Patents Issued in December 3, 2020
  • Publication number: 20200376583
    Abstract: An example wire feeder includes: a frame; a receptacle configured to transfer welding-type current to a welding torch via a torch connector, and to position the torch connector to receive a wire electrode; one or more drive rolls configured to drive the wire electrode to the welding torch, the one or more drive rolls being electrically insulated from the frame, and wherein the wire electrode is electrically insulated from the frame; and a sensor configured to determine at least one of a voltage or an impedance between a first point electrically coupled to the wire electrode and a reference point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Ryan Lizotte, Tiejun Ma, Romeo Cossette
  • Publication number: 20200376584
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an integrated weld position detection device based a binaural effect, including a microphone, a microphone holder, a megaphone, a conductive rod, and a current contact nozzle, where the microphone holder is provided with a first through hole in the center; the first through hole allows the conductive rod to pass through and is fixedly connected to the conductive rod; the current contact nozzle is fixedly connected to the conductive rod; the microphone holder is internally provided with two accommodating cavities; the two accommodating cavities are symmetrically distributed on left and right sides of the microphone holder; two microphones are respectively disposed inside the two accommodating cavities; the megaphone is provided with at least two sound transmission channels; first ends of the two sound transmission channels communicate with the two accommodating cavities respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Yanfeng Gao, Yanfeng Gong, Jianhua Xiao
  • Publication number: 20200376585
    Abstract: An example welding torch includes: a contact tip configured to conduct welding-type current to a wire electrode; a conductor configured to transfer welding-type current from a welding-type power source to the contact tip; a connector configured to couple the conductor to a wire feeder to receive the welding-type current, the connector comprising an inlet configured to receive the wire electrode from a wire feeder; and a wire liner configured to deliver the wire electrode from the wire feeder to the contact tip via the inlet of the connector, the wire liner being electrically insulated from the conductor along a length of the wire liner and being electrically insulated from the connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Tiejun Ma, Romeo Cossette, Richard Martin Hutchison
  • Publication number: 20200376586
    Abstract: A welding tip includes a tip body having a wire insertion bore along a central axis and a leaf spring configured to press a welding wire onto a feeding point disposed on an inner surface of the wire insertion bore. The tip body 1a has an aperture on an outer circumferential surface on the distal end side. The leaf spring has a first end that is a free end disposed on the distal end side of the tip body and a second end fixed to the tip body. The aperture includes a first aperture accommodating the leaf spring and second apertures disposed in communication with the first aperture and configured to discharge wear particles created during welding to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Junji FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20200376587
    Abstract: A welding determination device includes: a measurement unit configured to measure temperature of a joint portion between strip-shaped sheets (for example, steel strips (2)) to be joined by seam welding; and a determination unit configured to, based on measurement results by the measurement unit, calculate an average temperature Tave of the joint portion and a temperature difference ?T that is a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value among temperature of the joint portion and, when the average temperature Tave is less than or equal to a first threshold value and the temperature difference ?T is more than or equal to a second threshold value, determine that a joining defect due to ineffective current has occurred at the joint portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicants: JFE STEEL CORPORATION, Primetals Tehnologies Japan, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro OKI, Motoaki SAKUMOTO, Takafumi NAKAYA, Ryosuke MITSUOKA, Tatsuki MITSUZUMI
  • Publication number: 20200376588
    Abstract: A spot-welding system including a spot-welding gun including a movable part including a movable electrode, and a drive part that drives the movable part, a controller that controls the drive part, an applied pressure sensor that measures an applied pressure from the movable electrode of the spot-welding gun, and an own-weight calculator that calculates an own weight of the movable part based on the applied pressure detected by the applied pressure sensor in two different postures of the spot-welding gun that places the movable electrode in different movement directions. . The controller superimposes a dither signal onto a control signal so as to control the drive part in measuring the applied pressure for use in calculating the own weight of the movable part by the own-weight calculator, and after the own weight is calculated, the controller corrects the control signal based on the calculated own weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vanbac NGUYEN, Shigeo YOSHIDA, Yasuhiro AMAGATA
