Thread Swage Patents (Class 470/204)
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Patent number: 12042873Abstract: A thread forming tap including a complete thread portion and a leading portion is to be screwed into a prepared hole provided in a workpiece so as to cause an inner circumferential surface of the prepared hole to be plastically deformed for thereby forming an internal thread corresponding to the external thread provided in the complete thread portion. A screw thread of the external thread has a leading flank and a trailing flank, which are to be positioned on a front side of the trailing flank and on a rear side of the leading flank, respectively, when the thread forming tap is screwed into the prepared hole. The screw thread is shaped such that, in the leading portion, an indentation depth into the workpiece made by the leading flank is smaller than an indentation depth into the workpiece made by the trailing flank.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: OSG CORPORATIONInventor: Kazumitsu Harada
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Patent number: 11826844Abstract: A ballscrew thread forming tap including a complete thread portion and a leading portion is to be screwed into a prepared hole provided in a workpiece so as to cause an inner circumferential surface of the prepared hole to be plastically deformed for thereby forming a ballscrew thread corresponding to an external thread provided in the complete thread portion. A screw thread of the external thread has a leading flank and a trailing flank, which are to be positioned on a front side of the trailing flank and on a rear side of the leading flank, respectively, when the ballscrew thread forming tap is screwed into the prepared hole. The screw thread is formed such that, in the leading portion, an indentation depth into the workpiece made by the leading flank is smaller than an indentation depth into the workpiece made by the trailing flank.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: OSG CORPORATIONInventor: Kazumitsu Harada
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Patent number: 11661966Abstract: A threaded fitting comprising a first plurality of threads from a first end of the fitting to a transition thread and a second plurality of threads from the transition thread to a second end of the fitting. The first plurality of threads is configured to provide a labyrinth type seal minimizing the migration of at least dust and/or gases across a thick-walled enclosure. The second plurality of threads is configured to engage a lock-nut in thin-walled enclosures, or a plurality of pre-formed threads within an aperture of thick-walled enclosures, for minimizing the migration of at least fluids/water across one of the thin- or thick-walled enclosure. The first and second plurality of threads are serially-arranged and may be used either thin or thick-walled enclosures to retard a passage of at least one of either gas, fluid, dust and flame.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITEDInventor: Amrik Singh Garcha
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Patent number: 11649844Abstract: A thread element mode of plastic, a connection assembly consisting of a support part made of plastic into which the thread element made of plastic has been screwed by creating a counter-thread, a method for manufacturing the connection as well as a method for manufacturing the thread element. The thread element is characterized by an axial piece on which the circumferential windings of a thread turn are interrupted by at least two chip flutes. The resulting winding areas form a cutting web and an inhibition web, whereby the cutting web extends radially beyond the inhibition web.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Böllhoff Verbindungstechnik GmbHInventor: Alexander Vorderwisch
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Patent number: 11407049Abstract: A tapping tool for producing a threaded bore having an internal thread in a workpiece. The tapping tool has a main cutting edge on its drill tip and a thread profile trailing in a tapping direction. The method has a tapping stroke in which the tapping tool is driven into the workpiece at a tapping feed rate in the tapping direction and at a tapping speed synchronized therewith and the main cutting edge of the tool produces a core hole bore and the tool thread profile forms an internal thread on the inner wall of the core hole bore. Chips are produced in the tapping stroke, which are conveyed out of the threaded bore in a chip removal direction opposite to the tapping direction and collide with thread flanks of the internal thread facing toward the chips to be removed.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: AUDI AGInventor: Peter Kopton
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Patent number: 11229966Abstract: A tool and related method for the non-cutting production or reworking of a thread in/on a workpiece comprises a forming area which is rotatable about a tool axis (A), the forming area having a plurality of pressing lobes protruding or projecting radially outwards away from the tool axis (A) for producing or post-reworking the thread by pressing the pressing lobes into the workpiece surface. The pressing lobes are arranged in succession along a shaping curve which substantially spirally encircles the tool axis (A), and the pitch of the shaping curve corresponds substantially to the pitch of the thread to be produced or reworked. The pressing lobes form at least one pressing ridge, wherein adjacent to the at least one pressing ridge a flaring ridge with a lower height HB than the height of the pressing ridge HD is formed.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: EMUGE-WERK RICHARD GLIMPEL GMBH & CO. KG FABRIK FÜR PRÄZISIONSWERKZEUGEInventors: Helmut Glimpel, Jurgen Fenzel
