Patents Examined by Abhishek A Patwardhan
  • Patent number: 11981525
    Abstract: A sheet processing device sandwiches a sheet-shaped medium in a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are overlaid and partially bonded. The sheet processing device includes a separator, a conveyor, and a switching member. The separator separates the two sheets of the two-ply sheet. The conveyor is disposed downstream from the separator in a sheet conveyance direction and conveys the two-ply sheet. The switching member is disposed downstream from the conveyor in the sheet conveyance direction. The switching member switches a conveyance path of the two-ply sheet to convey the two-ply sheet to a fixing path on which fixing processing is performed on the two-ply sheet or a non-fixing path on which no fixing processing is performed on the two-ply sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshito Suzuki, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Wataru Takahashi, Sho Asano, Shinya Monma, Joji Akiyama, Wataru Nozaki, Yohsuke Haraguchi, Yuji Suzuki, Yuusuke Shibasaki, Takuya Morinaga
  • Patent number: 11975520
    Abstract: A sheet processing device is configured to separate a non-bonding portion of a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are overlapped and bonded together at one end as a bonding portion of the two-ply sheet. The sheet processing device includes a first sheet feeder configured to feed the two-ply sheet, a second sheet feeder configured to feed an inner sheet to be inserted between the two sheets of the two-ply sheet in a state in which the non-bonding portion of the two-ply sheet is separated, and circuitry configured to cause the first sheet feeder to feed the two-ply sheet, perform a sheet separating operation on the two-ply sheet to separate the non-bonding portion of the two-ply sheet, and cause the second sheet feeder to start feeding the inner sheet before completion of the sheet separating operation on the two-ply sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Joji Akiyama, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Wataru Takahashi, Sho Asano, Yoshito Suzuki, Shinya Monma, Yohsuke Haraguchi, Wataru Nozaki
  • Patent number: 11964507
    Abstract: A method for producing a printed material includes forming a color image having an image area ratio of 20% or less on a peripheral edge portion of a recording medium by using a coloring material; providing pressure-induced phase transition particles to a region of the recording medium, the region including the peripheral edge portion; bonding the color image and the pressure-induced phase transition particles onto the recording medium; and folding the recording medium having the color image and the pressure-induced phase transition particles bonded thereon and pressure-bonding the folded recording medium, or pressure-bonding the recording medium having the color image and the pressure-induced phase transition particles bonded thereon and another recording medium placed on top of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Sumiaki Yamasaki, Sakae Takeuchi, Hiroshi Saegusa, Yoichiro Emura, Yoshifumi Iida, Satoshi Kamiwaki, Susumu Yoshino
  • Patent number: 11958280
    Abstract: A stretchable electronic device is provided. The stretchable electronic device includes a stretchable elastomer polymer base substrate; a plurality of electronic devices; and a plurality of recesses partially extending into the stretchable elastomer polymer base substrate. The stretchable elastomer polymer base substrate includes a plurality of stiffened portions respectively in a plurality of stiffened regions spaced apart by one or more elastomeric portions in one or more elastomeric regions. A respective electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices is at least partially in a respective recess of the plurality of recesses, and is in a respective stiffened region of the plurality of stiffened regions. The respective electronic device in the respective recess is stacked on a respective stiffened portion of the plurality of stiffened portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yingsong Xu
  • Patent number: 11945200
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a glass unit. The method comprises a step (A) of obtaining a glass plate comprising a glass substrate and a Low-E layer placed on the glass substrate; a step (B) of applying a protective sheet to the Low-E layer surface of the glass plate; an optional step (C) of subjecting the glass plate to at least one process selected from the group consisting of transportation, storage, processing, washing and handling; a step (D) of removing the protective sheet from the glass plate; and a step (E) of assembling a glass unit using the glass plate. The protective sheet comprises a waterproof layer, and a PSA layer provided to at least one face of the waterproof layer. The PSA layer has a surface hardness of 0.5 MPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION, NITTO BELGIUM NV
    Inventors: Kousuke Yonezaki, Hakaru Horiguchi, Peter Gruyters, Donald Pinxten
  • Patent number: 11938711
