141 |
Cutting apparatus |
US12213240 |
2008-06-17 |
US08297892B2 |
2012-10-30 |
Esteban Arturo Alvarez Serrano |
A cutting apparatus includes a base frame, a pair of holder assemblies, an overhead frame, a cutter assembly and a controller. The pair of holder assemblies are operably connected to the base frame with one holder assembly holding the first workpiece and the other holding the second workpiece. The pair of holder assemblies independently move relative to one another along a transverse axis. The overhead frame is connected to the base frame. The cutter assembly is connected to the overhead frame and moves along a vertical axis and a horizontal axis. The cutter assembly includes a rotary cutter mechanism with a rotating cutting tool. The controller controls and moves of the pair of holders and the cutter assembly so that the rotating cutting tool cuts the first workpiece in a first desired configuration then moves to the second workpiece to cut the second workpiece in a second desired configuration. |
142 |
CUTTING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SHEET MEMBER, SHEET MEMBER, OPTICAL ELEMENT, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE |
US13355850 |
2012-01-23 |
US20120135204A1 |
2012-05-31 |
Satoru Yamamoto; Hiroaki Mizushima |
An end face of a sheet member is cut while rotating a cutting member having a rotation axis extending along a vertical direction of the end face of the sheet member and a cutting blade projecting to a side of the end face of the sheet member around the rotation axis. The cutting member is moved relatively to the sheet member along a longitudinal direction of the end face to be cut. The part separated from a virtual line parallel to the sheet face and passing the rotation center in a cutting region formed by the rotating cutting blade is made to contact the end face of the sheet member. |
143 |
CHAMFER DEVICE FOR MACHINING WELD BEAD SURFACE WHICH ALLOWS ONE-TOUCH CHAMFERING-AMOUNT ADJUSTMENT |
US13265285 |
2011-01-13 |
US20120057945A1 |
2012-03-08 |
Byung-Woo Jeon; Byung-Kwon Jeon |
The present invention relates to a chamfer device for machining a weld bead surface, which specifically carries out a chamfering process on the welding bead surfaces of objects to be processed (such as metal sheet materials and pipes). In the present invention, immediately after a chamfering-amount-adjustment unit has been rotated and released, a position-setting pin is inserted into a securing recess in the chamfering-amount-adjustment unit, while the chamfering amount is adjusted in precise units and simultaneously locked at a predetermined chamfering amount which is automatically maintained, and the adjustment of the chamfering amount is achieved in a straightforward fashion with just one touch. When the chamfering-amount-adjustment unit is operated, a mobile cutter shaft moves vertically and as it does so the chamfering amount is adjusted in such a way that the chamfering amount can be immediately and rapidly adjusted while continuously operating without regard to any cutter rotation action. |
144 |
MILLING CUTTER FOR DRESSING RESISTANCE WELDING ELECTRODES |
US12667225 |
2008-06-27 |
US20100196115A1 |
2010-08-05 |
Eugenio Tedeschi; Anselmo Grilli |
The milling cutter includes three blades each having a cutting edge and a rear face. The cutting edges extend radially outwards from a longitudinal axis so as to create, during the rotation of the milling cutter, one or two concave surfaces for receiving the ends of one or two electrodes. The rear face has a concave profile in a section plane perpendicular to the cutting edge. |
145 |
Cutting apparatus |
US12213240 |
2008-06-17 |
US20090308217A1 |
2009-12-17 |
Esteban A. Alvarez Serrano |
A cutting apparatus includes a base frame, a pair of holder assemblies, an overhead frame, a cutter assembly and a controller. The pair of holder assemblies are operably connected to the base frame with one holder assembly holding the first workpiece and the other holding the second workpiece. The pair of holder assemblies independently move relative to one another along a transverse axis. The overhead frame is connected to the base frame. The cutter assembly is connected to the overhead frame and moves along a vertical axis and a horizontal axis. The cutter assembly includes a rotary cutter mechanism with a rotating cutting tool. The controller controls and moves of the pair of holders and the cutter assembly so that the rotating cutting tool cuts the first workpiece in a first desired configuration then moves to the second workpiece to cut the second workpiece in a second desired configuration. |
146 |
Levelling of Root Bushings on Blades for Wind Turbines |
US12086212 |
2006-12-28 |
US20090252614A1 |
2009-10-08 |
Karsten Schibsbye |
