Patents Issued in August 18, 2020
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Patent number: 10744527Abstract: A brass fitting is in-molded in a plastic pipe fitting, which is coupled to a water supply line in a conventional matter. The brass insert receives a tapered seal with sealing surfaces that seat against the brass insert and a sprinkler head to form a sealed connection. The seal includes a tapered passageway for compression when tightening, as well as an external taper to allow the seal to conform to the socket formed by the plastic pipe fitting and brass insert. Also, a manufacturing method includes in-molding a brass insert within a plastic fitting using an O-ring which interfaces between the brass insert and surrounding molded fitting to seal the brass insert to the fitting. In one embodiment, the seal is used in a polymeric fitting without a brass insert.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Viking Group, Inc.Inventor: Eldon Douglas Jackson
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Patent number: 10744528Abstract: Disclosed is an adjustable ultrasonic micro-jet nozzle array with minimal quantity lubrication, relating to cooling of machining. The array-type nozzle includes an inlet conduit, a recycle conduit and a cooling body having a microjet ejection assembly and a recycling assembly. The cooling body includes a microjet ejection chamber which is closed. The inlet conduit is provided at a top of the cooling body and communicates with the microjet ejection chamber. The recycle conduit is located in the microjet ejection chamber, and connects the recycling assembly and an external vacuum machine. The adjustable ultrasonic micro jet nozzle array of the present invention has the advantages of simple structure and being convenient to use. A flow rate of trace cooling fluid is increased to improve the cooling and lubricating effect. A cooling fluid mist is recycled by the vacuum suction to reduce the consumption of the lubricating fluid while ensuring the cooling effect.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Sichuan UniversityInventors: Ling Chen, Wu Zhao, Wei Jiang, Hao Wan, Qianmiao Zhou, Xin Guo, Miao Yu, Kai Zhang, Lin Du, Zeyuan Yu, Nianhan Wu
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Patent number: 10744529Abstract: A mask material is readily discernible from a substrate to which the mask material is applied. The mask material may have a discernible characteristic, such as its color, luminescence or the like, which may render it visibly distinct from the substrate or detectable using automated inspection equipment. The discernible characteristic of the mask material may render it detectable through a protective coating.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: HzO, Inc.Inventors: David James Astle, Tyler Christensen Child, Vimal Kumar Kasagani, Cameron LaMar Loose, Blake LeRoy Stevens, Max Ernest Sorenson
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Patent number: 10744530Abstract: The present invention provides a method for printing and coating a flexible substrate web so as to attain a specified coefficient of friction on both sides of the substrate web which employs the use of controlled set-off of coated and/or printed material from the front side to the back side side of the web. Furthermore the method provides a substrate web produced therefrom and the method is useful for packaging substrate webs and, in particular, foil substrate webs.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: SUN CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Anthony Majszak, Craig Boyd
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Patent number: 10744531Abstract: In an embodiment, an electromagnetic reluctance actuator comprises: a core assembly including a plurality of magnetic cores arranged in a two-dimensional plane, each core comprised of ferromagnetic material and wound by a coil of conductive wire, the coils operable for producing magnetic flux density in response to electrical currents flowing in the coils, wherein the current in each coil flows in a direction that is opposite the currents flowing in adjacent coils; and an actuator, at least a portion of which comprises ferritic material magnetically coupled to the coils by a magnetic circuit, for producing mechanical force in response to the effect of magnetic flux on the portion, the portion of the actuator being mounted for movement relative to the core assembly.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Teera Songatikamas, Joseph C. Doll, Matthew A. Bigarani
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Patent number: 10744532Abstract: An underwater acoustic transducer that is capable of radiating acoustic energy at low frequencies. A transducer which is a resonant low frequency bender-type transducer driven at its end supports by a piezoelectric stack of material operating with inner and outer parts driven in opposite directions creating a bending motion of a radiating beam, plate or disc. The small piezoelectric motions at the beam supports are magnified by the leveraged motion of the bending beam(s) creating significant output at low frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Image Acoustics, Inc.Inventors: John L. Butler, Alexander L. Butler
