with one or more thin film materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: FORGE NANO, INC.
    Inventors: David M. King, Paul Lichty
  • Patent number: 10569331
    Abstract: A three-dimensional printer (1) includes a material supply device (3) that supplies material powder to a table which is movable vertically, a powder retaining wall (26) that surrounds the table and retains the material powder, a material-recovery bucket (30) that accommodates excess material powder and impurities discharged from the powder retaining wall, an impurity removing device (43) that removes the impurities from the material powder, and a material drying device (47) that dries the material powder. The material powder from which the impurities have been removed and which has been dried is returned and recycled to the material supply device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Kawada, Shuji Okazaki
  • Patent number: 10569332
    Abstract: A moulding tool for powder injection moulding a cemented carbide or cermet component includes a through hole. The moulding tool further includes at least a first and a second tool part arranged to define at least one mould cavity for forming a component. At least one inlet channel introduces moulding material into the mould cavity. The inlet channel extends through the first tool part to the mould cavity, and has an outlet end having an outlet opening for discharging moulding material from the inlet channel into the mould cavity. At least one core forms a through hole in the component, the core having an end and being arranged to extend into the mould cavity along a longitudinal axis (X) in a direction towards the outlet opening of the inlet channel. The end of the core is arranged to close the outlet opening of the inlet channel and the core is arranged movably along the longitudinal axis (X) such that the end of the core may engage with the outlet opening of the inlet channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventor: Carl-Åke Gunnar Jansson
  • Patent number: 10569333
    Abstract: A carbon-coated metal powder having few impurities, a narrower particle size distribution, and sintering properties is particularly suitable as a conductive powder of a conductive paste for forming internal conductors in a ceramic multilayer electronic component obtained by co-firing multilayered ceramic sheets and internal conductor layers; a conductive paste containing the carbon-coated metal powder; a multilayer electronic component using the conductive paste; and a method for manufacturing the carbon-coated metal powder. The carbon-coated metal powder has specific properties in TMA or ESCA measurements. The carbon-coated metal powder can be obtained by melting and vaporizing a metallic raw material in a reaction vessel, conveying the generated metal vapor into a cooling tube and rapidly cooling the metal vapor by endothermically decomposing a carbon source supplied into the cooling tube, and forming a carbon coating film on metal nuclei surfaces in parallel with generation of the metal nuclei.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SHOEI CHEMICAL INC.
    Inventors: Yuji Akimoto, Hideki Tanaka, Mineto Iwasaki, Akiko Matsuo
  • Patent number: 10569334
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing a noble-metal powder, the process being capable of producing, at low cost, a noble-metal powder having a narrow particle-size distribution range, high purity and high crystallinity. The present invention relates to a process for producing a noble-metal powder and including a step in which an acidic aqueous solution of both one or more noble-metal compounds and a calcium compound is prepared, a step in which the acidic aqueous solution is added to a basic aqueous solution to yield one or more oxides or hydroxides of the noble metal(s) or a mixture of two or more thereof and yield a calcium hydroxide, a step in which the oxides or hydroxides of the noble metal(s) or the mixture is reduced with a reducing agent, and a step in which a solid matter including a reduced form of the noble metal(s) is separated and heat-treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: TANAKA KIKINZOKU KOGYO K.K.
