Circular Segments Patents (Class 451/542)
  • Patent number: 11504779
    Abstract: A core drill bit 1 includes a tubular shaft 12, a mounting platform 31 provided on a proximal end of the tubular shaft 12 for mounting the core drill bit on a power tool 26, and an annular cutting section 2 provided with abrasive cutting segments 3 arranged at a distal end of the tubular shaft 12. A first transponder 24 is provided at the distal end of the tubular shaft 12. A repeater 28 is provided comprising a second transponder 29 at the proximal end of the tubular shaft 12, an antenna 33 facing the first transponder 24, and a wired connection 34 between the antenna 33 and the repeater 28.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Donato Clausi, Marco Balter, Manuel Gut, Thomas Kinkeldei
  • Patent number: 10875152
    Abstract: A super-abrasive grinding wheel includes a core and a super-abrasive grain layer provided on a surface of the core, the super-abrasive grain layer including diamond abrasive grains and CBN abrasive grains, the diamond abrasive grains and the CBN abrasive grains being fixed to the core in a single layer by a binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: A.L.M.T. Corp.
    Inventor: Nobuhide Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10582933
    Abstract: The present invention provides a cutting tool for surgical procedures. More specifically, the present invention provides a rotary surgical cutting tool which overcomes the disadvantages of prior art surgical cutting tools by providing a rotary cutting tool having straight flutes, with each side of the flute being provided with a cutting edge that permits cutting in both directions during limited oscillatory motion of the rotary surgical cutting tool. The areas between the cutting edges are provided with relief to reduce friction while the flute moves the cut material away from the cutting edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Capstone Surgical Techologies, LLC
    Inventor: Peter L. Bono
  • Patent number: 9914199
    Abstract: An abrasive article including a disc including a central axis; a primary outer edge substantially coaxial with the central axis and having a circumferential length, L1; a secondary outer edge substantially coaxial with the central axis and coplanar with the primary outer edge, the secondary outer edge having a circumferential length, L2, wherein L2 is less than L1; and a structurally weakened portion extending substantially adjacent to the secondary outer edge. In an embodiment, the abrasive article further includes a shedable portion configured to rupture the structurally weakened portion when the shedable portion is removed from the abrasive disc. In another aspect, an abrasive article having an initial outer circumferential length, LI, and a length of deliberately exposable circumferential edge surface, LOE, wherein LOE is greater than LI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignees: Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc., Saint-Gobain Abrasifs
    Inventors: Godofredo Vela, Brian J. Wahl
  • Patent number: 9227342
    Abstract: A segment for an abrasive article is disclosed. The segment can include a segment body that can have a first face that can extend along a length of the segment body on a first side of the segment body and a second face that can extend along the length of the segment body on a second side of the segment body opposite the first side. A gullet wall can extend from the first face to the second face. The gullet wall can extend along a gullet. The segment can also include a recessed region that can extend into one or both of the first and second faces. The recessed region can include a gullet portion extending at least partially along the gullet wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignees: SAINT-GOBAIN ABRASIVES, INC, SAINT-GOBAIN ABRASIF
    Inventor: Marc Linh Hoang
  • Publication number: 20150109572
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a beveling wheel and method for forming a beveled lens with the beveling wheel for use with eyeglasses. One embodiment includes a prescription lens for use on an eyeglass frame having a receiving channel. The receiving channel includes a channel bottom and opposed interior wall surfaces having a first angle therebetween. The prescription plastic lens includes a prescription lens body generally defined by a peripheral edge having a bevel extending away from the edge to a vertex. The bevel has a distal portion with a second angle. The bevel is receivable within the receiving channel. At least a portion of the vertex of the bevel has an interference fit with the receiving channel bottom when held within the eyeglass frame. The first angle is greater than the second angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventor: Ronald C. WIAND
  • Patent number: 9011206
    Abstract: The super abrasive wheel includes a core rotating around a rotation axis and a super abrasive layer bonded to the core. The core has a first surface and a second surface located opposite to the first surface. An annular first protrusion portion protruding in the direction away from the first surface is provided at a portion of the second surface that is surrounded with the super abrasive layer. A reference surface is provided in the second surface on the inside of the first protrusion portion. The height from the reference surface to the first protrusion portion is denoted as A. A top portion having the height B from the reference surface is provided at a portion of the second surface between the first protrusion portion and the super abrasive layer. The height B is greater than the height A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: A.L.M.T. Corp.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ishizu, Yukio Okanishi, Teruyuki Kumazawa
