Patents Issued in July 9, 2024
  • Patent number: 12030136
    Abstract: A processing device forms, in an object to be processed, a modified spot constituting a modified region. The processing device includes a first irradiation unit configured to irradiate the object with first light to temporarily increase absorptivity in a partial region of the object as compared with the absorptivity before irradiation of the first light, and a second irradiation unit configured to irradiate the partial region with second light in an absorptivity increase period in which the absorptivity of the partial region is temporarily increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventor: Yasunaga Nara
  • Patent number: 12030137
    Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes a laser beam applying unit for applying a laser beam to a workpiece, and a control unit. The laser beam applying unit includes a laser oscillator for emitting a laser, a condensing lens, a concave mirror having a focal point at a focused spot of the condensing lens and having a spherical reflecting surface, a beam splitter for transmitting therethrough the laser beam emitted from the laser oscillator toward the condensing lens and branching off a reflected beam, and a wavefront measuring unit for receiving the reflected beam and acquiring wavefront data. The control unit changes a phase pattern to be displayed on a display portion of a spatial light modulator on the basis of the wavefront data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teppei Nomura, Atsushi Ueki
  • Patent number: 12030138
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing composite solder balls that are metallized on the surface and calibrated, these balls comprising a core consisting of a spherical support particle of diameter D0 made of expanded polystyrene and having an intergranular porosity of at least 50%, and a shell covering said support particle and formed by a plurality of metallic surface layers. The present invention also relates to balls that can be obtained by the method according to the invention, as well as to the use thereof for the assembly of electronic boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: LIPCO INDUSTRIE
    Inventors: Constantin Iacob, Sébastien Bucher
  • Patent number: 12030139
    Abstract: A solder paste includes a first solder alloy powder in an amount ranging from 30% to 95% by weight. The first solder alloy powder includes a first solder alloy with a solidus temperature of 200° C. to 260° C. The first solder alloy includes an Sn—Cu alloy or an Sn—Cu—Ag alloy. The solder paste further includes a second solder alloy powder in an amount ranging from 5% to 70% by weight, and a solder flux. The second solder alloy powder includes a second solder alloy with a solidus temperature below 250° C. The solder paste has a variable melting point. In multiple reflow soldering, a remelting of the solder paste is inhibited under different temperature conditions so that no functional failure occurs during assembly and/or packaging of PCBs or electronic devices due to melting of solder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wallace Chuang, Eckart Schellkes, Yee-Wen Yen, Chia-Yu Liu
  • Patent number: 12030140
    Abstract: A lead-free solder alloy includes bismuth (Bi), content of which is equal to or greater than 56 wt % and equal to or less than 57.5 wt %, indium (In), content of which is equal to or greater than 0.05 wt % and equal to or less than 1.0 wt %, and the balance of tin (Sn) and another unavoidable impurity. The lead-free solder alloy of the disclosure may enable bonding with improved ductility and thermal shock reliability while not having a large melting point change compared to an Sn-58Bi alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: MK ELECTRON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Woo Lee, Seul Gi Lee, Hui Joong Kim, Jae Yool Son, Jae Hun Song, Jeong Tak Moon
  • Patent number: 12030141
    Abstract: A device for the laser treatment of trousers, including a laser beam generating equipment suitable for emitting the laser beam in any direction within an emission pyramid with an emission axis and two opening angles, and a work station with two mannequins, where each mannequin includes two legs. Each leg defines a longitudinal axis, and the two longitudinal axes of each mannequin define a mannequin plane. Each of the mannequins is oriented towards the equipment so that the emission axis strikes the mannequin plane at an angle of less than 90° and each mannequin has at least one of its legs within the pyramid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: JEANOLOGIA, S. L.
