Patents Issued in August 12, 2021
  • Publication number: 20210245182
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods and systems for making structures using an electrospray system while under vacuum. In particular, embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods and systems for ultra-fast growth of high aspect ratio nano/meso/micro-structures with three dimensional topological complexity and control of phase and composition of the structure formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: Andrei G. Fedorov
  • Publication number: 20210245183
    Abstract: A hose end spray head apparatus includes a spread head body and a hose coupling. The spray head body includes a mixing body and a spray outlet arm formed as a unitary construction. The spray outlet arm extends outwardly from the mixing body and includes a spray bore to discharge a mixed fluid. The spray bore communicates with atmosphere via a first radial sidewall bore and a first offset top surface bore. An axial bottom surface bore extends from the bottom surface to the spray bore and is draws product from a container so as to inject the product into the spray bore. A second radial sidewall bore is configured to communicate an open interior of the container with atmosphere. The hose coupling is secured to the mixing body and mounts to a fluid supply to form the mixed fluid which is discharged through the spray bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Chapin Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: James R. Fontaine
  • Publication number: 20210245184
    Abstract: A fluid cartridge for a plural component sprayer is configured to receive first and second component materials and purge air from the sprayer and provide the first and second component materials and purge air to a mix chamber for spraying. The fluid cartridge includes a cartridge body, material flowpaths extending from a second end to a cartridge bore, and a purge path extending from the second end to the cartridge bore. Fluid checks are disposed in the material flowpaths and purge path to prevent backflow out of the fluid cartridge. Side seals are disposed in the material paths and are pre-loaded to extend into the cartridge bore and engage a mix chamber within the cartridge bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel P. Ross, Joseph E. Tix, Samuel R. Stewart, Mark T. Weinberger, Christopher J. Pellin, Jeffrey N. Velgersdyk
  • Publication number: 20210245185
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a metering and mixing device including a cartridge holder (1) and a cartridge (2). A surface-to-surface, and also positive and non-positive connection exists between the cartridge and the holder. The present disclosure also relates to a method for coating substrates with two- or multicomponent coating media, in which the metering and mixing device is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Sibylle Schoeps, Roland Meisner
  • Publication number: 20210245186
    Abstract: The Lawn Fast Spray Bottle has an Air valve that allows the user to put air into the sprayer by using an air compressor. The added air value is located at top side (shoulder) of the bottle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: Kamal Mehbub Sekhon
  • Publication number: 20210245187
    Abstract: A dispensing system (2000), includes a container (900) containing a flowable base formulation (910) to be dispensed, an additive mixing device (2004), and an actuable pump engine (2002) which draws the flowable base formulation from the container and pumps it through the mixing device. The additive mixing device includes a body (2022) with an internal cavity (2052), an additive ingredient (2054) within the cavity, and a flow path/mixing chamber (2058) between an input and an output. With each pump of the device (2004) the additive ingredient is introduced into, and mixed with, a flow of the base formulation traveling through the mixing device. Multiple additive mixing devices (2004) may be interchangeable for different formulations, and the mixing devices may be refillable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Silgan Dispensing Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Loza, Jeroen Regt
  • Publication number: 20210245188
    Abstract: Systems and methods of controlling movement of a moving part of an applicator for jetting material from the applicator are disclosed. The method includes actuating a piezoelectric device operatively connected to a needle by providing a voltage waveform to the piezoelectric device, such that the needle translates along a positional path in a first dispensing operation. The method also includes sensing positions of the moving part over a period of time, where the positions define a time-dependent positional profile of the moving part, and receiving parameters for a second dispensing operation. The method also includes determining a required voltage waveform to be applied to the piezoelectric device to perform the second dispensing operation, and adjusting the voltage waveform provided to the piezoelectric device to match the required positional profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Andrew FELBER, Richard MURPHY, Frederick DOERING
  • Publication number: 20210245189
    Abstract: A painting method for painting a painting subject area whose edge shape is delimited by at least one demarcation line. The method includes a center portion painting step of painting a center portion of the painting subject area which is away from the demarcation line using an air atomizing nozzle disposed within 5 cm or less from a painting subject surface, and a frame portion painting step of painting a frame portion of the painting subject area which is adjacent the demarcation line using a jet nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Keiji Manabe, Chikara Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20210245190
