Surface And Cutting Edge Testing Patents (Class 73/104)
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Patent number: 11982630Abstract: The present invention generally relates to assigning and reporting the cleanliness of objects and areas, and particularly relates to utilization of object and area cleanliness states as determined by the opposing processes of cleaning and dirtying detected through various methods to provide an indication of the state of cleanliness potentially utilized to alter the process of cleaning and/or dirtying to reach a desired state of cleanliness. Detection of the cleaning and dirtying operations can be performed automatically through image processing and behavior detection of still images/video indicating the activity taking place in the area of interest and time. The state of cleanliness can then be reported to interested parties as textual reports and/or augmented reality overlays on still images/video.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: DATAGARDEN, INC.Inventors: Clint Matthew Harvey, John Edward Moody
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Patent number: 11969844Abstract: A method for detecting and compensating CNC tools being implemented in an electronic device, receives from a detector first parameters and second parameters in respect of a first tool. Such first parameters include at least one of service life, blade break information, and blade chipping information of the first tool, and such second parameters include at least one of length extension information, length wear information, radial wear information, and blade thickness wear information of the first tool. Based on the first parameters, instructions to process the workpiece are transmitted or not. Upon receiving the second parameters, instructions to adjust operation of the first tool are transmitted, to compensate for deterioration in normal use.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Fulian Yuzhan Precision Technology Co., LtdInventors: Hsing-Chih Hsu, Zhao-Yao Yi, Lei Zhu, Chang-Li Zhang, Er-Yang Ma, Chih-Sheng Lin, Feng Xie, Ming-Tao Luo
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Patent number: 11953424Abstract: A method for the surface treatment of flat products made of aluminium alloys. The method includes pickling the flat product, in particular for degreasing the flat product. The method includes carrying out a colour measurement on the surface of the flat product to determine at least one measured colour value after pickling the flat product. The method includes generating output information on the basis of the at least one measured colour value. The output information is indicative of compliance with at least one rule for the measured colour value and outputting or triggering the output of the output information. The invention further relates to a device for the surface treatment of flat products made of aluminium alloys and to a use of a colorimeter which is configured to determine at least one measured colour value in a surface treatment of flat products made of aluminium alloys.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SPEIRA GMBHInventors: Dirk Zentzis, Gernot Nitzsche, Kathrin Eckhard
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Patent number: 11947273Abstract: A conductive roller includes: a core member including an outer surface along and about an axial line thereof; and a surface layer arranged along the outer surface of the core member. The surface layer includes a conductive portion, and a surface roughness imparting material in a form of particles dispersed in the conductive portion. An average particle size of the surface roughness imparting material is in a range of 6 micrometers or greater and less than 10 micrometers. The number of particles of the surface roughness imparting material per unit area of the surface layer is in a range of 3.5×105 particles per mm2 or greater and 7.5×105 particles per mm2 or less. An average thickness of the surface layer is in a range of 0.2 micrometers or greater and 5.5 micrometers or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo Suzuki, Atsushi Ikeda, Satoshi Fukuoka, Kenji Sasaki
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Patent number: 11945066Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for online monitoring defect of a milling tool, comprising the steps of: 1) installing a vibration sensor module on a machine tool spindle; 2) acquiring initial sample data; 3) setting a threshold value ?S0 with a time interval of T; 4) measuring vibration signals of n blades in x, y and z directions in each period T0; 5) shaping to obtain n strong vibration cutting wave data respectively formed by n blades in x and y directions in each period T0; 6) analyzing and processing the strong vibration cutting wave data to obtain the difference ?S0/ between the cutting strong vibration wave areas formed by each blade in each period T0; 7) outputting a blade wear or defect signal to a display alarm module according to the constraint conditions by a data comparing and analyzing module, and giving an alarm by a display alarm module.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: CHONGQING UNIVERSITYInventors: Huajun Cao, Degui Qiu, Hu Liu, Yingqing Chai
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Patent number: 11931843Abstract: A turning tool includes a tool body extending along a tool axis and having a base on a tip of the tool body, a cutting insert detachably attached to the base, and a measurement device attached to the tool body. The measurement device has a first distance sensor which measures a distance to an object located radially outward of the tool axis.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuharu Imai, Yosuke Sato
