Injection Patents (Class 700/200)
  • Patent number: 11938665
    Abstract: A process for molding one or more bottle preforms, wherein molten plastic is injected into at least one molding cavity; and wherein air is drawn from the at least one molding cavity, through at least one channel for the air to pass from the at least one molding cavity towards the outside of the molding device, by means of suction means; and apparatus and device for performing such a process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: S.I.P.A. SOCIETA' INDUSTRIALIZZAZIONE PROGETTAZIONE E AUTOMAZIONE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Cavalet, Paolo Spinazze′, Federico Vescovo, Matteo Zoppas
  • Patent number: 11884791
    Abstract: A system including an injector, a press, and a robotic conveyance is used to form a physically foamed article of footwear component from a single-phase solution of a polymeric composition and a supercritical fluid. The parameters and features of the system are configured for the formation of the footwear component in an automated manner with enhanced throughput by the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Irving Archer, Hossein Allen Baghdadi, Jay Constantinou, Gregory Paul Dufour, Sami Mohamad Fakhouri, Floyd Whitney Miles, Joseph Thomas Muth, Bradley C. Tutmark
  • Patent number: 11794335
    Abstract: Modular robot system for a container processing facility, comprising a mobile platform, which comprises a chassis that is supported on the floor for moving in a working area of the container processing facility, and comprising multiple robot units of different types for carrying out jobs of different types in the container processing facility, wherein the mobile platform and/or the robot units are designed such that the robot units can selectively be connected to the mobile platform in order to transport each robot unit in the container processing facility and position it for the respective job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Hahn
  • Patent number: 11695889
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for selection of a preferred image from multiple captured images. An image corresponding to a photograph time t=0 may be retrieved from a circular buffer and stored as a preferred image. Alterative images captures before and after the t=0 image may be retrieves and stored in an alternative image location. The t=0 image and preferred images may be presented to a user in a user interface. The user may select a preferred image for the photograph from among the t=0 image and the alternative images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John James Terrill, Vivek Shah, Christopher Frederick Vitas, Samir Raj Hegde, Kadirvelu Rathnavelu, Jason Garrett Volpe, Jonathan Edward Suchland
  • Patent number: 11650749
    Abstract: Controlling access to sensitive data in a shared dataset, including: identifying, for a dataset stored at a first location, a second location for replicating a portion of the dataset; replicating, from the first location to the second location, the portion of the dataset, wherein the portion of the dataset does not include all data in the dataset; detecting that additional data has been added to the portion of the dataset stored in the second location; and replicating, from the second location to the first location, the additional data that has been added to the portion of the dataset stored in the second location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Richard V. Tran, Emmett Jacobs
  • Patent number: 11513755
    Abstract: In a display control device, a first display control unit displays values of a plurality of molding conditions in a first display area, on the basis of layout information including a display size and a display position of the plurality of molding conditions. A data setting unit sets as molding data the values of the plurality of molding conditions that are displayed in the first display area. On the basis of the layout information, and in the same layout as that of the first display area, a second display control unit displays for inspection in a second display area the values of the plurality of molding conditions based on the molding data which are stored in a storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junpei Maruyama, Akimasa Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11254031
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing device for manufacturing a mould. The additive manufacturing device includes a container for providing at least one mould material, a build platform having a build surface for holding and/or supporting at least one mould being or having been manufactured by an additive manufacturing process, a source for providing energy to selectively activate and subsequently solidify the at least one mould material in or from the container to enable additive manufacturing of the mould, and an electronic controller adapted to selectively control the source to manufacture the mould as a one-piece sacrificial mould according to a predetermined design producing a one-piece additively manufactured mould.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Addifab ApS
    Inventors: Jon Jessen, Lasse Guldborg Staal
  • Patent number: 10969971
    Abstract: The present application discloses a data storage method and apparatus. A specific implementation of the method includes: acquiring to-be-serialized data and a description file related to the to-be-serialized data, wherein the to-be-serialized data includes a data name and a data value, and the description file includes a file identifier and at least one data element, the data element includes at least one data item, and the data item includes a data item name and a data type; allocating a memory space to the data item according to the data type; finding, according to a preset matching relationship between the to-be-serialized data and the data item, a data item matched with the to-be-serialized data; and storing the data value into the memory space of the found data item as a data item value of the found data item. This implementation improves the data storage efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jingchao Feng, Liming Xia, Quan Wang, Ming Qu, Zhuo Chen, Yu Ma, Haifeng Wang, Yibing Liang
  • Patent number: 10872151
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system featuring one or more processors and memory that includes monitoring logic. During operation, the monitoring logic is configured to monitor for and detect a notification message that is directed to a destination other than the monitoring logic and identify an event associated with a change in state of a data store associated with the file system to occur. The notification message, at least in part, triggers a malware analysis to be conducted on an object associated with the state change event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: FireEye, Inc.
