Comprising Transverse-axis Roller Inside Hollow Work Patents (Class 72/113)
  • Patent number: 11633774
    Abstract: A machined article 100 includes a first member 101 including an inner peripheral portion 101a formed by a hole, and a second member including an outer peripheral portion 102a fitted into the inner peripheral portion 101a of the first member 101. At least either an inner peripheral recess 101b to be formed in part of the inner peripheral portion 101a of the first member 101 or an outer peripheral recess 102b to be formed in part of the outer peripheral portion 102a of the second member 102 is formed. A slit 103 penetrating from a front to a back is formed at a position to which the inner peripheral recess 101b or the outer peripheral recess 102b corresponds, between the first member 101 and the second member 102.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: HODEN SEIMITSI KAKO KENKYUSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chikara Murata
  • Patent number: 9101970
    Abstract: A groove processing device, which processes a cylinder groove to an inner circumference of a cylinder to protrude from an inner circumferential surface toward an outer circumferential surface side and extend in a center line direction of the cylinder, includes: a first groove processing unit that process both end portions of the cylinder groove in a circumferential direction thereof, and a second groove processing unit that processes a center portion of the cylinder groove in the circumferential direction thereof, wherein an outermost circumferential portion of each of the first groove processing unit and the second groove processing unit being formed to be a chevron shape so that a center portion thereof in the circumferential direction of the cylinder protrudes, and an inclination angle from a vertex portion in the outermost circumferential portion of the first groove processing unit is larger than that of the second groove processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SHOWA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenichi Shimai
  • Patent number: 9038428
    Abstract: A method of forming a groove in a pipe element by spin forming wherein the pipe element is pinched between an arbor revolving in an eccentric orbit of expanding diameter within the pipe element and an outer die which captures the pipe element. The pinching action causes a portion of the pipe element to move radially inwardly away from the die contrary to the direction of the motion of the arbor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Victaulic Company
    Inventors: Michael R. Novitsky, Earl Haas
  • Patent number: 9010164
    Abstract: In a method for forming a pipe element, a spin forming tool is revolved in an orbit of increasing diameter within the pipe element. The pipe element is captured within a die. The method forms a circumferential shoulder at one end. The shoulder has an outer diameter greater than the outer diameter of the pipe element. A groove is formed adjacent to the shoulder. The groove has a floor surface with an outer diameter less than the outer diameter of the pipe element. A bead is formed contiguous with the groove. The bead has an apex with an outer diameter greater than the outer diameter of the pipe element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Victaulic Company
    Inventors: Michael R. Novitsky, Earl Haas, Douglas R. Dole
  • Patent number: 8931320
    Abstract: A dimple-forming burnishing tool allowing easy adjustment of a dimple shape is provided. The dimple-forming burnishing tool has a mandrel attached on a rear-end side thereof to a processing machine for rotation, and a cylindrical frame rotatably externally fitted on a tip side of the mandrel and holding a rolling element and a pressing element that are driven by rotation of the mandrel, for forming dimples in an inner surface of a workpiece by rotating the mandrel with the frame disposed inside the inner surface of the workpiece. In the dimple-forming burnishing tool, the mandrel includes a dimple adjusting mechanism. The dimple adjusting mechanism includes: a rolling element rotating portion causing the rolling element to rotate without moving in and out radially of the frame; and a pressing element in-and-out rotating portion causing the pressing element to rotate while moving in and out radially of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Sugino Machine Limited
    Inventors: Shinya Miyauchi, Tetsuya Suzuki, Masaru Futamura
  • Publication number: 20140260480
    Abstract: In a method for forming a pipe element, a spin forming tool is revolved in an orbit of increasing diameter within the pipe element. The pipe element is captured within a die. The method forms a circumferential shoulder at one end. The shoulder has an outer diameter greater than the outer diameter of the pipe element. A groove is formed adjacent to the shoulder. The groove has a floor surface with an outer diameter less than the outer diameter of the pipe element. A bead is formed contiguous with the groove. The bead has an apex with an outer diameter greater than the outer diameter of the pipe element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Victaulic Company
    Inventors: Michael R. Novitsky, Earl Haas, Douglas R. Dole
  • Publication number: 20120160005