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Patent number: 11918171Abstract: A detection system including an autonomous collection device that is capable of moving on a floor surface and for collecting an object on the floor surface, and a station device for detecting an analyte from the object collected from the floor surface by the autonomous collection device. The autonomous collection device includes a moving part for moving on the floor surface, a primary electric blower for sucking the object on the floor surface, and a dust container for storing the sucked object. The station device includes a transfer pipe fluidically connected to the dust container of the autonomous collection device when the autonomous collection device is positioned in a home position, and a virus detection part for detecting the analyte from the object transferred from the dust container through the transfer pipe.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Nakayama, Mikiya Nakata
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Patent number: 11916449Abstract: An assembly method and a fixing device for an electric motor are provided. The assembly method includes: carrying out preparation, wherein a stator of the electric motor is segmented, in the circumferential direction, into at least two stator segments, and a rotor of the electric motor is segmented, in the circumferential direction, into at least two rotor segments; carrying out pre-assembly, wherein the stator segments and the rotor segments are coaxially fixed to fixing devices to form segment modules, and predetermined gaps are maintained radially between the stator segments and the rotor segments; carrying out adjustment, wherein at least two fixing devices are moved and adjusted such that the stator segment and the rotor segment of the adjacent segment modules are mutually attached and aligned with each other along segmental end faces in the circumferential direction; carrying out assembly; and carrying out dismounting, and dismounting the fixing devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: XINJIANG GOLDWIND SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jiuyang Luo, Nan Hou
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Patent number: 11903847Abstract: An implant-trialing instrument for objectively determining a recommended implant size based at least in part on results of inserting a pressure sensitive trial implant into the intervertebral space. The trial implant instrument can include a handle coupled to a pressure sensitive trial. The handle can include an elongate shaft. The pressure sensitive trial implant can be disposed on a distal end of the elongate shaft and include a superior end plate surface configured to engage a first end plate of a first vertebral body and an inferior end plate configured to engage a second end plate of a second vertebral body. The pressure sensitive trial implant also includes a pressure sensitive film disposed on at least one of the superior end plate and the inferior end plate.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Zimmer Biomet Spine, Inc.Inventors: Vijay N Permeswaran, Anup Gandhi
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Patent number: 11898616Abstract: A machine tool includes a machine element, an active vibration damper arranged on a region of the machine tool for damping a vibration of the machine element, and a vibration sensor facility arranged to detect the vibration of the machine element at a first point and at a second point of the machine tool, with the vibration of the machine element to be detected being smaller at the second point than at the first point. The active vibration damper is designed to damp the vibration of the machine element as a function of a variation between a first actual value detected by the vibration sensor facility at the first point and a second actual value detected by the vibration sensor facility at the second point.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jochen Bretschneider, Elmar Schäfers, Torsten Schür
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Patent number: 11883884Abstract: Tool for machining a workpiece, comprising a cutting insert having at least one cutting edge, a cutting insert holder comprising a cutting insert receptacle for receiving the cutting insert, a clamping element acting as a clamping wedge, which can be fastened in the cutting insert receptacle for clamping the cutting insert in the cutting insert holder, a fastening element for fastening the clamping element in the cutting insert holder and simultaneously clamping the cutting insert in the cutting insert holder, and a sensor configured to generate a measurement signal that is dependent on a force acting on the cutting insert, wherein the clamping element comprises a recess in which the sensor is arranged.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Hartmetall-Werkzeugfabrik Paul Hom GmbHInventor: Tobias Kemmler
