Patents Examined by Lucas E. A. Palmer
  • Patent number: 11958179
    Abstract: An apparatus for receiving a functional unit for a power tool, wherein the receiving apparatus can be fastened to the power tool by way of a fastening mechanism. A second aspect of the invention relates to a method for fastening a receiving apparatus of this kind to a power tool. In the fastening mechanism, a rotatable insert part can be inserted into an opening of the receiving apparatus and can be moved from an unfastened to a fastened state by this rotational movement. In the fastened state, a hook of the power tool engages with a raised portion of the insert part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Huber, John Van Taack-Trakranen
  • Patent number: 11958652
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods to secure a film to a container are provided. An example sealing device utilizes film from a supply of film to seal a lid onto a container. Various sizes of containers are usable with some example sealing devices. Additional features, such as printing on the film and piercing the film for ventilation and/or insertion of a straw are contemplated. One or more markings along the film may be utilized for confirming that an approved film has been loaded into the sealing device. In response, various components or features of the sealing device may be appropriately enabled or disabled. The one or more markings may also be utilized to convey data to the sealing device regarding the installed film, such as for improved operation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Antonio Michael Cittadino, Mark Edwin Peters, Lenox Gregory Wilson, Roy J. Rozek, Erik Lips
  • Patent number: 11949362
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide for controlling a conduction angle applied to a motor, such as a power tool motor. Operations for controlling the conduction angle includes receiving by a motor controller, a desired speed signal, and monitoring a speed of the power tool motor. The operation further includes a motor controller determining an error value between the desired speed signal and the monitored speed and determining a conduction angle signal based on the error value. The operation also includes the motor controller determining whether the conduction angle signal is greater than the error value and increasing a conduction angle of the power tool motor in response to the conduction angle signal being determined to be greater than the error value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Shuvam Gupta, Gerry M. Nagel, Alexander T. Huber
  • Patent number: 11937815
    Abstract: A powered handle for a surgical stapler can have a drive system including an electric motor. The powered handle can include a manual articulation mechanism to articulate a jaw assembly coupled to a reload shaft connected to the handle. The manual articulation mechanism can include a ball screw mechanism that translates an articulation member responsive to rotation of an articulation knob when an instrument shaft is engaged with the handle. The articulation mechanism includes a release function that allows the jaw assembly to return to a longitudinally centered orientation. The powered handle includes a battery pack serving as a power supply for the drive system. A control system can control actuation of the motor based on user inputs and operating parameters of the stapler and can provide certain motor drive profiles for predetermined positions of the stapler. The powered handle can include a manual return mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Medical Resources Corporation
    Inventors: Erik D. Nelson, Jonathan R. Nash, Timothy M. Hopkins, Kevin Hudson, Andy Pham, Zachary W. Gyugyi, Joshua A. Spalding, Christian A Halvorsen
  • Patent number: 11938608
    Abstract: A working machine includes a housing, a motor, an operating part, and an on-locking unit. The motor is accommodated in the housing. The operating part is a part of the housing. The operating part is movable between an on position and an off position. The motor is driven when the operating part is in the on position, and is stopped when the operating part is in the off position. The on-locking element is configured to maintain the operating part in the on position. At least a portion of the on-locking element is accommodated inside of the housing so as not to be operable when the operating part is in the off position. The portion of the on-locking unit is positioned outside of the housing such that the on-locking unit becomes operable when the operating part is in the on position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: KOKI HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kentaro Hatakeyama
  • Patent number: 11938610
    Abstract: A handheld power tool includes a housing in which a motor coupled to an outgoing axle defining an axial direction is arranged, a front gear unit at a front end thereof, a first handle portion and a second supporting handle structure arranged at the front end of the housing and extending in a direction parallel to the axial direction in order to allow a user to support the tool at the front gear, and a first switch and a second switch configured to control a supply of energy to the motor. The handheld power tool is configured to require the user of the power tool to simultaneously operate the first switch and the second switch in order for energy to be supplied to the motor, and the second switch is arranged at the second supporting handle structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ATLAS COPCO INDUSTRIAL TECHNIQUE AB
