Patents Examined by Michael Tolin
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Patent number: 11976471Abstract: A floor may include a substrate having a top side and a bottom side. A top layer may be provided on the substrate. The top layer may consist of a printed thermoplastic film and a thermoplastic transparent or translucent layer provided on the printed thermoplastic film. The top layer may be directly adhered to the substrate by heat welding the printed thermoplastic film and the top side of the substrate, in the absence of a glue layer. The substrate may be a synthetic material board including a filler. The substrate at least at two opposite edges may include coupling means provided in the synthetic material board. The thermoplastic transparent or translucent layer may be provided with a structure.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: UNILIN BVInventors: Laurent Meersseman, Martin Segaert
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Patent number: 11964460Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pulling rib and a pulling rib manufacturing process thereof and an inflatable product, relating to the technical field of inflatable products. The pulling rib manufacturing process includes the following steps: weaving a dense weaving region and a patterned weaving region in sequence according to preset sizes, wherein a weaving density of the patterned weaving region is lower than that of the dense weaving region; applying glue locally along a surface of the dense weaving region; and after applying the glue, cutting the dense weaving region according to requirements to form pulling ribs, wherein the patterned weaving region between any two adjacent sections of the dense weaving regions is the height of the pulling ribs.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: ZHEJIANG NATURAL OUTDOOR GOODS INC.Inventors: Yonghui Xia, Zhijian Ma, Mengzhi Zhou
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Patent number: 11958256Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of making at least a portion of a garment that includes at least one three-dimensional contour. The disclosed method includes providing a fiber and solvent mixture that includes fibers and a solvent capable to causing a plurality of covalent bonds to be created between the fibers. In many embodiments, the plurality of covalent bonds form when a catalyst, such as heat, is provided to the fiber and solvent mixture. The process can be performed using, for example, either a 3D printer or mold form. The fibers used can be natural, synthetic, or a blend of natural and/or synthetic fibers. The solvent preferably includes ionic salts in water.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Simplifyber, Inc.Inventors: Maria Intscher-Owrang, Philip Cohen, Yee Do Chun, Yizhou Sang, Svena Rui Xin Yu, William Benjamin Montgomery Tew
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Patent number: 11957252Abstract: A foam pad structure having a protective film includes a substrate layer, a hot glue layer, a printed pattern layer, and an adhesive film. The substrate layer is made of a foam material. The substrate layer has two surfaces arranged oppositely on its upper and lower sides. The hot glue layer is coated on at least one of the two surfaces of the substrate layer. The hot glue layer has an adhesive surface facing away from the substrate layer. The printed pattern layer is composed of a pigment containing the same composition as the hot glue layer. The printed pattern layer is printed on the adhesive surface of the hot glue layer. The hot glue layer and the printed pattern layer are melted between the substrate layer and the adhesive film.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Inventor: Hung Ya Wang
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Patent number: 11945979Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite product, comprising: —applying a binder composition, notably in the form of an aqueous solution, to non or loosely assembled matter to provide resinated matter, wherein the binder composition consists of a binder composition prepared by combining reactants comprising at least 50% by dry weight reducing sugar reactant(s) and at least 5% by dry weight nitrogen-containing reactant(s); and—arranging the resinated matter to provide loosely arranged resinated matter; and—subjecting the loosely arranged resinated matter to heat and/or pressure to cure the binder composition and to form the composite product; —wherein the nitrogen-containing reactant(s) comprise TPTA triprimary triamine(s), notably wherein the nitrogen-containing reactant(s) comprise at least 5% by dry weight of TPTA triprimary triamine(s).Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: Knauf Insulation, Inc., Knauf Insulation SPRLInventors: Carl Hampson, Oliver Callaghan
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Patent number: 11946584Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a self-molding composite system for insulation and covering operations. The self-molding composite system may be cured to form any desired shaped for insulation and covering operations. The composite system comprises one or more layers that may create a rigid layered composite when cured. The one or more layers of the composite system may include a base layer that is a braided, knit, or non-woven fiber based substrate, an interstitial matrix layer, and customizable top coat. The customizable top coat may be a solvent based polymer solution that includes various additives that may include color pigments, additives for additional abrasion protection, additives for thermal protection, and/or additives for creating various textures or visible appearances to the composite system.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NELSON GLOBAL PRODUCTS, INC.Inventor: Robert Jacque Goulet