    Inventors: Vineet Kumar, Alexander Otvagin, Nikita Borodulin
  • Patent number: 10845967
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a display device for an injection molding machine capable of displaying a screen image to be a display candidate without imposing a burden on an operator. A display device for an injection molding machine includes a display part capable of displaying a predetermined screen image and capable of displaying a candidate for a next screen image to transition to as a display candidate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xinmin Zhuo, Junpei Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10833874
    Abstract: A certificate notification method, including reporting a certificate of a first terminal to a server, obtaining public key maintenance information including a public key corresponding to a certificate of each of one or more terminals within a preset area range and certificate identification information corresponding to the certificate of the corresponding terminal, receiving a communication message including certificate identification information corresponding to a certificate of the second terminal and a signature generated by the second terminal, determining, according to certificate identification information and the public key maintenance information, a public key corresponding to the certificate of the second terminal, and verifying, according to the public key corresponding to the certificate of the second terminal, the signature generated by the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiangwei Ying, Yanmei Yang, Jing Chen, Qi Li
  • Patent number: 10791142
    Abstract: The system and method described herein may leverage active network scanning and passive network monitoring to provide strategic anti-malware monitoring in a network. In particular, the system and method described herein may remotely connect to managed hosts in a network to compute hashes or other signatures associated with processes running thereon and suspicious files hosted thereon, wherein the hashes may communicated to a cloud database that aggregates all known virus or malware signatures that various anti-virus vendors have catalogued to detect malware infections without requiring the hosts to have a local or resident anti-virus agent. Furthermore, running processes and file system activity may be monitored in the network to further detect malware infections. Additionally, the network scanning and network monitoring may be used to detect hosts that may potentially be participating in an active botnet or hosting botnet content and audit anti-virus strategies deployed in the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Tenable, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcus J. Ranum, Ron Gula
  • Patent number: 10715464
    Abstract: An apparatus or system and method or process for displaying tool or die data or other tool or processing information on a display window of a webpage. A method for displaying tool data from a reciprocating tool includes positioning a monitor with respect to the reciprocating tool and the monitor recording data from the reciprocating tool. The data is communicated and then stored in a remote data storage location as stored tool data. The stored tool data is processed and then displayed, for example in the window of the webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: PROGRESSIVE COMPONENTS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Glenn Starkey
  • Patent number: 10602329
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a processor of a data collector, a request for sensor data related to an event. The method also includes sending a plurality of requests for the sensor data to a plurality of on-board units (OBUs), respectively, where the plurality of OBUs is associated with a plurality of vehicles, respectively. The method further includes receiving a plurality of responses from the plurality of OBUs, respectively, wherein each response of the plurality of responses includes a sensor data item related to the event. In more specific embodiments the plurality of requests are sent to the plurality of OBUs based on the plurality of OBUs being located within a certain proximity to the event. In yet further embodiments, each sensor data item of the plurality of responses is encapsulated with a respective tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sateesh K. Addepalli, Raghuram S. Sudhaakar, Lillian Lei Dai, Robert Edward Somers
  • Patent number: 10338771
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an injection molding machine, capable of reducing the load on a user when re-displaying a previously displayed screen. The control device (20) for the injection molding machine (1) controls the display of display images on a display unit (29). This control device (20) divides the display unit (29) into a first display area (31) and a second display area (32) and, if an instruction to scroll in the vertical direction is received when a first display image (P1) is displayed in the first display area (31) and a second display image (P2) is displayed in the second display area (32), synchronously scrolls the first display image (P1) and the second display image (P2) whilst maintaining the relative positions of the first display image (P1) and the second display image (P2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: U-MHI PLATECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Okochi, Takashi Takii, Toshihiko Kariya
