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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7370397 | Tool kit and method for repairing a damage vehicle body member with a hem flange A method and kit for repairing vehicle door skins by reorienting vehicle hem flanges from a closed orientation to an open orientation to allow removal of a damaged door skin from a door frame and replacing with a new door skin with an open orientation hem flange tha... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7225530 | Connector press A connector press provides for learning a specified connector pressed position, adjusting a force based threshold, and simultaneously pressing multiple connector types into a circuit board. The force based threshold may be adjusted via a slider bar on a user interfa... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7145282 | Actuator An actuator includes a piezoelectric stack within a housing that applies a compressive load to the stack. The housing may include a cylindrical tube closed at one end and may seal the stack against fluid pressure. The housing may be shorter than the length of the pi... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7045932 | Electromechanical translation apparatus Electromechanical translation apparatus provides power-off clamping because each clamp assembly comprises pressure means and clamp actuator means acting in opposition. The pressure means is arranged, when the actuator is de-energized, to apply clamping force to rele... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6810711 | Portable cam and lever actuated clinching, crimping, and punching press A portable cam and lever actuated press which utilizes the substantial force available from an air spring to actuate one or more lever arms. The substantial force available from an air spring and the specialty cam system provided allows the device to perform clinchi... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6594889 | Method for processing leadframe A method of processing a leadframe involves steps of transporting a leadframe to load it into a lead processing unit including plural sets of processing presses; adjusting a press pitch of the processing presses according to a work pitch of workpieces on ... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6138346 | Portable hand-held battery-powered crimping tool A portable hand-held battery-powered crimping tool includes a gear housing containing a through bore receiving a driven gear having a crank arm that is connected by a drive link with the common pivot axis of a toggle device that pivots a pair of crimping ... | 10/31/2000 |
| 5937694 | Portable cam actuated clinching, crimping and punching press A portable cam actuated press which utilizes the substantial force available from an air spring to move a ram via the camming action of rollers mounted on the air spring, the ram, and on a frame into which all of the components are mounted. The substantia... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5282374 | Continuous forging apparatus for cast strand According to the present invention, in case of continuously forging a cast strand in its final solidification region, in order to forge the cast strand with uniform reduction amounts on front and rear sides of the strand notwithstanding the cast strand is... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5205147 | Pre-loaded actuator using piezoelectric element Pre-loaded piezoelectric actuators provide improved work piece displacement, frequency of repetition, accuracy and repeatability. Actuators may use a coil spring providing a compressive force adequate to substantially fully compress a laminated piezoelect... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5012729 | Device for working plate-shaped material The invention relates to a device for working plate-shaped material, the device being provided with a frame and a pair of cooperating elongated working members. One of these working members has a stationary arrangement in the frame, while the other is mov... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4914941 | Power tool for crimping terminal elements for connecting lead wires thereto Disclosed in a powered crimping tool for crimping a metallic terminal upon a wire lead for accomplishing both electric and mechanical connection therebetween, comprising: a casing having a die member attached thereto; an electric motor having an output sh... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4420963 | Impact rail forger A rail forger for reforming worn rails is disclosed. The forger includes a mobile frame capable of travel along the railway and a pair of forging shoes pivotally suspended from the frame. The forging shoes are adapted to travel along either side of the ra... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4283825 | Heavy duty press A heavy duty press including spaced apart, inturned, U-shaped vertical supports welded to a horizontal support structure extending therebetween at contiguous surfaces, a work support table adjustably receivable on the vertical supports and a spring biased... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4129027 | Apparatus for making metal strip An apparatus comprises working tools -- a hammer and an anvil. A concentrator of ultrasonic oscillations is in an intimate contact with the hammer, and the anvil is mounted on an end face of a metal rod of a length which is multiple to one quarter of ultr... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4120256 | Apparatus for sealing flange joints A flanging tool used with an impact tool to attach a vehicular door panel to a door frame is disclosed. The flanging tool has a connecting end and a crimping end with means attached to the connecting end for connecting the shank to the impact tool. A hook... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4037458 | Silencing method and silencer device in crank press machine This invention provides a method and device for eliminating vibration and for silencing noise caused during operation of a crank-driven press tool. A brake operates on the crank shaft of the press tool from just before to just after the termination of the... | 07/26/1977 |
| 4022052 | Stamping press with augmented power stroke A stamping press with an augmented power stroke has a support with a guide portion in which is slidably seated a ram having an elongated passage therein parallel to the axis of movement thereof and a head portion at one end for mounting tooling thereon. A... | 05/10/1977 |
| 3990285 | Method of and apparatus for shaping articles by rolling Different surfaces of articles are shaped by means of a shaping tool. The active surface of the shaping tool is rolled reversibly along the shaped surface with a point contact in the axial plane of the shaped surface, such axial plane turning around the a... | 11/09/1976 |
| 3983738 | Crank press drive The invention is intended for crank presses. The drive according to the invention, comprises a first flywheel installed on a crankshaft connected to a slide block and a second flywheel connected to the crankshaft by means of a clutch. The first flywheel i... | 10/05/1976 |