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Patent number: 11875830Abstract: A data storage device (DSD) includes a base-deck, a disc above the base-deck, and a shaft extending perpendicular from the base-deck. The DSD also includes a head stack assembly (HSA) including a head gimbal assembly having a load beam and a head at a first end of the HSA. The head interacts with a surface of the disc. The HSA also includes a second end movably mounted on the shaft. The DSD additionally includes an elevator that linearly moves the HSA along the shaft to adjust a distance between the load beam and the surface of the disc in response to receiving a feedback signal associated with the interaction of the head with the surface of the disc. The feedback signal is one of a plurality of feedback signals employed by the elevator to adjust the distance between the load beam and the surface of the disc.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Matthew Aaron Carper, Anil J. Reddy, Brett R. Herdendorf, Riyan Alex Mendonsa
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Patent number: 11851322Abstract: A sensor package comprises a MEMS sensor chip, a cover arranged over a first main surface of the MEMS sensor chip, said cover being fabricated from a mold compound, and an electrical through contact extending through the cover and to electrically couple the sensor package to a circuit board arranged over the cover.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Rainer Markus Schaller, Jochen Dangelmaier
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Patent number: 11850698Abstract: An automatic knife sharpening machine may include a vice to grip a blade of a knife and a pair of grind wheels to grind material from the blade. The machine may include a scanner to determine a profile of an edge of the blade, and a sharpness sensor to determine a sharpness level of the edge. The machine may include a controller. The controller may perform a first sharpening pass on the knife by moving the grind wheels into contact with the blade, and advancing the grind wheels longitudinally along the blade from adjacent the vice towards a tip of the blade with the grind wheels in contact with the blade. The controller may determine, using the sharpness sensor, the sharpness level of the edge after the first sharpening pass and perform at least one second sharpening pass when the determined sharpness level is less than a threshold sharpness level.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: The Hillman Group, Inc.Inventors: Whitfield Janes Fowler, Sean Stone, Ari Bennett, Jeffrey Kastenbaum, David Frederick Lyons, Dmitriy Kolchin
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Patent number: 11830254Abstract: A recognition processor performs recognition processing to recognize an external environment of a mobile object, based on image data acquired by an imaging unit that takes an image of an external environment of the mobile object. The recognition processor includes a plurality of arithmetic cores. The plurality of arithmetic cores include a recognition processing core that performs the recognition processing, and an abnormality detection core that detects an abnormality of a data processing system including the imaging unit and the recognition processor, based on the abnormality of the output from the recognition processing core.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Daisuke Horigome
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Patent number: 11821843Abstract: An electronic component inspection apparatus includes: a holding unit that holds an electronic component having a component body and terminals; light sources and reflection plates that irradiate reflected light at least on the terminals of the electronic component held by the holding unit, from the side of a back face opposite to a mounting face of the electronic component; a camera that captures an image of the electronic component under irradiation of the reflected light, from the side of the mounting face; and a control unit that controls processing related to inspection of the electronic component, on the basis of the image of the electronic component captured by the camera.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Inventors: Daichi Gemba, Junji Morita
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Patent number: 11784101Abstract: In one example, a semiconductor device comprises a substrate comprising a conductive structure, an electronic component over a top side of the substrate and electrically coupled with the conductive structure, a lid structure over the substrate and over the electronic component, and a vertical interconnect in the lid structure extending to a top surface of the lid structure and electrically coupled with the conductive structure. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Amkor Technology Singapore Holding Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Shaun Bowers, Bora Baloglu
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Patent number: 11774368Abstract: A light table apparatus and inspection methods are provided for detecting fluid-transmitting defects in heat exchanger plates using light. The method includes positioning the heat exchanger plate on top of a support frame of the apparatus, and covering peripheral portions of the heat exchanger plate with at least one light-shielding element. In some examples, the light-shielding element may be edge mats that cover peripheral portions of the plate, or alternatively, may be a gasket-like template that engages a resilient light seal with profiles of the heat exchanger plate surrounding a central portion thereof. The ambient environment is darkened and illumination units in the support frame are activated, and light energy can only be transmitted through defects in the central portion. Thus, a quick manual inspection process is provided for such plates, and defects as small as 15 microns are accurately detected when using the light table apparatus and inspection methods.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Inventor: Rick Ross