  • Patent number: 10263976
    Abstract: A method for excluding a participant from a group of multiple participants, in which certificates are used for an authorized communication of the participants among each other, a withdrawal request being received by one participant of the group, the withdrawal request making an identification of the participant to be excluded possible by the participant to be excluded itself, and the authorized communication being terminated by the participant when it is identifiable as the participant to be excluded based on the withdrawal request, as well as a communication system for carrying it out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Hans Loehr, Jan Zibuschka, David Foerster
  • Patent number: 10122785
    Abstract: Provided is a method and system for synchronizing a plurality of content directory service (CDS) devices in a home network environment. The method of synchronizing the plurality of CDS devices of a home network, which includes the plurality of CDS devices and a control point (CP), comprises (a) requesting a first CDS device among the plurality of CDS devices to start synchronization using the CP; (b) performing the synchronization with a second CDS device among the plurality of CDS devices using the first CDS device; (c) selecting a third CDS device from the plurality of CDS devices and requesting the third CDS device to start synchronization with the first CDS device or the second CDS device using the CP; and (d) performing the synchronization with the first CDS device or the second CDS device using the third CDS device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Won-seok Kwon, Joo-yeol Lee, Seung-jae Oh, Dong-Shin Jung, Se-Hee Han
  • Patent number: 9908273
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for storage and transmission of recipe data (process parameters) for the molding of articles in an injection molding apparatus. A controller includes a flow control microcontroller (MCU) that receives recipe data from a recipe storage microcontroller (MCU) mounted to a mold of an injection molding machine, the recipe storage MCU storing the recipe data defining process parameters for the molding of articles in the mold. The flow control MCU executes instructions for controlling valve pin motions according to the recipe data. In one embodiment, a human operator interface is provided for transmitting data to and/or from at least one of the recipe storage and flow control MCU's, allowing the operator to monitor, modify and/or control the process parameters during a molding cycle and/or to create a modified or new recipe for subsequent storage on the recipe storage MCU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Synventive Molding Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergio Ribeiro de Oliveira Antunes, Lin Yang, Vito Galati, Hans-Joerg Schreyer
  • Patent number: 9855695
    Abstract: A display device with a touch panel and a controller having a computer function to display various kinds of screens on a display surface of the display. The controller includes a multiple screen display processing function part wherein at least two independent screen display parts are displayed side by side, a screen switch processing function part to enable switching of a touched screen to the other screen by a touch/slide operation on the screen, and a switch key display processing function part by which a key display part is arranged on the display surface in an area other than the screen display parts. A plurality of switch keys are arranged and displayed in the key display part according to a key pattern corresponding to the order of the screens switched by a touch/slide operation so as to enable selection of the screens to display by a touch operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: NISSEI PLASTIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Chiharu Nishizawa, Susumu Morozumi
  • Patent number: 9662812
    Abstract: A method includes molding a polymer onto a package component. The step of molding includes a first molding stage performed at a first temperature, and a second molding stage performed at a second temperature different from the first temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Hao Chen, Hsien-Wen Liu, Yi-Lin Tsai, Jui-Pin Hung, Jing-Cheng Lin
  • Patent number: 9566735
    Abstract: A method for regulating an injection molding process in which process setting variables of an injection molding machine are controlled via a regulating module, which receives data from a process-internal sensor system of the injection molding machine, data on the fabricating sequence of the injection molding component parts from an external sensor system and/or data on the quality of a fabricated injection molded component part from an online component part control, evaluates these data in a quality prognosis module and, as a function of the data evaluation, performs a change in the process setting variables of the injection molding machine, because of the change in the process setting values, the working point of the injection molding machine being changed so that the quality features of the injection molded component parts fabricated using the changed working point lie within the specified tolerances of the quality of the injection molded component parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Istvan Denes, Paeivi Lehtonen-Brenner, Robert Wieland, Stephan Geise, Guenter Haag, Philipp Liedl, Patricia Maris-Haug, Jens Ackermann, Holger Nalop, Stephan Althaus