  • Publication number: 20200376589
    Abstract: Method for forming a shield connection of a shielded cable with the steps of pushing a sleeve onto a shield of a cable, inserting the cable with the sleeve into a magnetic pulse welding coil, and energizing the magnetic pulse welding coil with a current pulse in such a way that the sleeve is joined to the shield with a material bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Oliver Scharkowski
  • Publication number: 20200376590
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a device for welding together two joining partners by means of friction stir welding, which prevents the joining partners being contamined by welding residue. The method comprises the following features: a welding head that can be integrated into any machine, said welding head being in the form of a spindle drive driven by a drive unit, comprising a mounting flange for securing the device assisting the welding process, and a clamping system for receiving a frustoconical-shaped tool having a welding and smoothing shoe for guiding a welding pin (11), a device (17) integrated into the welding and smoothing shoe for grinding the waste produced during the welding process, the waste produced during welding is then removed by means of one inlet channels for fluid arranged in the upper and/or lower area of the frustoconical-shaped tool for the fluid (20, 18) and a suction channel (19).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: GRENZEBACH MASCHINENBAU GMBH
    Inventors: Markus WEIGL, Alexander FEINEIS
  • Publication number: 20200376591
    Abstract: A laser welding device (10) for welding a weld part (35) with laser light (L) includes: a laser emitting head (20) overlapping the laser light (L) and a measurement light (S) coaxially with each other and applying the laser light (L) and the measurement light (S) to the weld part (35), the measurement light (S) having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the laser light (L); a first parallel plane plate and a second parallel plane plate, changing an irradiation position of the measurement light (S) such that the irradiation position orbitally move around a center of rotation that moves on a predetermined welding path in a radius of rotation that is smaller than 1/2 of a spot diameter of the laser light (L); a measuring instrument (14) repeatedly measuring a weld penetration depth of the weld part (35) based on the measurement light (S) that is emitted from the laser emitting head (20) and is reflected on the weld part (35) while the measurement light (S) is being orbitally moved; and a determiner (17)
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: TORU SAKAI, MICHIO SAKURAI, TAKASHI URASHIMA, DAICHI HIGASHI
  • Publication number: 20200376592
    Abstract: A laser welding device (10) for welding a weld part (35) with laser light (L) includes: a laser emitting head (20) overlapping the laser light (L) and a measurement light (S) coaxially with each other and applying the laser light (L) and the measurement light (S) to the weld part (35), the measurement light (S) having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the laser light (L); a measuring instrument (14) repeatedly measuring a weld penetration depth of the weld part (35) based on the measurement light (S) that is emitted from the laser emitting head (20) and is reflected on the weld part (35), thereby generating a plurality of measured values; and a determiner (17) determining the weld penetration depth of the weld part (35) based on (i) one or more measured values, where among the plurality of measured values, or on (ii) an average value of the one or more measured values, the one or more measured values being included within a predetermined range with reference to a greatest side measured value of the
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: TORU SAKAI, MICHIO SAKURAI
  • Publication number: 20200376593
    Abstract: In a measurement device which measures an operation state of a galvanoscanner that scans a laser beam by reflecting the laser beam emitted from a laser light source by mirrors which are rotationally driven by motors, and operates based on an operation command, the measurement device includes: a position information acquisition unit which acquires a rotational position of the mirror in time series as position information; an irradiation position specification unit which specifies an irradiation position of the laser beam irradiated towards a workpiece, based on acquired position information; and an output unit which outputs the irradiation position of the laser beam specified to be visually confirmable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Junichi TEZUKA
  • Publication number: 20200376594
