Patents Issued in October 12, 2023
  • Publication number: 20230321680
    Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a processing chamber cover having a first transverse member extending from between a first side plate and a first delivery port defined in the first side plate outwardly of a first processing chamber. The width of a gap between the first transverse member and a pedestal positioned in the first delivery port when a workpiece is processed in the first processing chamber, i.e., the length of the gap along the direction toward the outside of the processing chamber, is large. When processing water that is scattered passes through the gap, the processing water will likely contact the pedestal or the first transverse member and stay in the gap. As a result, the processing water is effectively prevented from being scattered out of the first processing chamber by a simple structure, compared with water supply means for forming a water film in the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventor: Satoshi YAMANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230321681
    Abstract: A material spreader that permits selective liquid treatment of particulate material from the same spreader bed. The spreader bed is comprised of a hopper, a plurality of chain belts, a liquid treatment system, and a mixing and drying assembly which delivers the treated particulate material to the spreaders. The chain belts can drive in a forward direction for liquid treating or an aft direction for no liquid treating. Selective bypass permits non-treated particulate material to be spread without contamination from the liquid treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Premier Design Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Rodney R. Heinen, Garrett A. Witthar, Karin N. Witthar
  • Publication number: 20230321682
    Abstract: A dry filter module adapted for use with a paint spray booth having an under section inlet for conducting a flow of contaminated air and an under section outlet for conducting a flow of filtered air includes at least one movable cart formed with a housing having one or more surfaces for providing a housing inlet and a housing outlet, at least one filter media element arranged within the housing, and at least one seal provided around the one or more surfaces for sealing between the housing inlet and the under section inlet and also between the housing outlet and the under section outlet. The movable cart is operated to move for making contact with the at least one seal between the housing and the spray booth such that the housing of the movable cart and the spray booth are connected and sealed to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: GIFFIN, INC.
    Inventor: Abraham J. SALAZAR
  • Publication number: 20230321683
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for atomizing and vaporizing liquid. An apparatus works as a fluid capsule and pumps air saturated with liquid and carrying a mist of tiny droplets sized at or less than about 2 ?m in diameter. The pump may have a vibrator attached to the liquid reservoir to cause liquid to move up through the outlet valve and out through an orifice located on the top of the capsule. One or more droplets of liquid ejected from the ejector may be heated and vaporized into the air. The design of the fluid capsule ensures that there is no larger droplet size of liquid that is allowed to come out. The fluid can be air-freshener, air-sanitizer, disinfectant, insect repellent or any other liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 1, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventor: Abdulilah M. Mayet
  • Publication number: 20230321684
    Abstract: An apparatus for an electrically powered liquid feature comprises a unit including a liquid pump and a rechargeable power source arranged to provide power to the pump for operation of the liquid feature. The unit may be removably installed in a reservoir having a cover that supports decorative features, such as pebbles, gravel and/or plants. The cover may have partitions so as to provide a pattern of different decorative features. One or more translucent or transparent features may be removably attached to the upper side of the cover. The cover may allow light to pass through from the unit to these features. There may be provided an outlet portion removably connected above the cover. The outlet portion may comprise a tiered cascade feature. Alternatively, the outlet portion may comprise a plurality of interconnected, stacked components. Alternatively, the outlet portion may comprise an adapter to which a statue or figurine may be removably attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Simon Reeves-Jackson, Paul Dack, Autumn Danks
  • Publication number: 20230321685
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a component having an edge feature that has a radius of curvature. The apparatus includes an underlayer arranged over the edge feature and configured to increase the radius of curvature of the edge feature. The apparatus includes a powder coating arranged over the component and over the underlayer to form a continuous layer. The underlayer is configured to remain under the powder coating. The underlayer helps the powder coating achieve a more uniform thickness over the edge feature. The apparatus is formed by applying an underlayer to a first region of the component to form an underlaid component. The first region includes the edge feature. A powder coating is applied to the underlaid component. A masking layer may be applied to a region other than the first region, and after powder coating, the masking may be removed to expose a surface of the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Travis Cournoyer, Nathaniel Wynn
  • Publication number: 20230321686
