Patents Examined by Michael G Hoang
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Patent number: 10610040Abstract: Disclosed is a brewing and squeezing cup, including a brewing and squeezing device (10), a bottom cover (20) and a cup body (30), wherein the brewing and squeezing device (10) comprises a cone (110) with an accommodating chamber and a cup cover (120) in a penetrating shape, a bottom end of the cone (110) is provided with a filter plate (130) extending towards an outer periphery thereof, the filter plate (130) is provided with a plurality of first filter holes (132), the bottom end of the cone (110) is provided with an opening (112) in communication with the accommodating chamber, an outer wall of the cone (110) is provided with a plurality of scraping strips (114) or a plurality of protrusions, the outer wall of the cone (110) is also provided with a plurality of second filter holes (116) penetrating to the accommodating cavity, the filter plate (130) is connected to the cup cover (120), the cup cover (120) is connected to the cup body (30) in a detachable manner, the cone (110) can be arranged with a tip facType: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Inventor: Zhixing Liu
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Patent number: 10616960Abstract: A heating coil is configured to inductively heat an inner surface of a tubular workpiece. The heating coil includes a head portion configured to be inserted into the workpiece and to inductively heat the inner surface of the workpiece, and a pair of lead portions connected to one end of the head portion and the other end of the head portion respectively. The head portion and the lead portions are configured as pipe members forming a series of flow channels through which coolant flows. A cross-sectional area of the flow channel inside each of the lead portion is greater than a cross-sectional area of the flow channel inside the head portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2015Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: NETUREN CO., LTD.Inventor: Hidehiro Yasutake
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Patent number: 10604937Abstract: Heating systems including heating elements and fastener materials covered and protected from the environment by a heating cap structure. The heating cap structure can interlock mating ribs or other structure in adjacent heating panels. Additional heating cap, transition, or flashing sections may further cover and protect heating system components. One or more heating elements may include heating cable or heating fluids or materials penetrating heating element bodies. The heating element bodies and heating cap panels and covers can include extruded or otherwise formed sections having a wide variety of shapes that can be varied to provide desired objectives, such as for example supporting strength, increased heat transfer, component cost minimization, component life, heating system weight, and ease of assembly, use, maintenance, expansion, contraction, and adaptability. The outer and other surfaces of the heating system may be painted, including to improve aesthetics.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Inventor: Brian Casey
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Patent number: 10609764Abstract: A temperature controller including a housing, a temperature sensor with an expansion element which generates a movement stroke as a function of the temperature. The controller includes a switching system having a switching spring on a switching spring base, upon which there acts the expansion element. An end remote from the spring contact of the switching spring is fastened to the switching spring base, an end remote from the fastening of the switching spring of the switching spring base is held securely and immovably on the temperature controller housing, the switching spring base working together with an adjustment element. To adjust the switching point of the switching system, the switching spring base together with the switching spring can be moved relative to the expansion element and/or to the actuating element.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2014Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Inventors: Werner Reiter, Josef Reithofer, Peter Klaus Soukup
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Patent number: 10598388Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a plurality of electrically controlled heating elements operable to elevate a temperature of food items. A user interface includes a touch-sensitive circuit that is operatively-connected to an external surface of the cooking appliance for altering operational settings of the electrically controlled heating elements. An electrovibration feedback circuit is coupled to the external surface that generates a vibratory feedback that is sensible by the user's finger at the external surface in response to adjustments of the operational settings. The electrovibration feedback circuit creates an electrostatic force on the user's finger that simulates friction between the user's finger and the external surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.Inventor: Michael Alexander
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Patent number: 10596652Abstract: An engine-driven welding generator that monitors fuel level is provided. The engine-driven welding generator comprises a fuel level monitoring system configured to measure a remaining fuel level in a fuel tank of the engine-driven welding generator, determine a rate of fuel usage of an engine of the engine-driven welding generator, and calculate a remaining run time of the engine based on the remaining fuel level and the rate of fuel usage of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2014Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventor: Michael John Trinkner
