Abstract: A cartridge for positioning a cutting insert onto a machining tool has a central longitudinal axis, along which the cutting insert is configured to be positioned and an end wall for supporting the cartridge. The end wall defines a first surface extending beyond the end wall and transversally to the central longitudinal axis. The cartridge includes a rear wall for supporting the cartridge against the machining tool and defining a second surface extending beyond the rear wall and a front clamping wall having a clamping hole. The clamping hole extends along a clamping direction and is configured to receive a clamping screw for clamping the cartridge onto the machining tool, wherein the clamping direction is arranged to intersect the first and second surfaces.

Abstract: A pipe cutting machine comprises: rotary blades in a pair, with a plane at a right angle to a center line of a pipe, the rotary blades being arranged to face each other on both sides of a y axis in such a manner that blade edges of the rotary blades overlap each other in an x-axis direction; a straightforward driving mechanism that drives the rotary blades straightforward in opposite directions of a y-axis direction so as to make the rotary blades pass each other on the x axis and in the vicinity of the x axis; and power direction conversion mechanisms that move the rotary blades outwardly to get farther from the y axis for avoiding interference between the blade edges when the rotary blades pass each other on the x axis and in the vicinity of the x axis.

Abstract: A clamping apparatus includes a shaft; a base body that is adjustable to different positions, e.g., heights, along the shaft; a clamping leg arranged to pivot into a first clamping position and a second clamping position; an arm that includes, and extends between, a first end portion connected to the base body and a second end portion connected to the clamping leg; and a handle configured to be moved (a) into a first position that locks the position of the base body relative to the shaft and provides a clamping force to the clamping leg, and (b) into a second position in which the base body is free to be shifted into different positions along the shaft, where moving the handle into the second position releases the clamping force.

Abstract: A recip blade has a blade body including a cutting edge and a tang located at one end of the blade body. The tang defines an arcuate cross-sectional shape or is laminated to increase the overall thickness of the tang and, in turn, enhance the rigidity of the blade and/or reduce oscillation or whipping of the blade during cutting.

Abstract: Cutting blade pressure angle changes or corrections in power skiving cutters (20) can be realized without the need tor a tool geometry change. An axial shift (26) of the blade reference point (24) will shift the existing involute on the blade profiles (22, 23) into a different radial location. An accompanying shift (AR) of the reference involute profile (30) by approximately the same amount and in the same direction will re-establish the relationship between work gear and cutter. The resulting work gear geometry has the same radial location of the slots, with the same slot width and the same tooth thickness but with a changed pressure angle.

Abstract: A brazing system has a first gas source, a second gas source, an enclosure, a brazing torch, and a control system configured to control a ratio of the first gas source and the second gas source.

Abstract: A welding condition generating method in flat position welding is a method for determining welding conditions for welding in a single V groove, a single bevel groove, or a fillet groove in a flat position using a welding robot. The method includes preparing conditions A and B, each including a plurality of different parameters used in calculation for determining the welding conditions; and generating the welding conditions by combining parameters included in the conditions A and B. The condition A includes at least one of the following parameters: a joint shape, a groove shape, a groove angle, a gap width, and the presence or absence of backing. The condition B includes at least one of the following parameters: a welding gas type, a welding wire diameter, a welding wire type, a welding wire extension length, a welding source type, a power source characteristic, and a torch type.

Abstract: A welder power supply and welding method are provided which utilizes a short arc welding method in which the waveforms have a positive polarity portion and negative portion to optimize heat input and provide heat and current control.

Abstract: A tangible medium having a machine-readable symbol printed thereon, such that the symbol encodes a specified digital value in a set of color elements having different, respective colors, to be identified in an image of the symbol as red, green, blue, cyan, magenta and yellow color elements, respectively. The symbol is produced by applying cyan, magenta and yellow pigments to a substrate so as to produce the color elements, such that the color elements exhibit certain red, green, and blue intensity characteristics when measured in an sRGB color space.