    Abstract: A laser welding head with movable mirrors may be used to perform welding operations, for example, with wobble patterns and/or seam finding/tracking and following. The movable mirrors provide a wobbling movement of one or more beams within a relatively small field of view, for example, defined by a scan angle of 1-2°. The movable mirrors may be galvanometer mirrors that are controllable by a control system including a galvo controller. The laser welding head may also include a diffractive optical element to shape the beam or beams being moved. The control system may also be used to control the fiber laser, for example, in response to the position of the beams relative to the workpiece and/or a sensed condition in the welding head such as a thermal condition proximate one of the mirrors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Yuri Grapov, Kris Pruyn, Felix Stukalin, Erik Hinrichsen
  • Publication number: 20200376595
    Abstract: An exhaust manifold for an additive manufacturing system can include a manifold housing, at least one baffle movable relative to the manifold housing configured to modify an exhaust flow area defined in part by the at least one baffle, and an actuator operatively connected to the at least one baffle configured to move the at least one baffle. The manifold housing can define a housing channel. The at least one baffle can be one or more moveable baffles at least partially disposed within the housing channel and configured to move relative to the housing to modify a respective exhaust flow area of a respective baffle of the one or more moveable baffles. The actuator can be operatively connected to each of the one or more movable baffles and configured to move the one or more movable baffles relative to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence Binek, Zachary Ryan Gibbons
  • Publication number: 20200376596
    Abstract: Systems and methods for additive manufacturing, and, in particular, such methods and apparatus as employ pulsed lasers or other heating arrangements to create metal droplets from donor metal micro wires, which droplets, when solidified in the aggregate, form 3D structures. A supply of metal micro wire is arranged so as to be fed towards a nozzle area by a piezo translator. Near the nozzle, an end portion of the metal micro wire is heated (e.g., by a laser pulse or an electric heater element), thereby causing the end portion of the metal micro wire near the nozzle area to form a droplet of metal. A receiving substrate is positioned to receive the droplet of metal jetted from the nozzle area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Michael Zenou
  • Publication number: 20200376597
    Abstract: An example conversion apparatus for a welding torch includes: an insulator configured to be mechanically coupled to a first component of a welding torch, to insulate the first component from a first contact tip, and to guide shielding gas through a bore of the insulator, wherein the first component is configured to be in electrical contact with a second contact tip; and a contact tip holder configured to be attached to the welding torch via the insulator, to hold the first contact tip, to conduct welding current to the first contact tip, and to receive the shielding gas from the insulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Michael V. Hoeger, Joseph C. Schneider
  • Publication number: 20200376598
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a joint body having a first metal member and a second metal member joined together by causing a laser oscillation system to irradiate a surface of the second metal member placed on the first metal member with laser light to form a joint portion including a welded portion where the first metal member and the second metal member are joined together includes continuously supplying the second metal member while pressing the second metal member against the first metal member, the second metal member being a hoop material, and causing the laser oscillation system to emit the laser light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Kenichi WATANABE, Takayuki KIMURA, Liang CHEN, Masao HADANO, Reiichi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200376599
    Abstract: A method of cooling a component during laser cladding can include attaching a flow adapter to the component, flowing cooling fluid through the flow adapter, flowing the cooling fluid through the component during laser cladding. Attaching a flow adapter to the component can fluidly communicate at least one adapter channel to one or more component channels, and flowing cooling fluid through the at least one adapter channel can pass cooling fluid through the one or more component channels to cool the component during laser cladding. The method can include laser cladding the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Robert W. Vierhout, Troy Finton
  • Publication number: 20200376600
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to additive manufacturing systems. In some embodiments, an additive manufacturing system may include a plurality of laser energy sources, an optics assembly configured to direct laser energy onto a build surface, and an optical fiber connector positioned between the plurality of laser energy sources and the optics assembly. A first plurality of optical fibers may extend between the plurality of laser energy sources and the optical fiber connector, and a second plurality of optical fibers may extend between the optical fiber connector and the optics assembly. Each optical fiber of the first plurality of optical fibers may be coupled to a corresponding optical fiber of the second plurality of optical fibers within the optical fiber connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: VulcanForms Inc.
