Patents Issued in September 24, 2024
  • Patent number: 12097548
    Abstract: A tool and associated method for forming an attachment pad on a sheet material made from high strength steel. The tool includes a housing, an anvil supported on the housing and defining a working axis for forming the pad, and a slide block supported on the housing for movement at least along the working axis of the anvil. A die block is supported on the housing opposite the slide block, and is movable in directions along the working axis. The die block cooperates with anvil to form the pad at a target location defined along the working axis. The tool further includes a heating device supported for movement to and between first and second positions relative to the target location. The first position is adjacent to and aligned with the target location, while the second position is displaced from the first position and away from the target location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: KUKA Systems North America LLC
    Inventor: Peter L. Busuttil
  • Patent number: 12097549
    Abstract: A stamp-forming system includes a lower die formed of elastomeric material and having lower die lateral sides. In addition, the stamp-forming system includes a die wall configured to encircle the lower die lateral sides, and move vertically relative to the lower die. Also included in the stamp-forming system is an upper die configured to move between an open position in which the upper die is separated from the die wall and the lower die, and a clamped position in which the upper die is in contact with the die wall and applying clamping pressure to a blank against the lower die, to thereby form the blank into a formed article. The die wall is sized and configured to prevent lateral expansion of the lower die when the lower die is vertically compressed by the clamping pressure applied by the upper die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Kenndy San, Emma L. Morrissey, Gregory J. Hickman
  • Patent number: 12097550
    Abstract: A bending machine for bending workpieces is disclosed. The bending machine includes a lower beam and an upper beam for forming a workpiece by bending along a bending line. A tool holder for receiving bending tools is provided on the lower beam and each end of the tool holder is associated with a recessed region which is formed in the lower beam overlapping with the respective end. The lower beam includes a central element and at least one side element arranged adjacent to one another in the thickness direction of the lower beam. Recessed regions are provided in the central element and/or in the width direction adjacent to the central element. The lower beam also includes a central region in which, during a bending operation of a workpiece, a force is introduced via the tool holder both into the central element and into the at least one side element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: BYSTRONIC LASER AG
    Inventor: Lars Woidasky
  • Patent number: 12097551
    Abstract: A method for producing a screw foundation for securing elements in the ground, provides a cylindrical tube as an initial form and a conical front portion tapering to an insertion tip is then molded on to the cylindrical tube using a non-cutting process, the front portion being provided at least in some regions with a thread-like contour for screwing into the ground. An inner contour for a screwing tool is formed integrally in a rear end of the tube by flow forming, and the front portion and the thread-like contour are formed exclusively by flow forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Winkelmann Foundation Screw Sp. z o.o.
    Inventors: Bernd Rudert, Karl-Heinz Hecker, Ralf Pottgueter
  • Patent number: 12097552
    Abstract: The riveting machine for riveting two parts has a motorized-drive system (2) with an output shaft, a set (3) of mutually articulated link rods, with a first link rod (31) mounted to rotate with the output shaft and a second link rod (32) articulated to the first link rod (31), a ram (4) articulated to the second link rod (32) at one of its ends and equipped at its opposite end with an upper rivet die (5), a guide device (6) having a through-orifice in which the ram (4) is engaged, and a lower rivet die (9), able to collaborate with the upper rivet die (5) to upset the rivet, when the rivet is placed inside an orifice pierced through the parts, between the upper and lower rivet dies. The rotation of the output shaft drives the movement of the ram (4) to allow, through the link rods (31, 32) moving from a folded position to a deployed position, lowering the upper rivet die (5) to bring the rivet into the orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: CYBERMECA
    Inventor: Didier Ledoux
  • Patent number: 12097553
    Abstract: Investment casting shell composition binders comprising hydrophilic fibrils having an average diameter between about 1 nm and about less than 1 ?m can be used for the preparation of investment casting shell compositions or slurries. The investment casting shell binders and compositions can be used in an investment casting process to produce investment casting shells with improved shell build thickness and strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: REMET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gavin Dooley, Grant Bradley, John Stanley Paraszczak, Manuel Guerra, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12097554