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Patent number: 10744533Abstract: A device for sorting particulate material includes a main conveyor belt, a separation screen, a graded material conveyor, and an oversize material conveyor. The separation screen is configured to separate the material into a first portion and a second portion with a larger average particle diameter than the first portion. The graded material conveyor is positioned below the separation screen to receive the first portion of the material, and the oversize material conveyor is positioned at an end of the separation screen to receive the second portion of the material.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Inventor: Steve L. Gilbert
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Patent number: 10744534Abstract: A classifier for separating particles is provided. The classifier includes a rotor having a direction of rotation defined by a rotational axis of the rotor, and a plurality of blades disposed on the rotor around the rotational axis. At least one blade of the plurality has a swept orientation in the direction of rotation. The at least one blade is arranged to contact and direct the particles away from the classifier and thereby restrict the particles from concentrating in areas adjacent to the classifier.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventors: Paul Colson, Douglas Crafts
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Patent number: 10744535Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system for detecting, removing, transferring and recovering an incompletely dried material. The system includes a transfer device transferring the material subjected to a drying process, a load cell measuring a weight of the material transferred through the transfer device, a material receiving unit receiving the measured material from the load cell when the weight of the measured material is higher than weights of other materials or a preset reference weight, a thermal imaging camera photographing the material received by the material receiving unit, an incompletely-dried-material determining unit acquiring temperature information of the material photographed by analyzing image data photographed by the thermal imaging camera, and determining whether the photographed material is an incompletely dried material based on the acquired temperature information, and an incompletely-dried-material receiving unit receiving the incompletely dried material from the material receiving unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Hyung Sop Kim, Hyeong Woo Park
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Patent number: 10744536Abstract: Equipment for sorting parcels in a logistics center, the equipment comprising an automated sorting conveyor mounted at a height over a platform and with sorting outlets equipped with sorting chutes in the form of ramps sloping downwards from respective sorting outlets of the conveyor to the platform below the conveyor, and shuttle trolleys mounted on wheels and for automatically moving non-standard parcels that cannot be machine-sorted on the sorting conveyor, the shuttle trolleys travelling along travel aisles passing under the ramps so as to optimize the footprint of the equipment.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: SOLYSTICInventors: Emmanuel Miette, Luc Chirol
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Patent number: 10744537Abstract: A cleaning tool attachment reduces the amount of foreign matter or cleaning liquid remaining on a workpiece. The cleaning tool attachment includes a housing, a first shaft integrally connectable to a main spindle, a second shaft having an axial direction different from an axial direction of the first shaft, a plurality of tool mounting shafts having an axial direction parallel to the axial direction of the second shaft, a rotation axis conversion gear mechanism arranged in the housing, and a synchronous rotation mechanism arranged in the housing. The synchronous rotation mechanism transmits a driving force of the second shaft to the plurality of tool mounting shafts, and rotates the plurality of tool mounting shafts at the same rotational speed and with synchronous phase angles.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITEDInventor: Shun Fujita
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Patent number: 10744538Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes a wash chamber, a platform and a lid. The platform is disposed in the chamber and sized to support an engine block. The lid has a first portion rotatably coupled to the wash chamber and a second portion rotatably coupled to the first portion. When the first portion of the lid is disposed in a position rotated distal to the wash chamber, the second portion of the lid is disposed in a position rotated proximal to the first portion of the lid. When the first portion of the lid is disposed in a position rotated proximal to the wash chamber, the second portion of the lid is disposed in a position rotated distal to the first portion of the lid.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: ROBOWASH PTY LTD.Inventors: Frank Raymond Jasper, John Snell Jacob