  • Patent number: 9158431
    Abstract: A method of manipulating a three-dimensional object displays a first view of a three-dimensional object on a touchscreen. The touchscreen has three-dimensional views associated with at least one pre-specified visually undelineated portion of the touchscreen. The method receives a touch input on the touchscreen in a visually undelineated portion, and determines a second view of the three-dimensional object based on the view assigned to the visually undelineated portion that received the touch input. The method displays the second view of the three-dimensional object on the touchscreen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Intergraph Corporation
    Inventor: David Dean Little
  • Patent number: 8942620
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes a controller to process a criterion for selecting a point-of-interest (POI). The criterion can be based on historical trip data. Data related to a POI, including a community-of-interest rating, for example, can be accessed through a satellite and terrestrial mobile communication network. Multiple POIs can be graphically represented for user selection based on the criterion and/or other data. Once a POI is selected, data related to the selected POI, including navigation data, can be displayed. In another embodiment, the controller can access navigation data to a specified destination. The navigation data can be based on historical trip data such as route segments and destination areas. The navigation data can be accessed from an in-vehicle system or from a navigation service provider and can be displayed to assist a user in reaching the specified destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Dish Network Corporation
    Inventor: Stefan Bernard Raab
  • Patent number: 8942480
    Abstract: A system is provided to correlate a medication package with a prescribed medication for a patient. The medication package accommodates an intended patient medication. The system includes an optical imager adapted to read an encoded symbol character comprising encoded patient information and further adapted to image an attribute of the medication package. The optical imager comprises a two-dimensional image sensor array and an imaging lens for focusing an image on the two-dimensional image sensor array. The two-dimensional image sensor array has a plurality of pixels formed in a plurality of rows and columns of pixels. The optical imager further includes a digital link to transmit a segment of data. The segment of data includes the patient information encoded in the encoded symbol character and the attribute of the medication package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Metrologic Instruments, Inc.
    Inventor: Duane Ellis
  • Patent number: 8936739
    Abstract: A reciprocating apparatus comprises a reciprocating member, a drive mechanism, an input device, a work-switch position calculating unit configured to calculate a work-switch position for the drive mechanism, a direction-switch position calculating unit configured to calculate a direction-switch position, a remaining-distance calculating unit configured to calculate a remaining distance that is a difference between the direction-switch position calculated by the direction-switch position calculating unit and a direction-switch position input at the input device, a target direction-switch position calculating unit configured to add the remaining distance, to the direction-switch position calculated by the direction-switch position calculating unit, thereby to calculate a target direction-switch position, and a corrected position calculating unit configured to calculates a corrected work-switch position for the drive mechanism so that the drive mechanism may cause the reciprocating member to start moving in the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Enomoto, Harunobu Inami
  • Patent number: 8875068
    Abstract: An automated processor design tool uses a description of customized processor instruction set extensions in a standardized language to develop a configurable definition of a target instruction set, a Hardware Description Language description of circuitry necessary to implement the instruction set, and development tools such as a compiler, assembler, debugger and simulator which can be used to develop applications for the processor and to verify it. Implementation of the processor circuitry can be optimized for various criteria such as area, power consumption, speed and the like. Once a processor configuration is developed, it can be tested and inputs to the system modified to iteratively optimize the processor implementation. By providing a constrained domain of extensions and optimizations, the process can be automated to a high degree, thereby facilitating fast and reliable development.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Earl A. Killian, Ricardo E. Gonzalez, Ashish B. Dixit, Monica Lam, Walter D. Lichtenstein, Christopher Rowen, John C. Ruttenberg, Robert P. Wilson, Albert Ren-Rui Wang, Dror Eliezer Maydan
  • Patent number: 8855804
