Method for detecting the wear of a milling cutter of a key-duplicating machine

    公开(公告)号:US12275110B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-15

    申请号:US17772984

    申请日:2020-10-30

    Applicant: SILCA S.P.A.

    Abstract: A method is disclosed for detecting the wear of a cutter in a key-duplicating machine, the cutter being provided with cutting sections to obtain bitting cuts on a key and being put in rotation by an electric motor. The method includes measuring, during at least one cutting cycle carried out by means of the cutter, the values of current and/or voltage absorbed/required by the motor for rotation of cutter and/or motor torque values exerted by the motor. The values thus detected are used to determine if there is wear of the cutting portions of the cutter and/or to quantify the wear of the cutting portions of the cutter.

    A KEY-DUPLICATING MACHINE
    2.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220388077A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-08

    申请号:US17772958

    申请日:2020-10-30

    Applicant: SILCA S.P.A.

    Abstract: A key duplicating machine includes: a support structure, a front operational area which is accessible by the operator and which is removably covered and separated, at least partially, from the external environment by a covering and/or protection crankcase movable with respect to said structure of support. At least one key cutter and/or another cutting element, and at least one terminal (12) for locking a key, are housed in the front operational area, a rear containment area, covered and separated from the external environment by a casing mechanically fixed to the support structure, and a control and command unit having a mechanism for moving said crankcase for covering and/or protecting the front operational area, the crankcase being configured to be mounted on a fixed structure of the duplicating machine so as to be able to be moved with respect to the fixed structure.

    Method for creating of an improved rolling code radio control

    公开(公告)号:US20170323556A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-11-09

    申请号:US15510676

    申请日:2015-09-17

    Applicant: SILCA S.P.A.

    Abstract: A method for creating, with an unset radio control provided with a NFC device, an adjunct rolling code radio control controlling a user device, with which an original radio control is already associated having a rolling code based on a variation algorithm unknown by the unset radio control, wherein includes identifying the algorithm via a sniffer provided with a NFC device. If the sniffer possesses the algorithm, then the algorithm is transmitted via NFC from the sniffer to the unset radio control; if instead the sniffer does not possess the algorithm, it acquires the algorithm with an apparatus connectable to the internet and provided with a NFC device, then transmits the algorithm via NFC from the apparatus to the unset radio control. The original and the unset radio control are simultaneously activated such that the original radio control can set up the unset radio control based on the algorithm.

    Electronic key
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12145531B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-19

    申请号:US17794927

    申请日:2021-01-27

    Applicant: SILCA S.P.A.

    Abstract: Electronic key for a motor vehicle having a containment casing, which houses:
    at least one processing and/or control unit,
    at least one memory unit where at least one recognition data is stored to control at least one function and/or system of a motor vehicle,
    at least one transmitter and/or transceiver unit to communicate with at least one control unit which is mounted in/on said motor vehicle and which is configured to command, following the receipt of the recognition data, at least one functionality and/or system of the vehicle,
    at least one receiver/transceiver which is connected to the processing and/or control unit and is configured to receive at least one command signal directly from the outside. The processing and/or control unit is configured so that, upon receipt of the command signal directly from the outside, intervenes on at least one of the components of the key itself.

    CLAMP FOR KEY CUTTING MACHINE
    5.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230356308A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-09

    申请号:US18029623

    申请日:2021-10-11

    Applicant: SILCA S.P.A.

    CPC classification number: B23C3/355

    Abstract: A clamp for key cutting machine includes:



    a lower jaw placeable on a support of a key cutting machine, having a first central hole for crossing a pin fixed to said support and allowing rotation of the lower jaw around the pin, the lower jaw having a first lower external face;
    an upper jaw placed above the lower jaw and having a second central hole, aligned with the first central hole, for allowing the rotation of the upper jaw around said pin, the upper jaw having a first upper external face;
    a lower insert and an upper insert,
    the lower jaw having a lower seat on the first lower external face and houses the lower insert,
    the upper jaw is equipped with an upper seat on the upper external face and houses the upper insert configured to cooperate with the lower insert to clamp a key.