    Abstract: A slab casting method using a twin-drum continuous casting device manufactures a slab by solidifying molten metal by a pair of rotating casting drums includes calculating estimated sheet thicknesses on both ends in a width direction of the slab from equation 1 ((estimated sheet thickness)=(cylinder screw down position)+(elastic deformation of casting drum)+(casting drum housing screw down system deformation)+(drum profile of casting drum)?(elastic deformation of casting drum at the time of screw down position zero adjustment)) by using a casting drum housing screw down system deformation characteristic indicating a deformation characteristic of housings that support the casting drums and a deformation characteristic of a screw down system that screws down the casting drums obtained before casting of the slab starts, and controlling screw down positions of cylinders provided on both ends in a width direction of the casting drums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Nikkuni, Toshiyuki Shiraishi, Yutaka Sadano, Masafumi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 12097555
    Abstract: A design for repair casting having a repairable ultra-large single-piece casting and a replacement part. The ultra-large single-piece casting includes a main body portion, at least one predefined replaceable portion integrally cast with the main body portion, and a cut-guide delineating the predefined replaceable portion from the main body portion. The cut-guide includes a continuous channel defined on an exterior surface of the single-piece casting. The cut-guide further includes a rib extending from a channel wall on the main body portion. A damaged replaceable portion is excisable from the main-body portion by cutting through the single-piece casting along the cut-guide. The excised damaged replaceable portion may be replaced with the replacement part, which has substantially the same geometry, dimensions, and mechanical properties as an undamaged replaceable portion. The replacement part may be joined to the main body portion by mechanical means or by welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Daniel J. Wilson, Liang Wang, Qigui Wang, Devin R Hess, Michelle A. Wood, Ronald C. Daul, Ali Shabbir
  • Patent number: 12097556
    Abstract: A method of producing a composite product having cemented carbide tiles embedded in a metal surface thereof, a cemented carbide tile suitable for use in the method and a composite product including such cemented carbide tiles is provided. A mould for casting the product is prepared. Cemented carbide tiles having through holes or recesses are placed at desired surfaces of the mould and secured to the desired surfaces of the mould by fastening elements, such as nails or pins, such that at least part of an elongated body of each respective fastening element protrudes out from respective openings of each through hole or recess facing the mould surface and into the material of the mould to secure the respective cemented carbide tiles in place. Molten metal is poured into the mould to cast the composite product, the casting of which is removed after solidification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SANDVIK SRP AB
    Inventors: Hodin Esbelani, Bengt-Goran Olsson
  • Patent number: 12097557
    Abstract: A method and a system for manufacturing a structure includes the steps of: (a) supplying a mixture consisting a plurality of primitive materials at a target spot; (b) melting and solidifying the mixture disposed at the target spot to form a portion of a metallic structure consisting of an alloy of the plurality of the primitive materials; and (c) repeating steps (a) and (b) at a plurality of target spots in a three-dimensional space to produce the metallic structure of the alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: City University of Hong Kong
    Inventors: Chain Tsuan Liu, Tianlong Zhang
  • Patent number: 12097558
    Abstract: A method of characterizing an optical system of a laser processing system includes directing an energy beam through a plurality of portions of a sample by adjusting an orientation of an adjustable beam redirection element of the optical system in accordance with a predetermined movement pattern to form a plurality of test patterns in the sample at each portion. The optical system comprises an imaging system having an expected focal position. In the movement pattern, the energy beam is directed in a plurality of different directions in the sample in the formation of each test pattern. At least two of the plurality of test patterns are formed at different calibration distances from an expected focal position of the optical system. An accuracy of the expected focal position is determined by detecting a level of modification in the sample caused by the energy beam at the plurality of test patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Layton Seth Travis, Nicholas E. Buhr
  • Patent number: 12097559