  • Publication number: 20150056901
    Abstract: An abrasive article that may include a circular substrate with a plurality of segments arranged on the circumferential surface of the circular substrate. The abrasive article may also include an outlet slot defining an open space on a peripheral portion of the abrasive article between a first segment and a second segment, a center slot defining an open space in the circular substrate connected to the outlet slot, a noise absorbing hole connected to the center slot and protruding from the center slot in the rotating direction of the abrasive article, and a ratio (H+X)/CSD of at least about 0.01, where H represents a prescribed height of the noise absorbing hole, X represents a prescribed depth of the noise absorbing hole and CSD represents the diameter of the circular substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Satoshi Aoki, Hiromi Shirashi
  • Publication number: 20150033530
    Abstract: A rotatable tool for use in repairing composite hollow shafts, namely for sports equipment, for example, composite hockey stick shafts. The rotatable tool includes a plurality of aligned spaced-apart grinding surfaces and proximal and distal guide bearings coaxially arranged along a tool shaft. The rotatable tool is used to form grooves proximate the repair location so as to enhance mechanical bonding of a composite repair material which spans a region of abutment of hollow shaft segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Randy Charles LANGILLE
  • Patent number: 8944893
    Abstract: A dressable bonded abrasive article has a body that includes a bond material comprising an organic material and a blend of abrasive particles. The particles include a first type of abrasive particle comprising an oxide and having a first hardness and a first toughness; a second type of abrasive particle comprising an oxide and having a second hardness greater than the first hardness, and the second type of abrasive particle has a second toughness less than the first toughness; and a third type of abrasive particle comprising an oxide and having a third hardness greater than the first hardness and less than the second hardness, and the third type of abrasive particle has a third toughness less than the first toughness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignees: Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc., Saint-Gobain Abrasifs
    Inventor: Emmanuel C. Francois
  • Publication number: 20140373693
    Abstract: An abrasive article includes a blade body having an axis of rotation, and a peripheral edge comprising a plurality of blade segments with perimeter edges. Adjacent ones of the blade segments may be separated from each other by a slot that extends into the blade body at least partially in a radial direction with respect to the axis. At least one blade segment may include a plurality of apertures extending axially therethrough, comprising a perimeter edge aperture that intersects the perimeter edge, and at least two interior apertures are radially offset from and do not intersect the perimeter edge. An abrasive portion may include a bond material and abrasive particles, the abrasive portion overlies at least portions of the blade segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicants: Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc., Saint-Gobain Abrasifs
    Inventor: Ignazio Gosamo
  • Publication number: 20140349557
    Abstract: A vitrified superabrasive grain grinding stone includes superabrasive grains including a CBN abrasive grain as a main abrasive grain and a diamond abrasive grain as an auxiliary abrasive grain bonded together by use of a vitrified bond. The auxiliary abrasive grain has an average grain diameter equal to ½ to 1/10 of that of the main abrasive grain, and the auxiliary abrasive grain has a toughness value of 0.4 to 1 when that of the main abrasive grain is given as 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: NORITAKE CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Akihiro Mizuno, Norio Imai, Kouichi Yoshimura, Takeshi Mishima
  • Patent number: 8851058
    Abstract: Wear indicators for abrasive articles are presented. Specifically, indicator marks that are parallel to a bonding edge of a grinding element are presented. Tools comprising a carrier element and one or more grinding elements comprising one or more indicators are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignees: Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc., Saint-Gobain Abrasifs
    Inventors: Marc Linh Hoang, Rodolphe Martin
  • Publication number: 20140273778
    Abstract: A grinding tool, such as a cutting disc, includes a matrix, in particular a sintered metal matrix, and diamonds embedded in the matrix. At least the majority of the diamonds are each assigned at least one wear-promoting particle and/or at least one wear-inhibiting particle. The at least one wear-promoting particle and the at least one wear-inhibiting particle are likewise embedded in the matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Tyrolit - Schleifmittelwerke Swarovski K.G.
