Beam Energy Control Patents (Class 219/121.61)
  • Patent number: 11929334
    Abstract: A method of making a semiconductor device involves the steps of disposing a first semiconductor die over a substrate and disposing a beam homogenizer over the first semiconductor die. A beam from the beam homogenizer impacts the first semiconductor die. The method further includes the steps of determining a positional offset of the beam relative to the first semiconductor die in a number of pixels, using a first calibration equation to convert the number of pixels into a distance in millimeters, and moving the beam homogenizer the distance in millimeters to align the beam and first semiconductor die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: STATS ChipPAC Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Wagno Alves Braganca, Jr., KyungOe Kim, TaeKeun Lee
  • Patent number: 11890780
    Abstract: Additive manufacturing (AM) methods and devices for high-melting-point materials are disclosed. In an embodiment, an additive manufacturing method includes the following steps. (S1) Slicing a three-dimensional computer-aided design model of a workpiece into multiple layers according to shape, thickness, and size accuracy requirements, and obtaining data of the multiple layers. (S2) Planning a forming path according to the data of the multiple layers and generating computer numerical control (CNC) codes for forming the multiple layers. (S3) Obtaining a formed part by preheating a substrate, performing a layer-by-layer spraying deposition by a cold spraying method, and heating a spray area to a temperature until the spraying deposition of all sliced layers is completed. (S4) Subjecting the formed part to a surface modification treatment by a laser shock peening method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Huazhong University of Science & Technology
    Inventors: Hai'ou Zhang, Xiaoqi Hu, Guilan Wang, Cheng Yang
  • Patent number: 11883931
    Abstract: A tool bit includes a drive portion configured to be engaged by a tool, the drive portion including a first maximum outer dimension, a shank extending from the drive portion and including a reduced outer diameter, and a tip coupled to an end of the shank opposite from the drive portion. The tip includes a compressive residual stress layer formed by blasting to increase a wear resistance of the tip relative to the shank. The tip additionally includes a second maximum outer dimension. The reduced outer diameter of the shank is smaller than the first maximum outer dimension of the drive portion and the second maximum outer dimension of the tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: James J. Van Essen, Michael J. Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 11858065
    Abstract: A laser system includes an integrated fiber laser front-end, configured to generate and output a pre-amplified first pulsed laser beam having predefined beam characteristics corresponding to a user defined pulse shape and a user defined pulse width setting selection of a controller. The first pulsed laser beam is generated from a master oscillator which outputs a CW laser beam to a temporal pulse shaper, which modulates the CW laser beam to output the first pulsed laser beam in response to an electrical pulse from an arbitrary wave generator and a DC bias voltage from an automatic modulator bias control circuitry. The first pulsed laser beam is pre-amplified to an output pulsed laser beam for laser peening or laser bond inspection. A beam detector is used to monitor beam characteristics, and to generate an error signal to be sent back as a feedback signal to the controller for adjustments and corrections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventors: Tianyi Michael Yao, Timothy Thomas Gorman, Jeff L Dulaney
  • Patent number: 11844494
    Abstract: A laser system includes a first cavity to output a laser light along a first path, a first mirror to receive the laser light from the first cavity, and redirect the laser light along a second path that is different than the first path, a beam splitter removably located at a first position on the second path, a beam combiner removably located at a second position on the second path, and an alignment device having first and second alignment features. The first and second alignment features occupy the first position and the second position, respectively, on the second path, when the beam splitter and the beam combiner are removed from the first position and the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Honggang Yu, Baocheng Yang
  • Patent number: 11820119
