Patents Examined by Spencer E Bell
  • Patent number: 11976410
    Abstract: A clothes treatment apparatus includes a cabinet, a door, and a steam unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a heat pump unit that is located in the cycle chamber and that is configured to circulate and condition air in the treatment chamber. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a water supply tank that is installed in the tank installation space, that is connected to the steam unit, and that is configured to supply water to the steam unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a drainage tank that is separably installed in the tank installation space, that is configured to store condensed water generated in at least one of the treatment chamber or the heat pump unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a water supply level sensor. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a drainage level sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunghoo Park, Youngjin Doh, Hyoungsup Park
  • Patent number: 11970806
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dyeing machine (1) having at least one each vertical guides (24) positioned at the two sides of at least one body (20) for realizing dyeing during wrapping of the yarn (223) from at least one first bobbin (21) to the second bobbin (22), at least one sprayer drive mechanism (17) which can move vertically on said vertical guide (24), at least one bobbin carrier (224), at least one drum (23) which contacts the surface of said second bobbin (22) positioned on said bobbin carrier (224), at least one first drive element (231) where said drum (23) is connected from one side for providing movement of said drum (23), at least one fourth drive element (171) for moving said sprayer drive mechanism (17), at least one sprayer (16) which realizes dyeing while the yarn (223), positioned on said sprayer drive mechanism (17), is wrapped onto the second bobbin (22), and at least one pump (14) connected to at least one dye kier (11) for obtaining the dye needed by said sprayer (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HABIBE YILDIZ ARIFIOGLU
    Inventor: Habibe Yildiz Arifioglu
  • Patent number: 11965282
    Abstract: A clothes treatment apparatus includes a cabinet, a door, and a steam unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a heat pump unit that is located in the cycle chamber and that is configured to circulate and condition air in the treatment chamber. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a water supply tank that is installed in the tank installation space, that is connected to the steam unit, and that is configured to supply water to the steam unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a drainage tank that is separably installed in the tank installation space, that is configured to store condensed water generated in at least one of the treatment chamber or the heat pump unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a water supply level sensor. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a drainage level sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunghoo Park, Youngjin Doh, Hyoungsup Park
  • Patent number: 11965281
    Abstract: A clothes treatment apparatus includes a cabinet, a door, and a steam unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a heat pump unit that is located in the cycle chamber and that is configured to circulate and condition air in the treatment chamber. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a water supply tank that is installed in the tank installation space, that is connected to the steam unit, and that is configured to supply water to the steam unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a drainage tank that is separably installed in the tank installation space, that is configured to store condensed water generated in at least one of the treatment chamber or the heat pump unit. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a water supply level sensor. The clothes treatment apparatus further includes a drainage level sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sunghoo Park, Youngjin Doh, Hyoungsup Park
  • Patent number: 11946187
    Abstract: A washing machine includes a cabinet, a door, a tub provided within the cabinet, a wireless communication module provided within the cabinet, and a controller in operative communication with the wireless communication module. The controller is configured to perform a series of operations, including receiving an initiation signal for a laundry operation to be performed by the washing machine appliance; sending a wake-up signal to a mobile electronic device via the wireless communication module in response to receiving the initiation signal; emitting a laundry operation trigger prior to initiating the laundry operation; determining that the mobile device is within a predetermined distance from the washing machine appliance in response to generating the laundry operation trigger; and receiving a confirmation signal before beginning the laundry operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Fikreadam Abebe Damtew, Senthil Kandasamy
  • Patent number: 11945415
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted sensor cleaning device cleans a sensing surface of a vehicle-mounted sensor. The vehicle-mounted sensor cleaning device includes a gas nozzle spraying a gas toward the sensing surface, a gas supply device supplying the gas to the gas nozzle, and a control section controlling operation of the gas supply device. A predetermined value is set in the control section, for indicating an abnormal state of detection accuracy of the vehicle-mounted sensor based on detection accuracy information of an object which is obtained from the vehicle-mounted sensor. A gas supply threshold value is also set, for use in operating the gas supply device to direct a supply of the gas toward the sensing surface before the detection accuracy information becomes equal to or lower than the predetermined value. If the detection accuracy information has become lower than the gas supply threshold value, the control section operates the gas supply device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Hayashi, Kohei Toyama
  • Patent number: 11945010
    Abstract: A system and method for removing a coating from an excavated pipe section includes impacting liquid jects against the coating and collecting a mixture of the liquid and debris of the removed coating. The mixture is subjected to active separation and passive separation to capture the debris, wherein the debris can be appropriately disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LMC INDUSTRIAL CONTRACTORS, INC.