    Inventor: Franz EGGER
  • Publication number: 20140206269
    Abstract: A tool for generating tooth systems by grinding when the maximum tool diameter is limited by collision contours on the workpiece has a dressable grinding tool that is tightly connected to the tool holder. In one preferred arrangement, the dressable grinding tool is glued on the tool holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Liebherr-Verzahntechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas BREITH, Manfred ZANKL
  • Publication number: 20140187130
    Abstract: An abrasive segment can include an inner segment portion, an outer segment portion, and a central segment portion connected thereto. The inner segment portion can include an inner circumferential wall and an outer circumferential wall. Leading and trailing radial sidewalls can extend between the inner circumferential wall and the outer circumferential wall opposite each other. The outer segment portion can include an inner circumferential wall and an outer circumferential wall. Leading and trailing radial sidewalls can extend between the inner circumferential wall and the outer circumferential wall opposite each other. The central segment portion can include a leading radial sidewall and a trailing radial sidewall. The leading radial sidewall of the central segment portion can establish an acute angle, ?, with respect to the outer circumferential wall of the inner segment portion and an obtuse angle, ?, with respect the inner circumferential wall of the outer segment portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicants: Saint-Gobain Abrasifs, Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc.
    Inventor: Ignazio Gosamo
  • Publication number: 20140187131
    Abstract: A segment for an abrasive article is disclosed. The segment can include a segment body that can have a first face that can extend along a length of the segment body on a first side of the segment body and a second face that can extend along the length of the segment body on a second side of the segment body opposite the first side. A gullet wall can extend from the first face to the second face. The gullet wall can extend along a gullet. The segment can also include a recessed region that can extend into one or both of the first and second faces. The recessed region can include a gullet portion extending at least partially along the gullet wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicants: Saint-Gobain Abrasifs, Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc.
    Inventor: Marc Linh Hoang
  • Publication number: 20140030970
    Abstract: Wear indicators for abrasive articles are presented. Specifically, indicator marks that are parallel to a bonding edge of a grinding element are presented. Tools comprising a carrier element and one or more grinding elements comprising one or more indicators are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventors: Marc Linh Hoang, Rudolphe Martin
  • Patent number: 8628385
    Abstract: An abrasive tool including a bonded abrasive article including a bond material comprising a metal or metal alloy, abrasive grains contained within the bond material, and a reaction agent dispersed within the bond material, wherein the reaction agent chemically reacting with a surface of the workpiece during abrasion to form a reaction product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignees: Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc., Saint-Gobain Abrasifs
    Inventors: Jianhui Wu, Srinivasan Ramanath
  • Patent number: 8568205
    Abstract: An abrasive article includes a carrier element, an abrasive component, and a bonding region between the abrasive component and the carrier element. The abrasive component includes abrasive particles bound in a metal matrix. The abrasive component further includes a network of interconnected pores substantially filled with an infiltrant. The infiltrant has an infiltrant composition containing at least one metal element. The bonding region includes a bonding metal having a bonding metal composition containing at least one metal element. The bonding region is a region distinct from the carrier element and is a separate phase from the carrier element. An elemental weight percent difference is the absolute value of the difference in weight content of each element contained in the bonding metal composition relative to the infiltrant composition. The elemental weight percent difference between the bonding metal composition and the infiltrant composition does not exceed 20 weight percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignees: Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc., Saint-Gobain Abrasifs