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Patent number: 10744539Abstract: Optimized-coverage selective laser ablation systems and methods may be utilized to prepare (ablate) a three-dimensional surface. Methods comprise receiving a 3D virtual model of the surface to be ablated, generating a preliminary ablation path, and optimizing the preliminary ablation path to produce an adapted ablation path. Methods may comprise ablating the surface according to the adapted ablation path. The preliminary ablation path may be based on scanning a laser sheet across a two-dimensional projection of the surface. The optimization may adjust one or more waypoints of the preliminary ablation path to achieve complete coverage of the surface at acceptable levels of ablation, with little to no ablation outside the surface, and with acceptable (e.g., at least locally minimal) time to ablate the surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Richard Charles Barclay, Trent T. Weiss, Philip Lawrence Freeman
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Patent number: 10744540Abstract: Disclosed are methods, devices and systems to cause differential evaporation of micro-droplets in a scalable fashion. In some embodiments, an attenuated laser is used to focus an attenuated laser power to the center of an aqueous solution droplet, producing a differential evaporative flux profile that is peaked at the droplet apex. The laser-induced differential evaporation described herein is a breakthrough in the enrichment and focused deposition of water-soluble molecules such as nucleic acids, proteins, inks, and other small molecules. Disclosed is a general solution to remove the “coffee-ring effect”, ubiquitous in the drying process of aqueous droplets that causes many adverse outcomes. The disclosed techniques enable new paradigms in liquid biopsy combinational analysis, microarray fabrication, and ink-jet printing.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Yu-Hwa Lo, Tony Minghung Yen
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Patent number: 10744541Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for a polishing chamber assembly. An apparatus includes an inner drum positioned on a first axis and forming an inner chamber interior to the inner drum. The inner drum includes a plurality of inner drum perforations formed in the inner drum, an object intake disposed tangential to the inner drum at a proximal end of the inner drum, and an object outlet disposed at a distal end of the inner drum. The apparatus includes an outer drum disposed around the inner drum and forming an annular chamber interior to the outer drum and exterior to the inner drum. A cyclonic gas flow is generated within the apparatus from the object intake to a gas outlet in response to drawing gas from the apparatus through the gas outlet to remove debris from objects within the inner drum.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Trinity River Technologies, LLCInventor: Nicholas D. Bigney
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Patent number: 10744542Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for a polishing chamber assembly. An apparatus includes an inner drum positioned on a first axis and forming an inner chamber interior to the inner drum. The inner drum includes an object intake coupled to the inner drum at a proximal end of the inner drum and an object outlet disposed at a distal end of the inner drum. The apparatus includes an agitator configured to polish objects within the inner drum as the objects move from the object intake to the object outlet. The agitator is disposed within the inner drum and is removably coupled to a rotation element disposed on an end of the inner drum. The apparatus includes an outer drum disposed around the inner drum, which is removably coupled to the outer drum. The outer drum is releasably couplable to a base unit using attachment means.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Trinity River Technologies, LLCInventor: Nicholas D. Bigney
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Patent number: 10744543Abstract: Apparatus and method for cleaning the inner surface of a pipeline from deposits and for forming a protective coating are disclosed. The apparatus includes a cleaning tool which is caused to move in the interior of the pipeline by a flow of a fluid, the cleaning tool comprising a plurality of guide discs engaging the pipeline surface and mounted along a longitudinal axis of the cleaning tool, an anode positioned inside the cleaning tool, and an impressed current source electrically connected to the anode and the interior of the pipeline, the interior of the pipeline acting as a cathode when current is applied from the current source so that ions flow from the anode, through the fluid, to the interior of the pipeline.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventor: Husain Makki Al-Mahrous
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Patent number: 10744544Abstract: A cleaning apparatus 1 includes: a pivot rotary shaft 8 attached with a nozzle 3; a first motor 14 for revolving and rotating the pivot rotary shaft 8 via an inner tube 7 and bevel gears 11 and 12; a second motor 16 for solely rotating an outer tube 15; and a control device 18 for controlling the operation of both the motors 14 and 16. The outer tube 15, and the pivot rotary shaft 8 and the nozzle 3 are operated together via the bevel gears 11 and 12. The first motor 14 is operated with the cleaning fluid W being sprayed from the nozzle 3.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: SHIBUYA MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahito Kitamura, Masahiro Daijo
