Patents Issued in June 30, 2020
  • Patent number: 10695787
    Abstract: An aerosol generator (100) has a vibratable plate (1) with apertures therein and an annular piezo (2) which causes movement of the vibratable plate (1). An annular support member (3) supports the piezo (2) and the vibratable plate (1). A first electrical power conducting pin (10) engages directly with a first, top, surface of the piezo (2). A second electrical power conducting pin (11) indirectly conducts electrical power to a second surface of the piezo (2), by contacting an extension tab (103) of the support member (20), also on its top side. There is a film of cured epoxy adhesive on the tab (103), providing excellent gripping force between the pin (11) and the support (3). The aerosol generator (100) avoids need for soldered joints for electrical contact, and the pins are conveniently mounted parallel to each on the on the same lateral and top side of the piezo and support member. The pins may have multi-point tips (50) for particularly effective electrical contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: STAMFORD DEVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: Brendan Hogan, Kieran Hyland, Anthony Redmond
  • Patent number: 10695788
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a decorative cup. The decorative cup includes a shell. A water pump apparatus is disposed in the shell. The water pump apparatus includes a water pump shell. A motor is disposed in the water pump shell. A shock absorption layer is disposed between the motor and an inner surface of the water pump shell. Through the arrangement of the shock absorption layer, the vibration during operation of the motor can be absorbed effectively, so that the motor is operated more efficiently and the motor is operated more quietly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Inventor: Yanyan Shang
  • Patent number: 10695789
    Abstract: A device for processing a strip guided along a running direction may include a roller holder disposed on a base frame so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis oriented substantially parallel to a strip running surface. A first processing roller may be disposed on the roller holder in the running direction and at a distance from the pivot axis perpendicular to the running direction and offset from the pivot axis such that by pivoting the roller holder, the first processing roller is moved toward the strip and the processing roller is moved away from the strip. A first counter-processing roller may be disposed transversely to the running direction at a further distance from the pivot axis than the first processing roller such that the first processing and counter-processing rollers interact to guide the strip if the first processing roller is moved toward the strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Detlef Bosselmann, Michael Nowak, Gerold Raspudic, Josef Schneider, Reinhard Täger
  • Patent number: 10695790
    Abstract: One general aspect includes a liquid dispenser with a mount having a mount aperture. A liquid flow path assembly is removably secured to the mount and has an inlet configured to receive liquid, an outlet configured to dispense liquid and a passageway fluidly coupling the inlet to the outlet. A third aperture apart from the inlet and the outlet is fluidly coupled to the passageway and forming a valve guide. The liquid flow path assembly is disposed on the mount to align the third aperture with the mount aperture. An elongated valve has a valve stem guided by the valve guide and extends through the third aperture and the mount aperture. A latch assembly secures the liquid flow path assembly to the mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Par Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Zalusky, James Cunov, Adam Marsh
  • Patent number: 10695791
    Abstract: A method of applying a viscous material to a fastener comprises aligning a nozzle relative to the fastener by engaging an aligner with the fastener. Engaging the aligner with the fastener comprises positioning the aligner over the fastener and advancing a biasing tube toward the fastener to establish contact between the aligner and a structure to partially retract the aligner into the biasing tube until a plurality of surfaces of the aligner contacts one or more outer surfaces of the fastener. A flexible wall of a dispenser bellows is deflected by expanding a pressure-application device, which is configured to apply pressure on the flexible wall of the dispenser bellows, wherein the dispenser bellows is in fluid communication with the nozzle. The viscous material is expelled from the dispenser bellows responsive to deforming the flexible wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Solomon T. Atsebha
  • Patent number: 10695792
    Abstract: A processing liquid is supplied to an upper surface of a horizontally-held substrate to form a liquid film of the processing liquid that covers an entirety of the substrate upper surface. The substrate is heated to evaporate the processing liquid in contact with the upper surface of the substrate to form a gas phase layer between the upper surface of the substrate and the liquid film of the processing liquid. After the gas phase layer has been formed, a gas is blown onto the liquid film above the substrate to open a hole in the liquid film. The gas is blown onto a region inside the hole in the liquid film to move the liquid film on the gas phase layer. A direction of a gas stream at a substrate outer peripheral portion is changed to remove the liquid film at the substrate outer peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Okutani, Takashi Ota, Hiroshi Abe, Naohiko Yoshihara
