A tonneau system for use with a pickup truck. The tonneau system includes a frame and a tonneau cover having a plurality of tonneau sections moveable between an extended position covering a cargo box of the pickup truck and a folded position forming a stack of the tonneau sections. The stack being coupled to the frame and pivotally moveable between a first position depending into the cargo box and a second position extending upward generally from the cargo box.

A tonneau system for use with a cargo box of a pickup truck. The tonneau system includes a pair of side rails for mounting to the sidewalls of the cargo box and a tonneau cover having at least two tonneau sections and being moveable relative to one another between an unfolded state and a folded state. In the unfolded state the tonneau sections substantially covering the cargo box and in the folded state the tonneau sections being arranged in a stack. The stack of tonneau sections is pivotally connected to the side rails by a pivot connection that is moveable between secure and release positions. In the secure position, the stack being retainingly engaged with the side rails and, in the release position, the stack being removably engaged with the side rails whereby the stack is removable from the cargo box while the side rails remain mounted therewith.

A tonneau system for use with a pickup truck. The tonneau system includes a frame and a tonneau cover having a plurality of tonneau sections moveable between a folded position and an unfolded position. The tonneau cover includes solar energy-receiving material secured to a top exposed surface of at least two of the tonneau sections. The solar energy-receiving material moves with their corresponding tonneau sections between the unfolded and folded positions. A battery, transformer, and/or electrical cabling system may be included within the circuit for power storage and conversion.

A machine learning apparatus determines a control parameter of an active vibration isolation apparatus on which an industrial machine is mounted. The industrial machine includes a movable part, a drive source that drives the movable part, and a drive source control section that controls the drive source to position the movable part at a command position. The machine learning apparatus includes: an acquiring section that acquires, as teacher data, a positional deviation, which is a difference between the command position and an actual position of the movable part; a storage section that stores a learning model that outputs the control parameter corresponding to a state quantity concerning the industrial machine; and a learning section that updates the learning model using the teacher data.

A machining apparatus for machining optical lenses has a horizontally aligned conveyor section for transporting containers containing at least one optical lens, the conveyor section extending between an entry and opposite exit side of a module. The machining apparatus has a container buffer store and a container transport device, the latter being designed to retrieve containers from the conveyor section and to store said containers in the container buffer store and to transport containers back onto the conveyor section. A workpiece handling station having at least one parking space is provided for one container. The container transport device transports containers from the container buffer store to at least one parking space. A handling device of workpiece handling station retrieves optical lenses from a container standing on a parking spaces and transfers said container to a machining station. Moreover, the invention relates to a manufacturing system having two such machining apparatuses.

A machining apparatus for machining optical lenses has a horizontally aligned conveyor section for transporting containers containing at least one optical lens, the conveyor section extending between an entry and opposite exit side of a module. The machining apparatus has a container buffer store and a container transport device, the latter being designed to retrieve containers from the conveyor section and to store said containers in the container buffer store and to transport containers back onto the conveyor section. A workpiece handling station having at least one parking space is provided for one container. The container transport device transports containers from the container buffer store to at least one parking space. A handling device of workpiece handling station retrieves optical lenses from a container standing on a parking spaces and transfers said container to a machining station. Moreover, the invention relates to a manufacturing system having two such machining apparatuses.

The present invention is a mini wheel CNC and manual lathe with wheel straightener and method for using said lathe.

A rim trimming machine comprises a mounting rack, a first axial moving device, a second axial moving device, a cutter turret, a base, and a chuck. The mounting rack is a board and is disposed vertically. The first axial moving device is mounted to the mounting rack and has a first axial sliding stand being movable along a first moving direction. The second axial moving device is mounted to the first axial sliding stand and has a second axial sliding stand being movable along a second moving direction. The cutter turret is mounted to the second axial moving device and has a cutter. The base is spaced apart from the mounting rack. The chuck is mounted on the base and has multiple jaws, each jaw having a radius. The cutter is above the chuck, and is aligned to a position between two ends of one of the jaws.

A manufacturing method for a vehicle wheel includes an overlap cutting step in which lathe machining is performed on a design portion of the vehicle wheel at feed speed that allows cutting marks to be connected with each other in a radial direction with a first cutting depth from a given reference position, and a non-overlap cutting step in which, after the overlap cutting step, lathe machining is performed on the design portion at feed speed that allows cutting marks to be separated from each other in the radial direction with a second cutting depth from the reference position, the second cutting depth being deeper than the first cutting depth.

A powder production method includes providing at least one elongated member including a ductile material; providing a rotating or vibrating cutter configured to repeatedly cut an end of the at least one elongated member to produce particles; and advancing the at least one elongated member or the cutter towards the other of the at least one elongated member or the cutter to cut the particles from the at least one elongated member to produce a powder comprising a plurality of the particles. The particles produced by the method can have a diameter ranging from about 10 μm to about 200 μm.