Patents Issued in October 24, 2024
  • Publication number: 20240351135
    Abstract: A method for sizing a junction section by orbital friction welding between a blade and a stub of a bladed disk for a turbomachine. The section is sized such that the ratio of an average ray length extending fully into the section from a point at the periphery of said section and sweeping across said section, where said average ray length is a maximum average length, and an average length of rays extending completely into the section from another point at the periphery of said section and sweeping through said section, where said average length is a minimum average length, is less than or equal to 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventor: Johann PANCRACE
  • Publication number: 20240351136
    Abstract: A system for inspecting height and thermal information in additive manufacturing includes at least one processor to determine material quality and formation of porosity during additive manufacturing and use one of a phase mapping sensor and a height mapping sensor to identify a plurality of problem areas and investigate the plurality of problem areas with at least one of thermal analysis, emission profile, temperature, and emissivity data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventor: Niall O'Dowd
  • Publication number: 20240351137
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for welding components (1, 2) by means of a laser beam (11), in which the laser beam (11) is moved along a joining zone (16) of the components (1, 2), wherein the material of the components (1, 2) is melted in the region of the joining zone (16), wherein the melt solidifies to form a weld seam (24) at a distance from the laser beam (11), and wherein a region (20) trailing the laser beam (11) is heated by means of a further laser beam (26).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventor: Alexander Ilin
  • Publication number: 20240351138
    Abstract: A laser welding method and a laser welding device is provided. The laser welding device is configured to weld workpieces stacking multiple using a laser. The laser welding device includes a first laser irradiator and a driving device configured to enable one of the first laser irradiator and the workpiece to move relative to the other one of the first laser irradiator and the workpiece. A laser irradiation angle of the first laser irradiator is configured to be located on a side opposite to a welding proceeding direction. Through adjusting a height of the first laser irradiator relative to the workpiece, the first laser irradiator irradiates the laser to the workpiece in a focused manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi KOBAYASHI, Soichiro NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240351139
    Abstract: A laser tool includes a tool body disposed at least partially along a central longitudinal axis, and a head unit connected to the tool body with a rotational joint. The head unit rotates around the central longitudinal axis with the rotational joint, includes a laser head to direct a laser energy toward a target and along a second longitudinal axis of the head unit. A purging nozzle, fluidly connected to a fluid source, includes a nozzle outlet oriented at an angle relative to the second longitudinal axis of the head unit, and directs fluid at an angle into a pathway of the laser energy from the laser head to bias purged material out of the pathway of the laser energy. The rotational joint supports the head unit on the tool body, and moves the head unit in a radial direction relative to the central longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventor: Sameeh Issa Batarseh
  • Publication number: 20240351140
    Abstract: A fabrication method for a steel thin-walled tailor-welded part and a hot-stamped part prepared by using the tailored welded part, the method comprising: using steel plates (10, 10, 20) to be welded which have an aluminum or aluminum alloy coating (12, 12?, 22, 22?) is used; by means of adjusting the composition of a shielding gas (50) and the composition of a welding wire (30) during a welding process, in combination with the control of the welding speed and wire-feeding speed, controlling the content of free aluminum in a weld seam to be 0.1 to 4.0 wt. %, which prevents the production of iron-aluminum intermetallic compounds in the weld seam during a tailor welding process while ensuring that an appropriate amount of ferrite which is distributed in a dispersed manner is produced in the weld seam. The weld seam structure of the obtained tailor-welded part is +1 to 15 vol. % martensite, +0 to 5 vol. % ferrite which is distributed in a dispersed manner, and the remainder is austenite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: BAOSHAN IRON & STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hua PAN, Chengjie LIU, Tianhai WU, Ming LEI, Zhongqu SUN, Haomin JIANG, Shuyang Wang, Yue WU
  • Publication number: 20240351141
    Abstract: A method for producing a body or a body part of a motor vehicle. The body or the body part includes multiple components made of metal, which are welded to one another in adjacent connection regions via welding points or welding seams. A welding point or a welding seam is applied to the component at one or more positions outside the connection regions, to locally reduce the strength of the metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias BRAUN, Thorsten BUßMANN, Daniel RUDOLPH
  • Publication number: 20240351142
