Patents Examined by Tu B. Hoang
  • Patent number: 11963636
    Abstract: A turkey cooking device comprises a base, a burner, a gas supply device, a turkey pot, a temperature control device disposed on the base or the burner, and a safety valve disposed on the burner. The burner and the turkey pot are disposed on the base. The burner is located below the turkey pot and connected to the gas supply device. The temperature control device comprises a temperature controller, which abuts against the outer circumferential wall of the turkey pot, is electrically connected to the safety valve and controls the burner to open or close through the safety valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LOCO—CRAZY GOOD COOKERS, INC.
    Inventors: Weidong Jin, Blake Levien, McDonald Plummer, III, Chau Nam Wai
  • Patent number: 11958142
    Abstract: Systems and methods to control pulse welding are disclosed. An example welding-type system includes: power conversion circuitry configured to convert input power to welding-type power; and control circuitry configured to control the power conversion circuitry to output the welding-type power in a plurality of pulse cycles, each pulse cycle comprising a background phase, a ramp up phase, a peak phase, and a ramp down phase. Controlling the power conversion circuitry involves: during the ramp up phase of the pulse cycles, controlling the power conversion circuitry in a current-controlled mode and switching to controlling the power conversion circuitry in a voltage-controlled mode when a peak transition voltage is reached; and during the ramp down phase of the pulse cycles, controlling the power conversion circuitry in a current-controlled mode and switching to controlling the power conversion circuitry in a voltage-controlled mode when a background transition voltage is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Steven Knoener, Lucas Charles Johnson, Zach W. MacMullen, Charles Ace Tyler, Christine Dong
  • Patent number: 11958133
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, a method includes selecting a cemented carbide substrate from a plurality of cemented carbide substrates in a substrate inventory. Each of the plurality of cemented carbide substrates have a substantially planar top surface. The method also includes emitting a plurality of laser pulses from a laser towards at least the substantially planar top surface of the cemented carbide substrate to ablate selected regions of the cemented carbide substrate thereby forming the cemented carbide substrate into a selected shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: US SYNTHETIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Douglas Jones, Benjamin Michael Spencer, Brent Richard Eddy, Mark Pehrson Chapman
  • Patent number: 11951525
    Abstract: For producing a welded ring, a band of a length corresponding to the circumference of the ring is bent into a ring and its two ends are welded together. The band ends to be welded together have an offset in the circumferential direction of the ring, the offset lying in the plane of the band. The welding is performed from both lateral edges of the ring, from the outside to the inside up to the offset. Welding having an overall improved welding quality and a higher tensile strength is thus obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: OETIKER SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Stefan Miessmer, Andreas Vetter
  • Patent number: 11938573
    Abstract: Some examples of the present disclosure relate to welding systems that provide cooling gas flow to contact tips. The contact tip may be retained within a neck and nozzle assembly of a welding torch that receives gas, such as shielding gas, for example, from the welding system. A tip retention-device and gas diffuser may cooperate to retain the contact tip within the neck and nozzle assembly. The gas diffuser may have axial gas channels configured to direct the shielding gas over and/or across a rear portion of the contact tip seated within the gas diffuser. The tip retention device may have gas channels configured to guide gas flow from the gas diffuser over and/or across a forward portion of the contact tip. The gas flow may help to cool the contact tip before, during, and/or after welding, which may extend the life of the contact tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ILLLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventor: Jeremy L. Jansma
  • Patent number: 11930580
    Abstract: Provided is a cooking apparatus. The cooking apparatus includes a cabinet having a cooking space therein, a tray on which an object to be cooked is placed on a top surface thereof, and a pair of elevation devices configured to connect both side surfaces of the inside of the cabinet to both side surfaces of the tray, the pair of elevation devices being configured so that the tray is insertable into and withdrawable from the cooking space. Each of the pair of elevation devices includes a fixed rail fixed to a side surface of the cabinet, a movable rail configured to move in a front and rear direction along the fixed rail in a state of being connected to the fixed rail, and an arm member having one end rotatably connected to an outer surface of the movable rail and the other end connected to a side surface of the tray to elevate the tray. The arm member includes a front arm and a rear arm, which are disposed to be spaced apart from each other in the front and rear direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyoungjoon Park, Jaekyung Yang, Eunkyoung Yoon, Yongsoo Lee
  • Patent number: 11920799