    Abstract: Laser lift off systems and methods overlap irradiation zones to provide multiple pulses of laser irradiation per location at the interface between layers of material to be separated. To overlap irradiation zones, the laser lift off systems and methods provide stepwise relative movement between a pulsed laser beam and a workpiece. The laser irradiation may be provided by a non-homogeneous laser beam with a smooth spatial distribution of energy across the beam profile. The pulses of laser irradiation from the non-homogenous beam may irradiate the overlapping irradiation zones such that each of the locations at the interface is exposed to different portions of the non-homogeneous beam for each of the multiple pulses of the laser irradiation, thereby resulting in self-homogenization. Thus, the number of the multiple pulses of laser irradiation per location is generally sufficient to provide the self-homogenization and to separate the layers of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: IPG PHOTONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cristian Porneala, Mathew Hannon, Marco Mendes, Jeffrey P. Sercel
  • Patent number: 11822310
    Abstract: A method for providing control data for a generative layer construction device includes accessing layer data records that have data models of buildup material layers to be selectively solidified, where a base surface region of an object cross section exists in at least one layer data record, where in at least one of p layers below the base surface region, no solidification of buildup material is specified. The method further includes changing the layer data record such that a temporal sequence for scanning the associated object cross section with energy radiation is specified such that at least one portion of the base surface region is scanned before all other parts of the object cross section; and a third step, where the changed layer data record is provided for the generation of a control data record for the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems
    Inventors: Ludger Hümmeler, Christopher Schmitt
  • Patent number: 11752577
    Abstract: A laser apparatus may include a laser generator generating at least one a laser beam, which is used as an input light, an optical system converting the input light, which is provided from the laser generator, into a plurality of pattern lights, and a stage, on which a target object is loaded. The output light may be irradiated onto the target object. The optical system may divide the input light into a plurality of divided lights, and the pattern lights may be produced by constructive interference of the plurality of divided lights. A diameter of each of the pattern lights may be smaller than a diameter of the input light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeonghwan Ko, Taekil Oh, Gyoowan Han, Jooseob Ahn, Yoongyeong Bae
  • Patent number: 11749185
    Abstract: A display device including a display panel, in which a display region including a plurality of organic light emitting devices and a non-display region adjacent to the display region are defined, a protection film disposed below the display panel, a first adhesive layer contacting a bottom surface of the protection film, a supporting layer comprising a metallic material, at least overlapping the entire display region, and contacting the first adhesive layer, an input-sensing unit disposed on the display panel, an anti-reflection unit disposed on the input-sensing unit, and a window panel disposed on the input-sensing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seongsik Ahn, Gyunsoo Kim, Minki Kim, Jeongjin Kim, Soon-Sung Park
  • Patent number: 11697858
    Abstract: The invention relates to a surface-hardened, rotationally symmetrical workpiece, to a hardening method and to a hardening apparatus. The proposed hardening apparatus comprises a machine frame on which two coaxially arranged rotary bearings designed to support a rotationally symmetrical workpiece are arranged, at least one rotary bearing being operatively connected to a drive device to generate rotation of the workpiece; and at lease one laser apparatus for generating focused, high-energy radiation is arranged on said rotary bearing, said laser apparatus being movable in the axial direction, and the radiation being directed toward the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: WALZENGIESSEREI COSWIG GMBH
    Inventors: Sven Baumgart, Stefan Nelle, Tino Noack, Thomas Füssel
  • Patent number: 11673419
    Abstract: Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. A technique includes determining a fabric's response to a laser, capturing an initial image of a wear pattern on a garment, and processing the initial image to obtain a working image in grayscale. The working image is further processed to obtain a difference image by comparing each pixel relative to a dark reference. The difference image is converted to a laser values image by using the previously determined fabric response to the laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Levi Strauss & Co.