Abstract: A welding machine includes an enclosure and a welding power supply mounted in an electronics compartment within the enclosure. A divider wall at least partially defines an engine compartment. A generator is operatively connected to the power supply. An engine, located within the engine compartment, drives the generator. An engine-cooling fan is coupled to the engine. A recessed side vent is in fluid communication with the electronics compartment and recessed in a lateral side of the enclosure, and a recessed air channel is formed by the lateral side and extends rearward from the side vent along the engine compartment. The engine-cooling fan draws cooling air forward through the recessed side vent and into the electronics compartment, and downward through the electronics compartment and into the engine compartment.

Abstract: A three stage power source for an electric arc welding process comprising an input stage having an AC input and a first DC output signal; a second stage in the form of an unregulated DC to DC converter having an input connected to the first DC output signal and converts the first DC output signal to a second DC output signal of the second stage; and a third stage to convert the second DC output signal to a welding output for welding wherein the input stage and the second stage are assembled into a first module within a first housing structure and the third stage is assembled into a second module having a separate housing structure connectable to the first module with long power cables. The second module also includes wire feeding systems and electronics.

Abstract: The present invention consists in a method of welding a nickel strength lug with a bronze connecting pin and a brass contact ring in an accelerometer sensor, the strength lug being interleaved between the connecting pin and the contact ring, the welding being effected electrically with the strength lug pressed simultaneously against the connecting pin and the contact ring. Before welding, the strength lug undergoes deformation of its external surface at least on each of two portions of the surface respectively facing the connecting pin and the contact ring, the surface deformation creating on each of the portions asperities intended to come into local contact with the connecting pin and the contact ring, respectively.

Abstract: A method of monitoring a manufacturing status of an electric resistance welded pipe manufactured by shaping a steel strip into a pipe and butt welding both end parts of the steel strip in a width direction along a lengthwise direction includes: arranging an imaging unit in a gas shield nozzle having an opening opposing a region in which both of the end parts of the steel strip in the width direction are butt welded and shielding the region with inert gas by ejecting the inert gas onto the region through the opening, the imaging unit having a visual filed including the region; and determining quality of a butt-welded part based on an image shot by the imaging unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a powder composed of spherical noble-metal particles having a particle size distribution with a d10 value of ?10.0 ?m and a d90 value of ?80.0 ?m.

Abstract: An ultrasonic bonding jig includes: a base; and a protrusion portion which has a protrusion portion end surface approximately parallel to the base and which has a pair of first walls, the pair of first walls being disposed upright approximately perpendicular to the base from opposed sides of the protrusion portion end surface. A bonding structure includes a bonding portion of a metal plate and a base material. The bonding portion has a recessed portion with a closed bottom on a surface of the metal plate, and the recessed portion has a pair of walls approximately perpendicular to the surface of the metal plate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a welding tool member for friction stir welding comprising a silicon nitride sintered body, wherein the silicon nitride sintered body includes an additive component other than silicon nitride in a content of 15% by mass or less, and the additive component includes three or more elements selected from Y, Al, Mg, Si, Ti, Hf, Mo and C. It is preferable that the content of the additive component is 3% by mass or more and 12.5% by mass or less. It is also preferable that the additive component includes four or more elements selected from Y, Al, Mg, Si, Ti, Hf, Mo and C. Due to above structure, there can be provided a welding tool member for friction stir welding having a high durability.

Abstract: An illuminated film-covered keyboard includes: a backlit keyboard module which includes a plurality of keys that are light-permeable, and at least one backlight source; a frame body disposed on the backlit keyboard module, the frame body including a key area, wherein the top surface of each of the plurality of keys is exposed at the key area; and a cover film disposed at the key area and on top of the top surface of each of the plurality of keys, wherein the cover film includes a light-permeable film, a base color layer, a light-shielding layer that is opaque, and a protection layer disposed on a side of the light-shielding layer opposing the base color layer, and wherein the portions of the light-shielding layer that respectively correspond to each of the plurality of keys are removed so as to form a plurality of light-transparent patterns.

Abstract: In a method for processing a workpiece (2) using a tool (9), in particular for repairing a surface (4) using a laser, the tool (9) being piloted by a control element (10), the tool (9) is to be controlled via a position of the control element (10) and a pressure which is applied either to the control element (10) or by the control element (10).