    Abstract: A fixture for lap shear bonding a bottom panel to a top panel comprises a bottom tool, a first spacer, a second spacer, and a top tool. The bottom tool has a quadrilateral shape including a top surface, a bottom surface, and four side surfaces and is configured to retain the bottom panel on the top surface. The first spacer is attached to the top surface of the bottom tool adjacent to one edge. The second spacer is attached to the top surface of the bottom tool adjacent to an opposing edge. The top tool has a quadrilateral shape including a top surface, a bottom surface, and four side surfaces and is configured to retain the top panel on the bottom surface. The top tool is further configured to attach to the first spacer and the second spacer such that the top panel contacts the bottom panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Matthew Selter
  • Patent number: 11926133
    Abstract: A sheet laminator includes a sheet lamination device, a heater, and circuitry. The sheet lamination device performs a sheet laminating operation on an object by application of heat and pressure. The heater heats the sheet lamination device. The circuitry changes between a first mode in which the heater constantly heats the sheet lamination device while the sheet lamination device is turned on and a second mode in which the heater starts heating the sheet lamination device in response to a request of the sheet laminating operation and stops heating the sheet lamination device after a given time has elapsed from completion of the sheet laminating operation. The circuitry adjusts the given time in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Monma, Keisuke Sugiyama, Tomohiro Furuhashi, Wataru Takahashi, Ruki Midorikawa, Sho Asano
  • Patent number: 11912006
    Abstract: A continuous manufacturing equipment of an elastic three-dimensional fabric and a continuous manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The continuous manufacturing equipment includes: a film conveying device having a thermal melting film and a conveying mechanism; a cutting device used for cutting a plurality of cutting gaps on the thermal melting film; a first fabric laminating device adhering an outer fabric on one surface of the thermal melting film; and a second fabric laminating device adhering an elastic fabric on another surface of the thermal melting film in a manner of elastically stretching and then elastically recovering. As such, effects of automatic, continuous, and simple steps in manufacturing and having a high yield rate are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN TEXTILE FEDERATION, R.O.C.
    Inventors: Shu-Hui Huang, Hung-Kung Chien, Yu-Han Tsai
  • Patent number: 11897185
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system for manufacturing a hybrid component including a first thermal supplier configured to heat a steel plate, a rolling roll for undercut configured to pressurize the steel plate heated by the first thermal supplier, and to form an undercut on one surface of the steel plate, a first molding roll configured to pressurize the steel plate formed with the undercut to mold the steel plate in a shape of a component to be manufactured, a composite material feeder configured to supply a composite material tape to be seated on one surface of the steel plate formed with the undercut through the first molding roll, and a composite material pressurization roll configured to pressurize the steel plate on which the composite material tape is seated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Youn-Il Jung
  • Patent number: 11897241
    Abstract: A lamination system is contemplated. The system may have a modular design configured to fabricate a laminate from an incoming material. The system may be configured to produce the laminate with an outer layer comprising the incoming material such that the resulting layer has a width greater than a width of the incoming material prior to lamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Wai Ping Gloria Tam, David F. Titmuss
  • Patent number: 11899389
    Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to acquire a size of a two-ply sheet, in which two sheets are bonded together at one end, and a size of an insertion sheet; and control a sheet processing operation based on the size of the two-ply sheet and the size of the insertion sheet. The sheet processing operation includes inserting the insertion sheet in the two-ply sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Morinaga, Takahiro Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11897233
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a glass resin laminated body includes a step of sticking a glass film on a resin film via an adhesive layer while holding the glass film and the resin film between a first roller that presses against the resin film and a second roller that is disposed opposite to the first roller and that presses against the glass film. A ratio of an elastic modulus P1 of a surface layer of the first roller to an elastic modulus P2 of the resin film P1/P2 satisfies a relation of 3×10?3?P1/P2?1.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Sato, Takeshi Murashige, Junichi Inagaki, Atsushi Kishi
  • Patent number: 11890892
    Abstract: A layer transfer device includes a housing main body having an opening, a cover movable between an open position in which the opening is open and a closed position in which the opening is closed, a heating member provided in the housing main body and configured to heat a multilayer film and a sheet, a pressure member provided on the cover and configured to nip the multilayer film and a sheet laid on the multilayer film between the heating member and the pressure member, and a shutter movable between a protecting position in which the heating member is covered with the shutter, and a retreated position in which the shutter is away from the protecting position. The shutter is in the protecting position when the cover is in the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Yamamoto, Kouichi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11878497
