Patents Examined by Kelsey C Grace
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Patent number: 11980512Abstract: Method for manufacturing dental prostheses, comprising the following operations: defining a layered numerical representation of a dental prosthesis (11); for a first layer of the numerical representation, prepare a corresponding layer of a light sensitive liquid substance (6); selectively solidify the layer of liquid substance (6) to obtain a first sheet (7) having a geometry corresponding to the geometry of the first layer of the numerical representation; repeat the operations of preparing a layer of liquid substance (6) and selectively solidify the layer of liquid substance (6) for each subsequent layer of the numerical representation to obtain corresponding sheets (7); cause the mutual adhesion between said sheets (7); modify the composition of the liquid substance (6) after having solidified one of the sheets (7) and before solidifying the subsequent sheet (7), so as to modify one or more optical properties of the liquid substance (6).Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: DWS S.R.L.Inventor: Ettore Maurizio Costabeber
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Patent number: 11969948Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods capable of controlling an additive manufacturing print process on an additive manufacturing printer. The disclosed embodiments may include: a plurality of sensors capable of monitoring at least one of an input of print filament to a print head of the printer, and a temperature of a nozzle of the printer, as indicative of a state of the additive manufacturing print process; at least one processor associated with at least one controller and capable of receiving sensor data regarding the monitoring from the plurality of sensors, and comprising non-transitory computing code for applying to the sensor data at least one correct one of the state of the additive manufacturing print process; a comparator embedded in the non-transitory computing code for assessing a lack of compliance of the print process to the correct one of the state; and at least one modifying output of the at least one controller to revise the compliance of the print process to the correct one of the state.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Inventors: William MacNeish, Erik Gjovik
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Patent number: 11965605Abstract: A method of fabricating a fluid component body includes forming a monolithic fluid component body including a valve segment having an annular upper perimeter wall portion defining a valve cavity and a lower base portion defining first and second flow ports, and a conduit segment extending from one of the first and second flow ports and including a conduit end portion defining a tubular portion extending in a first direction and spaced apart from a remainder of the fluid component body. The conduit end portion is bent from the first direct to a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: SWAGELOK COMPANYInventors: William H. Glime, III, Branden W. Keeper, Samuel Gunther Houser, Theodore J. Gausman
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Patent number: 11958235Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for efficient 3D printing using a single compact device are set forth. Some embodiments utilize a circular-shaped build area revolving symmetrically around a single center point utilizing a continuous helical printing process. Laser diodes or vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are utilized as an energy source for curing the print material. The VCSELs can be integrated with the print head and can form an array which can be staggered or linear. In some embodiments, the VCSELs (and the corresponding print head) can be connected to a rotating platform, which can rotate independently from the revolving build area. In some embodiments, a thermoelectric cooler and/or a fluid cooler can provide cooling to the VCSELS.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Orange Maker, LLCInventors: Kurt Dudley, James Tersigni
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Patent number: 11951230Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for guided bone regeneration, intended for the reconstruction of a buccal bone defect, composed of zirconium dioxide and having a shape which covers said buccal bone defect. The present invention also relates to a method for producing a device of the invention, comprising a step of constructing the device of the invention according to a three-dimensional representation obtained by means of a technique of maxillo-dental imaging of the bone defect.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: ZIRBONEInventors: Ralphe Badaoui, Joseph Nammour
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Patent number: 11938673Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a compatible thermoplastic material (film, sheet, or raft) as the base sheet or layer for 3-D printing an article. The use of the base film provides a means of printing a large article, and of reducing warpage by printing directly on the film. The printed article adheres to the film better than to traditional printer surfaces (glass, metal, glue, or reusable films), because the printed article and film weld together by forming chain entanglements, due to being compatible, miscible, or semi-miscible in the melt.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: ARKEMA INC.Inventors: David Shin-Ren Liu, Camille Khadraoui, Mark A. Aubart
