Patents Examined by Steven J. Ganey
  • Multi-breakaway boom for agricultural machine
    Patent number: 11612159
    Abstract: A boom for an agricultural machine includes a first, second and third boom sections. The first boom section is connectable to a vehicle, and can support fluid delivery components. The second boom section operably connected to and is foldable with respect to the first boom section about a fold axis. The second boom section is further coupled to move with respect to the first boom other than about the fold axis from an extended position in response to an external force, and to return to the first extended position upon removal of the external force. The third boom section is operably connected to the second boom and having at least in an extended position. The third boom section is operably connected to move with respect to the second boom in response to a second external force, and operably connected to return to the extended position upon removal of the second external force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Exel Industries
    Inventor: Greg Long
  • Water-discharging machine
    Patent number: 11602652
    Abstract: Provided is a fire-fighting system that has a very simple structure with only a hose and a water discharge nozzle mounted on a vehicle, can bring the vehicle close to the fire site by automatic operation or remote control, and minimizes the occurrence of a water hammer when water is supplied. A hose reel is installed on a base which is installed on a vehicle, so as to be rotatable around a rotary shaft extending vertically, a hose having shape retaining property is spirally wound around the hose reel and around the rotary shaft, the lower end of the hose is connectable to a water discharge pump installed behind the vehicle, and the upper end of the hose passes through the rotary shaft of the hose reel and is connected to a water discharge nozzle installed at the upper position of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: ASHIMORI INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Azuma, Izumi Taniguchi
  • Flexible dry sprinkler
    Patent number: 11596822
    Abstract: A dry fire protection sprinkler has an inlet seal assembly to seal an inlet orifice. A spring seal compresses in response to a load. An inlet release unit releases the inlet seal assembly. A flexible tube has an inlet end connected to the inlet release unit. A flexible linkage extends through the flexible tube, and has an inlet end connected to the inlet release. An outlet biasing portion is connected to an outlet end of the tube and an outlet end of the linkage, which displaces upon activation of the sprinkler. A sprinkler body is connected to the outlet biasing portion, with an outlet seal assembly to seal its outlet orifice. When ambient reaches a predetermined temperature, the outlet seal assembly releases from the outlet orifice, and the outlet biasing portion displaces the linkage, causing the inlet of the linkage to operate the inlet release unit, releasing the inlet seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: The Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Co. Inc.
    Inventor: George S. Polan
  • Fire protection nozzle, fire protection sprinkler, fire protection systems, and methods of manufacturing a fire protection nozzle and a fire protection sprinkler
    Patent number: 11583714
    Abstract: A fire protection nozzle includes a body having two frame arms having proximal ends connected to an outlet of the body, and distal ends, the two frame arms defining a frame arm plane, and a junction formed by the distal ends of the frame arms, the junction including a central bore and an outer wall. A deflector is mounted to the body, and includes a planar member having a mounting hole in a center of the planar member to receive the outer wall of the junction, and a plurality of slots on a periphery of the planar member. The plurality of slots includes first slots, second slots, third slots, and fourth slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: The Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Co. Inc.
    Inventor: Oliver Pahila
  • Nozzle
    Patent number: 11548014
    Abstract: Nozzles for an air duct arrangement of an air conveying system may include a first outlet nozzle that is divided into a plurality of chambers are disclosed. The plurality of chambers formed by the outlet provide for a more uniform flow of air exiting the outlet, which generates a greater induced air flow in an associated section of duct. An orientation of a second outlet relative to an inlet of the nozzle provides for a reduced head loss within the nozzle, thereby providing for reduced backpressure within the nozzle and, consequently, a reduced power consumption associated with generating a desired airflow through the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Mahesh S. Mate, Shrikant Sadavarte, Nile T. Ackerman, Daniel J. Johannsen, Shubham Dubey
  • Machine for extinguishing fires
    Patent number: 11541259
    Abstract: A machine for extinguishing fires, using materials that are excavated and thrown directly from the ground includes a brush cutting module with knives and lateral panels, an excavating module comprising a cutter with spikes, and a throwing module formed by a flywheel mounted on a rotary shaft and provided with radial blades, allowing the excavated material to be thrown through openings in the throwing module. The position of the openings can be adjusted and the excavated materials can be thrown in one direction or another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Inventor: Maria Susana Abascal Rubio
  • Traveling vehicle
    Patent number: 11533901