    Abstract: A transparent wear-resistant film layer, a plastic substrate modification method, and a product are provided, the plastic substrate modification method includes the following steps: bombarding with at least one plastic substrate positioned in a chamber of a PECVD coating device with plasma to clean and activate the at least one plastic substrate, and forming a transparent wear-resistant film layer on the at least one surface of the activated plastic substrate by a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition using a siloxane monomer as a reaction raw material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: JIANGSU FAVORED NANOTECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jian ZONG, Fuxing LI, Siyue LI
  • Publication number: 20230321687
    Abstract: An imaging and repair system (100) is presented that includes a first imaging system (110) configured to image and detect a defect on a worksurface. The first imaging system comprises a first camera configured to capture a plurality of first images of the worksurface. The plurality of first images are stored in a data source. The system also includes a second imaging system (110) configured to image and characterize an orange peel of the worksurface in an area proximate the defect. Characterizing the worksurface comprises identifying a delta value of orange peel. The system also includes a defect repair processor configured to select a repair strategy based on a defect type. The system also includes a defect modifier configured to modify the selected repair strategy based on the orange peel characterization of the worksurface. The system also includes a defect repair tool (120) configured to automatically effect the modified repair strategy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Jonathan B. Arthur, Aaron K. Nienaber, Nicholas G. Amell, Thomas J. Strey, Erich A. Mielke, Talha Ahsan, Vincent J.L. Chevrier, Thaine W. Fuller, Brett R. Hemes
  • Publication number: 20230321688
    Abstract: A method of coating magnesium includes applying a surface finish to a magnesium substrate to obtain a surface-finished magnesium substrate having a visual profile. The method includes pretreating the surface-finished magnesium substrate to obtain a pretreated magnesium substrate. The method includes depositing a clear powder coat onto the pretreated magnesium substrate to obtain a powder-coated magnesium substrate. The powder-coated magnesium substrate retains the visual profile of the surface-finished magnesium substrate or as-cast magnesium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Magnesium Products of America Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Patrick Weiler, Xu Wang
  • Publication number: 20230321689
    Abstract: Control console for a powered surgical tool that includes a transformer with a secondary winding across which the tool drive signal is present. Also internal to the transformer is a matched current source that consists of a leakage control winding and a capacitor. The current sourced by the matched current at least partially cancels out leakage current that may be present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Stryker Corporation
    Inventor: Adam Darwin Downey
  • Publication number: 20230321690
    Abstract: A screen assembly is formed by attaching side edges of a plurality of screen elements to each other. Reinforcing fibers may be embedded in the material of selected screen elements. The reinforcing fibers extend in a direction in which the screen assembly will be tensioned to secure the screen assembly to a screening machine. Hook strips may be attached to ends or sides of the screen assembly to facilitate mounting the screen assembly to a screening machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Alex DeMay, Kurt Stodolka
  • Publication number: 20230321691
    Abstract: A configurable modular stackable multi-deck material processing screening machine which includes a plurality of stackable screen deck sections, each having a first side structural vertical wall segment, and a stackable drive section having a stackable drive section first side structural vertical wall segment 1201. Where all of the stackable screen deck sections can be installed, removed and replaced without need to lower or lift a screen deck between vertical structural walls that support a draft shaft with eccentrics coupled thereto and past a portion of these vertical structural walls that previously supported a screen deck. Also each of the first side structural vertical wall segments, and the stackable drive section first side structural wall segment are not inseparable portions of a wall that supports a drive shaft and eccentrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventor: David Bryan STROUP
  • Publication number: 20230321692
    Abstract: A system for removing particle agglomerates from a particulate product stream. The system including a product stream inlet configured for receiving the particulate product stream, a diverter system configured for permitting a particulate product having a size less than or equal to a desired size to pass through the diverter system, a carrying fluid source connected to the diverter system configured to feed a carrying fluid into the diverter system to carry the particle agglomerate out of the diverter system during a discharge operation, a collector vessel connected to the diverter system, the collector vessel configured for receiving the particle agglomerate carried out by the carrying fluid from the diverter system during the discharge operation, and a particulate product outlet connected to the diverter system, the particulate product outlet configured for conveying the particulate product to a downstream process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Braskem S.A.
