Patents Examined by Robert K Nichols, II
  • Patent number: 11865754
    Abstract: A molding material supply device and a molding material supply method capable of supplying a degassed molding material to a molding apparatus at a desired timing are desired. According to the molding material supply device and method of the disclosure, a first discharge member is driven to discharge a molding material accommodated in a first accommodation member to a second discharge member through a through hole of a die, and a second discharge member configured by the first accommodation member and the die advances to discharge the molding material having been degassed in the second accommodation member to the molding apparatus from a molding material supply port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Morikawa
  • Patent number: 11857126
    Abstract: A dispenser bottle containing liquid may be mounted to a wall by a mounting assembly including a base and a carriage plate. Amounting bracket may be anchored to the wall and the carriage plate is coupled to the mounting bracket and is spring biased toward an extended configuration relative to the mounting bracket. A release pin maintains the carriage plate and base in a retracted configuration. A collar projects from an upper end of the mounting bracket to capture a neck of the bottle. A projection extends upwardly from the base and into a socket on the bottom of the bottle when seated on the base. The combination of the mating socket and projection at the base and the collar around the neck of the bottle inhibits removal of the bottle from the mounting assembly when in the retracted configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Cintas Corporate Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard R. Bing, Megan Kathryn Helms, David Steven Mesko, Michael E. Berger, Adem Önalan, Marco C. Perry
  • Patent number: 11852247
    Abstract: A dispenser includes a housing, an inverted container disposed in the housing, a outlet nozzle, a pump, a first check valve, and a second check valve. The pump is disposed between the container and the outlet nozzle. The pump includes a pump inlet a pump outlet, and a pump chamber. The pump chamber is movable between an expanded position and a compressed position. The first check valve is disposed between the pump and the outlet nozzle, and the first check valve has a first cracking pressure. The second check valve is disposed between the first check valve and the outlet nozzle, and the second check valve has a second cracking pressure. The second cracking pressure of the second check valve is greater than the first cracking pressure of the first check valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: GOJO Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. McNulty, Donald R. Harris, Nick E. Ciavarella, Daniel M. Willis, Aaron D. Marshall
  • Patent number: 11845643
    Abstract: Among other things, beverages are dispensed from one or more beverage dispensers based on selections made by users. Information about the dispensing of the beverages is sent to a central server where it is used to manage a variety of functions including replacement of depleted supplies of components. Various features of the beverage dispensers enable the beverages that are dispensed to be uniform and appealing to users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Hydration Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Wing, Yvan De Boeck, Sean Grundy, Elizabeth Becton, Frank Lee
  • Patent number: 11821415
    Abstract: An embodiment system and method for dispensing multiple dairy products includes a dispenser which houses two or more dairy product bases with different formulations, which may be combined with or without water to create a multitude of homogenous dairy beverages. The two or more dairy product bases may be mixed together first and then separately mixed with water, mixed together simultaneously with water, or mixed together without adding water. They may be mixed together with or without additional flavoring, ingredients, mineral or nutritional additives. The dispenser comprises a pump with a quick-release mechanism to allow for quick and clean maintenance of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: fairlife, LLC
    Inventors: Gerald Dobbins, Timothy Peter Doelman, John Hengesbach, Brett Malsom
  • Patent number: 11806708
    Abstract: A droplet dispenser comprises a chamber (3) with a fluid inlet valve (2) and a fluid outlet valve (4). The chamber (3) is arranged such that the volume of the chamber may be varied in use to cause fluid to be alternately drawn in to the chamber (3) through the inlet valve (2) then subsequently expelled from the chamber through the outlet valve (4) to dispense a droplet. The droplet dispenser is capable of dispensing from an open reservoir and one may change the dispensed drop volume simply and easily. The droplet dispenser can also handle liquids which are normally seen as difficult to dispense, such as cyanoacrylate adhesives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TTP Plc
    Inventor: Adrian Woodward
