Conducting Channel Extending To End Of Tool Patents (Class 408/59)
  • Patent number: 12115609
    Abstract: A machining tool for chip-removing machining includes a tool body and a generator assembly for harvesting electric energy to be used in the tool. At least one first component is secured to the tool body and a second component is movably connected to the tool body so as to, by moving with respect to the first component through interaction therewith, generate electric energy in the first component. The generator assembly includes an arrangement for conducting a medium flow to hit and act upon the second component for moving it with respect to the first component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: AB Sandvik Coromant
    Inventors: Peter Frank, Christian Liebaug
  • Patent number: 12036615
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tool (1) for machining a workpiece (3), said tool having a longitudinal axis (L), wherein the tool (1) comprises a first machining region (5) and a second machining region (7), wherein the first machining region (5) is spaced apart from the second machining region (7) along the longitudinal axis (L), and wherein a chip protection barrier (9) is located between the first machining region (5) and the second machining region (7), said chip protection barrier being designed to prevent chips removed from a workpiece (3) from passing from one machining region (5, 7) selected from the first machining region (5) and the second machining region (7) into the other machining region (7, 5) selected from the second machining region (7) and the first machining region (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: MAPAL Fabrik für Präzisionswerkzeuge Dr. Kress KG
    Inventor: Jochen Kress
  • Patent number: 12011797
    Abstract: A spindle includes a housing including a first opening, a bearing housed in the housing, a main shaft rotatably supported by the bearing, a collet chuck in a first through hole defined in the main shaft to grip a machining tool and being movable in an axial direction of the main shaft, a draw bar connected to the collet chuck, and a cover covering the first opening and including a second through hole through which the main shaft is disposed. The main shaft and the cover are disposed at a distance from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: DGSHAPE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhito Miyamoto, Gota Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11986919
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward a tooling assembly for a machine having an automatic tool changing system. The tooling assembly includes a holder, a tool body, and an internal passage defined within and extending through the holder and the tool body. The holder includes a machine interface configured to engage with a spindle of the machine. The internal passage is operable to have a coolant fluid flow within, and has a stem channel and a curved channel extending from the stem channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: David Stephenson, Timothy G. Beyer, Michael A. Kopmanis, David Ozog, William E. Dowling, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11938553
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a hole finishing tool includes a reaming cutter and a holder. The reaming cutter has a first detaching structure. The first flow path for ejecting cutting oil is formed inside the reaming cutter. The holder has a second detaching structure. The second detaching structure is detached from and attached to the first detaching structure. The second flow path for supplying the cutting oil to the first flow path is formed inside the holder. The holder has a shank. The shank is held by a tool rotating device. The holder has a sliding portion. The sliding portion has no back taper. The sliding portion is inserted into a positioning bush and slid inside the positioning bush. The sliding portion has a concave portion for storing lubrication oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Ono, Masao Watanabe, Tatsuo Nakahata
  • Patent number: 11794264
    Abstract: An electro-hydraulic combined device is provided. The electrical insulator is fixedly connected with a spindle shell; a top end of the electro-hydraulic joint supply base is fixedly connected with the electrical insulator; a connection port of the working fluid pipe and a binding post are arranged on the electro-hydraulic joint supply base; a bottom end of the electro-hydraulic joint supply base is provided with a terminal connection port; the connection port of the working fluid supplying pipe and the terminal connection port communicate with a fluid channel in the electro-hydraulic joint supply base; when the terminal connection port is snap-engaged with a top end of the terminal of electro-hydraulic joint supply pipes, the fluid channel in the electro-hydraulic joint supply base is communicated with a fluid channel in the terminal; the fluid channel in the terminal is further communicated with a flushing fluid container on an electrode shank for electro machining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Lin Gu
  • Patent number: 11573156