  • Patent number: 10695793
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for forming a multilayer coating film including an intermediate coating film formation step of applying an aqueous intermediate coating composition to an object to be coated to form an uncured intermediate coating film; a base coating film formation step of applying an aqueous base coating composition onto the resulting uncured intermediate coating film to form an uncured base coating film; and a curing step of curing the resulting uncured intermediate coating film and the base coating film by heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Miho Oka, Makoto Shimizu, Yoshiki Takaira, Manabu Horiuchi, Daisuke Segawa
  • Patent number: 10695794
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for vapor deposition of an organic film are configured to vaporize an organic reactant at a first temperature, transport the vapor to a reaction chamber housing a substrate, and maintain the substrate at a lower temperature than the vaporization temperature. Alternating contact of the substrate with the organic reactant and a second reactant in a sequential deposition sequence can result in bottom-up filling of voids and trenches with organic film in a manner otherwise difficult to achieve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: ASM IP Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Viljami J. Pore, Marko Tuominen, Hannu Huotari
  • Patent number: 10695795
    Abstract: A fireproof, translucent, flexible coated fabric composite materials for use in fire curtains. The composite material meets or exceeds regulatory requirements in terms of fire endurance and allows transmissivity of necessary amounts of light. The process of the present disclosure combines a silica fabric with a special refractory index controlled resin. This unique combination of materials can transform an opaque high temperature fabric into a translucent, and even transparent, composite which as the ability to resist high temperature, flame and smoke penetration that fills a needed gap in technology between visibility and fire resistance in the field of fire and smoke curtains used in civil construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Fire Curtains, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas J. Bailey
  • Patent number: 10695796
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a long fiber composite material according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: preparing a main body where inlets and outlets through which a plurality of fiber bundles are respectively charged into and discharged from are formed; adjusting a height of a plurality of first through-hole plates and a height of a second through-hole plate that are disposed in the main body to be the same; having the plurality of fiber bundles penetrated through the first through-hole plate and the second through-hole plate; and adjusting the height of the first through-hole plate and the height of the second through-hole plate to be different from each other after penetrating the plurality of fiber bundles through the first through-hole plate and the second through-hole plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: LOTTE CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Young-Bum Kim
  • Patent number: 10695797
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for coating interior surfaces of products with coating material. The systems and methods can include at least one plug to selectively close an opening of the product, wherein the plug is movable relative to the opening between a first position in which the plug is retracted from the opening and a second position in which the plug is engaged with the opening to seal the opening. When the plug is in the second position, a pump delivers coating material to the cavity of the product via a fluid line and a port in the plug. The coating material can fill the cavity, and an electrode can be energized to coat the interior surface of the product with an electrophoretic deposition process. Other coating processes can also be used in a similar manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SST Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Chad Martin Andreae, Robert G. Rock, Bradley S. Andreae, Daniel M. Reichel
  • Patent number: 10695798
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for calibrating a treatment probe comprising at least one cylindrical transducer for generating high-intensity focused ultrasound in a target focus point, the probe being designed to be electrically connected to a power supply source for supplying an electrical signal for the power supply of the transducer, characterised in that the method comprises a step (20) of adjusting a frequency of the electrical signal for the power supply of the transducer in such a way that the variation between the maximum vibration intensity and the minimum vibration intensity of the transducer along the width thereof is minimal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: EYE TECH CARE