    Inventors: Takahisa Yamazaki, Akio Nagaoka
  • Patent number: 10569335
    Abstract: The invention discloses a wheel machining tool. A rough turning tool and a finish turning tool are respectively arranged on two sides of a tool head, the primary declination angle ? of the rough turning tool is set to 90° to 120°, and the primary declination angle ? of the finish turning tool is set to 85° to 95°; the axial height difference between the rough turning tool and the finish turning tool is set to 0.2-0.5 mm; the distance c between the rough turning tool and the tool head is set to 5-8 mm, and the distance b between the finish turning tool and the tool head is set to 3-5 mm. The rake angle ? of the rough turning tool is set to 12°-15°, the rake angle ? of the finish turning tool is set to 14°-17°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CITIC DICASTAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Minghua Liu, Yingjun Zhou, Weidong Liu, Xiao Liu, Xiaoguang Huang, Jiandong Guo, Huiying Liu, Yuexin Lu, Zhiyuan Yu, Ruixiao Zhou
  • Patent number: 10569336
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a cutting insert includes an upper surface, a front end surface, and a front cutting edge. The upper surface includes a first protrusion and a second protrusion, and a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface, each of which is located between the first protrusion and the second protrusion. The first surface is inclined downward at a first inclination angle. The second surface is inclined upward at a second inclination angle. The third surface is inclined upward at a third inclination angle. The second surface is located lower than an upper end of each of the first protrusion and the second protrusion. The third surface extends further upward than the upper end of each of the first protrusion and the second protrusion. The third inclination angle is smaller than the second inclination angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Yukihiro Kusuda
  • Patent number: 10569337
    Abstract: A holder for a cutting tool of the present disclosure extends from a first end toward a second end, and includes an inflow port, an outflow port located at a side of the first end, and a flow path extending from the inflow port toward the outflow port. The outflow port includes a first opening and a second opening. The flow path includes a first flow path extending continuously from the inflow port, a second flow path extending continuously from the first flow path through a first branch port to the first opening, and a third flow path extending continuously from the first flow path through a second branch port to the second opening. The first branch port is larger than the second branch port. An outflow through the first opening is greater than an outflow through the second opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Youji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10569338
    Abstract: A composite sintered body cutting tool is made of a composite sintered body comprising a TiCN-based cermet layer; and a WC-based cemented carbide layer. The angle between the rake face and the flank face of the cutting tool is 90°. The rake face including a cutting edge of the cutting tool is constituted from the WC-based cemented carbide layer, in which 4 to 17 mass % of an iron group metal component and 75 mass % or more of W are included; and a major hard phase component is WC. The thickness of the WC-based cemented carbide layer is 0.05 to 0.3 times the thickness of the composite sintered body. The TiCN-based cermet layer is constituted from a single layer of a TiCN-based cermet layer, including at least, 4 to 25 mass % of an iron group metal component, less than 15 mass % of W, 2 to 15 mass % of Mo, 2 to 10 mass % of Nb and 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Igarashi, Akihiro Murakami
  • Patent number: 10569339
    Abstract: In a surface-coated cutting tool, a hard coating includes one or more layers. At least one layer thereof is a hard coating layer composed of a complex nitride or carbonitride layer of Al, Cr, and Si and satisfying (Al1-x-yCrxSiy)(CzN1-z) where x, y and z are atomic ratios and satisfy 0.1?x?0.4, 0.01?y?0.2, and 0?z?0.3, respectively. The hard coating layer contains particles including: less than 10 atomic % of non-metal components selected from C and N; and metal components selected from Cr, Al and Si. In the cross-section perpendicular to the tool body surface, the number ratio of oblate particles with an Al content of 50 atomic % or less, a long diameter of less than 0.5 ?m, and an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more is 90% or more with respect to the total number of the particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Senbokuya, Masakuni Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Ogami, Tatsuo Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10569340
    Abstract: A cutter assembly for a boring bar may include a cutter body, a cutter-element carrier, and an adjustment assembly having an adjustment element. The cutter-element carrier may be configured to be slidingly received in a channel in the cutter-body. The cutter-element carrier may have a first surface transverse to the first line. The adjustment element may have a second surface defining a position of the cutter-element carrier in the channel when the second surface is in contact with the first surface. The adjustment element may be movable along a second line transverse to the first surface for adjusting the position of the cutter-element carrier in the channel. The cutter body may include first and second recess portions. First and second insert portions may be inserted into the first and second recess portions, respectively, and may define float travel-limits for the cutter body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Paul Gehlsen