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Patent number: 11110531Abstract: An object is to provide a thread forming tap configured to obtain an inside diameter dimension of a female thread having a targeted processing accuracy more easily than in related art. A thread forming tap (1) is a cold forming tap for forming a female thread by causing plastic deformation of a prepared hole of a workpiece, and includes a male thread portion (3) that protrudes in a thread shape in a radial direction. The male thread portion includes at least one protruding portion (5), which includes a plurality of first thread ridges (51) arranged in an axial direction and that protrude in the radial direction and a first root (52) formed between the first thread ridges adjacent to each other in the axial direction, and at least one adjustment portion (6), which is arranged with the at least one protruding portion in one lead of the male thread portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: OSG CORPORATIONInventor: Kazumitsu Harada
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Patent number: 11054208Abstract: The present invention relates to a coupling member for quick and easy attachment and detachment of a firearm accessory to a muzzle of the firearm, the coupling member comprising a female member and a male member, wherein the female member is provided with a throughgoing bore, the female member further being provided with a number of successive threaded portions and unthreaded portions around a circumference of the throughgoing bore and wherein the male member around an outer circumference is provided with the same number of successive threaded portions and unthreaded portions as the female member.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: A-Tec Holding ASInventors: Anders Eckhoff Johansen, Hallvard Winterseth
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Patent number: 9802262Abstract: A thread forming tap includes a screw thread formed into a male thread shape with margin portions disposed to project in radial direction and relief portions having a diameter smaller than the margin portions, the margin portions and relief portions alternatively arranged and, thread forming tap causes the margin portions of the screw thread to cut into a surface layer portion of a prepared hole formed in a work to plastically deform the surface layer portion to form a female thread, margin portions are formed into a ridge line shape with a width dimension of zero at least at a thread bottom of the screw thread, and margin portions are formed into a ridge line shape with a width dimension of zero in a range from a thread bottom of the screw thread to a position between the thread bottom and an effective diameter position of the screw thread.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2012Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: OSG CorporationInventors: Kazumitsu Harada, Hironori Yamamoto, Toshihiro Satoh
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Patent number: 9272348Abstract: In a part having a surface, a bolt hole is provided extending into the part from the surface. Threads in the hole have crests with a fishmouth shape at the crests defined by a central concave portion and raised corner portions at ends of the concave portion. At least one start thread preceding the threads with the fishmouth shape crests is provided having a substantially flat crest without the fishmouth shape. A tap for manufacturing the threaded bolt hole has a first thread section and a second thread section. The second thread section has a plurality of threads for creating at least one improved start thread in the hole to be threaded, minor diameters at valleys between the threads of the second thread section being greater than minor diameters at valleys between threads of the first thread section or major diameters at crests of the threads of the second thread section being greater than major diameters at crests of the first thread section.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Meadville Forging Co LPInventors: Kenneth P. Griffard, Carl P. McLean, Michael Rhoades
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Patent number: 9186739Abstract: A method for creating an inner thread in an opening of a body, using a thread cutter, including the following steps: a) the thread cutter having an axial lengthwise cutout adjacent to which there are blades that project radially outwards and that have cutting edges, is inserted into the opening, whereby several cutting edges arranged one after the other in the longitudinal direction are provided on the lengthwise cutout, which are offset with respect to each other in the circumferential direction, and which are pushed into the groove when the thread cutter is being inserted, b) the cutting tool is rotated by a maximum of 360° in order to create the entire inner thread in at least one projection next to the groove, whereby the cutting edges penetrate into the projection one after the other as the thread cutter turns, and c) the thread cutter is moved axially out of the opening.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventor: Felix Floeter