    Abstract: A system for ultrasonic bonding of elastic includes a rotating roll. The rotating roll has an exterior surface. A removable shell layer is attached to the external surface. The removable shell layer includes one or more patterned segments. The patterned segments include a shell channels formed through the removable shell layer to form a pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Todd Douglas Lenser, Justin B. Owens, Jeffry Rosiak
  • Patent number: 11872794
    Abstract: A sheet production line comprises: a calender for laminating and calendaring a sheet blank; a first conveying mechanism arranged at a discharge end of the calender and used for carrying and conveying a semi-finished sheet product output from the calender, where the first conveying mechanism is a traction conveying mechanism; a section cutting mechanism arranged behind the discharge end of the calender in a traveling direction of the semi-finished sheet product; and a second conveying mechanism arranged at a discharge end of the section cutting mechanism in a traveling direction of the sheet sections, where the second conveying mechanism is a non-traction conveying mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: QINGDAO SANYI PLASTIC MACHINERY CO., LTD. (CN)
    Inventors: Yuliang Zhou, Chenggong Liu
  • Patent number: 11857013
    Abstract: Embodiments provide methods of assembling an apparel product. The method includes applying a composition to a portion of a major component of the apparel product or a portion of a minor component of the apparel product. The method includes coupling the portion of the minor component with the portion of the major component via the composition. The major component forms a base portion of the apparel product and is configured to be supported and worn at least partially over a portion of a wearer. The minor component forms a secondary portion configured to be coupled to the major component with an adhesive. The method includes converting the composition to form the adhesive and the apparel product. The adhesive including a shape memory material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CreateMe Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Caglar Remzi Becer, Daniel John MacKinnon, Yongqiang Li
  • Patent number: 11851362
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a window glass according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: preparing a carrier film; forming an assembly by attaching the carrier film to a window base; coating a UV resin on a jig; placing the assembly on the jig so that the window base faces downwards; attaching the assembly and the UV resin on the jig to each other by using a roller; primarily curing the UV resin by performing primary UV irradiation to an upper portion of the assembly attached with the UV resin on the jig; removing an uncured portion of the UV resin; and secondarily curing a remaining portion of the UV resin from which the uncured portion of the UV resin has been removed by performing secondary UV irradiation to the remaining portion of the UV resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehoon Jeong, Gyeongmin Kim, Taehwan Kim, Sanggu Kim, Sungguk An, Hungkun Ahn
  • Patent number: 11845252
    Abstract: A flexible display device includes a display panel including a bendable area and a non-bendable area which is adjacent to the bendable area in a direction, a window facing the display panel, and an adhesive layer between the display panel and the window. The adhesive layer includes a bendable portion corresponding to the bendable area and having a thickness which varies along the direction to define a wrinkled shape of the bendable portion, and a non-bendable portion corresponding to the non-bendable area and having a thickness which is constant along the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hwanjin Kim
  • Patent number: 11833788
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a multi-layer substrate, said substrate comprising a multifunctional coating, and to the use of the substrate produced by this method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HENKEL AG & CO, KGaA
    Inventors: Roland Bochnia, Stefan Strenger, Rainer Bongers, Mario Eckers
  • Patent number: 11806974
    Abstract: A display panel, a display device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display device includes a display panel laminated to the curved cover plate. A main display area, a first sub-area, and a second sub-area of the display panel each include multiple through holes penetrating through the display panel, and the through holes define pixel islands for display and bridges for signal transmission; the through holes are disposed around the pixel islands; a part of the bridge is located between the pixel island and the through hole, the other part is located between adjacent through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fangxu Cao, Pinfan Wang, Haoran Wang, Xiaofei Luo, Yaming Wang, Zuojia Wang, Hejin Wang