    Inventors: Ramón Sans Ravellat, Albert Sans Perarnau
  • Patent number: 12030142
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing welding type power is disclosed. A welding type power supply includes an input circuit, a controller and an output circuit. The input circuit receives an input power signal and provides an intermediate power signal. The output circuit receives the intermediate power signal and provides a welding type power output. The output circuit has an inverter with at least two inverter switches, and a clamp circuit that limits the voltage across the inverter. The clamp circuit captures and buffers the excess energy, and returns the excess energy to an input of the inverter over a plurality of switching cycles. The controller has control outputs connected to the input circuit and the output circuit, to control them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Joseph Henry
  • Patent number: 12030143
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cutting tool having a rake face, a flank face, and an edge having a ridge line interconnecting the rake face and the flank face, wherein on the flank face there is a cutting edge region from the ridge line of the edge to a point A away therefrom on the side of the flank face by a distance X, the method comprising producing and processing the flank face with a laser, the producing and processing being producing and processing the cutting edge region along the ridge line of the edge with a first laser beam having a depth of focus equal to or deeper than a width of the cutting edge region when the distance X is the width of the cutting edge region, the distance X being 0.2 mm or more and 5 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.
    Inventors: Naoki Watanobe, Gaku Harada, Satoru Kukino
  • Patent number: 12030144
    Abstract: A bolt setting method and device for a nail-shaped bolt with a head and a shaft, ending in a tapered manner. The bolt setting method includes: joining the bolt into a component with a deforming stroke during which the bolt reaches a first joining speed of ?4 m/s and the shaft completely penetrates the components with a portion of a maximum diameter with respect to a shaft length, without a bottom side of the head abutting the at least one component, and after the deforming stroke, driving the bolt into the at least one component until a head abutment of the bottom side of the head on the at least one component by at least one friction stroke with which a frictional connection between the shaft and the components is overcome and with which the bolt reaches a second joining speed that is smaller than the first joining speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Böllhoff Verbindungstechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Rehling, Adnan Kolac
  • Patent number: 12030145
    Abstract: A machine tool including a first cooling unit, such as a fan, that cools at least one of a drive part that drives a component of the machine tool and an amplifier of the drive part, a second cooling unit, such as a Peltier element, that cools the at least one of the drive part and the amplifier, and a cooling control unit that controls the first cooling unit and the second cooling unit, wherein vibration caused by the second cooling unit is less than vibration caused by the first cooling unit, and the cooling control unit switches cooling of the at least one of the drive part and the amplifier, from cooling by the first cooling unit to cooling by the second cooling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuu Akutsu
  • Patent number: 12030146
    Abstract: A transmission arrangement for energy and/or signal transmission between a control unit of a machine tool and at least one electronic component, in particular for use in a machining center or a turning and/or milling center. The transmission arrangement is configured to transmit energy and/or signals between electronic components arranged on a pallet and a control unit of a machine tool. The method shows a procedure for automated machining of a workpiece by means of a machine tool, in particular when electronic components are arranged on a pallet on which the workpiece is clamped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: DECKEL MAHO Pfronten GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Köchl, Johannes Pitterle
  • Patent number: 12030147
    Abstract: A robot machining system including: a robot in which a hand is attached to a distal end of an arm thereof; a force sensor provided in one of the robot and the machining device and detecting a force acting therebetween when a workpiece is being machined; and a control device that controls the robot or the machining device according to the detected force, wherein one of the machining device and the hand is provided with guide surfaces that extend along a direction in which the machining device and the hand are relatively moved when the workpiece is machined; the other of the machining device and the hand is provided with guided portions that are brought into contact with the guide surfaces when the workpiece is machined; and the control device performs control for maintaining a contact state between the guide surfaces and the guided portions during machining of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tamotsu Sakai
  • Patent number: 12030148
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology for generating an NC program which can secure appropriate machining accuracy. Provided is a conversion computer 10 which includes a CPU 11 and generates an NC program for a turning process for a workpiece on a lathe, wherein the CPU 11 is configured to generate an NC program such that displacements caused for a workpiece to be processed on a plurality of machining positions at a time of a turning process are calculated, on the basis of the displacements caused for the workpiece on the plurality of machining positions, a movement path of a tool to be used at the time of the turning process is decided, and the tool is moved through the decided movement path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Ippei Kono, Kohei Kaiho, Koji Utsumi, Eiji Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 12030149
