Patents Examined by Michael D Jennings
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Patent number: 11540691Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus is provided with a dispensing system for applying a treating agent stored on the surface cleaning apparatus to the surface to be cleaned. The dispensing system can include at least one container for storing a supply of treating agent and a dispenser for dispensing the treating agent to the surface to be cleaned. The dispensing system uses filtered working exhaust air to blow treating agent off the treating agent dispenser.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: BISSELL INC.Inventors: Victor Vito Caro, Jr., Alexander Joseph Reed
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Patent number: 11540620Abstract: A hair comb is provided and comprises a base assembly, a comb teeth assembly, and a cover unit. The base assembly comprises a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The comb teeth assembly is placed at the first surface of the base assembly. The cover unit is detachably mounted on the second surface. The cover unit comprises a third surface and a fourth surface opposite to each other. The third surface faces the second surface and the fourth surface is decorated by decorative patterns or figures.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Zhongshan Yingliang Health Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yi-Tzu Chen
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Patent number: 11535206Abstract: This invention relates to an automatic vehicle wash apparatus employing one or more rotary cloth or foam rubber brushes, and more particularly to the way how the rotary brush to vehicle surface contact is managed using one or more encoders connected to the rotating shaft of each brush and one or more programmable logic controllers (PLC). The encoders, recording the revolutions per minute (RPM) of each brush shaft, provide input to the programmable logic controller. If the RPM value is at or above the high RPM limit, the pivoted boom will move the brush toward the vehicle to achieve a desired brush-to-washable surface contact. If, on the other hand, the RPM value is at or below the low RPM limit, the pivoted boom will move the brush away from the vehicle to achieve a desired brush-to-washable surface contact.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Inventor: Timo Antero Ruuskanen
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Patent number: 11534046Abstract: A cleaner includes a body including an insertion slot facing a floor and an installation space inside the body. The cleaner includes a dust housing detachably connected to the body. The dust housing includes a collection opening surface and a storage space that stores foreign substances collected through the collection opening surface. The cleaner has an agitator rotatably connected to the dust housing and exposed through the collection opening surface. The cleaner also includes a driving apparatus that rotates a driving coupler, which drives a driven coupler coupled to the agitator. The cleaner includes a lever located on either the driving coupler or the driven coupler. The lever selectively attaches or separates the driving coupler and the driven coupler. Manipulating the lever separates the driving coupler and the driven coupler and allows the sweep module including the agitator to be removed through the insertion slot in the body.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jaewon Jang, Minwoo Lee, Jinho Chung
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Patent number: 11530545Abstract: A pool cleaner including a housing, a driving assembly, a brush assembly, and a removable debris container. The removable debris container is coupled to the housing through a locking member in the brush assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Intex Marketing Ltd.Inventors: Zhi Xiong Huang, Wen Xiao Zhang, Yaw Yuan Hsu
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Patent number: 11529045Abstract: An endoscope-cleaning device ensures effective cleaning of an endoscope. The endoscope-cleaning device includes a long flexible core member inserted into a twisted tubular body including a weft yarn including a microfiber yarn, wherein the microfiber yarn is made of polyester and the tubular body is twisted at 5 twists/5 cm to 15 twists/5 cm.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Toshihiko Yagi, Shoji Yabuzaki
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Patent number: 11529031Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner comprises a cyclone and a dirt chamber external to the cyclone. The cyclone comprises a dirt outlet in communication with the dirt chamber, a cyclone chamber rear end that is axially spaced from and opposed to a cyclone chamber front end and a sidewall located between the cyclone chamber front end and the cyclone chamber rear end. The cyclone air inlet and the cyclone air outlet are located at the cyclone chamber rear end wherein, when the upper end of the hand vacuum cleaner is positioned above the lower end of the hand vacuum cleaner, the central longitudinally extending axis is oriented generally horizontally. A plate is positioned at the front end of the cyclone chamber. The dirt outlet comprises a gap that is provided at the cyclone chamber front end and the gap is provided at a location that is spaced axially inwardly towards the cyclone chamber rear end.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