Abstract: A laser cutting machine includes a first bearing structure and a second bearing structure, a first support structure and a second support structure, a bridge, and a laser head. Each of the first and second bearing structures includes a support structure interface. The first support structure is configured to engage the support structure interface of the first bearing structure and the second support structure is configured to engage the support structure interface of the second bearing structure. The bridge is attached to the first support structure at a first intermediate support region and to the second support structure at a second intermediate support region and is configured to move in a first direction. The laser head is configured to move along the bridge in a second direction.

Abstract: A material feeder in an additive manufacturing apparatus according to one embodiment includes a feeding unit. The feeding unit includes a container capable of containing a powdery material, a first wall that is provided with a plurality of openings communicated with the container and that at least partially covers a region onto which the material is fed, and an opening-closing part capable of individually opening and closing the openings, the feeding unit forming a layer of the material on at least a part of the region by feeding the material inside the container onto the region from at least one of the openings that is opened by the opening-closing part.

Abstract: Methods, systems, devices and apparatus for laser processing of transparent or partially transparent materials by focusing laser radiation on a surface of a material workpiece or inside the material workpiece and creating elongated processed regions with variable and controlled depth using focusing optical system with air-spaced optical components, forming three or more multiple focuses along the optical axis and compensating aberrations induced while light focusing inside the material workpiece. The focusing optical system can have an aplanatic design, with lenses made from birefringent materials combined with lenses from isotropic materials, or objectives, or zoom optical system, or waveplates.

Abstract: An additive manufacturing apparatus and corresponding method for building an object by layerwise consolidation of material wherein the apparatus includes a build enclosure containing a build support for supporting the object during the build, a material source for providing material to selected locations for consolidation, a radiation device for generating and directing radiation to consolidate the material at the selected locations and an acoustic sensing system. The acoustic sensing system may be arranged to detect acoustic signals generated in the build enclosure by consolidation of the material with the radiation. The acoustic sensing system may be a passive acoustic sensing system arranged to detect acoustic signals generated in the build enclosure that are indicative of at least one condition of the building process and/or the object.

Abstract: A deposition condition control device includes: a machining program analyzing unit that obtains a scan rate of a laser beam; a data acquiring unit that acquires an output value of the laser beam, a supply amount of the metal material, and a temperature of the portion to be machined in a molten state; a welding state determination unit that determines whether or not a welding state of the metal material is a stable welding amount state on the basis of the scan rate, the output value, the supply amount, and the temperature; a deposition condition adjusting unit that adjusts the output value and the supply amount so that a result of the determination will be the stable welding amount state; and a deposition condition outputting unit that outputs a command value of the adjusted output value and a command value of the adjusted supply amount to the machine tool.

Abstract: A metal plate for laser processing (such as a stainless steel plate or a titanium plate) and preferably an austenitic stainless steel plate suitable for use as a metal mask or the like which undergoes fine processing with a laser has an average grain diameter d (?m) and a plate thickness t (?m) which satisfy the equation d?0.0448·t?1.28.

Abstract: A bonded brazing ring secured to an end of a tube having a solvent or a solvent with a binder applied to the surface of the tube, and a method of adhering a brazing ring to a tube using a solvent or a solvent with a binder is provided. The brazing ring is secured to the tube prior to a brazing operation.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for assembling a suspension. In one embodiment, a method includes altering a temperature of a first suspension component and then pressing the first suspension component and a second suspension component into engagement while the temperature remains substantially altered.

Abstract: A heat exchanger has a thermally conductive first plate with a flat first surface for thermal contact with a heat transfer fluid, and a flat second surface for thermal contact with an object to be heated or cooled, such as an electronic component. The first surface is provided with a first surface pattern having a plurality of first grooves, and the second surface is provided with a second surface pattern with a plurality of second grooves. The surface patterns may be configured and applied such that the amount of elongation along the first surface produced by application of the first surface pattern substantially corresponds to or offsets the amount of elongation along the second surface produced by application of the second surface pattern, such that the degree of flatness of the first plate prior to formation of the first and second surface patterns will be preserved, maintained or improved.