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an eccentric extreme high-speed-rate laser hybrid manufacturing method for a rotary engineering component. By positioning an extreme high-speed-rate laser direct energy deposition machining head at a predetermined eccentric distance, the damage caused by reflected light to the machining head is effectively reduced, to prolong a service life of the machining head. Also a conventional form of a molten pool in extreme high-speed-rate laser direct energy deposition can be changed, namely from a “falling” form caused by a high-speed movement and a gravity to a “climbing” form. Thus, in extreme high-speed-rate laser direct energy deposition machining, the molten pool has a longer time to fully contact a surface of the rotary engineering component to form desirable bonding performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Jiangsu University
    Inventors: Jinzhong Lu, Xiang Xu, Kaiyu Luo, Jialong Du, Xingyu Bu
  • Patent number: 12097560
    Abstract: A method includes forming one or more plug holes into a tool surface of a body. The one or more plug holes are partially formed around a landing surface portion of a plug in the body. The method also includes engaging a tool with the landing surface portion of the plug in the body, and using the tool to cut away the plug from the body and at least part of the body to form a tooled void into the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Brett Heher, Manuel Licon Flores
  • Patent number: 12097561
    Abstract: A method for operating a powder bed-based manufacturing device for additive manufacturing of a component from a powder material includes taking at least one optical recording of a working powder layer of the powder material on a construction location of the manufacturing device, locally evaluating the at least one optical recording, and examining the working powder layer for local coating errors using the evaluation of the at least one optical recording.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventors: Philipp Wagenblast, Markus Pieger, Frederik Schaal, Matthias Allenberg-Rabe, Bjoern Ullmann, Valentin Blickle, Marc Gronle
  • Patent number: 12097562
    Abstract: Methods for preparing a metal foam are provided. The methods may include forming a metal foam precursor using a slurry that includes metal powder, a dispersant, and a binder and sintering the metal foam precursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: LG Chem, LTD.
    Inventors: So Jin Kim, Jong Min Shin, Jin Kyù Lee
  • Patent number: 12097563
    Abstract: A milling tool includes an internal indexing mechanism arranged to displace an indexable cutting insert between an inner supported position and an outer indexing position. The indexable cutting insert has a multi-sided shape as seen in the direction of an insert centre axis and side support surfaces are included in the sides of the multi-sided indexable cutting insert. The internal indexing mechanism is arranged to provide a rectilinear movement along the shaft centre axis, between the inner supported position and the outer indexing position, wherein the indexable cutting insert is free to turn in both directions around the insert centre axis in the outer indexing position. An external indexing device for the milling tool and an indexing system is also provided. A disc member is configured with an annular geometry arranged to engage one of the side support surfaces and turn the indexable cutting insert toward the next index position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: AB SANDVIK COROMANT
    Inventors: Daniel Lindback, Predrag Jagunic, Markus Lindmark, Jens Ljung, Tomas Vannucci, Anders Almkvist
  • Patent number: 12097564
    Abstract: Large diameter edges formed in arc shapes having curvature radii larger than a ball radius are provided. This allows improving surface roughness of a machined surface by cutting of a planar surface with the respective large diameter edges compared with cutting of a planar surface with a ball end cutting edge formed in an arc shape having a single curvature radius. Further, since the respective large diameter edges are formed in the arc shape, compared with cutting of a curved surface with linear cutting edges, surface roughness of a machined surface can be improved by cutting a curved surface with the respective large diameter edges. Accordingly, a pick feed during the cutting of the planar surface and the curved surface with the respective large diameter edges can be increased, and therefore machining efficiency in the cutting of both of the planar surface and the curved surface can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: OSG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhito Fujii, Yasuyuki Endoh
  • Patent number: 12097565
    Abstract: A reciprocating saw blade including a body, an attachment portion, a cutting portion formed on the body including a plurality of cutting teeth, and a plunge point for initiating a plunge cut including a plunge tooth and a leading gullet between the plunge tooth and a first tooth of the plurality of cutting teeth. A first angle of the rake face of the plunge tooth is measured through the plunge tooth. A second angle of the rake face of the first cutting tooth is measured through the first cutting tooth. One of the first angle and the second angle is greater than 90 degrees and the other is less than 90 degrees. At least the first cutting tooth is set. The rake face defining the first angle is spaced from the rake face defining the second angle by a distance greater than the pitch of the plurality of cutting teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert W. Butzen, Austin J. Kazda, Andrew J. Schulz
  • Patent number: 12097566
