Fluid Pressure Patents (Class 222/394)
  • Patent number: 11913605
    Abstract: A device (100, 100?, 200, 300) for filling gas storage tanks (10) comprises a frame (110, 210, 310) and/or a housing, a gas buffer storage tank (120, 220, 320) for a gas which is movably arranged with respect to the frame and/or with respect to the housing, a first valve (130, 230, 330, 331) comprising an inlet, connected to the gas buffer storage tank (120, 220, 320), and an outlet for the connection to a gas storage tank to be filled, and a weighing device (140, 240, 340), connected to the gas buffer storage tank (120, 220, 320), for weighing the gas buffer storage tank (120, 220, 320).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND, VERTRETEN DURCH DIE BUNDESMINISTERIN FÜR WIRTSCHAFT UND ENERGIE
    Inventors: Georg W. Mair, André Schoppa, Mariusz Szczepaniak
  • Patent number: 11905103
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dispensing system for spraying a liquid/gas mixture, the system including a dispenser and a holder in which the dispenser is held, the dispenser including a container that is adapted for holding therein a liquid phase and a gas phase that is at a pressure of 2 bar or greater and is in direct contact with the liquid phase. The dispensing system may be used in a first orientation and a second orientation, wherein the ratio of liquid to gas in the sprayed mixture is different depending on the orientation of the system during spraying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Dutch Renewable Energy B.V.
    Inventors: Diede Hendrik Paul Klever, Hubert Clemens Pellikaan
  • Patent number: 11871867
    Abstract: Containers are provided for use with a beverage dispensing device. The container can include a housing defining a hollow interior and having an opening leading to the hollow interior, a cover coupled disposed over the opening, an inlet leading to the hollow interior, and an outlet spaced apart from the interior. The inlet and outlet can each have valves movable between open and closed positions for allowing fluid flow into and out of the hollow interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLC
    Inventors: Simon Lewis Bilton, Joseph Butler, Timothy Christopher Stubbs
  • Patent number: 11827508
    Abstract: A system comprising, a pressurized container including hollow portion and outer portion, pressurized container maintains pressure level in the hollow portion, transport system including two conduits, one transport being coupled to an interface and a valve port, the interface coupled to the hollow portion, the interface maintains pressure level in the hollow portion, one valve port allows flow of liquid volume through one conduit to a dispensing interface via another valve port, an external container is airtight and operable to dispense another liquid volume stored within, another conduit is coupled to the external container and further valve port to refill the liquid volume via the valve, pressure regulation system connected to pressurized container, pressure regulation system including a pressure conduit extending from outer portion through a pressure interface, pressure regulation system operable to compress liquid volume in the environment and a control system controls the valve and pressure regulation sys
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Versabev, Inc.
    Inventor: Sal Comunale
  • Patent number: 11814280
    Abstract: A dual-mode fluid connector includes: a hollow connecting element, comprising a chamber inside the hollow connecting element; a material tube, positioned on the hollow connecting element and connected through the camber; a cleaning tube, positioned on the hollow connecting element and connected through the camber; a head portion, positioned on one terminal of the hollow connecting element and having a connecting opening, wherein the connecting opening can be detachably connected to a material container; a rear portion, positioned on another terminal of the hollow connecting element and having a through hole; and a rod, inserted into the chamber via the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Botrista Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Min Lee, Wu-Chou Kuo
  • Patent number: 11794984
