Filing Patents (Class 29/76.1)
  • Patent number: 10605242
    Abstract: A device for the supply of lubricant with a lubricant pump (101), which has a driveshaft (103), and a motor (107). The motor (107) is designed to drive the driveshaft (103). At least one clutch (109, 111, 113) serves to establish and/or interrupt a force flow between a shaft in the force flow of a transmission and the driveshaft (103).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Markus Krapf, Ulrich Bohner
  • Patent number: 10239139
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for machining a toothing, wherein to form a chamfer on a tooth edge formed between an end face of the toothing and a tooth flank belonging to a tooth space of the toothing, material is removed from the tooth edge by cutting, by means of a machining tool equipped with a cutting edge, in a machining operation, wherein the machining tool is toothed and the machining operation is a skiving machining operation at an axis intersection angle between the rotational axes of the machining tool and the toothing, which does not extend beyond the tooth root section of the tooth space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: GLEASON-PFAUTER MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Philippin, Ralf Schmezer, Joachim Grill
  • Patent number: 9803427
    Abstract: Rotary drill bits may include on or more cutting element assemblies which include a cutter and a mounting system. In one embodiment, the mounting system includes a housing, a first bearing component disposed within the housing, and a second bearing component associated with the cutting element. In certain embodiments, the bearing components may comprise a table of superhard material bonded with a substrate. In one or more embodiments, the bearing components may include bearing surfaces that are arcuate. For example, the bearing surfaces may be substantially spherical (a portion of a sphere). The bearing components may be arranged to act as a radial bearing as well as a thrust bearing for the cutting element, enabling the cutting element to rotate about a longitudinal axis of the cutter, relative to the housing, while also enabling the longitudinal axis of the cutter to be displaced (change angles) relative to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: U.S. Synthetic Corporation
    Inventors: Craig H. Cooley, Keith Baskett
  • Patent number: 9700981
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for the chip-removing generation or machining of internal gear teeth on a workpiece which is rotatable about its rotary axis and radially delimits a free space that extends axially to one side beyond the internally toothed region and whose radial width narrows in the direction of its axial extension in at least one location. An externally toothed tool which is driven in rotary movement about its axis of rotation is brought from the opposite side into rolling engagement with the internally toothed region with the rotary axes crossed at an angle. Through the application of a mechanical force, the chips which are produced in the process and which are subject to a centrifugal force are caused to change their movement in the zone of narrowing width in a manner directed against the origin of the centrifugal force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: GLEASON-PFAUTER MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH
    Inventors: Johannes Brogni, Domenico Petrallia, Oswald Witschi
  • Patent number: 9573294
    Abstract: A chain for a work implement has lateral connecting members connected to central driving members via studs. The stud has two lateral portions spaced apart from one another by a collar. A driving member is mounted pivotably on the collar. At the collar the stud has a surface layer harder than the base material. For a high chain service life, the stud has a diffusion layer above a surface layer above the base material. To produce the stud, the stud is provided with a diffusion layer at least at the collar, and a surface region of the collar is hardened, such that a surface layer is formed between the diffusion layer and the base material of the stud. For a method for producing a driving member, the driving member is provided with a diffusion layer at least at a circumferential surface of a hole and the driving member is hardened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: ANDREAS STIHL AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jochen Buchholtz, Matthias Schulz, Oliver Gerstenberger, Thomas Lux, Norbert Apfel, Nina Regnet
  • Patent number: 9370824
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods and systems for nano/micro machining. A lathe head has a microscopic pivot aperture for seating a conical tip. The conical tip is carried on a turnable part at one end thereof and is polished down to a microscopic apex. The microscopic pivot aperture is dimensioned for seating the concentric tip in the pivot aperture such that an apex of the conical tip protrudes through and beyond the aperture to a position in close proximity with the aperture. A driver system can comprise a rotator for axially rotating the turnable part, including the conical tip seated in the pivot aperture, and a forward pressure applicator for concurrently applying forward pressure to the conical tip in the direction of the pivot aperture. A light/particle beam system can be utilized to machine the rotating conical tip and the rotating turnable part, including the tip, can be easily removed after machining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Norsam Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Patrick J Deshaye