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Patent number: 11940029Abstract: A brake pad includes a friction material and a backing plate which are coupled to each other. An apparatus for manufacturing the brake pad includes a forming device forming friction material powder in the form of the friction material and attaching the formed friction material to the backing plate in a forming process, a quality stabilization device heating and pressing the friction material, and a heat treatment unit heating the brake pad at a predetermined temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: KB AUTOSYS CO., LTDInventor: Yong Woong Kim
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Patent number: 11931944Abstract: A lineal product includes a composite pultruded substrate having a solid outer surface, and a multi-layer coating extruded directly onto the outer surface. The coating comprises a solid extruded base layer comprising a first thermoplastic material extruded onto the outer surface, the base layer having a base-layer inner surface in intimate contact with the outer surface and a base-layer outer interface. The coating further comprises a solid extruded outer layer comprising a second thermoplastic material comprising polymethyl methacrylate extruded onto the first thermoplastic material, the solid extruded outer layer having an outer-layer interface in intimate contact with the base-layer outer interface and an outer-layer outer surface, wherein the intimate contact between the base-layer outer interface and the outer-layer interface forms a solid interface between the base layer and the outer layer. The solid extruded outer layer has a hardness of at least 1H pencil hardness.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Tecton Products, LLCInventors: John Jambois, Jay Mosbrucker, Aaron H. Johnson, Heather Goulet, Brian Johnson
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Patent number: 11931972Abstract: A high-moisture-permeability, microporous plastic film randomly having a lot of recesses having different opening diameters and depths, with clefts formed in the recesses, is produced by pressing a first pattern roll randomly having a lot of high-hardness, fine particles having sharp edges on a roll body surface to a flat-surface metal roll, to produce an anvil roll randomly having a lot of recesses on a metal roll surface; arranging a second pattern roll randomly having a lot of high-hardness, fine particles having sharp edges on a roll body surface oppositely to the anvil roll; and passing a plastic film through a gap between the second pattern roll and the anvil roll.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Inventor: Seiji Kagawa
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Patent number: 11931963Abstract: A method for producing a three-dimensional element on a timepiece component, in particular on a dial, that includes generating, by means of a control unit, at least one control instruction for a printing device for reproducing a reference digital graphical representation relating to said three-dimensional element, and constructing, by means of the printing device, at least two substantially superimposed or superimposed layers each having at least one particle which is printed on the timepiece component and which forms the three-dimensional element.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere SuisseInventors: Brice Raillard, Vlada Mihailovic, Felix Jaeggi, Christophe Emmenegger, Frederic Jeanrenaud
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Patent number: 11931929Abstract: An incremental forming machine and a process are disclosed that comprise selecting a blank and selecting a stylus tool that has a tip at one end. The stylus tool may be heated to a desired temperature before contacting the blank with the stylus tool to change a characteristic of the blank or part. The stylus tool apparatus may include a tip on an end of a shaft and a resistance heating element disposed inside the tip. Alternatively, the stylus tool apparatus may include an induction heating coil disposed around the tip. The tip of the stylus tool may have a rotatable ball that engages the blank or part.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Garret Sankey Huff, Amanda Kay Freis, Thomas Norton
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Patent number: 11926090Abstract: Disclosed is an additive manufacturing device, comprising: a vessel for containing a material which is polymerisable on exposure to radiation; a build platform having a build surface, the build platform being mounted or mountable for movement relative to the vessel; and a programmable radiation module comprising an array of individually addressable radiation emitting or transmitting elements, the array being configurable to produce radiation having a predetermined pattern by selective activation of elements of the array; wherein the programmable radiation module is positioned or positionable to irradiate uncured material adjacent the build surface, or adjacent a previously cured structure on the build surface, with the predetermined pattern without magnification. Also disclosed is an additive manufacturing method which employs the additive manufacturing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Structo Pte Ltd.Inventors: Hubertus Theodorus Petrus Van Esbroeck, Shanmugam Muruga Palaniappan, Devansh Sharma, Siu Hon Lam, Kah Fai Chin, Yong Chuan Randall Sie
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Patent number: 11911877Abstract: An article including an inorganic compound according to the present invention includes a porous part and a no-porous frame body surrounding the porous part in a plane direction, and includes a stress relaxation part between the porous part and the frame body.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kanako Oshima, Nobuhiro Yasui, Hiroshi Saito, Yoshihiro Ohashi
