Patents Examined by Laura Edwards
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Patent number: 10966475Abstract: A fixture, system, and method for coating a glove with a coating material are described. A fixture includes a support member and a clamping member movable relative to the support member to a closed position. The clamping member is configured to be at least partially received in a cuff of the glove. In the closed position, the cuff is captured between the clamping member and the support member. In this configuration, a majority of an external surface of the glove is exposed for being coated. A glove-coating system can include one or more fixtures on a conveyor that move the fixture around various processing stages of the glove-coating system. In certain methods of coating a glove, coating material is applied to the glove while the glove is suspended from the fixture. The coated glove can be removed from the fixture without being everted.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Inteplast Group CorporationInventors: Ben Tseng, Chih Jen Hsu, Wenchao Hsieh, Jyh-Yao Raphael Li, Kelvin Yang
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Patent number: 10926465Abstract: An additive layer manufacturing apparatus comprising a doctor blade (57) having a tip (51) which, in use, is arranged proximal to a material layer (59) to be recoated during an additive layer manufacturing method, the doctor blade (57) having a cavity (50) with an inlet and an outlet, the outlet located at the tip (51) and the inlet connectable to an air supply (53) whereby air can be directed through the cavity (50) to the outlet and onto a surface (59a) of the material layer (59).Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLCInventor: Stewart T. Welch
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Patent number: 10913177Abstract: A method of lining a pipe with a lining mixture formed from a dry component and a liquid is discussed. The method includes placing the dry component in a dry component surface container located above ground, conveying the dry component from the dry component surface container to a dry component subterranean supply container located underground, conveying the dry component from the dry component subterranean supply container to a mixer located underground, mixing the dry component with the liquid to form the lining mixture, and applying the lining mixture to the pipe with a mixture applicator.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: MICHELS CORPORATIONInventors: Paul Mallory, Albert Thebarge, Jim Zedler, Chris Holzbauer
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Patent number: 10898919Abstract: Coating apparatus for coating cylindrical hollow bodies, having a machine frame and a workpiece rotary table which is equipped with a plurality of holding mandrels mounted rotatably on the workpiece rotary table, and having a coating station arranged on the machine frame, wherein the coating station includes a rotatably mounted coating roller, wherein axes of rotation of the holding mandrels and an axis of rotation of the coating roller are aligned parallel to one another, wherein the coating roller has a coating region and a free-wheeling region on a circumferential surface, the coating region being designed as a circular cylinder segment with a constant circular radius coaxial with the axis of rotation of the coating roller, and the free-wheeling region being formed from surface sections which each have a distance from the axis of rotation of the coating roller which is smaller than the circular radius.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: HINTERKOPF GMBHInventors: Martin Frank, Joachim Weber
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Patent number: 10894379Abstract: The invention relates to a glue dam seal assembly for a glue application installation of a corrugated board manufacturing device. The glue dam seal assembly comprises a support installation and a first glue dam sealing element for tight disposal on a first roller, which sealing element is disposed on the support installation.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: BHS Corrugated Maschinen- und Anlagenhau GmbHInventor: Sebastian Schieder
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Patent number: 10894378Abstract: The invention relates to a glue dam seal assembly for a glue application installation of a corrugated board plant. The glue dam seal assembly comprises a support installation and a first glue dam sealing element for tight disposal on a first roller. The first glue dam sealing element is pivotable in relation to the support installation. The glue dam seal assembly furthermore has a first urging installation for urging the first glue dam sealing element onto the first roller upon generating a first urging force acting on the first glue dam sealing element.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: BHS Corrugated Maschinen—und Anlagenbau GmbHInventor: Sebastian Schieder
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Patent number: 10882068Abstract: Coating apparatuses and methods are provided for direct coatings with various shapes. The coating apparatus includes a die body with one or more bores. One or more cams are pivotally mounted within the bores and have one or more recessed areas formed into the respective peripheral surfaces thereof. The one or more cams are rotatable within the die body to dynamically, independently vary the width or shape of the respectively dispensed one or more fluid coatings.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Jonathan J. O'Hare, Karl K. Stensvad, Daniel H. Carlson, Glen A. Jerry, Mikhail L. Pekurovsky, Gary W. Maier, James Zhu