    Abstract: An improved actuator (20) for actuating a container of a pressurized fluent product includes a body (56) having a dispensing flow path (76) to direct a pressurized fluent product from the container to an exterior of the actuator (20) via an exit orifice (80) located at an end of the flow path (76). The body (56) further includes a front exterior face (84) located adjacent to the exit orifice (64) and a hollow extension (88) defining a portion of the flow path (76) and extending along, and centered on, a longitudinal axis (92). The hollow extension (88) configured to retain an accumulation of the fluent product at the exit orifice (80) at a location that is spaced away from the front exterior face (84).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: APTARGROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Sean Cho, Gregory Erickson
  • Patent number: 11788686
    Abstract: A mobile CO2 filling system selectively fills onsite CO2 storage and dispensing systems with CO2. The system includes a mobile platform; a tank holding liquid CO2 mounted on the mobile platform; a flexible dispensing hose couple to the tank and configured to be selectively coupled to the filling inlet of an onsite CO2 storage and dispensing system; a pump selectively coupled to the tank; and a controller for controlling the filling of an onsite CO2 storage and dispensing systems with CO2 from the tank, wherein the controller is selectively designated by the user to operate in at least one pump assisted filling state and at least one gravity feed filling state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Green CO2 IP LLC
    Inventor: Daniel Schneider
  • Patent number: 11779489
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for treating diseases that produce elevated intraocular pressures, such as glaucoma, wherein the device includes a housing shell defining a cavity between a first end and a second end of the housing shell, and an elastic membrane disposed within the cavity to divide the cavity into a fluidic channel that permits a flow of fluid from the first end to the second end and a sealed cavity. The elastic membrane deforms to change the volume of the sealed cavity responsive to pressure fluctuations between the first and second ends, thereby varying the fluidic resistance of the flow of fluid through the fluidic channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL)
    Inventors: Nikolaos Stergiopulos, Constantinos Stergiopulos
  • Patent number: 11780633
    Abstract: A synthetic resin-made container has an outer layer body and an inner layer body separably laminated on an inner surface of the outer layer body and is formed by stretch blow molding, and has: a tubular mouth portion; a shoulder portion located below the mouth portion and increasing in diameter downward; a barrel portion connected to and located below the shoulder portion; and a bottom portion closing a lower end of the barrel portion, wherein the mouth portion has an outside air introduction hole for introducing outside air into a space between the outer layer body and the inner layer body, and the inner layer body is made of a crystalline resin, and has, in at least a part of the mouth portion in the inner layer body, a crystallized region having a higher degree of crystallinity than other regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: YOSHINO KOGYOSHO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hosokoshiyama, Yuichi Okuyama, Junichi Chiba
  • Patent number: 11738889
    Abstract: A propellant storage system that utilizes an integrated internal lattice structure within the fuel storage tank(s) to provide additional strength and anti-slosh features. The internal lattice structure lends its additional strength properties to adapt the fuel storage tank to unconventional geometries to allow for better compaction and weight savings in deployment vehicles such as satellites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Hunjoo Kim, Andrew A. Shapiro-Scharlotta
  • Patent number: 11724930
    Abstract: Beverage dispensing assembly (1), comprising a dispenser (2) and a beverage container (3), wherein the beverage container (3) has a neck portion (7) and a shoulder portion (8) adjacent the neck portion (7), wherein the neck portion (7) is provided with at least an outflow opening and at least one gas inlet opening (9) and wherein the dispenser (2) comprises a housing (4), wherein the housing (4) is provided with a receptacle (5) for receiving at least part of the container (3), wherein the container (3) is positioned in the dispenser (2) with the neck and shoulder portion (7, 8) facing downward, such that the neck portion (7) and at least part of the shoulder portion (8) are received in the receptacle (5), wherein part of the shoulder portion (8) extends close to and/or is in contact with a wall of the receptacle (5), wherein preferably a lid (12) is provided over the container (3), enclosing a part of the container (3) extending outside the receptacle (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Heineken Supply Chain B.V.
