Patents Examined by Gregory Y Huan
  • Patent number: 11234560
    Abstract: A blender for blending food products includes a vessel configured for containing the food products and a cutter blade base having a cutter blade assembly. The cutter blade base releasably coupled to and cooperating with the vessel to seal the food products within the vessel and blend the food products. The cutter blade assembly is driven by a drive device. A pressure minimizing device prevents an overaccumulation of pressure within the vessel as the food products are blended therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: GREENFIELD WORLD TRADE, INC.
    Inventors: Rong Liu, Bo Xu, Chunwen Hu
  • Patent number: 11224848
    Abstract: A mixing machine includes a mixing head and at least one connection means for connecting a mixing container to the mixing head for forming a closed mixing container. The mixing head is pivotably mounted with respect to a frame such that the closed mixing container formed from the mixing head and container can be pivoted relative to the frame for performing the mixing process. The mixing head carries at least one rotationally-driven mixing tool. The mixing head comprises a head plate having a connecting flange molded thereon which is configured as an annular disc and comprises a planar contact surface. This contact surface has a radial extension such that mixing containers with different connection diameters on their mixing head connection side can be connected to the mixing head. The at least one connection means is configured for gripping mixing containers which differ in the diameter of their connection sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: DR. HERFELD GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Rüberg, Matthias Tölle, Marvin Kind
  • Patent number: 11203001
    Abstract: Magnetic stir bar having at least one permanent magnet to spin the magnetic stir bar when the magnetic stir bar is subjected to a rotating magnetic field. The magnetic stir bar has a chamber to store a product within the magnetic stir bar. The magnetic stir bar has a closed configuration in which the chamber is closed and an open configuration in which the chamber is open. The magnetic stir bar automatically reconfigures itself from the closed configuration to the open configuration when said magnetic stir bar is spun at or above a threshold rotational speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE
    Inventors: Stéphane Rosset, Clément Mazet, Christophe Girard
  • Patent number: 11198104
    Abstract: A device for cooling a slurry manufacturing mixer-comprises: a rotation container that comprises a mixing part, which mixes slurry and has a temperature detection part, and a slurry discharge part, which is formed under the mixing part and has a discharge hole for discharging the slurry; a body that is positioned under the rotation container and has a through-hole formed therethrough, through which the rotation container is inserted; and a sealing member interposed between the rotation container and the body, wherein the mixing part comprises an inner container and an outer container, and a cooling water passage is formed between the inner container and the outer container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ho Seob Lee, Jee Sang Hwang, Jin Seo Park, So Il Moon, Ho Wn Choi
  • Patent number: 11174186
    Abstract: Provided is a highly efficient pipe-type flocculation mixer, comprising: a feeding pipe, a mixing pipe, a discharging pipe and a mixer. The feeding pipe, the mixing pipe and the discharging pipe are disposed in parallel and sequentially communicated. The mixing pipe is a circular pipe and has two blind ends. The mixer comprises a driving motor, a mixing blade and a central shaft. One end of the central shaft is coupled to the driving motor, and another end of the central shaft is coupled to the mixing blade. The size of the mixing blade enables the mixing pipe to exactly accommodate the mixing blade. Also provided is a feeding-mixing device, wherein an agent can be introduced into a hollow central shaft via an agent feeding chamber, and be sprayed out from the central shaft into a mixing chamber; said agent feeding manner enables sufficient mixing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventor: Yunping Wu
  • Patent number: 11166408
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include an agitating system of an agricultural system having a drive system configured to operate an agitator and a controller comprising a memory and a processor. The controller is configured to alternatingly instruct the drive system to operate the agitator in an active operation for an active time and instruct the drive system to suspend operation of the agitator for a dwell time after the active time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd.
    Inventors: Graham Douglas Stuart, Nicholas George Alfred Ryder
  • Patent number: 11166594
    Abstract: A stirrer for inserting into a bottom opening of a vessel bottom of a stirring vessel of an electric motor operated kitchen appliance has a plurality of positioning protrusions embodied on its circumferential surface one behind the other in the circumferential direction. A plurality of first positioning protrusions of the circumferential surface protrude with a first radial length difference beyond a smallest radius of the circumferential surface. At least one second positioning protrusion protrudes with a second radial length difference beyond the smallest radius of the circumferential surface, which second radial length difference is smaller than the first radial length difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Esslinger, Daniel Zuber, Patrick Scholder
  • Patent number: 11154826
    Abstract: A mixing paddle that is configured to rotate about a horizontal rotation axis and includes at least one eccentric arm which includes a first portion inclined with respect to a plane containing the rotation axis, so as to cause the ingredients contained in the mixing chamber to move in a first axial direction when the mixing paddle rotates in a first direction of rotation, a second portion having a cross section oriented radially with respect to the rotation axis in order, when the mixing paddle rotates in a second direction of rotation, to bring about a radial movement of the ingredients towards the outside of the mixing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SEB S.A.
    Inventor: Gilles Morin