    Abstract: A method of sampling a multi-layered material and a micro-sampling tool are described. The sampling method includes penetrating a top surface of a material in a component of interest with a micro-cutting tool to a predetermined depth sufficient to include each layer of the multi-layered material and a portion of the base, without cutting through the full depth of the base, under-cutting from the depth of penetration through the base to define a micro-sample of the multi-layered material, and removing the micro-sample with each layer of the multi-layered material intact. The micro-sampler includes a cutting tool calibrated to cut to a depth no greater than 2 mm, and in some aspects, no greater than 200 microns into a multi-layered material, the material having a top surface and a metallic or ceramic base and a container for removing and storing a micro-sample cut from the material with each layer of the multi-layered material and a portion of the base intact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Company LLC
    Inventors: Arash Parsi, William A. Byers
  • Patent number: 11548078
    Abstract: A drilling tool includes a tool body having a center axis defining a longitudinal direction of the drilling tool. The tool body has an axially forward end and an axially rearward end, the distance in the longitudinal direction between the forward end and the rearward end defining a length of the drilling tool. At least two indexable cutting inserts are arranged at the axially forward end, a first indexable cutting insert being arranged at a radially inner position and a second indexable cutting insert being arranged at a radially outer position. The tool body includes a first flute portion extending axially rearward from the first indexable cutting insert and a second flute portion extending axially rearward from the second indexable cutting insert. The first flute portion transitions into the second flute portion at an axially forward transition area of the tool body, thereby forming only one flute of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Walter AG
    Inventor: Florian Baur
  • Patent number: 11529689
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for forming an aperture in a composite component are provided. For example, a method for forming an aperture in a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) component comprises, based on a final dimension of the aperture, selecting a tool having a tool size and a cutting surface; selecting an angle at which to cut the component with the tool; cutting a back surface of the component with the tool, the cutting surface positioned at the angle; repositioning the tool relative to the component; and cutting the aperture through to its final dimension. The tool may be a core drill with a diameter within a range of 60% to 90% of the aperture final dimension. The angle may be within a range of 10° to 60° with respect to the back surface. The aperture may be cut through to its final dimension from a front surface of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: George Douglas Bradbury, Michael James Anderson
  • Patent number: 11491594
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward a tooling assembly for a machine having an automatic tool changing system. The tooling assembly includes a holder, a tool body, and an internal passage defined within and extending through the holder and the tool body. The holder includes a machine interface configured to engage with a spindle of the machine. The internal passage is operable to have a coolant fluid flow within, and has a stem channel and a curved channel extending from the stem channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: David Stephenson, Timothy G. Beyer, Michael A. Kopmanis, David Ozog, William E. Dowling, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11491562
    Abstract: A cutting tool may include a main body extended from a first end to a second end. The main body may be rotatable around a rotation axis. The main body may include a first cutting edge, a second cutting edge, a first flute and a second flute. The first flute may be extended from the first cutting edge toward the second end. The second flute may be extended from the second cutting edge toward the second end. The first flute may include a first hole located in the main body. The second flute may include a second hole located in the main body. The first hole may have a circular shape and the second hole may have a long narrow shape in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis in a cross section orthogonal to the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirohisa Ishi, Kento Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 11370038
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a drill includes: a body without a back taper and a cutting edge part. The body has a flow path of a cutting oil. The flow path is branched to first and second flow paths inside the body. The cutting edge part has a first supply port that supplies the cutting oil toward a workpiece. The first supply port is an outlet of the first flow path. The body has a second supply port that supplies the cutting oil to a clearance between the body and a bush for positioning the body. The second supply port is an outlet of the second flow path. The second flow path has a pressure loss by which the cutting oil is not scattered from the second supply port in a radial direction of the body but exuded from the second supply port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryohei Ono, Masao Watanabe, Tatsuo Nakahata