    Inventors: Raghav Aggarwal, Martin C. Feldmann
  • Publication number: 20200376601
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a built-up object, in which the built-up object includes a plurality of blades provided around a shaft body at circumferential intervals, and concave portions provided between adjacent ones of the blades, each of the concave portions having a curved shape in a section perpendicular to an axial direction, the method includes: a building step of depositing weld beads obtained by melting and solidifying a filler material on a circumferential surface of a base material having a circular shape in a sectional view and having a larger diameter than a bottom portion circle passing through bottom portions of the concave portions, thereby forming built-up portions to serve as the blades; and a cutting step of cutting parts of surfaces of the built-up portions and the circumferential surface of the base material, thereby forming the blades and the concave portions between the blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Shinji SATO, Takeshi YAMADA, Takemasa YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20200376602
    Abstract: A weld is formed in a workpiece such as a pipeline by first activating a melting device, such as a laser, to form a molten weld pool in the workpiece and then activating a welding device, such as a GMAW torch, to initiate a weld in the weld pool. The weld therefore incorporates the weld pool homogeneously. Relative movement between the activated welding device and the workpiece continues and completes the weld while the melting device remains deactivated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Kouassi Gnamien Cesar-Auguste Atin
  • Publication number: 20200376603
    Abstract: A method for preparing a workpiece for separation is provided that includes providing a workpiece that is transparent for light of a pulsed laser beam, splitting the laser beam into two partial beams using an optical system, directing both partial beams onto the workpiece, and moving the workpiece and the partial beams relative to one another. The partial beams are directed onto the workpiece incident at different angles to the normal of the irradiated surface and superimposed inside the workpiece such that the partial beams interfere with one another to form a sequence of intensity maxima inside the workpiece. The intensity at the intensity maxima is sufficiently high to modify the material of the workpiece so that a chain-like periodic pattern of material modifications is formed along a path defining a separation line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Andreas ORTNER, Clemens KUNISCH, Frank-Thomas LENTES, Jens Ulrich THOMAS, Kurt NATTERMANN, Michael KLUGE
  • Publication number: 20200376604
    Abstract: An information projecting method projects information concerning a cut piece onto the cut piece, which is cut and separated from a plate-like work and is on a placement table, or onto a position adjacent to the cut piece. To adjust to an aspect ratio of a projector, the method assigns a long side of the work to an X-axis direction of the aspect ratio and a short side of the work to a Y-axis direction of the aspect ratio, finds a positional relationship d between a top face of the work and the projector according to plate thickness information of the work on the placement table and positioned corresponding to the projector arranged at a predetermined Y-axis-direction position, and with a zoom ratio based on the found positional relationship, projects the information concerning the cut piece onto the cut piece or onto a position adjacent to the cut piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: AMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi SAEKI, Hidenori KOMIYA
  • Publication number: 20200376605
    Abstract: A welding quality inspection apparatus for inspecting the welding quality of a plurality of welding parts formed on the material through the upper electrode and the lower electrode of the welding gun includes a position detection unit for detecting a position of the upper electrode, a control unit generating a position table based on a signal detected by the position detection unit during a total welding time of welding the plurality of welding parts of the material, generating first position data for a first welding time and second position data for a second welding time of a spot welding time of each of the welding parts based on the position table, checking whether the welding parts are defective by using the first position data, the second position data, and reference data, and generating result data based on whether the welding parts are detective, and an output unit for outputting the result data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Bok Deok Seo
  • Publication number: 20200376606
