Patents Examined by Galen H Hauth
  • Patent number: 11724424
    Abstract: A method of and fixture for molding a product with an embedded ring. A system for molding a ring into a product including a rotational molding mold with an opening formed in the rotational molding mold sized to fit a ring. A fixture is removably couplable to the ring, wherein the ring and the fixture when coupled are removably couplable in the opening. The fixture is removed from the ring after the ring is molded into a product. A method of manufacturing a product with an embedded ring includes: coupling a ring to a fixture; clamping the fixture and the ring in an opening in a mold top; clamping the mold top to a mold bottom; rotomolding a product; unclamping the fixture from the mold top; uncoupling the fixture from the ring; unclamping the mold top and the mold bottom; and removing the product from the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventors: Kenneth S. Anderson, Klint S. Anderson, Chad Strombeck
  • Patent number: 11718551
    Abstract: Method for manufacturing a flush vehicle glazing that allows to achieve a perfect alignment between the adjacent sections of the glazing vehicle area in the final assembled product by providing a vehicle glass panel which comprise at least two adjacent sections of the vehicle glazing area in one single panel, followed by bending the vehicle glass panel and LASER cutting before cooling thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: AGP America S.A.
    Inventors: Mario Arturo Mannheim Astete, Jean Marie Le Ny
  • Patent number: 11712837
    Abstract: A method for additive manufacturing includes forming an object including depositing a first material including a first coloring component and a second material including a second coloring component, wherein both the first material and the second material further include a corresponding fluorescent component, scanning the object, including causing an emission of an optical signal from the object, wherein the emission of the optical signal is caused at least in part by an emission from the fluorescent components interacting with the first coloring component and the second coloring component as it passes from the fluorescent components to the surface of the object, sensing the emission of the optical signal, and determining presence of the first material and the second material based at least in part on the sensed emission of the optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Inkbit, LLC
    Inventors: Wojciech Matusik, Aaron Weber, Desai Chen, Gregory Ellson, Javier Ramos, Davide Marini
  • Patent number: 11713269
    Abstract: A hot-forming device is provided for producing glass containers from a glass tube. The device includes a rotary table mounted so as to be rotationally movable and an assigned drive motor for driving the rotary table. The rotary table includes several holding chucks for holding workpieces distributed around the circumference of the rotary table. The rotary table has a coolant channel that is fluid-tight and through which a coolant can flow to cool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SCHOTT PHARMA SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Marcel Tremp, Johannes Segner
  • Patent number: 11707877
    Abstract: A method for producing containers filled with liquid content from preforms made of thermoplastic material. The liquid content is fed as a pressure medium into thermally conditioned preforms during a forming and filling phase in a mold of one of a plurality of forming stations arranged circumferentially spaced apart on a common, continuously rotationally driven working wheel. A compensating device compensates for thermal consequences of centrifugal force acting on the liquid content fed into the preform during the forming and filling phase. The compensating device imparts a temperature profile to the preform in a circumferential direction, which is not point-symmetrical in relation to a longitudinal axis of the preform to produce a thermally differentiated partial circumferential region. The preform is inserted into the mold such that the thermally differentiated partial circumferential region faces in a radial direction of the working wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Benjamin Jaiser, Michael Linke, Deniz Ulutürk
  • Patent number: 11707868
    Abstract: A method for conveying a concave object having a lateral wall away from a mould comprises the steps of: providing a removing element, movable along a path, and a guiding element; extracting the object from the mould and releasing the object onto a supporting surface in a position interposed between the removing element and the guiding element, while the removing element is at a distance from the object; displacing the removing element towards the object, so that the removing element makes contact with the lateral wall; moving the removing element along a portion of the path, to convey the object towards a delivery position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SACMI COOPERATIVA MECCANICI IMOLA SOCIETA' COOPERATIVA
    Inventor: Gianluca Aldigeri
  • Patent number: 11702357
    Abstract: A nozzle strip for a blow box for thermally prestressing glass panes, which nozzle strip has a row of nozzles each having a nozzle inlet and a nozzle opening for impinging on a surface of a glass pane with a stream of air through the nozzle openings, wherein the nozzle openings are arranged on merlon-like elevations of a side surface of the nozzle strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Achim Zeichner, Peter Schillings, Michael Ullrich