    Abstract: A method for producing honing tools (24) that are conjugate to the bevel pinions and ring gears (26) they are intended to hone and which can be produced (e.g. cut) on a standard bevel gear free form machine. The method is described by two transformation steps with the basis of the transformations being the theoretical generating gear. The invention relates also to a toothed bevel honing tool produced by such a method and a method of honing bevel gears when provided with such a tool produced by such a method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: THE GLEASON WORKS
    Inventor: Hermann J. Stadtfeld
  • Patent number: 12097567
    Abstract: A technique of removing material from metal parts referred to as OPECM and a corresponding OPECM processing machine are disclosed. A tool electrode is manufactured for removing material from a target workpiece, and the workpiece and tool electrode are fixed into a processing machine that imparts an oscillatory motion path or profile and applies a voltage through a flowing electrolyte solution. The disclosed technique and processing machine removes material from the surface of the target workpiece through proximal surface dissolution as the workpiece and tool electrode are brought within proximity of one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Voxel Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Herrington, Eric Rountree
  • Patent number: 12097568
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for fastening layers of non-ferrous alloys, like aluminum, magnesium and copper utilizes a steel fastener and a spot welding machine. The fastener and metals are stacked and the heat from the welder's electric current softens the lower melting point aluminum allowing the fastener to penetrate the aluminum. A weld zone between the fastener and the various layers creates an internal weld. The fastener has a rough shaft that is coated by the molten weld zone and is hard to withdraw on solidification. Layers of non-conductive materials like plastics and ceramics may also be affixed to a conductive layer using a fastener made from a compatible material that extends through a pilot hole and welds to or penetrates a conductive layer. The fastener may have projections that initially reduce contact area with the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: HOWMET AEROSPACE INC.
    Inventors: Donald J. Spinella, Daniel Bergstrom
  • Patent number: 12097569
    Abstract: A joint structure, includes: a first member including a high tensile strength steel; a second member including a high tensile strength steel and superposed on the first member; a surface soft layer formed on at least one of a superposition surface of the first member, on which the second member is superposed, and a superposition surface of the second member, on which the first member is superposed; a molten-solidified portion formed by melting and solidifying the first member and the second member; and a heat affected zone formed around the molten-solidified portion, in which the surface soft layer has a total thickness of 5 ?m to 200 ?m, and the molten-solidified portion has a carbon amount of 0.21 mass % or more, and a maximum Vickers hardness of the surface soft layer in the heat affected zone is 100 Hv to 500 Hv.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyohei Maeda, Reiichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12097570
    Abstract: An ultrasonic tool comprising a first end face and a second end face, which is opposite the first end face, as well as a tool cover surface connecting the first end face and the second end face, wherein the ultrasonic tool is elongated in a longitudinal direction of the tool, wherein at least the first end face is formed as a connecting contact surface, which is arranged for pressing the ultrasonic tool against a connecting component, and wherein the ultrasonic tool comprises an end region comprising the connecting contact surface, which extends from the connecting contact surface in the longitudinal direction of the tool over 15 mm, but at most extends one third of the length of the ultrasonic tool in the direction of the opposite end face, and wherein in the end region, a first partial surface of the tool cover surface is formed as a surface-structured absorption surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Hesse GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Unger, Michael Broekelmann, Matthias Hunstig, Hans-Juergen Hesse
  • Patent number: 12097571
    Abstract: Provided is a double-side friction stir welding method of metal sheets or metal plates to each other, and a double-side friction stir device for performing the double-side friction stir welding. According to the present invention, a pair of rotating tools facing each other is respectively arranged on a top-surface side and a bottom-surface side of a butted portion or an overlapping portion, which comprises a joint portion of two metal sheets or two metal plates, the pair of rotating tools is moved in a welding direction while being rotated at the butted portion or the overlapping portion, and while the metal sheets or the metal plates are softened by frictional heat generated between the rotating tools and the metal sheets or the metal plates, softened parts are stirred by the rotating tools to produce a plastic flow to join the metal sheets or the metal plates to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Muneo Matsushita, Rinsei Ikeda