  • Patent number: 11291462
    Abstract: A drill bit for drilling into bone, including at least a first, second and third longitudinally extending substantially straight flute blades, wherein the drill bit has an extrapolated outer profile established by rotation of the first, second and third flute blades 360 degrees about a longitudinal axis thereof, the extrapolated outer profile includes a first surface having tangents more perpendicular than parallel to the longitudinal axis, and the extrapolated outer profile includes a second surface having tangents more parallel than perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Göran Björn, Jerry Frimanson
  • Patent number: 11207082
    Abstract: A surgical drill type cutting tool includes a shank and an active portion extending in the extension of the shank, with chip areas extending along the active portion, and a ring surrounding a part of the active portion, an inner surface of the ring engaging the active portion without closing off the chip areas, allowing irrigation fluid to provides useful irrigation over most of the length of the active portion of the surgical drill bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Implants Diffusion International
    Inventors: Gilles Boukhris, Gildas Sebillet, Gérard Boukhris
  • Patent number: 11185933
    Abstract: A drill body and a drill are disclosed. The drill body has a rotational axis and comprises a central chip flute extending along a periphery of the drill body. A central chip flute cross-section has a centre line extending in a plane extending perpendicularly to the rotational axis, and through the rotational axis. The central chip flute cross-section has a depth, as seen along the centre line, and a width as seen perpendicularly to the centre line. The central chip flute cross-section has a maximum depth Dp within a range of Dp=0.75×D/2 to Dp=0.90×D/2, and a maximum width W within a range of W=0.75×D/2 to W=0.90×D/2, and wherein the maximum width W extends symmetrically about the centre line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SANDVIK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AB
    Inventors: Rasmus Hemph, Hakan Carlberg
  • Patent number: 11154309
    Abstract: A surgical instrument, in particular for use in dental surgery, includes a machining device and a protector device. The machining device has a shaft with a connection region and a hollow cylindrical head, wherein an active region, in particular for machining and/or for grinding of bone, is formed at a distal edge of the head. The protector device surrounds the head, at least in regions, and is rotatably coupled with a bearing element of the machining device extending, at least in regions, inside of the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Inventor: Frank Zastrow
  • Patent number: 11097358
    Abstract: A core drill bit 1 includes a tubular shaft 12, a mounting platform 34 provided on a proximal end of the tubular shaft 12 for mounting the core drill bit on a power tool 35, and an annular cutting section 2 provided with abrasive cutting segments 3 arranged at a distal end of the tubular shaft 12. The core drill bit 1 further includes a transponder 24 and a slit 27 in the tubular shaft 12. The slit 27 forms a slit antenna 26 for the transponder 24.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Donato Clausi, Manuel Gut, Marco Balter, Thomas Kinkeldei
  • Patent number: 10994346
    Abstract: An indexable drilling tool includes a cutting insert and a body. The body has a cylindrical shape. The body has a chip discharge groove and a tip seat. The chip discharge groove is in an outer circumference of the body. The tip seat is at a distal end of the body. The tip seat where the cutting insert is placeable wherein. Among wall surfaces constituting the chip discharge groove, a wall surface facing in a direction opposite to a rotating direction of the body. The wall surface has a bulging portion at a distal end thereof. The bulging portion protrudes so as to cover a part of a top surface of the cutting insert. A maximum gap between the bulging portion and the top surface of the cutting insert is smaller than a height of a wall constituting the tip seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Shiota
  • Patent number: 10792738
    Abstract: A cutting tool may include a circular columnar body extending from a first end to a second end along a rotation axis. At least a part of the columnar body may correspond to an insert including a cutting edge at the first end. The insert may include therein a flow path extending from a side of the first end toward a side of the second end. A width of the flow path along a radial direction of the circular columnar body may be smaller than a width of the flow path along a circumferential direction of the circular columnar body in a cross section orthogonal to the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsura Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10617430