    Abstract: A dimple-forming burnishing tool allowing easy adjustment of a dimple shape is provided. The dimple-forming burnishing tool has a mandrel attached on a rear-end side thereof to a processing machine for rotation, and a cylindrical frame rotatably externally fitted on a tip side of the mandrel and holding a rolling element and a pressing element that are driven by rotation of the mandrel, for forming dimples in an inner surface of a workpiece by rotating the mandrel with the frame disposed inside the inner surface of the workpiece. In the dimple-forming burnishing tool, the mandrel includes a dimple adjusting mechanism. The dimple adjusting mechanism includes: a rolling element rotating portion causing the rolling element to rotate without moving in and out radially of the frame; and a pressing element in-and-out rotating portion causing the pressing element to rotate while moving in and out radially of the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinya MIYAUCHI, Tetsuya SUZUKI, Masaru FUTAMURA
  • Patent number: 7222509
    Abstract: The holder member 4 is rotatably supported at the tip portion 2a of the sliding member 2 placed on the guide face 1a of the guide member 1 arranged fixedly inside the cylinder C. The holder member 4 is inclined when the tip portion 3a of the profiling member 3 is inserted between the holder member 4 and the sliding member 2. Then the tapered end of the processing roller 6 is pushed into the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder where the sliding member 2 and the profiling member 3 move together in the axial direction of the cylinder, thereby to form a linear groove on the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignees: Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd., Yanagisawa Seiki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naomasa Tsuda, Kazuhiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 7204005
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an endless metal belt having metal rings built up and differing in circumference, includes the following steps of: a first circumference correction step of expanding each of the metal rings; and a second circumference correction step of expanding each of the metal rings after conducting a solution heat treatment to the expanded metal ring. In the manufacturing method, by executing the first circumference correction step and the second circumference correction step before and after the solution heat treatment, respectively, an expansion quantity for setting a circumference of each of the metal rings to become a predetermined length is attained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuji Fukada, Mitsutaka Akutsu, Masayuki Suzuki, Masaaki Yoshitome
  • Patent number: 7134303
    Abstract: A device (1) for socket-deforming an end of a tube, for example a tube of a heat exchanger, and for cutting that tube to a desired length, the cutting taking place at the end to be deformed. The The device (1) comprises a deformation and cutting member (5) to be inserted into the tube to be worked, the member (5) comprising deforming means (15) arranged to at least locally modify the inner diameter of the deformation and cutting member (5) by varying its perimetral dimensions, said deforming means (15) being arranged to cooperate, for effecting said dimensional variation, with actuator means (40) with a movable support (12), the deforming elements carrying cutting elements (31) for separating an end tube portion by acting from the inside of the tube without chip removal, in order to obtain a deformed tube of the required length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: OMTR S.R.L.
    Inventor: Ersilio Re
  • Patent number: 6530254
    Abstract: A rolling machine for processing a metal container which has a longitudinal seam and is made from a flat metal plate to form a cylindrical body having adjacent or overlapping butt edges securely joined to one another by folding or welding, whereupon a disk-shaped lower bottom and, optionally, a respective upper bottom, is welded or folded to the cylindrical body to form a closed container, or an open-topped container, respectively, is configured as a continuous rolling machine and includes an upper carrier frame; an upper rolling drum rotatably supported in the upper carrier frame; a lower drum stand; and a driven lower rolling drum rotatably mounted in the lower drum stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Mauser-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hans-Jürgen Beierling
  • Patent number: 6502443
    Abstract: A component rolling tool for applying a dynamic pressure groove comprising component rolling balls, cylindrical sleeve having an outer surface, an axis, a radius, a center hole, and guide holes, and being inserted into the bearing hole, and being relatively translated along the axis with respect to the bearing, and being relatively rotated about the axis with respect to the bearing, a moving roller coaxially inserted to the center hole, pressing the balls toward an outward direction of the guide holes and being moved along the axis in accordance with a pressure contact rotation between the balls and an inner peripheral surface of the bearing hole caused by a relative movement between the sleeve and the bearing, and a returning apparatus for returning the roller to an initial position at a desired timing in a state that the balls is released from a pressure contact with the inner peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoichi Saito
  • Publication number: 20020005054