    Inventors: Arie Maarten Paauwe, Pieter Gerard Witte
  • 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: 11697547
    Abstract: Heads for an aerosol container are disclosed. The head comprises a handle body having a base configured to be coupled to the aerosol container, an outlet, a flexible tube housed within the handle body. The flexible tube is configured to provide fluid communication between the container exit of the aerosol container and the outlet. And the head further comprises an elastically deformable actuator comprising a lever arm, and a coupling portion integrally formed with the lever arm and configured to be mounted around the flexible tube, wherein the coupling portion is further configured such that when the lever arm is deformed by a user, the coupling portion actuates on the valve body of the aerosol container. Aerosol containers comprising such heads and kits for treatments skin lesions are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: DOC-BIBAWO A/S
    Inventor: Martin Thomsen
  • Patent number: 11685592
    Abstract: A valve mechanism for a high-pressure spray can has a switching base, a first ball, and a second ball. The switching base has a first passage, a first suction port, a second passage, and a second suction port. The first passage has a first inclined inner wall surface. The first inclined inner wall surface extends obliquely toward a specific side from the top end to the bottom end of the first passage. The second passage has a second inclined inner wall surface. The second inclined inner wall surface extends obliquely toward the specific side from the bottom end to the top end of the second passage. The first ball and the second ball are respectively mounted in the first passage and the second passage and move along the first inclined inner wall surface and the second inclined inner wall surface to block the first suction port and the second suction port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Motedo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Han-Liang Chen
  • Patent number: 11667462
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aerosol device including: —a container containing: —one or more propellants, and —a composition including one or more fixing polymers and/or one or more styling powders including one or more water-insoluble inorganic compounds, the propellant or propellants possibly being present in the composition or in the container, separate from the composition, —an aerosol device for distributing the aerosol composition, including a diffuser having at least three spraying apertures for spraying the composition in a main spraying direction. The invention further provides a method for shaping the hair and/or maintaining the style, including a step of applying to the wet or dry hair a cosmetic composition sprayed from a specific aerosol device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: L'OREAL
    Inventors: Lionel Aubert, Jonathan Gawtrey, Céférino Rodrigues, Nadia Smail
  • Patent number: 11668406
    Abstract: A gas pressure regulator includes a valve body and a valve cover. The valve cover is covered on the valve body. The valve body is provided with a valve cavity, and the valve cavity is connected to an air inlet channel and an air outlet channel. The valve cavity includes a primary pressure regulating cavity and a secondary pressure regulating cavity, and the primary pressure regulating cavity and the secondary pressure regulating cavity are communicated with each other through a valve port. The primary pressure regulating cavity is communicated with the air inlet channel, and a valve core pressure regulating assembly is disposed between the primary pressure regulating cavity and the air inlet channel. The secondary pressure regulating cavity is communicated with the air outlet channel. A lever pressure regulating assembly is disposed between the valve port and the secondary pressure regulating cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: NINGBO WANAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng Zhang, Yunnan Wei, Yanhua Wang, Jinghui Fan
  • Patent number: 11654209
    Abstract: A boarding handrail disinfecting device includes: a cover member that is provided on a door for opening and closing an entrance of a vehicle, and that is disposed so as to closely face a boarding handrail provided on a periphery of the entrance when the door closes the entrance and withdrawn from the boarding handrail when the door opens the entrance; and an irradiation device that is provided on a surface of the cover member that faces the boarding handrail and irradiates the boarding handrail with ultraviolet light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideyuki Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11613458
    Abstract: A tanker truck offloading system and method. The tanker truck offloading system includes a manifold in fluid communication with a tank and a plurality of tanker truck offloading stations, a tanker truck coupling at an open end of the manifold at each of the plurality of tanker truck offloading stations, and an air separator in fluid communication with the manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Inventor: Dean Grose
  • Patent number: 11607088
    Abstract: Various dispensing devices, such as foaming soap pumps, are disclosed. The soap pump can include a fluid storage unit and a fluid handling unit. The fluid storage unit can include a reservoir that is configured to hold a quantity of product, such as liquid soap. The fluid handling unit can include a pumping assembly and dispensing assembly. The soap pump can be configured to withdraw liquid soap from the reservoir, convert the liquid soap to foamed soap, and dispense the foamed soap from the discharge assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: simplehuman, LLC
    Inventors: Frank Yang, David Wolbert, Kenneth Yen, Guy Cohen, Hon-Lun Chen, Nasser Pirshafiey, Joseph Sandor
  • Patent number: 11578302
    Abstract: A control unit includes a first connector configured to connect a proportional pressure regulator to a positive pressure supply and a second connector configured to connect the proportional pressure regulator to a negative pressure supply. The control unit further includes at least one sensor configured to detect an amount of air flow (volume per unit of time), positive or negative, within an air flow line connected to an output of the proportional pressure regulator, and a third connector configured to connect the air flow line to an air side of a diaphragm. Additionally, the control unit includes a controller programmed to control at least an opening and closing function of the proportional pressure regulator to attain a desired amount of air flow (volume per unit of time), positive or negative, within the air flow line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Repligen Corporation
    Inventor: Rudolf Pavlik
  • Patent number: 11548019
    Abstract: A device for dispensing a fluid topical composition includes a reservoir storing the composition and dispensing a pressurized flow of the composition. The device also includes an accumulator having an expandable chamber in fluidly communication with the reservoir. The chamber is biased towards a deflated configuration so that, when filled with the composition the chamber expands against this bias applying pressure to the composition stored therein. The device includes a supply valve regulating the flow of the composition from the reservoir to the accumulator, and a pressure sensor. The device further includes a processing arrangement analyzing data from the sensor to determine whether pressure in the accumulator is above a predetermined threshold and controlling the supply valve to maintain the pressure within a desired pressure range. The device also includes a deposition arrangement dispensing the composition from the accumulator under control of the processing arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc.