    Abstract: A method for sensing a cutting-edge load in a motor-driven machine-tool unit having a stator unit and a rotor unit that is rotatable at least about an axis of rotation. The rotor unit includes a tool receiving unit that is adjustable along the axis of rotation and to which a clamping force can be applied, for fixing and clamping a releasably fixable tool shank of a tool. A tool head of the tool includes at least one individual cutting edge. A tool sensor is provided for sensing the load on the tool, the tool sensor being realized as an individual-cutting-edge sensor for sensing a cutting-edge load on the individual cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Franz Kessler GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Van Sprang, Harald Weing, Daniel Weiß
  • Patent number: 12030150
    Abstract: A method includes acquiring an image of a cutter on a drill bit, determining a cutter dull condition based on the image of the cutter using a machine-learning method, wherein the machine-learning method is trained using a set of training images and a set of known cutter dull conditions, wherein each of the set of known cutter dull conditions is associated with one or more of a set of cutters depicted in the set of training images and determining a cutter degradation severity based the image of the cutter. The method also includes generating bit modification instructions based the cutter dull condition and the cutter degradation severity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: William Brian Atkins, Jose Nestor Quiroz
  • Patent number: 12030151
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an in-place non-contact detection method for a shaft workpiece. The method includes: establishing a detection system, calibrating the detection system and establishing a detection coordinate system; analyzing a pose of a workpiece in the detection system to establish a coordinate system of a workpiece clamping device; controlling the workpiece clamping device of a shaft workpiece processing machine tool to rotate, continuously acquiring data by a linear laser measuring instrument, and calculating and analyzing the acquired data to obtain an ideal reference axis of the shaft workpiece; continuously acquiring data of a detection part, and calculating and analyzing the acquired data to obtain actual machining precision of runout of a shaft neck of a camshaft; and continuously acquiring data of the detection part, and calculating and analyzing the acquired data to obtain machining precision of coaxiality of the shaft workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Guochao Li, Honggen Zhou, Yunlong Liu, Xiaoyan Guan, Xiaona Shi, Li Sun, Jianzhi Chen, Hengheng Wu, Qiang He, Feng Feng
  • Patent number: 12030152
    Abstract: A method for checking a tool uses a device with a light emitter for beam emission for tool scanning and with a beam receiver for beam reception and for outputting a shadow signal; and an evaluation unit for processing the shadow signal; rotation of the tool; moving the tool until it reaches a starting position in which the blade dips into the beam and shades this such that a threshold of a range of the evaluation unit is reached or undershot; moving the tool, starting from the starting position, out of the beam and registering the shadow signal; ascertaining that the shadow signal for a cutting edge does not fall below the lower switching threshold or exceed the upper switching threshold such that a shadow signal lies above the lower and below the upper switching threshold; wherein the feed is determined in proportion to a measurement range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: BLUM-NOVOTEST GMBH
    Inventors: Steffen Stauber, Bruno Riedter
  • Patent number: 12030153
    Abstract: A magnetic base for an electric power tool, in particular for a magnetic core drilling machine. The magnetic base having a base body that has a contact surface for contacting a workpiece to be machined, at least one first permanent magnet and at least one second permanent magnet arranged in the base body, the at least one and second permanent magnet having magnetic forces that interact to form a resulting holding force. The at least one first permanent magnet and the at least one second permanent magnet are supported in the base body and rotatable around its own rotation axis between a first position, in which the resulting holding force of the magnetic base is maximized, and a second position, in which the resulting holding force of the magnetic base is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: C. & E. FEIN GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Seebauer, Ralf Gosnik
  • Patent number: 12030154
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a tool magazine of a machine tool such as a moving column-type machining center, in which a magazine unit is installed on a saddle, a tool accommodated in a gripper part of the magazine unit is loaded or unloaded in a direction perpendicular to a tool axis, and a gripping part of a change arm directly grips a flange portion of the tool at the time of changing the tools by means of a tool changing part movably installed on the saddle and a tool changing part transfer part configured to move the tool changing part independently of a column, thereby reducing tool change time, improving productivity, minimizing a collision or mechanical interference, and improving stability and reliability in the medium-sized or large-sized machine tool having a length in a width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: DN SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seonghoon Jeong
  • Patent number: 12030155
    Abstract: A honing machine (100) for honing a bore in a workpiece comprises a support structure (120) fixed to the machine and at least one honing unit (130) which is mounted on the support structure and which has a main support (160), which can be mounted fixedly in relation to the support structure, and a spindle unit (150), which is supported by the main support and in which a spindle shaft (152) is rotatably mounted, wherein the spindle shaft (152) is rotatable about a spindle axis (155) by means of a rotary drive and, at a tool-side end (153), has a device for the fastening of a honing tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: KADIA Produktion GmbH + Co.