    Abstract: A surgical bur with a head that defined a single flute. The flute has a rake surface with a cutting edge and an opposed recess edge. The cutting edge is spaced further from axis of shaft of the bur than the recess edge. The rake surface is often, but not always, planar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Stryker European Holdings I, LLC
    Inventors: Denis O'Sullivan, Sinéad Hughes
  • Patent number: 10532416
    Abstract: A machining tool for deburring boreholes, which lead laterally into a recess, comprising: a shaft; a cutting head with at least one circumferential cutting blade associated with a chip groove and having a cutting edge extending, at least in sections, in an axial direction, and which can perform a cutting process by virtue of relative movement between the tool and a workpiece, and which lies on a virtual cylindrical rotation surface; and at least one cutting-blade-free and chip-groove-free surface area; at least one fluid channel closed on the cutting head side, extending through the shaft into the cutting head; and at least one branch channel with an outlet opening. The outlet opening is in a dynamic pressure active surface radially set back relative to the virtual rotation surface, and is larger than a flow cross-sectional area of the at least one branch channel at the outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Guehring KG
    Inventor: Gerhard Schanz
  • Patent number: 10486238
    Abstract: A cutting tool comprises: a plate member which is provided, at a leading end thereof, edge parts; a support member which supports the plate member so as to cause the edge parts to be projected; and a coolant supply part which has an ejection port and which ejects, from the ejection port, fluid that cools the edge parts. The support member has a non-contact surface which forms a gap with respect to an outer side surface of the plate member. The gap is opened toward a side where the edge parts are provided. The ejection port is arranged in the gap, and the ejection port ejects the fluid toward the plate member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasutake Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10442012
    Abstract: A machining tool (1) comprises a clamping section (2), which extends along a central axis (M), a cutting section (3), which adjoins the clamping section (2) and has a nominal diameter (DN), and at least one cooling duct (4), which preferably extends in the clamping section (2) and in the cutting section (3), wherein the cross-sectional shape of the cooling duct (4) is arranged in a cross-sectional region (Q) of the respective section (2, 3) in which the equivalent stress under a machining load has a value which is as small as possible, and/or wherein the cross-sectional shape of the cooling duct (4) is defined by an inner curve segment (5), an outer curve segment (6), which is arranged at a distance from the latter, and by means of two tangents (7) connecting the two curve segments (5, 6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Mikron Tool SA Agno
    Inventors: Mattia Genini, Alberto Gotti, Markus Schnyder
  • Patent number: 10328536
    Abstract: A rotary cutting tool with an elongate body disposed about a longitudinal axis, the elongate body including a helical flute and a polycrystalline-diamond cutting tip. The cutting tip comprises an inner portion having an inner point angle and an outer portion having an outer point angle different from the inner point angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Karthik Sampath, Armin Zimmerman, Steve George
  • Patent number: 10124416
    Abstract: A drill bit having an interior canal for liquid nitrogen to pass longitudinally through the body of the drill bit. The canal has, on the side of a cutting edge of the drill bit, at least one liquid nitrogen ejection duct that opens near the cutting edge which is formed by an insert made with polycrystalline diamond fixed to the body of the drill bit. A device for drilling a metal-composite stack includes the drill bit, a liquid nitrogen production unit and a distribution network to distribute the liquid nitrogen. The device drills through a metal-composite stack in a single pass of the drill bit. The liquid nitrogen at cryogenic temperature is conveyed close to the cutting edge, at least while the cutting edge is in contact with the metallic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus SAS
    Inventors: Daniel Aliaga, Dominique Schuster, Fernand Vinhas, Guillaume Abrivard
  • Patent number: 10070870
    Abstract: A medical drill bit comprises an accommodating slot disposed concavely on a main body of the medical drill bit, a separate board disposed in the accommodating slot to separate the accommodating slot into a first slot and a second slot, and a lid engaging with the separate board and covering the accommodating slot. The lid and the separate board do not rotate with the main body when the main body in rotation. The accommodating uses to fill with cooling liquid which able to be pumped out from the accommodating slot, and fresh cooling liquid is able to inject into the accommodating slot for cooling the drill bit in rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Wei-Hua Lu, Yung-Chuan Chen
  • Patent number: 10058965