    Inventors: Jennifer Schultz, Christopher Schultz, James Barton Sights
  • Patent number: 11565350
    Abstract: Laser processing of hard dielectric materials may include cutting a part from a hard dielectric material using a continuous wave laser operating in a quasi-continuous wave (QCW) mode to emit consecutive laser light pulses in a wavelength range of about 1060 nm to 1070 nm. Cutting using a QCW laser may be performed with a lower duty cycle (e.g., between about 1% and 15%) and in an inert gas atmosphere such as nitrogen, argon or helium. Laser processing of hard dielectric materials may further include post-cut processing the cut edges of the part cut from the dielectric material, for example, by beveling and/or polishing the edges to reduce edge defects. The post-cut processing may be performed using a laser beam with different laser parameters than the beam used for cutting, for example, by using a shorter wavelength (e.g., 193 nm excimer laser) and/or a shorter pulse width (e.g., picosecond laser).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: IPG PHOTONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. Sercel, Marco Mendes, Rouzbeh Sarrafi, Joshua Schoenly, Xiangyang Song, Mathew Hannon, Miroslaw Sokol
  • Patent number: 11565323
    Abstract: Provided is a method of molding a composite material by laser metal deposition in which a powder metal material is irradiated with a laser beam while supplying the powder metal material onto a surface of a base material, in which the powder metal material is a mixed powder of an Fe alloy powder and a Cu powder, and a mixing ratio of the Fe alloy powder and the Cu powder is 15% or more and 30% or less by weight % of the Cu powder, and in which the composite material having anisotropy is molded by setting energy of the laser beam to be 9 KJ/g or more and 10 KJ/g or less in a mixed powder ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Kunitomo, Osamu Ikeda, Tomotake Touhei
  • Patent number: 11538096
    Abstract: Machine learning-based approaches are used to create instances or visualizations of content appearing within an object in an image. For example, a user may submit a request for a preview or visualization of content within an object or other media such as a glass crystal. A trained model can process the content to generate adjustment data or other data that can be used to control image blending operations. The adjustment data can be applied to the pixel values of the content to modify the content in order to enable a visualization of the content within an object. The image portion can be modified such that the object appears to “blend” with and appear within the object. Image transformation techniques can be used to project the modified content onto a representation of an object. Thereafter, a visualization or preview of the content within the representation of the object can be presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Nicom Living LLC
    Inventor: Daniel James Nunn
  • Patent number: 11504801
    Abstract: A method of attaching a first metal object to a second metal object is presented. The first metal object and the second metal object are dissimilar materials. The first metal object comprises an upper surface and a lower surface. The method comprises: positioning the first metal object in intimate contact with the second metal object such that the second metal object is in contact with the lower surface of the first metal object; identifying at least one attachment location on the upper surface of the first metal object where the first metal object is in intimate contact with the second metal object; adding a powdered metal on the upper surface of the first metal object at the at least one attachment location; and firing a heat source at the powdered metal to melt the powdered metal and drive the melted powdered metal through the first metal object and into the second metal object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Phoenix Laser Solutions
    Inventors: Christopher Learn, Albert Hammeke
  • Patent number: 11498183
    Abstract: An automated peening method comprising: providing, adjacent a surface of a workpiece, a robotic arm having a peening tool attached thereto; defining a peening area of the surface of the workpiece; calculating a peening path for the peening tool over the peening area, the peening path substantially covering the peening area and comprising a sequence of movement patterns, wherein a geometric variable of one or more of the movement patterns is modified using an output of a random number generator; and controlling the robotic arm to move the peening tool over the surface of the workpiece to follow the peening path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLC
    Inventors: Max B. Keedwell, Diego A. Pena Castillo
  • Patent number: 11502475
    Abstract: The invention discloses a preparation method and device of active microcrystalline fiber, place the prefabricated rod in the drawing furnace for wire drawing, the drawn fiber is induced by magnetic field in uncoated state and combined with laser treatment technology, the laser beam is focused on the fiber and recrystallized after laser treatment to obtain active microcrystalline fiber. Appropriate laser processing power directly affects the silicate glass fiber in the crystal structure, type, degree of crystallinity, grain size, content, and how much residual phase of glass. Induced by external magnetic field, the thermodynamics and dynamics of crystallization process are changed, make the crystal size distribution is better and uniform, reduce the phenomenon of condensation and makes the grain size is smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Shanghai University
    Inventors: Jianxiang Wen, Zheng Liu, Tingyun Wang, Yanhua Dong, Fufei Pang, Ziwen Zhao, Zhenyi Chen
  • Patent number: 11491580