    Abstract: A method for laser-cutting and post-treating a UTG having a partial coating film formed thereon according to the present invention includes a step (S1) of coating an entire front surface of a thin-film mother glass (1) with a coating solution for preventing chemical contact, and then drying the resulting product to form a coating film, a step (S2) of forming, on a rear surface of the thin-film mother glass (1), a partial coating film (2) which is the same shape as the shape of a cell-unit thin-film glass (3) to be cut from the thin-film mother glass (1), and a step (S3) of irradiating the rear surface of the thin-film mother glass (1) with a laser beam to cut the coating film, formed on a front surface of the thin-film mother glass (1), and the thin-film mother glass (1), wherein the laser beam is applied along a cut guiding line (6) formed a predetermined distance away from an outer edge line of the partial coating film (2) and in the shape of the cell-unit thin-film glass (3), to cut and then separate the c
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Seung Jun YI, Hyung Sup LEE, Sun Hong CHOI, Soung Woong CHOI
  • Publication number: 20240351143
    Abstract: A processing device (10) for processing flat material (12) extending along a material plane (11) includes at least one holding device (200) for holding the flat material (12), at least one clamping device (400) for fastening the flat material (12) in place and for clamping the flat material (12) along the material plane (11), and at least one laser device (600) for cutting at least one cut piece (1) from the flat material (12). The holding device (200) is designed such that the at least one cut piece (1) is held by the holding device (200) after the laser cut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Sven Flaig, Mattias Kiebe, Stefan Ringwald
  • Publication number: 20240351144
    Abstract: A processing head is moved to a corner portion along a first side without decelerating while emitting a laser beam; emission of the laser beam is stopped after the processing head which is moving reaches the corner portion; the processing head is moved from the corner portion to a first predetermined position separated by a first predetermined distance along a second side while emitting the laser beam intermittently, and emission of the laser beam is stopped when the processing head reaches the first predetermined position; the processing head is accelerated from a position, which is on an extension line of the second side and before the corner portion, toward the corner portion; and emission of the laser beam is started when the processing head which is accelerating reaches the corner portion, and then the processing head is moved along the second side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Amada Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki KAMIYAMA, Yutaka MASHIKO, Yuya MIZOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240351145
    Abstract: A laser head emits a laser beam. A liquid tank includes containers separated from each other so as to be capable of individually storing a transmission inhibition liquid. Each of the containers is capable of supporting workpieces to be processed by the laser head. Each of the containers individually includes a liquid level adjustment mechanism, and the liquid level of the transmission inhibition liquid in each of the containers is independently adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: KOMATSU INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro YAMAGUCHI, Nobuhiro TAKATA, Shigeru NOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20240351146
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for checking quality of laser welding. The system and method for checking quality of laser welding of the present disclosure relates to a technology capable of applying a consistent defect determination criterion for laser welding quality by applying an anomaly score that is inferred based on machine learning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sung Hun WOO
  • Publication number: 20240351147
    Abstract: A metal-cored wire for submerged arc welding having a composition including, in mass %: C: 0.20 to 0.80%, Si: 0.15 to 0.90%, Mn: 17.0 to 28.0%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.030% or less, Ni: 0.01 to 10.00%, Cr: 0.4 to 4.0%, Mo: 3.50 to 10.00%, B: 0.0010% or less, N: 0.200% or less, and the balance being Fe and incidental impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiyoshi ANDO, Atsushi TAKADA, Kazufumi WATANABE, Takatoshi OKABE
  • Publication number: 20240351148
    Abstract: A flux contains: a triol solvent (S1); a monoamide-based thixotropic agent; and at least one solvent (S2) selected from the group consisting of a monohydric solvent and a dihydric solvent, wherein the content of the monoamide-based thixotropic agent is 0.5% by mass or more and less than 15% by mass with respect to the total mass of the flux, and the content of the solvent (S2) is 50% by mass or more with respect to the total mass of the flux.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroaki KAWAMATA, Yuki FUJINO, Kazuya KITAZAWA, Keisuke SHINOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20240351149