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Patent number: 11523724Abstract: A surface cleaning machine is provided, including a cleaning head having at least one driven cleaning roller unit, a dirty fluid reservoir device arranged on the cleaning head, and a scraping guide device for dirty fluid that acts on the at least one cleaning roller unit, wherein the dirty fluid reservoir device has a container device for dirty fluid and a cover device for the container device, wherein a duct device for cleaning liquid is arranged on the cover device, and wherein there is arranged on the cover device an orifice device which is fluidically connected to the duct device and by means of which cleaning liquid is applicable to the at least one cleaning roller unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KGInventors: Marc Meisenbacher, Christoph Rufenach, Tobias Palmer, Andreas Mueller, Mathias Frisch
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Patent number: 11523726Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a floor cleaning apparatus, comprises a cleaning robot and a washing base, and the cleaning robot comprises a robot main body and a mop assembly; the mop assembly is provided with a turntable-type mop mechanism able to stretch out downwards; the washing base comprises an outer container, a rinse tank and a solution-feeding mechanism. In the technical scheme disclosed, the automatic floor cleaning and finishing cloth washing are achieved so as to realize intelligent automatic cleaning, effectively removing dirt attached to the finishing cloth automatically, and freeing from artificially detaching and then washing the finishing cloth stained with dirt, automatically performing washing operation, and greatly alleviating operation burden of a user. Meanwhile, with the structure of the finishing cloth with a lifting structure, secondary pollution caused by the finishing cloth is avoided.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: NINGBO FUJIA INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Jianqiang Fang
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Patent number: 11523679Abstract: An oral care device comprises a head portion and a handle portion. The head portion comprises at least one supporting arm and a base. The supporting arm extends from the base. A sensor is exposed from the supporting arm. The handle portion is configured to move relative to the head portion. The handle portion comprises a processor, wherein the processor is configured to receive signals from the sensor and analyze the signals received from the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Inventors: Vinni Mediratta, Sumit Dharampal Mediratta
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Patent number: 11517179Abstract: A footwear cleaning system including an outer housing that encases an internal compartment, which is designed, sized, and shaped to receive a footwear item therein, such as an athletic shoe, dress shoe, platform shoe, or other similar footwear item. The footwear cleaning system includes one or more rotatable cleaning disks disposed within the internal compartment, such that the cleaning disks are configured to interact with a bottom surface of a footwear item. One or more fluidic conduits terminate at a location that is proximate to the internal compartment, such that water, cleaning solutions, concentrated cleaning products, alcohol, and other fluids can be dispelled into the internal compartment to interact with a footwear item.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Inventor: Cecilia Borgonovo
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Patent number: 11517159Abstract: Provided is a cleaner having improved cleaning efficiency. The cleaner includes a main body having a intake provided to suction an object to be cleaned and a suction device having a brush chamber that communicates with the intake and a brush accommodated in the brush chamber, wherein the brush includes a brush body rotatably coupled to the brush chamber, a blade protruding in a radial direction of the brush body, and prevention members formed to be inclined from a central portion of the brush body to opposite side ends of the brush body to prevent foreign substance introduced into the brush chamber from being wound around the blade.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Byung Chan Kim
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Patent number: 11517170Abstract: A system for a self-cleaning squeegee that is integrated with a semi-autonomous cleaning device includes a frame coupled to the cleaning device. A squeegee is coupled to the frame and oriented such that an edge of the squeegee is in close proximity to a surface, e.g., a floor, for cleaning. A manifold configured to receive a cleaning fluid is coupled to the frame and oriented such that the cleaning fluid can be dispersed onto at least a portion of the squeegee. A connecting member is used to couple the manifold to an external fluid distribution system that provides the cleaning fluid. The self-cleaning squeegee system can thus disperse pressurized cleaning fluid, e.g., water or a mixture of water and soap, via the manifold to clean the surface of a squeegee. In this manner, the self-cleaning squeegee system can clean squeegees on the cleaning device without the need for human intervention.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Avidbots CorpInventors: Pablo Roberto Molina Cabrera, Ian Gardiner
