Patents Examined by Himchan Song
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Patent number: 11421479Abstract: A power swivel is disclosed that is configured to rotate tubular string and drill bit to form or extend a subterranean borehole. In an embodiment, the power swivel includes a motor, a gear box coupled to the motor, and a lubrication system coupled to the gear box. The lubrication system includes a pump disposed within the gear box, the pump including an outlet. In addition, the lubrication system includes a recirculation line fluidly coupled to the outlet of the pump. Further, the lubrication system includes a first injector fluidly coupled to the recirculation line. The injector is configured to deliver lubricant to one of a bearing and a gear disposed within the gear box.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: National Oilwell Varco, L.P.Inventors: Christopher Brian Walker, Henry Do, Robert Ioan Papp, Mihail Puscas, Calvin Ronald Blankenship
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Patent number: 11414223Abstract: A system for closing a shipping container that has a rectangular bottom wall, upstanding side walls extending from the periphery of the bottom wall, and an open top end, includes a sled capable of moving the container between a first station and a second station spaced from the first station, and a flap-folding assembly movable with the sled. The flap-folding assembly is configured to inwardly fold flaps of the container while the sled moves the container between the first station and the second station.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Ranpak Corp.Inventors: Uwe Klarner, Remi Parisse, Jean-Yves Sia
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Patent number: 11399825Abstract: A surgical stapling device includes a reload assembly that include at least one locking tab to retain a knife carrier of the reload assembly in a retracted position after the stapling device is fired. The at least one locking tab is disposed on the knife carrier and is configured to engage a stop surface of a staple actuator to prevent readvacement of the knife carrier relative to the staple actuator.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Covidien LPInventor: Justin Williams
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Patent number: 11401756Abstract: A method of building and operating a land-based drilling rig with a high-capacity mast include providing a platform collapsed on a substructure over a proposed well drilling location and building the high-capacity mast in a horizontal condition by attaching a lower portion of the high-capacity mast to the platform. The high-capacity mast having an opening formed therein sized to accommodate four Range 2 pipes or three Range 3 pipes. The high-capacity mast may be raised from the horizontal condition to a vertical condition by pushing the side of the high-capacity mast to pivot the high-capacity mast about a pivot point on the platform. The platform may be raised from a collapsed condition to a raised condition over the substructure. Some implementations include dual racking boards on the high-capacity mast.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: NABORS DRILLING TECHNOLOGIES USA, INC.Inventors: Padira Reddy, Ashish Gupta
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Patent number: 11401064Abstract: A case packing apparatus for loading articles into a case that includes two or more airbags adapted to be positioned above the case; a vacuum reservoir positioned in fluid communication with the airbags; and a supply of compressed gas positioned in fluid communication with the airbags.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventor: Robert C. Beesley
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Patent number: 11401061Abstract: A system for enhanced conveying of flexible packages includes a packaging system (12, 212), an inflation system (280), and a conveying system (250). The packaging system is configured to place an object in a flexible package. The inflation system is configured to insert a gas into the flexible package. The packaging system is further configured to seal an edge of the flexible package in an inflated state with the object and the inserted gas inside the flexible package. The conveying system is configured to convey the flexible package while the flexible package is substantially in the inflated state. The flexible package is configured to permit gas to escape the flexible package at a controlled flow rate such that the flexible package remains substantially in the inflated state while being conveyed by the conveying system and the flexible package transitions to being substantially in a deflated state after being conveyed by the conveying system.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Sealed Air Corporation (US)Inventors: Thomas Orsini, Mark Garceau, David Cenedella, Robert Simonelli, Michael Kalinowski, Kyle Brown, John Gilbert
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Patent number: 11389161Abstract: A surgical instrument is disclosed comprising an end effector including a first jaw and a second jaw, wherein the first jaw is rotatable relative to the second jaw, and a closure system configured to close the first jaw during a closure stroke. The surgical instrument further comprises an articulation joint rotatably connecting the end effector to the shaft, an articulation system configured to articulate the end effector relative to the shaft, and a firing system operably engaged with the electric motor, wherein the firing member is configured to move through the end effector during a firing stroke. The surgical instrument further comprises a first rotatable member configured to selectively synchronize the motion of the firing system with the motion of the articulation system and a second rotatable member operably engageable with the articulation system, wherein the closure system is configured to stop the rotation of the second rotatable member.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris
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Patent number: 11383869Abstract: A packaging machine for producing sealed packages of a pourable product from a packaging material web advancing along a web advancement path comprises an isolation chamber separating inner and outer environments, and a sterilization apparatus for sterilizing the packaging material web and in fluid connection with the isolation chamber. The sterilization apparatus comprises a main shielding chamber housing an irradiation device and comprising an advancement channel having inlet and outlet openings, and through which, in use, the packaging material web advances, and first and second auxiliary shielding chambers having respectively first and second inner spaces fluidically connected to the advancement channel.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.Inventors: Filippo Ferrarini, Luca Poppi
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Patent number: 11383872Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging machine for wrapping packaging trays for foods using a packaging film, in particular a plastic film, in which the film is supplied to a holding mechanism having two holding means spaced apart from one another to hold the supplied film at two mutually oppositely disposed sides; in which the spacing of the two holding means from one another is then adjusted: and in which a supplied tray is subsequently pressed toward the supplied film by lifting from below, wherein the holding mechanism is adjusted such that the spacing of the two holding means from one another is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Bizerba SE & Co. KGInventor: Franz Heller
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Patent number: 11364613Abstract: A pneumatic tool includes a casing unit, an air motor, a rotary valve, and a turning unit. The rotary valve is mounted to the air motor and is rotatable about a valve axis. The turning unit includes a ring member that surrounds and is rotatably mounted to the casing unit, and that is connected to the rotary valve, such that rotation of the ring member relative to the casing unit drives the rotary valve to rotate about the valve axis relative to the air motor among a first-end position, a second-end position and at least one in-between position for adjusting airflow that travels from an air inlet passage of the casing unit, through an opening and an intermediate passage of the rotary valve, to an air chamber of the air motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Basso Industry Corp.Inventor: Chi-Yung Huang
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Patent number: 11358746Abstract: A razor blade holder assembly having a body, a movable jaw and an adjustment member. The body has a fixed jaw with a support face and an adjustor channel. The movable jaw assembly has a plate member and a releasable securement subassembly. The plate member is over the adjustor channel and the support face. The releasable securement subassembly couples the plate member to the body and applies a biasing force against the plate member toward the support face. The adjustment member has an elongated rod member rotatably within the adjustor channel, a forcing surface is selectively rotatable into the plate member to direct the plate member away from the support face. In a clamped configuration, the plate member clamps a razor blade. In an open configuration, the forcing surface of the elongated rod member overcomes the biasing member to separate the plate member from the support face.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: WINPAK LANE, INCInventor: Steven Davis
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Patent number: 11352154Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping machine welding head with a beveled counter-pressure plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLCInventors: Michael Hoffman, Egmont Gollner
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Patent number: 11337702Abstract: A surgical instrument includes a shell assembly and an adapter. The shell assembly includes a shell housing, a plurality of staples, a staple pusher, a staple actuator configured to engage the staple pusher, a knife member, and a knife carrier supporting the knife member. The adapter includes a staple band operatively coupled to an actuation mechanism for axial displacement, a knife band at least partially received within the staple band, and a cam ring rotatably supported about the knife band. The staple band is configured to releasably engage the staple actuator. The knife band is operatively coupled with an actuation mechanism for axial displacement. The cam ring is rotatable between an engaged position in which the knife carrier engages the cam ring for concomitant axial displacement with the knife band and a disengaged position in which the knife carrier is disengaged from the cam ring.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Joseph Guerrera, Anthony Sgroi, Jr., Patrick Mozdzierz
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Patent number: 11331101Abstract: A deactivator element for use with a staple cartridge is disclosed. The deactivator element is configured to be removably supported on the staple cartridge in a deactivator position. When the deactivator element is supported on a staple cartridge in the deactivator portion and the staple cartridge is seated in a surgical stapling device, a cam surface on the deactivator element defeats a lockout in the surgical stapling device.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Jason L. Harris, Gregory J. Bakos, Frederick E. Shelton, IV