    Inventors: Uwe Moos, Roland Regler, Georg Heinle
  • Patent number: 12030156
    Abstract: A carrier head for holding a substrate in a polishing system has a housing including a carrier plate, a first flexible membrane secured to the housing, and a plurality of independently operable piezoelectric actuators secured to the carrier plate. The first flexible membrane has an upper surface and having a lower surface that provides a substrate mounting surface. The piezoelectric actuators are positioned above the first flexible membrane so as to independently adjust compressive pressure on the upper surface of the first flexible membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian J. Brown, Andrew J. Nagengast, Justin Ho Kuen Wong
  • Patent number: 12030157
    Abstract: A workpiece surface is polished by a polishing pad surface by keeping a point on an outer circumferential edge of the workpiece surface at predetermined coordinates, i.e., first coordinates, in a plane parallel to the workpiece surface but out of contact with the polishing pad surface, and keeping a point on the outer circumferential edge of the polishing pad surface at other coordinates, i.e., third coordinates, in the coordinate plane in contact with an outer circumferential edge of the workpiece surface. In this manner, the workpiece surface is polished in its entirety, and a region of the polishing pad surface in the vicinity of the outer circumferential edge thereof can be worn to the same degree as a region that is located inwardly of the above region. The polishing pad surface is thus prevented from developing a stepped profile due to the polishing of the workpiece surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12030158
    Abstract: A method for smoothing surface roughness within an internal passageway is disclosed. In various embodiments, the method comprises developing a first sphere progression through a length of the internal passageway, each sphere within the first sphere progression having a first sphere diameter greater than or equal to a diameter of the internal passageway; and developing a second sphere progression through the length of the internal passageway, each sphere within the second sphere progression having a second sphere diameter greater than the first sphere diameter, whereby the inner surface of the internal passageway is smoothed, first by the first sphere progression and then by the second sphere progression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Henry H. Thayer, Wendell V Twelves
  • Patent number: 12030159
    Abstract: A method of operating a chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) tool includes attaching a polishing pad to a first surface of a platen of the CMP tool using a glue; removing the polishing pad from the platen, wherein after removing the polishing pad, residue portions of the glue remain on the first surface of the platen; identifying locations of the residue portions of the glue on the first surface of the platen using a fluorescent material; and removing the residue portions of the glue from the first surface of the platen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tung-Kai Chen, Shang-Yu Wang, Wan-Chun Pan, Zink Wei, Hui-Chi Huang, Kei-Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 12030160
    Abstract: A foreign body removing device includes a foreign body removing tool for removing a foreign body that has adhered to a surface of a workpiece. This foreign body removing tool includes: a grip to be grasped by a worker; a blade that contacts the foreign body; and an airflow delivering portion for delivering compressed gas that has been supplied from a compressed gas supply source, as an airflow contacting the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Kato
  • Patent number: 12030161
    Abstract: An electric tool includes an output shaft and a controller. The output shaft is configured to hold a tip tool and be rotated by motive power provided from an electric motor with the output shaft holding the tip tool. The controller is configured to control rotation of the output shaft in accordance with pressing force in a direction from a tip end of the tip tool toward the output shaft. The electric tool has, as an operation range, a restriction range in which rotation of the output shaft is restricted in a state where the pressing force is less than or equal to a prescribed value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Itaru Murui, Kotaro Momoeda, Kota Kitamura, Naoki Tsujimoto, Akito Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12030162
    Abstract: A handling tool is provided for handling an adaptor for a fuel injector testing machine, the adaptor being arranged to configure a testing assembly of the testing machine for use with a respective fuel injector. The handling tool includes a tool body configured to be gripped by a user and a capture device that can be inserted into the testing assembly to capture the adaptor and retain the adaptor as the handling tool is withdrawn from the testing assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: PHINIA JERSEY HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Moulton, Lee R. Jacobs
