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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8155777 | Method for the designing of tools The invention concerns a method for the creation of addendums (4) of tools for sheet metal formed parts (2). In the case of this method, fill surfaces (7) for the smoothing of irregular zones of a component edge (3) are generated. Initial... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150544 | Method and device for controlling an installation for producing steel In a method for controlling an installation for producing steel having specific material properties, the material properties depend on the structure and can be influenced by operating parameters of the installation. The operating parameters are determined by a compu... | 04/03/2012 |
| 7894929 | Method for the designing of tools A method for creating addendums (4) of tools for sheet metal formed parts (2) wherein fill surfaces (7) for the smoothing of irregular zones of a component edge (3) are generated. Initial directions (31) of sectional profiles (1... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7623939 | Method for designing a tool for deep drawing and tool for deep drawing of sheet metal The invention concerns a method for the creation of addendums (4) of tools for sheet metal formed parts (2). In the case of this method, fill surfaces (7) for the smoothing of irregular zones of a component edge (3) are generated. Initial... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7392678 | Bending machine A bending machine has an upper table and a lower table. An input part is provided for inputting product information. A bending order determiner is provided for determining a bending order of the workpiece. A mold determiner is provided for determining the mold neces... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7366582 | Method for defining status index in copper electrolysis The invention is a method for controlling an electrolytic process and plant, utilizing history data collected in the process as well as mathematical and heuristic models created on the basis of empirical knowledge, and by means of said models, there are defined inde... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7324864 | Apparatus and method for measuring forces imparted on valve assemblies of metered dose delivery containers during manufacture thereof An axial force measurement apparatus (40) comprises a head member (42) adapted for receiving force imparted by an external force-applying source, and a transducer (44) such as a load cell for measuring the amount of force applied to the head mem... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7310773 | Removal of extraneous text from electronic documents Method and apparatus for removing lines of extraneous text from a document. Similarities are identified between lines of text on each page and corresponding lines on a selected subset of pages. Different weight values are associated with different line numbers of te... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305271 | Device and a method for continuous casting A computer program product for controlling an apparatus for continuous casting of metals. The computer program product includes a computer readable medium and computer program instructions recorded on the computer readable medium executable by a processor for perfor... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7286893 | Tailoring residual stress and hardness during direct metal deposition In a direct-metal deposition (DMD) process used to deposit successive layers in accordance with instructions from a CAD/CAM program, the laser beam, or an additional beam, is deployed as a localized heat treatment tool instead of a deposition tool. The use of laser ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280887 | Outsourcing method and system for sheet metal processing industry An outsourcing service center (7) discloses information obtained through outsourcing services for a first sheet metal processing factory (3) to promote sales. A first ordering customer (5) requests a first sheet metal processing factory (3 | 10/09/2007 |
| 7266419 | Search for similar sheet metal part models An apparatus prepares data for manufacturing a product or a part with a pre-determined shape by using a bending press provided with detachable tools. The apparatus includes a computer memory that stores bending order information for manufacturing the product or the ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257461 | Virtual programming of formed component trajectories This invention discloses a method for calculating gripper trajectories in forming equipment. The method utilizes a computer aided design (CAD) or a computer aided engineering (CAE) computer program to calculate the appropriate location, speed, controller commands, a... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7244285 | Filter body for particle filter In a filter body for a particle filter with a filter part, comprised of a gas-permeable support material coated with a sintered metal powder, and with a connection part connected with the filter part and provided for welding together with a holding element, the filt... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7210322 | Dent distribution diagram drawing method and system in shotblasting, and processing conditions setting method and shotblasting device A method and a device for easily setting a processing condition from a dent rate of a product by giving an arbitrary dent producing condition and a shotblast processing condition in a shotblasting process. The method calculates a processing time, a projection amount... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7158853 | Pattern recognition for sheet metal part models Analysis is performed on sheet metal products to determine characteristics (or feature vectors) of the sheet metal products. Multiple feature vectors can be obtained for each sheet metal product. Exemplary analyses include a first order moment and a second order mom... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7151966 | System and methodology providing open interface and distributed processing in an industrial controller environment The present invention relates to a system and methodology providing virtual and remote component interactions in a networked industrial control environment. One or more components of an industrial control system are defined as a web service, wherein the components c... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7107233 | Scrap reduction by combining operations of different manufacturers Scrap is decreased by a service provider collecting information on would-be scrap materials and sizes by first fabricators and work product needs by second users world wide. The first and second parties are informed of the needs and availabilities by the service pro... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106202 | Shipping container along with shipping method employing the same A container to receive a parcel for shipment to an intended recipient comprises a pouch having a pouch interior and a mouth, a closure movable between open and closed positions, and a protective insert structure removably disposed in the pouch interior to substantia... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7099803 | Data exchange between computer aided design systems A user emulation module is operable to emulate generating a feature by a user by issuing graphical user interface based commands in a computer aided design system associated with either a source technical system or a target technical system. An associated pattern re... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7069098 | Method and system for prioritizing material to clear exception conditions The present invention is generally directed to various methods and systems for prioritizing material to clear exception conditions. In one illustrative embodiment, the method includes providing a plurality of workpieces, each of the workpieces having an associated q... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6904393 | Apparatus and method for manually selecting, displaying, and repositioning dimensions of a part model A dimensioning system is provided for a computer generated model of a sheet metal part including a plurality of entities. The dimensioning system comprises a model display, an indicator, a selector, a dimension defining system, and a dimension display. The model dis... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6879872 | Method for generating three-dimensional sheet-metal model and a computer program A method for generating a three-dimensional sheet-metal model utilizing a feature for generating a general solid model without a sheet-metal attribution is provided. The method includes the steps of estimating a thickness of a sheet-metal from a cross section design... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6782596 | Fiducial calibration systems and methods for manufacturing, inspection, and assembly Fiducial calibration systems and methods for precisely and accurately manufacturing a part from a workpiece, inspecting or measuring a part, and/or assembling a plurality of manufactured parts including providing a workpiece, wherein the workpiece and the associated... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6698266 | System and method for optimizing mill cuts A method for controlling a bar processing mill having an exit and a cooling bed to produce bars of a predetermined cold length. The method includes, for a first bar in a processing order, calculating a long hot cut length based, at least in part upon a pr... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6697699 | Method and device for influencing relevant quality parameters of a rolling strip Method for influencing relevant quality parameters of a rolling strip, particularly the profile or flatness of the rolling strip, in a roll stand with rolls, by adjusting the crownings of the rolls, i.e., the surface geometry of the rolls in the longitudi... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6678574 | Method for producing suspension parts of aluminum alloy A method for producing suspension parts via preforming the workpiece by roll forming. The sectional area and length of the workpiece are calculated. In the former step, more than one orthogonal cross-section is acquired from the suspension part of aluminu... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6678568 | Sheet metal working graphic data generation method and apparatus A sheet metal working graphic data generation method includes displaying respective planes constituting a solid input based on two-dimensional three side views on a screen. The method also includes obtaining and displaying a temporary development diagram ... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6643561 | Parametric programming of laser cutting system The present invention is part of a system and method for creating products of varying characteristics on an automated production line. The system includes one or more production line devices, for example robots and machines. Specifically, the present inve... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6629016 | Apparatus and method of manufacturing expanded sheet metal An apparatus and method for creating expanded and non-expanded regions on a sheet of sheet metal. The apparatus includes a programmable controller, a sheet metal feeder for incrementally advancing the sheet metal, and a cutter/expander for generating rows... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6625515 | Roll defect management process The Roll Defect Management Process (RDMP) is a system which is designed to manage, track and evaluate all mill rolls found in use in the hot and cold production of flat rolled metal strip. The RDMP is capable of detection, distinction and differentiation ... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6624388 | System and method providing distributed welding architecture A system and method provides a distributed welding architecture in accordance with the present invention. The system includes a welder operatively coupled to a server and a network interface to enable a network architecture, the network architecture servi... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6591156 | Method and apparatus for providing numerical control information An apparatus and method for generating numerical control information for numerically controlling machine tools. Contents of corrective editing or correction to numerical control information by a processing operator is written and stored in a processing me... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6507767 | Intelligent system for generating and executing a sheet metal bending plan An intelligent sheet metal bending system is disclosed, having a cooperative generative planning system. A planning module interacts with several expert modules to develop a bending plan. The planning module utilizes a state-space search algorithm. Comput... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6496754 | Mobile robot and course adjusting method thereof A mobile robot capable of recognizing its location and adjusting its direction in response to an obstacle in its way includes a running device, an obstacle detecting device for detecting the presence of an obstacle, a location recognizing device, a contro... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6479792 | Welding machine, system and method therefor A welding machine having an embedded controller with a processor, a network gateway interface device coupled to the embedded controller, an operating program segment stored in a memory of the embedded controller, a gateway communication program segment st... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6438442 | Method for automatic conducting of a straightening process A method for automatic conducting of a straightening process for an object to be straightened, such as sheet metal, strips, sections, pipes, and in particular for wire-like or multiwire-like objects that are to be straightened, in a straightening device o... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6397122 | Apparatus and method therefor of maximizing the production run speed of a sheet fabrication machine To maximize the production run speed of a sheet fabrication machine such as a turret punch press, and yet at the same time maintaining the requisite accuracy for each part produced from the production run, historical data pertaining to the various paramet... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6353768 | Method and apparatus for designing a manufacturing process for sheet metal parts An exemplary method of designing a manufacturing process comprises the steps of representing a workpiece as a plurality of triangular finite elements, representing the forming tools with mathematical equations which typically include cubic polynomials, si... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6341243 | Intelligent system for generating and executing a sheet metal bending plan An intelligent sheet metal bending system is disclosed, having a cooperative generative planning system. A planning module interacts with several expert modules to develop a bending plan. The planning module utilizes a state-space search algorithm. Comput... | 01/22/2002 |
