Patents Examined by John J Derusso
  • Patent number: 11292166
    Abstract: A method, for manufacturing an electronic assembly, such as an antenna or a capacitive sensing device or a coupled inductor, comprising at least a first electrically conductive element and a second electrically conductive element is presented. The method comprises obtaining said electrically conductive elements, such as patch elements, arranging said electrically conductive elements, such as inside of a cavity defined by a mold structure, at a pre-defined distance from each other for establishing an electromagnetic coupling between said electrically conductive elements, and molding, such as injection molding, a molding material layer at least between said electrically conductive elements, wherein the molding material layer has a thickness between said electrically conductive elements defined by the pre-defined distance. In addition, electronic assemblies, antennas, capacitive sensing devices and coupled inductors are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: TACTOTEK OY
    Inventors: Anne Isohätälä, Hasse Sinivaara, Mikko Heikkinen
  • Patent number: 11285645
    Abstract: A method, for manufacturing an electronic assembly, such as an antenna or a capacitive sensing device or a coupled inductor, comprising at least a first electrically conductive element and a second electrically conductive element is presented. The method comprises obtaining said electrically conductive elements, such as patch elements, arranging said electrically conductive elements, such as inside of a cavity defined by a mold structure, at a pre-defined distance from each other for establishing an electromagnetic coupling between said electrically conductive elements, and molding, such as injection molding, a molding material layer at least between said electrically conductive elements, wherein the molding material layer has a thickness between said electrically conductive elements defined by the pre-defined distance. In addition, electronic assemblies, antennas, capacitive sensing devices and coupled inductors are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TACTOTEK OY
    Inventors: Anne Isohätälä, Hasse Sinivaara, Mikko Heikkinen
  • Patent number: 11273596
    Abstract: A nozzle for printing three-dimensional parts with an additive manufacturing system, the nozzle comprising a nozzle body having an inlet end and a tip end offset longitudinally from the inlet end, a tip pipe for extruding a flowable material, an inner ring extending circumferentially around the tip pipe at the outlet end, an outer ring extending circumferentially around the inner ring, at least one annular recessed groove located circumferentially between the inner ring and the outer ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Stratasys, Inc.
    Inventors: William J. Swanson, Dominic F. Mannella, Kevin C. Johnson, Ronald G. Schloesser
  • Patent number: 11267295
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire. A sipe includes, on each of a leading side edge and a trailing side edge, a chamfered portion and a non-chamfered region including no other chamfered portion. The maximum depth of the chamfered portion is shallower than the maximum depth of the sipe, and the sipe width is substantially constant. In a cross-sectional view, at least one chamfered portion includes a profile line that is convex inward in a tire radial direction with respect to a chamfer reference line connecting both ends of the chamfered portion; and a cross-sectional area of a chamfered region that is surrounded by the profile line, the sipe, and a tread contact surface of a tread portion is equal to or greater than a cross-sectional area of a reference region, the reference region being surrounded by the chamfer reference line, the sipe, and the tread contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventors: Tatsuro Shinzawa, Takayuki Shiraishi, Hiraku Kouda, Takanori Uemura
  • Patent number: 11267186
    Abstract: An apparatus for thermoforming plastic containers (2) comprising at least one thermoforming device (3) suitable for thermoforming a flat sheet (4) for making a container (2) equipped with an upper flange (5) projecting outward and at least one extracting device (6) associable with the thermoforming device (3) for extracting the thermoformed container (2) from it; when the extracting device (6) is associated with the thermoforming device (3) for extracting the already thermoformed container (2), the extracting device (6) and the thermoforming device (3) define a perimetric mould (7) suitable for hot bending the annular flange (5) of the already thermoformed container (2) before it is extracted from the thermoforming device (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: MONDINI S.R.L.
