Patents Examined by Eric J Rosen
  • Patent number: 11930977
    Abstract: Aspects described herein generally relate to a cleaning system, such as a cleaning implement with a primary cleaning member and a removable secondary cleaning member, in particular a mop assembly with a primary cleaning member and a removable secondary cleaning member. The primary cleaning member may be a sponge based cleaning member and the secondary cleaning member may be a scrubbing brush or similar handheld scrubbing member. The scrubbing brush may have an attachment member that includes a pair of rails and a tab assembly that helps to releasably connect the scrubbing brush to a connecting member of the mop assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: The Libman Company
    Inventors: Aaron Libman, Andrew D. Libman, Jon Franklin, Roberto Pellacini
  • Patent number: 11925515
    Abstract: A thrombectomy device cleaning apparatus for cleaning a thrombectomy device while maintaining the integrity of removed blood clots includes a box with a box left side and a box right side each having a receiving channel adjacent an open box top side. A mesh screen is coupled to a plurality of hinges. The mesh screen has a screen channel extending from a screen left edge to a screen right edge with a profile conforming to a receiving channel of each of the box left side and the box right side. The channel receives a thrombectomy device. A lid moves between a closed position covering the mesh screen in the use position and an open position exposing the mesh screen. A pair of brush rollers is coupled to the lid and positioned to rest within the screen channel of the mesh screen. The pair of brush receives the thrombectomy device therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventor: Karyn Lewis
  • Patent number: 11911874
    Abstract: A portable wet sand blasting device or a portable wet sand blaster with a specially designed and shaped hand truck tank with an inclined side, wheels, axle, base feet, and a handle to allow the heavy device to be more easily moved from job to job. The specially designed and shaped hand truck tank includes a special pump and special internal plumbing and mixing outputs that provide optimum water and abrasive slurry mixing wherein sufficient slurry mixing is required for the effective use of a wet sand blasting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventors: Richard J. Hayes, Laura L. Machado
  • Patent number: 11911867
    Abstract: A polishing apparatus which can measure a film thickness with high accuracy without affecting a polishing rate of a wafer is disclosed. The polishing apparatus includes: a polishing head configured to press a wafer against a polishing pad; an illuminating fiber having a distal end disposed in a flow passage formed in the polishing table; a spectrometer configured to resolve reflected light from the wafer in accordance with wavelength and measure an intensity of the reflected light at each of the wavelengths; a light-receiving fiber having a distal end disposed in the flow passage; a liquid supply line communicating with the flow passage; a gas supply line communicating with the flow passage; a liquid supply valve attached to the liquid supply line; a gas supply valve attached to the gas supply line; and an operation controller configured to control operations of the liquid supply valve and the gas supply valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshifumi Kimba, Masaki Kinoshita, Yoichi Shiokawa
  • Patent number: 11904365
    Abstract: A support arm arrangement for a local gas extractor arrangement and a local gas extractor arrangement including such a support arm arrangement. The support arm arrangement includes a first support arm and at least one second support arm being pivotally coupled to each other by friction joint arrangements. The support arm arrangement receives a tube device coupled to an extractor hood, an exterior pump device and the support arms. The extractor hood is arranged at an outermost second support arm by a linkage arm arrangement including a first link arm pivotally coupled to the outermost second support arm by a first friction joint pivotable about a first pivoting axis, and a second link arm fixedly attached to the extractor hood and pivotally coupled to the first link arm by a second friction joint pivotable about a second pivoting axis extending in a direction perpendicular to the first pivoting axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: FUMEX AB
    Inventors: Lars Hedlund, Tomas Bellgran, Gustav Stenberg, Patrik Andersson, Petter Arnqvist Eriksson
  • Patent number: 11883862
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a pipeline automatic scale removal and storage device. The device comprises a scale remover, a scale storage device and a coupling; the scale remover is composed of a scale breaking mechanism, a cutting mechanism and a grinding mechanism; a plurality of groups of scale breaking teeth of the scale breaking mechanism can preliminarily break scale on an inner wall of a pipeline; the cutting mechanism cuts and eliminates the scale on the inner wall of the pipeline through a plurality of installed cutting blades; and a plurality of groups of grinding blocks of the grinding mechanism further grind and eliminate the scale on the pipeline; and the scale storage device is used for realizing storage for the scale. The scale storage device is hermetically and movably installed in the pipeline. The device of the present invention can automatically thoroughly eliminate the scale in the pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: Southwest Petroleum University, Sichuan Xinchuangneng Petroleum Eng. Tech. Co Ltd, Sichuan Zhongtuo Youshi Light Control Tech. Co Ltd
    Inventors: Dezhi Zeng, Miaopeng Zhou, Jianqi Yang, Qiang Du, Dikui Cheng, Baojun Dong, Qiang Zhang, Jiangjiang Zhang, Gang Tian
  • Patent number: 11877714
    Abstract: A wet-dry vacuum device assembly comprises a housing and a motor-fan assembly mounted in the housing. The motor-fan assembly is arranged to generate an air flow along an airflow path between a dirty air inlet and a clean air exhaust. The wet-dry vacuum device comprises a tank positioned along the airflow path and arranged to capture liquid entrained in the dirty air flow. The wet-dry vacuum device further comprises a removable pump accessory mountable to the housing. The removable pump accessory comprises pump and a fluid inlet in fluid communication with the tank and the pump. A fluid outlet is in fluid communication with the pump and connectable to an exterior hose. The pump is arranged to move captured liquid in the tank from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: BLACK & DECKER INC.