    Abstract: Described are methods, systems, and a computer-readable storage medium for controlling a discrete-type manufacturing process (e.g., an injection molding process) with a multivariate model. Data representing process parameters, operating parameters, or both of the manufacturing process are received. The received data is compared with a multivariate model that approximates the manufacturing process to provide a result. Upon the result of the comparing satisfying a condition, one or more values for a set of operating parameters for the manufacturing process are determined. When the one or more determined values for the set of operating parameters satisfies a criterion, at least one operating parameter of the manufacturing process is updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: MKS Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Robert Hazen, Christopher Paul Ambrozic, Christopher Peter McCready
  • Patent number: 8827679
    Abstract: Machine for forming containers (3a), comprising a unit (2) for extruding tubes (3) made of plastic, associated with an electric extrusion motor (200), a blowing unit (5) associated with an electric blowing motor (500), a mould (4) for containing the containers (3a), formed by two half-moulds (4a,4b) movable, upon operation of an associated electric mould motor (400), in a longitudinal direction X-X, the unit formed by the mould (4) and by the associated mould operating motor (400) being displaceable, upon operation of an electric displacement motor (300), in a transverse direction (Y-Y) from a first position substantially aligned with the extrusion unit (2) into a second position substantially aligned with the blowing unit (5) and vice versa, comprising at least one base power supply/recovery module (2000) and at least one first control module (2300) connected to said displacement motor (400) for controlling the acceleration/deceleration thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: MAGIC MP S.p.A.
    Inventor: Ferruccio Giacobbe
  • Patent number: 8786469
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for storing, referencing, retrieving, and graphically displaying spatial and non-spatial related information of a mobile computing device, such as a laptop computer or a cellular telephone. The spatial-related information may be obtained by using positioning tracking systems such as a global positioning system, whereas the non-spatial related information may include communication activities associated with the mobile computing device, such as phone calls, e-mails, text messages, pages, etc. The present invention also provides methods and apparatus of sharing event information between mobile communication devices as well as related navigational information for traveling to an event from a real-time position of a mobile communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: TeleCommunications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Sheha, Angie Sheha, Stephen Petilli, Mark Goddard
  • Patent number: 8788081
    Abstract: An application operation simulation device including a specification section that specifies positions of nozzles with respect to a spray device and injection shapes of injected materials; an interference point calculation section that performs a working program of a robot including instructions for outputting the injected materials to operate a three-dimensional model of the robot by simulation and calculate interference points between three-dimensional models of the injection shapes and a three-dimensional model of an applied member; an interference number calculation section that calculates the number of interference at each interference point on a surface of the three-dimensional model of the applied member; an application time calculation section that calculates application time from the number of interference; and a display section that displays the color-coded surface of the three-dimensional model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Nagatsuka, Toshiya Takeda
  • Patent number: 8763123
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method of determining the protection that a remote computer has from malware includes receiving at a base computer, details of all or selected security products operating on a remote computer, receiving similar information from other remote computers, and identifying malware process that were not identified by the security products installed on the other remote computers and having a same or similar combination of security products installed on the remote computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Prevx Limited
    Inventors: Melvyn Morris, Paul Stubbs, Markus Hartwig, Darren Harter
  • Patent number: 8751032
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the interactive control of a machine (14), wherein the operating parameters required for the work flow (18) of the machine are input into a data processing unit (12) storing the operating parameters in a form that guides the operator. Due to the input, subsequently work flows are carried out. A data set regarding the basic rules of the work flow of the machine is present in the data processing unit. Using the data set, a chosen selection of possibilities existing based on the machine equipment and environment is provided to the operator as the result, which contains further sections that can be inserted into the existing work flow (18) in a compatible manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Inventor: Karl Hehl
  • Patent number: 8750790