    Inventors: Roberto Osorio Jiménez, Paulo Roberto Ignacio, Tiago Mohr
  • Publication number: 20230321693
    Abstract: A component transfer device includes an integration path through which both of a regular component and a defective component are to be transported, and a sorting gauge that is provided at the downstream end of the integration path and sorts the regular component and the defective component. A discharge path through which the defective component passes extends to incline in the width direction of the integration path. The sorting gauge includes a gauge body, a sorting path extending through the gauge body and into which the regular component is allowed to advance while the defective component is not allowed to advance, and a guide surface that is disposed at the gauge body so as to spread toward the discharge path and that guides the defective component to the discharge path when the defective component comes into contact with the guide surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Ryotaro SHINAGAWA, Yuki FUNAKI, Kouji SAKOTA, Seiji MIURA, Naoki ODA
  • Publication number: 20230321694
    Abstract: The present application discloses a system, a method, and a computer system for detecting objects that require special handling. The method includes (i) receiving image data from one or more cameras associated with a source conveyor configured to convey items to a pick location, (ii) determining, based at least in part on the image data, that an item requiring special handling has entered the source conveyor, and (iii) providing an output indicating that the item requiring special handling has been detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Darshan Hegde, Harry Zhe Su, Talbot Morris-Downing
  • Publication number: 20230321695
    Abstract: A high-pressure fluid supply system and apparatus including a battery electric powered high pressure fluid pump that can be located in proximity to a piece of equipment such as a heat exchanger in an industrial plant in need of being cleaned wherein the system is modularized on a plurality of pallets capable of being transported in the industrial plant elevator to a location near the heat exchanger location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventor: Gerald P. ZINK
  • Publication number: 20230321696
    Abstract: A substrate processing system capable of supplying a processing liquid containing fine bubbles at a high concentration without generating large sized bubbles in a middle of a supply line of the processing liquid is disclosed. There is provided a substrate processing system comprising: a gas dissolved water generation tank; a chemical liquid dilution module; and a substrate processing module. The substrate processing module comprises a processing liquid supply nozzle configured to supply the processing liquid onto a substrate. The processing liquid supply nozzle has a decompression release portion configured to generate fine bubbles of a gas from a diluted chemical liquid. The processing liquid supply nozzle is configured to supply the diluted chemical liquid containing fine bubbles in a process scrubbing the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki TAKAHASHI, Ban ITO, Seungho YUN, Kohei SATO
  • Publication number: 20230321697
    Abstract: A cleaning apparatus for use with a water source, the cleaning apparatus including a handheld cleaning device that includes a transducer therein that is capable of stimulating water located inside a body of the handheld cleaning device, such that bubbles created by the excitation of the water via the transducer can be used to provide a cleaning effect, for example to clean the surface of a soiled object by way of bubbles bursting at, on or near the surface of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventor: Millan Mallipeddi
  • Publication number: 20230321698
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ultrasonic washer that radiates ultrasonic waves from a plurality of vibration surfaces, radiates ultrasonic waves at the same phase, effectively generates cavitation around a nozzle through ultrasonic vibration, and has a high washing effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yosuke HORIE, Manabu OCHI, Katsuhiko KIMURA, Hiroyuki TAKAYAMA, Kouhei NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20230321699
    Abstract: A low power consumption elevator brake includes the device body and the collection box located on the inner side of the device body. The bottom of the device body is installed with a base, and the side of the base is provided with a collection tank. The top of the device body is connected with a vacuum pipe connected to the collection tank. The top of the vacuum pipe is provided with an interception module. The side of the base is connected with an air outlet pipe connected to the collection tank. The air outlet pipe is provided with an exhaust fan, and the base is provided with a filter module through the collection tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Changshu Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Fusheng ZHANG, Lanyu YANG, Yang GE, Anbo JIANG, Bo HUANG, Yan DOU, Jianxin DING, Fengwang CHEN, Yun FENG, Deren GU, Yuejiang GU