    Inventors: Thomas Charrel, Laure Baffie
  • Patent number: 10695799
    Abstract: A control method for a vibration-type actuator which prevents the vibration-type actuator from becoming inoperable during operation. To drive the vibration-type actuator when a load for moving a vibrating body and a driven body relatively to each other is relatively high, a first frequency falling within a frequency range including a frequency at which thrust of the vibration-type actuator reaches its peak is set as a starting frequency of AC voltage applied to an electro-mechanical energy conversion element of the vibrating body. To drive the vibration-type actuator when the load is relatively low, a third frequency lower than the first frequency and higher than a second frequency is set as the starting frequency, the second frequency being a frequency at which a moving speed at which the driving body and the driven body move relatively to each other reaches its peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Oda
  • Patent number: 10695800
    Abstract: A sieve bend can include a support structure supporting a screening arrangement. The screening arrangement can include a first screening segment having a first screening element configuration and at least one further screening segment having a second screening element configuration different from the first screening element configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Aqseptence Group Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: David John Lazzarini, Yusuf Cajee, Ian Robert Solomon
  • Patent number: 10695801
    Abstract: Various arrangements are presented for cleaning and sorting transaction cards. A transaction card may be dispensed from an intake magazine that houses a plurality of smartcards. The transaction card may be moved along a cleaning assembly. After cleaning the transaction card, the transaction card may be sorted and output into an output magazine. A card sensor may be used to determine when a next transaction card should be dispensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: Jimmy A. Pollard, Zachary S. Morrison, Aldo Alvidrez
  • Patent number: 10695802
    Abstract: A suction nozzle which has a suction chamber with an underlying sump. The suction chamber is defined by a chamber top, a chamber bottom and a peripheral sidewall. Suction draws liquids through the inflow openings in the peripheral sidewall into the suction chamber. The sump underlies the suction chamber. Particles and denser liquids drawn toward the suction chamber tend to migrate along the sump top, passing down sloped surfaces and through a central inlet into the sump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: BEARSPAW SEPARATORS INC
    Inventor: Jim Rathwell
  • Patent number: 10695803
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus configured and adapted to provide less carryover in an automated clinical analyzer are disclosed. The methods include immersing a pipette into a neutralizing liquid vessel and aspirating a neutralizing liquid (e.g., a hypochlorite solution) into an interior of a pipette. The aspirated portion of the neutralizing liquid used to cleanse the pipette interior is then dispensed back into the neutralizing liquid vessel, rather than disposing of the used neutralizing liquid to a waste station. Apparatus and systems configured to carry out the methods are provided, as are other aspects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Gebauer, Moses Peter
  • Patent number: 10695804
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a cleaning device and methods for cleaning an object. In one embodiment, the object is cleaned by moving a clean head along a surface of the object. Supercritical carbon dioxide fluid is delivered by supercritical carbon dioxide fluid vessel to the surface of the object. The supercritical carbon dioxide fluid and contamination material are removed from the object by a vacuum pump to a detector. One or more measurements of the contamination material are determined by the detector. Samples of the contamination material are collected by a collector. A contamination level of the surface of the object is determined by an analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Roman M. Mostovoy, Suketu Arun Parikh, Todd Egan
  • Patent number: 10695805
    Abstract: A control system for cleaning and monitoring a sensor assembly disposed externally on a vehicle is provided and includes a contaminant detection/identification sub-system that measures a resonant frequency of the sensor assembly to detect contaminants disposed on an exposed surface of the sensor assembly. A cleaning sub-system is provided and includes cleaning modes that expel the contaminants from the exposed surface of the sensor assembly. A temperature monitoring device monitors a temperature of an actuator disposed in the sensor assembly and a fault detection device detects faults in the sensor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: David Patrick Magee, Stephen John Fedigan
  • Patent number: 10695806