    Abstract: A solder alloy has an alloy composition including, in mass %, 0.8% to 10% of Cu and Sn. The solder alloy includes an intermetallic compound. The intermetallic compound has a maximum grain size of 100 ?m or less in a region at least 50 ?m away from a surface of the solder alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: SENJU METAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro YOKOYAMA, Shunsaku YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200376607
    Abstract: The present invention provides a solder material containing Sn or a Sn-containing alloy and 40 to 320 ppm by mass of A, the solder material including an As-enriched layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: SENJU METAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.,
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Kawasaki, Hiroki Sudo, Takahiro Roppongi, Hiroshi Okada, Daisuke Soma, Takashi Akagawa, Hiroshi Takahashi, Hiroshi Kawanago, Satoshi Yokota, Osamu Munekata
  • Publication number: 20200376608
    Abstract: The present invention provides a solder alloy, a solder paste, a solder ball, a resin flux-cored solder and a solder joint, both of which has the low-melting point to suppress the occurrence of the fusion failure, improves the ductility and the shear strength, and has excellent heat-cycle resistance. The solder alloy comprises an alloy composition composed of 35 to 68 mass % of Bi, 0.1 to 2.0 mass % of Sb, 0.01 to 0.10 mass % of Ni, and a balance of Sn. The alloy composition may contain at least one of Co, Ti, Al and Mn in total amount of 0.1 mass % or less. The solder alloy may be suitably used for a solder paste, a solder ball, a resin flux-cored solder and a solder joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: SENJU METAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro YOKOYAMA, Takahiro MATSUFUJI, Hikaru NOMURA, Shunsaku YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200376609
    Abstract: Provided are a flux, resin flux cored solder and a flux coated pellet which are washable with water. Resin flux cored solder is composed of solder having a linear shape and a flux filled in a substantially central part (core) of the cross section of the solder. The flux contains an amine for salt formation and an organic acid for salt formation, in which the amount of the organic acid is within a range between 10 parts by mass or more and 645 parts by mass or less based on 100 parts by mass of the amine. The organic acid for salt formation is composed of at least one organic acid selected from the group consisting of malonic acid, succinic acid, glutaric acid, tartaric acid, malic acid, diglycolic acid, and citric acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Motohiro Onitsuka, Yoko Kurasawa, Hiroyuki Yamasaki, Atsumi Takahashi, Toshihisa Kugi, Hiroyoshi Kawasaki
  • Publication number: 20200376610
    Abstract: A spacer grid welding fixture comprises a frame sized to receive an assembled spacer grid comprising a first set of parallel straps and a second set of parallel straps oriented orthogonally to the first set of parallel straps, the first and second sets of parallel straps interlocked together by slots cut into the straps. A first set of grid engagement bars is placed on a first side of the spacer grid with each grid engagement bar arranged parallel with the straps of the first set of parallel straps and engaging the straps of the second set of parallel straps. A second set of grid engagement bars is placed on an opposite second side of the spacer grid with each grid engagement bar arranged parallel with the straps of the second set of parallel straps and engaging the straps of the first set of parallel straps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Roger D. Ridgeway, Jeffrey W. Austin, Jeffrey T. Lee
  • Publication number: 20200376611
    Abstract: An assembly and method for repairing sheathing on a tension member of a post-tensioning tendon may include an outer tube having first and second end portions, a tubular long seal positioned inside the outer tube, the tubular long seal being shorter than the outer tube, first and second seals positioned in the first and second end portions of the outer tube, respectively, and first and second nuts retaining the first and second seals in the first and second end portions of the outer tube, respectively. The assembly may define a longitudinal passage adapted to receive the tension member and the presence of the assembly on the tension member seals the portion of the tension member that is within the assembly. An inner tube may be positioned between the outer tube and the tubular long seal and may radially compress the tubular long seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Felix Sorkin
  • Publication number: 20200376612
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.