    Abstract: The invention relates to a holder (10) with a securing means (1) for releasably securing a hand-held torch (5), the securing means (1) having at least in regions a negative form (2) of the hand-held torch (5) for reproducibly positioning the hand-held torch (5) in the holder (10), and the securing means (1) being adapted, at least in regions, to the outer contour (3) of the hand-held torch (5) when the hand-held torch (5) is secured. The invention further relates a hand-held torch (5) having a holder (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Alexander Binzel Schweisstechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dimitri BELAN, Thomas SCHERER, Frank MÜLLER, Wolfgang LENSCH
  • Publication number: 20240351150
    Abstract: A holding device (200) for holding a sheet material (12) in a machining device (10), in particular a laser machining device, includes a working plate (204), vacuum devices (206), and support modules (208). The working plate (204) has a plate upper side (220) extending along a plate plane (222). The vacuum devices (206) extend along a holding direction (271), each having a base (226) arranged on the plate upper side (220) and a nozzle head (256) arranged on the base (226) for suctioning the sheet material (12). The support modules (208) extend along the holding direction (271), each having a module base (288) arranged on the plate upper side (220) and a brush (302) arranged on the module base (288) and extending along a brush plane (301) for supporting the sheet material (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Sven Flaig, Mattias Kiebe, Stefan Ringwald
  • Publication number: 20240351151
    Abstract: A process for orbital friction welding of a blade to a stub on a turbomachine rotor disk, comprising the following successive phases: friction of the blade against the stub with application of a force friction normal; forging of the blade against the stub with application of a normal forging force; wherein the normal forging force is greater than the normal friction force and essentially constant throughout the forging phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Astrid LENAIN, Charly MOUGEL
  • Publication number: 20240351152
    Abstract: An object is to provide a snap-fit structure in which space on a side where an engaging portion elastically deforms can be effectively utilized. The snap-fit structure includes a mounting component with a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion and a mounted component formed with an engaged portion for engaging the first engaging portion and the second engaging portion. The second engaging portion is arranged in a position not aligned on the same line in a direction in which the first engaging portion elastically deforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventor: Toshiaki Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20240351153
    Abstract: An NC device for correcting a blade edge position at a time of a turning tool being mounted on a tool main spindle in a machine tool, comprising: first acquisition part for acquiring an inclination amount of a clamp surface of the tool main spindle; second acquisition part for acquiring a tool shaft rotation phase angle; third acquisition part for acquiring a protrusion amount in which the blade edge is protruded from the clamp surface of the tool main spindle; and first correction arithmetic processing part for arithmetically processing a deviation amount of the position of the blade edge that is generated between a reference position and the shaft rotation phase angle obtained by the second acquisition part due to the inclination amount of the tool clamp surface obtained by the first acquisition part and the protrusion amount obtained by the third acquisition part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: NAKAMURA-TOME PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko KAKUMOTO, Satoru Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20240351154
    Abstract: A modular fixture plate system includes fixture plates and docking stations for securing the fixture plates to a worksurface. Fixture plates include recessed corners for receiving keystones. A keystone may be used as a docking station in addition to or instead of a corresponding rail system. Fixture plates include magnets for providing a secure attachment to keystones, rails and other fixture plates to allow for rapid loading of parts and plates on any CMM or manufacturing system. Fixture plates are designed to be stacked multiple wide to fill the table and maximize coverage of a work surface. The keystone design allows a user to create L configurations or T configurations of plates from a single docking location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Eric S. Becker, Joel R. Gorden
  • Publication number: 20240351155
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a knife sharpening device, including a housing and a sharpening assembly arranged inside the housing. The sharpening assembly includes a sharpening wheel rotatably mounted inside the housing. The sharpening wheel includes two opposite mounting surfaces arranged along an axial direction and a sharpening surface along a circumferential direction. The housing is formed thereon with a first sharpening groove that is arranged on a first side of the sharpening surface. The first sharpening groove is formed with openings at both ends along a length direction, and the first side of the sharpening surface extends partially into an interior of the first sharpening groove. During sharpening, a knife is placed into the first sharpening groove to contact the sharpening surface for grinding. According to the technical solution of the present disclosure, sharpening grooves are formed on the housing and fit with the sharpening surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventor: MOU-FU TSAI
  • Publication number: 20240351156