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Patent number: 8998734Abstract: A thread forming tap has a full thread portion and a leading portion contiguous with the full thread portion and reducing in diameter toward its tip. The full thread and leading portions are provided with external thread on which lobes and recesses are alternately formed. When ? represents an angle around a tool center line toward a thread forming side, the shape of the lobe varies along a quadratic curve relative to angle ? so that relief amount increases toward inflection point angle ?. However, in a rough plastic deformation section where angle ? is greater than inflection point angle ? and exceeds the working region, the shape varies along an Archimedean curve with clearance angle ?1 so that the relief amount increases linearly relative to angle ?, and a margin section is substantially zero or within a range where angle ? is less than or equal to 1°.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2009Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: OSG CorporationInventors: Kentaroh Norimatsu, Takayuki Matsushita, Hironori Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8602696Abstract: A form tap for tapping an article may include a longitudinal shank having a mounting end opposite a tip, the shank having a shank length, and a thread portion with a plurality of threads for engaging a surface of the article. The thread portion includes a first region, a second region and a third region. The form tap includes a plurality of lobes extending though the first and second regions from the tip to the second region end, the lobes being spaced circumferentially around the shank and lying on a crest circumference. Each lobe may be disposed between respective first and second convex relief portions and each relief portion may be spaced radially inward from the crest circumference. Each lobe has a lobe width, the lobe width at the second region end being greater than the lobe width at the tip. The third region is free of lobes.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2009Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Inventor: Harry Leroy Ellis
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Patent number: 7927221Abstract: The tool for the chipless production of a thread, in particular for producing an internal thread, is in its forming height, pitch of the pressing lands and/or pressing surfaces adapted to the material of the workpiece in a special manner.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2006Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Emuge-Werk Richard Glimpel GmbH & Co.Inventors: Helmut Glimpel, Dietmar Hechtle, Thomas Zeus
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Patent number: 7815512Abstract: A following margin of a following flank of an external thread is shifted more in a screw-rotation direction than a leading margin of a leading flank. Thus, during biting, the following margin bites first, thereby suppressing a force that pushes back a tap and reducing a tapping torque. Because margin portions can be disposed parallel to an axis of a thread forming tap, working is easy and manufacture can be performed inexpensively. When, in forming an external thread by grinding by a grinding abrasive, an inclination angle of the axis of a tap blank and an abrasive axis of the grinding abrasive is equal to a lead angle of the external thread, the margins are formed symmetrically across a root. On the other hand, if the inclination angle is made greater than the lead angle, the following margin can be shifted in the screw-rotation direction, enabling manufacture to be performed as easily and inexpensively as in a conventional case.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2005Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: OSG CorporationInventors: Takayuki Nakajima, Kentarou Norimatsu
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Patent number: 7575520Abstract: The present invention provides a tap (10) adapted for formation of female screw-threads in a plurality of metal parts. Each female screw-thread is capable of imparting translational motion to a threaded second member engaged therewith, the threaded second member having a matching male screw-thread and the translational motion occurring on relative rotation between the first metal part and the threaded second member. The tap (10) is fluteless and comprises a threaded portion (23) with a triangular form thread (11) with an angle of thread (gamma) in the range 29°-40° and radiussed crests (16). The present invention also relates to a method of using such a tap.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2004Date of Patent: August 18, 2009Assignee: Adcock Technology LimitedInventor: Neil Walter Lindh Adcock
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Publication number: 20090170617Abstract: The present invention provides a tap (10) adapted for formation of female screw-threads in a plurality of metal parts. Each female screw-thread is capable of imparting translational motion to a threaded second member engaged therewith, the threaded second member having a matching male screw-thread and the translational motion occurring on relative rotation between the first metal part and the threaded second member. The tap (10) is fluteless and comprises a threaded portion (23) with a triangular form thread (11) with an angle of thread (gamma) in the range 29°-40° and radiussed crests (16). The present invention also relates to a method of using such a tap.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2009Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventor: Neil Walter Lindh Adcock