    Inventors: William M. Becker, Derek D. Beich
  • Publication number: 20200376613
    Abstract: A method of assembling an aircraft assembly having a first member and a second member includes drilling at least one first opening through the first member, the at least one opening having a first diameter, and drilling at least one second opening through the second member, the at least one second opening having the first diameter. The method also includes forming a chamfer on the at least one first opening and the at least one second opening, the chamfer having a chamfer diameter, and positioning the first and second members to align the at least one first opening and the at least one second opening. The method further includes drilling the at least one first opening and the at least one second opening to a second diameter, wherein the second diameter is greater than the first diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Mark Steven Denman, Stephen Richard Dark, Gary A. Lipczynski
  • Publication number: 20200376614
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a multi-purpose heat sink, a method of manufacturing the same, a board card, and a multi-purpose heat sink platform, where the multi-purpose heat sink is composed of a bracket (310) and heat dissipation components. The cost of the multi-purpose heat sink in the present disclosure is low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Chongxing ZHU, Huijun LAN, Kun HE, Kai YE, Deheng CHEN, Shuai CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200376615
    Abstract: A production method for producing a heat exchanger assembly, which may serve for at least one of cooling and heating a functional component via a heat exchanger fluid, may include first providing a duct flat body, which may have a flow duct comprising a clear flow cross section, through which heat exchanger fluid may be flowable. The method then may include forming the duct flat body as part of a rolling process or as part of a roller burnishing process to form a bent cylinder jacket-shaped heat exchanger housing. The method then may include arranging the bent heat exchanger housing on a jacket surface of the functional component, and fixing the heat exchanger housing on the jacket surface of the functional component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Andreas Koenig, Dieter Reisinger, Erwin Skiba, Daniel Stehlik, Christoph Walter, Manuael Wehowski
  • Publication number: 20200376616
    Abstract: An assembling apparatus efficiently performs a recovery operation and a parts size change operation. A filling line (the assembling apparatus) has parts supply units that supply parts, assembling units that mount one of the parts to another part, and a conveying unit that individually moves carriers 12 capable of storing parts constituting an assembly. The parts supply units are provided at positions away from the assembling units, the assembling units are accommodated in an isolator having an interior maintained in an aseptic state, and gloves to perform an operation on the assembling units are provided on a side surface of the isolator. The supply units store the parts in one of the carriers, the carrier then moves into the isolator, and the assembling units take the part from the carrier, and mounts the part to the other part stored in the same carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Masato OHTA, Takashi MIYAZAKI, Yusuke SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20200376617
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a magnetic apparatus for magnetically anchoring ferrous elements (P1), comprising a support structure (11) in which thickness (S) a plurality “N” of polar units (30A) is housed, said support structure (11) identifies a first and a second side (12, 13) at the opposite surfaces with the greatest extension, each of said plurality “N” of polar units (30A) comprising a coil (30) having a support (31) of predetermined profile and an electric conductive element (32) wound on said support, a first magnetic core (40) with a first coercive value, generating a first magnetic flow oriented in a first magnetic direction, a plurality of second magnetic cores (90A, 90B) having each its own coercive value, different from said first coercive value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Michele CARDONE
  • Publication number: 20200376618
    Abstract: A tool change unit includes a base and two tool arms rotatably mounted on the base and respectively located on two sides of the base. Each arm body includes a position-returning element, a gripping element, and an actuation element. The position-returning element enables the tool arm to rotate for upward and downward moving between a first position and a second position. The gripping element functions to grip a main-axle tool or a magazine tool. The tool change unit is combinable with a power unit to form a tool change device. The power unit drives the tool change unit to do rotation or rotation and upward and downward movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Chun-Chieh Chen
  • Publication number: 20200376619
    Abstract: A chip evacuator tool includes at least one hook member configured to grab and remove chips from a machined part. The chip evacuator tool is attached to and rotates with a spindle of a machine tool, which is controlled using a computer of a CNC machine. In operation the location of the chip evacuator tool remains stationary while both the chip evacuator tool and the machined part rotate in the same direction, resulting in efficient removal of chips from the machined part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Eric J. Stuckey, Kevin Bachelder