    Inventors: Andreas Friedrich, Robin Märte
  • Patent number: 11872669
    Abstract: A processing machine includes a chuck table, a chuck table cover having an opening through which a holding surface of the chuck table can protrude, a processing unit having a spindle, a spindle housing, and a mount portion arranged on a lower end portion of the spindle, the processing unit being configured to process a workpiece by a processing tool mounted on a lower part of the mount portion, a processing chamber construction cover that covers the chuck table and the mount portion. The processing machine further includes a processing tool cover that is secured to a lower end portion of the spindle housing and that has an upper wall and a side wall that extends downwardly from the upper wall. The processing tool cover is disposed inside the processing chamber construction cover and covers the processing tool from above and sides by the upper and side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Moriya, Tomohiro Shirahama
  • Patent number: 11871886
    Abstract: A floor cleaning apparatus comprises a handle having a proximal end and a distal end; a housing at the distal end of the handle; a plurality of wheels at a bottom of the housing that rotate relative to the housing when a force is applied to the handle; a plurality of interchangeable and removable surface-cleaning rollers at the housing that rotate relative to the housing and the wheels, and that rotate at a different rate of rotation than the wheels; and a gear assembly that communicates with the wheels to rotate adjacent surface-cleaning rollers in different directions relative to each other to mimic a scrubbing motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: Lisa Lloyd
  • Patent number: 11865671
    Abstract: A chemical mechanical polishing apparatus includes a platen to hold a polishing pad, a carrier laterally movable by an actuator across the polishing pad to hold a substrate against a polishing surface of the polishing pad during a polishing process, a thermal control system including a plurality of independently controllable heaters and coolers to independently control temperatures of a plurality of zones on the polishing pad, and a controller configured to cause the thermal control system to generate a first zone having a first temperature and a second zone having a different second temperature on the polishing pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Haosheng Wu, Shou-Sung Chang, Jianshe Tang, Chih Chung Chou, Hui Chen, Hari Soundararajan, Benjamin Cherian
  • Patent number: 11857141
    Abstract: A method of providing customized cleaning information, a vacuum cleaner, and a control method thereof are disclosed. The method of providing customized cleaning information includes obtaining information related to a cleaning module from a sensor of a vacuum cleaner, determining whether the cleaning module is in use among pre-registered cleaning modules based on the information related to the cleaning module, storing last used time information of the cleaning module based on the information related to the cleaning module, obtaining current time information, comparing the last used time information with the current time information to determine whether unused time of the cleaning module exceeds an unused time threshold specified for the cleaning module, and providing an indication that the cleaning module needs to be used when the unused time of the cleaning module exceeds the unused time threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Hyohoun No
  • Patent number: 11845176
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for mounting a tool on a hand of a user, the device comprises a receiving part for attachment of a tool and at least one mounting member for mounting the device on one or more fingers of the hand of the user, such as two neighbouring fingers, wherein the receiving part is fixed to the mounting member, and the receiving part comprises at least one clamp for clamping a tool to the device, wherein the clamp has a closed position (h2) and an open position (h1) and wherein the clamp is configured to be operable by one or more of the fingers of the same hand the device is mounted on. The invention further relates to a method of mounting a tool in the device, and to the use of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Kataz ApS
    Inventor: Dennis Søderstrøm
  • Patent number: 11846124
    Abstract: A locking assembly for locking a portable electronic device to a work surface. The locking assembly comprises a clamp assembly including an elongated bar that extends between a first end and a second end. The clamp assembly further includes a first jaw and a second jaw movable along the elongated bar for clamping to a work surface between the first and second jaws. A connector extends from a first connector end that is pivotally connected to the locking assembly to a second end that can be connected to the portable electronic device. The connector securing the portable electronic device to the work surface while permitting it to pivot with respect to the locking assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: TECHLOK SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan J. Angott, Paul G. Angott, Michael A. Latcha