  • Patent number: 9045997
    Abstract: An actuator has a rotary drive and a threaded element for converting the rotary motion of the rotary drive into a reciprocating motion of a tappet connected to a hinged wastegate and/or to a variable turbine geometry device of an exhaust gas turbocharger. The tappet and/or an axle between the tappet and the threaded element is received in at least one guide comprising at least one web and allowing for at least a slight tilting or pivoting movement of the tappet in at least one direction. At least some play is present between the web and at least one broadened portion on the tappet and/or on the axle. Methods of actuating a wastegate and/or a variable turbine geometry device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Halla Visteon Climate Control Corporation
    Inventors: Bernhard Klipfel, Christoph Thiery, Arthur Janik
  • Publication number: 20150135498
    Abstract: An interchangeable tool for use with a hexagonal key having at least a first male end with six facets which form a hexagonal profile includes a first interchangeable tip comprising a body and a head extending from the body. The body includes a female receptacle having an opening open to an exterior of the first interchangeable tip, with the female receptacle having six facets that form a hexagonal profile. The hexagonal profile is sized and dimensioned to matingly receive the first male end of the hexagonal key, with the head having at least one tool element. Related interchangeable tool sets are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: Tanuki Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Archer Gillikin
  • Publication number: 20130139367
    Abstract: Provided is a tool for polishing the surface of frets, a fretboard or a fingerboard of a stringed instrument, so as to shape and adjust the frets, the fretboard or the fingerboard to have a curve appropriate for the stringed instrument having a curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventor: Davide Bissoli
  • Publication number: 20130091676
    Abstract: A lawn mower blade sharpener and a method of sharpening a lawn mower blade attached to a lawn mower. The lawn mower blade sharpener includes a body having an opening that is disposed within the body along the length of the body, and a file within the opening, wherein the file includes a first file having an arcuate surface and a second file having a flat surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Inventor: Robert W. Schuetz
  • Publication number: 20080072661
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in the production of a test specimen bottle from a container which is adaptable for containing a liquid and has a sealing surface intended for mating with a sealing closure. The test specimen bottle is utilized in a test for evaluating the integrity of a sealing closure. The apparatus comprises a scoring head which has a body and at least one blade mounted to the body. The body includes mounting structure associated with the body for connecting the body to a force applying mechanism for transmitting force to the body so that when the blade mounted to the body is positioned adjacent to the sealing surface of the container, a force can be applied to the body that causes the blade to score the sealing surface to thereby produce a test specimen bottle from the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicant: Stokely-Van Camp, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Prestley, Dennis Broeske
  • Patent number: 7308745
    Abstract: An edge-machining device in particular plastic spectacle lenses (L) has two aligned holding shafts (14, 16) rotatable with a controlled angle of rotation (?B) about a rotational axis of a workpiece (B) between which the lens may be clamped and a tool spindle (12) rotationally drives a combination tool (10) about a rotational axis of a tool (C) running parallel to the rotational axis of the workpiece. The holding shafts and the tool spindle may be moved with position control towards each other in a first axial direction (X) and optionally parallel to each other in a second axial directions (Z) perpendicular to the first axial direction. The combination tool can be swivelled with a controlled angle of rotation (?C) about the rotational axis of the tool by means of the tool spindle so that a lathe tool (36) provided on the combination tool may be brought into a defined lathe machining engagement with the edge of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: Satisloh GmbH
    Inventors: Jochen Diehl, Steffen Wallendorf
  • Patent number: 6585458
    Abstract: A file adapter for a motor driven workpiece cutting tool comprises a power head reciprocating an elongate file coupled to a ram-rod reciprocated thereby on a forwardly projecting axis. The adapter includes a forwardly extending member carried by the power head of the tool and positioning a resistance means for engaging and downwardly pressing the top face of the file forwardly of its coupled engagement to the ramrod. The file is a second class lever with its fulcrum coupled to the ram-rod and its resistance pressured at said resistance means when its cutting means forcibly engage a workpiece. The resistance means preferably comprises a roller on a transverse axis spaced above said forwardly projecting axis and with a periphery thereof engaging and downwardly pressuring the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Filezall, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert R. Fontaine