  • Publication number: 20200376620
    Abstract: A motor control device includes: a position command section configured to generate a position command for a control object; a position detecting section configured to detect a position of the control object or a position of a motor configured to drive the control object; and a position control section configured to control a position of the motor based on the position command and the detected position of the control object or the motor, in which at least one of the position command section and the position control section includes a vibration suppression filter configured to approximate a reverse characteristic of a vibration characteristic generated between the motor and the control object, and the vibration suppression filter changes a vibration suppression frequency according to at least one of the position and a mass of the control object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Nakamura, Satoshi Ikai
  • Publication number: 20200376621
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for sharpening a cutting tool, such as a kitchen knife. A sharpener has a base unit and one or manual sharpening modules. The base unit has a housing which encloses at least one flexible abrasive disc rotated by an electric motor. Each flexible abrasive disc is adjacent a powered sharpening stage to perform a primary sharpening operation upon the tool. Each manual sharpening module may be removably attachable to the base unit and has a manual sharpening stage that incorporates at least one sharpening element to perform a secondary sharpening operation upon the tool. Each manual sharpening module further has a powered stage guide surface to form a portion of a corresponding powered sharpening stage. When two powered sharpening stages are used, the manual sharpening module(s) can be individually placed between the powered sharpening stages to provide opposing powered stage guide surfaces for each.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Daniel T. Dovel
  • Publication number: 20200376622
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (14) for sanding floor areas, the device comprising a frame, a steering, a motor which is provided to said frame, a subframe (13) rotatably coupled with said motor, said subframe being centrally provided with an adapter (7) along the lower side, a sanding frame (1), said sanding frame being centrally provided with a receiver (2) along the upper side, said receiver receiving said adapter, and at least one holder (5) for sanding elements, said holder being provided along the lower side of said sanding frame and being suitable for the attachment of sanding elements (15). In particular, the subframe is freely supported by the sanding frame, via said adapter and receiver, said adapter and receiver being rotationally coupled. In other aspects, the invention relates to a sanding frame, a sanding element and a method for sanding floor areas, as well as a floor area obtained by application of said method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Koenraad BOEL
  • Publication number: 20200376623
    Abstract: A method for polishing a workpiece in the production of an optical element, in particular for microlithography, wherein a relative movement takes place between a polishing tool (300) and a workpiece surface (110, 120, 210) being machined. A polishing tool surface (215, 315) of the polishing tool (300) is formed by a viscoelastic polishing medium (303), wherein the polishing tool surface has an average diameter which is less than 50% of the average diameter of the workpiece surface being machined. The polishing tool surface during polishing is guided by an overrun distance beyond at least one edge (110a, 110b, 120a, 120b, 210a, 210b) delimiting the workpiece surface being machined, wherein the average diameter of the polishing tool surface is at least twice the overrun distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Andreas WOLPERT, Franz-Josef STICKEL
  • Publication number: 20200376624
    Abstract: The present invention is an interface between an orbital or dual action machine and towels. The apparatus may directly connect to the orbital or dual action machine or may attach to a backing plate that is attached to the orbital or dual action machine. The quick connector is located concentric with the head of the orbital and dual action machine to provide balanced and even mechanical movement of the attached towel. The present invention provides an interface between an orbital or dual action machine and towels in order to take advantage of the mechanical action of the machines to provide faster and more efficient use of towels. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a towel quick connector pad having of a central opening with a retaining aperture for attaching and securing a towel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: KENNETH FOX, David Tedeschi
  • Publication number: 20200376625
    Abstract: In a substrate polishing apparatus where a polishing liquid passes through inside a rotary joint, the rotary joint requires maintenance. There is provided a substrate polishing apparatus that includes: a polishing head for holding a substrate; a rotary table that has a surface to which a first opening portion is provided; a polishing liquid discharge mechanism disposed to the rotary table; and a controller configured to control at least the polishing liquid discharge mechanism. The polishing liquid discharge mechanism includes a first cylinder, a first piston, and a driving mechanism that drives the first piston. The first opening portion is communicated with a liquid holding space defined by the first cylinder and the first piston. The controller controls the driving of the first piston by the driving mechanism to increase and decrease a volume of the liquid holding space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Ebara Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuji TOGAWA, Kenichi KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200376626