    Abstract: A paint nozzle used in a paint device has a paint channel that supplies paint, an air channel that supplies air, and a nozzle plate that is connected to the paint channel and the air channel. This nozzle plate is provided with a merging section that causes the paint and the air to merge and mix, and a discharge port that discharges, as paint particles, the paint and the air in a mixed state from the merging section. In addition, the interior of the nozzle plate has a tapered portion that connects the merging section and the discharge port and that tapers toward the discharge port on the distal end side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi Kikuchi, Osamu Yashima, Koichi Ikebukuro
  • Publication number: 20210245191
    Abstract: A work facility that is capable of adjusting an air volume without a work defect and saving energy. The opening degree of an air volume adjusting damper corresponding to a filter booth for which the individual air volume measured by a corresponding individual flowmeter is the smallest among the respective individual air volumes for the filter booths is adjusted to a completely open state, whereas the opening degree of any other air volume adjusting damper is adjusted to such an opening degree that the individual air volume for the corresponding filter booth as measured by a corresponding individual flowmeter is equal to the smallest individual air volume, and a gas discharge fan is adjusted by a total air volume adjusting mechanism so that a total air volume measured by a total flowmeter is equal to a predetermined target total air volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Toshihiko Koike, Tomoo Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20210245192
    Abstract: A coating nozzle 5 is provided with a holder part 6 attachable to the distal-end part of a gun base 4, and a nozzle body 7 which is housed in the holder part 6 and which has a discharge opening 73, and a valve seat part 72 in which a needle valve 42 for opening and closing the discharge opening 73 is seated. The nozzle body 7 is provided with a nozzle body distal-end part 77 in which the discharge opening 73 is formed and which protrudes past a first holder tapered surface 67 of the holder part 6. The nozzle body 7 is supported by the holder part 6 so as to slide with respect to the holder part 6 when a load is applied to the nozzle body distal-end part 77 from a discharge opening 73 side to a valve seat part 72 side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Koji ODA, Hidekazu RYU
  • Publication number: 20210245193
    Abstract: A liquid dispenser. The dispenser includes reversible modular components to define selective removability and rearrangement between them and a base structure such that one or more sheets of a passing liquid-receiving substrate may receive such liquid through interchangeable liquid-dispensing orientations. The removability features include tool-free operation to facilitate quick insertion and removal of the modular components that include at least a liquid-dispensing valve assembly and a seal that is selectively engageable with the valve assembly to protect liquid-dispensing nozzles of the valve assembly from becoming clogged with residual dried liquid during periods of inactivity of the liquid dispenser. Selective movable cooperation or attachment between the modules—as well as between the modules and the base structure—facilitates flexible configurations of the dispenser, including top-down and bottom-up liquid-dispensing orientations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Valco Cincinnati, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Woolery, Steven Turner
  • Publication number: 20210245194
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a target object coated with a coating substance, whose edge face portions and flat face portion can be covered with the coating substance with a predetermined thickness, is provided. The target object T includes a flat face portion Tf and an edge face portion Te continuous from the portion Tf which includes a coating flat surface Tsp formed thereon which has a flat face. The portion Te includes a coating edge surface Tsc which includes at least one of a curved surface or a flat surface that is not parallel to the surface Tsp. The method includes a coating substance supply step of supplying the substance R along at least the surface Tsp, and an edge face portion coating substance adjustment step of adjusting the substance R supplied to the surface Tsc or moved from the surface Tsp to cover the surface Tsc at a predetermined thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Takayuki SUZUKI, Tatsuo OKUBO, Naoto OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210245195
    Abstract: A method and apparatus provide a base structure at least partially with a cured polymer coating having microscopic polymer structures. The method includes applying an uncured polymer material on at least a part of the base structure, the uncured polymer material being electrically charged with a charge that has a first sign; providing at least one electrode at a distance above at least a part of said uncured polymer material; charging the at least one electrode with an electrical charge that has a second sign opposite to the first sign, thereby electrostatically attracting uncured polymer material towards the at least one electrode and deforming the uncured polymer material into uncured structured polymer material comprising one or more uncured microscopic polymer structures that have a shape; and curing the one or more uncured microscopic polymer structures, thereby forming the cured polymer coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: QLAYERS HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Ruben GEUTJENS, Amber Egon VAN HAUWERMEIREN
  • Publication number: 20210245196