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Publication number: 20080261709Abstract: The invention relates to a device (101) to provide helical rotating projection of a thread-forming thread core (102). According to the invention, internally in a cylindrical space (103) of a fluid cylinder-piston device (104), there is arranged a movably actuatable piston (105) provided with a number of helical holes (106). In that connection, a helical (109) shaft (108) shape-adapted to the respective hole (106) and helix (107) is receivable in said respective helical hole (106), and that the respective shaft (108) is, via a gear (110), connected with a mechanism (111) for the transmission of rotating (112) as well as axial (113) displacement motion to said thread-formed thread core (102). Finally, a stop member (114), which is arranged to limit the displacement motion (115) of the piston, is arranged internally in the cylinder space (103) of said piston cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Inventor: Hans Muller
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Patent number: 7399231Abstract: The tool for producing a screw thread in a workpiece comprises a) at least one thread-producing region, which comprises a1) at least one thread-milling region, which operates by removing material, as well as a2) at least one thread-forming region, which operates without the removal of material, b) such that the thread-milling region(s) and the thread-forming region(s) of each thread-producing region b1) are coupled or connected to one another in such a way that they rotate or can be rotated together about a tool axis, and b2) are disposed along an outside circumference of the thread-producing region so as to be offset from one another, i.e. situated one behind the other or following one another, in a direction of rotation about the tool axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2005Date of Patent: July 15, 2008Assignee: EMUGE-Werk Richard Glimpel GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Helmut Glimpel, Dietmar Hechtle
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Patent number: 7354350Abstract: Implementations of the present invention include a thread-rolling tap, which is designed and intended for the non-cutting finishing of a previously created thread, in particular internal thread. For example, one implementation of such a tool includes at least one thread-forming portion that rotates about a tool axis, the thread-forming portion having multiple forming wedges. The forming wedges in cross-section include two flanks that diverge from one another beginning at a forming wedge tip. The forming wedge tip can be shaped as any of an acute angle, a rounded region, or a flattened region. At least one of the two flanks also include at least one expansion for positioning the forming wedge in the previously created thread. Additional implementations of the invention relate to a methods of manufacturing such a tool, as well as to methods of creating a thread.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2005Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Emuge-Werk Richard Glimpel GmbH & Co. KG Fabrik fir PrazisionswerkzeugeInventors: Dietmar Hechtle, Helmut Glimpel
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Patent number: 7112143Abstract: Cold thread forming tap or screw tap with a shaft, said shaft having a chuck portion at the one end and a forming or cutting profile portion on the other end, the forming or cutting profile portion being realised as a separate profile element and being fixable centrically and secured against rotation on the shaft by means of a fixing device, characterised in that the profile element has a small axial length and on the outside a lead-in or starting tap cone, respectively, that juts and/or indentations are formed at the end of the shaft and on that side of the profile element facing the shaft, which interlock in a positively fitting manner, that an automatic centring of the profile element takes place on the shaft when the profile element is put onto the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2002Date of Patent: September 26, 2006Assignee: Fette GmbHInventor: Wolfgang Muller
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Publication number: 20040185948Abstract: Cold thread forming tap or screw tap with a shaft, said shaft having a chuck portion at the one end and a forming or cutting profile portion on the other end, the forming or cutting profile portion being realised as a separate profile element and being fixable centrically and secured against rotation on the shaft by means of a fixing device, characterised in that the profile element has a small axial length and on the outside a lead-in or starting tap cone, respectively, that juts and/or indentations are formed at the end of the shaft and on that side of the profile element facing the shaft, which interlock in a positively fitting manner, that an automatic centring of the profile element takes place on the shaft when the profile element is put onto the shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2004Publication date: September 23, 2004Inventor: Wolfgang Muller
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Patent number: 6688988Abstract: A thread forming tap comprising a shank section, a body section extending longitudinally from the shank section, a helical thread formed on the body section having radially converging flank portions and an undercut ramp formed in at least one of said flank portions at a predetermined angle.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Balax, Inc.Inventor: Thomas W. McClure