    Inventor: Curt Binner
  • Patent number: 11548774
    Abstract: A closing unit associable with a keg type container suitable to contain a beverage, and consisting of two cooperating coaxial containers, wherein the external container has anchoring means, or a threaded portion, comprising a valve assembly and a closing device, which can be stably anchored to the threaded portion and configured to reciprocally position with respect to each other the valve assembly and the containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventor: Emanuela Covi
  • Patent number: 11534030
    Abstract: The invention comprises a container apparatus and/or a method of manufacture thereof, comprising: a pressure containment housing containing both a first chemical and a second chemical; an interface configured to control dispersal of the first and second chemical out of the container; and a pressure within the container at time of manufacture exceeding ten bar. Generally, the mixture includes: (1) nitrous oxide as a gas, a liquid, a supercritical fluid, or a solid and (2) at least one of molecular hydrogen, helium, molecular nitrogen, carbon dioxide, neon, argon, krypton, and xenon in the form of a gas, liquid, supercritical fluid, or solid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventors: W. Davis Lee, Warren R. Kirsch, Christian T. Metcalfe
  • Patent number: 11352195
    Abstract: Heads for an aerosol container are disclosed. The head comprises a handle body having a base configured to be coupled to the aerosol container, an outlet, a flexible tube housed within the handle body. The flexible tube is configured to provide fluid communication between the container exit of the aerosol container and the outlet. And the head further comprises an elastically deformable actuator having a lever arm, and a coupling portion integrally formed with the lever arm and configured to be mounted around the flexible tube, wherein the coupling portion is further configured such that when the lever arm is deformed by a user, the coupling portion actuates on the valve body of the aerosol container. Aerosol containers having such heads and kits for treatments skin lesions are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: DOC BIBAWO A/S
    Inventor: Martin Thomsen
  • Patent number: 11045025
    Abstract: A cup having an integrated straw is provided. The cup has a mold release surface at a liquid outlet portion, in the injection molding process, a male mold of an accommodating room can be directly removed from the mold release surface to form the liquid outlet portion. A cup body is integrally formed with a straw body, which can easily achieve injection molding release. When the cup body is filled with a solid or liquid beverage, the user can suck the beverage through a top opening portion of the straw body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Taiwan Smart Light Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yung-Teng Tseng
  • Patent number: 11013248
    Abstract: Concentrated liquid flavorings and methods of preparing flavored beverages using the concentrated liquid flavorings are described herein. The concentrated liquid flavorings are shelf stable for prolonged storage times at ambient temperatures. Shelf stability is provided, at least in part, by acidic pH and/or reduced water activity. By one approach, the concentrated liquid flavorings are intended to provide flavor to a beverage, such as coffee, tea, milk, or other savory beverage. The concentrated liquid flavorings may be provided in a convenient portable and dosable format that can be easily used by a consumer to provide the desired flavor and amount of flavor to a beverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC
    Inventors: Dana Marie Brown, Karl Ragnarsson
  • Patent number: 10801179
    Abstract: A storage system for storing hydraulic fluid used to drive hydraulically driven components of an agricultural implement and of filling the same are provided. The storage system includes a tank having an underside. The tank has a cavity in an interior thereof for receiving the hydraulic fluid therein. A quick connect coupling is operatively connected to the underside of the tank and has an output end in communication with the cavity in the tank and an input end connectable to a hydraulic fluid source. The quick connect coupling is configured to allow for flow from the input end to the output end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Moen, William A. Roach
  • Patent number: 10767758