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Patent number: 10886109Abstract: A stage according to an exemplary embodiment has an electrostatic chuck. The electrostatic chuck has a base and a chuck main body. The chuck main body is provided on the base and configured to hold a substrate with electrostatic attractive force. The chuck main body has a plurality of first heaters and a plurality of second heaters. The number of second heaters is larger than the number of first heaters. The first heater controller drives the plurality of first heaters by an alternating current output or a direct current output from a first power source. The second heater controller drives the plurality of second heaters by an alternating current output or a direct current output from a second power source which has electric power lower than electric power of the output from the first power source.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Hiroki Endo, Katsuyuki Koizumi, Naohiko Okunishi
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Patent number: 10882066Abstract: A device for detecting and replenishing a salt solution in a salt spray machine and the salt spray machine includes a salt solution collector installed at the bottom of the salt spray machine and configured to collect the salt solution, a return pipe is connected to the salt solution collector and the salt solution storage tank, and a pH value sensor, a water level sensor and the salt concentration sensor are connected to the salt solution storage tank.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: CITIC Dicastal Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ning Zhang
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Patent number: 10879091Abstract: A substrate treating apparatus includes a plurality of solution treating units for performing solution treatment of substrates, and a plurality of individual gas supply devices provided to correspond individually to the solution treating units, each for supplying gas at a variable rate only to one of the solution treating units. The solution treating units perform the solution treatment by supplying treating solutions to the substrates. The individual gas supply devices supply gas only to the solution treating units corresponding thereto. The individual gas supply devices supply the gas at adjustable rates to the solution treating units. The rate of gas supply to the solution treating units can therefore be varied for each solution treating unit. A pair of the solution treating units are both arranged and carry out the solution treatment in a same chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Masafumi Maeda
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Patent number: 10864541Abstract: An apparatus for applying a coating to a substrate includes a base, an applicator, and a quick-connect connector. The base includes a fluid conduit. The applicator includes at least one actuator and an array of nozzle plates. Each nozzle plate defines at least one aperture. The at least one actuator is configured to oscillate the nozzle plates to eject fluid from the apertures. The quick-connect connector couples the fluid conduit to the applicator for fluid communication therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Ford Motor CompanyInventors: Scott Adams, Kevin Richard John Ellwood, Wanjiao Liu, Christopher Michael Seubert, Mark Edward Nichols
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Patent number: 10864547Abstract: One embodiment of a container for transferring, storing, and dispensing paint indefinitely for touch-up painting by the use of a plurality of open-ably close-able apertures (310, 320) that cause transferring, storing, and dispensing of paint, in conjunction with a plurality of paint storage areas (1391, 153) that are independently open-ably sealable to allow for various functions such as, sealed storing of paint in one paint storage area while doing touch-up painting from another paint storage area, moving paint from external paint source to a paint storage area, moving paint between paint storage areas. Using standard (180, 190), as well as custom paint applicators allowing for ease of use, and with various features that allow for use with no clean up needed, such as replaceable components (121, 130, 170, 180, 190, 191, 192, 250) non-stick components (121, 130, 141), integral paint tray (130), paint containment features such as paint retaining walls (130) and paint catching recesses (130, 140).Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2018Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Inventors: Richard Michals, Roger Kleinman
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Patent number: 10837588Abstract: A pipe lining apparatus transport assembly having one or more positioning mechanisms for maintaining the orbiting operational components of the pipe lining apparatus in a concentric relationship with the pipe, the positioning mechanisms including alone or in combination extension/retraction mechanisms, track set rotational mechanisms, articulating joint mechanisms and/or linear translation mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: SIPP TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventor: Kent Weisenberg