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Patent number: 11730575Abstract: Disclosed are example embodiments of a milling bur specifically designed to mill a dental prosthesis from a full-sintered zirconia blank. The milling bur comprises a milling tip configured to have a factor of safety of at least 2 by having a first coverage-percentage of grinding particles covering a surface area of the tip of the milling bur. The factor of safety is a number of time the milling bur can fully mill a dental prosthesis from a fully-sintered zirconia blank.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics, Inc.Inventors: Marco A. Jokada, Vaheh Golestanian Nemagrdi, Kenad Destanovic, Marshall L. Fernald, David C. Leeson
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Patent number: 11693258Abstract: A computer-implemented method for fitting a spectacle lens, which has a first spectacle lens surface, a second spectacle lens surface, and at least one dioptric power to be obtained, to a spectacle frame with a certain frame edge curve is made available. In the method, a free-form surface formed on a first spectacle lens surface is fitted to the frame edge curve of the spectacle frame. The free-form surface is fitted to the frame edge curve by virtue of the free-form surface and the second spectacle lens surface being optimized with regard to minimizing the difference between the free-form surface edge curve and the frame edge curve and with regard to achieving the at least one dioptric power to be obtained with the spectacle lens.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventor: Helmut Wietschorke
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Patent number: 11685064Abstract: A tactile and/or optical distance sensor includes a housing, which has at least one elongate portion, a measurement arm, which is arranged in the housing, at least partially extends through the elongate portion and has a tactile and/or an optical probe element at one end, a transducer, which is configured to capture a position of the tactile probe element or a signal of the optical probe element and to generate associated probe element measurement signals, and an advance unit, with which the housing is linearly dis-placeable along an advance direction. A strain sensor is located in the region of the measurement arm extending through the elongate portion or at an adjacent region directly adjoining said region. In addition, a system for measuring the roughness of a surface of a workpiece and a method for calibrating a distance sensor or a system are provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbHInventor: Philipp Mayinger
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Patent number: 11656216Abstract: A monitoring process for a grease lubricated rotating system having a processing unit linked to a measurement system for measuring the water content within lubrication grease. A learning period is performed that establishes upper and lower thresholds based on current measurements. If at least a first number of measurements out a second number of last measurements are above the upper threshold then if such is the case, emitting a first event. If at least the first number of measurements out the second number of last measurements are below the lower threshold, then if such is the case, emitting a second event, if at least a first event has been emitted, if such is the case emitting an alarm function of the at least first event.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKFInventors: Per-Erik Larsson, Fredrik Sundquist
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Patent number: 11630005Abstract: There may be provided a machining monitor that may include (i) a sensing unit that comprises a thermal sensor, (ii) a processor, (iii) a communication unit, and (iv) a housing. The thermal sensor is configured to (a) thermally sense a sensed region related to the machining during a machining, and while being rotated by a mechanical coupling to a rotation of a cutting tool, and (b) generate thermal detection signals. The processor is configured to determine a temperature parameter related of the sensed region based on the thermal detection signals.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Inventors: Eli Yudkevich, Yakov Manas
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Patent number: 11630435Abstract: Tool wear monitoring is critical for quality and precision of manufacturing of parts in the machining industry. Existing tool wear monitoring and prediction methods are sensor based, costly and pose challenge in ease of implementation. Embodiments herein provide method and system for monitoring tool wear to estimate Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of a tool in machining is disclosed. The method provides a tool wear model, which combines tool wear physics with data fitting, capture practical considerations of a machining system, which makes the tool wear prediction and estimated RUL more stable, reliable and robust. Further, provides cost effective and practical solution. The disclosed physics based tool wear model for RUL estimation captures privilege of physics of tool wear and easily accessible data from CNC machine to monitor and predict tool wear and RUL of the tool in real-time.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services LimitedInventors: Ankur Krishna, Bilal Muhammed