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a plasma cord coating device comprising a pair of opposite and parallel plate electrodes having a first electrode and a second electrode, a pair of planar and parallel dielectric barriers including a first dielectric barrier, and a second dielectric barrier, wherein the first electrode is covered by the first dielectric barrier on a side facing the second electrode and the second electrode is covered by the second dielectric barrier on a side facing the first electrode to form a gap between the first and the second dielectric barriers. This device includes a first foil which extends through the gap and covers the first dielectric barrier and a second foil which extends through the gap and covers the second dielectric barrier to form a plasma treatment zone between the first foil and the second foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Frederic Gerard Auguste Siffer, Dirk Leo Vangeneugden, Bert Verheyde, Erwin Constant Maria Van Hoof
  • Publication number: 20210245197
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of magnetic assemblies, magnetic apparatuses and processes for producing optical effect layers (OEL) comprising magnetically oriented non-spherical magnetic or magnetizable pigment particles on a substrate and providing an impression of a crescent moon-shaped element moving or rotating upon tilting the optical effect layer (OEL). In particular, the present invention relates to magnetic assemblies, magnetic apparatuses and processes for producing said OELs as anti-counterfeit means on security documents or security articles or for decorative purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Cédric AMERASINGHE, Mathieu SCHMID, Claude-Alain DESPLAND
  • Publication number: 20210245198
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a method for forming a multilayer coating film having good coating film smoothness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akiko SENDA, Kenta TAKEMURA, Satoshi ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210245199
    Abstract: A plant product extraction apparatus or extractor is provided for separating or grading fine particles from a larger portion of material, such as separating trichomes from a stalk or flower of a plant. The apparatus imparts a plurality modes or patterns of oscillations and vibrations to a particle separator or sieve that holds the plant matter. A motor drives a back and forth motion to a support platform supporting a sieve. The sieve is constrained by a retention tray that is supported by the support platform. Vibratory motors provide rapid shaking vibration through the retention tray to the sieve. Agitators may be placed inside of the sieve to facilitate the separation of the plant materials. The various motors and locomotion patterns facilitate the separation of finer plant materials from a larger portion of a plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: Chad M. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20210245200
    Abstract: A separating device for separating different material fractions out of a feed-material mixture having a flow channel, which has a slope, extends in parallel with the direction of gravity in particular in its main longitudinal extension direction and comprises an inner chamber. The separating device has a first end region, a second end region, a material inlet region intended for feeding the feed-material mixture into the inner chamber of the flow channel, an outlet through which an air stream containing a lightweight material can exit the flow channel, at least one conveying means that conveys air through the flow channel, and a cross-flow device that has a separation chamber and an air intake that leads into said chamber and through which the cross-flow device can introduce air into the separation chamber in a flow direction extending at an angle to the main longitudinal extension direction of the flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Kompoferm GmbH
    Inventor: Karlgünter Eggersmann
  • Publication number: 20210245201
    Abstract: A method including receiving a sequence of thermal data of a plant, wherein said sequence is sampled at least one location of said tissue while said tissue is being thermally disturbed, processing said thermal data to derive thermal values associated with each of said tissue locations, deriving at least one thermal variable at least one location on said plant, based, at least in part, on said processing, calculating a variance value of all said thermal variables associated with each of said locations and determining a state of said plant based on at least one location at which said variance value exceeds a predetermined threshold. The disclosure also includes a system and computer product for real time sorting of plants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Shani TOLEDANO, Gideon BARAK
  • Publication number: 20210245202
    Abstract: A particle sorting apparatus is provided. The particle sorting apparatus includes a first detector of a first scatter channel to detect a first light scatter generated by a particle flowing in a flow channel of a fluid sample and passing through a first laser beam, and a second detector of a second scatter channel to detect a second light scatter generated by the particle flowing in the flow channel of the fluid sample and passing through a second laser beam. The particle sorting apparatus also includes circuitry configured to output a first scatter pulse information and a first detection time of the first light scatter channel, a second scatter pulse information and a second detection time of the second light scatter channel. The first laser beam and the second laser beam are irradiated to the particle in different positions of the flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: Tatsumi ITO
  • Publication number: 20210245203
    Abstract: An inspection process including the steps of: providing at least one specimen to an inspection apparatus; identifying the at least one specimen; inspecting the at least one specimen; assigning a first assessment to the at least one specimen based on the result of the inspection; saving the identification feature together with the inspection data and a first assessment to a raw data storage as a data package; providing the processed data storage to an inspector; assigning the second assessment to the data space of the processed data package; sorting the at least one specimen based on the first or second assessment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: WILCO AG
