3D PRINTED GEAR CUTTING TOOLS WITH CAPILLARIES FOR MINIMUM QUANTITY LUBRICATION, GAS OR LIQUID

    公开(公告)号:US20210394285A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-23

    申请号:US16905376

    申请日:2020-06-18

    IPC分类号: B23C5/28 B23C5/08

    摘要: A gear forming tool includes an outer sleeve having an outer sleeve aperture and an inner sleeve having an inner sleeve aperture in fluid communication with the outer sleeve aperture, a tool holder disposed within the outer sleeve, and a 3D printed gear cutting tool with a plurality of tool cutting edges and a plurality of capillaries attached to the tool holder. The tool holder has a plurality of fluid channels configured to be in fluid communication with the inner sleeve aperture and the plurality of capillaries of the 3D printed gear cutting tool such that cutting fluid flows through the outer sleeve, the inner sleeve, the plurality of fluid channels of the tool holder, and the plurality of capillaries to the plurality of tool cutting edges.

    Methods of manufacturing hypoid gears

    公开(公告)号:US11555225B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-17

    申请号:US16396298

    申请日:2019-04-26

    摘要: A method of manufacturing a hypoid gear includes face hobbing a gear blank and forming a green hypoid gear with gear teeth, heat treating the green hypoid gear to form a heat treated hypoid gear with heat treated gear teeth, and hard hobbing the heat treated gear teeth to form a hard finished hypoid gear. Critical non-tooth features on the heat treated hypoid gear are hard finished. Also, the critical non-tooth features on the heat treated hypoid gear can be hard finished prior to hard hobbing the heat treated gear teeth. The heat treating includes at least one of carburizing and induction hardening the green hypoid gear, a surface of the heat treated gear teeth has a hardness greater than or equal to 58 HRC, and the hard hobbing removes heat distortion from the heat treated gear teeth.

    MODULAR STACKING TOOL AND METHOD FOR A BATTERY

    公开(公告)号:US20230327171A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-12

    申请号:US17718980

    申请日:2022-04-12

    IPC分类号: H01M10/04

    CPC分类号: H01M10/0404

    摘要: A battery module locating tool includes a support pillar and a plurality of fixtures supported on the support pillar. Each fixture is individually translatable along the support pillar and arranged to locate a battery cell according to a longitudinal datum and a lateral datum. The support pillar is movable toward and away from a battery frame onto which the battery cell is located.

    LASER NOTCHING APPARATUS FOR CUTTING OF ELECTRODE SHEETS

    公开(公告)号:US20230249291A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-10

    申请号:US17667647

    申请日:2022-02-09

    IPC分类号: B23K26/38

    CPC分类号: B23K26/38

    摘要: An apparatus for cutting electrode sheets includes a conveyor and a laser device. The conveyor is configured to move an original sheet including an electrode portion and an ear portion extending from an edge of the electrode portion. The laser device is configured to move a laser to cut out a tab connected to the electrode portion from the ear portion of the original sheet. The laser device is also configured to move the laser from one edge of the electrode portion to another edge of the electrode portion to cut and separate a respective electrode sheet including the tab from the original sheet. The laser is configured to cut out the tab from the ear portion and cut and separate the respective electrode sheet including the tab from the original sheet as the conveyor is moving the original sheet.