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Patent number: 11618936Abstract: A cemented carbide may include a hard phase including W and C, and a binder phase including cubic Co. The binder phase may include Zr. The Co may include a lattice constant of more than 3.5575 ? and not more than 3.5600 ?. A coated tool may include a coating layer located on a surface of the cemented carbide. A cutting tool may include a holder that is extended from a first end toward a second end and may include a pocket on a side of the first end, and the coated tool located in the pocket.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Hirotoshi Ito, Kou Ri, Tadashi Katsuma
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Patent number: 11519865Abstract: A crack detection method includes a crack forming step of applying a laser beam to a plate-shaped workpiece that has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side linearly from the first side with a focal point of the laser beam positioned inside the workpiece, the laser beam being of a wavelength having a transmitting property to the workpiece, to thereby form a modified layer inside the workpiece and further form a crack extending from the modified layer toward the second side, a coating material applying step of applying a coating material to the second side, and a crack detecting step of detecting the crack by searching for a portion where the coating material is linearly repelled.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: DISCO CORPORATIONInventor: Masaru Nakamura
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Patent number: 11506043Abstract: Various embodiments include apparatus and methods to estimate properties of rock, drill bit, or a combination thereof associated with a drilling operation. The properties can include, but are not limited to, rock chip size, drill bit dullness, drilling efficiency, or a combination selected from rock chip size, drill bit dullness, and drilling efficiency. The estimate may be accomplished from correlating detected acoustic emission with detected electromagnetic emissions. In various embodiments, formation brittleness may be determined. The various estimates may be used to direct a drilling operation. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventor: Paul F. Rodney
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Patent number: 11499922Abstract: An inspection system for a drug container is provided to identify foreign matter, such as particles or fibers, within the drug container prior to filling with a drug. The system includes a camera device aligned with an axis of the drug container and captures a series of images of an interior surface of a sidewall of the drug container while the robot causes relative movement between the drug container and the camera device along a linear path. Atypical lighting, which improves contrast between particles and the background in images is employed to aid detection. A control circuit then processes the series of images to identify foreign matter within the drug container.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: AMGEN INC.Inventors: Thomas C. Pearson, Neelima Chavali, Dmitry Fradkin, Graham F. Milne, Erwin Freund
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Patent number: 11193868Abstract: A method for non-destructively determining a mechanical property of a solid rocket motor propellant grain may comprise applying a force to a surface of the solid rocket motor propellant grain, wherein a deformation is formed on the surface of the solid rocket motor propellant grain in response to the applying, and calculating a value of the mechanical property of the solid rocket motor propellant grain based on the deformation. This process may be performed over time to determine a lifespan of the propellant grain.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Goodrich CorporationInventors: Joshua David Carter, Kevin Mueller
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Patent number: 11135493Abstract: The present inventive concept relates to a system, and related methods, for facilitating practice of bowling, wherein the system comprises: a data storing device configured to store oil pattern data corresponding to a set of oil patterns for bowling lanes; a projecting arrangement configured to project graphics onto a bowling lane; and a processing unit configured to send, from the data storing device to the projecting arrangement, oil pattern data corresponding to one oil pattern of said set of oil patterns, whereby graphics representing the one oil pattern of said set of oil patterns is projected onto the bowling lane.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Swift Tech Interactive ABInventor: Eddy Fransson
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Patent number: 11029680Abstract: Methods and systems for a monitoring system for data collection in an industrial environment including a data collector communicatively coupled to a plurality of input channels connected to data collection points operatively coupled to at least one of an oil production component or gas production component; a data storage structured to store a plurality of diagnostic frequency band ranges for the at least one of an oil production component or gas production component; a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values from the plurality of input channels; and a data analysis circuit structured to analyze the plurality of detection values to determine measured frequency band data and compare the measured frequency band data to the plurality of diagnostic frequency band ranges, and to diagnose an operational parameter of the least one of an oil production component or gas production component in response to the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLCInventors: Charles Howard Cella, Gerald William Duffy, Jr., Jeffrey P. McGuckin, Mehul Desai