  • Patent number: 11800957
    Abstract: An air-assisted, gravity feed amenity fluid dispensing system suitable for use with personal care fluids. The system may be embodied in a fluid dispenser including a support structure attachable to a support surface such as a wall and an openable canister supported by the support structure. The canister defines an internal cavity configured for inserting a recyclable container pre-packaged with the personal care fluid, and a fluid dispensing mechanism including an air pump configured to pressurize and dispense the fluid from the container through a dispensing hole in the canister. The air pump may be manually-operated in one embodiment to pump air into the container and dispense fluid each time a user depresses an actuator button. The personal care fluid may alternatively be filled directly into the canister without use of an insertable fluid container. Plural canisters each containing different fluids may be supported by the support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Inventor: Salvatore Sisto
  • Patent number: 11787591
    Abstract: A composition container is described. The composition container includes an interior portion to contain a composition. A recess along a back surface of the composition container promotes the collapse of the composition container along the back surface. A number of reinforcing ribs on the front surface of the composition container promote the preservation of the front surface of the composition container during collapse of the composition container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Gregory Schriner
  • Patent number: 11759084
    Abstract: A hard surface cleaning and conditioning assembly is provided that includes a pole having a lower section and an upper section; an adjusting device securing the upper and lower sections to one another in a telescoping manner; a tool depending from the lower section; a conditioning agent dispensing device depending from the lower section; a trigger depending from the upper section; and a telescoping trigger assembly operatively connecting the dispensing device to the trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Unger Marketing International, LLC
    Inventors: William Harrington, John A. Triunfo, Jr., Paul H. Adams, Robert F. Smith, Joseph K. Patterson
  • Patent number: 11759797
    Abstract: A liquid dispenser having a liquid reservoir and a discharge head secured thereto, an outlet valve with a pressure chamber and an opposite valve chamber. The liquid reservoir and the valve chamber are each connected at least in phases to a surrounding atmosphere by a ventilation channel. The two channels provided for this purpose, the reservoir ventilation channel and the valve ventilation channel, are separate channels with separate inlets on an outer face of the discharge head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: APTAR RADOLFZELL GMBH
    Inventor: Jürgen Greiner-Perth
  • Patent number: 11740255
    Abstract: A system includes a droplet actuator having a droplet-operation gap between top and bottom substrates, a reservoir(s) external to and coupled to the droplet actuator, the reservoir(s) sized for a large-volume fluid, and pressure source(s) external to the droplet actuator and coupled to the at least one reservoir. Operation of the system includes filling the reservoir(s) with a large volume of fluid(s), dispensing droplet(s) of the fluid(s) to the droplet-operation gap using the pressure source(s) as part of performing a droplet operation(s). Movement of the droplet(s) may be effectuated by activating the droplet actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.
    Inventors: Jennifer Olivia Foley, Darren Segale, Cyril Delattre
  • Patent number: 11731150
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tubeless dispenser container. A tubeless dispenser container according to one aspect of the invention is a tubeless dispenser container for dispensing a content held in a filling space and includes: a bottle part in which the filling space is formed and which has a supply hole, for allowing a flow of the content, and an air hole, for allowing an inflow of air, formed in its upper surface; a connector part coupled to an upper portion of the bottle part to spatially separate the supply hole from the air hole; and a pump part that is secured to a designated position of the connector part and configured to suction and dispense the content supplied through the supply hole, where a supply channel connecting a lower portion of the filling space with the supply hole may be formed in the bottle part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SAMHWA CO., LTD
    Inventor: Kyungchang Lee
  • Patent number: 11724221
    Abstract: A liquid dispenser station includes a liquid dispenser configured to dispense liquid that passes through a filter. The filter is disposed within the liquid dispenser station. The liquid dispenser has an access door to provide access to the filter. The filter includes a key to open the access door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL DISTRIBUTION INC.