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a blade for a wind turbine, wherein the blade is made in one or more moulds; and wherein the blade has integrally moulded root bushings in the root of the blade for direct or indirect attachment to a hub in a wind turbine. The novel aspect of the invention is that the root bushings (203) in the root (201) of the blade are leveled by shortening of at least one of the root bushings prior to the blade being removed from a supporting mould (205). The invention further relates to a blade made in accordance with the method and a leveling unit (207) for leveling the root of the blade, wherein the leveling unit comprises means for mounting on a mould. |
147 |
Device and Method for Deburring Grooves and Edges |
US11989682 |
2006-07-04 |
US20090116922A1 |
2009-05-07 |
Rainer Hertkorn |
A device for deburring at least one of a groove and an edge of a workpiece includes a shaft, a receptacle connected to the shaft, a tool held in the receptacle, and a swivel drive configured to pneumatically and/or hydraulically press the receptacle with the tool against a burr of the groove or against the edge of the workpiece. The tool is configured to be actively lifted from the groove or edge of the workpiece. |
148 |
EDGE FINISHING SYSTEM |
US11964833 |
2007-12-27 |
US20080159819A1 |
2008-07-03 |
Bien Trong Bui; Eric F.J.M. Van Der Meulen |
An edge finishing system for items such as polycarbonate panels. The system includes a multi-purpose edge-finishing tool which trims and smoothes the edges of a workpiece. The tool includes a contour cutter portion having a concave toroidal surface and a straight cutter portion having a cylindrical shape. A flute extends generally along with the tool's axis and defines a straight cutting edge and contour cutting edge. The system may include a fixture with vacuum cups nested within a platform so as to secure a contoured workpiece by static friction, permitting edges of the workpiece to be both trimmed and smoothly finished using a multi-purpose edge finishing tool, without marring or disfiguring the surface of the workpiece. |
149 |
Eyeglass lens processing apparatus |
US11393657 |
2006-03-31 |
US07322082B2 |
2008-01-29 |
Katsuhiro Natsume; Yoichi Sugiura |
An eyeglass lens processing apparatus for processing a periphery of an eyeglass lens, the apparatus includes: a lens chuck shaft that holds and rotates the lens; an end mill that processes the periphery of the lens; an end mill tilting unit that varies a tilt of the end mill with respect to the lens chuck shaft; an end mill moving unit that relatively moves the end mill with respect to the lens held by the lens chuck shaft; a target lens shape input unit that inputs an target lens shape; a lens measuring unit that detects a position of a processing edge of the lens based on the input target lens shape; a memory that stores a beveling shape including a beveling tilt angle on a front surface side of the lens and a beveling tilt angle on a rear surface side of the lens; and a control unit that controls the end mill tilting unit and the end mill moving unit to perform a roughing process on the lens using the end mill based on the input target lens shape and to perform a beveling process on the roughing-processed lens using the end mill based on the detected position of the processing edge and the stored beveling shape. |
150 |
Multi-blade router tool, edger with multi-blade router tool, and method of edging eyeglass lenses |
US11730510 |
2007-04-02 |
US20070248423A1 |
2007-10-25 |
David Gerding |
The present invention relates to a router tool for edging the peripheral edge of eyeglass lenses. The tool comprises a longitudinally extending body rotatable on the axis thereof. A first blade extends axially and radially from the body, and has a first cutting portion for shaping an edge of a lens to a first configuration. A second blade is provided that is axially spaced from the first blade. The second blade extends axially and radially from the body, and has a second cutting portion for shaping an edge of a lens to a second configuration different than the first configuration. The present invention also relates to an edger having the disclosed router tool, and a method for shaping the edge of eyeglass lenses. |
151 |
Shape member manufacturing apparatus and shape member manufacturing method |
US11074685 |
2005-03-09 |
US07171735B2 |
2007-02-06 |
Osamu Okafuji; Koji Hamada; Takeshi Yano; Kazushige Fukuyori |