  • Patent number: 12097572
    Abstract: A system and method may be used to monitor and/or control material processing where a process beam is moved in a wobble pattern, such as a wobble-welding process. While at least one process beam is moved according to a wobble pattern on a processing site (e.g., a weld site) of a workpiece, an ICI system moves an imaging beam at least partially independently of the process beam to one or more measurement locations on the wobble pattern and obtains ICI measurements (e.g., depth measurements) at those locations. The ICI measurement(s) may be used, for example, to evaluate keyhole and/or melt pool characteristics during a welding process. Although the present application describes wobble welding processes, the systems and methods described herein may also be used with other material processing applications where a laser or other energy beam is wobbled or dithered during processing including, without limitation, additive manufacturing, marking and material removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: IPG PHOTONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher M. Galbraith, Jordan A. Kanko, Paul J. L. Webster
  • Patent number: 12097573
    Abstract: A laser processing method includes: marking multiple concaves on a surface of a preform before blow molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoichi Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 12097574
    Abstract: In an embodiment a sensor device includes a sensor element, a media supply configured to transport a medium to the sensor element and a surface, wherein the surface is configured to be exposed to the medium during operation of the sensor device, and wherein the surface comprises a surface structure configured to reduce a wettability of the surface by the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: TDK Electronics AG
    Inventors: Markus Eberstein, Jörn Bonse, Sabrina V. Kirner
  • Patent number: 12097575
    Abstract: A soldering apparatus, in particular a reflow soldering apparatus, for the continuous soldering of printed circuit boards along a transport direction, including a process channel that has a preheating zone, a soldering zone and a cooling zone, and further includes a base body and a cover hood movable between a closed position and an open position, wherein nozzle plates, fan units with fan motors, air ducts that conduct the process gas, filter elements and/or cooling elements are provided in the base body. The soldering apparatus further includes a drawer, which extends along a pull-out direction running transversely to the transport direction, is provided in the base body, with a bottom, a front wall and a rear side. Air ducts for conducting the process gas, at least one replaceable filter element in a filter region and at least one cooling device are provided in the drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: ERSA GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar Endreß, Benedict Fleischmann, Lukas Thanhäuser
  • Patent number: 12097576
    Abstract: An arc start adjustment device adjusting an arc start procedure in a welding process comprises an obtainment unit that obtains welding data indicating a welding state during or after a welding process, and a procedure adjustment unit that adjusts the arc start procedure such that the cycle time of the welding process is shortened based on welding data obtained by the obtainment unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: DAIHEN Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Nakagawa, Shugo Hirota
  • Patent number: 12097577
    Abstract: A split-type multifunctional underwater arc welding power supply including a shore power supply module and an underwater power supply module is provided. The shore power supply module comprises a shore power supply main circuit unit and a shore power supply control unit. The shore power supply main circuit unit comprises an input filter circuit, an IGBT full-bridge inverter circuit, an intermediate frequency transformer, and an output rectification filter circuit. The underwater power supply module comprises an underwater power supply main circuit unit and an underwater power supply control unit. The shore power supply module is provided on the shore, and the underwater power supply module is carried underwater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, JIANGSU AUTOMATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Zhidong Yang, Yuntao Chen, Shujin Chen, Mingxiao Shi, Chenfu Fang, Kehong Wang, Hongwei Sun, Xiaoyan Gu
  • Patent number: 12097578
    Abstract: Provided are a systems and methods for continuously providing a metal wire to a welding torch for manufacturing objects by solid freeform fabrication to provide continuous deposition of metal to the freeform object, especially objects made with titanium or titanium alloy wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Norsk Titanium AS
    Inventors: Trond Forseth, Brede Vigdal, Tom-Erik Falla, Dyre Rolstad, Arne Ramsland
  • Patent number: 12097579
    Abstract: The present invention enables even a beginner to acquire the technique easily and perform suitable spot welding, and achieves improved workability, improved welding quality, improved productivity, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA WELDING LABORATORIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Akihisa Murata, Tadasuke Murata, Manabu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12097580