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Patent number: 10832925Abstract: A heating plate is stored in a chamber. With a solvent containing gas present in the chamber, a substrate on which a DSA film is formed is held at a position further upward than the heating plate. Thus, neutralization of an atmosphere is performed at a temperature at which microphase separation does not occur. Thereafter, with the solvent containing gas present in the chamber, the substrate is held on an upper surface of the heating plate. Thus, thermal processing is performed on the DSA film on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiko Harumoto, Masaya Asai, Yuji Tanaka, Koji Kaneyama
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Patent number: 10825660Abstract: An electrostatic chuck of an embodiment includes a base, a dielectric layer, and a chuck main body. The dielectric layer is provided on the base, and is fixed to the base. The chuck main body is mounted on the dielectric layer. The chuck main body has a ceramic main body, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The ceramic main body has a substrate mounting region. The first electrode is provided in the substrate mounting region. The second electrode and the third electrode form a bipolar electrode. The second electrode and the third electrode are provided in the ceramic main body, and are provided between the first electrode and the dielectric layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Shin Yamaguchi, Akiyoshi Mitsumori
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Patent number: 10821465Abstract: A spherical core spraying tool comprises a spraying spindle and connecting rods; the spraying spindle is circumferentially provided with a plurality of protruding rings, and is axially provided with a strip-shaped groove; the connecting rods are disposed in the groove; one end of the spraying spindle is a power input end, and the other end is provided with a locking sleeve; the groove runs through the protruding rings. By spot-welding steel balls in an inner hole of a spherical core and fitting the spherical core over the spraying spindle, the steel balls are stuck in the groove of the spraying spindle, and the both sides of the steel balls are tightened by means of the connecting rods in abutting-against fashion, so that a plurality of spherical cores is fixed together with the spraying spindle, and the plurality of spherical cores can be spray-coated simultaneously, thereby improving the efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: WUZHONG INSTRUMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yushan Ma, Jun Li, Zhandong Chang, Yongxing Zhou, Yongxiang Ding, Husheng Li
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Patent number: 10814643Abstract: Exemplary coating devices and exemplary coating methods for coating components with a coating agent, e.g., for painting motor vehicle body components with a paint, are disclosed. An exemplary coating device comprises an application device that applies the coating agent. The application device may include a paint head that discharges the coating agent out of at least one coating agent nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Dürr Systems AGInventors: Frank Herre, Hans-Georg Fritz, Steffen Wesselky
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Patent number: 10811287Abstract: A spin coater includes a rotatable chuck structure configured to hold a substrate, a bowl enclosing the substrate and guiding a flow of a fluid around the substrate to a bottom of the bowl, and a flow controller detachably coupled to the bowl such that the flow controller is arranged between the bowl and an edge of the substrate and separates the flow into a linear flow and a non-linear flow.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyun-Joo Jeon, Sung-Hyup Kim
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Patent number: 10792696Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure disclose a doctor-bar adjusting mechanism for a coater, including: a base bracket, an upper plate and a lower plate secured to the base bracket at two ends thereof, a side of a doctor-bar sandwiched between the upper plate and the lower plate, and an other side of the doctor-bar close to a surface of a roller of the coater; the upper plate further comprising an adjusting plate on an upper side thereof, the adjusting plate secured to the base bracket at ends thereof and including a plurality of adjusting devices thereon adapted for adjusting a spacing between the adjusting plate and the upper plate. The implementation of the embodiments of the disclosure may adjust conveniently a spacing between the doctor-bar and the roller and improve the maintenance efficiency and productivity of the coater.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Xuefa Chen
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Patent number: 10766051Abstract: An apparatus for wetting one or more absorbent strips with a solution can comprise a solution tray and a dispenser tray, each comprising a base that defines opposing upper and lower surfaces and one or more openings and a sidewall extending away from the upper surface and disposed along a periphery of the base. One or more dispensers can each include a tube extending between first and second ends, the first end being coupled to the dispenser tray's base such that the tube is configured to receive solution from a respective one of the opening(s) of the dispenser tray. An applicator tray can be configured to receive the strip(s). The solution, dispenser, and applicator trays are positionable to permit solution to flow through the solution tray's opening(s) onto the dispenser tray's base, through the dispenser tray's opening(s) into the dispenser(s), and through the dispenser(s) onto the applicator tray.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Inventor: Max Lee Horton