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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7153073 | System and method for precision machining with a single point cutter The single point machining head includes a probe that is removably mounted on a carriage that moves radially relative to a central axis of the machining head. A system controller moves the carriage in a radial direction while the machining head is fed in a vertical ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7131800 | Circuit board router apparatus and method thereof A circuit board router (10) and method thereof. De-paneling of printed circuit boards (62) off a panel 860) is efficiently increased by a router (40) which is positioned at a location above the panel (60). A fixture positions the p... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7011122 | Edge-routing unit for a program-controlled feed-through machine An edge-routing unit has a routing tool (4) on a shaft (9) of a routing motor (6), which is arranged on a rest (10), and which is controlled approximately along a workpiece outline in a workpiece feed-through direction, an X-axis, and in ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6830415 | Chip removal method and chip removal system for NC machine tools A portion (14a, 14b) of a chip remover (14) is defined to be vibratory to give an NC machine tool (MT 1) a vibration transferable onto a surface (FS) of a work (13) under a finishing by the NC machine tool (MT1... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6749377 | Process for edge-machining of optical lenses A process for edge-machining an optical (spectacle) lens including preliminary machining of an edge of the lens rotatable in controlled manner about a rotational axis of a workpiece by a first edge-machining tool adjustable radially relative to the rotational axis o... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6478516 | Stator bar insulation stripping machine and method A machine is provided for stripping the ground wall insulation from a stator bar quickly and in such a manner that the copper strands will not be damaged. The apparatus of the invention includes a power driven cutting tool for milling or routing the insul... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6106204 | Apparatus for forming the edge of an airfoil An apparatus 28 for forming at least a portion of the edge 12,14 of airfoil 10 using a tool assembly 68 is disclosed. The tool assembly has a tool 164 with a cutting face 202 having a shape which is like the shape of the finished edge of the airfoil. Vari... | 08/22/2000 |
| 5904457 | Detecting tool wear by thermal monitoring of workpiece A method of monitoring the condition of a tool in a machining operation for producing a plurality of toothed workpieces. The process comprises measuring the temperature of at least a portion of the plurality of workpieces each at essentially a same predet... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5678963 | Method for truing sets of rail vehicle wheels by chip removal and under-floor machine for performing the method Wheels of rail vehicles are trued while the wheels are kept rotating about a wheel center of rotation that is continuously corrected to keep the center of rotation in a fixed position in response to eccentricities a wheel may have, especially in its outer... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5660511 | End mill with correction for side deflection An end mill for simultaneously milling two intersecting perpendicular surfaces of a part. The end mill is subjected to side cutting loads causing side deflection of the end mill, with the result that both the side-milled surface and the end-milled surface... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5620286 | Flycutting machine for manufacturing printed circuit boards A flycutting apparatus and a method of manufacturing printed circuit boards are disclosed. The flycutting apparatus may include a sensor for detecting changes in the relative positioning of an associated rotatable flywheel and the surface of an object, su... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5174700 | Device for contouring blocking burrs for a deburring tool The present invention is a device for contouring blocking burrs for a milling cutter. The penumatic broach or spindle is equipped with a tachometer, which controls the reversal of the supply of a pneumatic jack connecting the spindle to the wrist or handl... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5094574 | Spot facing method and apparatus for printed circuit board A spot facing method and apparatus for processing a printed circuit board incorporates a sensing device having a sensor probe capable of sensing the level of the surface of a printed circuit board, another sensing device for sensing the position of the en... | 03/10/1992 |
| 4993189 | Floating fixture platen A floating fixture platen for use on machine tools having a machine support structure and a machine tool portion rotatable about an axis of rotation, the floating fixture platen including a planar member mounted on the machine support structure in a posit... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4925347 | Method of chamfering planar plate A method of chamfering the outer peripheral edges of plate members comprises stacking the plate members in face-to-face vertically aligned relation so that for each two adjacent plate members the upper outer peripheral edge of the lower plate member oppos... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4348838 | Broach sharpening machine Broach sharpening machine in which a slide mobile in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of a broach to be sharpened supports a sharpening slide provided with a grinding wheel head, and a feeler unit arranged to determine the position of each ... | 09/14/1982 |
| 4292766 | Method and apparatus for grinding a workpiece An improved grinding method and apparatus is advantageously used to sequentially grind the pins of a crankshaft. During the grinding of each crankpin, the pin is supported by a steadyrest. During an initial grinding operation, the crankpins are measured o... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4142444 | Automatic trimming device for laminated boards An automatic trimming device for laminated boards includes automatically adjustable cutting means for trimming excess material from laminated boards during manufacture thereof, regardless of the thickness of the laminated boards.... | 03/06/1979 |