    Inventor: Christian STIRNIMANN
  • Publication number: 20210245204
    Abstract: A sorting apparatus includes a conveyance unit that conveys a plurality of packages and a sorting unit that is configured to sort the plurality of packages on the basis of a delivery destination, a size, and a weight such that the plurality of packages are sorted as first packages and second packages, and the sorting unit is configured to sort the packages lighter and smaller than the second packages as the first packages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, Tomonari FURUKAWA, Tahsin MULLICK
    Inventors: Yasuyuki NASU, Tomonari FURUKAWA, Tahsin MULLICK
  • Publication number: 20210245205
    Abstract: A drive system for a net cleaner to produce efficient propulsion without damage to the cage net. The drive system includes flexible engagement stumps protruding from a base of a driving belt with tips or studs mounted on an end of the stumps. The tips or studs engage the net and propel the net cleaner. The stumps flex to insure that, if excessive pressure is applied to a stud, the stump will bend and the net will release without damage. A guard prevents the stump from directly engaging a cage net. A track belt produces efficient propulsion without damage to the cage net. The track belt includes flexible engagement stumps protruding from a base of a driving belt with tips or studs mounted on an end of the stumps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: Peter B. Lindgren
  • Publication number: 20210245206
    Abstract: The invention relates to apparatuses, machines, systems and methods for periodically washing and/or disinfecting the interior of individual containers having a polygonal base (e.g., rectangular), such as bins of the type used for the used for agricultural commodity collection, storage, and transport (agricultural bins), as well as other types of bins and containers. The systems of the present invention may be operable to automatically and thoroughly clean the interior of such bins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Lorin Reed, Jim Moshier
  • Publication number: 20210245207
    Abstract: In the case of a pipe cleaning and/or inspection nozzle, an available camera module can be coupled to a plurality of pipe cleaning and/or inspection nozzles in a simple and cost-efficient manner, and that a secure reliable coupling of the electrical lines is attained. An extension sleeve is inserted, which comprises a high-pressure line section comprising a sleeve loop contact. The sleeve loop contact is fastened in the extension sleeve with a sleeve insulator insert and runs so as to transition into an inner power/signal line within the extension sleeve all the way into an outlet section in the direction of the longitudinal axis. At least one outlet opening is recessed out of the outlet section, and the outlet section opens out into a coupling section, at which means are provided so that the coupling section can be fastened to a camera adapter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Enz Technik AG
    Inventor: Christoph LENDI
  • Publication number: 20210245208
    Abstract: A drain cleaning machine includes a snake inlet tube, a clamping mechanism having a first support member and a second support member. The second support member is movable between a first position in which a first distance is defined between the first support member and the second support member, and a second position in which a second distance is defined between the first support member and the second support member. The clamping mechanism also includes a plurality of collets supported by the first and second support members. The drain cleaning machine also includes a motor switchable between a deactivated state and an activated state in which the motor is configured to rotate the clamping mechanism and an actuating lever moveable between a deactivated position, in which the second support member is in the first position, and an activated position, in which the second support member is in the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Michael C. Reed, Joshua P. Heimann
  • Publication number: 20210245209
    Abstract: A textile thread element for treating a tube includes a first portion, called the “rigid portion”, forming a thread puller for introducing and front traction of the thread element inside the tube and a second portion, called the “flexible portion”, forming a flexible thread for treating the inside of the tube. The rigidity of the first portion is greater than that of the second portion. The first portion and the second portion are made from the same material or materials and are continuous with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicants: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, STN
    Inventors: Frédérik GUYON, Guillaume NAVARRO, Mathias FAUCHILLE
  • Publication number: 20210245210
    Abstract: An apparatus and related process for the internal cleaning of a pipeline includes an interchangeable rotary cleaning head, a motor device coupled to the rotary head, a movement device configured to move the apparatus inside the pipeline, and a remote control system. The combined movement of the rotary head rotation and of the advancing motion of the apparatus inside the pipeline allows the disintegration of the deposits present internally of the pipeline by mechanical action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: ENI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Riccardo Schiavon, Nicola Buongiorno
  • Publication number: 20210245211