    Abstract: A method of laser welding together two or more overlapping metal workpieces (12, 14, or 12, 150, 14) included in a welding region (16) of a workpiece stack-up (10) involves advancing a beam spot (44) of a laser beam (24) relative to a top surface (20) of the workpiece stack-up along a first weld path (72) in a first direction (74) to form an elongated melt puddle (76) and, then, advancing the beam spot (44) of the laser beam (24) along a second weld path (78) in a second direction (80) that is opposite of the first direction while the elongated melt puddle is still in a molten state. The first weld path and the second weld path overlap so that the beam spot of the laser beam is conveyed through the elongated melt puddle when the beam spot is advanced along the second weld path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: David Yang, Wu Tao
  • Patent number: 11484972
    Abstract: The present invention benefits from the determination that pre-selected spectral bandwidths that avoid the spectrum of an electronic transition of a metal/alloy vapor allow for welds substantially free from detritus that may discolor the weld. Accordingly, the present invention provides analytical methods, welding methods and fiber lasers configured to provide high quality metal/alloy welds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: IPG Photonics Corporation, Medtronic, Inc., EMPA Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
    Inventors: Matthias Leistner, Sebastian Favre-Bulle, Audrey Mashkin
  • Patent number: 11478879
    Abstract: According to the present application, a machining apparatus (10) for the laser machining of a workpiece (12) in a machining zone (13) is provided, having a first interface (14) for a machining laser source for generating a machining laser beam (15), a second interface (16) for a detector device (for detecting radiation (17) emitted by the machining zone (13); an outlet opening (18) for the machining laser beam (14); and first and second laser beam guiding devices (20, 22), wherein the first laser beam guiding device (20), 20a, 20b) is arranged and designed such that it guides the machining laser beam (14) to the second laser beam guiding device (22) and dynamically moves the machining laser beam (14), and the second laser beam guiding device (22) is arranged and designed such that it guides the dynamically moved machining laser beam (14) through the outlet opening (18) and at least partially guides the radiation (17) emitted by the machining zone (13) through the outlet opening to the second interface (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: BYSTRONIC LASER AG
    Inventors: Simon Scheidiger, Andreas Luedi, Martin Mumenthaler, Markus Steinlin
  • Patent number: 11453085
    Abstract: Firstly, an upper base material is disposed above a lower base material. Secondly, a laser beam is irradiated so that an area irradiated with a laser beam at a time of melting start is formed on only an upper surface of the upper base material or on only both the upper surface and an end surface of the upper base material, whereby the end surface of the upper base material and the lower base material are fillet welded. With the end surface as a reference, a side the upper surface and the lower surface are positioned is a first side, and an opposite side of the first side is a second side. The laser beam is set such that an intensity of the laser beam is lower toward the second side from the first peak area within the irradiation area of the laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: FUTABA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keigo Yasuda, Koji Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11453076
    Abstract: A laser soldering technique prevents generation of scorching of a substrate or heat-susceptible components in the surroundings, residues, etc. A method includes adjusting a height of the laser soldering device 1 to a position at which laser light has a preset irradiation diameter D1 larger than a diameter of a solder droplet S, irradiating the solder droplet S with the laser light to heat the solder droplet S to a temperature at which a flux solvent component volatilizes and a solder powder does not melt; adjusting the height of the laser soldering device to a position at which the laser light has a preset irradiation diameter D2 smaller than the diameter of the solder droplet S, and irradiating the solder droplet S with the laser light to heat the solder droplet S to a temperature at which the solder powder melts, and performing soldering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: MUSASHI ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventor: Kazumasa Ikushima
  • Patent number: 11444221
    Abstract: A film of material may be formed by providing a semiconductor substrate having a surface region and a cleave region located at a predetermined depth beneath the surface region. During a process of cleaving the film from the substrate, shear in the cleave region is carefully controlled. According to certain embodiments, an in-plane shear component (KII) is maintained near zero, sandwiched between a tensile region and a compressive region. In one embodiment, cleaving can be accomplished using a plate positioned over the substrate surface. The plate serves to constrain movement of the film during cleaving, and together with a localized thermal treatment reduces shear developed during the cleaving process. According to other embodiments, the KII component is purposefully maintained at a high level and serves to guide and drive fracture propagation through the cleave sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Silicon Genesis Corporation
    Inventor: Francois J. Henley
  • Patent number: 11394166
    Abstract: A laser irradiating device preferably includes: a reflector having a receiving space formed therein; a flash lamp inserted and mounted in the reflector to generate light; a laser rod for resonating light incident from the flash lamp to emit a laser; a capacitor for storing, for a predetermined time interval, voltage to be supplied to the flash lamp; a digital variable resistor unit for outputting different voltages according to configured resistance values; a voltage increasing unit for increasing voltage input from the digital variable resistor unit and supplying the increased voltage to the capacitor; a control unit which stores resistance values corresponding to laser irradiating levels and configures a resistance value corresponding to the configured laser irradiating level; and a trigger circuit unit turned on according to a control of the user to supply a charge voltage of the capacitor to the flash lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Inventor: Jin Huh