    Abstract: A tool holder has a main body and a holding pin onto which a rotary tool having a corresponding holding bore can be placed. At least one channel for transporting coolant or lubricant, the channel leading to the outer circumference of the holding pin, is arranged in the tool holder. In order to enable cooling of the cutting edges of the rotary tool without great production complexity, at least one longitudinal groove for conducting the coolant or lubricant in a longitudinal direction of the holding pin is arranged on the outer circumference of the holding pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: FRANZ HAIMER MASCHINENBAU KG
    Inventor: Franz Haimer
  • Patent number: 9975186
    Abstract: A drilling head for a tubular shank having an inside diameter and threads may comprise an axial body comprising a duct exiting through a first end; threads adjacent the first end corresponding to the threads on the shank and aligning the duct with the shank inside diameter; a bore from an outer surface of the body to the duct; and two axially extending approximately parallel and offset surfaces adjacent a second end; and an insert affixed between the offset surfaces, the insert comprising: a first face at least partially contacting one offset surface and a second face at least partially contacting the other offset surface; one or more cutting edges adjacent the first face, the second face, or both; and a cutting lip adjacent one or more cutting edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: ALLIED MACHINE & ENGINEERING CORPORATION
    Inventors: David A. Lutz, James R. Porter, Chad M. Lynch
  • Patent number: 9975185
    Abstract: A tip for twist drill, comprising a super-hard structure joined to a substrate at an interface boundary coterminous with an end of the substrate, the super-hard structure comprising sintered polycrystalline material comprising super-hard grains, the super-hard structure defining a super-hard end surface opposite the interface boundary and a plurality of cutting edges configured for boring into a body in use; the super-hard end surface including a center point or chisel edge, and comprising a plurality of surface regions configured such that respective planes tangential to each of the surface regions are disposed at substantially different angles from the axis of rotation of the tip in use. Precursor constructions for use in manufacturing the tips as well as methods for making the precursor constructions and the tips are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignees: Element Sux Abrasives S.A., Element Six Limited
    Inventors: Maweja Kasonde, Robert Fries, John James Barry, Cornelis Roelof Jonker
  • Patent number: 9700944
    Abstract: A tool head for use with a modular shank tool includes at least two preforms. Each preform of the at least two performs is made separately from the other preform of the at least two preforms from granular materials and then put together and jointly compressed and integrally bonded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Christoph Gey, Juergen Schwaegerl
  • Patent number: 9623490
    Abstract: A three-flute drill having: a tool main body with cutting edges at an axially distal end thereof, a flute portion having discharge flutes in a distal-end side portion of the body, and a cutting fluid supply hole for supplying fluid toward the edges, a rear inner wall surface on the radial direction on a rear side in the drill rotation direction and opposed to the front inner wall surface in a drill circumferential direction, an outer circumferential inner wall surface made up of a partially cylindrical surface whose center lies on an axis of the drill, and an inner circumferential inner wall surface having a partially cylindrical surface whose center lies on the drill axis and opposed to the outer circumferential inner wall surface in the radial direction, the inner circumferential inner wall having a curvature radius smaller than that of the outer circumferential inner wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: OSG CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuteru Takai
  • Patent number: 9604286
    Abstract: A drill with a cutting fluid supply hole includes: a tool main-body with an axial end cutting-edge, a portion having a discharge flute on a main-body distal end side portion, and a cutting fluid supply hole, the hole having a fan-shaped cross section defined by a front inner-wall surface located along a main-body radial direction on the front side in the drill rotation direction, a rear inner-wall surface located along the radial-direction on the rear side in the drill rotation direction and facing the front inner-wall surface in a main-body circumferential direction, an outer circumferential inner-wall surface made up of a partially cylindrical surface around a drill center line, and an inner circumferential inner-wall surface made up of a partially cylindrical surface around the center line with a curvature radius smaller than that of the outer circumferential inner-wall surface and facing the outer circumferential inner-wall surface in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: OSG CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuteru Takai
  • Patent number: 9579108