    Abstract: A method of utilizing construction and demolition waste is disclosed. The method comprises pretreating the construction and demolition waste into particles with a predetermined range of size; and obtaining calcium carbonate from the particles. The method of the present invention enables to recycle a wide range of construction and demolition waste, furthermore it can convert these waste materials into the high purity calcium carbonate which can be widely used in many applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: YUANCHU TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Wei, Qi Wang
  • Patent number: 10695807
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for forming a round bar into variable shapes, comprising: a main body provided with a plate portion with a circular shape having a plate hole formed in a center thereof, having plate protrusions protruding to the plate portion in a radial shape, and a turn gear connecting portion formed at an outer circumference surface of the plate portion; a round bar forming portion coupled between the plate protrusions and having a slide mold seated on the plate portion and a forming roll coupled to the slide mold to rotate; and a turn gear having a donut shape, provided with a turn gear protruding portion with a circular arc shape having different diameters from a center in an inner surface thereof, and disposed between the slide mold and the turn gear connecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Hanyoung Machinery
    Inventor: Young Sik Lee
  • Patent number: 10695808
    Abstract: In an aluminum foil rolling process, first and second aluminum foils are provided, each having first and second faces, one face between the first and second faces is lubricated to obtain a first lubricated face. The foils are coupled to obtain a coupled foil having two outer faces and rolling the coupled foil, reducing the thickness of the coupled foil. One face between the two outer faces of the coupled foil is lubricated to obtain a coupled foil having a second lubricated face. The coupled foil is then wound to obtain a wound coupled foil. The coupled foil is partially separated by unwinding one of the first and second foils, to obtain a wound coupled foil. The wound coupled foil is unwound and rolled to obtain a coupled foil with reduced thickness and is then separated to obtain first and second foils with respective first and second reduced thicknesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Inventor: Fabrizio Guasta
  • Patent number: 10695809
    Abstract: A method for producing hot-rolled, seamless pipes having at least one wall thickening which can be arranged at any positions over the length of the pipe, wherein by means of a multiple-stand mandrel bar rolling mill, the rolls roll a hollow shell on a mandrel bar as an inner tool to a required nominal wall thickness and produce at specified positions over the length of the pipe a required wall thickening on the outer side of the pipe by opening the rolls in the rolling stands. The thickened wall is produced and finish-rolled by two rolling stands that are consecutive as seen in the rolling direction, in which the deviations of the finished contour of the thickening from an ideal circular cross-section are minimised, wherein the rolling stands located upstream are likewise opened as to avoid any contact of the rolls of these rolling stands with the previously produced thickening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Vallourec Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Rolf Kümmerling, Henrike Bröker, Thorsten Anke
  • Patent number: 10695810
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the invention, a descaling system is provided that includes multiple descaling headers, a common pipe, a connection pipe, a pump, a drive device, a branch pipe, a valve, and a control device. The multiple descaling headers are provided in a rolling line. The common pipe is connected to each of the multiple descaling headers. The connection pipe is connected to the common pipe. The pump is connected to the connection pipe and supplies high pressure water to each of the multiple descaling headers via the connection pipe and the common pipe. The drive device controls the driving of the pump. The branch pipe is connected to the connection pipe. The valve is provided in the branch pipe and controls the opening/closing of the branch pipe. The control device includes a data collector, a pressure calculator, a pump controller, and a protector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zijun Lu, Kei Kubota
  • Patent number: 10695811
    Abstract: A shear assisted extrusion process for producing cladded materials wherein a cladding material and a material to be cladded are placed in sequence with the cladded material positioned to contact a rotating scroll face first and the material to be cladded second. The two materials are fed through a shear assisted extrusion device at a preselected feed rate and impacted by a rotating scroll face to generate a cladded extrusion product. This process allows for increased through wall strength and decreases the brittleness in formed structures as compared to the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Vineet V. Joshi, Glenn J. Grant, Curt A. Lavender, Scott A. Whalen, Saumyadeep Jana, David Catalini, Jens T. Darsell
  • Patent number: 10695812