  • Patent number: 11382794
    Abstract: A system (20) includes a radiation source (48) and a controller (44), configured to display a live sequence of images of an eye (25) of a patient (22), while displaying the sequence of images, cause the radiation source to irradiate the eye with one or more aiming beams (84), which are visible in the images, subsequently to causing the radiation source to irradiate the eye with the aiming beams, receive a confirmation input from a user, and in response to receiving the confirmation input, treat the eye by causing the radiation source to irradiate respective target regions of the eye with a plurality of treatment beams. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: BELKIN LASER LTD.
    Inventors: Zachary Sacks, Daria Lemann-Blumenthal, Arieh Kisos, Yuval Yohai, Daniel Elyakam, Masha Dobkin-Bekman, Micha Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 11387904
    Abstract: A powered device of an optical power supply system includes a photoelectric conversion element, a semiconductor laser for feedback and a control device. The photoelectric conversion element converts feed light into electric power, wherein the feed light is from a power sourcing equipment. The semiconductor laser oscillates with a portion of the electric power, thereby outputting feed light to a power supplying side. The control device monitors a power supply amount of the electric power to a load, and according to the power supply amount, controls an electricity-light conversion amount of conversion that is performed by the semiconductor laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11318559
    Abstract: A laser machining system includes: a laser irradiation device that irradiates a workpiece with a laser beam; a workpiece moving device that moves the workpiece; a laser irradiation controller that controls the laser irradiation device to control an irradiation position of the laser beam; and a workpiece move controller that controls the workpiece moving device to control at least one of the position and the posture of the workpiece. The workpiece move controller transmits information about at least one of the position and the posture of the workpiece to the laser irradiation controller. The laser irradiation controller compensates for the irradiation position of the laser beam based on the information received from the workpiece move controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Nogami
  • Patent number: 11237467
    Abstract: A light synthesizing device includes first and second light emitting devices, first and second polarization control members, and a synthesis member. Each of the first and second light emitting devices has at least one first semiconductor laser element and at least one second semiconductor laser element, and configured such that a polarization direction of exit light from the first semiconductor laser element is different from a polarization direction of exit light from the second semiconductor laser element. The first and second polarization control members are respectively configured to change the polarization directions of the exit lights from the first semiconductor laser element of the first light emitting device and the second semiconductor laser element of the second light emitting device. The synthesis member is configured to combine light exited from the first light emitting device and light exited from the second light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Soichiro Miura
  • Patent number: 11235425
    Abstract: At a time of carrying out a laser cutting processing in a direction intersecting with a processing line at which the laser cutting processing for a work has been carried out, a laser cutting speed is decelerated before a laser beam reaches the processing line at an initial laser cutting speed, and the laser cutting speed is accelerated when an axial center of the laser beam is positioned within a prescribed range in vicinity of a central position of the processing line, and the laser cutting speed is returned to the initial laser cutting speed, in vicinity of a position at which the axial center of the laser beam crosses the processing line. Also, when the axial center of the laser beam and the central position of the processing line almost coincide, the laser output is made to be almost zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: AMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Masuda
  • Patent number: 11199665
    Abstract: Examples include an optical device for redirecting optical signals. The optical device includes a plurality of input ports, a plurality of optical blocks such that at least one optical block of the plurality of optical blocks aligned to each input port of the plurality of input ports, and a plurality of output ports. The plurality of input ports may direct a plurality of optical signals of selective wavelengths to a first direction. Each of the optical blocks may be movable to a plurality of positions to selectively redirect the respective optical signal of the plurality of signals from the first direction to a second direction to one or more output ports of the plurality of output ports that may receive the one or more optical signals redirected to the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Sagi Varghese Mathai, Paul Kessler Rosenberg, Kevin B. Leigh
  • Patent number: 11147608
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical probe signal generator. More particularly, it relates to a medical probe signal generator architecture. The present invention further relates to a system including a medical probe signal generator having an automatic probe type detector for detecting an identifier and at least one instrument cable comprising the identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignees: BAYLIS MEDICAL COMPANY INC., AVENT INC.