    Inventor: Giovanni Mondini
  • Patent number: 11260648
    Abstract: A screw having a longitudinal body and, around this longitudinal body, at least one flight extending in the shape of a helix, the flight including, over part of its length, internal partitioning delimiting a plurality of internal channels that extend in the shape of helices following the helix shape of the flight. The screw includes manifold-like cavities into which the ends of the interior canals open, the manifold-like cavities extending radially and opened into a longitudinal bore of the body at longitudinally spaced locations. This screw can be produced by additive manufacturing using laser-induced fusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Christophe Ougier, Arnaud Letocart
  • Patent number: 11247402
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for performing a print operation on a 3D printer (110) are described herein. A 3D printing apparatus comprising a 3D printer (110) is arranged to perform a print operation using build material from a build unit (120) unless a value that identifies a first build material stored in the build unit in a first register, which is set according to an initial build powder fill operation of the build unit (120) by a powder management station, is different from a value in a second register, which is set according to the initial build powder fill operation, or modified in response to, or following, a subsequent opening of the build unit (120).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Juan Manuel Zamorano, David Soriano Fosas, Sergio De Santiago Dominguez
  • Patent number: 11246317
    Abstract: A moulding device and a method for moulding food products from a mass of foodstuff which can be transferred by pumping are provided. The device includes a stationary frame with a revolving moulding drum assembly having a peripheral surface in which mould cavities are provided, and a mass feed device including a shoe member with a filling mouth adjoining the peripheral surface of the moulding drum assembly in order to fill said cavities with the foodstuff as they move past. In operation, the pressurized mass of foodstuff introduced into a mould cavity causes an outward force onto said shoe member. A non-revolving component is provided, concentrically supported by the moulding drum assembly, including the shoe member and an interconnected moulding drum assembly engaging counterforce element to counteract the entire outward force exerted by the pressurized foodstuff on the shoe member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: MAREL FURTHER PROCESSING B.V.
    Inventors: Franciscus Quirinus Fredrik Verouden, Dirk Meskendahl, Johannes Martinus Meulendijks, Wilhelmus Johannes Jacobus Maria Van Der Straaten
  • Patent number: 11241846
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for creating panels to simulate the real light tracing ability of wood fibers, and the light refractive properties of real wood figure. High light refractive man-made fibers can be molded into 3D figured panels which may then be filled with clear resin to magnify and to duplicate the light refractivity of wood figure. A protective backing material can be applied to the rear of the molded fiber panel, to provide a flat surface, and/or for adherence purposes. Rather, the 3D figured panels may also be machined into flat fiber panels to reveal a visual 3D surface that simulates the light refractivity of wood figure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Inventor: John Blazy
  • Patent number: 11235500
    Abstract: An example method for making a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag according to the present disclosure includes holding a transponder within a cavity of a mold using a fixture, closing the mold, injecting material into the mold cavity and around the transponder to form a part of the RFID tag, opening the mold, and ejecting the part from the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Y-Tex Corporation
    Inventor: Ronald K. Knapp
  • Patent number: 11235527
    Abstract: In example implementations, an apparatus includes a storage unit, an auger screw, a housing enclosing the auger screw and at least one heater coupled to the housing. The augers screw receives a build material from the storage unit and delivers the build material to a build platform via movement of the auger screw. The build material is heated by the at least one heater as the build material is being moved by the auger screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Cristian Ferris, Elena Laso Plaza, Esteve Comas, Pau Martin Vidal, Gerard Mosquera, Anna Torrent, Adrien Chiron
  • Patent number: 11220761
    Abstract: A multi-angle spinneret for forming hollow fibers is provided. The multi-angle spinneret includes a body defining a dope chamber, a bore needle channel, and multiple dope channels being oriented at a minimum of two distinct dope channel angles relative to the dope chamber. The body includes a bore needle disposed in the bore needle channel and oriented substantially perpendicular relative to the dope chamber. The bore needle extends though the dope chamber, such that a bore fluid flow through the bore needle is kept separate from a dope flow through the dope channels. A bore fluid outlet is positioned within a dope outlet of the dope chamber, such that a bore fluid flow out of the bore fluid outlet is substantially coaxial with and substantially centered within a dope flow out of the dope outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: King Abdulaziz University
    Inventors: Iqbal Ahmed Moujdin, Rosli Bin Mohd Yunus
  • Patent number: 11220762
    Abstract: A multi-angle spinneret for forming hollow fibers is provided. The multi-angle spinneret includes a body defining a dope chamber, a bore needle channel, and multiple dope channels being oriented at a minimum of two distinct dope channel angles relative to the dope chamber. The body includes a bore needle disposed in the bore needle channel and oriented substantially perpendicular relative to the dope chamber. The bore needle extends though the dope chamber, such that a bore fluid flow through the bore needle is kept separate from a dope flow through the dope channels. A bore fluid outlet is positioned within a dope outlet of the dope chamber, such that a bore fluid flow out of the bore fluid outlet is substantially coaxial with and substantially centered within a dope flow out of the dope outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: King Abdulaziz University