    Abstract: In construction projects it important to produce tile surfaces that have the same consistent smooth surface; a uniform surface is important not only for cosmetic reasons but for the comfort of the person who is walking on the surface of the tile. The machine will produce a uniform top surface on the tile by grinding the top surface of the tile to produce a uniform result for all the tile pieces. A source of water will help minimize the dust that the process will produce as well as reduce the heat that is generated by the diamond grinding wheels, which are commonly used in this industry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventor: Daniel Stan
  • Publication number: 20240351157
    Abstract: A retainer for the processing of workpieces comprises a housing with a holding arrangement for a workpiece to be processed as well as a support arrangement therefor, which comprises a plurality of longitudinally displaceable pins accommodated in a chamber bounded by the housing. The pins are selectively fixable by a clamping mechanism with their pin ends for firmly supporting the workpiece. The clamping mechanism has at least one force transmission element which is movable with respect to the pins by forces able to be applied by fluid so as to selectively clamp the pins in an unactuated state of the retainer or free them in an actuated state of the retainer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Holger Schäfer, Martin Lautz, Johannes Claar, Janis Wortmann
  • Publication number: 20240351158
    Abstract: An elastic membrane for a retainer for the processing of optical workpieces is constructed with a securing section for mounting on a housing of the retainer, so as to bound therein a chamber by a retaining section which is connected with the securing section. The retaining section has an outer side, on which a workpiece can be placed over an area by a workpiece surface, and an inner side, which is constructed to contact a support arrangement, for the workpiece. The retaining section has a perforation with at least one opening connecting the inner side and outer side and by way of which a vacuum applied to the chamber can be conducted to the outer side. Associated with the opening is a semi-permeable, functional membrane which extends merely locally in a region directly adjoining the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Holger Schäfer, Martin Lautz, Johannes Claar
  • Publication number: 20240351159
    Abstract: A method for polishing a spectacle lens including a step of preparing a polishing pad provided with a flocking polishing sheet having a flocking part and abrasive grains that are attached to a surface of the flocking part on a polishing surface that comes into contact with a surface to be polished of a resin spectacle lens and a step of polishing the surface to be polished by bringing the surface to be polished into contact with the polishing surface by applying pressure and relatively moving the polishing pad and the spectacle lens while supplying a coolant to the polishing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: HOYA LENS THAILAND LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko SAMUKAWA, Kazuteru OKUURA
  • Publication number: 20240351160
    Abstract: The invention refers to power tool (10) comprising a tool housing (12), a motor (24) located therein and a tool shaft (36) with a rotational axis (40) and actuated by the motor (24) when in operation. A distal end of the tool shaft (36) is accessible from outside the tool housing (12). The power tool (10) further comprises a polishing pad (38) releasably attachable to the distal end of the tool shaft (36) from outside the tool housing (12) in an axial direction parallel to the rotational axis (40) and, after attachment to the tool shaft (36), held in respect to the tool shaft (36) in the axial direction by means of an axial holding arrangement (80).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventor: Andrea VALENTINI
  • Publication number: 20240351161
    Abstract: A polishing method and a polishing apparatus that can suppress fluid from remaining on an upper surface of a workpiece, and that can apply an appropriate force to the workpiece to polish the workpiece are disclosed. The polishing method includes: pressurizing a first pressure chamber to move fluid present between an upper surface of the workpiece and the first pressure chamber outward; moving the fluid present between the upper surface of the workpiece and a second pressure chamber outward by pressurizing the second pressure chamber to form a second pressure in the second pressure chamber which is lower than a target pressure when a pressure equal to or higher than the target pressure is formed in the first pressure chamber; and polishing the workpiece after causing the fluid to flow out from the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Tomoko OWADA, Osamu NABEYA
  • Publication number: 20240351162
    Abstract: A system for imaging a substrate, including a single electromagnetic radiation (EMR) emitter at a first side of the substrate. The system further includes a diffuser between the single EMR emitter and the substrate, the electromagnetic radiation from the single EMR emitter passing through the diffuser to a surface of the substrate. The system includes a photodetector at a second side of the substrate, the photodetector configured to capture reflected electromagnetic radiation from the surface of the substrate. The system further includes a computing device configured to render a single image of substantially an entirety of the surface of the substrate from the captured reflected electromagnetic radiation. The single EMR emitter and the photodetector are at an angle relative to the surface of the substrate that is not one of parallel and perpendicular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Vivekanand Kalaparthi, Keyden Costin
