Patents Examined by Lori L Baker
  • Patent number: 11857119
    Abstract: A sink accessory configured to provide functional space within a sink includes a first end, a second end opposite the second end, and a work space defined between the first end and the second end. The first end and the second end are configured to respectively engage with a first wall and a second wall of a sink to wedge the sink accessory between the first wall and second wall of the sink. Another aspect of the present disclosure relates to a sink accessory system that includes a sink having a first wall and a second wall opposing the first wall, and at least one sink accessory wedged within the sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Kohler Co.
    Inventor: Ryan Detlaff
  • Patent number: 11857123
    Abstract: A disposable portable toilet system for safely retaining and disposing human waste. The disposable portable toilet system is configured to receive human waste, then dry, sanitize, and deodorize it for disposal. A waste collection component includes an outer shell with an inner liner. The waste collection component is open at the top to create a waste collection area within. A hinged lid can seal the top after use. A chemical component is positioned within the waste collection area to neutralize and solidify the waste. A u-shaped seat component fits around the waste collection component to create a seating area for use. Once used, the waste collection component is sealed within a biodegradable bag for disposal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventor: Michael Monasterial
  • Patent number: 11859376
    Abstract: A water drain for use in wet areas such as kitchens, bathrooms, toilets, terraces, balconies, gardens is provided. The drain allows the water to be evacuated to be conveyed to the sewer. The drain comprises an adjuster, positioned between the reservoir and the flange, which has the ability and room to move to the right, left and diagonally within the reservoir thanks to the travel clearance. The drain comprises a set positioned between the reservoir blank and the flange blank, which determines the travel limits of the adjuster by entering through such reservoir blank and the flange blank and surrounds the adjuster blank at at least one surface of such adjuster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Evi Metal Inoks Yapi Urunleri Mimarlik Ve Muteahhitlik Instaat Taahhut Sanayi Dis Ticaret Limited Sirketi
    Inventors: Seyit Omer Altunc, Seyit Murat Altunc, Seyit Fatih Altunc
  • Patent number: 11851858
    Abstract: The pull-out head integrated waterway structure, including an integrated waterway body, the waterway body is provided with a second valve cavity and a first valve cavity through the waterway body, the first valve cavity is connected to the water inlet end of the waterway body through a first cavity, the first valve cavity and second valve cavity are connected through a second cavity, the second valve cavity is connected to the water outlet end of the waterway body through the outlet cavity, a first control spigot is provided in the first valve cavity for controlling the size of water flow, a second control spigot is provided in the second valve cavity for switching water flow to a different outlet cavity. The waterway body adopts integrated injection molding, avoiding the connection of different parts, improving the strength performance of the waterway, improving the strength of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Wu, Yukang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11851864
    Abstract: A toilet includes a bowl, a trapway, and a passage. The trapway is fluidly connected to the bowl at a trapway inlet and extends downstream from the bowl. The trapway includes an up-leg and a down-leg extending downstream from the up-leg. The passage is fluidly connected to the trapway downstream from the trapway inlet. The passage is configured to allow ambient air from outside the toilet to pass therethrough toward the trapway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Kohler Co.