  • Patent number: 12030163
    Abstract: A dustproof device for use in an electric nail gun includes a dustproof plate and two fastening members. The electric nail gun includes a muzzle unit used for discharging nails and a machine body unit connected to the muzzle unit and operable to strike the nails. The dustproof plate has a mounting surface facing the machine body unit, an exterior surface that is opposite to the mounting surface and prevents foreign matters from entering the machine body unit, and a through hole that extends through the mounting surface and the exterior surface, that permits the muzzle unit to extend fittingly therethrough, and that is complementary in shape with a contour of a cross section of the muzzle unit. The two fastening members extend from the mounting surface and are detachably connected to the machine body unit to secure the dustproof plate between the machine body unit and the muzzle unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: BASSO INDUSTRY CORP.
    Inventors: Jian-Rung Wu, Rui-Wen Wu
  • Patent number: 12030164
    Abstract: A pneumatic tool includes an air chamber; and a pressure adjusting mechanism which adjusts a pressure of a compressed air in the air chamber. The pressure adjusting mechanism includes a valve body which opens and closes a flow path that communicates the air intake and the air chamber; an elastic body which exerts an urging force to the valve body; a support part which supports an end of the elastic body; a pressure receiving member which receives air pressure in the air chamber and presses the elastic body in a direction of closing the flow path; and a load reducing mechanism capable of switching the urging force of the elastic body acting on the valve body between a normal state and a load reduction state in which the urging force smaller than the normal state is exerted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takuma Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12030165
    Abstract: A fastener driving machine, which comprises an energy storage unit; an impact unit used to drive the energy storage unit to store energy and withstand the energy released by the energy storage unit to drive fasteners into a workpiece; a driving mechanism connected to the impact unit; a rotating power mechanism connected to the driving mechanism to provide rotating power to the driving mechanism. The driving mechanism comprises a stationary annular gear, a crank connected to the rotating power mechanism, and at least one planetary gear which is connected to the crank in a spinning manner and revolves with the rotation of the crank relative to the annular gear, and an engaging shaft eccentrically connected to the planetary gear to push the impact unit. The planetary gear is placed in the annular gear to mesh with the annular gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOGROUP TECHNOLOGY (SUZHOU) CO., LTD
    Inventor: Ying Xu
  • Patent number: 12030166
    Abstract: A force-limiting and damping device has a body, a tapping element, a shock-absorbing element, and a limiting module. The body has a connecting segment and a holding segment. The tapping element is connected to the body to move relative to the connecting segment and has a mounting segment, a tapping segment, and a fixing segment. The mounting segment is movably connected to the connecting segment. The tapping segment is disposed on an end of the mounting segment below the connecting segment. The fixing segment is connected to the mounting segment and abuts the connecting segment. The shock-absorbing element is mounted on the mounting segment and abuts the connecting segment and the tapping segment. The limiting module is mounted between the body and the tapping element and has a force-limiting element mounted between the mounting segment and the connecting segment to provide a force-limiting reminder effect and a damping effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Inventor: Jui-Yuan Shih
  • Patent number: 12030167
    Abstract: A false triggering prevention device for a spindle self-locking mechanism of an electric tool, includes a blocking member and an elastic element, where the blocking member includes a rotating portion, a connecting portion and a blocking portion that are sequentially connected to one another; one end of the elastic element is connected to a gear; the other end of the elastic element is connected to the connecting portion; the rotating portion is rotatably connected to a self-locking surface of the gear, such that the blocking member has a rotating state and a static state; when the blocking member is in the rotating state, the blocking portion covers a self-locking hole to prevent insertion of the self-locking pin into the self-locking hole; and when the blocking member is in the static state, the blocking portion does not cover the self-locking hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignees: KEN HOLDING CO., LTD., ZHEJIANG KEN TOOLS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Aicheng Guo