    Abstract: A rolling machine for processing a metal container which has a longitudinal seam and is made from a flat metal plate to form a cylindrical body having adjacent or overlapping butt edges securely joined to one another by folding or welding, whereupon a disk-shaped lower bottom and, optionally, a respective upper bottom, is welded or folded to the cylindrical body to form a closed container, or an open-topped container, respectively, is configured as a continuous rolling machine and includes an upper carrier frame; an upper rolling drum rotatably supported in the upper carrier frame; a lower drum stand; and a driven lower rolling drum rotatably mounted in the lower drum stand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Publication date: January 17, 2002
    Inventor: Hans-Jurgen Beierling
  • Patent number: 6216511
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for smoothing a thick walled portion of a steel pipe produced by pressure-welding two opposite longitudinal edges of an open pipe with a squeeze roll after being subjected to induction heating. Outer and inner reduction rollers pressure sandwiches the thick walled portion from the outer and inner surfaces of the pipe, a support supports the inner reduction roller to be rotatable and containing a water passage for cooling water, a connecting rod connects the support device to a coupler and contains a further water passage for feeding cooling water to the water passage, and an anchor holds the connecting rod. In the a method of producing steel pipes two opposite longitudinal edges of the open pipe are preformed before being subjected to the induction heating and thereafter a thick walled portion is smoothed by the above-described apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Ohnishi, Masahiro Kagawa, Yoshnori Sugie, Koji Sugano, Nobuki Tanaka, Kingo Sawada, Masao Shoji, Takaaki Toyooka, Yuji Hashimoto, Motoaki Itadani, Akira Yorifuji, Masanori Nishimori
  • Patent number: 5927118
    Abstract: Making method of hot-rolled steel sheet comprises rough rolling a slab into a rough bar, heating the rough bar, guiding the rough bar with side guides and finish rolling the rough bar. The apparatus comprises a rough rolling mill, a heating device for heating the rough bar, side guides for guiding the rough bar and a finish rolling mill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Minote, Shozo Azuma, Sadakazu Masuda, Masaaki Yamamoto, Hisatomo Eda, Takumasa Terauchi, Masaru Miyake, Yoshimichi Hino, Hiroshi Sekine
  • Patent number: 5787746
    Abstract: A multivariable controller for a hot rolling mill which uses rolling stand speeds to control exit strip temperature and interstand tension, wherein the controller considers the inherent multivariable nature of the tension and temperature processes relative to individual rolling stand speeds by employing a cross-correlation transfer function matrix which is decoupled by modern control methods to yield more robust, stabler and faster control loops, thereby reducing disturbances and improving product quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Assignee: Alcan Aluminum Corporation
    Inventor: Adriano M. P. Ferreira
  • Patent number: 5710411
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hot reversing rolling mill for isothermally reducing a metal strip product. The mill includes a hot reversing mill stand with a pair of coilers positioned on opposite sides of the mill stand. At least one heater is positioned between one of the coilers and the mill stand with at least one strip cooling unit positioned between one of the coilers and the mill stand. A sensor is provided for sensing a strip parameter indicative of strip temperature as well as a controller for controlling each of the heating and cooling units in response to the sensed parameter. The rolling mill of the present invention can be utilized for isothermally rolling multiple passes of a metal strip product on the hot reversing mill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignees: Tippins Incorporated, Ajax Magnethermic Corporation
    Inventors: George W. Tippins, John E. Thomas, Nicholas V. Ross
  • Patent number: 5520038
    Abstract: A moveable cage which has a pattern of holes surrounding and concentric with a central axis of the cage, and a short hard pin located within the cage, and movable back and forth between the two ends of the cage. A single drive device attached to the cage causes both translation and rotation of the cage. As the cage is advanced and rotated, the interior pin is caused to move backward and forward as the balls roll over the surface of the pin, so that the wear on the balls and on the surface of the interior pin is evenly distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: Seagate Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Wesley R. Clark, David J. Jennings
  • Patent number: 5372028
    Abstract: A device for forming a constriction at an open end portion of a metal can having a cylindrical body includes:(1) a support member for supporting the bottom of a can and for pushing displacement thereof in an axial direction;(2) an annular anvil placed coaxially of this support member, on the side of which facing the support member an internal modeling surface is present which in the direction away from the support member has a form adapted to the desired shape of the constriction; and(3) a freely-rotating roller having a form adapted to the shape of the modeling surface, which roller can press the end portion of a positioned can forcefully against the modeling surface, which roller is carried by a support member which is driven in a circular path concentric to the annular modeling surface, wherein the axis of rotation of the freely-rotating roller extends at least approximately in the the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1994
    Assignee: Thomassen & Drijver-Verblifa N.V.