    Abstract: A hinge is formed having a hinge bolt and a U-shaped hinge support with a hinge base, an upper limb and a lower limb. The method includes placing the hinge support in manufacturing apparatus having a support base, a workpiece holder having a fixed clamping jaw and a movable clamping jaw, a tool die which includes a tubular die support and a press contour, and a press piston. The press piston is movable along a first axis to apply an adjustable pressing force on the hinge support. The support base includes cylindrical guide shafts to movably guide the workpiece holder along a second axis. The hinge support is placed relative the workpiece holder such that upper edges of the upper limb are brought into contact with a first recess in the fixed clamping jaw and a second recess in the movable clamping jaw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: AGCO International GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Letzbor, Peter Schuhladen, Mathias Reutner
  • Patent number: 12097581
    Abstract: An assembly jig is suitable for assembling a band button. The band button includes a button body, a compression spring, a torsion spring, a compression spring pin and a torsion spring pin. The assembly jig includes a base, an upper cover, a first pressing component and a pressing mechanism. The base has an accommodating groove, and the accommodating groove is configured for accommodating the button body, the compression spring, the torsion-spring positioning pin and the compression-spring positioning pin. The upper cover is combined with the base and has a slot for accommodating the torsion spring. The first pressing component is configured to press the torsion spring into the button body which is accommodated in the accommodating groove. The pressing mechanism is configured for pressing the compression spring, the compression spring pin and the torsion spring pin into the button body which is accommodated in the accommodating groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Pegatron Corporation
    Inventor: Shiuan-Chai Chiang
  • Patent number: 12097582
    Abstract: A crankshaft for an internal combustion engine is provided and may include crank pins, crank journals, and webs extending between the crank pins and the crank journals. Each web further may include a web surface on each side of the web. On the web surface, a repair region is provided with an undercut formed in the web. Included in the crankshaft is a cladding deposit that is fused to the web surface in the repair region of the crankshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: David Harter, Zackary Quidetto, David Lachendro, Beau Fisher, Paul Knapik, Justin Fowler, William Gray, John P. Dowell
  • Patent number: 12097583
    Abstract: A method of repairing an ultra-large single-piece cast component of a vehicle body. The method includes the steps of locating a damaged portion of the cast component, determining an extent of the damaged portion of the ultra-large cast component, defining a cut-line sectioning off the damaged portion from an undamaged portion of the ultra-large cast component, cutting along the cut-line to excise the damaged portion from the undamaged portion of the ultra-large cast component, and joining a replacement piece to the undamaged portion of the ultra-large cast component. The replacement piece is fabricated based on the original manufacturer's geometry and dimensional data of the excised damaged portion. The undamaged portion of the ultra-large cast component remains on the vehicle body during the repair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Daniel J. Wilson, Liang Wang, Qigui Wang, Devin R Hess, Michelle A. Wood, Ali Shabbir, Ronald C. Daul, Dale A. Gerard, Gregory Melekian
  • Patent number: 12097584
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for attachment to a metalworking device or a chip conveyor designed to capture fluid used in the machining process so that the fluid can be reused. More specifically, the cutting fluid catch mechanism provides a slanted surface such that the metal swarf, the pieces of metal or debris resulting from machining operations slides down the slanted surface but the cutting fluid is captured by the catch mechanism and directed to a cutting fluid reservoir where it can be filtered and reused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: Bradley R. Buchholtz
  • Patent number: 12097585
    Abstract: This processing device is provided with: a tool for machining a workpiece W along the thickness direction thereof, the width-direction external shape of the workpiece W being substantially finished; and a flexible vice 7 that clamps the workpiece W in the width direction without clamping the workpiece W in the thickness direction. The flexible vice 7 is provided with a position adjustment mechanism that prevents the position of the workpiece W from changing in a plane along the width direction before and after the workpiece W is clamped. The present invention is provided with a rough processing tool for performing processing at a rough-processing position, a finishing processing tool for performing processing at a finishing-processing position, and a control unit that causes the position adjustment mechanism to move between the processing performed by the rough processing tool and the processing performed by the finishing processing tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Eto, Hirokazu Unno