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Patent number: 11325728Abstract: A tablet packaging device capable of shortening operation time required for packaging tablets for one tray. The tablet packaging device includes a packaging portion configured to accommodate tablets dispensed from a dispensing port into a tray. The packaging portion includes: a tray loading unit to which the tray is mountable; a tray unloading unit to which the tray accommodating the tablets is mountable; a tray driving unit, which is configured to removably support the tray, move the supported tray among positions of the dispensing port, the tray loading unit, and the tray unloading unit, and move the desired accommodation recess portion to the dispensing port for tablets; a tray attaching unit configured to attach the tray from the tray loading unit to the tray driving unit; and a tray detaching unit configured to detach the tray from the tray driving unit and place the tray on the tray unloading unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: YUYAMA MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuyuki Takada, Takashi Iwatani
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Patent number: 11325233Abstract: A nailing machine includes a tool body, a flywheel (40), a driver (3), a pressing mechanism and a return mechanism. The pressing mechanism includes a spring mechanism and a pressing roller (87). The pressing roller (87) is supported to be rotatable around a rotation axis (A2) and movable in a left-right direction, and configured to press the driver (3) toward the flywheel (40) by a biasing force of the spring mechanism in a nail-driving process in which the driver (3) moves from an initial position to a nail-driving position, to thereby enable transmission of the rotational energy to the driver (3). The pressing mechanism is configured such that the position of the pressing roller (87) relative to the driver (3) changes in the left-right direction between the nail-driving process and a return process, thereby making it impossible for the pressing roller (87) to press the driver (3) in the return process.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshitaka Akiba, Kazusa Fukuda
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Patent number: 11318492Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hot glue unit for a labeling machine in the beverage processing industry. The hot glue unit includes a housing, a glue roller disposed in an interior of the housing, a glue container, and a filter unit including an extractor connected to the housing. The extractor is to extract gases from the interior of the housing and supply the gases to the filter unit before the gases are to exit the hot glue unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Krones AGInventors: Benjamin Aumer, Elmar Reese, Gabriel Seibold, Konrad Senn, Soeren Meissner, Christian Holzer, Bernd Schroll
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Patent number: 11319102Abstract: The invention relates to a processing apparatus for packaging machines having at least one upper processing unit for processing upper package sides and at least one lower processing unit for processing lower package sides, and having a common adjustment axle for the processing units along which the processing units are adjustable manually or by means of a drive in an adjustment direction that extends in parallel with a direction of transport of the packaging machine.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Inventor: Michael Brandt
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Patent number: 11305907Abstract: A filling machine for filling open-mouth bags with bulk material wherein the open-mouth bag is at least temporarily received in a container with a cleaning apparatus, and a cleaning apparatus for cleaning a tubular inner wall of the container e.g. from particles of bulk material, the cleaning apparatus including a cleaning device that is movable in the container in a longitudinal direction. The cleaning device has a laminate of a multitude of layers. The layers extend transverse to the longitudinal direction and the laminate includes two end layers having one end face each. One end layer is configured as a top layer with a top surface and one end layer, as a bottom layer with a bottom surface. The laminate is configured with a plurality of outwardly oriented fluid outlet ports for directing a fluid flow toward the tubular inner wall of the container.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: HAVER & BOECKER OHGInventor: Volker Schütte
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Patent number: 11299302Abstract: In certain embodiments, a system includes: an inspection station configured to receive a die vessel, wherein the inspection station is configured to inspect the die vessel for defects; a desiccant station configured to receive the die vessel from the inspection station, wherein the desiccant station is configured to add a desiccant to the die vessel; a bundle station configured to receive the die vessel from the desiccant station, wherein the bundle station is configured to combine the die vessel with another die vessel as a die bundle; and a bagging station configured to receive the die bundle from the bundle station, wherein the bagging station is configured to dispose the die bundle in a die bag and to heat seal the die bag with the die bundle inside.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Tsung-Sheng Kuo, Hsu-Shui Liu, Jiun-Rong Pai, Yang-Ann Chu, Chieh-Chun Lin, Shine Chen