    Abstract: A traveling vehicle includes a controller to control a posture of a work machine via a connector. The controller observes whether a farm field surface on which the traveling vehicle travels and the work machine maintain a predetermined positional relationship therebetween, and controls the posture of the work machine when a positional relationship between the farm field surface and the work machine changes from the predetermined positional relationship, so that the positional relationship thus changed is reset to the predetermined positional relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Ishikawa, Komei Yamawaki, Ryo Kurata
  • Systems and methods for improving fire safety in agricultural machinery
    Patent number: 11534635
    Abstract: Systems for improving fire safety in agricultural machinery are configured for detecting, at least partially controlling, and/or suppressing adverse fire-related conditions. The adverse fire-related conditions can include sparks, embers, and/or flames in the agricultural machinery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Suppression Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. Duncan, Kevin Scott Smith, Terry A. Spencer
  • Apparatus for dispensing flowable media and a method for operating an apparatus for dispensing flowable media
    Patent number: 11533900
    Abstract: An apparatus for spraying flowable media and in particular plant protection agents onto plants, has at least a first spray unit and a second spray unit wherein each of the spray units has a tubular conduit unit that extends in a predetermined longitudinal direction and is suitable and intended for conducting a flowable plant protection agent, and wherein each of the spray units has at least one spray head that is in flow communication with the conduit unit associated therewith. The spray units are provided in a pivotable manner in relation to a predetermined pivot axis on a carrier, and the apparatus has an adjustment unit that allows both the first spray unit and the second spray unit to be pivoted between a working position and an idle position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventors: Steffen Graef, Thomas Schenk, Martin Ziermann
  • Release agent spray system for temporary tape removal machine
    Patent number: 11534783
    Abstract: A release agent spray system for a vehicle that is used for removing temporary tape from pavement surfaces. The release agent spray system includes a reservoir containing a release agent, a pump for pumping release agent from the reservoir, and a handheld sprayer connected to the reservoir by a fluid conduit or tube and connected electrically to the pump. The handheld sprayer includes an activation switch for activating the pump to deliver release agent from the reservoir to the handheld sprayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventor: James P. Shea
  • Helicopter drizzle pipe
    Patent number: 11524191
    Abstract: The helicopter drizzle pipe allows for aerial wildfire suppression efforts in otherwise inaccessible areas. The pipe is balanced between the bottom legs of the helicopter as to prevent an imbalance or obstruction to the helicopter rotor blades. Along the bottom of the pipe are strategically placed holes to allow the liquid in the pipe to drizzle out at a constant speed over the whole length of the pipe, simulating rainfall. Due to the pipe's positioning, it is also very easy to remove from the helicopter for refilling or cleaning. Furthermore, the method by which the liquid drizzles from the pipe does not necessitate aircraft movement, thus functioning even when the helicopter hovers to thoroughly cover a specific area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventor: Susan Voggenthaler
  • Fire suppression system having a compound discharge nozzle
    Patent number: 11517778
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fire suppressant system for an aircraft having: a source of a fire suppressant; a tubing system for delivering the fire suppressant to one or more predetermined locations; and a discharge nozzle disposed in the one or more predetermined locations, the discharge nozzle connected to the tubing system for distributing the fire suppressant in the one or more predetermined locations during a fire, the discharge nozzle including a plurality of nozzle heads including a first nozzle head with a first flow area and a second nozzle head with a second flow area that differs from the first flow area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: KIDDE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Terry Simpson
  • Cartridge, method for operating the cartridge, water nozzle insert and outlet
    Patent number: 11517921
    Abstract: A cartridge for use in a showerhead or tap is designed for dispensing a liquid, in particular water or a water-based mixture. The cartridge comprises a set of at least two nozzles arranged to create colliding jets of the liquid and thereby create a spray of droplets of the liquid, and a spray shaper for guiding the spray. An inner diameter of the nozzles is between 0.8 and 1.5 millimetres, and a throat of each of the nozzles, along which the nozzle has a constant diameter, has a length that is at least three times this inner diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: GJOSA SA
    Inventors: Elmar Mock, Max Rousselet
  • Variable-flow-rate anti-clogging emitter and irrigation method thereof
    Patent number: 11511292