    Abstract: A surgical drill bit can include a body portion that defines a central axis that extends along a first direction. The body portion can be separated along the first direction into a distal cutting segment, and a guiding segment. The body portion can include a helical flute that winds about the central axis. The helical flute can define a first outer profile along the cutting segment and a second outer profile along the guiding segment, the first outer profile has a first leading edge and a first bearing surface and the second outer profile has a second leading edge and a second bearing surface. The first leading edge can be configured to cut into bone and can be spaced from the central axis by a first length. The second leading edge can be spaced from the central axis by a second length that is less than the first length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J Schoutens
  • Patent number: 9579158
    Abstract: Surgical instrument (1) comprising a longitudinal shaft (2) with a tip portion (3), a rear portion (4) and a longitudinal axis (5) and rotatable in the clock-wise and in the counter-clockwise direction around the longitudinal axis (5), said surgical instrument (1) further comprising: A) first means (6) for drilling a hole in a bone by rotation of the shaft (2) in one of the two directions; B) second means (7) for crushing bone tissue when the shaft (2) rotates in the other of the two directions; and C) a torque sensor (10) coupled to the shaft (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: AO Technology AG
    Inventors: Stefano Brianza, Ronald Schwyn
  • Patent number: 9561550
    Abstract: A drilling head for a tubular shank having an inside diameter and threads may comprise an axial body comprising a duct exiting through a first end; threads adjacent the first end corresponding to the threads on the shank and aligning the duct with the shank inside diameter; a bore from an outer surface of the body to the duct; and two axially extending approximately parallel and offset surfaces adjacent a second end; and an insert affixed between the offset surfaces, the insert comprising: a first face at least partially contacting one offset surface and a second face at least partially contacting the other offset surface; one or more cutting edges adjacent the first face, the second face, or both; and a cutting lip adjacent one or more cutting edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: ALLIED MACHINE & ENGINEERING CORP.
    Inventors: David A. Lutz, James R. Porter, Chad M. Lynch
  • Patent number: 9555515
    Abstract: In a machine tool spindle device, a draw bar is arranged inside a center hole of a spindle, and a disc spring is arranged inside a spring member arrangement space between the draw bar and the center hole. A draw bar inner pipe is inserted inside a through hole of the draw bar, and the interior of the draw bar inner pipe is used as a coolant passage. A gap between the draw bar inner pipe and the through hole is used as an air passage for supplying the purge air, and the interior of the spring member arrangement space is used as a coolant supply passage for supplying coolant to cooling jackets of the spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: DMG MORI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Mochizuki, Syunsuke Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 9302332
    Abstract: A twist drill assembly (10) comprising a shaft (30) and a drill tip (20); the shaft having a single internal shaft conduit (34) for a fluid, extending between orifices (36, 37) formed into the shaft; the drill tip having an internal drill tip conduit (22) for the fluid, extending between orifices formed into the drill tip; the shaft and the drill tip configured such that the drill tip is connectable to an end of the shaft with the internal drill tip conduit in communication with the internal shaft conduit, allowing the fluid to be capable of flowing from the internal shaft conduit into the internal drill tip conduit; the internal shaft conduit having a spiral form aligned with a central longitudinal axis of the shaft, and configured to complement the arrangement of spiral flutes (38) formed on the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Element Six Limited
    Inventors: Terry Scanlon, John James Barry, James Doyle
  • Patent number: 9162335
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for machining is provided. A mounting assembly for use with a spindle, a CNC machine, an auto changer device and an air supply line, can include a mounting collar and a mounting block. The mounting collar can have a collar body and a collar arm, where the collar body defines a collar opening and one or more grooves circumscribing the collar opening, where the one or more grooves each have a sealing element positioned therein, and wherein the collar arm has a collar inlet, a collar outlet and a collar channel to provide fluid communication between the collar inlet and the collar outlet. The mounting block can be connected to the CNC machine and can have a block inlet connected to the air supply line, a block outlet, and a block channel to provide fluid communication between the block inlet and the block outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Air Turbine Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Kemma Samuel Dodds