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Patent number: 10744545Abstract: The disclosure relates to a continuous cleaning method for cleaning a moving fabric in a paper machine. The method uses one or more cleaning stages. In one embodiment, one cleaning stage applies steam to heat and soften contaminants on the fabric followed by the application of water, preferably superheated water, to remove the contaminants. Another cleaning stage may apply hot water, steam and/or superheated water via an encapsulated shower and evacuation chamber making it possible to clean the width of the fabric without substantial rewet.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLCInventors: Mark S. Hunter, Dean J. Baumgartner, David Drew Raines, Theodore D. Kennedy, David S. Veldhuizen, Glenn W. Busch, Mitchell S. Edbauer
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Patent number: 10744546Abstract: A wire cleaning apparatus and method is provided, in which a wire cleaning apparatus includes a passive brush mechanism comprising a helical brush, the helical structure having a helical axis substantially coincident with path of a wire passing through the wire cleaning apparatus. The helical brush includes a plurality of first bristles generally oriented inwardly from the helical structure toward the wire, and the helical brush may be compressed or extended to adjust the inner diameter of the helical brush. The wire cleaning apparatus further comprises an active brush mechanism disposed around the wire and configured to rotate around the wire. The active brush mechanism comprises at least one cylindrical brush having a plurality of second bristles disposed on a cylindrical surface such that one or more of the plurality of second bristles impinge upon the wire.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Automated Industrial Machinery, Inc.Inventor: Konstantine Goudis
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Patent number: 10744547Abstract: A method of producing a press-formed product includes a steel plate heating step, a hot forging step and a hot stamping step. In the steel plate heating step, a steel plate is heated to 950° C. or more. In the hot forging step, the heated steel plate is forged to form a varying-thickness steel plate. In the hot stamping step, the heated varying-thickness steel plate is subjected to press-working by a press tooling to form a press-formed product, and the press-formed product that is formed is cooled inside the press tooling. Thus, a press-formed product that has high strength and for which a reduction in weight is possible can be produced.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki Nakazawa, Naruhiko Nomura, Toshiya Suzuki, Masahiro Kubo, Yasuhiro Ito
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Patent number: 10744548Abstract: A stamping device has: a die seat that a metal sheet, as a workpiece, abuts; and a stamping punch configured to stamp a character to be stamped onto a front surface of the metal sheet by pressing the stamping punch onto a stamped region of the metal sheet from the front surface side of the metal sheet. A stamp-receiving region that corresponds to the stamped region is provided on a front surface of the die seat, and, in this stamp-receiving region, plural dents are provided in such a manner as to correspond to the stamped region of the single character to be stamped.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshitsugu Kitamura
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Patent number: 10744549Abstract: The present disclosure includes calculating coordinates of a midpoint of one of a plurality of first tool teaching points and the subsequent first tool teaching point, and calculating coordinates of a midpoint of one of a plurality of second tool teaching points that corresponds to the one first tool teaching point and the subsequent second tool teaching point, calculating an inter-midpoint distance between the midpoint of the first tool teaching points and the midpoint of the corresponding second tool teaching points, determining whether the inter-midpoint distance is within a given tolerance range, and reporting, when the inter-midpoint distance is out of the given tolerance range, the corresponding first tool teaching points and second tool teaching points as poor.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayuki Watanabe, Junichi Kawabata
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Patent number: 10744550Abstract: A connection rod coupling assembly includes a settable shape mounting second component having a lateral, primary axis and a bearing assembly including a bearing assembly body. The bearing assembly body includes a substantially cylindrical outer surface and a center axis. The bearing assembly body is coupled to the settable shape mounting second component in a non-aligned configuration. That is, the bearing assembly body center axis is offset from the settable shape mounting second component primary axis. Thus, the position of the bearing assembly body center axis is adjustable by repositioning the settable shape mounting second component relative to a settable shape mounting first component on a swing lever. The adjustment of the bearing assembly body, in turn, adjusts the range of the ram assembly and the ram assembly body.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Ian Kenneth Scholey, Karl S. Fleischer, Alan W. Cleveland