  • Patent number: 11701796
    Abstract: A system includes a mandrel contoured to define a tapering tubular shape of a workpiece cured on the mandrel and a demolding tool. The demolding tool is configured to remove the workpiece from the mandrel after the workpiece is cured on the mandrel and cut longitudinally. The demolding tool is configured to remove the workpiece from the mandrel by deforming a first end of the workpiece to at least partially disengage the first end of the workpiece from a first end of the mandrel, and subsequently, deforming a second end of the workpiece to at least partially disengage the second end of the workpiece from a second end of the mandrel. The first end of the workpiece may have a first cross-sectional area that is smaller than a second cross-sectional area of the second end of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Courtney Michele Fix, Robert Wayne Murray, Paul Diep, Robert E. Lee, Richard A. Skilton, Ronald Leroy McGhee, Zachary Nathaniel Stoddard, Patrick B. Stone, Phillip Andrew Taylor, Nickolas Scott Ellerbeck
  • Patent number: 11697226
    Abstract: A mold extractor for separating a molded part from a mold portion following a molding process, and a method of using the same. The mold extractor includes a mold holder that removably couples to the mold portion, a retainer that abuts a portion of the molded part and that surrounds the mold holder such that a cavity is provided between the mold holder and the retainer, and an extraction rod engaged with the mold holder and the retainer and spanning the cavity between the mold holder and the retainer. The mold extractor is set up to reduce a distance between the mold holder and the retainer along the extraction rod such that the mold holder translates into the cavity and imparts a force on the mold portion sufficient to extract the mold portion from the molded part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Reyes
  • Patent number: 11697239
    Abstract: A method of extruding a material including a binder and one or more energetic fillers and using an installation including an extruder including a sheath having at least one extrusion screw present therein, the extruder having at least one acoustic sensor fastened on the sheath, and a monitor system suitable for detecting an anomaly as a function of the acoustic signal picked up by the acoustic sensor, the monitor system being configured to measure variations in the amplitude of the acoustic signal picked up by the acoustic sensor, the method including an extrusion step for extruding the material through the extruder during which the acoustic signal picked up by the sensor is analyzed by the monitor system, and a detection step for detecting variation in the composition of the extruded material from variation in the amplitude of the acoustic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: ARIANEGROUP SAS
    Inventors: Samuel Lars Norlund, Vincent Ambit, Philippe Honorat
  • Patent number: 11698583
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus is operable to perform an imprint process, which is for forming a pattern on an imprint material on a substrate by using a mold, for each of shot regions of the substrate. The apparatus includes a controller configured to control alignment between the mold and the substrate. The controller determines a target position obtained by adding a predetermined additional amount to a movement amount of a substrate stage according to a positional deviation between the mold and the substrate, starts movement of the stage towards the determined target position, and starts curing of the imprint material by a curing device at a timing at which the detected positional deviation falls within an allowable range during the movement of the stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Kusaka, Hiroshi Sato
  • Patent number: 11691460
    Abstract: A tyre includes a tread portion having a tread surface being provided with a plurality of lateral grooves extending in a tyre axial direction. In a cross-sectional view perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the at least one of the plurality of lateral grooves, the at least one of the plurality of lateral grooves includes a pair of groove walls and a groove bottom. At least one of the pair of groove walls includes a serrated portion including first surfaces and second surfaces that are arranged alternately. Each first surface is inclined outwardly in a groove width direction toward the groove bottom and has a radially inner end thereof, and each second surface extends substantially parallel with the tread surface from the radially inner end of a respective one of the first surfaces toward a groove centerline of the at least one of the plurality of lateral grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11691344
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system. The embodiments include a method for three-dimensional printing of an object. The method provides for one or more processors to receive image data of an object to print. The one or more processors receive a position of a light-emitting robot inserted within photosensitive material. The one or more processors initiate movement of the light-emitting robot within the photosensitive material. The one or more processors control navigation of the light-emitting robot through the photosensitive material, based on continual feedback of the position of the light-emitting robot within photosensitive material and the received image data of the object to print, and the one or more processors control activation and deactivation of emitted light of the light-emitting robot, based on the image data of the object to print, wherein the emitted light of the light-emitting robot solidifies the photosensitive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11685686
