Patents Examined by Adam J Eiseman
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Patent number: 11850648Abstract: Press apparatus and methods for manufacturing hot formed structural components are provided. The apparatus comprise a fixed lower body, and a mobile upper body. The apparatus comprise a cooling tool and a press tool which is arranged downstream from the cooling tool, and a blank transfer mechanism to transfer the blank from the cooling tool to the press tool. The cooling tool has an upper gas cooling tool connected to the mobile upper body and/or a lower gas cooling tool connected to the fixed lower body. The press tool comprises an upper pressing die connected to the upper body and a lower pressing die is connected to the lower body.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: AUTOTECH ENGINEERING S.L.Inventors: Jorge Castilla Moreno, Igor Quintas RiaƱo, Daniel Iglesias Morata
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Patent number: 11850766Abstract: Apparatus and method for separating product containing pouches from a travelling web of adhered films carried on a film support surface includes a rotary blade drum assembly having blade configurations with blade portions arranged to form the entire perimeter edge of the flange of the pouch which rotate in synchronous registration with grooves in the film support surface. In one form, at least one blade portion and associated groove portion are non-linear and other than longitudinal or transverse to the film support surface of the forming drum or travelling web of films. The blade portions may be heated and the rotary blade drum assembly may include insulating guides for the pouches.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2023Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Mespack Cloud, LLCInventors: Alexander J. Waterman, Donn D. Hartman, Gregory Wilmes, Anthony Crivolio
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Patent number: 11850816Abstract: An arbor press includes a limiter for limiting load and/or travel of a ram used to press on an object. The ram includes a pair of pieces, a shaft and a sleeve, which are capable of relative translation, modulated by the spring. The spring may be preloaded, and configured to prevent overloading of the object, by limiting the transmission of force through the ram. The ram may also be configured to limit travel of the ram. The arbor press may include gearing to translate rotational movement of a handle to translational movement of the ram. The gearing may include a rack that is part of or is coupled to the shaft, and a pinion that is connected to the handle. Parts of the arbor press may be enclosed in a housing, to contain debris from metal-to-metal sliding in the arbor press, facilitating use in clean rooms.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Mitchell Bro, John Tristan Elmer, Jarrod Salmon, William Straus
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Patent number: 11844466Abstract: Various juicing devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. The juicing device has a removable grinder assembly. The removable grinder assembly can be quickly and conveniently decoupled into individual components. The juicing device has a removable press chamber that can be quickly and conveniently removed from the juicing device.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Goodnature Products, Inc.Inventors: Eric Wettlaufer, Dale Wettlaufer, Thomas Heyden
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Patent number: 11845196Abstract: A method for making a paper blank from a corresponding paper sheet includes: loading a paper sheet along a longitudinal orientation, resting on a supporting surface that defines a worktop; moving a carriage in parallel with the worktop; making a primary cut on the paper sheet along a cutting orientation perpendicular to the worktop, using a primary blade which slides relative to a primary anvil; making a secondary cut, sliding a secondary blade and a secondary anvil relative to each other at a secondary cutting unit. The primary cutting unit and the secondary cutting unit are actuated by an actuating assembly.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: EMMECI S.P.A.Inventors: Alessio Giovanneschi, Pablo Baroni
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Patent number: 11844309Abstract: A lawn trimmer including a cutting disc, a drive shaft; and a flexible drive shaft. The drive shaft is within a straight shaft, connected to the motor and extending to the flexible drive shaft, translating the rotation of the motor to the flexible drive shaft. The flexible drive shaft is within a curved shaft, parallel but not-colinear with the straight shaft, extends to a rotor head connected to the curved shaft, translating drive shaft rotation to a cutting disc comprising a plurality of cutting blades on a cutting plane; an intersection between the cutting plane and the curved shaft axis defines a predetermined oblique angle.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Inventor: Douglas Franklin
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Patent number: 11832564Abstract: This brush cutter includes: a drive unit; a working unit which is driven by power of the drive unit; a shaft which transmits the power of the drive unit to the working unit; a tubular portion which is disposed between the drive unit and the working unit, and in which the shaft is inserted; a floating box which has a handle support portion; and a handle which is supported by the handle support portion. The brush cutter is provided with a vibration absorbing member which fits in a tubular portion side fitting portion provided in the tubular portion and fits in a box side fitting portion provided in the floating box.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Koike, Dai Hyakusawa, Shingo Tsuruoka, Takahiro Nakayama, Takahiro Yamamoto, Takuma Kimoto, Toshiro Uchida