    Abstract: Transmission control devices may have two control boxes, and a planar transmission control plate disposed between the two control boxes. The transmission control plate seals the intermediate space between the two control boxes or the channel portions and borings thereof in the form of a flat gasket. The plate also makes available throughflow-openings between channels or borings in the control boxes for a fluid, the fluid in the channels controlling the function of a transmission. The sealing function is achieved by embossed beads and/or partial coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Reinz-Dichtungs-GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Blersch, Oliver Claus, Georg Egloff, Kurt Hoehe, Matthias Pendzialek
  • Patent number: 10661971
    Abstract: A vacuum heat insulating container 1 includes an outer tube 2 having a bottom and an inner tube 3 having a bottom and an inner tube 3 having a bottom, the outer tube 2 and the inner tube 3 being arranged in such a way that the central axes thereof being a horizontal direction, an opening end of the outer tube 2 and an opening end of the inner tube 3 being bonded to each other, and a depressurized sealed space 8 being formed between the outer tube 2 and the inner tube 3, in which the vacuum heat insulating container further includes a load receiving part 7 for causing the outer tube 2 to support the inner tube 3, and the location of the load receiving part 7 in a vertical direction coincides with the location of the central axis of the outer tube 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Osamu Yamashita, Takaaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10627002
    Abstract: A transmission control device has two mutually oppositely arranged counter-components, for example control boxes, and a planar transmission control plate, which is arranged between the two counter-components. The transmission control plate seals the clearance between the two counter-components or their channel portions and bores in the form of a flat seal. The plate also provides through-openings between channels or bores, respectively, in the opposing counter-components, where the fluid in the channels controls the function of a transmission. The sealing function is realized by stamped beads and/or partial coatings. Transmission control plates therefore have fluid through-flow openings so the fluid can flow through from one side of the plate to the other side of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Reinz-Dichtungs-GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Blersch, Oliver Claus, Georg Egloff, Kurt Hoehe, Matthias Pendzialek
  • Patent number: 10618072
    Abstract: A sustained duration trigger sprayer includes a first vacuum formed by piston movement in a fluid cylinder which fills the sprayer for delivery of a fluid and a second vacuum formed between a vacuum piston connected to the fluid cylinder and a vacuum cylinder acts on the sprayer to disperse product when a discharge valve is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Silgan Dispensing Systems Corporation
    Inventor: David L. DeJong
  • Patent number: 10145842
    Abstract: A combination of capillary forces and gas pressure is used to control the movement of liquid samples within a microfluidic device. A liquid sample introduced to a proximal portion of a capillary channel of a microfluidic device moves by capillary action partway along the capillary channel. As the liquid sample moves, a pressure of a gas acting upon a distal gas-liquid interface of the liquid sample increases by an amount sufficient to stop further movement of the liquid sample. To initiate further movement of the liquid sample, a pump connected to a distal portion of the capillary channel decreases the pressure of the gas acting upon the distal gas-liquid interface of the liquid sample by an amount sufficient to permit the liquid sample to move by capillary action further along the capillary channel of the microfluidic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Quidel Cardiovascular Inc.
    Inventors: William Patrick Coffey, Paul Michael Crivelli, Austin Matthew Derfus, Tuan Hoang Do, Remus Anders Brix Haupt, Emily Parker, Gregory Reneff, Armando Raul Tovar
  • Patent number: 10077150
    Abstract: A pressurized dispenser includes a base and a peripheral wall having an open end sealed by a dispensing element comprising a dip-tube, a fluid reservoir in contact with the dip-tube for reducing the compressed gas lost from the pressurized dispenser, a compressed gas and a dispensing liquid. In embodiments, a majority of the fluid reservoir may be located outside of the dip-tube, and the fluid reservoir may include a porous material, arranged in use to hold a volume of the dispensing liquid. Such porous material may be configured so that, in use, at least a portion of any compressed gas in the reservoir can be displaced by the liquid, ejecting such portion of the compressed gas into the dispenser. In embodiments, the dispensing element may be configured to dispense dispensing liquid continuously for at least 0.5 seconds, upon actuation of the dispensing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Plastipak BAWT S.a r.l.