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes a controller to process a criterion for selecting a point-of-interest (POI). The criterion can be based on historical trip data. Data related to a POI, including a community-of-interest rating, for example, can be accessed through a satellite and terrestrial mobile communication network. Multiple POIs can be graphically represented for user selection based on the criterion and/or other data. Once a POI is selected, data related to the selected POI, including navigation data, can be displayed. In another embodiment, the controller can access navigation data to a specified destination. The navigation data can be based on historical trip data such as route segments and destination areas. The navigation data can be accessed from an in-vehicle system or from a navigation service provider and can be displayed to assist a user in reaching the specified destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Dish Network Corporation
    Inventor: Stefan Bernard Raab
  • Publication number: 20140156059
    Abstract: An operating unit includes a touch-sensitive display screen for displaying an operating program, a control or regulating unit for communicating operating signals to injection molding machine elements, and the operating program is stored in the control or regulating unit, and at least one operating button, upon the actuation of which the control or regulating unit triggers an action of an injection molding machine element. The operating program has a hierarchical system architecture with at least one upper installation-specific level and an upper task-specific level. A selection can be made between different installation regions in the installation-specific central level, between different task regions in the task-specific central level, and a plurality of sublevels. Process-relevant program pages associated only with the selected installation region or only with the selected task region can be displayed in each selected sublevel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: ENGEL AUSTRIA GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard DIMMLER, Josef GIESSAUF, Rainer HOELZL, Albin KERN, Friedrich MAIRHOFER, Helmut STEINPARZER, Johann VOGGENEDER, Karl WIESINGER
  • Publication number: 20140124982
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for using magnetic elements to secure thin wires precisely in an injection molding process in a manner that matches a three-dimensional shape of the an injection molded product produced by the injection molding (overmolding) process. The thin wires are substantially immobilized in a manner that is designed to generally overcome the tendency of the thin wires, which have little mechanical strength, to normally deflect during an injection molding process by employing the magnetic forces produced by embedded magnets. Magnets are integrated into either the cavity or core of a mold structure and the thin wires are placed on those magnets to keep the wires in place during an injection molding process that allows the thin wires to be overmolded. A balance of the core and/or cavity of the mold will be formed of a non-magnetic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: David JOHNSON, Eric SHRADER
  • Patent number: 8706284
    Abstract: A diagnostic system to diagnose a pressure profile of a molding machine M in an operating state is disclosed. The pressure profile of the molding machine M in the operating state is measured with a pressure sensor of a measurement system 3. In a diagnostic system A, a database is formed such that a reference pressure profile and the actual pressure profile selected according to a mold to be made are preserved therein. The diagnostic system A compares the reference pressure profile to the actual pressure profile in the database to determine whether the actual pressure profile is within a predetermined tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Sintokogio, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8688260
    Abstract: A method enables a user to create, edit, monitor and/or optimize the overall machine process of a programmable machine or system assisted by a graphics editor. The programmable machine or system is initially put together as a system of individual machine units which are involved in the overall machine process during certain times by running a number of partial machine processes that are firstly synchronized with one another once they have been set up and then parameters are set for them. These method steps take place in a two-dimensional process diagram created by the graphics editor that plots all the partial machine processes involved in the overall machine process via assigned process symbols that are positioned or repositioned by the graphics editor so that they are arranged in a machine component dimension and in a time dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Keba AG
    Inventor: Heinz Stummer
  • Publication number: 20140088757
    Abstract: An injection device is provided with a stationary-side frame supporting a barrel, a movable-side frame rotatably supporting a screw, a pair of ball screws, and injection drive mechanisms includes servomotors configured to rotate the ball screws. A force detector such as a load cell and the like is disposed between the first ball screw and the movable-side frame. A dummy member is disposed between the second ball screw and the movable-side frame. A control unit controls the first injection drive mechanism based on the output of the force detector and controls the second injection drive mechanism based on the output of the force detector and an arithmetic operation performed in consideration of the respective spring constants of the force detector and the dummy member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Harunobu INAMI, Keisuke MORI