    Inventors: Hans Niklas Öberg, Ola Petter Nyström
  • Patent number: 11931876
    Abstract: A power tool has a housing, which includes a first housing and a second housing. The second housing is configured with a connecting hole, a first connecting part passing through the connecting hole connecting the first housing and the second housing, a protective layer, arranged on a surface of the second housing, an elastic portion, connected with the protective layer, arranged between the first housing and the second housing, and is integrally formed with the protection layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Nanjing Chervon Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoyong Wang, Xiuhuan Xue, Hongtao Ke
  • Patent number: 11926029
    Abstract: An apparatus, comprising a control element, which stops in a stopping position during a recurring sequence of movements, a control device, which is intended for controlling stopping of the control element in the stopping position by at least one control parameter, a detection device for detecting an actual stopping position of the control element at the time of a stopping of the control element, the control device being suitable for forming a difference between the actual stopping position and a desired stopping position of the control element and adapting the control parameter for a subsequent sequence of movements of the control element if the difference exceeds a predetermined desired value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Iwan Wolf, Wolfgang Beck, Mario Grazioli, Joaquin Herrero Fernandez
  • Patent number: 11926011
    Abstract: A powered tool includes a housing, a drive source, a drive body, a sealing part, and a holding part. The drive source is rotatable in the housing. The drive body is supported in the housing and reciprocatable by a driving force of the drive source. The sealing part is in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the drive body. The holding part is positioned around the drive body. The holding part surrounds the sealing part and supports the sealing part to be in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the drive body. The holding part includes a lubrication oil accommodating part retaining a lubricant supplied to the outer peripheral surface of the drive body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: KOKI HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Nakano, Yoshikazu Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11919138
    Abstract: An impact tool (1) includes: a motor (10); an impact mechanism (15), which is rotatable about an output rotational axis (BX) and is driven by the motor; an anvil (16) having an anvil shaft (113) disposed forward of the impact mechanism; and at least one anvil projection (114) protruding radially outward from a rear-end portion of the anvil shaft and configured to be impacted by the impact mechanism in a rotational direction; a hammer case (6) housing the impact mechanism; a main-body housing (2) disposed rearward of, and fixed to, the hammer case; a grip housing (3) having at least a portion disposed rearward of the main-body housing, the grip housing being coupled to the main-body housing so as to be movable relative to the main-body housing; and at least one vibration-isolating member (138, 139) disposed between the main-body housing and the grip housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuo Nakashima
  • Patent number: 11919139
    Abstract: A power tool fall protection device comprises a sleeve dimensioned to pass over one end of the tool. The sleeve has cheeks projecting from opposite sides of the sleeve to engage a substrate and tabs on the sleeve to inhibit movement of the sleeve along the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GRIPGUARD INC.
    Inventors: Gleb Belyakov, Valeri Crivoi
  • Patent number: 11918028
    Abstract: A machine and method for packaging tobacco sachets, comprising a plurality of linearly arranged, multi-functional, vertically moveable chambers having fluid sealing means on lower portions thereof, conveyor means disposed below the plurality of multi-functional, vertically moveable chambers, and a lidding apparatus disposed downstream of and in communication with the plurality of vertically moveable chambers through the conveyor means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: James D. Evans, Travis M. Garthaffner, Herbert Cary Longest
  • Patent number: 11919144
    Abstract: An industrial device including a portable tool and a support for this tool. The tool is provided with a motor driving a mechanism in rotation, an electrical energy store to power the tool during operation and a controller to control the motor. The support includes a line, one extremity of which is affixed to the tool, a receiving element defining a location for the grasping of the tool and a winding apparatus of said line exerting a vertical tension to the tool so as to lighten its weight when it is no longer at its grasping location. The industrial device further includes a transmission of an electrical energy to charge the energy store when the tool is positioned in the receiving element. The tool is light weight tool while at the same time highly maneuverable in charging supercapacitors or a battery only when the tool is on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ETABLISSEMENTS GEORGES RENAULT
    Inventor: Guillaume Amiaux
  • Patent number: 11911639