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of simultaneously processing fly ash and COPR, which can treat the fly ash and COPR harmlessly during the landfilling process through biochemical and engineering measures. The method includes: transferring the fly ash and COPR to the yard; laying an impervious layer inside the yard; laying a diversion material at a bottom of the yard; laying a mixture layer on the diversion material, where the mixture layer contains a biogas residue, a waste carbon source, ferrous sulfate, a nutritional additive, the waste incineration fly ash and COPR; placing an internal-electrolysis ceramsite layer on the mixture layer; injecting a carbon source solution from an upper portion of the yard and collecting a leachate to a collection device through the diversion material irregularly during the operation; and recirculating the leachate to a top of the yard for spray reinjection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Dalei ZHANG, Jianxue ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20210245212
    Abstract: A system, process and method for remediating contaminated soil and solvent recovery. A solvent mixture including a polar and a non-polar solvent is mixed with contaminated soil in mixing vessels, allowing the solvent mixture to extract contaminates from the soil. The solvent mixture is separated from the soil using bicanting units to form a solvent stream and a soil stream. The soil stream goes through air sparging in a dryer to remove residual solvent vapor. Water and/or micro-fines are extracted from the solvent stream using a centrifuge. The solvent stream undergoes distillation in a distillation unit to remove the containments from the solvent stream, while recovering separately the solvent mixture and a product. The recovered solvent mixture can be recycled back to the mixing vessels. The contaminates can be BTEX or F1-F4 hydrocarbons, and the product can be oil or other hydrocarbons. The system can be mobile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Drader, Brian Gibbs
  • Publication number: 20210245213
    Abstract: A roll body for a hydrostatic rolling tool includes a center, an axis of rotation running through the center, and a machining zone for rolling a workpiece. The roll body is rotatable about the axis of rotation and the machining zone has a working profile line formed in a cross-section of the roll body. The working profile line has a first working arc extending around a first machining center and a second working arc extending around a second machining center. The first machining center is arranged offset to the center, and the second machining center is arranged offset to the center and offset to the first machining center. In an example embodiment, the roll body has a parallel to the axis of rotation, the first machining center lies in the cross-section on the parallel, and the second machining center lies in the cross-section on the parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Peter Geschwindner
  • Publication number: 20210245214
    Abstract: A roll stand (1) for rolling flat rolling stock (2) includes an upper working roller (3) and a lower working roller (4) that form a roll gap (5) between each other. The flat rolling stock (2) runs through the roll gap (5) in a transport direction (x) during rolling of the flat rolling stock (2). An upper cooling device (8), cools the upper working roller (3) and is arranged on the outlet side of the roll stand (1). The upper cooling device (8) has an upper spray boom (17), which extends parallel to the upper working roller (3) and has a plurality of upper spray nozzles (22), which spray a liquid coolant (12) onto the upper working roller (3). The upper cooling device (8) also has a lower spray boom (18), which extends parallel to the upper working roller (3) and has a plurality of lower spray nozzles (23), which spray the liquid coolant (12) onto the upper working roller (3). The lower spray boom (18) is arranged between the flat rolling stock (2) and the upper spray boom (17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Markus FISCHER, Erich OPITZ, Lukas PICHLER, Christoph PROELL, Alois SEILINGER
  • Publication number: 20210245215
    Abstract: A cooling section arranged within, upstream of, or downstream of a rolling train is provided. A hot-rolled product made of metal is cooled by the cooling section. Application devices of the cooling section are supplied with an actual current of a water-based liquid coolant via a supply line and a pump. The actual current of the coolant is applied to the hot-rolled product by means of the application device. The hot-rolled product is transported within the cooling section in a horizontal transport direction during the application of the coolant. A controller of the cooling section dynamically ascertains a target actuation state for each pump on the basis of a target current of the coolant to be applied onto the hot-rolled product by the application device and controls the pump in a corresponding manner such that the actual current delivered by each pump approximates the target current as much as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Primetals Technologies Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Weinzierl
  • Publication number: 20210245216
    Abstract: Separating flexibly rolled strip material can include a buffer device for temporarily storing the flexibly rolled strip material; a first feed device behind the buffer device; at least one length measuring device for continuously measuring a length of the strip material; a thickness measuring device for continuously measuring a thickness of the strip material along the length; a second feed device behind the first feed device; a separating device behind the second feed device; the first and second feed devices being configured to move the strip material from the buffer device to the separating device depending on the thickness measurement and the length measurement; the thickness measuring device being arranged between the buffer device and the first feed device; and the length measuring device being arranged behind the first feed device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Joachim Ivo, Thomas Dahl, Andreas Barchet, Christian Brüser, Alexander Eick
  • Publication number: 20210245217