    Inventors: Ignazio Gosamo, Sebastien Marcel Robert Douveneau
  • Patent number: 8360830
    Abstract: A grinding lamella (1) for being arranged on a rotatingly drivable grinding wheel (8), has at least two annular portions (4, 5, 6, 7, 24, 25, 26, 27, 34, 35, 36, 37, 44, 45, 46, 47) arranged at an angle (?) relative to one another. At least partially, the grinding lamellae (1) have a shape that deviates from the shape of a circular wheel with a central aperture. The grinding wheel (8) containing the grinding lamellae has at least one carrier element (2) and a least two such grinding lamellae (1) that partially overlap and, together, form an annular shape. If use is made of a pattern (14, 32) for a piece of material or a strip of material for producing the grinding lamellae (1), the grinding lamellae (1) are arranged side by side in the same direction so as to adjoin one another and offset relative to one another by 180°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Lukas-Erzett Vereinigte Schleif-und Fräswerkzeugfabriken GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Georg Klug
  • Patent number: 8360046
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutting tip for a cutting tool, which is used in cutting or drilling a brittle workpiece such as stone, bricks, concrete, and asphalt and has an excellent cutting speed and a long lifetime, a method of manufacturing the cutting tip, and a cutting tool including the cutting tip. The cutting tip includes an abrasive material and a sintered bonding material, wherein the bonding material is formed of a metal matrix; the metal matrix includes a phase II and/or pore having a certain size at a certain volume fraction; and the phase II is one of a non-metallic inclusion and ceramic. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a cutting tip having excellent cutting speed and a long lifetime at a much lower price.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: EWHA Diamond Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae-Woong Kim, Joong-Cheul Yun, Young-Choul Song, Sang-Beom Kim, Jung-Nam Park, Suk-Hyun Yoo, Tae-Bong Kim
  • Patent number: 8313358
    Abstract: A grind wheel includes a rim having at least one notch formed in the rim to grind a slot base of a blade retention slot within a rotor disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Krzysztof Barnat
  • Publication number: 20120167479
    Abstract: An abrasive element consisting substantially of a glass material that is at least partially devitrified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Steven Bradley Vaughan, Philip James Harrison
  • Patent number: 8182318
    Abstract: In a manufacturing method for a grinding wheel in which a plurality of wheel chips each composed of an abrasive grain layer containing superabrasive grains and a foundation layer are adhered to a core attached to a wheel spindle carried by a wheel head of a grinding machine to be drivingly rotatable about a rotational axis and in which a grinding surface formed on the abrasive grain layers grinds a workpiece, drivingly rotatably supported by a workpiece support device of the grinding machine, in contact at a grinding point, the method forms green wheel chips each having opposite ends in a wheel circumferential direction inclined relative to the wheel circumferential direction, bakes the green wheel chips to form baked wheel chips, and adheres the plurality of baked wheel chips to the core so that an oblique groove is formed between adjoining abrasive grain layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignees: Jtekt Corporation, Toyoda Van Moppes Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Soma, Masahiro Ido, Hitoshi Akahane, Tomohiro Inagaki, Yasuji Kunihiro, Tomoyasu Imai
  • Patent number: 8033278
    Abstract: A plurality of segmented chips are reinforced by applying an adhesive to the circumferentially opposite end portions thereof, and the adjoining segmented chips adjoining in the circumferential direction are adhered to the circumferential surface of a disc-like core with the adhesives at the circumferentially opposite end portions being not jointed with each other. Thus, the segmented chips can be prevented from being loaded with an unnatural force even when the disc-like core with the segmented chips adhered thereto expands and contracts radially due to thermal expansion and thermal contract. Thereby, expansion and contraction of the disc-like core do not impose a compression stress or the like on adhesives situated between adjoining segmented chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignees: Toyoda Van Moppes Ltd., JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Kitajima, Kunihiko Unno, Hiroshi Takehara, Takuma Kono, Shinji Soma
