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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8103373 | Control system A control system for use with a machine having a moving tool arranged to move through a known path of movement. The control system includes a means for detecting the location of objects in or adjacent the path of the tool (12) and a processing and control mea... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8046098 | Curved surface forming method of a metal plate Disclosed is a curved surface forming method for a metal plate. Nonlinear finite element analysis of elasto-plastic large deformation is performed on the metal plate. The metal plate to be worked is formed so as to have a three-dimensional target curved surface on t... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7957831 | System and device for designing and forming a surgical implant A method is provided for determining the shape of a surgical linking device that is to be attached to a bony body structure such as the spinal column based on digitized locations of a plurality of attachment means engaged to the bony structure. The method is impleme... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7676297 | Spring-forming control system and its control method for a spring forming machine A spring-forming control system and its control method for a spring forming machine in which the spring-forming control system uses a host computer to provide graphical spring parameter setting, program modification, and dragline-method program modification graphica... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7418309 | Methods and systems for optimizing punch instructions in a material forming press system Methods and systems are disclosed to optimize punching instructions. An example method disclosed herein obtains a tool bed layout, the tool bed including a description of a plurality of tool punch parts, each tool punch part further including tool definition informa... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7395128 | System, method, and device for designing a die to stamp metal parts to an exact final dimension A system and method for designing stamping tools that produce parts of desired dimensions. The system and method compensate for post stamping deviations from the desired dimensions in the shape of the tools used to produce the parts. The compensated tools result in ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7346478 | Method of embedding tooling control data within mechanical fixture design to enable programmable logic control verification simulation A method is provided of embedding tooling control data within a mechanical fixture design to enable programmable logic control verification simulation. The method includes the steps of constructing at least one of a mechanical fixture design, a workcell design, and ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346426 | Automatic dotting machine for manufacture of heat sink for electronic component An automatic dotting machine (100) includes a feeding device (10) for unloading workpieces (200) one by one with the same interval, a conveying device (40) for conveying the workpieces to a predetermined dotting region, a sensor unit (... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340383 | Control device, method and computer program product for browsing data A conversion processing method, device and computer program product. The device includes a memory for storing drafting data, a selector for choosing the drafting data stored in the memory, a converter for converting the drafting data chosen by the selector into shap... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333868 | Systems and methods for designing and manufacturing engineered objects A system for manufacturing an engineered object comprising an estimate generator, layout drawing generator, and design generator. The estimate generator generates a cost estimate based on a request for proposal defining the engineered object. The layout drawing gene... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324868 | Die for a press brake and method for producing the same There are provided a method for producing a die for press brake easily and a die. Three-dimensional models of an upper die 10 and a lower die 20 are prepared based on the data of a work W10. The lower die 20 is divided into plate-shap... | 01/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7317963 | Method and system for generating trimlines for stamping processes According to one embodiment of the present invention, an electronic method for generating a trimline for trimming sheet metal to be stamped to obtain a stamped part is disclosed. The method includes providing a CAD part file representing a part that can be stamped f... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7281462 | Tool guiding device A tool guiding device including a base frame and guiding rails arranged on the base frame so that they are parallel in relation to each other. At least one carriage having a machining tool is guided on the guiding rails in a linearly displaceable manner by a drive d... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281229 | Method to create an alternate integrated circuit layout view from a two dimensional database A method in accordance with the present invention prepares an alternate view of an integrated circuit (IC) layout from a top view thereof by selecting an initial polygon representing and IC feature from the top view of the layout, where the initial polygon is define... | 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 |
| 7254459 | Bending process estimation apparatus, bending process estimation program, and bending process estimation method The present invention has been made to provide a laser bending process estimation apparatus, a laser bending process estimation program, and a laser bending process estimation method capable of estimating a result of a laser bending process without an actual workpie... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7221116 | Motor control apparatus In an automatic transmission position control by a motor, it is determined whether the present instant belongs to a starting period, that is, the present instant is immediately after resetting of a control unit or application of power to it. If it is the starting pe... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7216416 | Compound processing system for sheet metal processing A complex working system for sheet metal working comprising a sheet metal working line having at least a first step working cell and a subsequent second step working cell, wherein a working schedule for the second step working cell is first determined. A working sch... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7197372 | Apparatus and method for managing and distributing design and manufacturing information throughout a sheet metal production facility 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 ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7187996 | Press machine A press machine uses a crank mechanism which can perform pressing by a pressing force control when a slide exists in a pressing region. When the slide is determined to exist between an initial position and a switching position to the pressing region, the slide is mo... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7171282 | Shell plating developing method, shell plating manufacturing method, computer program for teaching the methods, and image recording medium for teaching the methods The present invention provides a shell plating developing method leading to reduction of the amount of machining and improvement of the efficiency in manufacturing the shell plating. In the shell plating developing method according to the invention, a shell plating ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7165490 | Press forming method A press forming method is disclosed, wherein press forming can be effected at high speed while maintaining the horizontal state of a slide plate in press-forming a work-piece by a press machine. A press machine is used in which the slide plate is pressed by a plural... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7133735 | Experiment management system and method thereof in semiconductor manufacturing environment A system and method thereof for experiment management. A storage device stores an experiment plan record, a merge constraint and an integration rule. A processing unit configured to acquire a first experiment plan from the experiment plan record, and a second experi... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130714 | Method of predicting springback in hydroforming A method of determining springback in metal forming with a fluid cell press through establishing a computational formulation to determine bend angle and compensated die radius based on factors of geometry of the part being formed, material properties of the sheet ma... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7117065 | Method for modifying a stamping die to compensate for springback A method for modifying a stamping die to compensate for springback includes the steps of stamping a first part using a base, or pre-existing die set, and creating a surrogate die having the shape of the first stamped part. These steps are followed by simulated stamp... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7086327 | Press forming method A press forming method is disclosed, wherein press forming can be effected at high speed while maintaining the horizontal state of a slide plate in press-forming work by a press machine. A press machine is used in which the slide plate is pressed by a plurality of s... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7079919 | Method for setting the travel of a press brake A method for setting the travel of a press brake comprising at least one sensor, which measures a physical parameter (p) that varies with the force exerted by the punch on a piece of sheet metal placed on the die, and an electronic device that controls the displacem... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7065420 | Integrated real-time feature based costing A system and method for automatically estimating the optimized cost of a part during the course of design of the part on a computer-aided design (CAD) system by a designer. The method includes extracting parametric features of a current design from the CAD system. M... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7058465 | Method of preparing estimate for sheet metal working A method is provided for preparing an estimate for sheet metal working. Data of bending lines and data of an associated processing time for the bending lines is stored. Data of holes and data of an associated processing time for the holes is stored. A three-dimensio... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7035711 | Machining system A machining system displaying operation programs and associated information for a plurality of components of the system on the same display screen for confirming, creating and editing of the operation programs and associated information. A machine tool, a jig device... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7029429 | Bending press system A bending press system provided with a bending press with at least one bending station to mount a plurality of divided tools and, tool housing devices to house divided metals to be used on the bending press and, tool exchange devices which mount the divided tools on... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028403 | Method of manufacturing friction plate and apparatus thereof A method of manufacturing a friction plate including a plurality of frictional material segments which are punched into a predetermined shape, and a core plate onto which the plurality of frictional material segments are annularly bonded, comprising step of punching... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7010384 | Flexible distributed manufacturing method and system therefor In a manufacturing system that has a plurality of sheet fabrication machines, to enhance the efficiency of the system, there are provided a plurality of databases each for storing particular data relating to the machines, the types of materials to be used, the tooli... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6980880 | Conduit bending system A bend determining system automatically determines the position of a second bend of an offset based upon input offset and angle specifications. The system automatically repeats the angle of a first bend of the offset at the second bend without requiring an installer... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6973372 | Drive unit and method for using the drive unit to control a machine tool A drive unit for a machine, in particular a machine-tool, robot and the like, is described. The drive unit has several components, and each component has at least one associated component-specific function, and a uniform communication module that forms an interface ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6954679 | Method of generating control data for bending and torsion apparatuses A shape data specifies the shape of an elongated product within an overall coordinate system. Local coordinate systems are defined on respective cross-sections of the elongated product in the overall coordinate system. The local coordinate system is designed to repr... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6937920 | Metal sheet part bending order and bending die proposing device and proposing method A bending sequence and bending die proposing apparatus for a sheet metal part, includes: means for storing a development drawing of the sheet metal part; means for detecting a plurality of bending sequence candidates capable of manufacturing the sheet metal part, an... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6917856 | Robot It is constructed so as to detect a joint movement position of a robot arm by a position detector and a joint movement speed is calculated from change amounts of the joint movement position and elapsed time and is compared with an allowable movement speed and unlock... | 07/12/2005 |