  • Publication number: 20230321701
    Abstract: The present invention belongs to the field of energy and environmental protection and particularly relates to an organic solid waste treatment device based on chemical-looping hydrogen production and a method for using the same. The device comprises a pyrolysis reactor (3) and a sleeve-type chemical-looping reactor (19), the sleeve-type chemical-looping reactor (19) comprises an inner cavity, an outer cavity annularly wrapping the inner cavity, a syngas output device (28), a hydrogen output device (29), a pyrolysis gas inlet device (6), and a water vapor inlet device (7), and the pyrolysis reactor (3) can generate pyrolysis gas, which then is conveyed to the sleeve-type chemical-looping reactor (19) through the pyrolysis gas inlet device (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Xun WANG, Tingting XU, Bo XIAO
  • Publication number: 20230321702
    Abstract: An asynchronous rolling mill with a super large diameter ratio comprises a rolling mill stand, a press-down device, a balancing device, an upper roll system, and an arc-shaped plate device. The arc-shaped plate device comprises an arc-shaped plate, the arc-shaped plate is arranged opposite to the upper roll, and the arc-shaped plate and the upper roll are cooperated to roll strips. The present disclosure also provides a method for rolling a strip using an asynchronous rolling mill with a super large diameter ratio. The asynchronous rolling mill can roll with super large diameter ratio and different speeds, and has a large angle to engage, thereby reducing the external friction force of a workpiece and improving strip forming quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Tao WANG, Zhiqiang LI, Gang DAI, Jianchao HAN, Zhongkai REN, Yuanming LIU, Qingxue HUANG
  • Publication number: 20230321703
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy extruded part includes: hot-extruding a 7000 series aluminum alloy by an extruder to form an extruded material; cutting the extruded material extruded from the extruder and moving forward to a predetermined length; applying plastic working to the cut extruded material in a state in which Vickers hardness of the extruded material is 50 to 70 (Hv); and applying aging treatment to the extruded material after the plastic working.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Hideki ISHITOBI, Kazuhiro KAIDA, Hiroaki HOSOI
  • Publication number: 20230321704
    Abstract: A wire drawing die 1 includes a non-diamond material, is provided with a die hole 1h, and has a reduction 1c and a bearing 1d that is positioned downstream of the reduction 1c. A reduction angle ? which is an opening angle of the die hole 1h at the reduction 1c is less than or equal to 17°, and a surface roughness Ra of the die hole 1h within ±20 ?m from a specific position inside the bearing 1d in a circumferential direction of the die hole 1h that is perpendicular to a wire drawing direction is less than or equal to 0.025 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicants: A.L.M.T. Corp., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei KURAMOTO, Takuya KINOSHITA, Yutaka KOBAYASHI, Makoto YUKAWA, Kohichiroh KIMURA, Kentaro SHIRO
  • Publication number: 20230321705
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a mold for preparing large-size rare earth magnesium alloy ingot without tail shrinkage by back pressure severe plastic deformation, which includes a male mold, a female mold, a recoverable discard block and a back pressure plate connected with a pushing cylinder of the press machine. The female mold is provided with an upper mold cavity and a lower mold cavity, an upper part of the upper mold cavity is configured for placing blanks, the recoverable discard block and the male mold, and a lower part of the upper mold cavity is inclined inward to form an extrusion deformation area. The recoverable discard block is configured to be filled in an extrusion deformation area and restored through deformation. The present disclosure can solve the existence of the discard in the traditional forward extrusion and the tail shrinking phenomenon caused by the uneven metal flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Zhimin Zhang, Jianmin Yu, Mei Cheng, Zhe Chen, Zhen Wang
  • Publication number: 20230321706
    Abstract: Provided is a steel strip that can provide accurate material information and a method of producing the same. A steel strip (9) comprises a medium that provides material information including a material distribution associating each position in a two-dimensional direction of a rolling direction and a transverse direction with a material characteristic value. The material information is predicted using a prediction model to which input data including a line output factor in a production line for the steel strip, a disturbance factor, and a component value of the steel strip being produced is input. The prediction model includes: a machine learning model that receives the input data as input and outputs a production condition factor and that is generated by machine learning; and a metallurgical model that receives the production condition factor as input and outputs the material characteristic value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mayumi OJIMA, Yoshimasa FUNAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230321707