    Inventors: Iqbal Ahmed Moujdin, Rosli Bin Mohd Yunus
  • Patent number: 11207827
    Abstract: In one example, a processor readable medium having instructions thereon that when executed cause an additive manufacturing machine to vary operating characteristics of a fusing laser beam at multiple different voxel locations in a layer of build material according to an energy dosage to be applied at each voxel location in an object slice, including multiple different energy dosages for corresponding multiple different voxel locations in the slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Cary G. Addington, David A. Champion, Mohammed S. Shaarawi, James McKinnell, Diane R. Hammerstad
  • Patent number: 11203819
    Abstract: A multi-angle spinneret for forming hollow fibers is provided. The multi-angle spinneret includes a body defining a dope chamber, a bore needle channel, and multiple dope channels being oriented at a minimum of two distinct dope channel angles relative to the dope chamber. The body includes a bore needle disposed in the bore needle channel and oriented substantially perpendicular relative to the dope chamber. The bore needle extends though the dope chamber, such that a bore fluid flow through the bore needle is kept separate from a dope flow through the dope channels. A bore fluid outlet is positioned within a dope outlet of the dope chamber, such that a bore fluid flow out of the bore fluid outlet is substantially coaxial with and substantially centered within a dope flow out of the dope outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: King Abdulaziz University
    Inventors: Iqbal Ahmed Moujdin, Rosli Bin Mohd Yunus
  • Patent number: 11198244
    Abstract: A method and a device for producing blow-molded containers which are sterile at least in some areas. A preform made of a thermoplastic material is first heated in a heating device on a transport path through a blow-molding machine and then supplied with a pressurized fluid in a blow-molding station of the device. The preform is guided along a channel, which conducts a sterile gas, at least over one sub-section of the transport path of the preform. The transport path of the preform out of the channel is supplied with the sterile gas in order to produce a sterile gas corridor in which at least the opening region of the preform is guided. Multiple radiation sources are arranged along the channel and one behind the other in the transport direction. The radiation sources emit a sterilizing radiation onto the preform and/or onto the channel, and/or onto the sterile gas corridor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Lewin, Thomas Herold, Jan Fabian Meyer, Martin Gerhards, Dieter Klatt, Rolf Baumgarte
  • Patent number: 11186021
    Abstract: An injection molding system (10) and method of use where the system (10) is comprised of an injection molding system (10), a controller (16) for controlling pack or fill pressures of the injection fluid injected during the pack and fill phases, a recorder, the controller including instructions that controls drive of actuators (1a, 2a, 3a, 4a) to effect an increase or decrease in fill and pack pressures of the injection fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Synventive Molding Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Vito Galati
  • Patent number: 11179970
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a carcass layer and belt layers including belt cords inclined with respect to a circumferential direction, the belt cords of different layers being arranged in a criss-cross manner. In at least one belt layer, an inclination angle ? of the belt cords with respect to the circumferential direction at a center position and an inclination angle ? of the belt cords with respect to the circumferential direction at a belt end position satisfy 15°??<??35°. A maximum ground contact length L1 and a ground contact length L2 satisfy 0.8?L2/L1?1.0, where L1 is the maximum ground contact length in the circumferential direction, W1 is a maximum ground contact width in a radial direction, and L2 is the ground contact length in the circumferential direction at a position 40% of W1 from the center position outward in a lateral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi Shibai, Zenichiro Shida
  • Patent number: 11179972
    Abstract: A tyre has a tread portion. The tread portion includes a land region defined between a first edge extending in a tyre circumferential direction and a second edge extending in the tyre circumferential direction. The land region is provided with a first lateral groove extending from the first edge toward the second edge and terminating within the land region, a vertical groove connected with the first lateral groove, extending in the tyre circumferential direction, and having both end portions terminating within the land region, and a sipe connected with the vertical groove and extending therefrom toward the second edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaki Osawa, Mari Mishima
  • Patent number: 11167599
    Abstract: Provided is a tire for a motorcycle for uneven ground traveling capable of continuously exhibiting good grip performance. The tire for a motorcycle for uneven ground traveling includes a tread part on which plural crown blocks are formed, and at least one of the crown block has a wheel tread, a first side surface, a first edge arranged between the wheel tread and the first side surface, a concave part that opens on the wheel tread and the first side surface, and a second edge arranged between the wheel tread and the concave part. The wheel tread has at least one external corner part in which an angle between the first edge and the second edge is an acute angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shohei Yamazoe