    Abstract: A technique for optimizing metal extrusion process parameters includes receiving values representing properties of an extrusion press machine, and calculating an estimated surface exit temperature of a metal work product resulting from an extrusion of a metal billet using the extrusion press machine based on the machine property values, an initial temperature of the metal billet prior to the extrusion, an extrusion force applied to the metal billet during the extrusion, and an extrusion speed of the metal work product. The estimated surface exit temperature of the metal work product is compared with a target hot shortness exit temperature of the metal work product. The initial temperature of the metal billet, the extrusion speed, and the extrusion force are changed based on the comparison until the estimated surface exit temperature equals the target hot shortness exit temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Boothroyd Dewhurst, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Rapoza
  • Patent number: 10695813
    Abstract: A portable workstation includes a frame, a plurality of wheels coupled to the frame, a handle coupled to the frame, a pneumatic inlet port coupled to the frame and a pump coupled to the frame and pneumatically coupled to the pneumatic inlet port. The pump pumps hydraulic fluid. A plurality of hydraulic outlet ports is coupled to the frame and is hydraulically coupled to the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Inventor: Michael J. Marx
  • Patent number: 10695814
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a press-formed product includes: a first step of preparing a long material having a bending portion; and a second step of decreasing curvature of the bending portion while restricting both ends of the long material in a longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jun Nitta, Tohru Yoshida, Hiroshi Yoshida, Nobuo Yoshikawa, Shigeru Yonemura
  • Patent number: 10695815
    Abstract: A press-formed product is shaped by press-working from a tailored blank made up of a plurality of metal sheets butt-welded together. The press-formed product includes a flange section, and an arc-shaped area which is an area of the flange section which is formed by stretch flange deformation, and in which an inner peripheral edge is open. A weld line of the tailored blank intersects with the inner peripheral edge and an outer peripheral edge of the arc-shaped area. An angle ? formed by the weld line and a maximum principal strain direction of the stretch flange deformation is 17 to 84°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Saito, Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Kenichiro Otsuka, Yasuhiro Ito, Masanori Yasuyama, Masatoshi Tokunaga
  • Patent number: 10695816
    Abstract: An adjustable insertion-depth tube flaring tool is provided. A selector housing is disposed on a yoke. An adjustment nut is disposed within the selector housing. An adjustment screw is disposed within at least one of the selector housing and the yoke. A clutch housing has therein at least one biasing element, at least one lower clutch plate, and at least one upper clutch plate. An upper clutch plate rotation supporting element interacts with a lower clutch plate rotation supporting element to facilitate rotation of the upper clutch plate over the lower clutch plate in one direction. At least a portion of a shaft proximal end and an upper clutch plate inner wall are shaped to interact with one another in such a manner that the upper clutch plate is selectively prevented from rotating about the shaft proximal end when the upper clutch plate is disposed on the shaft proximal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: STRIDE TOOL, LLC
    Inventors: Leonard R. Murg, Ryan Jarvis
  • Patent number: 10695817
    Abstract: A strengthening member for an automotive vehicle includes a thirty-six-cornered cross section having adjacent sides defining internal angles and external angles. Each of the internal angles and the external angles are at least 45 degrees and are less than 180 degrees. The sides define a plurality of adjacent lobes disposed about a perimeter of the strengthening member. Along the perimeter of the thirty-six-cornered cross section, individual lobes of the plurality of lobes are separated by one external angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Tau Tyan
  • Patent number: 10695818
    Abstract: A shell, a container employing the shell, and tooling and associated methods for forming the shell are provided. The shell includes a center panel, a circumferential chuck wall, an annular countersink between the center panel and the circumferential chuck wall, and a curl extending radially outwardly from the chuck wall. The material of at least one predetermined portion of the shell is selectively stretched relative to at least one other portion of the shell, thereby providing a corresponding thinned portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: James A. McClung, Aaron E. Carstens, Gregory H. Butcher, Paul L. Ripple
  • Patent number: 10695819