    Abstract: An apparatus for optical fiber manufacturing process is provided, including a raw material providing structure, a dopant providing structure, and a preform forming substrate tube. The dopant providing structure is disposed at a downstream side of the raw material providing structure and in communication with the raw material providing structure. The dopant providing structure includes an outer tube, a first inner tube, a first dopant providing container, a second inner tube, and a second dopant providing container. The first inner tube is disposed in the outer tube. The first dopant providing container is disposed in the first inner tube. The second inner tube is disposed in the outer tube at a downstream of the first inner tube. The second dopant providing container is disposed in the second inner tube. The preform forming substrate tube is disposed at a downstream side of the dopant providing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Prime Optical Fiber Corporation
    Inventors: Hen-Tai Shang, Kuei-Huang Chou, Zhao-Ying Chen, Chiao-Ling Chen
  • Patent number: 11678697
    Abstract: A tobacco smoke filter or filter element comprising a stiff outer wrapper engaged around a downstream thermoformed core of tobacco smoke filtering material and a further core longitudinally aligned therewith; the downstream thermoformed core having a profiled outer surface which defines with the stiff outer wrapper at least one longitudinally extending channel which extends the length of the downstream core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Essentra Filter Products Development Co. Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ahmad Fashihul Lisan, Roy Alingalan, Pakorn Aewskulrat
  • Patent number: 11673310
    Abstract: An injection-molding device for producing a hollow-formed plastic object, at least comprising a mold for the primary shaping of the plastic object, an injection device for at least partially introducing a flowable polymer melt into a cavity within the mold and a fluid injection device for introducing a pressurized fluid and for driving a projectile through the polymer melt introduced into the cavity, the mold comprising a mold wall and a mold core that is arranged at least partially within the mold wall, the projectile being formed at least partially in such a hollow-formed manner that it is arranged on the mold core and is movable along a longitudinal extent of the mold core on the latter. A projectile injection process for producing a hollow-formed plastic object with this injection-molding device and a hollow-formed plastic object produced by this process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Jens-Uwe Gleu, Alexander Hofmann
  • Patent number: 11673749
    Abstract: A glass cutting line includes automatic remnant storage and retrieval including cutting table with integrated squaring stop and y-break breaking bar facilitating sub-plate cutting. The cutting table is configured for sub-plate cutting mode which provides the ability to cut portions of a stock sheet and release the cut portion in the form of a remnant and or individual workpieces to breakout before the entire sheet is finished scoring without the sub-plate leaving the cutting table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: BILLCO MANUFACTURING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Phillip David Plant, Darin Vietmeier
  • Patent number: 11666081
    Abstract: A tobacco roaster includes a high frequency heating module and a pushing assembly. The high frequency heating module includes a metal cup and a magnetic induction coil. The metal cup is disposed in the magnetic induction coil. When alternating current flows through the magnetic induction coil, an eddy current effect is formed in the metal cup and the metal cup is heated. The pushing assembly includes a push rod disposed below the metal cup. The push rod is movable to push the metal cup out of the tobacco roaster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Inventor: Tuanfang Liu
  • Patent number: 11666089
    Abstract: A flavor carrier for an aerosol-generating device includes an outer housing extending in a longitudinal direction, an inner housing extending in the longitudinal direction, and a flavor chamber between the outer housing and the inner housing. The outer housing includes at least one outer housing perforation defined in a wall of the outer housing. The inner housing includes at least one inner housing perforation defined in a wall of the inner housing. The flavor chamber is configured to contain a flavoring material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Ali A. Rostami, Dmitriy S. Kirzhner, Eric Hawes, Yezdi Pithawalla
  • Patent number: 11667070
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for producing containers (22) by blow molding, with at least one temperature-controllable blow mold (21) held by a mold holder (20), namely with a bottom insert held by a bottom mold carrier and/or with mold inserts held by mold half carriers, and is characterized by an inductive heating device, which indirectly heats the bottom insert and/or the mold inserts by means of induction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Klatt, Thorsten Herklotz, Werner Lesinski, Günther Godau, Jens-Uwe Haubenschild