  • Patent number: 11842859
    Abstract: A tool for the removal or installation of a fuse includes a first tool arm and a second tool arm pivotally mounted to the first tool arm about an axis. A second fuse holder spreader finger section is movable away from a first fuse holder spreader finger section and a second fuse pusher finger section is movable toward a first fuse pusher finger section in response to a first handle section being moved toward a second handle section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: Chang J. Yee
  • Patent number: 11813728
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a multi-function nail tool. The nail tool can include multiple extension arms that can allow for gripping and manipulating objects, particularly for individuals that have accessories on their hands or need additional assistance with manipulating objects. The nail tool can also include a key ring and a bottle/can opener to provide various functions in a single tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Sterling Hair Solutions
    Inventor: Jody Abram Williams-Sterling
  • Patent number: 11806464
    Abstract: A hand-held suction system includes: a hand-held suction device, a tube unit and a bag unit, wherein the tube unit has a suction tube and a tube connecting part, and wherein the bag unit has a collecting bag and a bag connecting part. The tube connecting part and the bag connecting part are designed to form a mechanical connection to one another in order to hold the bag unit by way of the tube unit. The tube connecting part is arranged in such a way on a circumference of the suction tube, in an upper half of the circumference in a circumferential direction, in a correct operating position of the suction system, and the suction system is designed in such a way that the bag unit held by the tube unit extends downwards in the circumferential direction along the suction tube, on the upper half of the circumference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Pfeifer, Jonathan Seiz, Alexander Fuchs, Markus Oesterle
  • Patent number: 11793377
    Abstract: A backpack dust collector includes a housing and a filter. The housing includes a suction port, a dust collecting chamber connected to the suction port and accommodating a dust collecting bag, a motor chamber connected to the dust collecting chamber and accommodating a fan and a motor, and an exhaust port through which air from the motor chamber is discharged. The filter is disposed on a side of the dust collecting chamber so as to face the dust collecting chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Tahara, Makoto Hotta
  • Patent number: 11795595
    Abstract: A manufacturing frame comprises one or more alignment tabs. Each alignment tab comprises an alignment element. The alignment element interacts with a corresponding alignment element at a manufacturing station to identify to the manufacturing station the position and orientation of the frame. The frame supports a flexible material in a known position and orientation relative to the frame, allowing the manufacturing station to infer the position and orientation of the flexible material on the frame from the interaction of the alignment elements on the frame and the manufacturing station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Jared S. Baggen, Bruce Alan Barney, Daniel B. DeHaven, Bruce J. Kilgore, John Joseph Terlizzi
  • Patent number: 11786089
    Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a canister defining a debris chamber, a powerhead connected to a top of the canister, a hose, and a hose retainer removably connected to the canister. The canister includes a base and at least one sidewall extending therefrom. The powerhead includes a suction unit operable to generate airflow through the canister. The hose retainer includes a back plate defining an aperture therethrough, at least one hose retention clip defining a channel shaped and sized to receive the hose therein, and a dustpan defining a debris intake opening and including a hose end mount. When an inlet end of the hose is connected to the hose end mount, the inlet end of the hose is connected in fluid communication with the debris intake opening to generate airflow therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Taylor M. Fauss, Christopher Burch, Timothy Richard Quagliata
  • Patent number: 11779166
    Abstract: A bath scrubber includes an elongated handle, a scrubbing member, and a tightening member. The handle has a positioning structure at one end thereof, a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. The positioning structure includes a first position-limiting hole and a second position-limiting hole run through the first side and the second side, and a first anti-slip portion located between the first and second position-limiting holes. The first and second position-limiting holes and the first anti-slip portion are arranged on an axis. The tightening member is fastened to the scrubbing member and inserted through the first and second position-limiting holes to fix the scrubbing member on the handle and to make the scrubbing member engage in the first anti-slip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: OLIVETTE INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Che-Yuan Chang