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing the thickness of a strip of an aluminum-based material are disclosed. The aluminum-based material is pre-heated before running the material through a warm rolling process. The systems include devices for pre-heating, which can include a heated payoff station or a dedicated pre-heating station that applies heated rolls or acts as a heated tunnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: MATERION CORPORATION
    Inventor: Karl R. ZIEGLER
  • Publication number: 20210245218
    Abstract: A device and method for designing lightweight, strong, material efficient, extruded and pultruded profiles, profile segments and surfaces produced in profile production with rotating dies creating superior resistance to compression, bending and buckling, higher energy absorption and right strength in the right place, by: varying the thickness along and across the direction of extrusion, making reinforcing patterns varying the profile thickness, and in some cases varying angles and patterns which increases the profile segments/surface resistance against compression, bending and buckling relative to the amount of material used and resulting in the manufacturing of optimized beams and surfaces that have superior properties in terms of strength/weight, stiffness/weight ratio, mechanical energy absorption/weight unit, deformation and natural frequency, thermal transfer capacity, the breaking of the laminar flow, increased/optimized surface for chemical and/or electrochemical reaction etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: Mark Jansson Kragh
  • Publication number: 20210245219
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flattening device, comprising: a rack; a material-pressing component, which is provided on the rack and has a material-pressing part; a material-guiding component, which is provided on the rack and has a material-guiding part corresponding to the material-pressing part, the material-pressing part and the material-guiding part being configured to be able to bear against two sides of a sheet material respectively, so as to form a flattening channel between the material-guiding part and the material-pressing part; and an adjusting component, which drives at least one of the material-pressing component and the material-guiding component to move, so as to adjust the distance between the material-pressing part and the material-guiding part. Further disclosed are a material-conveying apparatus including the flattening device and a sheet material processing system comprising the material-conveying apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: DALIAN FIELD HEAVY-MACHINERY MANUFACTURING CO., LTD
    Inventor: Guowu GAO
  • Publication number: 20210245220
    Abstract: An adjustable dent removal tool may include a handle coupled to a duel adjustment system, the duel adjustment system may include a body secured to the handle. The body may include a plurality of first engagement teeth. A piston may be provided that may be movably coupled to the body, the piston may include a plurality of second engagement teeth, which may be selectively engaged with the first engagement teeth, thereby releasably locking the body to the piston. A lower body may be secured to the body. The lower body may include a tool receiver. A tool shaft may be provided that may be releasably locked to the lower body in more than one position. The handle may be comprised of a plurality of handle segments each with a male and a female coupling, the segments releasably secured to one another and to a receiver body with two female couplings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: Steven Hopf
  • Publication number: 20210245221
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pipe includes: press-forming a plate member into a U shape; and press-forming the plate member formed into the U shape into an O shape. The pipe includes a pipe body and a tapered part tilted radially inward and protruding from one end of the pipe body. Before the plate member is press-formed into the U shape, a boundary between a portion of the plate member corresponding to the pipe body and a portion of the plate member corresponding to the tapered part is pressed from a surface of the plate member corresponding to an inner peripheral surface of the pipe to bend the portion of the plate member corresponding to the tapered part toward the surface of the plate member corresponding to the inner peripheral surface of the pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiko ASANO, Yoshihiko UKAI
  • Publication number: 20210245222
    Abstract: Different divided tools are attached to tool attachment portions using automatic tool changers in proximity to slit tools that have already been attached to tool attachment portions. The attached different divided tools are moved toward the previously attached divided tools using the automatic tool changers, and the different divided tools are caused to abut on the previously attached divided tools. In a case in which a torque of a servomotor for moving the automatic tool changers in a left-right direction has reached a setting value set in advance, the different divided tools are detected to have abutted on the previously attached divided tools, and the moving of the different divided tools is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Katsumi WATANABE, Yousuke ONAGI, Yuto NISHIHATA
  • Publication number: 20210245223
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the method includes providing a double sheet metal element including the two sheet metal end sections; and creating a connecting section along the connecting line. The creation of the connecting section includes introducing a first depression into the double sheet metal element, and creating a first folded section of the double sheet metal element. The method further includes orienting the connecting section relative to an extension plane of the double sheet metal element so that the connecting section extends perpendicularly to the extension plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: Roland RUEGENBERG
  • Publication number: 20210245224