  • Patent number: 9089346
    Abstract: A surgical drill bit can include a body portion that defines a central axis that extends along a first direction. The body portion can be separated along the first direction into a distal cutting segment, and a guiding segment. The body portion can include a helical flute that winds about the central axis. The helical flute can define a first outer profile along the cutting segment and a second outer profile along the guiding segment, the first outer profile has a first leading edge and a first bearing surface and the second outer profile has a second leading edge and a second bearing surface. The first leading edge can be configured to cut into bone and can be spaced from the central axis by a first length. The second leading edge can be spaced from the central axis by a second length that is less than the first length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert J. Schoutens
  • Patent number: 9079255
    Abstract: A boring tool has a receiving part implemented as a borer body and a front part implemented as a borer head, which extend along a central axis and can be removably fastened to one another via driver connection. The driver connection has at least two coupling pairs which are separate from one another and are disposed eccentrically relative to the central axis. Each coupling pair is formed by interlocking coupling elements, namely a receiving pocket and a driver pin. The coupling elements have an asymmetrical cross-sectional area and widen with increasing distance to the central axis. Through this design, a reliable transmission of high torques is achieved with lower strains of the borer body in the area of the driver connection. Simultaneously, an automatic centering of the two tool parts to one another is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: Horst Manfred Jager, Berthold Heinrich Zeug
  • Patent number: 9056360
    Abstract: Described is a multi-blade cutting and drilling finishing tool for machining deep or stepped bores. The tool comprises at least a first blade set having a nominal diameter and blades distributed essentially uniformly over the circumference. In order to make it easier to guide the tool along the central axis, a guiding strip set in the form of very accurately positioned cutting inserts is located axially behind the first blade set with respect to the axial direction of the tool in which the tool advances forward to machine the deep or stepped bores. Each of the cutting inserts is aligned with one of the blades of the first blade set in a direction parallel to an axis of the tool, and each of the cutting inserts has a nominal diameter which is smaller than the nominal diameter of the first blade set by essentially twice the size of a lubrication gap forming between the guiding strip set and the deep or stepped bores when the tool is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Guehring OHG
    Inventors: Holger Ast, Lutfi Bozkurt, Peter Sommerfeldt, Jochen Bitzer
  • Publication number: 20150110567
    Abstract: A rotary cutting tool having a monolithic carbide cutting member defining a carbide cutting head and a carbide shaft extending outwardly from the cutting head. The shaft includes a conduit in fluid communication with a port for delivering coolant and/or lubricating fluid to an interface between the cutting tool and a work piece. The cutting head defines a peripheral portion and a plurality of carbide cutting edges alternating with flutes in the peripheral portion. The cutting head, the shaft, and the cutting edges are formed integrally with one another. A shank portion defines an elongated bore, and the shaft is received in the bore in a shrink-fit relationship, wherein the shaft of the cutting member is fixed against movement relative to the shank portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Kennametal, Inc.
    Inventors: Li Ning, Thomas Bobos
  • Patent number: 8998543
    Abstract: The application comprises a blank for producing a cutting tool with at least one inner bore for conducting fluids, wherein the blank comprises at least a first and a second portion along, its longitudinal axis, wherein the inner bore in the first portion is formed substantially in a straight line and parallel to the longitudinal axis of the blank, and the inner bore in the second portion has a first twist with a first twist angle greater than zero, wherein the blank can be obtained by a continuous pressing operation, in particular a continuous extruding operation. The application also describes an extrusion device for producing a blank, wherein the extrusion device comprises a control element for controlling the twist angle, in particular the first and/or second twist angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Guehring OHG
    Inventors: Manfred Schwenck, Armin Helbig
  • Publication number: 20150063931