  • Patent number: 12030168
    Abstract: A power tool includes a housing, a drive mechanism supported within the housing, a spindle operatively coupled to an output of the drive mechanism such that torque from the drive mechanism rotates the spindle about an axis, and a clutch assembly configured to selectively limit torque transfer from the drive mechanism to the spindle. The clutch assembly includes a plurality of rolling elements, a biasing member configured to bias the plurality of rolling elements into engagement with the output of the drive mechanism, and a sleeve movable along the axis to adjust a torque limit of the clutch assembly by varying a preload of the biasing member. The sleeve is made of a high-temperature, engineering thermoplastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian J. Yue, Hugh A. Dales
  • Patent number: 12030169
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a power tool comprising a motor unit comprising a motor and a drive axle connected to the motor, a battery unit configured to receive a battery and a handle unit interconnecting the motor unit and the battery unit, the handle unit comprising: a frame extending from the motor unit to the battery unit; a control button mounted to the frame for controlling the power tool; a circuit board mounted to the frame and connected to the control button; cables interconnecting the battery unit, the circuit board and the motor unit; an antenna connected to the circuit board for communication of the power tool with external devices; a pair of outer handle covers for covering the handle unit; wherein the frame is made of an electrically conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO INDUSTRIAL TECHNIQUE AB
    Inventor: Torbjörn Sjöblom
  • Patent number: 12030170
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an electric power tool. The electric power tool may include a motor, a power transmission mechanism connected to the motor, a housing that houses the motor and the power transmission mechanism, an end tool holder to which an end tool is configured to be attached and from which the end tool is configured to be detached, and connected to the power transmission mechanism, and a handle attached to the housing. The electric power tool may be configured to prohibit rotation of the motor when a user is not gripping the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Kaneko, Akira Mizutani, Ryosuke Otani, Shunpei Yamaji, Junya Ishikawa, Fumiyoshi Saito
  • Patent number: 12030171
    Abstract: A folding stand with a pivoting securing mechanism to secure an object to the stand is disclosed. The stand may include two rails in the same horizontal plane and a securing mechanism that pivots about an axis which is perpendicular to that horizontal plane. The securing mechanism may be positionable in a locked and an unlocked position. The securing mechanism may include one or more arms that extends over a portion of the object in the locked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SawStop Holding LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Stockwell, Curt M. Kemper, Paul H. Stasiewicz
  • Patent number: 12030172
    Abstract: A personal case system with interchangeable touchless tool feature and a method of its use are provided. The system includes a tool having a spine, a distal end and a proximate end. The tool is pivotally connected by the proximate end to a casing at a pivot point. The casing includes a front side, a back side, a sidewall formed by a top side, bottom side and a rear side, and a space formed between the front side and the back side and adapted to receive at least a portion of the tool; wherein the tool can be rotated, relative to the casing, around the pivot point between an open position in which the tool extends from the casing, and a closed position in which the tool retracts into the space of the casing; and wherein the pivot point is located at the top corner of the casing opposite the rear side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Edward Bares, Lauren Elizabeth Davis
  • Patent number: 12030173
    Abstract: An extended reach shutter manipulating device for tilting louvers of a shutter includes a pole, a clamp, and an actuator. The clamp and the actuator are engaged to a first end and a second end of the pole, respectively. The actuator is operationally engaged to the clamp. The pole is grasped in a hand of a user proximate to the second end, positioning the user to position the clamp so that the clamp brackets a tilt rod of a shutter. The actuator can be selectively manipulated by the hand of the user so that the actuator closes the clamp on the tilt rod, positioning the user to selectively tilt louvers of the shutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Inventor: Jim Loreto
  • Patent number: 12030174
