Patents Assigned to Engineering
  • Nozzle rotation mechanism and application device therewith
    Patent number: 9016598
    Abstract: Disclosed is a nozzle rotation mechanism that is small in size, has a simple structure, and can accurately adjust the rotational direction of a nozzle tip. Also disclosed is a coating device provided with the aforementioned nozzle rotation mechanism. The nozzle rotation mechanism is provided with: a nozzle having a discharge outlet from which a liquid material is discharged; a nozzle unit having a channel that connects the nozzle and a liquid material supply source; a base member; and a rotation device that is provided on the base member and rotates the nozzle unit. The nozzle is disposed in the nozzle unit such that the centerline of the discharge outlet of the nozzle forms an angle with the rotational centerline of the nozzle unit, and the nozzle unit is removably mounted to the rotation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Musashi Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Kazumasa Ikushima
  • Image encoding apparatus
    Patent number: 9020284
    Abstract: An image encoding apparatus is provided which realizes an encoding process at a high bit rate without degradation in image quality at boundary parts within a picture. The image encoding apparatus 1 includes: a plurality of entropy encoding sections 105 and 106 for generating bit streams by entropy-encoding intermediate data generated from syntax elements of image data; and an encoding control section 104 for supplying the intermediate data to any of the entropy encoding sections. The encoding control section 104 determines the entropy encoding section that performs an entropy encoding process by a frame in accordance with the processing status of each of the entropy encoding sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Information & Telecommunication Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyohei Unno, Hironori Komi, Yusuke Yatabe, Mitsuhiro Okada, Hiroshi Kojima, Yoshimasa Kashihara, Toshikazu Yanagihara
  • Magnet apparatus
    Patent number: 9019054
    Abstract: A magnet apparatus which comprises a first vacuum chamber, a second vacuum chamber, a first magnet disposed within the first vacuum chamber such that the first magnet can be thermally isolated from the exterior of the first vacuum chamber, and a load connector extending from the first vacuum chamber into the second vacuum chamber so that a load on the first magnet can be transferred to the second vacuum chamber, wherein the load connector is in thermal contact with the first magnet and can be thermally isolated from the exterior of the first vacuum chamber and the exterior of the second vacuum chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Tesla Engineering Limited
    Inventors: Frederick Thomas David Goldie, Patrick Brian Clayton
  • Top-firing hot blast stove
    Patent number: 9017068
    Abstract: There is provided a top-firing hot blast stove capable of enhancing combustion efficiency in burner system, supplying high-temperature combustion gas to an entire checker chamber, and suppressing damage on a refractory material on an inner wall of a burner duct. A top-firing hot blast stove 10 has a burner system including: a burner 1 for passing fuel gas or combustion air to each of three or more pipe lines in a multiple pipe line structure; and a burner duct 2. A core pipe line 1b and a central pipe line 1c include a swirling flow generating means provided for generating a swirling flow of the fuel gas or the combustion air, while an outermost pipe line 1d carries a linear flow of the fuel gas or the combustion air, so that combustion gas HG including a linear component HG? and a swirling component HG? is generated in the burner duct 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignees: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co., Ltd., NS Plant Designing Corporation
    Inventors: Norimasa Maekawa, Koya Inoue, Hiroshi Shimazu, Shunji Koya, Naoki Kunishige, Nobuhiro Ohshita
  • Magnetic-anchored robotic system
    Patent number: 9020640
    Abstract: A surgical system includes a manipulator, an implantable actuator and a controller. The manipulator includes a plurality of integrated sensor/actuators. The sensors of the sensor/actuators are adapted to detect movement about a plurality of axes of movement. The implantable actuator includes a plurality of joints providing a plurality of axes of movement. The controller is configured to receive information from the plurality of sensor/actuators that indicates movement of the manipulator about the plurality of axes and to cause the joints of the actuator to move along corresponding axes of movement. Each sensor/actuator of the manipulator detects movement about an axis of movement corresponding to a similar one of the joints of the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Bio-Medical Engineering (HK) Limited
    Inventors: Chung Kwong Yeung, Kai Leung Yung
  • Independent data integrity and redundancy recovery in a storage system
    Patent number: 9021296
    Abstract: A storage system includes a plurality of nodes connected to a network. Each node is capable of performing its own recovery of partially written data and maintaining consistency of the data stored on the storage system. The nodes may independently calculate the location of the data across the nodes and independently balance the data, maintain consistency based on a redundancy policy of the storage system, and migrate data according to a location change. If a node determines that the stored data thereon is incomplete or damaged, the node may reconstruct its respective data from replica data on other nodes. During migration of data between the nodes, I/O processing from a host is not interrupted in some examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Data Systems Engineering UK Limited
    Inventors: Oleg Kiselev, Gaurab Paul, Christopher Youngworth
  • Process for designing and manufacturing an ignition system for an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 9020791