    Inventors: Krishan Shah, Frank Headley Baylis
  • Patent number: 11148227
    Abstract: According to an example, an apparatus may include a heating lamp to illuminate and heat an area of a layer of build materials, in which the build materials may be one of a metallic and a plastic powder. The apparatus may also include a laser source to generate a laser beam and a controller to control the heating lamp to heat the build materials in the area of the layer of build materials to a temperature that is between about 100° C. to about 400° C. below a temperature at which the build materials begin to melt and to control the laser source to output a laser beam to melt the build materials in a portion of the heated area of the layer of build materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Krzysztof Nauka, Tom Anthony
  • Patent number: 11131299
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pump having a piezo diaphragm transducer arranged at a pump body of the pump, and to a method for producing a pump, wherein a piezo diaphragm transducer is mounted to a pump body, wherein the method, among other things, has providing a piezoceramic layer. In accordance with the invention, at least one piezo element is diced from the piezoceramic layer so that the at least one piezo element has a regular polygon shape having at least six corners. In addition, the method has forming the piezo diaphragm transducer by mounting the piezo element to a pump diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Martin Richter, Yuecel Congar, Klaus Heinrich, Waltraud Hell, Martin Wackerle
  • Patent number: 11082589
    Abstract: A visual inspection device includes a housing, a handle coupled to the housing that is grasped by a user while the device is in use, and an articulating camera unit coupled to the housing. The articulating camera unit includes a flexible cable with a first end coupled to the housing and a second end, a camera coupled to the second end of the flexible cable and operable to transmit image data through the flexible cable, and an articulation mechanism operable to articulate the camera relative to the flexible cable. The articulation mechanism includes a mount that is removably coupled to the housing. The articulating camera unit further includes a means for securing the mount to the housing in a plurality of different orientations relative to the housing. The visual inspection device further includes a display unit coupled to the housing to display an image transmitted by the articulating camera unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Gareth Mueckl, Jason R. Crowe, Benjamin Oliver Ryan Cabot
  • Patent number: 11075496
    Abstract: A laser dicing device includes: a Gaussian laser beam emitter configured to emit a Gaussian laser beam having a Gaussian energy distribution; a laser beam modulator configured to modulate a shape of the emitted Gaussian laser beam by reducing intensity in a region surrounding a first line parallel with a laser dicing direction of the emitted Gaussian beam, the first line crossing a center of the Gaussian laser beam in a plan view; a focusing lens configured to focus a modulated Gaussian laser beam modulated by the laser beam modulator; and a substrate support configured that a substrate to be diced is seated on the support, wherein the focusing lens is configured to collect the modulated Gaussian laser beam inside the substrate seated on the substrate support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-chul Kwon, Dong-woo Kang, Man-hee Han
  • Patent number: 11052489
    Abstract: In a laser processing method, laser lights of fiber lasers or direct diode lasers is irradiated onto an iron-based plate material from a nozzle, a nozzle with a nozzle opening whose opening diameter is preliminarily set according to a thickness of the plate material is selected from plural nozzles whose nozzle openings have different opening diameters from each other, and the plate material is cut while irradiating the laser lights onto the plate material and injecting assist gas from the nozzle opening toward the plate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: AMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuya Mizoguchi, Hiroaki Ishiguro, Ryohei Ito, Ryo Kobayashi, Kenji Masuda
  • Patent number: 11033983
    Abstract: The technical problems to be solved are to keep the vicinity of the nozzle opening clean and to restrain the jet liquid column from tilting. The solution to problems lies in a method for cleaning a nozzle of a laser machining apparatus to process a work piece to be processed by a laser beam introduced into a jet liquid column, the method comprising the steps of: forming the jet liquid column by jetting a liquid from the nozzle; and irradiating a spot 30 of the laser beam onto a vicinal section of an inlet opening 22c of the nozzle in such a state that a peak power per unit area of the spot 30 of the laser beam irradiated on a surface provided with the inlet opening 22c of the nozzle does not go beyond a threshold value at which the nozzle is damaged and removing foreign matters attached on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventor: Takahiro Ogura