    Abstract: Provided is a closed cooking cavity (100) formed by means of a shell in a sealed manner; a working space for accommodating main cooking equipment is formed in an interior of the cooking cavity (100), the shell is provided with communicating openings which are corresponding to the main cooking equipment and adapted for communicating the interior and exterior of the cooking cavity (100), and accessory cooking equipment arranged at the exterior of the cooking cavity (100) is connected with corresponding main cooking equipment arranged in the interior of the cooking cavity through corresponding communicating openings so as to achieve corresponding cooking functions. A closed cooking system comprises the cooking cavity (100) and a cooking machine comprises the closed cooking system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI AICAN ROBOT (GROUP) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinbiao Xu, Guang He, Qing He, Luoya Zeng
  • Patent number: 11924952
    Abstract: A system and method for annealing a target substrate such as a semiconductor using industrial microwave heating and parallel plate reaction. Using a uniform microwave field, with the target substrate located between parallel plates controls application of eddy currents to the target substrate. The system may include a uniform microwave field generator, support elements, two plates held in parallel to each other, and a turntable device configured to rotate the two plates and the target substrate within the uniform microwave field. The rotating of the plates and target substrate in the uniform microwave field creates a periodic change in polarity of the microwaves applied to the target substrate. The eddy currents in the uniform microwave field react by flowing perpendicular to the plates, and not parallel to the surface as in traditional microwave reactions of metals. This redirection of the eddy currents provides even heating of the target substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: DSGI Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Edward Kowalski
  • Patent number: 11912243
    Abstract: A window glass heating device for a vehicle is provided with a window heater configured to heat a whole area of a window glass, a window heater control unit configured to control the window heater, a camera heater that is an electric heater which heats a camera-imaging window area which is a part of the window glass included in an imaging area of a camera that images a vehicle exterior from a vehicle interior via the window glass, and a camera heater control unit configured to control supply of power to the camera heater. The camera heater control unit is configured to acquire window heater operation information, acquire a temperature of the camera heater, and control supply of power to the camera heater such that the temperature of the camera heater is within a predetermined temperature range based on the window heater operation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Oikawa
  • Patent number: 11911855
    Abstract: A welding tool for a robot welds together a first component and a second component by using a metallic welding element disposed within a through-hole in the second component. The welding tool includes a welding torch attached to an arm, an element pusher that is attached to a distal end of the arm and disposes the held welding element between the welding torch and the through-hole and disposes at least a part of the welding element within the through-hole, a component pusher attached to the distal end of the arm and movable in an axial direction of a distal end of the welding torch, and a driving device that presses the component pusher against the second component. The element pusher is movable in the axial direction relative to the component pusher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiichi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 11917731
    Abstract: The method includes first arranging at least one first wick to transfer an aerosol-forming substrate from a first location within a reservoir to a heater, second arranging a first temperature sensor to interface with the reservoir, the first temperature sensor being configured to sense a first measured temperature of the aerosol-forming substrate at a second location within the reservoir, the first location and the second location being spaced apart to mitigate an increase in the first measured temperature during an activation of the heater, and configuring circuitry to operatively control the aerosol-generating system such that the operatively controlling includes determining depletion information for the aerosol-forming substrate in the reservoir based on the first measured temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventor: Tony Reevell
  • Patent number: 11910953
    Abstract: A tea making appliance may include a base, a particulate guide, a tea leaf container, a motorized leaf distributor, a reservoir, a water pump, a heating element, and a controller. The base may define a dispenser cavity. The particulate guide may be directed at the dispenser cavity. The motorized leaf distributor may be provided to selectively provide tea leaves to the particulate guide. The water pump may be in fluid communication with the reservoir upstream from the dispenser cavity to direct water thereto. The controller may be configured to initiate an automated brewing operation that includes receiving one or more data points regarding a physical user condition, selecting a personalized tea style based on the received one or more data points, and dispensing a predetermined tea mass of the personalized tea style automatically in response to selecting the personalized tea style.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Abdel Hamad, Hashim Siddiqui, Juan Huerta, Nabil Alhaffar
  • Patent number: 11911853
    Abstract: Provided is a welding information providing apparatus capable of providing a high-definition image allowing easy identification of welding surroundings in addition to a portion adjacent to welding light by synthesizing photographs taken through various imaging conditions; improving welding quality by providing efficient guiding to the worker regarding a current welding status; checking what is happening in the surroundings even during a welding operation; and easily performing welding even in an environment where it is difficult to perform welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: OTOS WING.CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Moon Young Huh, Sung Won Huh