    Inventors: Keith Laidler, Timothy Rodd
  • Patent number: 10040048
    Abstract: The present invention provides an automated modular system and method for production of biopolymers including DNA and RNA. The system and method automates the complete production process for biopolymers. Modular equipment is provided for performing production steps with the individual modules arrange in a linear array. Each module includes a control system and can be rack mounted. One side of the array of modules provides connections for power, gas, vacuum and reagents and is accessible to technicians. On the other side of the array of modules a robotic transport system is provided for transporting materials between module interfaces. The elimination of the requirement for human intervention at multiple steps in the production process significantly decreases the costs of biopolymer production and reduces unnecessary complexity and sources of quality variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: SYNTHEGO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul Dabrowski, Michael Dabrowski, Fabian Gerlinghaus, Alex Pesch
  • Patent number: 10035110
    Abstract: A fine bubble generating device is provided, including: a main body, having an inlet, an outlet and a venturi tube mechanism located between the inlet and the outlet, the venturi tube mechanism having a neck portion communicating with outside; a bubble fining mechanism, having at least one passage which is smaller than the inlet in cross-sectional area, the at least one passage communicating with and between the venturi tube mechanism and the outlet. The bubble fining mechanism includes a first vortex member having at least one first slant hole and a second vortex member having at least one second slant hole. The at least one first slant hole and the at least one second slant hole are inclined toward opposite directions, and the first vortex member and the second vortex member is disposed between the venturi tube mechanism and the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Inventor: Chao-Chung Wu
  • Patent number: 10029509
    Abstract: A device for marking a surface, the device comprising: a body configured to store a marking substance; a guide arrangement having a first end and a second end, at least a portion of an outer surface of the guide arrangement tapering from the first end to the second end which is narrower than the first end, wherein an output path is provided through the second end at substantially the center of the guide arrangement; an activation arrangement; and a delivery arrangement which is configured, in response to triggering of the activation arrangement, to deliver a quantity of the marking substance from the body, along the output path and out of the second end, wherein, in use, a user inserts at least the second end of the guide arrangement into an aperture in an element positioned adjacent a surface until the outer surface of the guide arrangement contacts the aperture, and the user triggers the activation arrangement to deliver a quantity of the marking substance through the second end and onto the surface to mark
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Marxman Limited
    Inventor: Martin Chard
  • Patent number: 9993120
    Abstract: A liquid soap dispenser, which controls positive and reverse rotations of a motor and a liquid discharge amount through angle counting, includes a front cover, a back cover, a liquid soap bottle, a pump component, a main engine and a key. An angle counter is arranged in the main engine. The liquid soap dispenser is connected with the motor. The angle counter is driven to rotate through the motor, so as to measure a rotation angle of the motor. The motor is connected with a gearbox, and the gearbox is connected with an output gear. The output gear is fastened at a lower part of the pump component, and the pump component is driven to move through the output gear. The liquid soap dispenser realizes a stepless adjustment of the liquid discharge amount through controlling the motor to reversely rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen Smarlean Hygiene Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Huoxian Xie
  • Patent number: 9915357
    Abstract: An actuator device for a pressurized container incorporating an internal back flow prevention valve. The actuator may include a ball and socket check valve with a resilient component to maintain the ball in a condition to operate as a check valve even when upside-down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: TSI Products, Inc.