    Inventor: Lawrence D. Mehlenbacher
  • Patent number: 11938906
    Abstract: A cleaning apparatus, optimized for cleaning optical and optoelectronic sensor devices in motor vehicles, comprising a housing, and a reciprocating piston movable in a pressure-controlled manner in the housing and movable from a retracted position into a deployed position along an actuation axis is disclosed. The reciprocating piston has an inner channel to transport a cleaning fluid through the reciprocating piston to a spray nozzle. A miniaturized, easily and inexpensively producible cleaning apparatus which makes possible exact and precise orientation of the cleaning jet, quick operational readiness, reduced tendency for follow-up flow of the cleaning fluid, and improved adaptability to different installation positions, is also disclosed. In an embodiment at least the cleaning apparatus has at least one guide to prevent rotation of the reciprocating piston about the actuation axis during its entire stroke, the at least one guide means arranged at least regionally in the inner channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Ringler, Stefan Schäckel, Reiner Krauße, Ilja Prygunkov
  • Patent number: 11932209
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and system for protecting the operation of a train under an air pollution environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Central South University
    Inventors: Hui Liu, Chao Chen, Guangxi Yan, Zhihao Long
  • Patent number: 11921208
    Abstract: A sensor apparatus includes a first sensing device, a sensor housing, a bracket, a second sensor, and a channel plate. The sensor housing includes a first sensor window and a top panel, and the first sensing device has a field of view through the first sensor window. The bracket is mounted on top of the top plate. The second sensor is held by the bracket and includes a second sensor window. The channel plate is fixed to the bracket. The bracket includes a first nozzle aimed at the first sensor window and a second nozzle aimed at the second sensor window. The bracket includes a channel fluidly connected to the first nozzle and the second nozzle. The channel plate covers the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Robertson, Jr., Raghuraman Surineedi, Venkatesh Krishnan, Tyler D. Hamilton, Kunal Singh, Shibu Koyadan Chathoth
  • Patent number: 11918755
    Abstract: A patency system for maintaining a patency of an indwelling medical device including an elongated shaft configured to be at least partially received within a portion of the indwelling medical device, and at least one cleaner configured to at least partially dislodge debris formed within the indwelling medical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: VERSAGO VASCULAR ACCESS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven J. Tallarida, John M. Butziger, Richard P. Rodgers
  • Patent number: 11920278
    Abstract: A washing machine includes a casing, a tub, a drum, a pump for sending water discharged from the tub, a gasket connecting an input port of the casing to an opening of the tub and having nozzles for spraying water into the drum, and a nozzle water supply pipe fixed to the gasket configured to guide water introduced through the opening into a first sub-flow and a second sub-flow. The nozzle water pipe includes first nozzle water supply ports, formed on a first flow path to which the first sub-flow is guided, for supplying the first sub-flow to any two or more nozzles among the plurality of nozzles, and second nozzle water supply ports, formed on a second flow path to which the second sub-flow is guided, for supplying the second sub-flow to other two or more nozzles among the plurality of nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hwanjin Jung, Myunghun Im, Junghoon Lee, Kyungchul Woo, Jaehyun Kim, Hyundong Kim
  • Patent number: 11889967
    Abstract: A sliding-pivoting mechanism of a shelf of a piece of furniture or household appliance includes two pivot arms pivotally secured to a body and forming a parallel guide for a pull-out guide having at least one guide rail and a running rail. A locking mechanism is arranged on the guide rail and on one of the pivot arms for preventing a simultaneous pivoting and sliding movement. The locking mechanism has a locking pin moveably arranged on one of the pivot arms, and a locking plate mounted stationarily relative to the guide rail and with which the locking pin cooperates in such a way that a pivoting of the pivot arm is blocked when the shelf is raised into an upper loading and unloading position. An unlocking device is coupled to the locking mechanism and includes an actuation element and an unlocking element, with which the locking pin can be moved out of a blocking position into a release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Paul Hettich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Oscar Garcia, Ander Martinez, Patrick Bon, Thomas Wieder
  • Patent number: 11878330