    Abstract: A press brake assembly with a sheet follower with an actuation assembly that allows the sheet follower to follow a downwards bending workpiece. The sheet follow is adjacent to the press brake and is capable of following the workpiece throughout different bends without changing the position of the workpiece. The sheet follower includes a table and rotatable arms attached to the table. The actuation assembly of the sheet follower includes two blocks that is configured to move the rotatable arms that allow the table to follow the bending of the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: ACCURPRESS AMERICA INC.
    Inventors: Steve HILTON, Don WISHARD
  • Publication number: 20230321708
    Abstract: A backplate (100) processing method and a backplate (100). The backplate (100) processing method comprises: forming at least one pressing groove on a first plate (10), and when bending the first plate (10) multiple times, bending the first plate (10) on the basis of the pressing groove, wherein a bending direction and the direction of the opening of the pressing groove are located at the same side of the first plate (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Bing LI, Liqiang LIU, Qijin JIANG
  • Publication number: 20230321709
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a pouch of a secondary battery according to the present invention includes a lower die having an accommodation groove for molding a cup part of the pouch on a base surface, on which the pouch is disposed, a punch inserted into the accommodation groove of the lower die to mode the cup part of the pouch, a stripper disposed above the lower die to face the lower die and provided to press a peripheral portion of the pouch, which is disposed around a portion to be molded into the cup part of the pouch by the punch, from an upper side, and a back plate coupled to the stripper and configured to support the stripper, wherein a protruding block protruding toward the stripper is provided on a surface (S) of surfaces of the back plate, which faces the stripper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chung Hee Lee, Se Young Oh, Geun Hee Kim
  • Publication number: 20230321710
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for preparing large-size rare earth magnesium alloy with high-performance ingots by short process severe plastic deformation. When in use, the pushing cylinder moves upward, and the back pressure plate is adjusted to the outlet of the extrusion deformation area. After the male mold stroke is completed, the recoverable discard block fills the extrusion deformation area, and the upsetting extrusion deformation is completed. Then, the pushing cylinder drives the back pressure plate to remove from the lower part of the lower mold cavity downward, and the recoverable discard block has been broken due to the high pressure. Then, the extruded blank and residual block powder are taken out from the lower part of the lower mold cavity, restored into a plate shape for the next use. The present disclosure can solve the tail shrinking phenomenon, save materials and increase the strengthening effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Zhimin Zhang, Jianmin Yu, Zhen Wang, Zhe Cheng, Mei Cheng
  • Publication number: 20230321711
    Abstract: An apparatus for roll stamping that is capable of expanding a shape range of a product without limitation due to, for example, a radius of curvature or a height of a variable section includes: an inclined roll set including a first rotation roll and a second rotation roll rotating while facing each other, have fixed positions and angles, and are inclined with respect to a traveling material, in which a first forming portion for forming the material is formed on an outer surface of the first rotation roll, the first forming portion includes a first circumferential groove portion inclined at an oblique angle rather than a right angle with respect to a rotation shaft of the first rotation roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: POSCO Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Don-Gun Kim, Myung-Hwan Cha
  • Publication number: 20230321712