  • Patent number: 10569341
    Abstract: A contouring head includes a sleeve and coaxially mounted spindle connected by means of a yoke to a slide mounted by first and second sets of roller bearings to and between a slide track and a pair of keeper plates which hold the slide to the slide plate and within a slide track formed therein. A yoke interconnects the spindle to the slide to convert axial motion of the spindle into radial motion of the slide. A tool mount in the form of a pot is connected to the slide to control the radial position of a single edged cutting tool. A cover is mounted on the keeper plates and slide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: LINTECH
    Inventor: Conrad B. Lindstrom
  • Patent number: 10569342
    Abstract: A method and a device applying surface structuring to a surface of a workpiece on a machine tool, performing a feed motion of a milling cutter which is rotationally driven by a work spindle of the machine tool, received in a tool head of the machine tool and has at least one protruding cutting edge along the surface of the workpiece; applying the surface structuring in accordance with a predetermined pattern to the surface of the workpiece during the feed motion of the milling cutter on the basis of a control signal to an actuator which is integrated in the tool head and is configured to drive a vibration of the milling cutter on the basis of the control signal, wherein the control signal contains high-frequency carrier signal and a useful signal which modulates the carrier signal and which is generated on the basis of data indicating the predetermined pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SAUER GMPH
    Inventor: Jens Ketelaer
  • Patent number: 10569343
    Abstract: An attachment retainer having a collar that, when at a collar locked position, has a first surface that is positioned above an open end of a passageway of a spindle to assist in retaining locking members in locking engagement with a driven tool. When in a collar release position, a second surface of the collar is positioned above the open end of the passageway to provide a space to receive a portion of the locking members so that the locking members can be disengaged from the driven tool. A plunger is displaceable to a position beneath another opening of the passageway to assist in retaining locking members in the passageway. A cam surface of a release ring can engage, and facilitate linear displacement of, release members as the release ring is rotated, which can facilitate axial displacement of the collar from the collar locked position to the collar release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company
    Inventor: Mark T. McClung
  • Patent number: 10569344
    Abstract: A method and system are provided to position and drill an opening for a fastener through one or more workpieces. In the context of a method, a peen mark is formed on a workpiece at a location at which the opening is to be drilled. The method also includes utilizing a robotic vision system to identify the peen mark on the workpiece and thereafter drilling the opening configured to receive the fastener at the location designated by the peen mark. In the context of a system, the system includes a dot peen marking system configured to form a peen mark on a workpiece at a location at which the opening is to be drilled. The system also includes a robot comprising a vision system configured to identify the peen mark on the workpiece and a drilling machine configured to drill the opening at the location designated by the peen mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Hasan A. Ghadialy, Robert William Grube, Ty Aaby Larsen
  • Patent number: 10569345
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a body having a cutting edge. A plurality of cutting teeth is formed on the cutting edge. Each cutting tooth includes a tip, a rake face extending from the tip, a planar primary relief surface extending from the tip, and a concave secondary relief surface extending from the primary relief surface. The cutting tool further includes a plurality of non-cutting protrusions formed on the cutting edge. Each non-cutting protrusion includes an apex, a leading edge extending from the apex, and a trailing edge extending from the apex. A plurality of primary and secondary gullets is formed on the cutting edge. Each primary gullet is formed between the secondary relief surface of one cutting tooth and the leading edge of one non-cutting protrusion. Each secondary gullet is formed between the rake face of one cutting tooth and the trailing edge of one non-cutting protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Jason M. Thom, Geoffrey R. Piller, Ryan J. Malloy
  • Patent number: 10569346
    Abstract: A rotary cutting tool includes a cutting head and a tool shank, each having an axial abutment surface and a plurality of drive surfaces. One of the two includes a locating pin, while the other includes a pin receptacle and at least one clamping through bore that opens out to the pin receptacle. The locating pin is received into the pin receptacle. The cutting head and tool shank are releasably clamped together by at least one clamping member that passes through the at least one clamping through bore and acts on the locating pin so that the drive surfaces and the axial abutment surfaces on each part abut each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.