  • Patent number: 8633995
    Abstract: Images captured at a venue and relating to one or more patrons of the venue are incorporated into one or more products in accordance with image selections and/or product selections made by the patron(s). The images may be captured at venues with a variety of image capture devices such as pre-mounted cameras, cell phones, cameras brought by patrons to the venue, or cameras provided to patrons by the venue or another entity. The patrons may obtain products such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, prints, slideshows, or other products incorporating one or more selected images. Patrons may also view the images on portable electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Making Everlasting Memories, LLC
    Inventors: Gordon Scott Mindrum, Steven Craig Sefton, Jeffrey Jon Johnson
  • Publication number: 20130345855
    Abstract: A plastic product manufacturing method includes (a) providing a cloud server which stores a machine number and machine parameters of an all-electric injection-molding machine that includes a controller; (b) downloading the machine parameters from the cloud server according to the machine number; (c) executing mold flow analysis software to generate model data and optimal injection conditions of a mold according to the machine parameters; (d) setting a mold number and a password to the model data and the optimal injection conditions and then storing the same in the cloud server after packaging; (e) connecting to the cloud server using the machine number, the mold number, and the password by the controller; (f) downloading the optimal injection conditions to the controller after the cloud server confirms the machine number, the mold number, and the password; and (g) driving the all-electric injection-molding machine by the controller according to the optimal injection conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Ching-Hsiung TSAI, Yun-Feng SHIU
  • Patent number: 8463584
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for interactively simulating an injection mold model. A three-dimensional CAD model is identified representing an injection mold cavity. The mold cavity includes a location of at least one gate. A potential fill pattern is determined for injection of a material into the injection mold cavity. The determined fill pattern is based at least in part on the geometry and dimensions of the modeled mold cavity and the location of the at least one gate. A strip model of the CAD model is generated based at least in part on the determined fill pattern. The strip model is used to perform a strip analysis simulating injection of the material within the injection mold cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventor: Huagang Yu
  • Patent number: 8457775
    Abstract: A method for defining a uniform injection molding interface includes selecting at least one common control parameter from multiple injection molding machines, setting at least one standardization page, establishing a uniform injection molding interface by configuring the at least one common control parameter into the at least one standardization page, storing the data related to the uniform injection molding interface into a storage unit, and connecting the uniform injection molding interface to the control device via an input control device to enable the control device to control the multiple injection molding machines in response to the control parameters set via the uniform injection molding interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mi-Chien Chen, Hsien-Cheng Kuo, Wei Zeng
  • Patent number: 8457773
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a manifold assembly (22) in accordance with specifications required by a mold is provided. The method includes selecting a manifold (22) from a predetermined set of manifolds (22) and sub-manifolds (24) selected from a predetermined set of sub-manifolds (24). Both the manifolds (22) and the sub-manifolds (24) are at least partially manufactured to define first and second portions of the melt channels (28). Injection nozzles (26) are also selected for each sub-manifold (24), defining third portions of the melt channels (28). The manifold (22), the at least one sub-manifold (24) and the injection nozzles (26) are arranged and assembled together so that the first portions, the second portions and the third portions of the melt channels (28) cooperatively define the melt channels (28) operable to direct a melt material to gates located in the mold. The invention further includes a manifold assembly manufactured using the methods described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
    Inventor: Dinesh Budapanahalli
  • Patent number: 8428769
    Abstract: A method for injection molding an imaging optical element to be used in an optical scanning apparatus for guiding a light ray in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction. In the imaging optical element, the light ray passes through at least one optical functional surface and does not pass over the meridional line including the optical axis. The imaging optical element is injection-molded through an initial molding step and other various measurement and correction steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ken Tanimura, Takeyoshi Saiga