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Patent number: 10744551Abstract: A rolling-swaging tool for closing an opening of a cylindrical housing includes: a support shaft connected to a driving body; rotating shafts extending in directions orthogonal to the support shaft; and swaging portions, each of which being attached to each of the rotating shafts. The swaging portions have, an annular first swaging portion having a minimum thickness and a maximum outer diameter, a disk third swaging portion having a maximum thickness and a minimum outer diameter, and an annular second swaging portion having a thickness between the minimum thickness and the maximum thickness and an outer diameter between the maximum outer diameter and the minimum outer diameter. The tool also has a first annular inclined surface provided between the annular first swaging portion and the annular second swaging portion, and a second annular inclined surface provided between the annular second swaging portion and the disk third swaging portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Nakatsuka, Masakazu Tokuda, Masayuki Nakayasu
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Patent number: 10744552Abstract: The joining method for members according to the present invention includes: providing an aluminum component including an insertion hole provided with a rib in at least part of an edge part, and a hollow steel pipe; inserting the steel pipe into the insertion hole of the aluminum component; and expanding and deforming the steel pipe to join the steel pipe to the aluminum component by press-fitting.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Toru Hashimura, Kenichi Watanabe, Junya Naitou, Yasuhiro Maeda
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Patent number: 10744553Abstract: A rolled stainless steel object has surface with a raised and indented pattern including a random juxtaposition of at least two types of polygons. Each of the polygons has at least three sides, and is made up of substantially parallel rectilinear scratches, having a depth of from 5 to 30 ?m separated by ridge lines, the axes of which are from 0.1 to 0.3 mm from each other, and a Fourier transform spectral analysis of which, carried out on a square of at least 100 mm2, shows that they have an isotropy of at least 40% between the rolling direction and the sideways direction, and two adjacent preferred angular orientations of which scratches, from among the three main preferred angular orientations thereof, are spaced apart by a minimum of 20° and a maximum of 60°.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2015Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: APERAMInventors: Didier Vil, Jean Michel Damasse, Françoise Haegeli
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Patent number: 10744554Abstract: A method and apparatus for distributing a number of utilities. The number of utilities may be coupled between a number of utility sources and a utility fixture. The number of utilities may be coupled between the utility fixture and a mobile system.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Harinder S. Oberoi, Alfredo Jose Gerosa, Kevin Marion Barrick, Quang T. Do, Yuanxin Charles Hu, Branko Sarh, Scott Allen Mackay, Jeffrey Lawrence Miller
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Patent number: 10744555Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for assembling a magazine for a swage tool. The method includes selecting a cartridge that comprises a first serpentine channel dimensioned for conveying collars, and further comprises an entrance and an exit of the first serpentine channel. The method also includes disposing the cartridge at a swage tool.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Kwok Tung Chan, Tanni Sisco, Eric M. Reid, Jeff Devlin, Brendan Elmore
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Patent number: 10744556Abstract: A method for fabricating an article that includes: providing a first workpiece component formed of a first steel material; joining a second workpiece component to the first workpiece component to form a workpiece, the second workpiece component being formed of a second steel material that is different from the first steel material; and forming a plurality of teeth on the workpiece, the teeth being wholly formed of the first steel material.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Moshe Rothstein, Cory J. Padfield
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Patent number: 10744557Abstract: A refractory metal core (RMC) finishing method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, performing a plurality of finishing operations on a plurality of RMC samples, analyzing one or more properties of at least a portion of the plurality of RMC samples and selecting a combination of finishing operations for generating an RMC having desirable properties for manufacturing a part free from defects.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventors: Dewight R. Cassells, Alan C. Barron, John P. Rizzo, Gordon Miller Reed, Tracy A. Propheter-Hinckley