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Patent number: 11022530Abstract: The present invention is directed to a system for determining the structural characteristics of a machine tool. The system comprises an excitation device configured to induce a dynamic excitation in a tool of the machine tool, a preloading device configured to generate a static force on the tool, and a sensing device for acquiring a set of data based on which the structural characteristics of the tool can be determined.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Inventors: Martin Postel, Nerzat Bircan Bugdayci, Fredy Kuster, Jean-Philippe Besuchet, Jérémie Monnin
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Patent number: 10869715Abstract: Methods and devices are described for the design and manufacturing of a knife with a robust double bevel cutting edge profile for use in surgical procedures. The double bevel cutting edge profile may be defined by a combination of a cutting edge angle and a radius of the cutting edge tip. In some embodiments, the cutting edge profile may be defined by a combination of a web thickness profile and a radius of the cutting edge tip. Numerical ranges are identified for each of the various geometric parameters which may define a cutting edge that provides sufficient knife sharpness over many cutting repetitions. In some embodiments a medical device, which implements a knife with a cutting edge, for use in surgical procedures is described.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Stephen J. Stamm, Kim V. Brandt
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Patent number: 10788431Abstract: A test panel assembly is configured to be used with multiple tests for a single component. The test panel assembly may include a main body, a first test section formed on the main body, and a second test section formed on the main body. The first test section is configured for a first test, and the second test section is configured for a second test that differs from the first test.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: David Geis, Kenneth Boden
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Patent number: 10751895Abstract: An apparatus for testing a razor blade comprises a base, a material support table, a material sample, a transport carriage, a blade retention assembly, and a razor blade. The material support table is supported by the base. The transport carriage is movably coupled with the base and is movable with respect to the material support table between a start position and an end position. The blade retention assembly is movably coupled with the transport carriage and is movable with respect to the material support table between a blade-engaged position and a blade disengaged position. The blade retention assembly is movable together with the transport carriage between the start position and the end position. The blade is releasably attached to the blade retention assembly. The razor blade contacts the material sample when the blade retention assembly is in the blade-engaged position. Methods are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: The Gillette Company LLCInventors: Neville Sonnenberg, Peter Bradley
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Patent number: 10731705Abstract: A detecting apparatus for detecting displacement of a bearing unit sandwiched between a spindle extending in an axial direction and a spindle seat is provided. The detecting apparatus includes a detector unit and a control unit. The detector unit includes a pair of sensing devices with each sensing device including a sensor that abuts against an end surface of an outer ring of the bearing unit and outputting, based on a sensing of the sensor thereof, a detected signal associated with a displacement of the end surface in the axial direction. The control unit is configured to determine whether the bearing unit is abnormal based on the detected signals.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: BUFFALO MACHINERY COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Paul Chang
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Patent number: 10688616Abstract: A cutting apparatus having a cutting blade for cutting a workpiece held on a chuck table is disclosed. The cutting apparatus includes an elastic wave detecting sensor for detecting an elastic wave due to the rotation of the cutting blade, a reference data storing section configured to store reference data as a set of reference processing elastic wave data and reference idling elastic wave data, a threshold value storing section, a ratio calculating section, and a determining section.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: DISCO CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiko Tsuno, Saki Miyakawa, Tomoaki Sugiyama