    Abstract: An indexable drill assembly includes a drill body, which has a head portion at the axial forward end thereof and wherein the head portion has an outboard pocket and an inboard pocket. The drill body contains an outboard pocket coolant channel adjacent the outboard pocket and an inboard pocket coolant channel adjacent the inboard pocket. The outboard pocket has a seating surface and the outboard pocket coolant channel opening at the seating surface. The drill body further contains an outboard retention screw aperture opening in the seating surface wherein the seating surface contains an outboard coolant ring surrounding the retention screw aperture wherein the outboard coolant is being in fluid communication with the outboard pocket coolant channel. The inboard pocket has a seating surface and the inboard pocket coolant channel opens at the seating surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Qiang Wu, Christoph Gey, Horst M. Jaeger, Michael A. Weisel, Nicholas J. Henry
  • Publication number: 20150056032
    Abstract: This document provides novel drills and/or reamers that are well-suited for making holes in a variety of materials including, but not limited to, metals, ceramics, glass, wood, plasterboard, plastics, stone, composites, synthetics, silicon or multi-layered or hybridized substrates. In some embodiments, these drilling devices have some centers of mass that are offset from the axis of rotation. Accordingly, such drills and/or reamers may rotate and cut using a precessional pattern of motion. Precessional cutting devices may display a mechanical wave pattern in relationship to the longitudinal axis of the device. If the cutting device is fabricated from a flexible material, for example Nickel-Titanium, bodily deflection of the device may result during rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventor: Michael J. Scianamblo
  • Patent number: 8944727
    Abstract: A drilling tool for machine tools has a drill body, a cutting head arranged on the front face of the drill body and a shaft arranged at the end thereof, wherein the drill body has two chip flutes, which are delimited at their flanks by ribs and a first chip flute of which is spirally curved. A second chip flute is not spiraled or is spirally curved with a pitch differing from the first chip flute, preferably running in the same direction of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Komet Group GmbH
    Inventors: Hendrik Nitzsche, Gerhard Stolz, Hans Haidinger, Benno Spors
  • Patent number: 8944729
    Abstract: A tool for machining workpieces, having a shank and a cutting insert having a base body held in the shank. The shank has a slot accommodating the cutting insert. The body has a central section with a central axis. At least one convexly bowed centering surface running in the direction of the central section. At least one drive element originates from the central section. The slot in the shank has at least one interior surface region shaped to cooperate with the at least one centering surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Mapal Fabrik fur Prazisionswerkzeuge Dr. Kress KG
    Inventor: Ulrich Krenzer
  • Patent number: 8926236
    Abstract: A drilling/reaming tool includes a basic body which extends in a longitudinal direction. The basic body includes at least one end-side drilling major cutting edge, a main flute which is assigned to said drilling major cutting edge and is wound at a first helix angle, and a plurality of reaming cutting edges which are arranged circumferentially on the basic body and have in each case one reamer flute which is assigned to the respective reaming cutting edge and is wound at a second helix angle. The reaming cutting edges adjoin the at least one major cutting edge directly in the longitudinal direction. Each reamer flute is merged into the main flute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Kennametal Inc.
    Inventors: Herbert Rudolf Kauper, Jurgen Schwaegerl
  • Publication number: 20140348602
    Abstract: A coupling part structured to engage with a complementary coupling part for interchangeably fastening a cutting head to a carrier of a rotary cutting tool. The coupling part includes a pair of coupling pins arranged opposite each other with respect to a central longitudinal axis and spaced apart from each other so as to form a receiving space structured to receive a central pin of the complementary coupling part. Each coupling pin includes a stop surface for transmitting a torque, a radially external outer surface, and a radially internal inner surface. At least one of the outer surface or inner surface is a clamping surface oriented in an obliquely inclined manner with respect to the central longitudinal axis for centering and clamping the coupling part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: KENNAMETAL INC.
    Inventors: JUERGEN SCHWAEGERL, BERTHOLD HEINRICH ZEUG
  • Patent number: 8876442
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to stably spray cutting fluid in a good mist form, when cutting fluid and air are supplied from the surrounding area and cutting fluid is sprayed in a mist form from the tip end section of a rotary cutting tool. The rotary cutter of the present invention sequentially feeds a mixture of cutting fluid and air through a supply pipe 4, first supply path b in a cover 3, second supply paths c, d in a chuck 2, a hollow center cavity (front throttle chamber d, throttle 24a, and rear throttle chamber e) in the chuck, and a third supply path g in a rotary cutting tool 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Saito, Tatsuo Nakahata, Hideharu Takahashi