    Inventors: Gil Hecht, David Ben Harouche
  • Patent number: 10569347
    Abstract: A deep hole drilling system and methods provide stability and cutting performance to produce deep holes having desired straightness. The system may include a replaceable cutting head provided with a center cutting member and first and second side cutting inserts. The tool provides a major diameter with the OD cutting margins on the replaceable side inserts, as well as possibly cutting margins on the center cutting member. Adjustment mechanisms are provided to adjust the center cutting member and/side cutting inserts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: ALLIED MACHINE & ENGINEERING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul W. Best, Salvatore D. Deluca, Lucas S. Dummermuth, David J. Carlisle
  • Patent number: 10569348
    Abstract: A fluting method for forming a flute in a workpiece while the workpiece is moved relative to a rotating tool by the combination of a rotating feed shaft with other feed shafts, the method comprising a machining process of relatively moving the rotating tool on a tool path that runs along the direction in which the flute extends and machining the workpiece using a rotating tool with a diameter that is smaller than the width of the flute. The machining process changes the relative position of the rotating tool with respect to the workpiece and performs machining multiple times so that the rotating tool makes internal contact with a circle that has the width of the flute being formed in the workpiece as the diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: MAKINO MILLING MACHINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Masumiya, Keitaro Suzuki, Kyohei Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10569349
    Abstract: The present invention shows a process for gear manufacturing machining a workpiece by a tool on a gear manufacturing machine, wherein the workpiece is machined by a generating machining process in which the tool for gear manufacturing machining rolls off on the workpiece at a predefined center distance and axial cross angle, wherein the gear manufacturing machining preferably takes place on two flanks, with a desired tooth trace shape and/or tooth thickness of the gearing being generated by the generating machining process. The process is characterized in that an additional condition is predefinable and in that the center distance and the axial cross angle are determined in dependence on the desired tooth trace shape and/or tooth thickness of the gearing and on the additional condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Wuerfel
  • Patent number: 10569350
    Abstract: A fixing device (1) for fixing workpieces, to fix substantially rod-shaped workpieces and workpieces to be machined by wire erosion or lasing, including a support apparatus (20) with a plurality of shaped elements (21) for accommodating and supporting a plurality of workpieces in the correspondingly formed shaped elements (21), and for positioning and fixing the workpieces in at least one translatory degree of freedom (22) in the shaped elements (21), wherein the fixing device (1) has a clamping apparatus (50) by means of which pressure force (52) can be applied to a plurality of workpieces accommodated in the shaped elements (21) so that the workpieces are fixed in the clamping apparatus (50) at least in a friction lock due to the applied pressure force, and wherein the support apparatus (20) as shaped elements (21) includes a plurality of passages (30) through which the workpieces can be guided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: RETERO GMBH
    Inventors: Helmut Retter, Abdelmajid Saadellaoui
  • Patent number: 10569351
    Abstract: A control device of soldering device identifies the type of lead component to be soldered when soldering multiple types of lead components sequentially with jet device and reads out a value of a soldering parameter corresponding to the lead component type from an HDD. Then, the control device controls jet device so that the lead component is soldered based on the value of the soldering parameter. As a result, the lead of the lead component is soldered with the value of the soldering parameter corresponding to the type of the lead component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Otsubo, Noriaki Iwaki
  • Patent number: 10569352
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutting torch system having an ignition mode and a cooling and cleaning mode. The cutting torch system comprises a cutting torch (1) having a cutting oxygen channel (4), a heating oxygen channel (5), and a fuel gas channel (6) The heating oxygen channel (5) and the fuel gas channel (6) are connected to an ignition mixer (7) and a fuel gas shut-off valve (8) is arranged upstream of the ignition mixer (7). The fuel gas shut-off valve (8) is configured to be open in the ignition mode and closed in the cleaning and cooling mode. The ignition mixer (7) is adapted for mixing heating oxygen and fuel gas into an ignition gas and communicating the ignition gas into the cutting oxygen channel (4) in the ignition mode, and for communicating heating oxygen into the cutting oxygen channel (4) in the cleaning and cooling mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: GCE HOLDING AB
    Inventors: Martin Roubicek, Jiri Polivka, Gareth Pemberton
  • Patent number: 10569353
    Abstract: A tip dresser blade blank includes a casting, wherein the casting is ground to provide a geometry having a web width in the range of 0.25 mm to 3.00 mm, inclusive, a first blade depth in the range of 1.00 mm to 3.00 mm, inclusive, a second blade depth in the range of 2.30 mm to 6.30 mm, inclusive, a first Profile Angle in the range of 2 degrees to 35 degrees, inclusive, a first Cutting Edge in the range of 0.010 mm to 0.035 mm, inclusive, and a second Cutting Edge in the range of 0.010 mm to 0.035 mm, inclusive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Semtorq, Inc.
