Ford Motor Company Limited

Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Other

David Alan Stephenson

Ethan Timothy Hughey

Keith Raymond Bartle

David Garrett Coffman

Rodney G Whitbeck

Timothy George Beyer

William Edmunds Dowling, Jr

Michael J Habel

Michael A Kopmanis

Bryce Andrew Schwager

James William Perry

Shibu Mathew Philipose

David Alan Ozog

Timothy Jay Potter

James Maurice Boileau

Richard Earl Williford

Youssef Ziada

David Ozog

Mackenzie Thomas Van Loon

Benjamin T Tower

The present disclosure is directed toward a tooling assembly for a machine having an automatic tool changing system. The tooling assembly includes a holder, a tool body, and an internal passage defined within and extending through the holder and the tool body. The holder includes a machine interface configured to engage with a spindle of the machine. The internal passage is operable to have a coolant fluid flow within, and has a stem channel and a curved channel extending from the stem channel.

Tooling assembly with internal coolant passages for machines

A minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) tool including a lance. The lance includes a passageway and an orifice. The passageway extends axially from a first end of the lance toward a second end of the lance and allows a lubricant supply to flow therein from the first end of the lance toward the second end of the lance. The first orifice extends radially through the lance at a location near the second end of the lance. The lubricant supply flowing through the passageway exits the orifice and is impinged upon by air flowing around the lance.

Lance and minimum quantity lubrication tool having a lance

A thread tap includes a shaft and teeth. The shaft includes helical passages from the threading end to the base end of the shaft. Each passage opens through an aperture in the threading end. A second tap includes a cap and the shaft includes an axially extending passage. The cap is coupled to the threading end and at least partially defines apertures in fluid communication with the passage and the exterior of the tap. A third tap includes teeth spaced apart by a plurality of linear flutes. The shaft includes a central passage and a plurality of flute passages. Each flute passage extends radially outward from a common location in the central passage to a corresponding one of the flutes. The central passage is closed to a terminal end of the threading end.

Minimum quantity lubrication thread tap

A tool holder for a minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) device includes a tool holder body, a mixing chamber, a gas passageway, and an oil passageway. The tool holder body is configured for rotation about an axis. The tool holder body has a proximal end configured to be coupled to a spindle of the MQL device and a distal end configured to support a cutting tool for rotation about the axis. The mixing chamber is disposed within the tool holder body. The gas passageway is within the tool holder body and in fluid communication with the mixing chamber. The oil passageway is within the tool holder body and in fluid communication with the mixing chamber. The oil passageway is separate from the gas passageway and configured to receive a liquid lubricant from an oil conduit of the spindle.

Expended lance tool holder for minimum quantity lubrication

A method for shaping a blind slot in a workpiece includes using a standard computer numerical controlled machine center to radially step a single slot broaching tool into a precursor slot in the workpiece for a predetermined distance to form a slot with a blind end. After the slot with the blind end is formed, the method includes rotating at least one of the workpiece and the single slot broaching tool and radially stepping the single slot broaching tool into another precursor slot for another predetermined distance to form another slot with another blind end in the workpiece. The another predetermined distance is the same as the predetermined distance, or in the alternative, the another predetermined distance is different than the predetermined distance.

Methods of shaping slots with computer numerical controlled machining centers

A method of priming a minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) tool includes determining a category of the tool, supplying a short-prime MQL dosage if the tool is a first category or if both a second category and lubricated within a first predetermined timeframe, and supplying a long-prime MQL dosage if the tool is the second category and has not been lubricated within the predetermined timeframe. The category is based on internal passage complexity of the tool.

Minimum quantity lubrication tool priming method

A cutting tool includes a body having a base and a cutting portion. The cutting portion defines a plurality of first edges and a plurality of second edges. The body defines a trunk passage, a plurality of first branch passages, and a plurality of first independent passages. Each of the first branch passages is open to the trunk passage and has an outlet open to an exterior of the cutting portion proximate to a corresponding one of the second edges. Each of the first independent passages is independent of the trunk passage and the first branch passages and has an outlet open to an exterior of the cutting portion proximate to a corresponding one of the first edges.

Minimum quantity lubrication multidiameter cutting tool oil delivery

A surface roughening tool includes a cylindrical body and at least one grooving blade outwardly radially projecting from the body and configured to form grooves and peaks into a surface. The surface roughening tool also includes at least one swaging blade outwardly radially projecting from the body and configured to deform the peaks. The at least one swaging blade is aligned with the at least one grooving blade along a circumference of the body.

Surface roughening tool with translatable swaging blades

A method includes positioning a cylindrical tool having one or more rows of blades within a cylindrical bore having a surface, forming annular grooves and peaks into the surface with the grooving blades when the swaging blades are in the retracted position, and translating the swaging blades from the retracted position to the extended position to deform the peaks. The one or more rows of blades includes fixed grooving blades and translatable swaging blades having retracted and extended positions.

Mechanical roughening by a tool with translatable swaging blades

A cutting tool and method of manufacturing a tool including determining desired flowrates to cutting edges. The method includes calculating pressure drop and passage dimensions for each of an nth-number of passages to the cutting edges based on I=(P*A)/(&#x3c1;*L), wherein Iis nth-passage flow rate, Pis nth-passage pressure drop, Ais nth-passage cross-sectional area raised to a power n, the power n being equal to 1 or 0.5, &#x3c1;is nth-passage resistivity, and Lis nth-passage length. The method includes forming the nth-passages in the tool open to each cutting edge based on the nth-passage dimensions.

Multidiameter cutting tool having balanced minimum quantity lubrication flow and method of manufacturing a multidiameter cutting tool

The present disclosure relates to a system for measuring a dynamic response of a machine. The system includes a vibration mechanism, an accelerometer, a controller and a casing. The vibration mechanism is operable to generate an excitation signal, and the accelerometer is operable to measure dynamic energy in response to the excitation signal and output a dynamic response signal indicative of the dynamic energy. The controller includes a communication interface and operates the vibration mechanism to output the excitation signal and transmit a vibration input signal based on the excitation signal by way of the communication interface. The casing houses the vibration mechanism and the controller.

Dynamic characterization system for measuring a dynamic response

According to one aspect of this disclosure, a grooving tool is provided. The grooving tool has a body with a plurality of recesses. Plural inserts assembled into each of the recesses. The recesses include a cutting edge for forming grooves in an engine cylinder wall when rotated in one rotational direction. The insert also includes a peening surface extending in the opposite rotational direction from the cutting edge for deforming the upper edges of the grooves when rotated in an opposite rotational direction.

Groover with peening flanks

A tilt command system for input peripherals is disclosed which allows for enhanced functionality for a peripheral device based on the peripheral's degree of tilt and direction of tilt.

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Detroit, MI, United States of America

David Alan Stephenson