    Inventors: Gerrit W. Brilman, Johan W. Roeterdink
  • Patent number: 4866966
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for simultaneously producing multiple linear grooves on the internal surface of cylindrical tubes. The apparatus comprises an outer cage assembly with a mandrel assembly axially and slideably disposed therein. Additionally, each assembly is capable of independent nonrotational linear motion. The cage assembly is introduced into the inner diameter of the tube along their common cylindrical axis. A multiplicity of spherical roller elements, retained within circumferentially spaced ports near the entry end of the cage assembly maintain resting contact with the mandrel assembly disposed within the cage assembly. The entry end of the mandrel assembly is conically tapered to define a range of radial motion for the rollers upon linear movement of the mandrel assembly. This linear movement of the mandrel assembly generates radial expansion of the circumferentially spaced rollers into pressing contact with the pressure tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Assignee: Monroe Auto Equipment Company
    Inventor: Robert A. Hagen
  • Patent number: 4643011
    Abstract: In gas springs, shock absorbers and the like, the cylinder member may be provided with an interconnection groove on its internal face. This groove is to interconnect two working chambers on both sides of a piston member movably received within the cylinder member. This interconnection groove is produced by a roller member introduced into the cavity of the cylinder member and having an axis substantially perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder member. The roller member has an annular elevation on its circumferential surface which is to engage the internal face of the cylinder member. A support face profiled according to the profile of the external face of the cylinder member is brought into contact with the external face of the cylinder member. The elevation of the roller member is angularly aligned with a metal receiving groove of the support face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1987
    Assignee: Fichtel & Sachs AG
    Inventors: Felix Wossner, Wolfgang Geiling
  • Patent number: 4462235
    Abstract: A method for threading a closure having cylindrical walls which includes securing the closure in a stationary nest, inserting a threading tool having indentions on the outside thereof into the interior of the closure, moving the closure into a ring having projecting threads on the inside thereof around the outside walls of said closure, moving the threading tool into contact with the interior portion of the closure upon which threads are to be formed, and moving the threading tool around the interior portion of the stationary closure in an orbital path to form threads in the closure without rotating the threading tool about the threading tool axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1984
    Assignee: Specialty Packaging Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Roderick V. King
  • Patent number: 4420959
    Abstract: An apparatus for threading a closure having cylindrical walls which includes securing the closure in a stationary nest, inserting a threading tool having indentions on the outside thereof into the interior of the closure, moving the closure into a ring having projecting threads on the inside thereof around the outside walls of said closure, moving the threading tool into contact with the interior portion of the closure upon which threads are to be formed, and moving the threading tool around the interior portion of the stationary closure in an orbital path to form threads in the closure without rotating the threading tool about the threading tool axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: Ethyl Products Company
    Inventor: Roderick V. King
  • Patent number: 4398407
    Abstract: Powder metal first pressed into a green briquette having an inner cavity is then sintered to form a rigid part. The inner cavity of the part is next sized in a lap-like operation by a spherical-shaped tool. The tool is rotated in an orbital pattern comprising a series of elliptically-shaped cycles. As the tool rotates, small successive portions of a surface of the cavity are contacted by the tool. This lap-like interaction between the tool and cavity surface not only sizes the cavity to an exact dimension but improves the wear quality of the cavity surface by increasing the density of a wall of the cavity as well as providing an improved surface finish.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Assignee: AMSTED Industries Incorporated
    Inventor: Paul T. DeFay, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4337634
    Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in an externally held cylindrical expander for tubular ware with a central support for radially adjustable, spreading rest means and sector-shaped longitudinal elements borne by said rest means, in particular for the treatment of the tubular ware with liquid treatment means, the longitudinal elements extending between bodies tapering in the longitudinal direction, mounted between the ends of the support, and acting as entry and exit means, the improvement comprising: (a) rollers with axes of rotation transverse to the ware transport direction T mounted on the outsides of the individual longitudinal elements in transverse planes of the expander, (b) the rollers located in a common transverse plane covering the gaps between rollers located in an adjoining transverse plane, (c) the rollers from adjoining transverse planes mounted on one longitudinal element overlap by their ends at the center of the longitudinal element, (d) the other ends of the rollers project beyond th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1982
    Assignee: Lindauer Dornier Gesellschaft mbH.
    Inventor: Werner Strudel
  • Patent number: 4142392
    Abstract: An internal groove forming apparatus for heat exchanging pipes, having a cylindrical holder adapted to be loosely fitted in a heat exchanging pipe in concentric relationship, and a plurality of groove forming rolling tools arranged on the holder in a plurality of axially spaced, circumferentially oriented rows and rotatably supported on the holder in such a manner that the rolling tools of one of the two adjacent rows are disposed in staggered relationship with respect to those of the other and an imaginary circle circumscribing the rolling tools is interposed between an outer peripheral surface and an inner peripheral surface of the heat exchanging pipe. Axial relative movements of the heat exchanging pipe and the holder enable the rolling tools to form a number of substantially axially oriented grooves on the inner peripheral surface of the heat exchanging pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1979
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Izumi Ochiai, Masahiro Miyagi, Yoichi Wakabayashi