    Abstract: The machine control system includes: a machine configured to execute a motion according to a machine command; a controller server configured to control the machine; and a communication server. The controller server includes control circuitry configured to repeat operations according to a control cycle, the operations including: executing a motion program to generate the machine command for the machine; adding first cycle information designating a first use timing to the machine command; and transmitting the machine command including the first cycle information to the communication server. The machine includes a machine circuitry configured to repeat local operations for controlling the machine according to a local control cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Inventors: Kazuo Fujino, Tadasuke Yuba, Ryo Shimodome, Ryota Moriwaka, Kazutoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12030175
    Abstract: In order to simplify the control configuration for controlling a driving device and improve reliability of the operation of the driving device, an information processing device includes a detection unit and a processing unit. The detection unit detects the detection target from a captured image by using reference data that is a learning result obtained by machine learning of the detection target including the position of the center of gravity of the object in the captured image. The processing unit controls the driving device to be controlled that acts on the object having the center of gravity detected by the detection unit, by using the detection result of the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeharu Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 12030176
    Abstract: A parallel kinematic manipulator system having three degrees of freedom and a method of controlling and visualizing work objects using force feedback and oscillation algorithms is provided. Three co-planar linear actuators operate symmetrically and parallel to an effector arm and are pivotally connected by three magnetic disc swivel joints to a base plate. The disc swivel joints each include a convex upper and lower swivel member having two dimensional gear patterns structured into their contacting and non-sliding surfaces. A pulsed illumination source consists of an annular LED array and is synchronized to the oscillation frequencies of the system to provide visual filtering capabilities. A control unit includes a method for keeping a work object balanced by force feedback and without the need for angle sensors at the end-effector, as well as methods for rotation of work objects and control of the pulsed illumination source. Sound trap ridges are included as part of the housing to reduce system noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Xenidev AB
    Inventor: Oskar L. Granstrand
  • Patent number: 12030177
    Abstract: In a suspended industrial robot, a base and a swivel section have an internal space into which a cable can be inserted. The base has an insertion opening through which at least the cable can be passed into the internal space from the outside. A first cable holding part that holds the cable is installed on at least one of a first arm and a second arm. The cable passes through the internal space of the base and the swivel section and is routed up to an end effector with a midway portion of the cable being held by the first cable holding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuji Minato, Tomokatsu Isoyama, Taichi Igarashi
  • Patent number: 12030178
    Abstract: A mobile robotic device is disclosed which includes a plurality of one-dimensional (1D) time-of-flight (ToF) sensors. Each 1D ToF sensor of the plurality of 1D ToF sensors may be mounted at a fixed position and orientation on the mobile robotic device. Each pair of 1D ToF sensors of the plurality of 1D ToF sensors may be fixed at respective positions and orientations relative to each other such that respective cones of coverage of the pair of 1D ToF sensors are non-overlapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Justine Rembisz, Alex Shafer
  • Patent number: 12030179
    Abstract: A method and system for teaching a transfer device including a substrate holder and a first detector disposed at the substrate holder is disclosed. The method comprises detecting a vertical position of an object by the first detector while moving the substrate holder in a vertical direction, and setting a teaching position of the substrate holder in the vertical direction based on the detected vertical position of the object; and setting a teaching position of the substrate holder in a horizontal direction based on a horizontal position of the substrate holder at which the substrate holder is detected by a second detector while moving the substrate holder in the horizontal direction, the second detector being disposed at a position different from a position of the transfer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventor: Toshiaki Toyomaki
  • Patent number: 12030180