    Inventor: Greg Lanham
  • Patent number: 10569354
    Abstract: A method for assembling cable wrapping tapes. From an adhesive tape parent roll, strip-like adhesive tapes (11), each having two cut edges (12a) on the sides, are produced from a textile material which has an adhesive coating (12) on one side, by cutting in the drawing direction of the parent roll. The cutting is performed using an ultrasound-excited cutting tool (1) and wherein the cutting is performed using a cooled cutting tool (1). An adhesive tape (11), having a strip-like textile carrier material (13) and an adhesive coating (12) applied to one side and two cut edges (12a) on the sides. The cut edges (12a) are created by ultrasound cutting, and the textile carrier material (13) of the carrier is fused to its cut edges (12a). No adhesive coating (12) exists on the cut edges (12a); which are free of lint and threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Coroplast Fritz Müller GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Christoph Lodde, Gülay Wittig, Thomas Zakrzowski, Klaus Becker
  • Patent number: 10569355
    Abstract: A method of operating a linear friction welding system in one embodiment includes positioning a phase change assembly driven by a motor in different configurations to establish different phase relationships between two eccentrically engaged power shafts while one of the power shafts is driven by the motor and the other power shaft is driven by the phase change assembly. In one phase change assembly configuration a ram operably connected to one of two components to be welded does not vibrate when the first power shaft and the second power shaft rotate while in another phase change assembly configuration the ram vibrates. Pressure between the two components is controlled to provide scrub pressure when the ram vibrates and forge pressure when the ram is no longer vibrating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: APCI, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen A. Johnson
  • Patent number: 10569356
    Abstract: Described are deburring tools useful for deburring a friction stir weld, methods of forming a friction stir weld combined with a deburring step, and assemblies such as electronic device enclosures that include a deburred friction stir weld.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Jerome Thomas Coffey, Samuel Edward Severson, Jeffrey L. Bruce, Patrick J. Hains
  • Patent number: 10569357
    Abstract: A scanned optical beam is divided so as to form a set of scanned subbeams. To compensate for scan errors, a portion of at least one subbeam is detected and a scan error estimated based on the detected portion. A beam scanner is controlled according to the estimated error so as to adjust a propagation direction of some or all of the set of scanned subbeams. The scanned subbeams with adjusted propagation directions are received by an f-theta lens and directed to a work piece. In typical examples, the portion of the at least one subbeam that is detected is obtained from the set of scanned subbeams prior to incidence of the scanned subbeams to the f-theta lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: nLIGHT, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott R. Karlsen, Robert J. Martinsen
  • Patent number: 10569358
    Abstract: A laser processing system capable of appropriately adjusting a timing to switch a laser output command with respect to the movement of an axis, and improving synchronization accuracy between the movement of the axis and a cutting position. A block remaining time of a block in execution is compared to a predetermined switching time. When the block remaining time is equal to or larger than the switching time, a laser output command of the current block is continued. On the other hand, when the block remaining time is smaller than the switching time, the laser output command to a laser oscillator is switched from the command of the current block to a command of a block subsequent to the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10569359
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for cutting out a workpiece section along a target path from a plate-shaped workpiece using a laser beam of a laser cutting machine having a first drive for moving the workpiece along a first drive axis, a second drive for moving a laser cutting head along the first drive axis. Target values of the target path of the laser beam are divided into target values for the first drive and for the second drive. Before the laser beam reaches a cutting-out end position of the workpiece section, the target values for the first drive are set to a constant value, so that after braking of the first drive, the cutting out of the workpiece section is only still executed by moving the laser cutting head and the workpiece comes to a stop at latest at the cutting-out end position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: TRUMPF Werkseugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Hermann Renz, Frank Schmauder, Dieter Pfisterer, Jochen Bellon, Harald Mathias
  • Patent number: 10569360
    Abstract: A double nozzle for a laser processing head includes an inner body portion having an interior surface defining a first bore, and an exterior surface, the bore aligned with a central longitudinal axis of the body. The double nozzle includes an outer body portion having an interior surface defining a second bore that is substantially aligned to the longitudinal axis. The outer body portion is matingly engaged with a region of the exterior surface of the inner body portion. The region between the exterior surface of the inner body portion and the interior surface of the outer body portion defines at least six coaxial fluid flow paths through an interior annular flow volume of the double nozzle. Each fluid flow path is defined at least in part by a corresponding feature formed in at least one of the inner body portion or the outer body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Hypertherm, Inc.
    Inventors: Joe Ciambra, Sanjay Garg, Kenneth J. Woods, David J. Cook, Davide Orlandi