  • Patent number: 7904989
    Abstract: A rotary eraser assembly includes a rotary eraser, two discs, a threaded bolt and a nut. The rotary eraser includes, in each of two opposite sides, a cavity in communication with the aperture and at least one recess in the wall of the cavity. Each of the discs includes an annular lip disposed in the cavity in a related one of the sides of the rotary eraser and at least one block disposed in the recess in the related side of the rotary eraser. The threaded bolt is inserted through the rotary eraser and the discs. The nut is engaged with threaded bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Tsan Chung Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tao-Chuan Chen
  • Patent number: 7695353
    Abstract: In a grinding wheel in which abrasive tips for rough grinding and abrasive tips for finish grinding are alternately bonded to a periphery of a disk type base rotating about a rotation axis, each abrasive tip includes the abrasive layer formed by bonding abrasive grains and a lower layer overlaid and integrally for led with the abrasive layer. The abrasive tip is attached to the periphery of the base at the lower layer. A Young's modulus of the lower layer of the abrasive tip for finish grinding relative to a load acting on the grinding surface of the abrasive tip in an inward direction of the grinding wheel is less than that of the abrasive tip for rough grinding. Thereby, the surface of a workpiece can be both rough-ground and finish-ground with superhigh-precision surface roughness with using one grinding wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignees: Toyoda Van Moppes Ltd., JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Moroto, Kunihiko Unno, Masato Kitajima, Tomoyasu Imai, Yasuhisa Sekiya, Tomohiro Inagaki, Noboru Hiraiwa, Hiroshi Takehara, Toshiaki Sakurai, Shinji Soma
  • Patent number: 7661419
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting segment of a diamond tool for cutting or drilling a brittle workpiece such as stone, bricks, concrete and asphalt, and a diamond tool having the same. The invention allows superior cutting rate and lengthy useful life without suffering from R wear during cutting. In the cutting segment, a number of diamond particles are arranged in a plurality of plate-shaped layers stacked perpendicular to a cutting direction. Each of the diamond particle layers has a plurality of particle rows on a cutting surface. Further, at least two of the diamond particle layers are superimposed on at least one side of the cutting segment seen from the front of the cutting segment in cutting direction. The invention ensures uniform cutting by significantly reducing R wear that arises during cutting and thus enables superior cutting rate and longer useful life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignees: Ehwa Diamond Industrial Co., Ltd., General Tool, Inc.
    Inventors: Soo-Kwang Kim, Hee-Dong Park, Jong-Ho Kim, Joon-Ho Chang
  • Patent number: 7527050
    Abstract: An abrasive cutting blade is provided to achieve high-quality surface finishes at high feed rates. The blade is fabricated by electroplating fine abrasive onto a steel cathode disc to form a first layer, followed by electroplating a second layer of coarser abrasive onto the first layer. A third layer of fine abrasive is then electroplated onto the second layer. The resulting composite is then removed from the cathode disc to form a multi-grit, multi-layer, hub-less blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Abrasives Technology Company
    Inventor: Robert F. Corcoran, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7497212
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutting tool for cutting or drilling a brittle work piece such as stone, bricks, concrete and asphalt, and a method for manufacturing thereof. The present invention provides a cutting tool including a shank rotatably connected to a driving device and segments welded at predetermined intervals on an outer periphery of the shank. Each of the segments has abrasives attached thereto by brazing and the each segment is welded after the abrasives are brazed thereto. Also, a method for manufacturing thereof is provided. The present invention ensures improvement in cutting capacity and useful life of the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: EHWA Diamond Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Suk Choi, Tae Min Um, In Woo Kim
  • Patent number: 7353819