  • Publication number: 20240351163
    Abstract: A polishing method capable of appropriately controlling a temperature of a polishing surface of a polishing pad during polishing of a workpiece is disclosed. The polishing method includes detecting a surface condition of a sample while polishing the sample on a polishing surface of a polishing pad; creating time-series data representing temporal change in the surface condition of the sample; determining a point in time at which the surface condition of the sample has distinctively changed based on the time-series data; determining a temperature control time based on the determined point in time; and controlling a temperature of the polishing surface of the polishing pad based on the temperature control time, while polishing a workpiece on the polishing surface of the polishing pad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Masayoshi ITO, Seungho YUN, Yukihiro KANG, Yasuyuki MOTOSHIMA, Shumpei MIURA, Kenichi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240351164
    Abstract: A pad conditioner configured to dress a surface of a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) pad according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a substrate, and a protruding member including a cutting part configured to cut the pad, a roughness control part configured to support the cutting part and restrict an indentation depth of the cutting part, and a body part protruding from the substrate and configured to support the roughness control part and provided in plural on the substrate, wherein the cutting parts may have different protrusion heights, and a protruding member including a cutting part with a relatively larger protrusion height and a protruding member including a cutting part with a relatively smaller protrusion height may be disposed mixedly at a set ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: SAESOL Diamond Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Woo KIM, Sung Goo LEE
  • Publication number: 20240351165
    Abstract: A cleaning station may include an input nest that receives a device and transfers the device to a first rotation nest. The first rotation nest may position the device under a first nozzle and rotational nozzles. The first nozzle may clean a first face of the device with dry ice pellets, and the rotational nozzles may clean a first pair of sides of the device with dry ice pellets. The first rotation nest may rotate the device ninety degrees, and the rotational nozzles may clean a second pair of sides of the device with dry ice pellets. A second rotation nest may remove the device from the first rotation nest and may position the device over a second nozzle. The second nozzle may clean a second face of the device with dry ice pellets, and the second rotation nest may transfer the device to an output nest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas David RAYAS, Ronald Wayne FLECK, JR., Carolina HERRERA
  • Publication number: 20240351166
    Abstract: A particle blast apparatus includes a metering portion, a comminutor and a feeding portion. The metering portion and comminutor may each be configured to provide uniformity in the discharge of particles. The metering portion controls the particle feed rate, and may include a rotor, which may have V or chevron shaped pockets. The comminutor includes at least one roller which may be moved between and including a position at which the gap of the comminutor is at maximum and a position at which the gap is at minimum. The metering portion may discharge particles directly into the feeding portion without a comminutor being present. The comminutor may receive particles directly from a source of blast media without a metering portion being present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Mallaley, Richard Joseph Broecker
  • Publication number: 20240351167
    Abstract: Superabrasive elements may be produced by methods including leaching the metallic material from the superabrasive element to produce a leached volume by exposing at least a portion of the superabrasive element to a processing solution, exposing an electrode to the processing solution, and applying a charge to the electrode such that a voltage is generated between the superabrasive element and the electrode and the voltage is applied to the processing solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Daren Nathaniel Heaton, Jeremy Brett Lynn, Mark Pehrson Chapman, Oakley D. Bond
  • Publication number: 20240351168
    Abstract: There is provided a metal-bonded grinding stone including an abrasive grain layer in which a plurality of abrasive grains and a plurality of pores are dispersed in a metal bonding material, in which a porosity of the plurality of pores in the abrasive grain layer is 40% or more and 99% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshinori NAKANE, Manabu SATO, Masanori NAKA, Ryuichi TAKANABE
  • Publication number: 20240351169
    Abstract: A grinding device including a grinding wheel, a hub attached to the grinding wheel, the hub movable relative to the grinding wheel in an axial direction of the hub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: GENERAL TOOL, INC.