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Patent number: 11890792Abstract: A solid state foamed microcellular foam sheet for use in forming a container is provided. The solid state foamed microcellular foam sheet includes a central foamed section defining a foam layer within the microcellular foam sheet having a first population of cells within which are interspersed a second population of cells.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Dart Container CorporationInventor: Chengtao Li
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Patent number: 11884025Abstract: A three-dimensional (3-D) printer and technique for integrating additive and non-print manufacturing operations is disclosed. In an aspect, the 3-D printer includes an energy source and a powder bed regions for selectively fusing layers of a build piece. The 3-D printer further includes a robotic arm. The 3-D printing is interrupted responsive to instructions from a controller, upon which the robotic arm may perform one or more non-printing operations using the build piece such as milling, casting, molding, pressing, and the like. Following the non-printing operations, the 3-D printing operation continues, and a resulting assembly including the build piece is produced.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: John Russell Bucknell, Broc William TenHouten, Eahab Nagi El Naga
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Patent number: 11884019Abstract: A method of encoding information in an object that may allow for enhanced tailorability of the encoding during the processing and/or also enhance the amount of information encoded in the object. More particularly, the method of encoding the object enables the magnetic characteristics at different spatial locations of the object to be modified to form a spatial array of the different magnetic characteristics for representing the encoded information. The method can be used to permanently embed a magnetic signature in a non-magnetic object, for example. More specifically, the method allows different portions of the object to exhibit different magnetic characteristics at each spatial location of the object in three dimensions, and more particularly configuring the magnetic vectors of those portions in many possible orientations with a 4n steradian solid angle and/or with different intensities.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Andrew M. Wilds, Ryan D. White, Craig O. Shott
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Patent number: 11865764Abstract: A thermoforming apparatus is provided having a frame, a pair of platens, and a platen drive assembly. The platens are carried by the frame on opposite sides of a sheet line each configured to carry a respective die. One platen has a proximal die surface adjacent the sheet line and a rear surface distal the sheet line. The platen drive assembly is interposed between the frame and the one platen and has at least one reciprocating kinematic linkage and a drive motor configured to reciprocate the one platen to and fro relative to another platen. The kinematic linkage has a plurality of links interconnected pivotally together with respective rotation joints and interposed between the frame and the one platen. An outboard-most rotation joint is provided proximate one end of the frame and an inboard-most rotation joint intermediate the rear surface and the proximal die surface. A method is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Irwin Research and Development, Inc.Inventors: Dale L. Vantrease, Jere F. Irwin
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Patent number: 11850789Abstract: An additive manufacturing method for fabricating a component having a surface substantially free of imperfections may include providing a mold having a configuration corresponding to the component, and depositing a material on at least one surface of the mold to fabricate the component having the surface substantially free of imperfections.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Thermwood CorporationInventor: Kenneth Susnjara
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Patent number: 11827960Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a composite material consisting of a metal and ceramic alloy, comprising steps of: producing a mixture of metal powder and ceramic powder, the particle size of the metal powder being micrometric and the particle size of the ceramic powder being nanometric; and exposing said mixture to a focused energy source that selectively fuses part of a bed of said powder mixture.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Inventor: Abdelmadjid Djemai
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Patent number: 11822310Abstract: A method for providing control data for a generative layer construction device includes accessing layer data records that have data models of buildup material layers to be selectively solidified, where a base surface region of an object cross section exists in at least one layer data record, where in at least one of p layers below the base surface region, no solidification of buildup material is specified. The method further includes changing the layer data record such that a temporal sequence for scanning the associated object cross section with energy radiation is specified such that at least one portion of the base surface region is scanned before all other parts of the object cross section; and a third step, where the changed layer data record is provided for the generation of a control data record for the device.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2018Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: EOS GmbH Electro Optical SystemsInventors: Ludger Hümmeler, Christopher Schmitt