    Abstract: Approaches presented herein enable maneuvering collaborative robots to rescue persons in a hydrological disaster. A plurality of robots are dispersed in a body of water to spread out and seek victims using cooperative foraging techniques within resource constraints. A location of victims located by a robot using sensing techniques is communicated to other robots. A situational assessment is performed using victim location information to determine a number of robots to deploy to the location. The deployed robots are directed to perform coordinated maneuvers to create a connected floatation unit to support floatation of victims for rescue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Srikanth K. Murali, Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri, Vijay Kumar Ananthapur Bache, Vijay Ekambaram
  • Patent number: 12030181
    Abstract: The three-dimensional geometry of an attachment is measured before work is started. A maximum dimension of a take-out head 60 in the X direction, a maximum dimension of the take-out head 60 in the Y direction, and a maximum dimension of the take-out head 60 in the Z direction are measured on the basis of an image of the take-out head 60 captured by at least imaging devices C11 and C12 before the take-out head 60 starts work with the take-out head 60 being mounted to an elevating frame 59B of an apparatus 5 for taking out a molded product, as an orthogonal three-axis robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: YUSHIN PRECISION EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutaka Ando, Fumitake Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12030182
    Abstract: An autonomous working device comprises at least one sensor configured to generate a sensor signal based on a physical interaction of the autonomous working device with a physical entity, at least one actuator configured to perform a working task, and a controller configured to generate a control signal for controlling the actuator. The controller is configured to evaluate the sensor signal, to determine a pattern of a physical interaction of the autonomous working device with a person and to generate the control signal based on the determined pattern of a physical interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Mathias Franzius, Nils Einecke
  • Patent number: 12030183
    Abstract: Robot control systems, methods, control modules and computer program products that leverage one or more large language model(s) (LLMs) in order to achieve at least some degree of autonomy are described. Robot control parameters and/or instructions may advantageously be specified in natural language (NL) and communicated with the LLM via an NL prompt or query. The LLM module provides a task plan in NL, which can be evaluated for at least one fault or error. If at least one fault or error is identified, the LLM module can be queried to provide a resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Geordie Rose, Suzanne Gildert
  • Patent number: 12030184
    Abstract: One embodiment can provide a robotic system. The system can include a machine-vision module, a robotic arm comprising an end-effector, a robotic controller configured to control movements of the robotic arm, and an error-compensation module configured to compensate for pose errors of the robotic arm by determining a controller-desired pose corresponding to a camera-instructed pose of the end-effector such that, when the robotic controller controls the movements of the robotic arm based on the controller-desired pose, the end-effector achieves, as observed by the machine-vision module, the camera-instructed pose. The error-compensation module can include a machine learning model configured to output an error matrix that correlates the camera-instructed pose to the controller-desired pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: eBots Inc.
    Inventors: Sabarish Kuduwa Sivanath, Zheng Xu
  • Patent number: 12030185
    Abstract: An assembly engine is configured to generate, based on a computer-aided design (CAD) assembly, a set of motion commands that causes the robot to manufacture a physical assembly corresponding to the CAD assembly. The assembly engine analyzes the CAD assembly to determine an assembly sequence for various physical components to be included in the physical assembly. The assembly sequence indicates the order in which each physical component should be incorporated into the physical assembly and how those physical components should be physically coupled together. The assembly engine further analyzes the CAD assembly to determine different component paths that each physical component should follow when being incorporated into the physical assembly. Based on the assembly sequence and the component paths, the assembly engine generates a set of motion commands that the robot executes to assemble the physical components into the physical assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Heather Kerrick, Erin Bradner, Hui Li, Evan Patrick Atherton, Nicholas Cote