    Inventors: Jae Yong OHM, Tae Min UM, Jae Woo KIM
  • Publication number: 20240351170
    Abstract: A clamping device (400) for gripping and clamping a flat material (12) extending along a material plane (11) includes clamping jaws (402). The clamping jaws include a first clamping jaw (404) and a second clamping jaw (406) extending parallel to a clamping axis (408). The first and/or second clamping jaws are pivotable about a clamping rotational axis (410) running parallel to the clamping axis between open and closed positions. The first clamping jaw has a first clamping surface (414) and the second clamping jaw has a second clamping surface (416). The first clamping jaw has a clamping element (418) projecting relative to the first clamping surface and the second clamping jaw has a clamping recess (420) that is set back from the second clamping surface. In the closed position, the clamping recess accommodates the clamping element so that the flat material is gripped and clamped simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Sven Flaig, Mattias Kiebe, Stefan Ringwald
  • Publication number: 20240351171
    Abstract: An electric ratchet wrench comprises a wrench main casing, a motor, a ratchet head casing and a motor fixing member. The wrench main casing comprises two main casing locking parts, the two main casing locking parts are symmetrically arranged at one end of the wrench main casing, the motor is accommodated in the wrench main casing, the ratchet head casing comprises a plug-connected part, and the plug-connected part is inserted into the aforementioned end of the wrench main casing. The motor fixing member is accommodated in the wrench main casing and located between the plug-connected part and the motor, the motor fixing member is used to fix the motor, and the motor fixing member is clamped and positionally limited between one end edge of the plug-connected part and the main casing locking parts. Thereby, effects of reducing structural complexity and improving ease of assembly can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Chih-Hua HSU, Chen-Chen CHENG, Kuo-Chou LI
  • Publication number: 20240351172
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes a housing, a drive motor, an intermediate shaft that can be driven by the drive motor, and a percussion mechanism. The percussion mechanism has a striker and at least one percussion mechanism spring which is connected to the striker in a rotationally fixed manner, and the percussion mechanism can be driven at least in part by the intermediate shaft. The hand-held power tool further includes a tool holder, which is configured for holding an insert tool, and can be driven by means of the percussion mechanism, in particular the striker and/or the intermediate shaft. The intermediate shaft includes at least one bearing, and the percussion mechanism spring is connected to the bearing in a rotationally fixed manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Marcus Schuller, Rainer Britz, Simon Erbele
  • Publication number: 20240351173
    Abstract: A magnetic driving device is provided, including: a sleeving rod, including a connection hole and a receiving hole in communication with the connection hole which are disposed at one end of the sleeving rod, the connection hole being configured to receive a workpiece, a first groove being disposed on a hole wall of the receiving hole; a movable member, received in the receiving hole, including a magnetic end portion and a second groove; a retainer, sleeved on the movable member, extending radially within the first groove and the second groove, axially movable in the first groove; and an elastic member, received in the receiving hole and located between the sleeving rod and the movable member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventor: WEN-HUNG CHIANG
  • Publication number: 20240351174