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for forming a rim of a cast-spun aluminum alloy hub, that is, a special spinning composite machining method for forming a structure that the spokes and the inner wheel flange of the hub are cast and the middle of the rim is spun. The method can prevent the performance, strength and as-cast structure of the inner wheel flange from being destroyed, effectively improve the impact resistance of the cast-spun hub at the inner wheel flange, prevent the inner wheel flange of the cast-spun hub from cracking during radial impact and improve the performance of the spun structure of the rim, is beneficial to thinning the rim and realizes light weight of the rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: CITIC DICASTAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haiping Chang, Lijuan Zhang, Shiwen Xu, Xuepu Yin, Hongwei Zhou, Zhixue Wang, Rui Li, Jin Zhang, Dawei Xu
  • Patent number: 10695820
    Abstract: Methods for manufacturing an endodontic instrument or device, such as an endodontic file for use in performing root canal therapy on a tooth, are disclosed. The method may include the steps of: (a) providing a wire or wire blank comprising a nickel titanium alloy that has been heat-treated at a heat-treat temperature and has an angle greater than 5 degrees of permanent deformation after torque at 45 degrees of flexion tested in accordance with ISO Standard 3630 Part 1: General requirements and test methods and (b) removing material from the wire or wire blank to form an endodontic instrument or device. The method may include the steps of: (a) providing a wire or wire blank comprising a nickel titanium alloy at a first temperature; and (b) removing material from the wire or wire blank at a second temperature above the first temperature to form an endodontic instrument or device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: GOLD STANDARD INSTRUMENTS, LLC
    Inventor: Neill Hamilton Luebke
  • Patent number: 10695821
    Abstract: A rivet rotational feeding method for friction self-piercing riveting (F-SPR) system, comprising: a semi-hollow rivet, a driving spindle and a die. The bottom surface of the rivet head is connected to the semi-hollow rivet shank. The semi-hollow rivet shank has a wedge-shaped end. The rivet head has rotation driving structures and positioning structure on the top end. The rotation driving structures are central symmetric concave or convex surfaces. The positioning structure is a central symmetric and mirror symmetric concave or convex surface. The matching between the driving spindle and the rivet can improve the rotation reliability and positioning accuracy of the riveting at a high rotational speed during F-SPR process, which is beneficial to solve the problems of poor stability and non-coincidence between the geometry axis and the rotation axis of the rivet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SHANGHAI JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yongbing Li, Yunwu Ma, Ming Lou, Zhongqin Lin
  • Patent number: 10695822
    Abstract: A blind riveting apparatus (1) comprises a motor (3), and a clamp (31) for gripping the mandrel of a blind rivet, the clamp being movable substantially along the axis of the rivet. The apparatus further comprises a first transmission (51) configured to transfer rotary motion of the motor (3) to the clamp (31) when engaged; and a second transmission (52) configured to convert rotary motion of the motor (3) to linear motion of the clamp (31), and thereby retract the clamp (31) to pull on the mandrel, when engaged. A transmission control apparatus is arranged to selectively adjust the degree of engagement of at least one of the first (51) and second (52) transmissions, the transmission control apparatus comprising a variable-influence brake or clutch (58). Methods of blind riveting, and further pieces of blind riveting apparatus, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Atlas Copco IAS UK Limited
    Inventors: Stuart Edmund Blacket, Wojciech Gostylla
  • Patent number: 10695823
    Abstract: A drive unit is configured for a stamping rivet setting device and has an electric direct drive which contains motor components that concentrically surround a control element which can be linearly moved in the axial direction. In order to absorb the required torques while allowing a compact construction of the device, in particular in relation to a component side, a drive housing has an asymmetrical configuration in a connecting region between a main part and a guide part in which the control element is guided, for the purpose of asymmetrical torque transmission. In addition or alternatively thereto, the highly compact construction achieves an efficient cooling by an inner cooling unit, in particular air flowing through a free inner space in which the motor components are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: RIBE Anlagentechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Skolaude
  • Patent number: 10695824
    Abstract: A casting method for titanium and titanium alloys, the casting method including obtaining an investment casting mold composition having calcium aluminate and aluminum oxide, the calcium aluminate combined with a liquid to produce a slurry of calcium aluminate, and wherein the solids in the final calcium aluminate/liquid mixture with large scale alumina is about 71% to about 90%. The method further includes pouring the investment casting mold composition into a vessel containing a fugitive pattern, curing the investment casting mold composition to form a mold, removing the fugitive pattern from the mold, firing the mold, preheating the mold to a mold casting temperature, pouring molten titanium or titanium alloy into the preheated mold, solidifying the molten titanium or titanium alloy and forming a solidified titanium or titanium alloy casting, and removing the solidified titanium or titanium alloy casting from the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Stephen Bancheri, Michael Weimer, Joan McKiever, Brian Ellis