The invention provides a shape member manufacturing apparatus and a shape member manufacturing method which aims at cutting and grinding a joint projection 8B formed when a plurality of shape members are joined together by welding or friction stir welding, in a short time with high accuracy.A plurality of mounts 11 having a side structure 8 placed thereon are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the side structure. A joint projection 8B of a welded portion or a friction stir welded joint is formed on the surface of the side structure 8 in its longitudinal direction. A carrier 100 travels in the longitudinal direction of the side structure 8. Columns 105 are installed in a girder 103 of the carrier, and a milling cutter device 80 and a grinding device 90 are installed in lower portions of the columns 105. A milling surface of a milling cutter 81 of the milling cutter device 80 has a circular-arc shape with a radius R. The milling cutter 81 performs cutting at an angle θ1 tilted with respect to a vertical line. Further, the milling cutter device is provided with sliding plates 85. The milling cutter device performs cutting with the sliding plates 85 brought into contact with the surfaces of the extruded shape members. |
152 |
Planing/chamfering attachment for a rotary hand tool |
US10818915 |
2004-04-06 |
US07168897B2 |
2007-01-30 |
Brad M. Baber |
A planing attachment for a rotary hand tool of the type having a generally cylindrical body with an output shaft at a nose end thereof to which a cutting bit can be attached, the attachment being configured at an attaching end to matingly engage the nose end of the hand tool. The attachment includes a housing having an attaching end portion and a planing tool end portion, wherein the attaching end portion is configured to matingly engage the nose end of the rotary hand tool, and a leading plane and a trailing plane are configured wherein one of the planes is disposed on opposite sides of the cutting bit, and wherein the leading plane is elevated relative to the trailing plane by a distance proportional to the depth of cut made by the cutting bit. The attachment further includes a longitudinal cavity disposed between the leading plane and the trailing plane and is configured to receive the cutting bit therein, a cutting bit support disposed at the planing tool end portion of the attachment. |
153 |
Apparatus and method for profiling optical disks |
US10075171 |
2002-02-14 |
US06843622B2 |
2005-01-18 |
Paul Eugene DeMint; Richard Lee Clark |
An apparatus for the automated profiling the edge of successive optical disks, and including an optical disk supply assembly for holding a supply of optical disks to be profiled, a turntable for receiving an optical disk to be profiled, and for reciprocating between an optical disk loading position and an optical disk profiling position. A clamping assembly is provided for clamping the optical disk in a stationary condition to the turntable during movement between the loading position and the profiling position. A profiling cutter profiles the edge of the optical disk into a predefined shape when the turntable is in the profiling position. A profiled optical disk accumulating assembly is provided for holding optical disks which have been profiled, and a vacuum pickup assembly is mounted for rotation on a shaft between a plurality of positions under automated control of an electronic controller for applying a lifting vacuum force to an optical disk on the optical disk supply assembly for removing an optical disk from the supply assembly, moving the optical disk to the turntable and interrupting the lifting force of the vacuum to place the optical disk on the turntable, applying a lifting vacuum force to the profiled optical disk to remove it from the turntable, and moving the optical disk to the profiled optical disk accumulating assembly for storage. |
154 |
Corner grout cutter guide |
US10883262 |
2004-07-01 |
US20050002747A1 |
2005-01-06 |
Edward Adkins; Patrick Barkdoll |
An apparatus and method are provided for guiding the bit of a rotary hand tool along a corner of a work surface formed by two or more abutting surfaces, through use of a corner cutting apparatus which includes a corner cutting guide having a housing, defining an axis of the housing, and adapted for attachment of the rotary tool with the axis of the rotary tool extending through the housing along the axis of the housing. The housing also includes first and second guide walls, for engaging abutting walls at a corner of the work surface. The first and second guide walls are disposed substantially perpendicular to one another, and have respective outer surfaces which, if projected, would intersect to form a line lying in a common plane with the axis of the housing and oriented at an acute angle to the axis of the housing. |
155 |
Lens processing device, lens processing method, and lens measuring method |
US09787014 |
2001-03-21 |
US06623339B1 |
2003-09-23 |
Takashi Igarashi; Shuichi Sato; Yoshihiro Kikuchi; Michio Arai; Satoshi Annaka |