    Inventor: John H. Ehlert
  • Patent number: 9856071
    Abstract: A discharge container includes a container body made of metal having an opening, and a valve assembly fixed to the opening of the container body. The container body has a cylindrical barrel portion, a cylindrical neck portion having a diameter smaller than the barrel portion, and a bead portion formed on top of the neck portion. The opening has a cylindrical portion and the bead portion formed above the cylindrical portion. The valve assembly is equipped with a plug portion inserted into the opening, a flange portion which is provided above on the bead portion, a valve structure which opens and closes a pathway of a content and is fixed to the plug portion, an O-ring provided on an outer surface of the plug portion, and a cover cap fixing the valve assembly to the container body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: DAIZO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yamaguchi, Hidetoshi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 9605930
    Abstract: Non-lethal weapon includes a housing, a barrel insertable into the housing and a barrel locking mechanism. The non-lethal weapon may be adapted for spraying a pepper extract onto a potential attacker in order to disable the potential attacker. The barrel is adapted to hold a canister of the pepper extract under pressure. The barrel may be rotatable to lock the barrel into the housing. A longitudinal axis of the barrel is angled upward at a substantial angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the housing or relative to the upper surface of the housing when the weapon is used. The non-lethal weapon includes a conical orifice adapted to spray the pepper extract over an opening angle of between 70 and 120 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: H. D. DEFENSE PRODUCTS LTD.
    Inventors: Daniel Refael Ben Yair, Benny Hillman
  • Patent number: 9598273
    Abstract: A liquid pressure-reducing unit having a first half body with a contact surface and first groove extending over the contact surface is disclosed. The unit has a flexible resilient sealing element having a floor layer lining the floor of the first groove. The unit has a second half body with a contact surface and first and second walls extending out of the contact surface and defining a second groove. The contact surfaces of the first half body and second half body join, wherein the first and second walls penetrate into the first groove so that the free end of the first and second walls forms a fluid-tight contact with the flexible resilient floor layer lining the floor of the first groove, defining a fluid-tight channel bringing in fluid communication a fluid inlet with a fluid outlet. The channel is non-rectilinear and/or having a cross-section varying over the length thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A.
    Inventors: Stijn Franssen, Daniel Peirsman
  • Patent number: 9580233
    Abstract: A system for dispensing texture material in a desired spray pattern that substantially matches an existing texture pattern on a target surface has a container assembly, an actuator assembly, and a concentrate comprising a solvent/carrier comprising water, wall texture material comprising at least one filler and a resin/binder, a first anti-corrosion material, where the first anti-corrosion material is a phosphate ester, and a second anti-corrosion material, where the second anti-corrosion material is sodium nitrite. At least one of the first and second anti-corrosion materials forms a film on the inner surface of the container assembly while the concentrate is stored within the container assembly. The film inhibits corrosion of the corrodible material forming at least part of the inner surface of the container assembly. The first and second anti-corrosion materials together comprise 0.125-7.00% by weight of the concentrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: PPG Architectural Finishes, Inc.
    Inventors: William Stephen Tait, John Kordosh
  • Patent number: 9527656
    Abstract: A touchless dispenser is provided for a pressurized container including a valve member. The dispenser comprises a housing mountable to the container. An electrically controlled valve in the housing includes an inlet and an outlet. The inlet maintains the valve member in an open position incident to the housing being mounted on the container. A nozzle extends between the valve outlet and a discharge orifice. A sensor senses a user's hand proximate the discharge orifice. A control in the housing is operatively coupled to the sensor and the electrically controlled valve. The control controls operation of the electrically controlled valve to dispense a select dosage of product from the container responsive to the sensor sensing presence of a user's hand proximate the discharge orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Seaquistperfect Dispensing L.L.C.
    Inventors: Peter J. Walters, Craig A. Braun, Jörg Kohlne, Volker Umbeer
  • Patent number: 9415927
    Abstract: A system for dispensing texture material in a desired spray pattern that substantially matches an existing texture pattern on a target surface has a container assembly, an actuator assembly, and a concentrate. The concentrate comprises a solvent/carrier comprising water, wall texture material, a first anti-corrosion material, where the first anti-corrosion material is a phosphate ester and comprises approximately 0.1-5.0% by weight of the concentrate, and a second anti-corrosion material, where the second anti-corrosion material is sodium nitrite and comprises approximately 0.25-2.00% by weight of the concentrate. The concentrate is disposed within the container assembly such that the water is exposed to the inner surface of the container assembly. At least one of the first and second anti-corrosion materials forms a film that inhibits corrosion on tin-plated steel forming at least part of the inner surface of the container assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Homax Products, Inc.