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Patent number: 10601028Abstract: A method for cutting an electrode of an electrochemical generator including a metal sheet with a laser beam of a power lower than or equal to 600 W, one face of the metal sheet being partially coated with a thinly layered band called the cutting band, the optical absorption factor of which for an emission wavelength of the laser beam is higher than or equal to 0.5 and preferably higher than or equal to 0.8, and extends so as to define a cutting path, in which the laser beam is focused on the cutting band and the laser beam is animated with a relative movement with respect to the electrode so as to travel the cutting path.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternativesInventors: Benoit Barthe, Jeremie Salomon, Remi Vincent
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Patent number: 10588290Abstract: An inventive solution directed to the production of pasta filata type cheese, such as mozzarella, provolone and blends thereof by concurrently and continuously pulling, stretching, cooling and molding cheese through a series of channels, preferably elongated in nature, having enclosed cavities of particular negative dimension for molding purposes. The cheese is cooled by indirect heat transfer through thermal conductive walls of the elongated channels. The cheese is allowed to set as it is formed within the cooling and molding channels. As the cheese is pulled through and out of the distal end of the elongated channels, the series of released cheese ribbons are combined and pulled through a second series of compression channels by which multiple ribbons are compressed together to form larger laminated strips ready for immediate packaging, storage or further processing.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Inventor: Daniel Lindgren
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Patent number: 10583509Abstract: The invention relates to a wire electrode (10) for the spark-erosive cutting of articles, comprising and electrically conductive core (2) and a jacket (5) surrounding the core (2), which jacket comprises at least on ?+?-cover layer (6) that contains ?-brass and/or ??-brass. In order to provide a wire electrode that has improved cutting efficiency, according to the invention, the ?+?-cover layer (6) forms a homogenous phase (7) of ?-brass and/or ??-brass in ?+?-brass grains (8) having an ?+?-phase and/or a ?+??-phase are embedded.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2011Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: HEINRICH STAMM GMBHInventor: Paul Weber
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Patent number: 10575559Abstract: An exemplary atomizer includes a liquid supply, an atomizing head, and an air passage. The liquid supply has a liquid chamber. The atomizing head includes a liquid absorbing element and a heating element. The liquid supply includes a sealing element at an end connected with the atomizing head. The sealing element is configured for sealing the tobacco liquid in the liquid chamber. The sealing element defines a through hole. The liquid supply further includes a magnet configured for sealing the through hole. The magnet abuts against the sealing element via a magnetic force. The atomizing head further includes an electromagnet. The electromagnet is configured for lifting the magnet when powered on, so that the tobacco liquid can flow out from the through hole. The present disclosure also relates to an electronic cigarette.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2016Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: SHENZHEN FIRST UNION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yonghai Li, Zhongli Xu, Yonglu Guo, Youli Shen
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Patent number: 10575679Abstract: An electrical appliance has a base with a housing portion and a cooking chamber portion. The housing portion includes a pre-heated air intake opening and a heated air exhaust opening with an air path in communication therebetween. The air path has an air blower and an air heater disposed there-in. The cooking chamber portion has an electrical socket and is adapted to receive, one at a time, an air-frying chamber and a deep-frying chamber. The air-frying chamber has a heated air intake opening in communication with the housing portion's heated air exhaust opening when the air-frying chamber is received by the cooking chamber portion. The deep-frying chamber has an oil heating element electrically engageable with the electrical socket when the deep-frying chamber is received by the cooking chamber portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Inventors: Xiao Cheng, Uri Murad, Laurent Bardot
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Patent number: 10568330Abstract: A baking pan for cooking a plurality of cupcakes or muffins is provided, the pan including a first portion and a second portion separable from the first, where the first portion represents a form for at least half of the sidewalls of the cupcakes or muffins, and where the second portion represents a form for at least part of the sidewalls not formed by the first portion and for the bottoms of the cupcakes or muffins.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Inventor: Marvin Levy
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Patent number: 10568336Abstract: A yogurt maker device comprises an outer shell to house a yogurt vessel that receives milk and a culture container that receives yogurt culture. A processor within the outer shell controls a heating element to boil milk within the yogurt vessel using a temperature sensor as feedback and for maintaining a predefined boiling temperature for a predefined period of boiling time and a stirring device to continuously stir boiling milk within the yogurt vessel while boiling and also while cooling to a cooling predefined temperature until fermentation temperature is reached. The processor also controls a culture container base holding the culture container and having a motor to automatically pour the yogurt culture when the fermentation temperature is reached. Finally, a cooling mechanism automatically provides cooling to contents of the yogurt vessel once fermentation is complete.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: JOGURT, LLCInventors: Prashant Choudhary, Suresh Chandrasekaran