    Abstract: The present invention provides a magnet fastener, a rotary drive and an assembly method thereof. The magnet fastener includes a deformable section, an accommodation section for accommodating a magnet, and a blocking mechanism in sequence from the rear side to the front side, the blocking mechanism blocks the magnet from detaching from the front side, and the deformable section deforms radially outward when subjected to an axial force. The rotary drive includes the magnet fastener, a magnet located in the accommodation section, and a sleeve for accommodating the fastener, the inner periphery of the sleeve is provided with an annular groove, and the deformable section deforms radially outward to snap into the annular groove when subjected to an axial force, so that the fastener can be locked within the sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Ben Zhen JIANG, Jian Wei HUANG
  • Publication number: 20240351175
    Abstract: A power tool includes a housing, a nosepiece, and an end effector rotatably coupled to the housing. A substantially annular holder body is axially and non-rotatably coupled to the nosepiece. A circuit board is received in an internal substantially annular groove in a rear face of the front wall of the holder body between the holder body and the nosepiece. A light unit is coupled to the circuit board and configured to illuminate the workpiece. A wire assembly electrically couples the light unit to a source of electrical power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Brian E. Friedman, Stephen P. Osborne, Eva J. Dixon, Eric E. Hatfield, Daniel Krout, Robert Kusmierski, Corey G. Robertson, Jeffrey Delcamp, Daniel Puzio, Robert S. Gehret, Stuart Garber, Joerg Zellerhoff, Joao Norona, Aris C. Cleanthous, Amanda Miller
  • Publication number: 20240351176
    Abstract: A removal tool configured for removing an insertable engine component from an engine assembly. In the removal tool may include a coupling device, a drive member, and a lifting member attached to a main shaft. The coupling device is mounted onto a retainer securing an engine component, and the lifting member is positioned against the underside of a flange of the engine component. A rotational force applied against the drive member is transferred to the coupling device and causes the retainer to be unscrewed. As the retainer is unscrewed, this causes a lifting force from the retainer pushing against the coupling device, which causes the lifting member to be pushed upward, and further causing the engine component to be pushed upward and away from the engine assembly. This facilitates removal of the engine component concurrently with the removal of the retainer (e.g., in a single operation).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: BNSF Railway Company
    Inventors: Chad T. Sellman, Jason E. Carlson, James J. Rumpca
  • Publication number: 20240351177
    Abstract: A fastener device includes a tool housing, a multistage solenoid, a magnetic driver, and a controller. The magnetic driver is configured to travel through the multistage solenoid between a retracted condition and an extended condition. The controller is contained within the tool housing and is configured to adjust an amount of force the multistage solenoid imparts on the magnetic driver while the magnetic driver travels between a first stage and a second stage of the at least two stages that are adjacent to each other, by combining a magnetic field of the magnetic driver with at least a portion of a first electromagnetic field of the first stage of the at least two stages of the multistage solenoid and at least a portion of a second electromagnetic field of the second stage of the at least two stages of the multistage solenoid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: STANLEY FASTENING SYSTEMS, L.P.