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Patent number: 10677700Abstract: A method for testing cutting performance of a diamond saw blade, relating to a technical field of diamond tool test, is provided, which solves problems of inaccuracy and non-uniformity existing in conventional methods for testing cutting performance of a diamond tool. The method includes steps of: (1) obtaining a set load parameter value, particularly including steps of: controlling a feed amount of the diamond saw blade; finding out a load value K corresponding to a maximum feed amount of the diamond saw blade on a cutting object; and setting M=0.70K-0.85K, wherein M is the set load parameter value; and (2) during cutting, controlling a cutting load value of the diamond saw blade to be 0.90M-1.1M through a servo system. Therefore, uniform three cutting elements of machine and tool, object, and feed thrust are realized, and the performance of the diamond tool is automatically and accurately measured.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: CHENGDU HUIFENG NEW MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventors: Ding Yin, Hehui Guo, Hui Zou
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Patent number: 10551288Abstract: A rotary blade sharpness tester is provided. The rotary blade sharpness tester comprises a rotary blade holder, supporting means for supporting a cuttable material, a moving mechanism to cause relative movement between the blade holder and the supporting means, and hence the cuttable material when supported on the supporting means, an activation means to activate a rotary blade held in the rotary blade holder and cause rotation of the blade before the blade comes into contact with the cuttable material. During the relative movement between the blade holder and supporting means the rotary blade movably contacts the material. The sharpness tester further comprises force measuring means operable in use to measure the force of the rotary blade on the cuttable material.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2015Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Anago LimitedInventors: Peter Dowd, Stefan Van Woerden
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Patent number: 10345800Abstract: Monitoring of a machine is performed by an acoustic monitor which acquires, through an acoustic sensor, acoustic signals from a vicinity of a machine, while the machine is operative. A processor calculates a frequency spectrum of a segment of the acquired acoustic signals, determines boundaries of a frequency band to be analyzed and extracts, from the calculated frequency spectrum, a base frequency window in the determined boundaries, and one or more harmonics windows of harmonics of the determined boundaries. For each of the base and harmonic windows a weight based on a distribution of values of frequencies in the windows is determined and a parameter of operation of the machine is calculated as a function of a weighted sum of the base and harmonic windows. The operation of the machine is evaluated responsive to the calculated parameter.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: 3D SIGNALS LTD.Inventors: Yair Lavi, Amit Ashkenazi, Ofer Affias, Amnon Shenfeld
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Patent number: 10318675Abstract: An apparatus is provided for implementation of a post-processing system for providing post-processing analysis of a numerical model. The post-processing system may render a numerical model that represents a structural product by a mesh of elements. A dynamically adjustable user-defined string across the mesh is generated and a set of intermediate points that coincide with intersection of the string and edges of at least some of the elements of the mesh is created. An interpolated dataset, for which a plot is subsequently generated, is calculated from the nodal dataset and at least some nodal points. In response to adjustment of the string, a corresponding adjusted string is generated, a new set of intermediate points is created, and an interpolated dataset with which the new set of intermediate points is associated is calculated.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Michael Charles Elford
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Patent number: 10206339Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for the indication of the sharpness of the teeth at a harvesting head at a forestry machine, an arrangement for the execution of the method, and a forestry machine for the use of the arrangement during execution of the method.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Komatsu Forest ABInventors: William Schierschmidt, Peter Assarsson
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Patent number: 9981675Abstract: An inspection system for use with a vehicle includes a database containing vehicle route data and at least one location of a route to be inspected. The database may be accessed by vehicles with on-board inspection systems so that they may inspect the location of route to be inspected.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jared Klineman Cooper, Nicholas David Nagrodsky
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Patent number: 9962843Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring the cutting force on a single fiber. The method includes the steps of: providing a blade having an edge; providing a fiber mount for holding the single fiber; providing at least one sensor connected to the fiber mount; providing a fiber sleeve to contain a fiber within the fiber mount to simulate the location of the hair within the hair follicle; moving the blade toward the fiber and cutting the fiber; and measuring the cutting force on the fiber with the at least one sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: The Gillette Company LLCInventors: Matthias Gester, Anthony William Shorey