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Patent number: 6685573Abstract: A thread forming tap which is capable of reducing tapping torque as well as improving durability by avoiding an increase of an apparent area of margins of external thread that causes interference with a grinding stone. The thread forming tap has an external thread in a screw shape with alternately linked margins and reliefs for forming an internal thread by plastic deformation upon having the margins of the external thread bite into a surface of a prepared hole of a workpiece. A helix of the margins of the external thread is in a direction opposite to a direction of a helix of the external thread relative to an axis of the tap.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2002Date of Patent: February 3, 2004Assignee: OSG CorporationInventors: Kensuke Hikosaka, Haruyasu Andoh
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Publication number: 20030224864Abstract: A thread forming tap comprising a shank section, a body section extending longitudinally from the shank section, a helical thread formed on the body section having radially converging flank portions and an undercut ramp formed in at least one of said flank portions at a predetermined angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2002Publication date: December 4, 2003Applicant: Balax, Inc.Inventor: Thomas W. McClure
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Publication number: 20030078109Abstract: A thread forming tap which is capable of reducing tapping torque as well as improving durability by avoiding an increase of an apparent area of margins of external thread that causes interference with a grinding stone. The thread forming tap has an external thread in a screw shape with alternately linked margins and reliefs for forming an internal thread by plastic deformation upon having the margins of the external thread bite into a surface of a prepared hole of a workpiece. A helix of the margins of the external thread is in a direction opposite to a direction of a helix of the external thread.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2002Publication date: April 24, 2003Inventors: Kensuke Hikosaka, Haruyasu Andoh
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Patent number: 6514148Abstract: A thread rolling tap including a stem portion, and a thread forming portion having a body with a plurality of thread turns formed on the body and including a front entrance region and a guide region, with the thread turns having each, in the front region in vicinity of the body, inclined pressure flanks forming side surfaces of an acute angle and connected by an outer, arranged radially outwardly with respect to the body, pressure surface formed as a flattening having opposite rounded edges extending along a circumference of a respective thread turn.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2000Date of Patent: February 4, 2003Assignee: EMUGE-Werk Richard Glimpel Fabrik für Präzisionswerkzeuge vormals Moschkau & GlimpelInventors: Helmut Glimpel, Dietmar Maier, Dietmar Liebau, Rainer Fritsch
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Patent number: 6353989Abstract: A selected portion of a surface of a metallic workpiece such as the end surface of a tubular workpiece, is provided with one or more recesses by resorting to a tool having a preferably pointed tip and being driven into the surface to displace the material of the workpiece substantially transversely of the thus obtained recess. The latter can be used to facilitate the establishment of a separable connection between the workpiece and a substantially disc-shaped section of a cover or housing in a friction clutch for use in motor vehicles. The tool can be left in the recess to serve as a locating or centering device for the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2000Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignee: LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau GmbHInventors: Johann Jäckel, Heinz Molt
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Publication number: 20010014625Abstract: A thread rolling tap including a stem portion, and a thread forming portion having a body with a plurality of thread turns formed on the body and including a front entrance region and a guide region, with the thread turns having each, in the front region in vicinity of the body, inclined pressure flanks forming side surfaces of an acute angle and connected by an outer, arranged radially outwardly with respect to the body, pressure surface formed as a flattening having opposite rounded edges extending along a circumference of a respective thread turn.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2000Publication date: August 16, 2001Inventors: Helmut Glimpel, Dietmar Maier, Dietmar Liebau, Rainer Fritsch
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Patent number: 6217267Abstract: A cold forming tap with an internal finish cutting edge includes an external thread portion having radially outwardly protruding portions and relief portions which are alternately located in a helical direction in which an external thread extends. The protruding portions are forced into a surface of a prepared hole which has been previously formed through a workpiece, for thereby forming an internal thread on the surface. The improvement comprises: at least one of the protruding portions having a root diameter larger than that of the other of the protruding portions, the at least one of the protruding portions being removed down to a root of the external thread, and a flute being formed in a portion corresponding to the root of the at least one of the protruding portions, so as to provide the cutting edge in the portion corresponding to the root.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1999Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: OSG CorporationInventors: Hiroto Sugano, Shigeru Hayashi, Kazumitsu Minagawa