    Inventor: Luke Moloznik
  • Publication number: 20240351178
    Abstract: A multi-purpose tool configured to be utilized by an electrical lineman or similar profession wherein the tool of the invention is capable of facilitating execution of a plurality of tasks. The invention includes a body that is elongated in shape having a first end and a second end. Formed in the second end of the body are a plurality of triangular shaped notches wherein the center notch has a greater depth. An aperture is formed in the body proximate the second end and is annular in shape. The first end of the body has a curved portion integrally formed therewith wherein the curved portion includes a first section and a second section formed in a radius creating the shape of the curved portion. The second section of the curved portion includes a pin removal aperture. A pin extractor member is contiguously formed with the second section and extends outward therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventor: Bo Lindell
  • Publication number: 20240351179
    Abstract: The invention refers to hand-held power tool (10) comprising a tool housing (12), a motor (24) and a tool shaft (36) having a rotational axis (40) and actuated by the motor (24), and further comprising a working element (38) releasably attachable to the tool shaft (36) from outside the tool housing (12) in an axial direction and, after attachment to the tool shaft (36), held in respect to the tool shaft (36) by means of an axial holding arrangement (80). The axial holding arrangement (80) comprises a first element (36; 38) constituted by one of the working element (38) and the tool shaft (36) and a second element (38; 36) constituted by the other one of the working element (38) and the tool shaft (36), and at least two locking elements (70) assigned to the first element (36; 38) movably in a radial direction between a retracted position and a locking position, at least one recess (66) assigned to the second element (38; 36) for receiving the locking elements (70) when in their locking positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventor: Andrea VALENTINI
  • Publication number: 20240351180
    Abstract: A pneumatic wrench including a pneumatic motor that includes a rotor, a rotor housing, an endplate, and a wear plate. The rotor has an output shaft configured to rotate about an axis and a plurality of vanes that extend radially from the axis that compressed air exerts work against to drive the rotor. The rotor housing has a cavity configured to house the rotor, receive the compressed air, and direct the compressed air about the rotor and out of the rotor housing. The endplate is coupled to the rotor housing and configured to receive the output shaft. The endplate includes a channel that is in fluid communication with the cavity. The wear plate is disposed between the endplate and the rotor housing and defines an exhaust port between the cavity and the channel for directing airflow from the cavity to the channel in an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Edward C. Eardley, Ryan S. Amend
  • Publication number: 20240351181
    Abstract: A rechargeable angle drill includes: a motor, which includes a rotor configured to rotate about a motor rotation axis, the motor rotation axis extending in an up-down direction; a motor housing part, which houses the motor; a trigger lever, which is operated to start the motor; a handle housing part, which is disposed upward of the motor housing part and in which the trigger lever is provided; a speed reduction mechanism; a gear housing part, which is disposed downward of the motor housing part and houses the speed reduction mechanism; and a rotation output part, which protrudes forward from the gear housing part and rotates about an output rotation axis orthogonal to the motor rotation axis based on a rotational force transmitted from the motor via the speed reduction mechanism. The trigger lever is disposed upward of a center of the handle housing part in the up-down direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidenori NAGASAKA, Yuta ARAKI, Ryoichi ISHIKAWA, Tomohiko IMAE
  • Publication number: 20240351182
    Abstract: A handheld power tool includes a motor, a handle having a first switch for starting and stopping the motor, an output assembly, and an adjustment device including a telescopic rod assembly. The length of the adjustment device changes so that the handheld power tool has at least first and second working states. The distance between the frontmost side of the handheld power tool and the rearmost side of the first switch is an effective length of the handheld power tool. When the handheld power tool is in the first working state, the handheld power tool has a first effective length T1. When the handheld power tool is in the second working state, the handheld power tool has a second effective length T2. The first effective length T1 is less than or equal to 1 m, and the second effective length T2 is greater than the first effective length T1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Zhongquan Xu, Huaguo Zhu, Keqiong Zhong, Mingshun E, Haoyu Wang, Jianye Zhao, Yang Li
  • Publication number: 20240351183
    Abstract: A storage system where multiple containers having a plurality of vertical slots on all four internal sides for receiving dividers; one or more dividers that can be installed in various positions in the container, in either direction, and lock into place. Each divider has flexible tabs at either end, and each slot where a divider can be installed in the container includes an opening for this tab to lock into. A latch mechanism can be easily installed or removed on the container for locking multiple containers on top of each other when stacked. The latch mechanism can be installed on two opposing sides at the bottom of the container and locks into an edge on the top of another container. A lid that locks on top of the container and includes measuring features for components that may be stored in the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventor: Kevin Boenisch
  • Publication number: 20240351184
    Abstract: Disclosed are example embodiments of a 5-device-in-one component box including a plurality of cranking-arm-wrench storage clips respectively molded onto said undersurface of a multi-function loss-preventing storing-and-organizing lid-tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick van Lierop, Younghui Chen