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Patent number: 11519192Abstract: A suction head for submersible use in the water of an artificial pool. The suction head having a body provided with a suction duct and a suction pump placed inside the suction duct. The suction pump includes an electric motor coupled to a propeller. The rotation of the propeller producing suction along the suction duct between a suction mouth and an upper opening of the duct. The suction head further includes a central deflector placed between the motor and the propeller so as to prevent bulky debris from piling up below the propeller and discharging it to the periphery of the suction duct.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: KOKIDO DEVELOPMENT LIMITEDInventors: Jean Bruneel, Max Roumagnac
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Patent number: 11517411Abstract: A method and apparatus permitting arbitrary, relative motions of a distal end of a toothbrush or flosser with respect to a handle with real-time selectable motions. The toothbrush has a handle and a post, with a mechanism mechanically coupling the handle to the post permitting relative translational movement of the post with respect to the handle.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Inventor: Nortman D. Scott
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Patent number: 11510546Abstract: A cleaning device for removing marks from a surface includes a body of melamine foam sponge having a front side and a rear side opposed to the front side, and a holding layer secured to the rear side of the body of melamine foam sponge to prevent relative movement therebetween. The holding layer is preferably a cloth and more preferably natural or synthetic chamois which can be used to wipe and/or buff the surface after rubbing the body of melamine foam sponge on the surface to remove at least one surface mark. The body of melamine foam sponge can be pre-moistened with a liquid such as a disinfecting solution.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: FTI Brands LLCInventors: Kevin Blaise Consolo, Christopher Michael Pavlica, Nicholas Kirk Wax
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Patent number: 11512489Abstract: A swimming pool cleaner may operate within a pool during a cleaning cycle. The duration of the cleaning cycle may be tailored, or optimized, for the pool by determining a maximum length of time between, for example, a rotation of the cleaner and when it next detects a wall of the pool during a designated interval. As another example, deducing information relating to rotation speed of the cleaner also may be useful in determining the tailored cleaning cycle.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: ZODIAC POOL CARE EUROPEInventor: Simon Duffaut
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Patent number: 11510537Abstract: A cleaner includes: a main body that forms an external shape; a dust container that is separably combined with the main body and stores dust separated from air; a dust container cover that is configured to open and close the dust container; a handle unit that is disposed behind the dust container; and an operating member that is configured to provide operation force to the dust container cover by moving in a first direction and to release a holding mechanism for preventing separation of the dust container from the main body by moving in a second direction opposite to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Philjae Hwang, Mantae Hwang, Jungbae Hwang, Eunji Sung, Taekgi Lee
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Patent number: 11503975Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dry-wet separation cleaning floor brush. The dry-wet separation cleaning floor brush includes a housing, a stiff roller brush and a soft roller brush, wherein the housing is provided with a partition plate dividing the inner part of the housing into a first storage chamber and a second storage chamber which are disconnected to each other, wherein the stiff roller brush is partially contained in the first storage chamber and is movably connected to the housing, and the stiff roller brush partially protrudes the housing; and the soft roller brush is partially contained in the second storage chamber and movably connected to the housing, and the soft roller brush partially protrudes the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: SHENZHEN SHERMON TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Xiaofeng Wang, Shangliu Liu, Chaoliang Ma
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Patent number: 11503901Abstract: A toothbrush including: a body, the body having a head with bristles; and a manually operated pump formed in the body, the pump having a nozzle for drawing a liquid into the body and expelling the water from the body. The nozzle can be disposed on the head on a surface opposite to a surface on which the bristles are disposed. The pump can further include: a reservoir disposed in the body for containing the liquid, the nozzle being in fluid communication with the reservoir; a shaft movably disposed in the reservoir, the shaft having a first seal substantially disposed at a free end of the shaft; and a second seal disposed in the body for sealingly engaging with an outer surface of the shaft. The first seal can be a piston a grip can be disposed at an other end of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: NYCE INNOVATIONSInventor: Robert J Baschnagel