  • Patent number: 8412362
    Abstract: The present invention is a system for electronically controlling the movement of a pin assembly used in a valve gate mechanism of an injection molding machine. The system of the present invention includes at least one valve which is part of an injection molding machine, as well as a graphical user interface which is operable for controlling the injection molding machine and the valve. Additionally, the present invention also includes controlling the injection molding machine electronically for improving the control over the opening and closing of the valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Plastic Engineering & Technical Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Dorne Yeager, Lance Roman
  • Patent number: 8390480
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for storing, referencing, retrieving, and graphically displaying spatial and non-spatial related information of a mobile computing device, such as a laptop computer or a cellular telephone. The spatial-related information may be obtained by using positioning tracking systems such as a global positioning system, whereas the non-spatial related information may include communication activities associated with the mobile computing device, such as phone calls, e-mails, text messages, pages, etc. The present invention also provides methods and apparatus of sharing event information between mobile communication devices as well as related navigational information for traveling to an event from a real-time position of a mobile communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Sheha, Angie Sheha, Stephen Petilli, Mark Goddard
  • Patent number: 8374737
    Abstract: A low visibility landing system is provided for guiding aircraft on landing approaches. The low visibility landing system may aid a pilot during landing in low visibility conditions such that an aircraft may descend to lower altitudes without visual contact with the runway than is possible with other landing systems. The system may use various navigational systems to produce a hybrid signal that may be more stable than individual signals of those navigational systems. The hybrid signal is compared to a predetermined landing approach plan to determine the deviation of the aircraft from the landing approach plan and to provide guidance to the pilot to get the aircraft back onto the landing approach plan. The system may also use multiple navigational systems to perform checks on an operation of a primary navigational system to ensure that the primary navigational system is operating accurately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation
    Inventors: Robert S. Takacs, Gary M. Freeman, Glenn L. Connor
  • Patent number: 8345674
    Abstract: An audio network system that performs transport of audio signals between nodes by cascading a plurality of nodes each including two sets of transmission I/Fs and reception I/Fs, and circulating among the nodes in each fixed period an audio transport frame generated by a master node, the audio transport frame including a plurality of storage regions for audio signals, is configured such that when the configuration of the system is changed, loopback of the audio transport frame in each node and release thereof are automatically controlled to automatically loop back the transport of the audio transport frame at nodes at both ends and not loop back it at the other nodes to thereby form a loop transmission route among the nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Kei Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8326449
    Abstract: Systems and methods augment a virtual machine (computer) hosting environment from within a virtual machine. A communication channel between the virtual machine and the player is used to send instructions to the player to load and execute requested software modules. Requests to load and execute the modules may originate in the corporate network and may be issued by the corporate network administrator. If a requested module is not stored on the host computer, the virtual machine may upload the module, via the communication channel, to the player. The uploaded module may, for example: (a) install a required upgrade in the host operating system; (b) execute virus checking software on the host computer; or (c) install a corporate network-provided secure printing module that enables software being executed by the host computer to print on devices connected to the host computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: George Hartz, Chad Nale, David Fusari
  • Publication number: 20120277900
    Abstract: There is set forth a system comprising an injection molding assembly mold and a processing circuit. The mold can have a stationary section and a moveable section. The stationary section can have a channel assembly and one or more nozzle. The processing circuit can comprise one or more processor, a communication interface, and a memory including a volatile memory and a non-volatile memory. The processing circuit can be mounted to the stationary section or the moveable section in a manner that the processing circuit can be supported in a fixed position relative to the stationary section or the moveable section. The mold can further comprise one or more sensor unit, each sensor unit including one or more sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: Mold-Masters (2007) Limited
    Inventor: Bruce Catoen