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus for a component formed by super plastic forming including a gas source configured to supply a gas to an interior space of the component via a gas inlet, a gas outlet configured to allow the gas to exit the interior space, and a gas column connected to the gas outlet and configured to compensate for changes in an external pressure acting on the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: Peter ANDERTON
  • Publication number: 20210245225
    Abstract: A method for driving a piercing element includes: preparing a plate material, the piercing element, a preceding punch, and a die; arranging the plate material on a hole portion of the die; arranging the piercing element and the preceding punch in order downward from above on the plate material and on a position corresponding to the hole portion; punching the plate material via the preceding punch by pressing the piercing element downward; dropping a punched piece downward from the hole portion; following the punching of the plate material, driving the piercing element to be embedded in the plate material and causing the plate material to bite a constricted portion; and dropping the preceding punch downward from the hole portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventor: Takayuki KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20210245226
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a tool storage device for a machine tool having a tool storage unit which can be mounted and displaced on a guide rail of the machine tool and is further designed to receive non-mounted tools for the machine tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: Lars WOIDASKY
  • Publication number: 20210245227
    Abstract: A power tool including a moveable piston, a motor capable of driving the moveable piston to perform work on a work piece, and a distance sensor configured to sense a movement of the moveable piston. The distance sensor operable to provide sensor information indicative of the movement of the piston. A controller receives the sensor information from the distance sensor. The controller operates the motor to perform work on the work piece based in part on the sensor information that the controller receives from the distance sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Luke Skinner, Kris Kanack, James Ballard, David Bauer
  • Publication number: 20210245228
    Abstract: A pipe flaring tool includes a case member, a clamping member, a flaring module, a feeding member and a connecting member. The case member has a first end, a second end, a chamber and a bore at the first end and communicated with the chamber. The clamping member connected to the second end of the case member. The flaring module is received in the chamber, having a shaft and a flaring terminal. The flaring terminal is connected to an end of the shaft and proximal to the clamping member. An opposite end of the shaft is proximal to the bore of the case member to engage a power tool through the bore. A feeding member is received in the chamber. A connecting member is detachably connected to the flaring module to the feeding member, wherein the flaring module and the feeding member are turned and moved together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventor: WU SHENG HUANG
  • Publication number: 20210245229
    Abstract: A binding machine includes: a wire feeding unit; a curl forming unit; a cutting unit; a binding unit; a motor; and a control unit. The binding unit includes: a rotary shaft to be driven by the motor; a wire engaging body configured to engage the wire and to rotate together with the rotary shaft, thereby twisting the wire; and a rotation regulation part configured to regulate rotation of the wire engaging body. The control unit is configured to control stop of the motor rotating in a direction of twisting the wire, based on a position in a rotation direction of the wire engaging body and a position at which the rotation of the wire engaging body can be regulated by the rotation regulation part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke YOSHIDA, Kouichirou MORIMURA, Ichiro KUSAKARI
  • Publication number: 20210245230
    Abstract: A binding machine includes: a wire feeding unit; a curl forming unit; a butting part; a cutting unit; and a binding unit. The binding unit includes a rotary shaft; a wire engaging body configured to move in an axis direction of the rotary shaft and to engage the wire in a first operation area in the axis direction of the rotary shaft, and configured to move in the axis direction of the rotary shaft and to twist the wire with rotating together with the rotary shaft in a second operation area in the axis direction of the rotary shaft; a rotation regulation part configured to regulate rotation of the wire engaging body; and a tension applying part configured to perform, in the second operation area, operations of applying tension and releasing the applied tension on the wire engaged by the wire engaging body in the first operation area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: MAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouichirou MORIMURA, Yusuke YOSHIDA, Ichiro KUSAKARI
  • Publication number: 20210245231
    Abstract: The invention relates to a textile machine tool part (11) that is used in textile processing in a textile machine and to a method for producing same. The textile machine tool part (11) has a tool core (16) made of a core material and is coated, at least in part, with a wear-resistant coating. The wear-resistant coating (17) is applied to a core surface (18) that has a first microstructure (19). The first microstructure (19) is preferably created using electrochemical etching in the core surface (18). The wear-resistant coating (17) applied thereto is preferably applied directly to at least a section of the core surface (18) having the first microstructure (19) using electrochemical deposition and has a layer thickness of a maximum of 20 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Jochen Buck, Thomas Goller, Sven Beis