  • Patent number: 11005228
    Abstract: To appropriately change an output of laser light without deteriorating laser characteristics. A control section of a laser machining device controls, when a target output is larger than a predetermined threshold, an output of laser light by changing a driving current supplied to an excitation light source and, on the other hand, controls, when the target output is equal to or smaller than the threshold, the output of the laser light by changing a duty ratio of a Q switch while keeping the driving current supplied to the excitation light source substantially fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: KEYENCE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Sato, Tatsuaki Nagai
  • Patent number: 10994369
    Abstract: A method of reducing photoelectron yield (PEY) and/or secondary electron yield (SEY) of a ceramic surface comprises applying pulsed laser radiation comprising a series of laser pulses emitted by a laser (4) to the surface of a target (10) to produce a periodic arrangement of structures on the surface of the target (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE
    Inventor: Amin Abdolvand
  • Patent number: 10987756
    Abstract: A laser processing system includes a laser oscillator, a laser beam emitting tool connected to the laser oscillator and supported by a first robot, the laser beam emitting tool emitting a laser beam supplied by the laser oscillator, and a laser processing tool which is supported by a second robot and which receives the laser beam emitted by the laser beam emitting tool and emits the laser beam toward a predetermined processing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitake Furuya
  • Patent number: 10946446
    Abstract: A method for producing a three-dimensional object by applying layers of a pulverulent construction material and by selectively solidifying said material by the action of energy comprises the steps: a layer of the pulverulent construction material is applied to a support or to a layer of the construction material that has been previously applied and at least selectively solidified; an energy beam from an energy source sweeps over points on the applied layer corresponding to a cross-section of the object to be produced in order to selectively solidify the pulverulent construction material; and a gas flow is guided in a main flow direction (RG) over the applied layer during the sweep of the energy beam. The main flow direction (RG) of the gas flow (G) and the sweep direction (RL) of the energy beam are adapted to one another at least in one region of the cross-section to be solidified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: EOS GmbH Electro Optical Systems
    Inventors: Robert Achim Domrose, Michael Hutzel, Alexander Schilling, Andre Danzig, Jorg Hamann, Thomas Hess, Marc Dimter
  • Patent number: 10906073
    Abstract: Adjustable-focus laser cleaning galvanometers, cleaning systems, and cleaning methods in the field of laser cleaning are disclosed. According to aspects herein, an adjustable-focus laser cleaning galvanometer includes a body, a laser, an adjustable lens set and a galvanometer. The adjustable lens set and the laser may be mounted on the body. In some implementations, the adjustable lens set may be configured to convert or transform a laser beam emitted from the laser into a focused beam and adjust the focal length of the beam. Further, the galvanometer may be mounted on the body and can rotate or swing on the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Inventor: Gaofeng Li
  • Patent number: 10807197
    Abstract: A method of blackening a surface, comprises applying laser radiation to the surface of a target (10) to produce a periodic arrangement of structures on the surface of the target (10), wherein the laser radiation comprises pulsed laser radiation comprising a series of laser pulses and the power density of the pulses is in a range 2 GW/cm2 to 50 GW/cm2 or 0.1 TW/cm2 to 3 TW/cm2, and/or a pulse duration between 200 femtoseconds to 1000 picoseconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: University of Dundee
    Inventor: Amin Abdolvand
  • Patent number: 10761022
    Abstract: A scatterometry metrology system, configured to measure diffraction signals from at least one target having respective at least one measurement direction, the scatterometry metrology system having at least one field stop having edges which are slanted with respect to the at least one measurement direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Tzahi Grunzweig, Alexander Svizher
  • Patent number: 10737326