    Abstract: A processing tip and a cutting tool employing the same, including a tip body of a mixture of metal and abrasive material, and at least one projection coupled to the tip body, the projection extending in a direction perpendicular to a direction of a plane of contact between the tip body and a shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Dong Young Diamond Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong Soo Lee, Young Se Yoon, Yong Ki Shim
  • Patent number: 7337775
    Abstract: A cutting tip for a diamond tool and a diamond tool having the same which serve to cut or perforate various brittle materials such as stone, brick, concrete and asphalt. In particular, the cutting tip for a diamond tool and the diamond tool have diamond particles which are suitably arrayed to improve the cutting rate. A cutting tip for a diamond tool having diamond particles which are distributed in the cutting tip, wherein the diamond particles are inclined in respect to a cutting direction in a plane parallel to a cutting surface, and arrayed whereby grooved channels are formed successively overlapped on a brittle substance in cutting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Ehwa Diamond Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soo-Kwang Kim, Jong-Ho Kim, Hee-Dong Park
  • Patent number: 7207876
    Abstract: A flap wheel includes a hub with axially extending slots for receiving discrete packs, each pack including a clip receivable in the slot with walls projecting beyond the slot, and end caps fitting on the ends of the hub and including fingers interlaced with the ends of projecting packs projecting beyond the hub and dampening vibrations between the hub and packs. The end caps not only confine the flap packs in the hub slots, but also engage the projecting ends of the flap packs to dampen vibrations between the flap packs and the hub, and center the hub and tool on its axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Jason Incorporated
    Inventor: Craig R. Hoffheimer
  • Patent number: 7131903
    Abstract: The present invention is for a grinding device, such as a surface grinding disc or an annular grinding wheel, constructed from a plurality of abrasive segments arranged in an array thereon, wherein the plurality of abrasive segments are embedded in a matrix composition, and wherein the device is abapted to perform a “dry machining” operation. The abrasive segments may be resin bonded or vitrified and may include diamond or other superhard or superabrasive particles, such as, for example, cubic boron nitride (“cBN”), dispersed therein. Both the abrasive segments and the matrix composition include a dry lubricant, such as hexagonal boron nitride, molybdenum disulfide or graphite, dispersed therein. The abrasive segments further include a melt phase metal composition, such as bronze or other copper alloys, to aid in heat dissipation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Cinetic Landis Grinding Corp.
    Inventors: Edward E. Galen, Donald R. Schlie
  • Patent number: 7108598
    Abstract: A superhard compact having an improved superabrasive-substrate interface region design for use in drilling bits, cutting tools and wire dies and the like. This compact is designed to provide an interface design to manipulate residual stresses to enhance the working the strength of the compact. The compact is provided with a network on interface features that share common walls to form cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: U.S. Synthetic Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Keith Galloway
  • Patent number: 7097551
    Abstract: An abrasive tool insert is formed from a substrate having an inner face that has a center. The inner face slopes outwardly and downwardly from the center. An annular face slopes downwardly and outwardly from the inner face. An abrasive layer, having a center and a periphery forming a cutting edge, is integrally formed on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Diamond Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Charles Easley, Shan Wan
  • Patent number: 7086938
    Abstract: The invention relates to a grinding segment comprising a ceramic part manufactured of grinding ceramic material and provided with a fastening hole, through which the grinding segment is attached to a frame of a grinder stone by means of a fastening bolt. A fastening sleeve is arranged in the fastening hole, and the fastening bolt is supplied through the sleeve. The fastening sleeve is pressed against the frame of the grinder stone due to the fastening force. A space filled with bonding agent is formed between the ceramic part of the fastening sleeve to join them together. The invention further relates to a grinder stone comprising a cylindrical frame and grinding segments according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Metso Paper Inc.
