Clock Train Patents (Class 74/3.54)
  • Patent number: 11268886
    Abstract: An air sampling device is provided. The air sampling device has a housing with an air inlet and an air outlet, an air pump in gaseous communication with the air inlet and air outlet, and a carrier having a first face and a second opposing face. The carrier includes a plurality of receptacles disposed in a circumferential pattern and configured to receive a sample tube. The device includes a first plate disposed adjacent to and substantially covering the first face of the carrier, wherein the first plate comprises a first sample opening. The device includes a second plate disposed adjacent to and substantially covering the second face of the carrier. The second plate comprises a second sample opening that is circumferentially aligned with the first sample opening to define a circumferential sample position. The device intermittently indexes a receptacle of the carrier into the circumferential sample position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christine Marie Readnour-Gouge, Kevin Arthur Tewell, Freddie Kendall, Jr., David Lawrence Harmon
  • Patent number: 11122931
    Abstract: A grill machine includes a grill mechanism, a temperature control device and a mode switching device. The grill mechanism includes a lower grill unit, and an upper grill unit that is pivotally connected to the lower grill unit and that is pivotable between an open position and a closed position. The temperature control device is switchable between a first heating mode and a second heating mode. The mode switching device includes an actuating unit that is mounted to the lower grill unit. When the upper grill unit is pivoted to the open position, the upper grill unit downwardly presses the actuating unit to switch the temperature control device from the first heating mode to the second heating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Tsann Kuen (Zhangzhou) Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuan Yang
  • Patent number: 10605321
    Abstract: A mechatronic transmission for transmitting a torque from the drive shaft that can be supported axially on a shaft to an output shaft, the rotational speeds of which can have an arbitrary and variable ratio (stepless transmission). The transmission includes a coupling gear and a torsion spring, with the coupling gear rotatably mounted on the same shaft and connected to the output shaft by the torsion spring, and having a first coupling for producing and cancelling a rotationally fixed, planar, force-fitting first coupling between the drive shaft and the coupling gear. The transmission comprises a supporting device which is rotatable having a fixed transmission ratio of 1:X relative to the output shaft, where X can be any real number between approximately ?10 and 1, and a second coupling for producing and cancelling a rotationally fixed, force-fitting second coupling between the supporting device and the coupling gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Inventor: Martin Weilenmann
  • Patent number: 9315395
    Abstract: A water treatment system including a pair of water treatment tanks, each tank defining a flow path extending from a tank inlet to a tank outlet and containing a water treatment material disposed along the flow path for treating water as it travels from the inlet to the outlet. A system controller controls which of the tanks is on-line and which of the tanks is off-line and controls the regeneration of an exhausted tank. A multi-stage, spring-loaded control valve assembly controls the communication of fluid to a regeneration control turbine and includes a piston head and a relatively movable seat-carrying stem. A spring urges the stem away from the piston head such that initial movement of the head compresses the spring but does not produce movement in the seat. Sufficient movement of the piston head produces movement in the seat, thereby causing the seat to open pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Kinetico Incorporated
    Inventors: Christopher L. Hansen, Peter Halemba