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Patent number: 10744558Abstract: A magnesium alloy cast-rolling unit, including: a main body; a fluid supplier; an electric pushrod; a linkage mechanism; a horizontal platform; a screw; dovetail guide rails; and a bottom plate. The main body includes a base, a spring cylinder, a hydraulic adjustment cylinder, a connection portion, and a cast-rolling unit body. The connection portion includes an arc-shaped rail. The spring cylinder includes an actuation element. The actuation element includes a piston rod and a pressure strip. The piston rod includes an external thread at one end; and the pressure strip includes an internal thread corresponding to the external thread. The fluid supplier includes a head box, a corrugated pipe, a compression spring assembly including a gland cover, a connection pipe including a convex pipe joint and a concave pipe joint, a flat plate including a groove, a smelting furnace, and a horizontal operation platform.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Lifeng Ma, Jingfeng Zou, Rongjun Wang, Xiao Hu, Zhiquan Huang, Qingxue Huang, Guangming Liu, Yanchun Zhu
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Patent number: 10744559Abstract: A soft reduction device (1) of a round-section metal product, having liquid or partially liquid core, for reducing the thickness of said metal product coming from a continuous casting machine, the device comprising at least two soft reduction units (2, 3); in which said at least two soft reduction units (2, 3) are arranged in series; in which each soft reduction unit (2, 3) is provided with a group of only three rolls arranged at 120° from one another; and wherein the group of three rolls (7, 8, 9) of one soft reduction unit is offset by a predetermined angle with respect to the group of three rolls (10, 11, 12) of an adjacent soft reduction unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: DANIEL & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE S.P.A.Inventors: Daniele Comand, Antonio Sgro', Luca Cestari, Alfredo Poloni, Marcellino Fornasier
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Patent number: 10744560Abstract: The present invention relates to a nanoparticle composition having antibacterial and exothermic properties and a manufacturing method thereof, more particularly, a nanoparticle composition with very good antibacterial and exothermic properties obtained by preparing an ionized calcium powder from shells obtained through foreign matter removing, cleaning, drying, sintering, cooling and pulverizing processes, and passing it through a tourmaline mixing stage, a surfactant treatment stage, a synthetic resin mixing stage and a nanoparticle molding stage, and a manufacturing method thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Inventor: William Kim
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Patent number: 10744561Abstract: Provided is a three-dimensional deposition device, including: a powder supply unit which supplies a powder material; a light irradiation unit which irradiates the powder material with a light beam so that the powder material irradiated with the light beam is sintered or melted and solidified to form a formed layer; a three-dimensional deposition chamber which is sealed from an outside and accommodates the powder supply unit, the light irradiation unit, and a base unit; a gas discharge unit which discharges a gas inside the three-dimensional deposition chamber; and a gas introduction unit which introduces a predetermined gas into the three-dimensional deposition chamber. When the gas discharge unit discharges a gas inside the three-dimensional deposition chamber and the gas introduction unit introduces a predetermined gas thereinto, a predetermined gas atmosphere is formed inside the three-dimensional deposition chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Hitoshi Yoshimura
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Patent number: 10744562Abstract: Adaptively forming a three-dimensional component may include providing a plurality of electron beam sources, and simultaneously controlling the plurality of electron beam sources to direct a plurality of electron beams onto a plurality of deposited layers of metallic powder to sequentially consolidate patterned portions of the plurality of deposited metallic powder layers to adaptively form the three-dimensional component.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mark Alan Frontera, Vasile Bogdan Neculaes, James William Sears, Peter Andras Zavodszky
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Patent number: 10744563Abstract: A system includes a chamber to receive a powdered material to be used to form an object. The system includes actuators coupled to the chamber. The actuators apply pressure waves to the powdered material in the chamber. The system also includes a controller to activate a plurality of the actuators in a sequence. Activation of the plurality of actuators in the sequence converges pressure waves on a particular volume of powdered material in the chamber to compress the particular volume and to transform at least a portion of the powdered material in the particular volume to solid material of the object.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventor: Perry T. Horst
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Patent number: 10744564Abstract: The present disclosure provides an additive manufacturing method for manufacturing an object. The method comprises depositing successive layers of a granular metal construction material. The method comprises selectively binding a first region of each layer to form a bound shell of the construction material defining an exterior of the object by depositing a binder into the first region surrounding a second region that remains unbound. The method comprises separating the shell and the enclosed unbound construction material from the construction material remaining outside the shell. The present disclosure also provides apparatuses implementing the manufacturing method, and objects manufactured by the manufacturing method.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: DIGITAL METAL ABInventor: Hans Kimblad