    Inventor: Olli Tuovinen
  • Patent number: 7073496
    Abstract: An abrasive cutting blade is provided to achieve high-quality surface finishes at high feed rates. The blade is fabricated by electroplating fine abrasive onto a steel cathode disc to form a first layer, followed by electroplating a second layer of coarser abrasive onto the first layer. A third layer of fine abrasive is then electroplated onto the second layer. The resulting composite is then removed from the cathode disc to form a multi-grit, multi-layer, hub-less blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert F. Corcoran
  • Patent number: 6994615
    Abstract: An abrasive tool insert is formed from a substrate having an inner face that has a center, and annular face which annular face has a periphery. The inner face slopes outwardly and downwardly from the center at an angle ranging from between about 5° and 30° from the horizontal. The annular face surrounds by the inner face and terminates at the periphery. The annular face slopes downwardly and outwardly from the inner face at an angle of between about 20° and 75° from the horizontal. A continuous abrasive layer, having a center and a periphery forming a cutting edge, is integrally formed on the substrate and defines an interface therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Diamond Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Charles Easley, Shan Wan
  • Patent number: 6890250
    Abstract: A diamond blade having rim type cutting tip for use in apparatus such as cutting saw machine having a structure which rim type cutting tip is able to produce cutting chips with relative large size during cutting operation so that those chips are easily discharged outside with reducing the friction with cutting tip of blade, thereby to increase cutting ability and to prevent the chips dispersing in the air and giving rise to the bad effects to user's health and the contamination of environment. The diamond blade according to the present invention comprises a wheel body connected with a shaft of electric motor, and rim type cutting tip for cutting or grinding crushable materials disposed on the circumference of the wheel body and composed of at least two diamond layers longitudinally disposed parallel with the rotation direction of the blade in which diamond particles are included, and non-diamond portion disposed between the diamond layers in which diamond particles are not included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: EHWA Diamond Ind., Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soo Kwang Kim, So Young Yoon
  • Patent number: 6878051
    Abstract: A tool such as a circular diamond abrasive saw blade includes a circular metallic body having a substantially central aperture through which the saw blade is mountable to a rotatable drive shaft, and a plurality of cutters disposed in spaced relation along a periphery of said body. A plurality of gullets are located in spaced relation between the cutters, extending radially inward from the periphery. The gullets are sized and shaped in the form of alphanumeric or graphical indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Saint-Gobain Abrasives Technology Company
    Inventor: Kurt Brach
  • Patent number: 6872133
    Abstract: A saw blade for cutting hard workpieces, such as concrete or stone, characterized by improvement of the shape of a shank of the saw blade providing a plurality of cutting tips of the saw blade with a rotational force while the cutting tips are securely attached to the shank. The saw blade comprises a disc-shaped shank having an insertion hole formed at the center thereof, through which a rotating shaft of an electric-powered tool is inserted, and wave-shaped portions formed over a prescribed portion of the radius of the disc-shaped shank, and a plurality of cutting tips attached to the outer circumference of the shank for cutting a workpiece. The wave-shaped portions are spaced a prescribed distance from each other and alternately arranged on the front and rear surfaces of the disc-shaped shank. The prescribed portion of the radius of the disc-shaped shank is at a distance from the center of the insertion hole. The cutting tips contain particles of high hardness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Ehwa Diamond Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Weon Lee, Yong Hyun Park, Jong Suk Choi, Eui Seok Jung
  • Patent number: 6846233
    Abstract: A grinding wheel of segmental type including an inner cylindrical core portion, and an outer grinding portion consisting of a plurality of segments which have abrasive layers formed of abrasive grains bonded together with a glass bonding agent and which are bonded to an outer circumferential surface of the core portion with a synthetic resin layer interposed therebetween, wherein a linear thermal expansion coefficient ?seg (/° C.) of the segments and a linear thermal expansion coefficient ?cor (/° C.) of the core portion satisfy a formula |(?cor??seg)|?6×10?6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Noritake Co., Limited