  • Patent number: 12097586
    Abstract: A method and system temporarily holds a workpiece, most suitably an aero engine turbine blade element during manufacture. The workholding system includes a support body with a contoured body surface, complementary to a workpiece surface, formed of a transparent material to define a bonding zone. The support body is supported by a base to form a workpiece shuttle, and a bond station receives the workpiece shuttle. Complementary zero-point locating elements on the shuttle and station assure accurate positioning. The bond station further has workpiece locating elements configured to accurately position the workpiece on the shuttle in a predetermined position relative to the zero-point locating elements of the shuttle, thereby compensating for shuttle-to-shuttle variance. An adhesive, such as a UV curable adhesive, is applied to the bonding zone and cured by UV through the transparent material, thereby fixing the workpiece in the predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Blue Photon Technology & Workholding Systems LLC
    Inventor: Danial Billings
  • Patent number: 12097587
    Abstract: A workholding device for positioning a workpiece on a machining equipment, comprising a sacrificial support for supporting the workpiece, a workpiece holding layer formed of a curable material applied onto the sacrificial support, a curable material collector, a curing processing unit which comprises a controller and a curing rate regulator, and a bearing assembly for supporting the sacrificial support, the curable material collector and the curing processing unit, wherein the curable material is a solid which is viscous before curing and elastic after curing and has a melting point above 1000° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Michael Pui Hei YIM
    Inventors: Michael Pui Hei Yim, Lok Yan So
  • Patent number: 12097588
    Abstract: A carrier transmission device comprises a slide rail, a rack and a pair of gears. The slide rail extends along a transmission direction of a carrier to be transmitted and is adapted to slidingly guide the carrier. The rack extends along the transmission direction and is connectable to, or integrally formed on, the carrier. The pair of gears are spaced by a predetermined distance in the transmission direction and are adapted to engage with the rack and drive the carrier to move in the transmission direction on the slide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Jian Cao, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Dandan (Emily) Zhang, Fengchun (Fred) Xie, An (Joshua) Yang, Yun (Shanghai) Liu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Patent number: 12097589
    Abstract: Carbon atoms of a single-crystal diamond and active abrasives are used to produce a chemical reaction to form carbides under a specific grinding condition of no higher than a graphitization temperature, and a hard abrasive is used to remove the carbides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Huaqiao University
    Inventors: Jing Lu, Xipeng Xu, Yanhui Wang, Qiufa Luo, Zhongqiang Ma
  • Patent number: 12097590
    Abstract: A water jet strengthening and polishing integrated system for blades of a blisk includes a vibration polishing unit and a water jet strengthening unit. The vibration polishing unit includes a vibration polishing bath, the vibration polishing bath is internally provided with a clamp for clamping the blisk, and vibration motors for driving the vibration polishing bath to vibrate are installed on the vibration polishing bath. Top ends of support springs are fixedly connected with the vibration polishing bath, and bottom ends of the support springs are fixedly connected with a workbench. The water jet strengthening unit includes a water jet strengthening device for carrying out water jet strengthening on the blades of the blisk and a driving mechanism for clamping the water jet strengthening device and capable of driving the water jet strengthening device to move in any direction in space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AECC COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT ENGINE CO. LTD, AECC HUNAN AVIATION POWERPLANT RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Xiancheng Zhang, Shulei Yao, Shantung Tu, Yuxin Chi, Yalong Chen, Lizhang Zhang, Fei Zeng, Congyang Gong, Ning Wang, Junmiao Shi, Yunfei Jia, Shuang Liu
  • Patent number: 12097591
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a coil spring and for determining a propelling condition for a shot medium. In a case where it is confirmed that the coating film remains in a third step, at least one or more of conditions of the shot peening treatment including a propelling speed of the shot medium, a propelling time of the shot medium, a material of the shot medium, and an average particle diameter of the shot medium are changed and the second step and the third step are repeated until the coating film does not remain. In a case where it is confirmed that the coating film does not remain in the third step, the condition of the shot peening treatment in the second step in which the coil spring is obtained with no remaining coating film is determined as the propelling condition for the shot medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokatsu Kameda, Toshihiro Ogawa, Shinji Kasatori, Hideki Kato, Keiichi Maekawa, Kentaro Tokita, Kenji Nagaoka, Atsushi Murakami