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for designing and manufacturing an ignition system for an internal combustion engine. The process can include performing a plurality of simulations that include simulating an electrical circuit with a spark initiating device for igniting the fuel mixture within an internal combustion chamber, an electrical breakdown proximate to the spark initiating device, a plasma arc and an afterglow regime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Maunfacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Tenghua Tom Shieh, Oana Nitulescu, Bogdan Radu Kucinschi, Kiyotaka Yamashita
  • Earth pressure balance shield machine without cutter disk
    Patent number: 9016801
    Abstract: An EPB shield machine without disc cutter, which includes a partition unit formed by a moveable partition member (30) and a stationary partition member (31), a front shield unit (13) including a cutting unit (1) with cutting head (11) and cutting teeth (12), a shaft member (2) connected to the cutting head (11) and a power transmission unit formed by a transfer case (5), a reducer (6) and a driving motor (7). In the power transmission unit at an upper portion of the machine, the transfer case (5) is fixedly to the moveable partition member (30), a sliding arrangement supports the reducer (6) and the driving motor (7), which are connected to the transfer case (5, and a telescopic cylinder (26) is connected to the sliding arrangement. The machine has advantages of high cutting efficiency, balanced service life, high directional construability and high adaptability to tunnel cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: China Railway Engineering Equipment Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianbin Li, Yulian He
  • Method for reducing one or more of deposits and friction of a lubricating oil
    Patent number: 9018149
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for improving one or more of the control of deposit formation and friction in an engine lubricated using a lubricating oil comprising a base oil and additives by employing as the additive the necessary combination of a borated hydroxyl saturated hydrocarbyl ester amide-amine mixture, zinc dialkyl dithiophosphate, and metal salicylate detergent, the deposit formation and friction being improved as compared to a lubricating oil containing the borated hydroxyl saturated hydrocarbyl ester amide-amine mixture, zinc dialkyl dithiophosphate and a detergent other than metal salicylate, such as metal phosphate and/or metal sulfonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: L. Oscar Farng, Douglas E. Deckman, Andrew G. Horodysky, William H. Buck
  • Method and apparatus for cooling foodstuff
    Patent number: 9016081
    Abstract: A method of cooling foodstuff comprises immersing at least one perforated container containing foodstuff into an ice slurry bath for a period of time sufficient to allow ice slurry to enter the at least one perforated container and then subsequently removing the at least one perforated container from the ice slurry bath. Various apparatuses for cooling foodstuff are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sunwell Engineering Company Limited
    Inventor: Vladimir Goldstein
  • Apparatus and method for manufacturing of thin film type solar cell
    Patent number: 9018034
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for manufacturing a thin film type solar cell, which enables the enhancement of productivity, the apparatus for manufacturing a thin film type solar cell including a first electrode forming unit; a first separation part; an optoelectric conversion layer forming unit; a contact line forming unit; a printing unit; and an etching process unit, wherein the etching process unit removes the optoelectric conversion layer in a second separation part to expose the first electrode in the second separation part through a wet etching process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Jusung Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Cheol Hoon Yang
  • Versatile beam scanner with fan beam
    Patent number: 9020103
    Abstract: A versatile beam scanner for generating a far-field scanned pencil beam, and, alternatively, a far-field pencil beam. An angle selector limits the angular extent of an inner fan beam emitted by a source of penetrating radiation. The source and angle selector may be translated, along a direction parallel to a central axis of a multi-aperture unit, in such a manner as to generate a scanned far-field pencil beam, when rings of apertures are interposed between the source and an inspected target, or, alternatively, a far-field fan beam, when no ring of apertures is interposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: American Science and Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Lee Grodzins
  • Display card holder assembly
    Patent number: 9015973
    Abstract: A display card holder for use on support surfaces, such as golf carts includes a display card retaining sleeve and a sleeve holder. The sleeve holder includes an entrance slot having inwardly extending retention ridges which deform and thereby reduce vibration of the retaining sleeve. The sleeve holder may further include a mechanical locking mechanism for securing the sleeve in the sleeve holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: PH2 Engineered Products, LLC
    Inventors: M. Randall Pasternak, George Hinkens
  • Mobile terminal simulator for a wireless telecommunications network and method of simulating a mobile terminal
    Patent number: 9019912
    Abstract: A mobile terminal simulator for a wireless telecommunications network includes: a simulation engine, providing a bit stream, according to a communications standard; a conversion stage, which converts the bit stream into a baseband signal in the frequency domain; a mapping and transformation stage, which generates transmission samples in the time domain as a function of the baseband signal; and a transmission module, connectable to a Base Radio Station of a wireless telecommunications network by a communication port. A transmission channel simulator module is connected between the conversion stage and the mapping and transformation stage and processes the baseband signal in the frequency domain so as to simulate a transmission channel between the communication port and the Base Radio Station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Prisma Engineering S.R.L.