    Inventors: William Stephen Tait, John Kordosh
  • Patent number: 9364838
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser device comprising a pre-compression pump (6) and a dispenser head (T); the pump including an actuator rod (65) that is movable downwards and upwards, and a pre-compression spring (69) for increasing the pressure in a pump chamber (60); the head (T) including an inlet well (14) for connecting to the actuator rod (65), and a nozzle (4) for forming a spray through a dispenser orifice (43), the nozzle being mounted in an assembly housing (2); the dispenser device being characterized in that: the pre-compression spring (69) presents stiffness that is less than about 3 N/mm, e.g. of about 1 N/mm to 3 N/mm; and at least two feed ducts (15), each connecting the inlet well (14) to the assembly housing (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: APTAR FRANCE SAS
    Inventor: Alexandra Parmentier
  • Patent number: 9261239
    Abstract: A pressure gas container includes a liner to store a gas, a reinforcing layer provided on an outer side of the liner, a boss attached to the liner, and an attachment attached to an outer surface of the liner. The boss has an opening through which the gas is introduced into the liner and through which the gas inside the liner is released. The attachment is to support the liner rotatably when the reinforcing layer is provided. At least one of the boss and the attachment has a gas release channel that allows communication between a gap formed between the outer side and an inner side of the reinforcing layer and a space outside the pressure gas container to release the gas having permeated through the liner and present in the gap between the liner and the reinforcing layer to the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Kanezaki, Yusuke Ishikawa, Satoshi Kawasaki, Kazuo Miyagawa
  • Publication number: 20150143637
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for dyeing keratin fibres in which a mixture is applied to the fibres, this mixture being obtained from: •a dye composition comprising at least one oxidation dye precursor, and •an oxidizing composition comprising at least one chemical oxidizing agent, •at least one of the compositions being dispensed from a pressurized container, •the mixture of the two compositions comprising: (i) at least one C8-C30 fatty alcohol that is liquid at room temperature and at atmospheric pressure, (ii) at least one amphoteric or zwitterionic surfactant, (iii) at least a compound chosen from non ionic surfactant comprising a lipophilic part comprising a saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched C16 or C18 hydrocarbon-based chain and a hydrophilic part comprising at least 20 mol of ethylene oxide, unsaturated C8-C40 fatty acid, in acid or salified form, and mixture thereof, and also to a device suitable for performing this process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Philippe Rapold, Caroline Goget, Delphine Allard
  • Publication number: 20150136802
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing system includes a container for holding a quantity of liquid material, the container having an access opening and a connector structure to operably connect a fluid inlet/discharge structure to the container. Optionally, the liquid dispensing system may include a gaseous fluid treatment component. A method of operating the liquid dispensing system is an aspect of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventor: Matthew A. Rapin
  • Publication number: 20150129617
    Abstract: A dispensing unit for dispensing a beverage from a pressurized container having a tapping column fixed to and extending normal to the top surface of a top plate with an opening and forming an elbow is disclosed. The column has an elongated inner channel bringing in fluid communication the support plate with a tapping pinch valve located in a tapping head at the elbow. The tapping pinch valve has jaws for receiving in pinching relationship the outlet end of the dispensing line and controlling flow of liquid by varying the distance between the jaws from a closed to an open position. A flexible dispensing line, having inlet and outlet ends, extends in the channel. The outlet end engages the pinch valve, and the inlet end connects to a keg. A device for opening the channel includes the pinch valve so a distance larger than the open position separates the jaws.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Daniel Peirsman, Sarah Van Hove, Johan Van Rompaey
  • Publication number: 20150102063
    Abstract: Disclosed is a beverage dispenser including a housing having a beverage storage space capable of storing a volume of a beverage to be dispensed and a heat exchanger sub-system operable to effect the temperature of a beverage stored in or passing through the beverage storage space. The housing is provided with at least one wall through which beverage in the beverage storage space can be visualised. The dispenser includes a coupling enabling the coupling of a valve to facilitate dispensing of beverage from the beverage storage space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Streamline Beverage Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Andrew Hunter