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Patent number: 10744565Abstract: A lamination molding apparatus with a molding table, including: a galvanometer scanner configured to irradiate a small irradiation region on the molding table with a laser beam; an inert gas supplying nozzle having an inert gas supplying opening for supplying an inert gas; a fume suction duct having a fume suction opening for suctioning the inert gas containing fumes generated with irradiation of the laser beam; an integration unit integrally including the galvanometer scanner, the inert gas supplying nozzle and the fume suction duct; and a moving device configured to move the integration unit so the galvanometer scanner scans and irradiates the laser beam on a large irradiation region larger than the small irradiation region on the molding table; wherein the inert gas supplying opening and the fume suction opening are opposed to each other so an irradiation path of the laser beam is placed therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shuji Okazaki
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Patent number: 10744566Abstract: A gas turbine engine comprises a gearbox comprising a sun gear, an annulus gear, a plurality of planet gears and a carrier. The sun gear meshes with the planet gears and the planet gears mesh with the annulus gear. A planet gear comprises a first annular structure, a plurality of teeth extending radially from the first annular structure and a second annular structure abutting and secured to a cylindrical surface of the first annular structure. The first annular structure and the teeth consist of steel, the second annular structure comprises a metal matrix composite, the metal matrix comprising aluminium, aluminium alloy, steel, titanium or titanium alloy, the reinforcing material comprising titanium diboride, titanium carbide or titanium nitride. The second annular structure reduces the mass but maintains, or increases, the stiffness of the planet gear to carry centrifugal loads and to maintain roundness of the planet gears.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Rolls-Royce plcInventor: Derek W J Clarke
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Patent number: 10744567Abstract: The invention provides a control apparatus for a machine tool, which can perform reciprocating vibration in consideration of a vibration frequency, increase flexibility in machining a workpiece, and perform vibration cutting by means of an external spindle or the like without rotating a spindle. The control apparatus and the machine tool include control means. The control means includes an imaginary spindle regarded as a spindle for rotating a workpiece W or a cutting tool. The control means sets the number of rotations of the imaginary spindle and the number of reciprocating vibrations in accordance with a vibration frequency attributable to a cycle during which an operation instruction can be issued.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignees: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD., CITIZEN MACHINERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiko Sannomiya, Takaichi Nakaya
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Patent number: 10744568Abstract: A coated tool include a first surface, a second surface which is adjacent to the first surface, and a cutting edge which is located on at least a portion of a ridge between the first surface and the second surface. The coated tool further includes a substrate, and a coating layer that is located on the substrate. The coating layer includes a titanium carbonitride layer and an aluminum oxide layer which has an ?-type crystalline structure. The titanium carbonitride layer is located nearer to the substrate than the aluminum oxide layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Kyocera CorporationInventors: Kou Ri, Tsuyoshi Yamasaki
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Patent number: 10744569Abstract: The present invention is directed to a surface-coated cubic boron nitride sintered material tool including a cBN substrate and a hard coating layer formed on a surface of the cBN substrate and having an alternate laminated structure of A layer and B layer. A peak of the grain size distribution of cBN grains in the cBN sintered material is present within a range of a grain size from 0.50 to 1.00 ?m. The A layer has a composition of (Ti1-xAlx)N (0.4?x?0.7 in an atomic ratio). The B layer has a composition of (Cr1-y-zAlyMz)N (0.03?y?0.6 and 0?z?0.05 in an atomic ratio). An X-ray diffraction peak of a (200) plane is present at a position of a diffraction angle of 43.6 plus or minus 0.1 degrees, and a plastic deformation work ratio of the B layer is 0.35 to 0.50.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Takuya Maekawa, Masakuni Takahashi, Shun Sato, Kenji Yumoto
