Fluid-pressure Actuator Patents (Class 279/2.06)
  • Patent number: 11370075
    Abstract: A tool holder for a minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) device includes a tool holder body, a mixing chamber, a gas passageway, and an oil passageway. The tool holder body is configured for rotation about an axis. The tool holder body has a proximal end configured to be coupled to a spindle of the MQL device and a distal end configured to support a cutting tool for rotation about the axis. The mixing chamber is disposed within the tool holder body. The gas passageway is within the tool holder body and in fluid communication with the mixing chamber. The oil passageway is within the tool holder body and in fluid communication with the mixing chamber. The oil passageway is separate from the gas passageway and configured to receive a liquid lubricant from an oil conduit of the spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Garrett Coffman, Ethan Timothy Hughey, David Alan Stephenson
  • Publication number: 20130307230
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tool holder with a tool holding fixture, in particular a clamping chuck such as a contracting chuck, a draw-in collect chuck, a hydraulic expanding chuck and a high-precision chuck, and a shank of a tool, in particular a rotary tool, accommodated in it, wherein the tool holder contains a means for preventing the tool from being pulled out, locking it against axial displacement. This pull-out preventing unit comprises at least one locking element and at least one locking groove, which corresponds to the said locking element, receives it and interacts with it in a positively locking manner. In this case, both the locking element and the locking groove are formed at least partly in the manner of a ball head. Preferably, the tool has the locking grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Franz Haimer Maschinenbau KG
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Publication number: 20130292913
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic expansion chuck (1) with a hydraulic expansion mechanism (23) that is integrated into a chuck body (10, 20) and exhibits an expansion bushing (23a) with a continuous cylindrical interior wall, and to a reducing bushing (24) arranged in the expansion bushing (23a) for accommodating a shank tool (W), in particular a tap drill. According to the invention, the outer circumference of the reducing bushing (24) is positively connected with the chuck body (10, 20) in a torque-proof manner, and its inner circumference is designed to be positively connected with the shank tool (W) in a torque-proof manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventor: Bruno TEUSCH
  • Publication number: 20120319364
    Abstract: A chuck assembly for a light alloy wheel is used with a lathe for machining a workpiece, and includes: a chuck body fixed to be coaxial with a lathe spindle; a flexible power chuck including radially extending first second cylinder chambers located on first and second sectional surfaces, respectively, of the chuck body perpendicular to a chuck body axis along outer peripheries of the first and second sectional surfaces, respectively, and pistons received in the first and second cylinder chambers, the pistons being moveable by fluid pressure to grip the inner surface of the rim member in a compensating manner; and a retracting chuck to grip and center the hub mounting portion, and then pull the disk portion to press against a reference surface of the chuck body, whereby the lathe can machine an entire radially outer surface of the rim member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: Teikoku Chuck Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Oki, Muneki Hiraoka
  • Publication number: 20110221144
    Abstract: The invention relates to a workholder (10) for holding a workpiece to be processed in a machine tool, which workholder (10) is in the form of a annular body (12) having a central through hole (14), said annular body (12) having at least one weakened area (18, 20; 34, 36, 38, 40; 50, 52, 54, 56) obtained by material removal, as well as at least one pressure chamber (22; 42, 44; 58, 60) assigned to said at least one weakened area (18, 20; 34, 36, 38, 40; 50, 52, 54, 56) that can be charged with a pressurized fluid. Said at least one weakened area (18, 20; 34, 36, 38, 40; 50, 52, 54, 56) is dimensioned and arranged so as to cause said annular body (12) to be elastically deformable in an axial and/or a radial direction (a, r). As a result, with pressure acting on said pressure chamber (22; 42, 44; 58, 60), said annular body (12) can then be deformed elastically in a well-defined manner in an axial and/or a radial direction (a, r).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: SAMSON AG
    Inventor: Helmut Fuchs
  • Patent number: 7861830
    Abstract: A safety device is provided having a clamping system that uses pressure admission into a chamber of a clamp element dependent on the position of a weight to be carried relative to the clamping system. For this purpose a valve is provided in a medium supply line, which valve is to be opened or closed by means of a movable actuation element. Here, the actuation element should be movable in the same direction in which the weight moves, preferably in a vertical direction. As a result of the arrangement of such a valve, the device couples the vertical movement or position of the weight with an actuation of the valve, and thus to provide an additional control for the pressure admission into the chamber or the clamping force resulting therefrom. A preferred chamber has curved top and bottom walls that elongate with a pressure drop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Inventor: Klaus Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20100013168
    Abstract: A chucking device for use when an outer peripheral end part of a semi-finished product having a pillar-shaped catalyst wrapped in a mat and housed in a cylinder is spin-processed using a plurality of spinning rollers. An outer peripheral surface of the semi-finished product is chucked using a plurality of pressing pieces. Each of the pressing pieces has a contact surface for touching the cylinder of the semi-finished product, and a pair of chamfers extending radially outward from either end of the contact surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: YUTAKA GIKEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Yamazaki, Yasushi Kageyama, Akihiro Kawamata, Tomoya Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080185793