  • Patent number: 10695825
    Abstract: A method for direct casting of cast components by layer-wise generation of composite molds, wherein the composite molds are generated as monolithic elements and simultaneously with their respective cores in an assembled form. The system for layer-wise generation of three-dimensional models from the powdered material in a removable container with a movable bottom, which is separated from the device for lifting and lowering the movable bottom, which is built into the system for layer-wise generation of three-dimensional models. The generation of the molds is done by application of layers of powdered material and binding of the particles of each layer through a binder, added selectively according to a program/pattern only in the volumes, where the solid body of the model is being generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: “PRINT CAST” LTD
    Inventors: Georgi Dimitrov Todorov, Tsvetozar Tihomirov Ivanov
  • Patent number: 10695826
    Abstract: A method of producing an investment casting ceramic core is provided that includes: providing a core body consisting of a leachable material; surrounding the core body with a mold composition within a vessel, which mold composition is configured to solidify; leaching the core body from the mold composition subsequent to the mold composition solidifying, thereby leaving an internal cavity within the solidified mold composition; depositing a ceramic composition within the internal cavity of the solidified mold composition; sintering the ceramic composition to a solid ceramic core; and removing the solid ceramic core from the mold composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan C. Breneman, Steven J. Bullied
  • Patent number: 10695827
    Abstract: A light metal injection molding machine includes a melting unit, a material supply device, and an inert gas supplier. The material supply device includes a supply cylinder and a lower shutter. The supply cylinder includes a passage which communicates vertically, a supply opening disposed on an upper side of the passage and to which a molding material is fed, and a discharge opening which is disposed on a lower side of the passage and discharges the molding material to a material supply port of the melting unit. The lower shutter is disposed in the supply cylinder to open and close the passage, and the molding material is placed on the lower shutter when the passage is closed. The lower shutter has at least one vent-hole that allows an inert gas supplied from below the lower shutter to pass when the passage is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SODICK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Misao Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 10695828
    Abstract: Disclosed is a continuous casting and continuous forging forming process for an aluminum wheel. The process combines the advantage of low-pressure filling stability of molten aluminum alloy, and utilizes the strengthening effect of extrusion deformation forging of a side mold locking ring and a pressure module to improve the mechanical properties of an aluminum wheel material to close to the forging level. A mold cavity is sealed by means of the side mold locking ring and a center mold locking taper, and the extrusion forging pressure acts on the surface of the aluminum alloy in the closed mold cavity, so that the requirement of equipment for mold closing tonnage is lowered, and the cost of the equipment is far lower than that of forging equipment and equivalent to that of casting equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: CITIC DICASTAL CO., LTD
    Inventors: Dexi Du, Zhihua Zhu
  • Patent number: 10695829
    Abstract: A maintenance station for casting molds is provided with a handling device on which a spraying device is disposed. The spraying device sprays a cleaning medium onto a surface of at least one casting mold. The cleaning medium is a mixture of compressed air and abrasive particles. A maintenance method for the casting mold in the maintenance station is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Franz Regusewicz
  • Patent number: 10695830
    Abstract: Provided is a copper powder which can be suitably utilized in applications such as an electrically conductive paste and an electromagnetic wave shield. A copper powder according to the present invention has a dendritic shape having a linearly grown main stem and a plurality of branches separated from the main stem, the main stem and the branches are constituted as flat plate-shaped copper particles having a cross-sectional average thickness of from 0.02 ?m to 5.0 ?m to be determined by scanning electron microscopic SEM observation gather, the average particle diameter D50 of the copper powder is from 1.0 ?m to 100 ?m, and the maximum height in the vertical direction with respect to the flat plate-shaped surface of the copper particles is 1/10 or less with respect to the maximum length in the horizontal direction of the flat plate-shaped surface of the copper particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okada, Yu Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10695831