Abstract: Bed foundation beams are sandwiched by a compression bar extending parallel to the first and second rails and moved towards the first and second rails while being conveyed. Further, the first and second rails and the spacers are sandwiched against spaced fixtures on an endless chain. While being compressed and sandwiched, staple guns fasten the rails and spacers together. The fixtures include front and back stops, with the back stop pivotable about a fixture axis to be movable by a cam moving in a cam track from a pushing position extending perpendicular to the endless chain and abutting with a trailing edge of one of the spacers and a non-intervening position after the staple gun and before the sprocket of the endless chain to reduce the apparatus footprint.

Abstract: An automatic manufacturing device for vehicle body parts includes at least one program-controlled manufacturing means and a processing zone (configured to sequentially receive at least two different load accepting means. A detection device detects a type designation of one of the load accepting means, and a control device ascertains the type of the load accepting means on the basis of the detected type designation. The control device then and selects and executes a control program for the manufacturing means on the basis of the ascertained type.

Abstract: A tool drive with spindle shaft for a chip-forming machining includes at least one electromagnetic axial actuator and a control and/or regulation apparatus for the operation of the axial actuator for changing the position of the spindle shaft along the longitudinal axis. The control and/or regulation apparatus is designed to drive the axial actuator for the generation of microvibration movement of the spindle shaft, independently of and superimposable on a feed movement, in order to affect the chip size and chip shape of the removed material.

Abstract: A method and apparatus. The apparatus comprises a first portion of a tool and a second portion of the tool. The first portion of the tool has a first surface. The first surface has a shape that is complementary to a first portion of a part. The second portion has at least one of a second surface configured to be recessed from a second portion of the part or a hollow portion.

Abstract: A device for damping vibrations of a machine, in particular for damping vibrations of a machine tool, wherein the device includes a first linear motor primary part, a pendulum mass, mounted via at least one supporting sheet-metal assembly provide a relative motion of the pendulum mass along the first linear motor primary part, a first linear motor secondary part fastened to the pendulum mass such that the pendulum mass is actuated via the first linear motor primary part to dampen vibrations of the machine, a second linear motor primary part, and a second linear motor secondary part fastened to the pendulum mass such that the pendulum mass is additionally actuated via the second linear motor primary part to dampen vibrations of the machine so as to achieve an especially compact device that makes it possible to dampen vibrations of machines, in particular machine tools, effectively and without maintenance.

Abstract: A dust collector for electric power tool includes a casing, a ring-shaped suction opening, a dust collecting route, and a filter. The suction opening protrudes forward from the casing. The tool bit of the electric power tool is insertable into the suction opening in a state where the suction opening is brought into contact with a surface to be processed. The dust collecting route is formed within the casing and guides an air suctioned from the suction opening to a dust collection portion in the casing. The filter is disposed in the dust collection portion to capture dust suctioned with the air. On the dust collecting route in the dust collection portion, a first filter and a second filter are disposed. The first filter includes a dust collecting chamber partitioned inside the dust collection portion. The second filter is arranged outside the first filter independently from the first filter.

Abstract: A rotary table for a machine tool comprising a stator unit, a rotor unit rotatable at least about a rotational axis, wherein the rotor unit comprises at least one receiving unit for the reception of a workpiece, a first bearing unit for the mounting of the rotor unit in the stator unit, and an electromagnetic motor drive for the motorized driving of the rotor unit. The rotor unit, at least in the region of the motor drive and/or of the first bearing unit, has at least one rotor-cooling apparatus, comprising a cooling medium and at least one cooling surface, for the cooling and/or absorption of waste heat from the motor drive and/or from the first bearing unit.

Abstract: In a machine tool, under user set conditions, a cutting tool is fed in a feeding direction while the cutting tool is moved repetitively to cut a workpiece smoothly while separating chips easily. In the machine tool and a control apparatus thereof, control means is configured to set the number of rotations of relative rotation for executing machining of a workpiece, and the number of repetitions of repetitive movement during one rotation of the relative rotation in accordance with a repetitive movement frequency attributable to a cycle during which an operation instruction can be issued.