    Abstract: The aim of the invention is to improve the guiding of a lubricant through a tool holder in a small quantity lubrication system. According to the invention, a tool holder (1) comprises, in the maintaining body thereof (3), an axially displaceable stop sleeve (45) which is mounted in a through opening (31) which is connected to the receiving opening (13) for a tool shaft (15) and a stop surface (47) which is adjacent to the front end (23) of the tool shaft (15). Said stop sleeve (45) is screwed into an inner thread (43) of the through opening (31) and is coupled in a rotationally fixed manner, but in an axially displaceable manner, to a control tube (49) which engages in said stop sleeve (45) in an axial manner. Said control tube (49) is mounted in an axially fixed manner to the side thereof, but in a rotatable manner to the fluid coupling (27). A lubricant can be guided over the blades of the tool (9) by means of the fluid coupling (27), the control tube (49), the stop sleeve (45) and channels (17).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: Franz Haimer Maschinenbau KG
    Inventors: Franz Haimer, Bernhard Regau
  • Publication number: 20080185792
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mandrel for a milling cutter holder, which consists of a mounting body (1) for mounting on a tool holder and is equipped with a fixation hub (2) of a milling cutter body (3). Mandrel for a milling cutter holder characterized in that the fixation hub (2) of a milling cutter body (3) is water expandable. The invention can be applied more particularly in the field of accessories for machine tools, with digital control, for machining centers, cells and workshops with multiple purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventors: Sebastien Hopfner, Alain Freyermuth
  • Patent number: 7374178
    Abstract: A workholding apparatus including a body and a drive member carried by the body, so that the drive member and body partially define a fluid chamber therebetween for containing a fluid. The drive member includes an annular flange that axially abuts and that attaches to the body to resist torsional twisting of the drive member relative to the body. A driven member is also carried by the body and includes multiple displacement reliefs therein. Interengagement features are provided between the driven member and other components of the workholding apparatus, such as the drive member, to resist torsional twisting of the driven member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Hydra-Lock Corporation
    Inventors: William M. Andre, Bruce W. Irwin, Sr.
  • Patent number: 7147232
    Abstract: A workholding apparatus including a body and a drive member carried by the body, so that the drive member and body partially define a fluid chamber therebetween for containing a fluid. A driven member is also carried by the body and includes multiple displacement reliefs therein. An intermediate member with a displacement relief is received between the drive and driven members. The intermediate member prevents the drive member from extruding through the displacement reliefs in the driven member under fluid pressures of the fluid, thereby enabling use of the apparatus under higher performance applications that would not be possible without the intermediate member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Hydra-Lock Corporation
    Inventor: Eugene R. Andre, Sr.
  • Patent number: 6886822
    Abstract: The abutment of the rod to the work piece is accomplished in a stable manner by providing an air passage in the inside of the work support for supplying pressurized air for detecting the abutment between the rod and the work piece. Work support is equipped with case, rod, sleeve that elastically deforms to reduce its diameter, hydraulic cylinder for driving rod in an advancing direction, spring for elastically energizing rod in advancing direction, detection nozzle for ejecting pressurized air, air passage connected to detection nozzle, sensor for detecting abutment between the tip of rod and work piece based on air pressure, and a control unit. Work piece is supported by the tip of rod abutting work piece while ejecting pressurized air from detection nozzle, and locks rod by elastically deforming sleeve to reduce its diameter after detecting the abutment of rod by a pressure sensor and control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Pascal Engineering Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Kawakami
  • Patent number: 6691994
    Abstract: A hydraulic cylinder (4) moves a rod (3) in the direction of the axial center. The interior of a casing member (2) has an annular pressure booster (7) for pressurizing the oil in an external hydraulic chamber (6). The casing member (2) has a pressurized oil feed port (27) for feeding pressurized oil to the rod-moving hydraulic cylinder (4) and the input oil chamber (16) of the pressure booster (7). A throttle valve (8) is interposed in an oil supply channel extending from the pressurized oil feed port (27) to the input oil chamber (16). An oil discharge channel, extending from the input oil chamber (16) to the pressurized oil feed port (27), is provided with a nonreturn valve capable of discharging pressurized oil from the input oil chamber (16). The nonreturn valve (9) is opened when the pressurized oil is discharged through the pressurized oil feed port (27).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Pascal Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takayuki Kawakami
  • Patent number: 6473954
    Abstract: A mounting tool for a hydromechanical chuck or mandrel of the type which is clamp connected using a pressure medium in order to clamp connecting a shaft or a shaft tool or a working piece, and in which said shaft or working piece is dismantled from the chuck, and which chuck using a pressure medium in the opposite direction, and which chuck is formed with two separate pressure chambers, a first chamber acting as a clamp connection chamber, and a second chamber acting as a dismantling chamber, which chambers are formed with inlets/outlets provided on opposite sides of the chuck and opening at the periphery thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignees: ETP Transmission AB, AB Sandvik Coromant, Abnox Ltd.
    Inventors: Niclas Rosberg, Mats Allard, Werner Iseli