    Inventors: Takeshi Nonogawa, Tomoharu Kondo
  • Patent number: 6827641
    Abstract: A grinding wheel including (a) a cylindrical main body having a grinding surface on its outer circumferential surface, and (b) a pair of synthetic resin layers disposed on respective axially opposite end faces of the cylindrical main body. Each of the synthetic resin layers covers at least a radially outer end portion of a corresponding one of the axially opposite end faces. The cylindrical main body has an abrasive layer which constitutes a radially outermost layer thereof so that the abrasive layer provides the grinding surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Noritake Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Yoshida, Takashi Nomura
  • Patent number: 6796891
    Abstract: A grinding wheel comprising an outer annular grinding portion, and an inner core portion which is located radially inwardly of the annular grinding portion to support the annular grinding portion and which is formed of a composition including as a major component a thermoplastic resin having a specific tensile strength of at least 12 MPa. The grinding wheel is manufactured in a process including a step of crushing the core portion of the used grinding wheel into pellets to be reclaimed as a material for the core portion, a step of preparing a composition for the core portion, which includes a mass of the pellets and a fresh thermoplastic resin having a specific tensile strength of at least 12 MPa, and a step of forming the core portion by using the composition in a molten state. The process may further include a step of reclaiming the grinding portion of the used grinding wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Noritake Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Terada
  • Patent number: 6793564
    Abstract: The rotary tool for producing profiles or cuts in hard fragile materials such as marble, granite, stone, glass and the like comprises at least one rotationally symmetrical body (1, 2) involving a configuration defined by the envelope of a multiplicity of circular parts (6-13) externally provided with diamond means. The circular parts are separated by grooves (20 to 25) and the configuration corresponds as a negative of profiles or cuts to be produced in the above-mentioned hard fragile materials, the arrangement being such that the production of profiles or cuts is effected jointly by abrasion on the part of the diamond means and by fragile-fracture breaking on the part of the grooves, and possible breaker inserts (30) with a metal pin which is hard or covered with industrial diamond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Inventor: Quintilio Lupi
  • Patent number: 6752141
    Abstract: A circular cut-off saw blade with a circular body having a peripheral edge, a plurality of curved slots spaced along the peripheral edge, each slot having an open outer end connecting with the peripheral edge, and defined by essentially parallel, continuously-curved sidewalls leading away from the peripheral edge, and cutting segments fixed to the peripheral edge between each pair of adjacent slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: PMI, Phoenix Metallurgical Incorporated
    Inventor: John B. Bertolet
  • Patent number: 6712682
    Abstract: A grinding wheel fixture (S) for the accommodation of a dressable grinding wheel (5) is provided with an annular groove (6, 6′, 8) for the accommodation of balancing lugs (9, 10), the balancing lugs (9, 10) being for manual balancing purposes displaceable and fixable within the annular groove (6, 6′, 8) with respect to their angular position. The balancing lugs (9, 10) are divisible into at least two groups, the groups being displaceable and fixable in any desirable angular position independent of each other. The grinding wheel fixture permits a simple, quick, and nevertheless highly exact dynamic balancing, whereby repeated re-measurement and repeated correction are no longer necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Reishauer AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Thyssen
  • Patent number: 6705936
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an abrading tool having a rotatable body of revolution having an axis of rotation. A peripheral workface is fixedly attached to the body of revolution. The workface is formed by a plurality of discrete, geometrically-shaped segments disposed in a contiguous relationship. Lines-of-juncture are formed by opposed edges of adjacent segments, whereby any diametrical plane, having at least one coplanar line-of-juncture, has a discontinuous coplanar curve, at least a portion thereof being the at least one coplanar line-of juncture, and whereby any longitudinal plane, having at least two coplanar lines-of-juncture, has opposed ends of the at least two coplanar lines-of-juncture being spaced apart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Wendt Dunnington Company
    Inventor: Jeffrey S. Wirth