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Patent number: 11938656Abstract: A method of manufacturing an impregnated fibrous material including a fibrous material made of continuous fibers and at least one thermoplastic polymer matrix, the method including pre-impregnating the fibrous material while it is in the form of a roving or several parallel rovings with the thermoplastic material and heating the thermoplastic matrix for melting, or maintaining in the molten state, the thermoplastic polymer after pre-impregnation, the at least one heating step being carried out by means of at least one heat-conducting spreading part (E) and at least one heating system, with the exception of a heated calendar, the roving or the rovings being in contact with part or all of the surface of the at least one spreading part (E) and partially or wholly passing over the surface of the at least one spreading part (E) at the level of the heating system.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: ARKEMA FRANCEInventors: Gilles Hochstetter, Mathieu Capelot, Thibaut Savart, Arthur Pierre Babeau, Denis Huze, François Tanguy, Patrice Gaillard
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Patent number: 11931233Abstract: An absorbent article includes a first waist region, a second waist region, and a crotch region disposed between the first and second waist regions; and a chassis having a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core positioned between the topsheet and the backsheet. The article also includes a side panel having an ultrasonically bonded, gathered laminate. The laminate has an elastomeric layer and a substrate and is joined to the chassis at a chassis attachment bond and positioned in one of the first or second waist regions. The ultrasonically bonded, gathered laminate also includes an ear structural feature comprising a surface modification to the substrate and comprising at least one of the following: embossing, apertures, perforations, slits, melted material or coatings, compressed material, secondary bonds that are disposed apart from a chassis attachment bond, plastic deformation, and folds.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Sally Lin Kilbacak, Donald Carroll Roe, Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, Uwe Schneider, Michael Devin Long, Michael Brian Quade, Jason Edward Naylor, Jeffry Rosiak, Stephen Joseph Lange, Urmish Popatlal Dalal, Christopher Krasen, Todd Douglas Lenser
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Patent number: 11932542Abstract: A large-area wrinkled graphene substrate capable of being manufactured in a large-area, and a method for manufacturing the same is provided. A method for manufacturing a wrinkled graphene substrate includes: i) providing a graphene unit; ii) inserting a carrier film and a graphene unit between a pair of rolls and rotating the pair of rolls in opposite directions to attach a carrier film on the graphene unit, iii) immersing the graphene unit in an etching solution to provide graphene, iv) between a pair of rolls, graphene and poly(4-styrene sulfonic acid)/polystyrene (PSS/PS) substrate attaching graphene onto the PSS/PS substrate, v) attaching an ethylene vinyl acetate/polyethylene terephthalate (EVA/PET) substrate to wrinkled graphene on PSS/PS substrate by inserting EVA/PET and WGr/PSS/PS stack between the rolls, viii) removing the PSS/PS substrate by immersing PET/EVA/WGr/PSS/PS stack in water, and ix) providing a wrinkled graphene substrate on the EVA/PET substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCEInventors: Prashant Narute, Seong-Gu Hong
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Patent number: 11926071Abstract: A filler material is applied to a plurality of wood elements. The plurality of wood elements is bonded into a composite wood product, where the bonding includes delivering ultrasound energy to the plurality of wood elements. The ultrasound energy has a frequency within a frequency range of 10 kHz-20 MHz.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Inventor: Bobak Ha'Eri
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Patent number: 11904496Abstract: A process for the production of OSB wood-based panels including: a) producing wood strands from suitable wood logs; b) treating at least part of the wood strands with steam at a temperature between 80° C. and 120° C. and a pressure between 0.5 bar and 2 bar; c) drying the steam-treated wood strands; d) gluing the steam-treated and dried wood strands and, optionally, gluing the non-steam treated wood strands with at least one binder; e) scattering the glued wood strands onto a conveyor belt; and f) pressing the glued wood strands into an OSB wood-based board. The steam treatment takes place after the wood strands have been produced and made available, or after the wood strands have been sifted and separated according to the use of the wood strands for the middle and top layers of the panel. Also, an OSB wood-based panel made using the process.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SWISS KRONO Tec AGInventor: Norbert Kalwa
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Patent number: 11903801Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing an elastic composite structure for an absorbent sanitary product includes an anvil with weld pattern comprising at least one anchoring region and at least one deactivating region. The anchoring region includes anchoring welds that form anchoring bonds that fuse facing web layers and anchor elastic thread(s) in position relative to the facing web layers. The deactivating region includes a break bar constructed to sever the thread(s). A method of manufacturing the elastic composite structure includes positioning a tensioned elastic thread between web layers, fusing the web layers to form an anchored zone that includes anchoring bonds that fuse the web layers and anchor the tensioned elastic thread therebetween, and cutting the thread to form a deactivated zone between adjacent portions of the anchored zone that is free of tensioned threads. The method further includes fusing the web layers within the deactivated zone.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Curt G. Joa, Inc.Inventors: Robert Earl Andrews, David Edward Schuette, Jeffrey Wayne Fritz, Justin Marshall Lafferty
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Patent number: 11909027Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electrode disclosed herein includes: steps of forming a coating film composed of an electrode material by passing the electrode material through a gap between a rotating first roll and a rotating second roll; adhering the coating film to the second roll and conveying the coating film; and transferring the conveyed coating film onto an electrode current collector conveyed by a conveying device to form an electrode mixture layer composed of the coating film. The speed ratio between a peripheral speed of the second roll and a conveying speed of the electrode current collector is changed by changing the peripheral speed of the second roll on the basis of the thickness of the coating film or the width of the gap. The timing of the change in the speed ratio is allowed to be based on the Equation (1) described in the description.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya Mimura, Katsushi Enokihara