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Patent number: 10555634Abstract: A cooking machine for weighing food includes a housing, a heating tray assembly, a transmission wheel, a motor, a transmission mechanism, a holder and a weighing mechanism; the holder has a first end and a second end; the first end protrudes into an underneath of the heating tray assembly; the second end is fixed to the housing; the motor is fixed to the second end; the heating tray assembly is supported on the weighing mechanism. When the cooking cup is placed on the heating tray assembly, the weighing mechanism only supports the heating tray assembly and the cooking cup, which significantly reduces the weight of the scale pan of the weighing mechanism, thereby improving weighing accuracy and precision.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: T.F. ELECTRICAL TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN)CO., LTD.Inventor: Wenhung Chou
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Patent number: 10556291Abstract: A consumable assembly for use in an arc welding apparatus is provided that includes a nozzle assembly having a nozzle body, an insulator disposed within the nozzle body, and a nozzle insert disposed within the insulator. The nozzle insert includes an internal gas diverter. A contact tip is disposed within the nozzle assembly and includes at least one aperture extending from an exterior portion to an internal cavity, an exit orifice, a distal end face, and an exterior surface extending between the at least one aperture and the distal end portion of the contact tip. The internal gas diverter directs a flow of shield gas exiting the at least one aperture along the exterior surface of the contact tip, and a principal distance from the at least one aperture to the distal end face is varied to adjust the flow of the shield gas for improved cooling.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Victor Equipment CompanyInventor: Khalid Hassan
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Patent number: 10548426Abstract: A multistage steaming machine is provided with a conveyor arranged at multiple stages such that a group of noodle strings carried in a steam chamber main body portion goes and returns plural times along a first direction to be conveyed from an upper stage to a lower stage in the steam chamber main body portion. Further, in the multistage steaming machine, a steam pipe applies steam to the group of noodle strings conveyed at an upper stage portion of the steam chamber main body portion, and the group of noodle strings is conveyed to the lower stage.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2014Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: NISSIN FOODS HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takaaki Hibi, Shigeru Yasuda, Kohei Nomura, Mitsuru Tanaka
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Patent number: 10537954Abstract: A system and method to make a welder aware of contact tip-to-work distance (CTWD) during a welding process. One or both of welding output current and wire feed speed is sampled in real time during the welding process. The actual CTWD is determined in real time based on at least one or both of the sampled welding output current and wire feed speed. The actual CTWD may be compared to a target CTWD in real time, where the target CTWD represents an estimated or desired CTWD for the welding process. A deviation parameter may be generated based on the comparing. An indication of the deviation parameter or the actual CTWD may be provided to a welder performing the welding process as feedback, allowing the welder to adjust the actual CTWD to better match the target CTWD in real time during the welding process.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2013Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.Inventor: Joseph A. Daniel
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Patent number: 10537959Abstract: A consumable assembly for use in an arc welding apparatus is provided that includes a nozzle assembly having a nozzle body, an insulator disposed within the nozzle body, and a nozzle insert disposed within the insulator. The nozzle insert includes an internal gas diverter. A contact tip is disposed within the nozzle assembly and includes at least one aperture extending from an exterior portion to an internal cavity, an exit orifice, a distal end face, and an exterior surface extending between the at least one aperture and the distal end portion of the contact tip. The internal gas diverter directs a flow of shield gas exiting the at least one aperture along the exterior surface of the contact tip.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: Victor Equipment CompanyInventor: Khalid Hassan
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Patent number: 10525546Abstract: A welding apparatus is provided herein. The apparatus includes a wire source having welding wire, a wire feed drive, and a wire pulser. The wire feed drive drives the welding wire from the wire source. The wire pulser has a first end associated with the wire feed drive and a second end associated with a wire conduit. The wire is fed through the wire conduit to a wire nozzle. The wire pulser increase and decrease the effective length of the wire as the wire moves through the wire conduit from the wire feed drive to the wire nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2012Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: AZZ WSI LLCInventor: Mark Stoutamire
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Patent number: 10524605Abstract: A multistage steaming machine is configured such that a steam chamber main body portion in which steam is actually supplied to a group of noodle strings is provided with: a tunnel-shaped noodle introducing portion extending from the steam chamber main body portion in an obliquely downward direction; and a tunnel-shaped noodle discharging portion similarly extending from the steam chamber main body portion in an obliquely downward direction. A vertical position of an inlet end of the noodle introducing portion and a vertical position of an outlet end of the noodle discharging portion are lower than a vertical position of a lower end portion of the steam chamber main body portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2014Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: NISSIN FOODS HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Takaaki Hibi, Shigeru Yasuda, Kohei Nomura, Mitsuru Tanaka