    Abstract: A variable-flow-rate anti-clogging emitter includes an upper casing and a lower casing, where the upper casing and the lower casing are fixedly connected with each other; the upper casing has a flat top surface provided with a water outlet and a bottom surface provided with a truncated conical slot in communication with the water outlet; the lower casing includes a flow channel portion and a discharging portion, which are recessed in an upper surface of the lower casing; the flow channel portion has one end provided with multiple parallel feeding channels and an other end communicated with the discharging portion; one end of a lower surface of the lower casing is provided with an L-shaped platform; water inlets of the multiple feeding channels are arranged on a side wall of the L-shaped platform; and an elastomer flow channel is fixedly provided between the upper casing and the lower casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventors: Jiandong Wang, Xurong Mei, Xuefeng Qiu, Haitao Wang, Chuanjuan Wang, Weiping Hao, Daozhi Gong, Haoru Li
  • Multi-purpose sprayer
    Patent number: 11511295
    Abstract: An improved multi-purpose sprayer for separately dispensing a first liquid product and a mixture with a spray head body is presented. The multi-purpose sprayer is operable by manually operating an actuator in a first flow position for selecting the flow of a first liquid product and a second flow position for selecting the flow of the first liquid product and the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventor: Shirley Holly
  • Applicator with a small nozzle distance
    Patent number: 11511291
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an applicator, in particular a printhead, for applying a coating agent, in particular a paint, to a component, in particular a motor vehicle body component or an add-on part for a motor vehicle body component, having at least one nozzle row with a plurality of nozzles for dispensing the coating agent in the form of a coating agent jet, the nozzles are arranged one behind the other in a nozzle plane along the nozzle row at a specific nozzle spacing, and having a plurality of actuators for controlling the release of coating agent through the individual nozzles, the actuators each having an outer dimension along the nozzle row. The disclosure provides that the nozzle distance between the adjacent nozzles of the nozzle row is smaller than the outer dimension of the individual actuators along the nozzle row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: DÜRR SYSTEMS AG
    Inventors: Hans-Georg Fritz, Benjamin Wöhr, Marcus Kleiner, Mortiz Bubek, Timo Beyl, Frank Herre, Steffen Sotzny, Daniel Tandler, Tobias Berndt
  • Active substance supply system for an agricultural sprayer
    Patent number: 11504728
    Abstract: An active substance supply system for an agricultural sprayer has a main liquid circuit which includes a reservoir for a main liquid and permits circulation of the main liquid, where the main liquid circuit includes one or more distribution sections which are each configured to distribute to several dispensing elements a spray liquid to be dispensed, and a feed system which is connected to the main liquid circuit and in which the main liquid is mixed with at least one separately supplied active substance to form a liquid active substance mixture, where the active substance supply system is configured to introduce the active substance mixture into the one or more distribution sections at several places.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventors: Timo Klemann, Christoph Kühn, Achim Dembeck, Johannes Feldhaus, Helmke Kalkmann, Mathias Stiegemeyer, Stefan Austermann
  • Tamper-resistant water distribution system and devices for waterpark
    Patent number: 11498009
    Abstract: A system for waterparks or other uses wherein the system combines an electric pump system that can draw water from a lake, a pool or the sea, and pump it through a hose system and sprinklers that can wet objects on or in the water such as a waterpark. It can be connected to floating platforms or other structures that can elevate the sprinklers off the water. The system features an inflatable platform that has an inflatable tower that allows a hose to extend from underwater, through the center of the tower, to a spray nozzle atop the tower that sprays water in any direction. The system can also be attached to any other waterpark structure with various fittings. This will allow a slow drip of water on some items so as to keep them slippery and wet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Connelly Skis, LLC
    Inventor: David C. Johnson
  • Cooling system and machining device
    Patent number: 11491599
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling system comprising a spray unit for spraying a coolant. The present invention further relates to a machining device which comprises a cooling system of this type. The spray unit comprises a flow guide which is coupled on one side to a chamber and is coupled on the other side to one or more channels, where the chamber, the flow guide and the plurality of channels form a closed system for spraying from the channels pressurized coolant fed to the chamber, where the flow guide, the plurality of elongated channels and the chamber are manufactured as an integral part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: KNOLL Maschinenbas GmbH
    Inventor: Adrianus Johannes Gerardus Maria Van Langh
  • Automatic agricultural equipment and automatic moving system
    Patent number: 11470833
    Abstract: An automatic agricultural machine according to the present invention includes: a fixed base disposed on farmland; a first-direction movement guide part installed on the fixed base so as to be spaced apart from the farmland; a first-direction movement trolley configured to travel on the first-direction movement guide part; and an automatic spraying device configured to travel on a second-direction movement guide part connected to the first-direction movement trolley, wherein traveling control of the first-direction movement trolley and winding control of the second-direction movement guide part are performed on the basis of at least any one of the trigonometric function principle and the Pythagorean theorem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventor: Myoung Soo Kang