A lens machining apparatus is provided that can execute everything required in machining eyeglass lenses, from measurement to various kinds of machining, and still can ensure high-precision machining. A lens holding unit 12 which holds a lens 1 and causes the same to turn, a cutter 131 which cuts (edges) the circumferential surface of the lens in a prescribed cross-sectional shape, an end mill 141 which machines a groove in the circumferential surface of the lens whose circumferential surface has been cut (edged) and chamfers edges at the lens circumferential surface, and a lens measurement unit 15 which measures the shape and the position of the lens held by the lens holding unit are comprised. |
156 |
Plate width adjusting apparatus and plate width adjusting method |
US09875905 |
2001-06-08 |
US06615634B2 |
2003-09-09 |
Tetsuya Shinkai; Kensuke Fujimura; Haruhisa Sugimoto |
A plate width adjusting apparatus 1 for adjusting a strip 53 for a predetermined plate width, which is installed on a production line for the strip 53, is provided with bridle rolls 2 and 3. The bridle rolls 2 and 3 give tension in the transfer direction to the strip 53 being transferred on the production line to elongate the strip 53 in the transfer direction, by which the plate width of the strip 53 is adjusted. |
157 |
Machining assembly including a rotating tool and exhaust hood |
US10097346 |
2002-03-15 |
US20030106613A1 |
2003-06-12 |
Kurt
Kalmbach; Wilhelm
Kalmbach; Hans-Jurgen
Gittel; Ewald
Westfal |
The invention relates to a treatment unit with a cutting tool (1) for treating wood, plastic or the like. Said treatment unit comprises a suction hood (6) with a ring (17) that encircles the tool (1) completely in the circumferential direction and at least partially in the axial direction. The suction hood (6) is located on the side of the drive spindle of the tool (1). A chip receiving opening (10) is provided in the tool (1) in the vicinity of the blade (4), said opening traversing the tool (1) in both the axial and the radial direction. A chip formed at the blade (4) is transported through the chip receiving opening (10) to the suction hood (6) from where the chip is removed by air suction. |
158 |
Plate width adjusting apparatus and plate width adjusting method |
US09875905 |
2001-06-08 |
US20020014320A1 |
2002-02-07 |
Tetsuya
Shinkai; Kensuke
Fujimura; Haruhisa
Sugimoto |
A plate width adjusting apparatus 1 for adjusting a strip 53 for a predetermined plate width, which is installed on a production line for the strip 53, is provided with bridle rolls 2 and 3. The bridle rolls 2 and 3 give tension in the transfer direction to the strip 53 being transferred on the production line to elongate the strip 53 in the transfer direction, by which the plate width of the strip 53 is adjusted. |
159 |
Automated chamfering method |
US250464 |
1999-02-16 |
US6142726A |
2000-11-07 |
Robert Peter Westerfield, Jr.; Thomas Gerard Jantz; Robert Paul Kuder, II; David Clyde Linnell; Robert Albert Meyen |
An apparatus for loading, chamfering and unloading a ceramic or ceramic/polymer substrate for electronic components. An automatic part loader moves substrates in a row as a unit, using a frangible pin to push the parts. The part loader separates the first of the substrates from the rest, and a load pedestal pushes the first substrate up into a loading/unloading nest. The load pedestal is mounted on rods so that the substrate may move laterally to center itself in the nest. The nest then rotates to load the substrate onto a movable process pedestal. The chamfering apparatus includes a pair of spaced, rotatable cutting spindles for chamfering edges and corners on the substrate. The cutting spindles include: i) separate top and bottom edge cutters for simultaneously chamfering top and bottom of edges of a substrate secured on the carrier as the substrate passes between the spindles and ii) corner cutters for simultaneously chamfering corners of a substrate secured on the carrier as the substrate contacts the spindles. The pedestal rotates the substrate about an axis normal to the plane of the substrate and moves the substrate in a direction normal to the plane of the substrate to present unchamfered edges and corners to the cutting spindles. A disc brake on the process pedestal may be actuated to prevent rotation of the substrate during chamfering. An enclosure surrounds the substrate, chamfering cutters and process pedestal during chamfering and utilizes the air flow supplied by the rotating cutters to propel chips into a particle collector. |
160 |
apparatus for machining at least one edge of at least one sheet metal
plate |
US938897 |
1997-09-26 |
US6116829A |
2000-09-12 |
Rudiger A. Gnann; Michael Strobel |
The invention relates to a process of butt-welding together sheet metal plates, in particular those having different sheet metal thicknesses, by means of an edge preparation to the extent that the edges of the sheet metal plates are milled in a sheet metal stack (5). For this purpose, the appropriate apparatus has a supporting and clamping means (1, 2, 3, 9, 10). |