    Inventors: William C. Kuru, William Kalk
  • Patent number: 11846093
    Abstract: A Waterless Floor Drain Trap Valve is provided as a drain line backup to withstand the pressure from water/sewage reversing direction and flowing into the occupied space of the building. During usage, as a nut on the top of the Valve is tightened, the expandable outer seal forms a plurality of seal points within the inside diameter of the floor drainpipe while almost simultaneously the bottom cover travels in an upward direction further compressing the expandable outer seal and providing robust sealing to prevent backflow into the living space. The Waterless Floor Drain Trap Valve is further configured to connect remotely to various diagnostic devices, mobile platforms and applications for real-time monitoring of the valve performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Inventor: Joe Pasquesi
  • Patent number: 11828050
    Abstract: A garbage disposal access assembly for retrieving an object from a garbage disposal includes an annular sleeve that is insertable into a throat of a garbage disposal to facilitate an unobstructed view into the garbage disposal. A conduit is attached to the annular sleeve and a light emitter is integrated into the conduit to illuminate an interior of the garbage disposal when the light emitter is turned on. A pair of tongs is insertable through the annular sleeve and into the garbage disposal when the annular sleeve is inserted into the throat of the garbage disposal. The tongs are sufficiently elongated to facilitate the user to retrieve a lost object from the garbage disposal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventor: Ronald Wright, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11821192
    Abstract: A water spraying device comprises a housing comprising a mechanism mounting cavity, an effuser mounting cavity located at a front portion of the mechanism mounting cavity, and a water pipe accommodating cavity located at an upper portion of the mechanism mounting cavity and communicated with the effuser mounting cavity. The device also comprises an effuser comprising a nozzle and slidably arranged in the effuser mounting cavity; a water supply hose accommodated in the water pipe accommodating cavity and configured to supply water and move in the water pipe accommodating cavity; a driving mechanism mounted in the mechanism mounting cavity and configured to drive the effuser to move; and a transmission mechanism connecting the driving mechanism to the effuser. The housing comprises a housing water inlet and the effuser comprises an effuser water inlet. The water supply hose is connected between the housing water inlet and the effuser water inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai Kohler Electronics, Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong Yang
  • Patent number: 11821184
    Abstract: A soft-close pull-out faucet is disclosed. In one aspect, a faucet includes a faucet base, a faucet spout, and a spray head movable between a retracted position and an extended position. A hose extends through the faucet spout and connects to a water source and a spray head. A magnet is connected to the hose. A ring collar is fixed at least partially within the faucet spout and is formed of a non-ferretic and non-magnetic conductive material. The hose and the magnet are movable relative to the ring collar, and the magnet is positioned at least partially within the ring collar when the spray head is located in the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential Inc.
    Inventor: Adam William Tracy
  • Patent number: 11821193
    Abstract: A sanitary washing device includes a casing, a nozzle, and a nozzle drive unit. The nozzle drive unit advances and retracts the nozzle between a storage position and an advanced position. The nozzle drive unit includes a supporter, a gear, and a cable rack. The supporter includes a rail allowing the nozzle to slide. The gear applies a drive force to advance and retract the nozzle. The cable rack is connected with the nozzle and meshes with the gear. The cable rack includes a nozzle connection part connected with the nozzle. The gear and the cable rack mesh at a meshing part. The meshing part is positioned at a same position in a longitudinal direction as the nozzle connection part or further frontward than the nozzle connection part when the nozzle is at the storage position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOTO LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuya Nagata, Yuki Ko, Junki Hamada
  • Patent number: 11821195
    Abstract: A portable multiuser sauna includes an enclosure configured as a truncated, regular icosahedron with ten sidewall triangular structural panels and five rooftop triangular structural panels, wherein each sidewall triangular structural panel is compressively coupled to at least two adjacent triangular structural panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: WEST COAST STEAM, INC.
    Inventor: Berley Scott Farber
  • Patent number: 11821187
    Abstract: A sink includes a bottom surface forming an opening for drainage therein, a first sidewall, a second sidewall, a third sidewall, and a fourth sidewall. At least one floating ledge is supported on two facing sides of the first, second, third, and fourth sidewalls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Kraus USA Plumbing LLC
    Inventor: Russell Levi
  • Patent number: 11814830
    Abstract: A shower plug bracket and a moving assembly are provided. The shower plug bracket includes a base and a plug bracket portion. The plug bracket portion is configured to rotate up and down to adjust a use angle, the two cooperate with a locking structure, the locking structure includes a first component and a second component, the first component is connected to the base, the second component is disposed on the plug bracket portion, the first component is disposed with first teeth, the second component is disposed with second teeth, and the first teeth are engaged with the second teeth. When the plug bracket portion rotates upward or downward, the first teeth of the first component are disengaged from the second teeth of the second component. When the plug bracket portion stops rotating, the first teeth and the second teeth reset to an engaged state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Jomoo Kitchen & Bath Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaofa Lin, Xiaoshan Lin, Bing Liu, Liwen Tu, Aiyun Shu, Kunpeng Huang