    An improved key
    6.
    发明申请
    An improved key 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20200270902A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-27

    申请号:US16760156

    申请日:2018-11-13

    Applicant: SILCA S.P.A.

    Abstract: A key includes a key-shaped supporting structure, made of a metal material, which includes a stem and a head having an opening therethrough, the opening being entirely laterally delimited by inner side walls extending from one face of the head to the other; and an insert, made of a polymeric material, which includes an identification system and which is removably inserted into the opening of the head, the insert having at least one section protruding from the inner side walls of the opening and laterally projecting with respect to the opening, thus abutting against a part of the head portion provided about the opening.

    DEVICE FOR ENGRAVING A KEY
    7.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240157451A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-16

    申请号:US17772977

    申请日:2020-10-30

    Applicant: SILCA S.P.A.

    CPC classification number: B23C3/35 B23C1/08 B23C2235/24

    Abstract: A key-cutting machine includes: a support structure; a front operational area which is accessible by an operator; at least one milling and/or cutting unit which is positioned in the front operational area and which includes at least one end mill, and/or another cutting member, to carry out a bitting processing of a key. The key-cutting machine also includes at least one clamp, which is positioned in the front operational area, to hold the key to be machined, so that a face of the key to be engraved is arranged substantially horizontally. The key-cutting machine also includes a device for engraving at least one face of the head of said key, said device being positioned inside the front operational area of said duplicating machine; and at least one pair of engraving tools mounted on a support unit. Each engraving tool includes cutting sections for engraving a corresponding face of a key.

    DEVICE FOR DETECTING THE CODING PROFILE OF A KEY

    公开(公告)号:US20220341213A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-27

    申请号:US17772966

    申请日:2020-10-30

    Applicant: SILCA S.P.A.

    Abstract: Device for detecting the coding profile of a key, of the type intended to be installed and/or provided inside a key cutting machine having an operating area provided of at least one milling and/or cutting unit and of at least one clamp for locking a key, and includes: an optical reader which is configured to be entirely housed inside the structure of the duplicating machine but outside the operating area of the machine, a drawer provided with clamping means to hold the key, whose coding profile is to be detected, in correspondence with its head and/or its stem and/or a connecting section between the head and the shaft of the key, the drawer being configured to be movable towards and away from the optical reader, the optical reader includes a telecentric optic interposed between the drawer and at least one optical sensor.

    Tablet computer support
    9.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09759372B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-09-12

    申请号:US15111134

    申请日:2015-01-26

    Applicant: SILCA S.P.A.

    Inventor: Giorgio Pigatti

    Abstract: A support for a tablet computer includes a base shaped to stably rest both on flat and on curved surfaces, a mechanical system for removably fixing the base securely to a key processing machine to be connected to and controlled by the tablet, a tubular element fixed on the upper surface of the base, a cylindrical member housed in the interior of the tubular element and rotatable relative thereto, first members for resting on and coupling to the lower transverse edge of the tablet and second members for resting on and coupling to the upper transverse edge of the tablet, wherein the first members and the second members are disposed at an angle to each other and are associated with the cylindrical member to rotate therewith relative to the tubular element, the relative distance between said the resting and coupling members and the second resting and coupling members being adjustable.

    Electronic key duplicating machine
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09669476B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-06-06

    申请号:US14902110

    申请日:2014-07-14

    Applicant: SILCA S.P.A.

    Abstract: An electronic key duplicating machine includes a base, on which a first support is mounted for a clamp for, at separate moments, an original key and a blank key, an optical reader sensing the bitting of the original key, and a milling cutter reproducing the bitting on the blank key, which are mounted on a second support rigid with the machine base, the clamp being movable along the X axis and the Y axis relative to the second support, a unit memorizing the bitting of the original key sensed by the optical reader and controlling and commanding movement of the clamp and operability of optical reader and milling cutter, wherein the second support is of C-shape with its opening facing the clamp, and the optical reader is mounted on horizontal branches of the second C-shaped support, while the milling cutter is mounted in the cavity defined by the horizontal branches.

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