    Abstract: A hot press forming die includes a die main body (2) made of alloy tool steel, and a number of forming projections (3) projecting on the die main body and configured to form a forming surface (5) that comes into contact with a heated metal plate material that is an object to be formed and form a refrigerant passage through which a cooling medium flows. The die main body includes a first forming portion (14) in which the forming surface is formed to extend in a direction intersecting a forming direction of the metal plate material, a second forming portion (15) in which the forming surface is formed to extend in the forming direction, and a third forming portion (16) configured to connect the first forming portion and the second forming portion such that the forming surface becomes a convex surface. The forming projection provided on the third forming portion is formed to be a projecting strip extending between the first forming portion and the second forming portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Naoki TAKAHASHI, Hiroki ITOI, Makoto TANAKA, Hirokazu MAITA
  • Publication number: 20230321713
    Abstract: A forming system includes a heating unit that causes a current to flow through a plated metal material to heat the metal material, a forming die that forms the heated metal material, and a plating deviation suppression mechanism that suppresses a deviation of a plating in the metal material due to energization heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Kimihiro NOGIWA, Akihiro IDE, Masashi KAWAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20230321714
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic trimming apparatus (1) for wire coils (2) including a plurality of wire loops (3). The apparatus comprises a base frame (4), a rotational member (6) rotatably connected to the base frame (4), a support unit for supporting the wire loop when the rotational member (6) is rotated, a sensor assembly arranged for detecting the end of the wire and a distance sensor for sensing a distance travelled along the wire when the rotational member is rotated. The trimming apparatus is adapted to rotate the rotational member is in a first direction until the end of the wire is detected, rotate the rotational member in an opposite direction when the end of the wire has been detected, determine the distance travelled along the wire, and generate a cutting command based on the distance travelled along the wire from the end of the wire and a predetermined cutting distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Yeminy Inc.
    Inventor: Jens Nylander
  • Publication number: 20230321715
    Abstract: A combined net structure is disclosed that comprises a non-planar coarse net with a grid-like structure comprising a plurality of coarse cables wherein longitudinal coarse cables intersect with latitudinal coarse cables to form a plurality of coarse cells and cutouts of a fine net attached to the coarse net, wherein the fine net comprises a plurality of adjacent fine cables. Each non-edge fine cable is attached to two adjacent fine cables on each of its sides at a plurality of locations along their lengths forming attachment points, wherein the fine net is arranged in a form of an array of fine quadrangular cells with said attachment points constituting the vertices of the fine quadrangular cells. System that comprises the combined net structures are disclosed as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Robert LEVY, David ORNAI
  • Publication number: 20230321716
    Abstract: A chain has pairs of outer link plates provided with connecting pin-insertion connecting holes; connecting pins disposed in the connecting pin-insertion connecting holes and crimped at pin ends thereof; and inner link plates disposed inside and rotatably connected to the pairs of outer link plates. Each of the connecting pin-insertion connecting holes is provided with tapered surfaces at outer hole edges thereof formed by chamfering a corner edge formed by a straight hole. The tapered surfaces are located at two places opposing in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the outer link plates. The pin ends of the connecting pins protruding outwardly from the connecting pin-insertion connecting holes are crimpled by pressing the pin ends against two places opposing in a direction perpendicular to the intermittently conveying direction to crimp the connecting pins at the segments where the tapered surfaces are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: KAGA INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasunori TSUCHIGURO
  • Publication number: 20230321717
    Abstract: A foundry mix includes a major amount of a foundry aggregate and an effective binding amount of a binder system. The foundry binder system cures in the presence of sulfur dioxide and a free radical initiator. The binder system may include (1) 10 to 70 parts by weight of an epoxy novolac resin; (2) 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of resorcinol; (3) 20 to 70 parts by weight of a monomeric or polymeric acrylate; and (4) an effective amount of a free radical initiator. Notably, (1), (2), (3) and (4) are separate components or mixed with another of said components, provided (4) is not mixed with (3) until a foundry mix is to be created, where said parts by weight are based upon 100 parts of the binder system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Novis Works, LLC
    Inventors: James T. Schneider, Frances Trenta
  • Publication number: 20230321718
