Thread Swage Patents (Class 470/204)
  • Patent number: 11826844
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: OSG CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazumitsu Harada
  • Patent number: 11661966
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventor: Amrik Singh Garcha
  • Patent number: 11649844
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Böllhoff Verbindungstechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Alexander Vorderwisch
  • Patent number: 11407049
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Peter Kopton
  • Patent number: 11229966
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: EMUGE-WERK RICHARD GLIMPEL GMBH & CO. KG FABRIK FÜR PRÄZISIONSWERKZEUGE
    Inventors: Helmut Glimpel, Jurgen Fenzel
  • Patent number: 11110531
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: OSG CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazumitsu Harada
  • Patent number: 11054208
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: A-Tec Holding AS
    Inventors: Anders Eckhoff Johansen, Hallvard Winterseth
  • Patent number: 9802262
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: OSG Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumitsu Harada, Hironori Yamamoto, Toshihiro Satoh
  • Patent number: 9272348
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Meadville Forging Co LP
    Inventors: Kenneth P. Griffard, Carl P. McLean, Michael Rhoades
  • Patent number: 9186739
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Felix Floeter
  • Patent number: 8998734
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: OSG Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaroh Norimatsu, Takayuki Matsushita, Hironori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8602696
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Inventor: Harry Leroy Ellis
  • Patent number: 7927221
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Emuge-Werk Richard Glimpel GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Helmut Glimpel, Dietmar Hechtle, Thomas Zeus
  • Patent number: 7815512
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: OSG Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakajima, Kentarou Norimatsu
  • Patent number: 7575520
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Adcock Technology Limited
    Inventor: Neil Walter Lindh Adcock
  • Publication number: 20090170617
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2009
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventor: Neil Walter Lindh Adcock
  • Publication number: 20080261709
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventor: Hans Muller
  • Patent number: 7399231
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: EMUGE-Werk Richard Glimpel GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Helmut Glimpel, Dietmar Hechtle
  • Patent number: 7354350
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Emuge-Werk Richard Glimpel GmbH & Co. KG Fabrik fir Prazisionswerkzeuge
    Inventors: Dietmar Hechtle, Helmut Glimpel
  • Patent number: 7112143
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Fette GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Muller
  • Publication number: 20040185948
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventor: Wolfgang Muller
  • Patent number: 6688988
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Balax, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas W. McClure
  • Patent number: 6685573
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: OSG Corporation
    Inventors: Kensuke Hikosaka, Haruyasu Andoh
  • Publication number: 20030224864
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2002
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Applicant: Balax, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas W. McClure
  • Publication number: 20030078109
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Inventors: Kensuke Hikosaka, Haruyasu Andoh
  • Patent number: 6514148
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: EMUGE-Werk Richard Glimpel Fabrik für Präzisionswerkzeuge vormals Moschkau & Glimpel
    Inventors: Helmut Glimpel, Dietmar Maier, Dietmar Liebau, Rainer Fritsch
  • Patent number: 6353989
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Jäckel, Heinz Molt
  • Publication number: 20010014625
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2000
    Publication date: August 16, 2001
    Inventors: Helmut Glimpel, Dietmar Maier, Dietmar Liebau, Rainer Fritsch
  • Patent number: 6217267
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: OSG Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroto Sugano, Shigeru Hayashi, Kazumitsu Minagawa