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Patent number: 10744570Abstract: An actuatable boring bar is configured to place a cutting insert cartridge received onto the boring bar in a cutting position when the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the boring bar about the rotation axis reaches a centrifugal force threshold and in a non-cutting position when the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the boring bar about the rotation axis is below the centrifugal force threshold. The boring bar is further configured so that the cutting insert cartridge can be set-up onto the boring bar in the cutting position.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ABInventors: Vincent Lemoine, Philippe Andre, Jacques Gasthuys, Joly Damien, David Bonhoure
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Patent number: 10744571Abstract: A rotating tool includes a circumferential surface formed with a tool anchorage arrangement. The tool anchorage arrangement follows a stepped path. The tool anchorage arrangement includes an entry recess and, subsequent thereto, a radial recess and, subsequent thereto, an axial recess. Additional radial and axial recesses may be alternated to increase the number of steps, thereby extending the length of the stepped path.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Iscar, Ltd.Inventors: Raz Fisher, Hanoch Guy
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Patent number: 10744572Abstract: An orbital drill bushing adapter for use with a drill unit. In one embodiment, the orbital drill bushing adapter comprises a main body and locking arms. The main body includes a base member having an upper surface, a lower surface, and an external side wall that extends between the upper surface and the lower surface. The main body further includes a cylindrical spacer that projects from the lower surface of the base member, and is configured to fit in a drill hole of an orbital drill bushing. The main body includes a cylindrical hole that passes through the base member and the cylindrical spacer. The locking arms are pivotally coupled to the base member, and are configured to clamp the main body onto the orbital drill bushing.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Douglas A. Jones, Brent F. Craig, Matthew K. Roberts
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Patent number: 10744573Abstract: A method for enlarging each one of an initial pair of holes, which includes a first hole, extending through a first component, and a second hole, extending through a second component, includes inserting a pilot member, corresponding to a tolerance of misalignment of the first hole and the second hole of the initial pair of holes, such that pilot member passes through a clearance gap, defined by at least a portion of a boundary of first hole and at least a portion of a boundary of second hole with pilot member having a first central axis. The method also includes cutting a second pair of aligned holes through first and second components, respectively, with a cutter section, which has a second central axis.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: John P. Scheibel, James L. Scherer, Michael A. Ward
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Patent number: 10744574Abstract: Provided is a milling cutter including: a tool body to rotate about an axis; and cutting edges at an outer peripheral part of a front end of the tool body, wherein the cutting edges include a flat face machining cutting edge extending along a virtual plane perpendicular to the axis, and a recessed groove machining cutting edge projecting further toward a front end side in the axial direction than the flat face machining cutting edge, and the recessed groove machining cutting edge has a first inclined portion extending toward the front end side in the axial direction toward an outside in a radial direction, a second inclined portion arranged outside the first inclined portion in the radial direction and extending toward a base end side in the axial direction toward the outside in the radial direction, and a tip portion connecting the first and second inclined portions.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Ahresty CorporationInventors: Jyunichiro Shibuya, Masaaki Hasegawa, Koji Tatsuta
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Patent number: 10744575Abstract: A drill tip may include a first part and a second part. The first part includes a cutting edge located at a side of a first end, and a recess located at a side of a second end, where the first end is one side of a central axis and the second end is another side of the central axis. The second part includes a shank portion extending along the central axis, and an engaging portion which connects to the shank portion at a side of the first end and includes a diameter greater than the shank portion. The engaging portion is located in the recess.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Katsura Hayashi
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Patent number: 10744576Abstract: A cutting insert for a milling tool, having a first side, a second side which is identical to the first side and a circumferential surface which extends between the first and the second sides, with a bore which extends along a bore axis. The cutting insert is 120° rotationally symmetrical with respect to the bore axis and includes on each of the first side and the second side three identically formed cutting regions, respectively, which are situated at a transition between the first side and the circumferential surface or at a transition between the second side and the circumferential surface, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Hartmetall-Werkzeugfabrik Paul Hom GmbHInventor: Christian Stark