  • Patent number: 12097592
    Abstract: An abrasive article can include a body including a bond material, abrasive particles, and a plurality of pores, wherein the bond material can comprise a vitreous material. In one embodiment, an average particle size of the abrasive particles can be between 0.1 microns to 5 microns, and a porosity of the body may be between 40 vol % to 70 vol %, wherein the porosity may define an average pore size (D50) of at least 0.1 microns and not greater than 5 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: SAINT-GOBAIN ABRASIVES, INC., SAINT-GOBAIN ABRASIFS
    Inventors: Cecile O. Mejean, John S. Hagan, Linda S. Bateman, Alexandre Temperelli, Taewook Hwang, Ramanujam Vedantham, John M. Gulcius, Maureen A. Brosnan
  • Patent number: 12097593
    Abstract: A firearm maintenance aid can include a firearm vise and a firearm support device. Firearm vise can include vise jaws, a threaded rod connecting vise jaws together, and jaw pin holes in each jaw, the holes extending from an outer surface of a jaw through to an inner surface of each jaw, wherein the holes in the first jaw align with the holes in the second jaw. Firearm support device can include a clamping portion and a supporting portion. The clamping portion can be clamped between the jaws of the firearm vise, can include two parallel clamping faces, and can define vise pin holes that align with the jaw pin holes. The supporting portion can be located opposite the clamping portion and can include a cylindrical shaft. Vise pins can be received by the jaw pin holes and vise pin holes to fixedly connect the support device to the vise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: NEW REVO BRAND GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew C. Morris, Ryan Chernik, Ryan Jacobson, Mike Feesl
  • Patent number: 12097594
    Abstract: A modular fixture plate system comprising: at least one interlocking fixture plate comprising at least one of a male end and a female end, wherein the male end comprises at least one male projection and the female end comprises at least one female recess; and a docking plate comprising at least one of at least one male projection and at least one female recess; wherein at least one male projection or female recess of the at least one interlocking fixture plate is interlocked with a mating one of the at least one male projection or the at least one female recess of the docking plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: Steven E. Phillips
  • Patent number: 12097595
    Abstract: A tool kit is provided that includes a tool including a handle and a tool head and a set of tool accessories configured to be coupled to the tool head. The tool accessories each including a drive end that is configured to be coupled to the tool head and a working end opposite the drive end. The tool kit includes a container that is movable between an open position and a closed position. The container includes a first portion including a first retainer that supports the tool, a second portion and a middle portion dividing the first portion from the second portion. The middle portion including a second retainer that supports the tool accessories and the container is selectively stored in a closed position where the middle portion supports the container on a surface in an upright position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Jacob Feuerstein, Steven W. Hyma
  • Patent number: 12097596
    Abstract: A power tool comprises a housing defining a grip portion, a motor having a motor drive shaft, a drive assembly including a crankshaft configured to receive torque from the motor drive shaft, an output assembly having an output member configured to receive torque from the crankshaft, a bearing rotatably supporting the crankshaft, a retainer configured to prevent translation of the bearing along the crankshaft past the retainer, and a transducer assembly disposed between the grip portion and the output member to measure the amount of torque applied through the output member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wyatt R. Silha, Jacob P. Schneider, John S. Dey, IV, Hans T. Banholzer, Qiang Wei Li, Pu Shao Zhang, Qian Guo Qin
  • Patent number: 12097597
    Abstract: An impact rotary tool includes a motor, an output shaft configured to hold a tip tool and configured to rotate by a motive power of the motor, an impact mechanism configured to perform an impact operation to repeatedly generate, from the motive power of the motor, impact force acting on the output shaft, and a seating detector configured to detect a seating of a fastener component which is a state where the fastener component rotated by the tip tool is just seated on a work target. The seating detector has a plurality of seating detection modes. The impact rotary tool further includes an acquirer configured to acquire information indicative of one seating detection mode selected from the plurality of seating detection modes. The seating detector is configured to detect the seating of the fastener component based on the one seating detection mode indicated by the information acquired by the acquirer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Murakami, Masanori Nakamoto, Motoharu Muto