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Patent number: 9891033Abstract: A tilt angle adjuster includes a base plate attached to a Z slider; a hanging plate attached to a measuring device main body; a thin coupling plate supporting the hanging plate such that the hanging plate is suspended on a first surface side of the base plate; biasers biasing the hanging plate so as to impart a rotational force in a first direction to the hanging plate; and a micrometer head provided so as to push the hanging plate one of directly and indirectly toward a second direction opposite the direction of the rotational force imparted by the biasers.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Youhei Onodera, Nobuyuki Hama
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Patent number: 9786404Abstract: There is provided a metal foil suitable for an electrode substrate for an electronic element, which makes it possible to suppress oxidation of the ultra-smooth surface and also prevent roll scratches when wound in a roll. The metal foil of the present invention is made of copper or copper alloy. The front surface of the metal foil has an ultra-smooth surface profile having an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 30 nm or less as determined in accordance with JIS B 0601-2001. The back surface of the metal has a concave-dominant surface profile having a Pv/Pp ratio of 1.5 or more, the Pv/Pp ratio being a ratio of a maximum profile valley depth Pv to a maximum profile peak height Pp of a profile curve as determined in a rectangular area of 181 ?m by 136 ?m in accordance with JIS B 0601-2001.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2013Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Matsuura, Nozomu Kitajima, Toshimi Nakamura, Masaharu Myoi
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Patent number: 9558778Abstract: A lubricant compound is contained in a lubrication layer of a magnetic disk in which at least a magnetic layer, a protective layer, and a lubrication layer are sequentially provided on a substrate, and the lubricant compound contains a component A represented by Chemical formula 1 and a component B represented by Chemical formula 2: wherein X in Chemical formula 1 represents OH wherein X in Chemical formula 2 represents OCH2CH(OH)CH2OH, and the lubricant compound further contains a component C made of a specific compound having a phosphezene ring in the structure thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2010Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: WD Media (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Kota Suzuki, Koichi Shimokawa, Katsushi Hamakubo, Kae Itoh
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Patent number: 9527185Abstract: A test gauge for determining whether a tool holder assembly that utilizes a retention knob is properly assembled. The test gauge is mounted on a tool holder before the installation of a retention knob. Measurement devices, such as dial indicators, determine whether a “wobble” exists between the test gauge and the tapered surface of the tool holder and also provide a distance measurement between the test gauge and a reference surface on the tool holder. After installation of the retention knob, the test gauge is again placed on the tool holder in the same relative position and the distance between the test gauge and the reference surface is again observed. Any change in the distance measurement is an indication that the installation of the retention knob produced a distortion in the tool holder tapered surface which, if not corrected, can produce wear in the tool holder, the spindle and/or the cutting tool.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Inventor: John Wayne Stoneback
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Patent number: 9528915Abstract: An metallographic system comprising a programmable controller, a robotic arm, a specimen clamping or holding device, a sectioning saw, a mounting station, a polishing station, a specimen preparation station, and an analyzer for examining the specimen.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2013Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: UES, INC.Inventors: Umesha P. S. Adiga, Daylond J. Hooper, Nina Joshi, Daniel S. Banks, Murali K. Gorantla
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Patent number: 9476908Abstract: An object is mounted on a surface of a sample carrier. Properties of the surface of the object are measured and/or modified by means of a plurality of independently movable heads, each comprising a microscopic probe. The heads being located between the surface of a reference grid plate and the surface of the sample carrier. Head specific target locations are selected for the heads. Each head is moved over the surface of the reference grid plate, to the target location of the head. During movement a position of the head is determined from markings on the reference grid plate sensed by sensor in the head. When the sensor has indicated that the head is at the target location selected for the head a force between the head and the reference grid plate is switched to seat and/or clamp the head on the reference grid plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Rens Van Den Braber, Teunis Cornelis Van Den Dool, Hamed Sadeghian Marnani, Niek Rijnveld