    Abstract: Provided is a metal 3D printer provided with a powder layer formation device for uniformly distributing a metal powder and forming a powder layer for each of a plurality of division layers obtained by horizontally dividing a three-dimensional object, a hermetically sealed chamber, a laser irradiation device for irradiating laser light to a predetermined irradiation region on each of the powder layers and forming a sintered layer, an inert gas supplying device for supplying an inert gas to the chamber and discharging fumes to the outside of the chamber, and a control device for issuing a command to start irradiation of the laser light to the laser light irradiation device after a standby time has elapsed that corresponds to a residual amount of fumes in the chamber, such that irradiation by the laser light at the necessary energy is unaffected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SODICK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mikio Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10730146
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing material from a cutting insert is disclosed. A source of electromagnetic radiation produces a laser beam that passes through a aperture for truncating a dimension of the laser beam and a homogenizer for providing a cross section of the laser beam with a uniform energy density. A mask having a predetermined shape reduces the dimension of the laser beam, and an imaging lens projects the laser beam onto a surface of the cutting insert. The predetermined shape of the mask provides for selective adjustment of an amount of material removed from the surface of the cutting insert. In one embodiment, the mask has a shape of an isosceles trapezoid for producing a T-land surface at the intersection between a top rake face and the flank face of the cutting insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INDIA LIMITED
    Inventor: Naveen Kondameedi
  • Patent number: 10722976
    Abstract: A laser welded joint excellent in joint strength preventing a bead from cracking and comprised of exactly the number of weld beads required for joint strength in overlay laser welding of steel sheets forming multiple ring-shaped weld beads, produced by a step of overlaying a plurality of metal sheets and forming a first weld bead and a step of firing a laser beam to successively form a further two or more weld beads at the outside of the first weld bead by laser irradiation, the surface hardness of the weld bead increasing from the inside bead to the outside bead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuaki Naito, Yasunobu Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 10643127
    Abstract: The machine learning apparatus includes: a state data observing unit which observes state data of the laser apparatus, including data output from a reflected light detecting unit for measuring a reflected light amount; an operation result acquiring unit which acquires a success/failure result indicating whether the machining has been started successfully by the laser beam output from a laser oscillator; a learning unit which learns light output command data by associating the light output command data with the state data of the laser apparatus and the success/failure result of the machining start; and a decision making unit which determines the light output command data by referring to the light output command data learned by the learning unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takigawa, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Hisatada Machida, Michinori Maeda, Ryusuke Miyata, Akinori Ohyama
  • Patent number: 10610963
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to treating the surface of one or more blade structures. A surface treatment tool according to the disclosure can include a laser emitter configured for substantial perpendicular alignment with a target surface of a blade structure, the blade structure being mounted on a rotor; and a controller communicatively coupled to the laser emitter, wherein the controller adjusts an energy output and a pulse time of the laser emitter to sublimate a contaminant from the target surface of the blade structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Andrew Joseph Colletti, Alexander Regan Fannin, Jonathan Matthew Lomas
  • Patent number: 10603748
    Abstract: A method for producing a component by selective laser melting, wherein a number of lasers arranged next to one another generate a laser field, as a result of which powdery material can be melted in a selective manner for the purposes of generating contours. In the process, individual lasers of the laser arrangement can be switched on or off in a selective matter in order to irradiate or not irradiate certain regions. Furthermore, a device for carrying out the method is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Olga Deiss, Julian Timmermann