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Patent number: 11904786Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an interior material for a vehicle and a method for molding the interior material for the vehicle, and more specifically the method for molding an interior material for a vehicle according to the present disclosure includes heating a skin inserted into an upper end heater and a lower end heater spaced apart from each other; preforming the heated skin using an upper mold having a mold temperature set to have a set shape and a lower mold having a second mold temperature; and pressing the preformed skin and a core using a 1-1 mold and a 1-2 mold having set mold temperatures.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, KBI DONGKOOK IND. CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae Hyun An, In Soo Han, Woo Hyun Lim, Kyu Ha Yoo, Dong Il Son, Dong Hyuk Choi, Chang Woo Kang, Chang Bok Park, Wan Gyu Choi
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Patent number: 11897212Abstract: A glazing panel repair device (1) has coupling means (27) for coupling a pump arrangement (22) to the device to provide holding suction to secure the device to the glazing panel and pressure cycling to a repair zone. In one embodiment, the coupling means is for coupling a single pump to provide holding suction to secure the device to the glazing panel and pressure cycling to a repair zone.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Belron International LimitedInventor: Paul Syfko
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Patent number: 11891548Abstract: A tube used or medical or other purposes is concentrically bonded to an inner lining tube by sequentially inserting a core within the inner lining tube, creating an adhesive layer on the outer surface of the inner lining tube, inserting the inner lining tube and core into the lumen of the outer tube, and then activating the adhesive to bond the inner tune to the outer tube before removing the core.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: MDCM SOLUTIONS, LLCInventors: Scott T. Johnson, Frank Smaron, Steve Leseman
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Patent number: 11884115Abstract: The reinforcing structure for a tire is in the form of a stratified assembly formed of two layers of reinforcing strips of completely connected cross section, and flattened in shape. According to the method, the strips of each layer are laid side by side in a main direction of laying. The strips of the first layer are spaced apart by a distance that is less than the width of the strips of the second layer and in such a way that the edges of the strips of the first layer overlap the edges of the strips of the second layer. The two layers of strips are separated by a layer of uncoupling rubber.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELINInventors: Thomas Fabre, Frédéric Pialot, Bertrand Boisdon
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Patent number: 11885119Abstract: A composite fire-rated gasket for use in building construction is disclosed that comprises, in a multi-layered stacked configuration, the following elements: (1) a flexible flat sheet metal strip having a width and opposing first and second faces; (2) an intumescent strip adjacent to the first face of the sheet metal strip; (3) a first foamed plastic strip adjacent to the second face of the sheet metal strip; (4) a second foamed plastic layer adjacent to the intumescent strip; and (5) an elongated non-foamed protective material layer adjacent to the second foamed plastic layer. In a preferred embodiment, the flat metal strip is in the form of a spine having a plurality of ribs outwardly extending therefrom. The composite fire-rated gaskets and related building construction assemblies disclosed herein slow and impede the spread of fire and smoke (during a fire) and also reduces sound transmission between adjacent rooms in a building.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Inventor: James Alan Klein
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Patent number: 11865746Abstract: In a composite sheet manufacturing device, a second roller having a plurality of first projections and a third roller are disposed so as to be adjacent to a first roller having multiple recessed areas. The outer diameters of the first and third rollers are the same size. The third roller is joined to the first roller with a first gear pair therebetween, so as to rotate at the same rotation frequency as that of the first roller. A first sheet that is fed in between the first roller and the second roller is shaped by being pushed into the recessed areas of the first roller by the first projections of the second roller. A second sheet is then superimposed onto the first sheet and is passed through the space between the first roller and the third roller, and the first and second sheets are thereby bonded to each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: ZUIKO CORPORATIONInventor: Takahito Manabe
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Patent number: 11845215Abstract: A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object includes: a first step of forming a first portion of the three-dimensional shaped object by discharging a shaping material containing a resin from a discharge portion toward a stage or a previously formed layer and pressing the discharged shaping material against a tip end surface of the discharge portion; a heating step of heating the first portion to a temperature less than a glass transition temperature of the resin; and a second step of forming a second portion of the three-dimensional shaped object by discharging the shaping material from the discharge portion toward the first portion heated in the heating step and pressing the discharged shaping material against the tip end surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kenta Anegawa, Daizo Aoyagi, Yusuke Watanabe