  • Patent number: 11813226
    Abstract: A system and method for reinforcing a spa shell includes a structural support layer on an underside of the spa shell. The structural support layer may include an inner layer of rigidizer, a central foam layer, and an outer layer of rigidizer. The structural support layer may extend from a bottom side of the underside of the spa shell, across at least one sidewall of the underside of the spa shell to a lip of the spa shell, the structural support layer forming at least one rib along the sidewall of the underside of the spa shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Bullfrog International, LC
    Inventors: Robert Santos, Richard Alex Eddington, Evan Smail, Mark McLane, Eric Hales, Michael Adams
  • Patent number: 11814834
    Abstract: A reservoir dispenser for a bidet apparatus includes a housing unit having a first chamber and a second chamber, wherein the first chamber is capable of holding a liquid wash solution separate from the second chamber. A side check valve between a hollow barrel and the first chamber; and a bottom check valve between the first chamber and the second chamber allows for controlled release of the liquid wash solution from the first chamber to the second chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: 2Go Products, LLC
    Inventors: Anjum Gupta, Bowen Zhang
  • Patent number: 11814826
    Abstract: A fitting for dispensing liquids includes an outlet with a first outlet part and a second outlet part, a first liquid outflow for delivering a first of the liquids, and a second liquid outflow for delivering a second of the liquids. The first liquid outflow is arranged in the first outlet part, and the second liquid outflow is arranged in the second outlet part. The first outlet part and the second outlet part can be set movably and releasably in relation to each other. A receiving part is arranged in the first outlet part for releasably setting the second outlet part on the first outlet part, and the first liquid outflow is arranged in the receiving part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: BLANCO GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Johannes Stupp, Olaf Stenvers
  • Patent number: 11813635
    Abstract: A shower caddy includes a 4-way diverter for attachment to a shower arm and to divert water received from the shower arm to a circuit of pipes within the shower caddy. The shower caddy further includes a heating circuit within a basin. The basin holds bathing fluids, and the heating circuit transfers heat from water traveling via the circuit of pipes to the bathing fluids within the basin. The shower caddy further includes an additive infuser attached to the circuit of pipes that infuses an additive into the water flowing through the circuit of pipes when the additive infuser is activated by a user. The circuit of pipes is further connected to a showerhead that outputs the water received from the shower arm following it being used for the heating circuit and/or having an additive infused therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: MAGNA DEA, LLC
    Inventors: Jessica Koehler, Robert Koehler
  • Patent number: 11813225
    Abstract: A system and method for cleaning a body of a person. The system includes an envelope extending between a top member and a base member, and several rings disposed between the top member and the base member. The envelope, the top member, and the base member define an enclosure of the system. Each ring has several spaced apart nozzles along its circumference and nozzles connect to an air pump. A person can stand on the base member, while the top member can surround the neck of the person. Air under low pressure can then impinge on the body of the person below the neck to remove dirt and dead skin. The dirt and dead skin suspended in the air are drawn through a vacuum source from the inner volume of the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Inventor: Jimmy Wagner
  • Patent number: 11806297
    Abstract: An automated nursing robot is disclosed, including a main body unit, a wastewater bucket, a clean water bucket, a water injection and wastewater discharge unit for discharging and flushing the wastewater bucket and adding water into the clean water bucket, a mobile base disposed under the wastewater bucket and clean water bucket for carrying both to move between the main body unit and the water injection and wastewater discharge unit, and a connecting side plate arranged on one side of the mobile base. The main body unit and the water injection and wastewater discharge unit are each equipped with a positioning and fixing plate. Each positioning and fixing plate is provided with a pipe joint A, and the connecting side plate is correspondingly provided with a pipe joint B, and the pipe joint A and the pipe joint B are mutually attracted and connected by a magnetic attraction assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: HANGZHOU KELUI BAOTTE INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hao Wei
  • Patent number: 11808023
    Abstract: A spray washing component for a smart toilet cover and an assembly method thereof are provided. The spray washing component includes a base, a nozzle, and a first motor. A sliding track is disposed on the base. The nozzle has a rack cooperating with the first motor. The first motor drives the nozzle to slide along the base. The first motor is installed at an end away from a jet of the nozzle and drives the nozzle to be displaced through a transmission structure. The transmission structure includes a driving gear, a dual transmission gear, and a conveyor belt. The driving gear is in anti-rotation cooperation with an output shaft of the first motor. The dual transmission gear respectively meshes with the conveyor belt and the rack on the nozzle. The spray washing component and the assembly method solve the large space occupation and insufficient aesthetics of the existing toilet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: KOMOO INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaofa Lin, Xiaoshan Lin, Shan Lin, Guangyong Chen, Zuhua Liu