Abstract: To provide a rotary table device that can prevent the occurrence of malfunction before it happens.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for machining a workpiece (2) which preferably consist at least in sections of wood, wood material or synthetic material and/or for coating the workpiece (2) with a coating material (4), comprising: a machining device (30, 40) for machining the workpiece (2), and a conveyor (20) for affecting a relative movement between the workpiece (2) and the machining device (30, 40), a controller for controlling the conveyor (20) and the machining device (30, 40), characterized in that the device (1) further has at least one workpiece measuring device (22) which is configured to measure at least one property of the workpiece (2), in particular a property of a surface (2?) of the workpiece (2) to be machined or to be coated.

Abstract: A sharpening apparatus includes a base having a top surface with a channel or mounting rail. A clamping assembly and at least one angle adjustment assembly are releasably securable to base using the rail or channel. When installed, the clamping assembly includes comprising a pair of jaws extending substantially perpendicularly upward from the top surface in opposed alignment and distal ends adjustably spaced to grip a cutting implement. The angle adjustment assembly has a bracket and a rod receptacle pivotably attached to the bracket. A longitudinal guide rod has an end portion constructed to be releasably secured to the rod receptacle. The sharpening apparatus is constructed to be reversibly assembled with the clamping assembly and the at least one angle adjustment assembly secured to the mounting rail with the angle adjustment assembly adjustably spaced from the clamping assembly, and with the first rod end portion secured to the rod receptacle.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for polishing a wafer including, after unloading and before loading to hold a next wafer to be polished: measurement to measure a depth PDt of a concave portion of a template after taking out a polished wafer; calculation to calculate a difference ?PD between the measured depth PDt of the concave portion and a depth PD0 of the concave portion of the template before being used for polishing; and adjustment to adjust polishing conditions for a next wafer to be polished in accordance with the calculated difference ?PD. Consequently, there are provided the method for polishing a wafer and a polishing apparatus which enable adjusting a fluctuation in flatness of each wafer caused due to a fluctuation in numerical value of a pocket depth of a template.

Abstract: A wafer polishing method of polishing one surface of a wafer by rotating a rotating platen to which a polishing pad is affixed and a pressurizing head while supplying slurry onto the rotating platen and pressurizing/holding the wafer on the polishing pad with the pressurizing head, the method including: calculating an F/T value by monitoring a load current value F of a motor for rotating the rotating platen and a surface temperature T of the polishing pad during the wafer polishing; and controlling at least one of the rotation speed of the rotating platen and the polishing pressure of the pressurizing head based on the calculated F/T value.

Abstract: A polishing apparatus 100 includes a first electric motor 14 that rotationally drives a polishing table 12, and a second electric motor 22 that rotationally drives a top ring 20 that holds a semiconductor wafer 18. The polishing apparatus 100 includes: a current detection portion 24; an accumulation portion 110 that accumulates, for a prescribed interval, current values of three phases that are detected by the current detection portion 24; a difference portion 112 that determines a difference between a detected current value and the accumulated value, where the detected current value is detected in an interval that is different than the prescribed interval; and an endpoint detection portion 29 that detects a polishing endpoint that indicates the end of polishing of the surface of the semiconductor wafer 18, based on a change in the difference that the difference portion 112 outputs.

Abstract: A polishing article has a polishing surface and an aperture, the aperture including a first section and a second section. The polishing article includes a projection extending inwardly into the aperture. The polishing article includes a lower portion on a side of the first surface farther from the polishing surface. A window has a first portion positioned in the first section of the aperture and a second portion extending into the second section of the aperture. The window has a second surface substantially parallel to the polishing surface. A first adhesive adheres the first surface of the projection to the second surface of the window to secure the window to the projection and a second adhesive of different material composition than the first adhesive. The second adhesive is positioned laterally between the second portion of the window and the lower portion of the polishing article.