    Abstract: The present invention describes the use of nanoparticle interfaces to chemically process solid nanomaterials into ones with tailorable core-void-shell architectures. The internal void sizes are proportional to the nanoparticle size, the shell thickness and composition, and can be either symmetric or asymmetric depending on the nature of the interface, each of which is controlled by the process of making.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Syracuse University
    Inventors: Mathew M. Maye, Wenjie Wu
  • Patent number: 10695832
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a mechanical component by additive manufacturing which includes at least one layering sequence of depositing a powder material and locally melting and resolidifying the powder material. In each layering sequence, a solid layer of solidified material is formed, wherein the solid layers jointly form a solid body. An annealing sequence subsequent to at least one layering sequence includes, locally heating at least a region of the solid body in effecting a local heat input to the immediately beforehand manufactured solid layer which was formed by the immediately precedent layering sequence, with temperature being is maintained below a melting temperature of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Hoebel, Mikhail Pavlov, Thomas Etter, Roman Engeli
  • Patent number: 10695833
    Abstract: A press arrangement and a method for producing and processing compacts from powder material include a controller, a press frame, a pressing unit being disposed on the press frame for pressing the compact and having a die with a cavity for receiving powder material, at least two punches which, together with the cavity, provide a mold for a compact and at least one drive unit for moving at least one punch relative to the other punch along a pressing axis. A further processing module has at least one processing unit for machining a compact by metal cutting. The controller at least partially ejects or removes a compact from the die after pressing and, after the ejection holds the compact clamped between the punches. The controller uses the processing unit to process a compact being at least partially ejected from the die and held clamped between the punches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Ceratizit Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Singer-Schnoeller, Markus Storf, Adrian Weber
  • Patent number: 10695834
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a material feeder includes a feeding unit. The feeding unit includes a container that is containable of a powdery material and a first wall that is provided with a plurality of first openings communicated with the container and at least partially covers a region to which the material is fed, the feeding unit feeding the material in the container from the first openings to the region to form a layer of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masayuki Tanaka, Hiroshi Ohno, Takahiro Terada, Kaori Deura
  • Patent number: 10695835
    Abstract: Method and system for manufacturing of three dimensional objects comprising of base substrate (18) placed on the supporting plate (30), electron beam gun (2), feed means (17) for feeding of feedstock material to melting zone, positioning system (31, 36) for positioning of said supporting plate (30) with base substrate (18), vacuum tight operating chamber (29), wherein an energy source for generating of molten pool on the substrate and for melting of feedstock material in said system is gas-discharge electron beam gun (2) with cold circular cathode (8) placed between two circular anodic electrodes placed coaxially to said cathode (8) which generates electron beam (9) in the shape of hollow inverted cone, and feedstock guide (17) is placed along the axis of said of said electron beam gun (2), and said gas-discharge electron beam gun (2) and said feedstock guide (17) are combined in one functional assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: JOINT STOCK COMPANY “NVO CHERVONA HVILYA”
    Inventors: Dmytro Kovalchuk, Ihor Melnyk, Vitalii Melnyk, Borys Tugai
  • Patent number: 10695836
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a heat exchanger comprising a body and a support embedded within the body. The support comprises a different material and/or a different material structure to the body and hence has at least one material property which is different to that of the body. The method comprises; forming at least a first portion of the support with a first material and a first material structure using a first additive manufacturing step; and forming at least a first portion of the body with a second material and a second material structure using a second additive manufacturing step. The first material is different to the second material and/or the first material structure is different to the second material structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: HS MARSTON AEROSPACE LIMITED
    Inventor: Neil Basini