    Abstract: A casting insert includes a casting insert wall formed substantially of a liquid-phase-sintered refractory metal alloy, a cavity formed by the casting insert wall, and at least one cooling duct, which is different from the cavity and which is formed at least partly within the cavity and/or which is formed at least partly within the casting insert wall. The casting insert wall has a wall thickness which can be defined as a normal distance between a point of the casting insert wall which faces the cavity and a point on an outer surface of the casting insert wall. The wall thickness is, at least in sections, less than 25% of a diameter of the casting insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Dirk Handtrack, Heinrich Kestler
  • Publication number: 20230321719
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an iron-chromium-aluminum (Fe—Cr—Al) powder suitable for additive manufacturing and to an additive manufacturing process. The present disclosure also relates to an additive manufactured object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Kanthal AB
    Inventors: Roger BERGLUND, Durga ANANTHANARAYANAN, Greta LINDWALL
  • Publication number: 20230321720
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of preparing a nano-porous powder material. The method includes: firstly removing A in the alloy AxTy by using an ultrasonically-assisted de-alloying method to prepare a nano-porous T coarse powder, and then, allowing the nano-porous T coarse powder to perform M-ization reaction with a gas reactant containing M to obtain a nano-porous T-M coarse powder, and finally, further crushing the nano-porous T-M coarse powder using a jet mill to obtain a nano-porous T-M fine powder. The method can achieve low-cost mass production of the nano-porous T-M fine powder, bringing broad application prospects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Yuanyun ZHAO, Chuntao CHANG, Chengliang ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20230321721
    Abstract: The invention relates to a three-dimensional screen printing method for producing a green part from printing material for a powder metallurgical component, wherein the printing material contains a fraction of powder, more particularly metal powder or ceramic powder, and binder or consists of these materials, characterized in that a screen printing mask has a screen printing structure having openings for pressing the printing material through, the openings being partly undulate so that the green part at least partly has a three-dimensional undulate structure and/or undulate edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Enrico DAENICKE, Björn HINZE, Miklos GÄBLER
  • Publication number: 20230321722
    Abstract: The present invention is an atomization device for manufacturing metal powder by spraying a fluid to molten metal, said device comprising: a tundish into which the molten metal is poured and discharged from a discharge nozzle installed on a bottom part; fluid spray nozzles disposed below the tundish and spraying the fluid to the molten metal dropping from the tundish; a means for measuring a molten-metal surface height inside the tundish from an image obtained by imaging the inside of the tundish; and a means for, upon calculating an amount of the molten metal to be poured into the tundish from the molten-metal surface height, discharging the molten metal in such a manner that the height is maintained substantially constant. The interior of the tundish is formed in such a shape that the area of the molten-metal surface of the poured molten metal increases with height in the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryo Togashi
  • Publication number: 20230321723
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing 3D shaped articles, in which method: a suspension comprising metallic, ceramic or polymer particle material or cement-bound materials is applied as a suspension layer to a construction platform to produce a layer; the layer thus applied is at least partially dried; a binder is selectively applied; and the selectively applied binder is solidified; these steps being repeated until the desired 3D shaped article has been obtained; where necessary, the particle material which has not been solidified by means of the binder is removed; and the 3D shaped article is unpacked; wherein the suspension for producing a layer is applied by means of a sieve plate, which is positioned onto the last applied layer on the construction platform and through which the suspension is applied to the last particle material layer; and wherein the sieve plate is removed again before the selective application of the binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Ingo EDERER, Alfred GRIESSER, David DECK
  • Publication number: 20230321724