    Inventors: Richard B. Leeds, Bruce Zutler, Phillip Lee
  • Patent number: 11717622
    Abstract: The inhalation device for medically active liquids (F) for generation of an aerosol comprises a housing (1), a reservoir (2), a pumping device with a pumping chamber (3), and a nozzle (6), wherein the interior volume of the pumping chamber (3) is changeable by means of linear relative motion of the pumping chamber to the riser pipe (5). Said linear relative motion can be effected by a relative rotation of a rotatable part (1A) which is part of, or connected to, the housing (1) with respect to a second part (1B) of said housing (1), in that said relative rotation can be transferred by means of a gear mechanism into said relative translational motion. A means for the storage of potential energy (7) is provided which is chargeable by means of said relative rotation, and wherein said energy is releasable to said pumping device when released by activation of a release means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SOFTHALE NV
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Jürgen Rawert
  • Patent number: 11720775
    Abstract: A dispenser with a replaceable cartridge containing a product to be dispensed, and a housing configured to removably receive the cartridge. The cartridge has a surface that is marked with a first marking, and the housing has a surface that is marked with a second marking. The housing is configured so that, when the cartridge is received by the housing, the first marking and the second marking together form a machine readable code that is detectable from outside of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: OP-HYGIENE IP GMBH
    Inventors: Heiner Ophardt, David Duncan, Hendrik Ophardt
  • Patent number: 11707762
    Abstract: A dispensing system for a rotary dispensing machine includes a tank, a fill tube, and a piston that moves along the fill tube and defines an air chamber and a fluid chamber within the tank. The tank is rotatable relative to the fill tube. A fluid is dispensed from the fluid chamber of the tank through at least one outlet formed in the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Alfons Haar, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Emmanuel Carstens, Stephen B. Turner
  • Patent number: 11701680
    Abstract: An application device for a viscous adhesive comprising a base body having a first inlet for a viscous adhesive; and a nozzle body which is rotatable about an axis with respect to the base body and which surrounds a portion of the base body radially on the outside with respect to the axis, wherein, via the interaction of a first dynamic seal with a separating agent chamber, in which a separating agent is stored, the introduction of humidity into the adhesive before it exits the nozzle opening is effectively prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: EXEL INDUSTRIES SA
    Inventor: Markus Schmitz
  • Patent number: 11702269
    Abstract: A Container For Consumable Liquids Having Chambers For Separating Ingredients And A Mixing Chamber, which is a unitary modular fluid container with a multitude of components, whereby, the segmented contents, such as alcohol, may be combined through an apparatus of mixing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventors: Brian Joseph, Aaron Wierenga, Francis Shields
  • Patent number: 11685591
    Abstract: An interface ring which is the interface between a container and an applicator comprising a circular socket with a plurality of laterally extending protrusions, a cylindrical thread being arranged above the socket, a central cylindrical opening extending through the interface ring in the centre of the thread and the socket wherein the thread presents a plurality of interruptions extending axially from the socket to the upper end of the thread, the interruptions dividing the thread into thread portions. It is an object of the present invention to provide an optimized interface ring. In order to achieve this object, the interface ring comprises deformable vertical ribs laterally extending mostly parallel to the radial axis of the interface ring wherein the deformable ribs deform when the interface ring is mounted on the outer rim of the cup of a valve or by other means on to the container. An interface ring with an increased grip of the interface ring on the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Altachem NV
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Poppe, Wouter Halfmaerten
  • Patent number: 11673786
    Abstract: Various aspects of the invention described herein relate to a removable connector assembly, and methods of use and manufacture thereof. More particularly, certain embodiments relate to apparatus and methods to provide a connection to a spout disposed upon a container, such as upon a bag holding fluid. Embodiments of connector assemblies comprise an elongated outer housing, an inner housing, and a slider assembly for moving the outer surface of the sleeve member over the inner surface of the outer housing wall in a lengthwise motion to position the spout connector upon the spout and secure the spout connector in said position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Ourip Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: Simon Edwards