Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering - Volume 13, Issue 1, 2020

Background: Gangue is the concomitant product of coal mining. The traditional approach for gangue treatment is to transport it from underground to ground level to accumulate and form gangue hills. Objective: On the basis of summarizing previous research results, this paper introduces the hydraulic roller crusher and the electric machine built-in coal gangue roller crusher, which avoids the complex transmission problems ca Read More

Background: Molten pool temperature in Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM) will affect powder efficiency, structural compositions of reactants and products in the molten pool, thus determining the microstructure evolutions and mechanical properties of the final part. An interest in molten pool temperature measurement has been around for a long time since the appearance of LAM. However, a comprehensive summary of the Read More

Background: Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) technique is an effective and reliable method for machining difficult-to-cut materials with complex shapes. Pulse power supply, a core component of the EDM machine tool, plays a major role in the processing efficiency and processing quality. Thus, more and more attention has been paid to the power types and control methods of pulse power supplies of EDM at presen Read More

Background: As a successive part, the paper introduces the second mode of abnormal hydrodynamic thrust slider bearings with divergent surface separations registered in the patents, where the boundary slippage is artificially designed both on the stationary surface in the inlet zone and on the whole moving surface. Objective: To introduce a second method for artificially designing the boundary slippage for the formation of abn Read More

Background: Large-scale rotary devices often employ friction drives in order to be manufactured easily and usually select a large driving radius to reduce the friction forces needed. In traditional devices, the driver and driven friction wheels are required to be of higher roundness to avoid slipping between them. This makes the driven friction wheel difficult to be machined. In addition, generating adequate contact load betw Read More

Background: A transfemoral prosthetic knee is an artificial knee used by above-the-knee amputees. There are two major categories of transfemoral prosthetic knee designs: pin joint-based and polycentric designs. While pin joint-based knee designs only allow pure rotation of the knee, polycentric knee designs allow a combination of rotational and translational knee motion which is exhibited in natural knee motion Read More

Background: The active suspension can be adjusted in real time according to the change of road condition and vehicle state to enhance the performance of active suspension that has received widespread attention. Suspension control strategies and actuators are the key issues of the active suspension, and are the main research directions for active suspension patents. Objective: The numerical analysis method is prop Read More

Background: The vector propulsion device can significantly improve the sensitivity and mobility of the mechanism. Furthermore, thrust vectoring technology with single manipulator and multidimensional attitude is a novel thrust vectoring technique in industry, especially in aviation fields. Numerous progresses made by various research groups and the newest patents in these aspects will be cited in this paper. Objective: To Read More