    Abstract: A mobile portable tool, such as a spreading device, cutting device or combined device with cutting and spreading function includes a housing. An electric motor is located in the housing. The tool includes a rechargeable battery or a connection to an external electrical energy source. The tool is a mechanically or hydraulically driven and has a displaceable piston rod spreading and/or cutting and/or lifting and/or pressing work. An electronic open-loop and closed-loop control unit controls the electric motor and includes a printed circuit board and control cables with a connector for transporting control signals. For under water operation while still having a simple design, the electric motor is a brushless direct-current motor. The electronic components of the printed circuit board are enclosed by a potting compound to prevent water entering, and the connector of the control cable is protected against the ingress of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: LUKAS HYDRAULIK GMBH
    Inventors: Carsten Sauerbier, Thomas Littwin
  • Patent number: 11897095
    Abstract: A rotary power tool includes a main housing and a transmission housing coupled to the main housing. The transmission housing includes a bearing pocket open to a front of the transmission housing and defined at least partially by a radially inward-extending flange. The rotary power tool also includes an output shaft and a bearing positioned within the bearing pocket adjacent and in abutting relationship with the radially inward-extending flange for rotatably supporting the output shaft in the transmission housing. The rotary power tool also includes a radially outward-extending flange on the output shaft that radially overlaps at least a portion of the bearing on an opposite side of the bearing as the radially inward-extending flange. A line of action of an axial reaction force applied to the output shaft is directed to the transmission housing via the radially outwardly-extending flange, the bearing, and the radially inward-extending flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitchell Carlson, Ding Feng Hu, Zhiqiang Yu, Fanbin Zeng
  • Patent number: 11897107
    Abstract: A driving tool includes: a plunger movable in a first direction along a direction in which a fastener is launched; an urging member that is extendable and contractible in the first direction and serves as a drive source of the plunger; and guide rails configured to guide movement of the plunger in the first direction. The guide rails extend along the first direction of the urging member and are disposed on both sides sandwiching the urging member, and the guide rails are arranged such that a virtual line connecting the guide rails on the both sides of the urging member is deviated from a central axis of the urging member in a plan view of the urging member as viewed from the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ohno, Takashi Suzuki, Takanari Azami
  • Patent number: 11890725
    Abstract: An impact wrench comprises dynamically tuned drive components, such as an anvil/socket combination. The drive components are dynamically tuned in view of inertia displacement, as well as stiffness between coupled components, and with regard to impact timing associated with clearance gaps between the component parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: Chun Jian Tang, Shreyas Patil
  • Patent number: 11890713
    Abstract: A power tool may include: a motor; a power transmission mechanism connected to the motor; a housing that houses the motor and the power transmission mechanism; a tip tool holder connected to the power transmission mechanism and holding a tip tool; and a cover covering at least a part of the tip tool. The cover may include: a fixed cover portion fixed to the housing; a movable cover portion movable with respect to the fixed cover portion; and an operation member mechanically connected to the movable cover portion and configured to move the movable cover portion with respect to the fixed cover portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo Imuta, Ryosuke Otani
  • Patent number: 11883940
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to quick change attachments for a pneumatic percussive tool. The attachments convert a pneumatic percussive tool, such as an air impact tool with proximal attachment, which has a “pushing” force, into a pneumatic percussive tool having a “pulling” force. Once attached to the pneumatic percussive tool, the attachments also provide a quick change feature for allowing “pulling” tools to be simply and easily removed and replaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventor: James Kevin Panks
  • Patent number: 11878827
    Abstract: A method and a coding line (128) for serializing a plurality of products in a coding line (128), wherein each product is packed in a cuboid box (114), is disclosed. Herein, the coding line (128) comprises at least one slide (132) and at least one main pusher (130) being adapted for jointly moving the boxes (114) on the slide (132) in a row of the boxes (114) through the coding line (128), wherein the coding line (128) further comprises at least one printing system (118) designed for printing a serial code onto each of the boxes (114), wherein the serial code comprises at least one unique serial number, and at least one camera (120) designed for reading the serial code printed on each of the boxes (114).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HICOF AG
    Inventors: Sascha Toedtli, Sergej Toedtli