    Inventors: Paolo Marini, Lodovico Binda, Enrico Bendinelli
  • Multiple image collection and synthesis for personnel screening
    Patent number: 9020100
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for inspecting personnel or their effects. A first and second carriage each carries a source for producing a beam of penetrating radiation incident on a given subject. A positioner provides for relative motion of each beam vis-à-vis the subject in a motion, the vertical component of which is one-way. A detector receives radiation produced by at least one of the sources after the radiation interacts with the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: America Science and Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Mastronardi, Dean Fleury, Jeffrey R. Schubert, Joseph DiMare, Richard Schueller, Alexander Chalmers
  • Electrolarynx
    Patent number: 9020155
    Abstract: An electrolarynx includes a motor having a locating diaphragm, a bobbin, and a magnetic assembly. The bobbin includes a striker and coil wires wound about a coil cylinder of an electromagnet. The locating diaphragm maintains the position of the bobbin along the longitudinal axis of the housing. The magnetic assembly includes a magnet and a non-magnetic guide disc that sandwiches the magnet to the housing. The magnet and the coil wires drive the striker and, in turn, a contact diaphragm in the cap of the electrolarynx that makes contact with a patient's throat to produce vibrations similar to those produced by the larynx. To avoid “gravitational wear” of the coil wires against a magnetic cup used to center the coil wires, the walls of the cup are made thinner and the magnetic cup may be replaced with a non-magnetic cup or the magnetic cup is removed altogether.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Engineered Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Kamradt, Bradley Allen Wheeler
  • Weapon safety device
    Patent number: 9016533
    Abstract: Disclosed is a safety device that maintains a weapon inside a holster in a locked state without requiring the gun to be removed from the holster beforehand. In the embodiments, a single safety device can be used on a variety of holsters to lock the gun inside the holster, without requiring removal of the gun from the holster, therefore preventing children or other unauthorized individuals from accessing the gun and the gun's trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Relativity Engineering, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Visalli, Darren Bodner, Joel Young, Jacob Evans, Helene Seltzer, Thomas Larson, Daniel Visalli
  • Curtain airbag for vertical and angular motion of occupant in rollover
    Patent number: 9016717
    Abstract: A side curtain-roof airbag for a motor vehicle is provided. The side curtain-roof airbag includes a side chamber, a roof chamber, and a corner chamber located between said side and roof chambers. In addition, the corner chamber is separate from the side and corner chambers when the side curtain-roof airbag is in a deployed position. The corner chamber is separate from the side and roof chambers via a chamber wall. Also, the chamber wall may or may not have a plurality of vents such that the corner chamber is in fluid communication with the side and roof chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Clauser, Palaniappan Palaniappan
  • Packed bed scrubber using a fusel oil solvent
    Patent number: 9017523
    Abstract: A two stage scrubber process for ethanol fermentation has a first stage using fusel oil to remove the hazardous air pollutants and recover the majority of the ethanol. A second stage uses water as the scrubbing solvent to recover any residual ethanol that is stripped from the first stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Pinnacle Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Larry Kenneth Sibik
  • Drill bit assembly
    Patent number: D727985
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: McGinley Engineered Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Martin Leugers