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for making three-dimensional printed objects. In one example, a method of making a three-dimensional printed object can include iteratively applying individual particulate build material layers to a powder bed. The particulate build material can include polymer particles that include a polyolefin and first nanoparticles compounded nanoparticles compounded with the polyolefin such that the first nanoparticles are embedded nanoparticles are embedded within the polymer particles. Second nanoparticles can be dry blended with the polymer particles. The first nanoparticles and second nanoparticles can include metal or metal oxide. The first and second nanoparticles can have a higher thermal conductivity that the polyolefin. A fusing agent including water and an electromagnetic radiation absorber can be selectively jetted onto the individual particulate build material layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Laurent Herschke, Maria del Carmen Querol Esparch, Jerome Gimenez, Florian Deme
  • Publication number: 20230321725
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for making an electrically conductive battery component. The system uses a metal layer forming a planar metal substrate, and a powder deposition component for applying a powder to form a powder layer on the planar metal substrate. A laser is used and configured to generate a laser beam to selectively sinter portions, or all, of the powder layer using a predetermined beam scanning pattern. A subsystem is used to remove portions of the powder layer that are not sintered by the laser to leave a planar finished material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventor: Jianchao YE
  • Publication number: 20230321726
    Abstract: A complex concentrated alloy (CCA) and/or high entropy alloy (HEA) additive manufacturing nozzle can include a nozzle body defining at least four powder channels. Each powder channel can be configured to be connected to a powder supply of a plurality of powder supplies to receive a powder from the powder supply for ejecting the powder toward a build area to form an additively manufactured article having a CCA and/or an HEA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Luke Borkowski, Tahany I. El-Wardany, William K. Tredway, Colette O. Fennessy
  • Publication number: 20230321727
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system for treating a surface of an object obtained by direct metal laser sintering. The object is sintered from a metal powder with a grain size distribution. Due to the manufacturing process, the object can comprise a rough surface with remaining grains of the metal powder attached to the surface. The method according to the present invention provides parameters for post-processing the object to achieve a smooth surface suitable for use in medical imaging systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: GEREON VOGTMEIER, CHRISTIAAN KOK
  • Publication number: 20230321728
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an additive manufacturing method by which a uniform powder bed can be formed even when the interior of a chamber is depressurized and a powder bed is formed on a stage as the stage is preheated and an inert gas is supplied. An additive manufacturing method for a shaped object S includes forming a powder bed PB on a stage 51 in a chamber 10, and fusing the powder bed PB by laser emission. According to this additive manufacturing method, a pressure in the chamber 10 is reduced to a pressure equal to or higher than 8000 [Pa] and equal to or lower than 30,000 [Pa], and the powder bed PB is formed on the stage 51 as the stage 51 is preheated and an inert gas is supplied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotsugu KAWANAKA, Noboru SAITO, Shinji MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20230321729
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a zonal trabecular uni-compartmental femoral condylar component containing zirconium-niobium alloy on oxidation layer and preparation method, including following steps: using zirconium niobium alloy powder as raw material, conducting a 3D printing for one-piece molding to obtain an intermediate product of the uni-compartmental femoral condylar component, performing hot isostatic pressing and cryogenic oxidation to obtain the uni-compartmental femoral condylar component; the uni-compartmental femoral condylar component includes an articular surface and an osseointegration surface, a bone trabeculae is arranged on the osseointegration surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Wei CHEN, Yu CAO, Yuejing ZHANG, You YANG, Li LI
  • Publication number: 20230321730
    Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, an additive manufacturing system is described. The additive manufacturing system includes a build material distributor to deposit metal powder build material on abed. The additive manufacturing system also includes at least a first electrode below the bed and a second electrode above the bed to generate a non-uniform electric field to compact deposited the metal powder build material. A hardening system of the additive manufacturing system selectively hardens metal powder build material in a pattern of a layer of a three-dimensional object to be printed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P
    Inventor: Seongsik Chang