Abstract: A compact angle reference apparatus comprises one angle guide; and a base; wherein the one angle guide can be disposed on the base; wherein the base can be disposed on a surface adjacent to a sharpening tool; wherein the one angle guide further comprises a frame having an insert side and a hinge side, a lid having a guide surface, an insert end, and a hinge end opposite to the insert end, a set of hinge pins connecting the hinge side of the frame and the hinge end of the lid in a rotatable manner, an insert having a predetermined height, wherein the insert is movable, wherein the insert is configured to be erected between the insert end of the lid and the insert side of the frame, wherein the lid and the frame can form an angle by the predetermined height of the insert.

Abstract: Air flow management systems and methods to facilitate the delivery of abrasives to an abrasive fluid jet cutting head are provided which enable the makeup of the discharged abrasive fluid jet to be controlled or manipulated in a particularly advantageous manner. The methods may include continuously or periodically measuring a volumetric flow rate of air (or other abrasive material carrier fluid) moving through an abrasive feed passageway at one or more measurement locations and adjusting the volumetric flow rate of air (or other abrasive material carrier fluid) moving through the abrasive feed passageway based at least in part on said measuring. Systems and methods for diagnosing changes in operational conditions and/or changes in the condition of one or more components of an abrasive fluid jet cutting system are also provided.

Abstract: A clamp device is equipped with a clamp body, a piston rod, a link mechanism, a detection mechanism for detecting a state of rotary motion of a clamp arm, and a determination unit for determining whether a state of clamping exists. The detection mechanism includes a first proximity sensor, and a knuckle joint having a first sloped surface. The determination unit, on the basis of a comparison of an output signal from the first proximity sensor to a clamp threshold value, determines whether a state of clamping exists, and on the basis of a comparison to a clamping force generation threshold value, determines whether a state of generation of clamping force exists.

Abstract: Pliers having two pliers legs that cross at a pivot bolt, of which pliers leg is fixed and the other is movable with respect thereto, wherein the pivot bolt is optionally fixable in a longitudinal slot in the fixed pliers leg by toothing engagement in order to set a mouth opening width, by means of engagement teeth formed on the longitudinal slot and one or more mating teeth formed on the pivot bolt. The toothing engagement is releasable by the pivot bolt being pressed down in a first direction of movement and subsequently the pliers legs being moved together, or by the pivot bolt automatically passing over one or more engagement teeth, wherein the pivot bolt moves in a second direction of movement on passing over an engagement tooth.

Abstract: A ratchet wrench includes a handle and a head. A ratchet wheel is received in the through hole and a pawl located in a curved recess in the head is engaged with the ratchet wheel. A slot is defined through the top and bottom of the handle and a portion of the head. A control member is slidably engaged with the slot and controls the pawl. The control member includes a tongue which is engaged with a top groove of the ratchet wheel. When sliding the control member away from the ratchet wheel, the tongue is disengaged from the top groove and the pawl is shifted by the control member, so that the ratchet wheel is able to be picked out from the through hole.

Abstract: A device, for rotationally driving an element, including a rotationally-driven member at a front of the device and engageable with, to transmit rotational drive to, the element. A formation is shaped to contact, to transmit a reaction torque to, an attachment. A rearward-facing portion is at the rear, or rearward, of the formation. An arrangement engages, to act between, the rearward-facing portion and the attachment to rearwardly urge the attachment.

Abstract: A socket having functions of torque sensing, angle sensing, and signal transmitting is provided. The socket includes a socket body, a circuit board module, a deformation strain sensing unit, an output/input module, a power supply module, and a protection device. Wherein, the socket body has variable structures to accommodate the circuit board module, the deformation strain sensing unit, the power supply module and the output/input module, and to protect the accommodated elements by the protection device. Accordingly, the socket has the functions of torque sensing, angle sensing, and signal transmitting.

Abstract: A slip type torque wrench has a driving head. The driving head includes a fixing seat and a guiding seat therein. The fixing seat is provided with a rolling member. The guiding seat is provided with a press member. The press member is biased by an elastic unit to abut against the rolling member. A peripheral side of the guiding seat is formed with a guiding slope. The driving head has a tightening hole. A tightening member is locked to the tightening hole. One end of the tightening member abuts against the guiding slope and pushes the guiding seat for tightening the fixing seat. Thereby, the rolling member and the press member stably operate to achieve the purpose of stabilizing the output torque.