  • Patent number: 11904409
    Abstract: Additive manufacturing system includes one or more processors configured to determine one or more geometrical characteristics of each of multiple segments of a build part at a candidate position of the build part relative to an additive manufacturing instrument. The geometrical characteristics include an angle of incidence between a beam line extending from a beam emitter and a surface normal of a respective skin of the corresponding segment proximate to the beam line. The one or more processors select, based on the determined geometrical characteristics, a first set of beam parameters for forming a first segment of the build part and a second set of beam parameters for forming a second segment of the build part. At least one of the beam parameters in the second set differs from the beam parameters in the first set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Eric M. Chapman, Dana A. Henshaw
  • Patent number: 11897053
    Abstract: Provided is a joining structure capable of simplifying the manufacturing process and having high corrosion resistance. A joining structure has a welded part for connecting joined members made of a metal that forms a passive film. An outermost surface portion of the welded part has a pitting potential. The welded part may include a welded part main body formed inside and a surface-modified layer formed in contact with the welded part main body, and the surface-modified layer may include the outermost surface portion having a pitting potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuuya Takahashi, Syusuke Ootsuki, Tomohiro Shimizu, Sumera Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11897237
    Abstract: A chamber can be a pathogen control device, which can include a body having at least one internal wall defining an internal chamber, and a layer of a two dimensional material on at least a portion of the at least one internal wall. The two-dimensional material can have at least one edge protruding from the at least one internal wall. A pathogen control system can include the chamber and at least one pressure source operably coupled with an inlet of the internal chamber, and optionally include a depressurization vessel. A method of processing a fluid, such as for controlling pathogens, can include providing the chamber, and flowing a fluid with or without pressurized carbon dioxide or processing fluid through the internal chamber of the chamber to contact an edge of the two-dimensional material. The flow through the chamber can be conducted until at least one pathogen is controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventor: Ezekiel Kruglick
  • Patent number: 11897218
    Abstract: Provided are a cleaning device and a method for cleaning a vulcanization mold. At the time of cleaning a molding surface of a vulcanization mold by irradiating with a laser beam from a laser head, an inert gas is supplied from a supply nozzle and an irradiation range of the molding surface irradiated with the laser beam is brought into an atmosphere of the inert gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Tsuji, Yoshinori Izumi
  • Patent number: 11896158
    Abstract: An on-demand automated aseptic fryer may be used to prepare multiple types of fried foods without requiring vats of hot oil. The fried foods that may be prepared include, for example, donuts or potatoes, or any other fried foods that can be prepared from a dry mixture that produces a dough when mixed with water. Alternatively, the dry mixture may include a dried, powdered or reconstituted fruits or vegetables that are subsequently mixed with water. The entire process is automated once the process is initiated by a user and thus does not require an attendant during the frying process, which in some implementations can be completed in less than about 1.5 minutes once initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventor: Gerald J. Block
  • Patent number: 11890695
    Abstract: A laser marker includes: a base including: a first guide portion; and a restriction part; a laser oscillator configured to emit laser light, the laser oscillator being removably mounted to the base by sliding in a mounting direction with being placed on the base, the laser oscillator including: a second guide portion extending in the mounting direction, the second guide portion being configured to be engaged with the first guide portion; a contact part configured to be in contact with the restriction part in a case the laser oscillator is mounted to the base; and an expander; and a scanner having an insertion part, the expander being inserted into the insertion part in a case the laser oscillator is mounted to the scanner, and the scanner being configured to scan the laser light emitted from the laser oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Nakashima, Yasuo Nishikawa, Kosuke Ushiroda
  • Patent number: 11889609
    Abstract: Disclosed is an annealing system integrated with laser and microwave. The annealing system is provided with a microwave system, a laser system, and a measurement and control system. The microwave system provides a microwave energy to a first area of a to-be-annealed object for annealing the first area of the to-be-annealed object. The laser system uses a laser to provide a laser energy to a second area of the to-be-annealed object for annealing the second area of the to-be-annealed object. The measurement and control system monitors and controls a power of a microwave and/or a laser. The annealing system is capable of reducing a time required for an overall annealing, and also capable of avoiding cracks or defects caused by large stress differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: HIGHLIGHT TECH CORP., FINESSE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chwung-Shan Kou, Wen-Yung Yeh