    Abstract: A device and assembly for a cleaning adapter to be placed in an air/water port of an endoscopic device is described. The device can have a button to control a valve stem with openings to permit the control of air and water flow, depending on the position of the cleaning adapter, which a user controls. A method and system are also described. A tag is also described, instructing the users of the proper use of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: United States Endoscopy Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Raphael Still, Christopher J. Kaye, Gary Mann, Joseph Mrva, Matt Carroll
  • Patent number: 11881419
    Abstract: A substrate processing method includes a substrate holding step of holding a substrate in a horizontal attitude, a chemical liquid supply step of supplying a chemical liquid to a main surface of the substrate while rotating the substrate around a vertical rotational axis that passes through a central portion of the substrate, a processing-height maintaining step of maintaining a cylindrical first guard that captures a chemical liquid expelled from the substrate at a processing height position in parallel with the chemical liquid supply step, and a cleaning-height maintaining step of maintaining the first guard at a cleaning height position set below the processing height position in parallel with the chemical liquid supply step after the processing-height maintaining step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventors: Toru Endo, Masayuki Hayashi, Nobuyuki Shibayama
  • Patent number: 11872963
    Abstract: A motor vehicle has a passenger compartment, a tank designed to contain a wiper fluid and a dispensing device, which is connected to the tank and is operable to dispense and/or spray the wiper fluid on a transparent wall, for example on a windshield; the motor vehicle further has a filling device provided with at least one duct to feed the wiper fluid into the tank; said duct having an inlet that is arranged in the passenger compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: FCA ITALY S.p.A.
    Inventors: Alberto Dilillo, Andreas Wuppinger, Michele Longo, Daniele Calonaci
  • Patent number: 11872964
    Abstract: This vehicle cleaner unit is provided with: a cylinder unit comprising a cylinder which forms a chamber, a discharge port through which the chamber opens to the outside, and a piston which reciprocates inside of the cylinder and discharges from the discharge port a cleaning medium inside of the chamber; a power unit comprising a motor, a power transmission mechanism which transmits rotary motion of the motor to the piston to cause the piston to reciprocate, and a housing which houses the motor and the power transmission mechanism; and a casing which houses the cylinder unit and the power unit. The cylinder unit and the power unit are supported by the casing with rubber members interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Kondo
  • Patent number: 11866867
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a laundry treatment machine. The laundry treatment machine according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a controller configured to increase or decrease stepwise a speed of a motor during dewatering. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce a speed ripple during dewatering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jungmoon Je, Kiwook Lee
  • Patent number: 11866871
    Abstract: A washing machine includes a casing, a tub, a drum, a pump, a gasket that is arranged between a case opening and a tub opening and that includes first nozzles and second nozzles, and a water pipe assembly that includes: first nozzle ports affixed to the first nozzles, second nozzle ports affixed to the second nozzles, a first conduit, and a second conduit. The gasket further includes port insertion pipes into which the first and second nozzle ports are inserted. Each of the first and second nozzle ports includes at least one press-fit protrusion that is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the nozzle supply port and that is configured to, in a state in which the nozzle supply port is inserted into a corresponding port insertion pipe, maintain contact with an inner circumferential surface of the port insertion pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Junghoon Lee, Kyungchul Woo, Jaehyun Kim, Myunghun Im, Hwanjin Jung
  • Patent number: 11854793
    Abstract: A semiconductor wafer cleaning apparatus is provided. The semiconductor wafer cleaning apparatus includes a spin base, a spindle, a clamping member, and a first sealing ring. The spin base has a through hole and a flange. The spindle extends through the through hole. The clamping member covers the through hole and is connected to the spindle. The clamping member includes a mounting part. The first sealing ring is disposed under the clamping member. A top surface of the first sealing ring and a top surface of the flange are in contact with a bottom surface of the mounting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Chia-Lun Chen, Po-Jen Shih, Ming-Sung Hung, Wen-Hung Hsu