    Abstract: A method of temperature control for a chemical mechanical polishing system includes directing a gas that includes steam from an orifice onto the component in the polishing system while the component is spaced away from a polishing pad of the polishing system to raise a temperature of the component to an elevated temperature, and before the component returns to an ambient temperature, moving the component into contact with the polishing pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Haosheng Wu, Jianshe Tang, Hari Soundararajan, Shou-Sung Chang, Paul D. Butterfield, Hui Chen, Chih Chung Chou, Alexander John Fisher
  • Publication number: 20200376627
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for making a grinding wheel for the squaring of ceramic, formed by a support body and an abrasive ring. The process does not involve costly workings on the body and on the ring and produces a light grinding wheel which, therefore, is more practical to be handled by the handling machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Daniele FERRARI
  • Publication number: 20200376628
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a grinding material in which grinding portions can be increased in thickness while a decrease in grinding rate is inhibited. The grinding material according to the present invention includes a base, and a grinding layer overlaid on a front face side of the base and containing abrasive grains and a binder. The grinding layer includes a plurality of columnar grinding portions. The plurality of the grinding portions are configured so that the grinding portions are arranged in a staggered manner. The average thickness of the grinding portions is no less than 300 ?m. The area of a top face of each of the grinding portions is no less than 6 mm2. The average thickness of the base is no less than 300 ?m and no greater than 3,000 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Soichiro NAKANE, Tomoki IWANAGA
  • Publication number: 20200376629
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for sharpening a cutting tool, such as a knife. A sharpener includes a first support member, a second support member and a hinge assembly. The first support member supports a first abrasive surface and has at least a first guide at a selected end of the first abrasive surface. The second support member supports a second abrasive surface and has at least a second guide at a selected end of the second abrasive surface. A hinge assembly couples the first and second support member to facilitate movement of the second support member relative to the first support member between a closed position and an open position. In the closed position, the first guide is in facing relation to the second guide and the first abrasive surface is in facing relation to the second abrasive surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Steven Lee Baker, Joseph Todd Zachariasen
  • Publication number: 20200376630
    Abstract: A key clamp for key processing machines and key processing machine comprising a base, a first clamp and a second clamp, have the same structure and are arranged in parallel on the base, and they both have a fixed connection with the base. The first clamp comprises at least three clamping jaw and a transmission device, three clamping jaws arranged in one row, the first clamping jaw and the third clamping jaw are both fixed in relation to the base. The second clamping jaw is flexibly installed on the base. The transmission device penetrates the first clamping jaw, the second clamping jaw and the third clamping jaw, and are connected to the second clamping jaw. The key clamp can clamp house keys and automotive keys with a multitude of structures. It has the advantages of strong versatility, simple structure, easy use and reliable clamping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Yongfeng Xi
  • Publication number: 20200376631
    Abstract: A clamp includes a jaw assembly, and an actuator device for moving the jaw assembly between clamped and unclamped positions. The actuator device includes a handle, and a keyed shaft coupled to the handle via a spring biased releasable torque transfer mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: Yakima Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Gian-Marco D'Angelo, Kevin Lesley
  • Publication number: 20200376632
    Abstract: A quick reciprocating wrench includes a main body, a claw, and an elastic device therebetween. The main body includes a first jaw opening having a pivot end and a block portion. The claw includes a second jaw opening having a pivotal combination portion and a retaining portion. The pivotal combination portion is pivotally connected with the pivot end, so the claw and the main body pivotally move against each other. The fastener is engaged in the first and the second jaw openings. Distance between the block portion and the neighboring force bearing face of the fastener decreases along a direction in opposite to the expansion direction of the claw and the block portion. The largest width of the distal end of the retaining portion is greater than the smallest distance between the block portion and the first force bearing face of the fastener.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Bobby Hu