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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7305274 | System and method for drawing and manufacturing bent pipes Novel systems and methods of using a bent-tube object in a drawing file include entering a custom bent-tube object in a drawing file, and using the bent tube object to generate bender driver data. In a particular method, the step of entering the custom bent-tube obj... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7240528 | Method and device for shaping an orthodontic archwire An apparatus for bending orthodontic wires has means for guiding and holding a wire. In order to prevent forces resulting from compressive or stretching strain during the bending process, one of these means does not apply any longitudinal forces onto the wire by des... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7181942 | Device and method for connections made between a crimp connector and wire An ultrasonic device and method obtains desirable crimp connections between a crimp connector and a wire, or bundle of wires, by assessing the desirability of connections made in a wire-to-wire connection and in other situations where two materials with good acousti... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7127799 | Head gimbal assembly method The present invention provides a method for assembling a head gimbal assembly useful in a hard disk drive and for testing such an assembly. In a method in accord with the present invention a head/slider is mounted to a circuited gimbal in an automated assembly machi... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7069156 | Method for adjusting the pitch and roll static torques in a disk drive head suspension assembly A method for adjusting the pitch and roll static torques (PST and RST) on a slider in a disk drive head-suspension assembly (HSA) during manufacturing assures that each HSA is manufactured with acceptable PST and RST values. The method includes measuring each slider... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7050934 | Method of weighted combination specs for enhanced manufacturing yield Embodiments of the invention provide methods for enhancing the downstream product yield without significantly affecting the yield of components from which downstream products are made or enhancing yield of the components without significantly affecting the downstrea... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7003999 | Deformation on thin walled bodies A thin walled body such as a container (1) is gripped at a holding station and tooling (10) is engaged to deform the wall of the body at a predetermined zone. The predetermined wall zone is co-aligned with the tooling (10) by means of coordinate... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7000459 | Strain sensor patterned on MEMS flex arms A micromechanical assembly couples to a positioning member and to a body having an aerodynamic surface subject to aerodynamic forces. The micromechanical assembly comprises a substrate including a flexible beam joining a first substrate portion that is attachable to... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6912446 | Systems and methods for automated sensing and machining for repairing airfoils of blades A method for repairing an airfoil comprising creating a nominal numerically-controlled tool path based on a nominal shape of the airfoil, measuring the airfoil using a displacement sensor, capturing differences in the airfoil shape as compared to the nominal shape, ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6813923 | Method and apparatus for flexible manufacturing a discrete curved product from feed stock An apparatus for manufacturing a discrete curved product from a feed stock includes a source of heat that is adapted to impose a focused beam of light on at least one surface of a work piece to cause the surface of the work piece to expand and thereby move in the ge... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6688147 | Panel curving machine A panel, formed from a perforated face (102), is respectively concavely and convexly curved by seriatim stretching or contracting its flanges (104a, b; 156a, b). Such stretching and contracting is produced by placing the opposed flanges within jaw halves ... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6675618 | Method for manufacturing heat transfer member A method for manufacturing a heat transfer member comprises the step of subjecting material to be worked, which is made of a metallic thin sheet, to a press forming utilizing upper and lower molds of a press-forming devices to form the material to be work... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6466843 | Method and apparatus for lifting objects In one embodiment of the present invention, a system for lifting objects comprises a Cartesian manipulator, a machine vision system for acquiring video images of the objects, and a control processor for processing the video images and providing position c... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6460387 | Punch press A punch press includes: a press main body; an upper turret member having a workpiece detecting plate; a lower turret member; a striker; striker ascending/descending means; a carriage with a clamper for holding a workpiece in order to position the workpiec... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6422055 | Positioning apparatus for bending machine A positioning apparatus (30) for a workpiece includes a base (310) with a shoulder (312), a positioning block (330) and a circuit. The positioning block includes an upper block (332) secured on the shoulder, and a lower block (334) having a front surface ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6377871 | Integrated die cast An integrated die cast system is provided comprising a die casting machine, a servo-controlled ladle, a servo-controlled sprayer, a pick and place robot, an integrated controller, and a programming pendant. The die casting machine includes a die casting m... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6292716 | Method and apparatuses for backgaging and sensor-based control of bending operations Several methods and subsystems are provided for aligning a workpiece as it is being loaded into a die space of a bending apparatus, and for performing sensor-based control of a robot as it moves a workpiece from one location to another within a bending ap... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6272893 | Apparatus and method for bending winding bars The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for bending hard-drawn copper conductor bars for rotor windings of turbo-generators and engines. This method makes it possible to prevent heating up and accompanying transformation of hard-drawn c... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6269677 | Press brake back gauge finger Apparatus and method to facilitate the insertion, alignment, and bending of metal sheets in a press brake machine is described herein. Automated insertion of properly aligned sheets into a bending machine can be accomplished using a press brake that inclu... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6098435 | Method and system for determining bending order adapted for use in bending machine A bending order which provides a highest possible bending accuracy is determined. First a bending order generating section generates a plurality of bending orders possible for bending operation. Then, whether the bend angle of each bend can be measured in... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5737957 | Apparatus for straightening a cylindrical member An apparatus for straightening a cylindrical member having an imperfection. An imperfection detector is used to locate the imperfection. A plasma arc torch is used to heat a portion of the cylindrical member in the vicinity of the imperfection. The plasma... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5704238 | Automatic die driving amount correction method According to data from an NC device 10, a processing factor specifying section 13 specifies processing factors having effect on the bending angle. A tolerance setting section 14 sets a tolerance for each specified processing factor and a bend grouping sec... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5682780 | Gram load, static attitude and radius geometry adjusting system for magnetic head suspensions A system for adjusting the gram load, static attitude roll and radius geometry of a suspension with a high degree of accuracy and repeatability includes a clamp, load-engaging member, actuator, laser and control system. The mounting region of the suspensi... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5628218 | Flaw treatment method and apparatus for a wire-shaped metal This flaw-treatment apparatus is able to prevent an increase in the number of flaw cuts by detecting false flaw-detection, and prevent the occurrence of die marks. For attaining these effects, this apparatus is comprised of: detection of the surface flaws... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5461893 | Method and apparatus for bending steel rule An apparatus and method is provided for the automated bending of continuous reels of metal strips, particularly for the bending of sharpened metal strip into steel rule dies. A sequence of steps is provided to perform a number of bends in the strip, at va... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5390520 | Closed-frame type pipe-bending press A pipe-bending press with a large bending length in a closed frame construction, has a frame with side columns and upper and lower cross-pieces. The table supporting the lower bending tools is supported at the lower cross-piece and the upper bending tool ... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5381681 | Machine with an adjusting device located in a movable machine part A machine and method for adjustment of the tooling of a forming machine while continuously operating such machine. The adjusting device being located in a movable or stationary machine part, such as the upper tool part. A measuring device for measuring th... | 01/17/1995 |
| 5375447 | Method to carry out bends and relative device Method to carry out bends of a bundle (13) of bars having a diameter up to 32 mm. or more, the bars (13) being superimposed one on another in a plane substantially normal to the work platform, the bending machine (10) comprising; a bending unit (14) inclu... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5187958 | Method of positioning a metal sheet for a sheetmetal working machine The method is of the type in which the metal sheet (W) is manipulated by means of a movable gripping member (G) of a manipulator robot controlled by a programmer (PC) according to a program for positioning successive lines of working of the metal sheet in... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5126945 | Nonferrous extrusion process control system A control system is provided for coordinating and monitoring material flow through a nonferrous extrusion facility. The system maintains first-in/first-out queues between stations within the facility to improve tracking of the material through the process... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5058406 | Plate bending machine equipped with a plate clamping manipulator and a plate position detecting device A press brake for bending plates. A press brake is provided for bending plates, including a pair of dies which act in mutual cooperation to bend a plate, a plate clamping manipulator which grasps and moves a plate which is to be placed in a scheduled loca... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5055752 | Method for machining airfoils The elongated edge of a workpiece is machined to preselected dimensions and tolerances using a numerically controlled machining system by probing the surface of the workpiece along the length of the edge to be machined to determine edge dimensions and/or ... | 10/08/1991 |
| 5014531 | Method for automatically reducing the drawing speed of a tubular material drawing machine Method of automatically reducing the drawing speed of a tubular material drawing machine when the end of a coil of tubular material, being drawn through the machine, approaches.... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4986101 | Process and apparatus for reforming brake shoes A process is provided for automatically reforming rotary drum brake shoes preferably by an apparatus 100 that includes an adjustable sensing member (30) that monitors the distance ("L") between end openings (8) and (12) of a brake shoe (2) supported by su... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4972696 | Forming elongate structural components A system for forming components to have a predetermined contour includes a manipulator having four manipulating heads 44, 52, 56, 58 which engage longitudinally spaced portions of the component. The system uses the manipulator to determine the initial con... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4761979 | Roller bending apparatus equipped with a curvature measuring unit A three-roller bending apparatus having a movable top roller and two stationary bottom rollers has a curvature measuring unit for automatically measuring the radius of curvature of a workpiece being bent and for displaying the measured value for an operat... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4659424 | Manufacture of elongate members of indefinite length In the making of cable with spaced conductor wires or tensile members in a non-circular jacket, the wires of member are maintained in desired angular positions within the jacket by guiding them through a core tube which is controllably rotatable within th... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4640113 | Sheet-bending press incorporating a device for continuous monitoring of the bending angle A press has an upper table carrying a punch and a lower table bearing a tool-carrier. A jack for compensating the deflection inherent in the bending process is fitted in the lower table. The bending device enables the bending angle obtained in the workpie... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4306435 | Machine for automatically straightening-out elongate workpieces A method and apparatus for straightening longitudinal curvature of a workpiece by a bending action involves supporting the workpiece between two supporting members, rotating the workpiece, engaging a plurality of sensors with the peripheral surface of the... | 12/22/1981 |
| 4154073 | Automatic straightening machine An apparatus and method for straightening an elongated workpiece such as a crank shaft is disclosed. At least four measuring devices are disposed along the workpiece for measuring the position of four points on the workpiece relative to an axis extending ... | 05/15/1979 |