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Patent number: 11826979Abstract: A machine for making corrugated paperboard boxes form corrugated paperboard sheets includes a slotter device with a blade that forms slots in the corrugated paperboard sheet. The machine can handle various sizes and configurations of corrugated paperboard sheets and can determine if the blade of the slotter device has a suitable length to form slots in each of the various corrugated paperboard sheets, using parameters including a circumferential length (N) of the slotter cylinder and dimensions (E, F, G) of the corrugated paperboard sheet.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA ISOWAInventors: Shunsuke Miyashita, Shunsuke Nakanishi
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Patent number: 11826923Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a shaving head configured to be moved along a shaving direction relative to skin during shaving of the skin, the shaving head including a housing, one or more blades mounted within the housing, and a hair moving mechanism connected to the housing and arranged in the shaving direction relative to the one or more blades, wherein the hair moving mechanism is configured to move hair relative to the skin in a direction towards the one or more blades during shaving. A shaver including same.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: BIC Violex Single Member S.A.Inventor: Panagiotis Kopelas
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Patent number: 11820028Abstract: A folding knife includes a movable piece that is attached to a blade and a handle so as to be relatively rotatable by a specific rotation angle with respect to the blade, and to rotate with respect to the handle together with the blade outside the specific rotation angle; a notch or a recess formed at a position near a rotating shaft portion on the back side of the blade; a protrusion that is formed at a position on the movable piece and in a shape corresponding to the notch or recess of the blade; and a rotation mechanism including the rotating shaft portion that allows the movable piece to rotate with respect to the blade only within a specific rotation angle.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: SPYDERCO, INC.Inventor: Junpei Makari
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Patent number: 11820042Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a holding table for holding a workpiece, a cutting unit including a spindle and a mount, a blade changer unit for mounting a cutting blade on or dismounting a cutting blade from the mount, and a control unit. The blade changer unit includes a blade chuck for holding the cutting blade and a moving unit. The cutting unit includes a vibration detecting sensor. The control unit includes a calculator for calculating the central axis of the mount from a position where the vibration detecting sensor detects vibrations caused upon contact between the mount and the blade chuck, and a mounting/dismounting controller for aligning the central axis of the blade chuck with the central axis of the mount and mounting the cutting blade on and dismounting cutting blade from the mount.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: DISCO CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuki Terada
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Patent number: 11819901Abstract: A tool for a press brake includes a tool main body, an attachment portion formed on a base end side of the tool main body and configured to be detachably attached to a tool installation portion of the press brake by using a tool changer, and a bending portion formed on a distal end side of the tool main body and used to bend a plate-shaped workpiece. An engagement hole having a circular cross-sectional shape to be engaged with a bar-shaped finger of the tool changer extends through the tool main body in a thickness direction. An anti-rotation bottomed depressed portion configured to receive a distal end of an anti-rotation member of the tool changer is formed in a vicinity of the engagement hole.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: AMADA CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Shiro Hayashi, Shingo Kamada, Hideto Yamada, Yohei Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11813661Abstract: A machine for processing a continuous semi- processed product (W), comprising a feeding unit (10), a processing unit (21, 22, 23), and a terminal cutting unit (30) past which processed segments (M) of the semi-processed product (W) are producible, which width (LI, L2, L3) is correlated to the feed step. The feeding unit (10) is automatically adjustable in the feed step. The machine further comprises actuators (21a, 22a, 23a) configured to adjust the position of the processing unit along the feed direction (A) of the semi-processed product (W), and a control system (40) configured to read input instructions relating to a series of consecutive segments to be produced, determine the required position of the processing unit (21, 22, 23) as a function of the input instructions, and determine the required feed step as a function of the input instructions.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: TECNOMATIC SPAInventors: Giovanni Ruggieri, Graziano Di Marcangelo
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Patent number: 11806889Abstract: A perforating apparatus and method includes a longitudinal cylinder axis about which a cylinder rotates. At least one shaped anvil bead is disposed on the cylinder. The cylinder including an anvil block and an anvil bead form a cavity. The cavity may be used to control the debris produced during the perforating process. A blade is disposed on a support to cooperate in contacting relationship with the anvil bead. A web is perforated as the web passes between the rotating cylinder and the support and the blade operatively engages with the anvil bead. The debris may be controlled by being drawn into the cavity prior to the point where the blade engages the anvil and, subsequently, being expelled after the point where the blade engages the anvil bead.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Katie Kristine Glass, Zachary Aaron Freije, Matthew Travis Brightman, Nicholas Raymond Tenhundfeld
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Patent number: 11801542Abstract: The disclosure provides a micro control device for simulating the electric thermal field change of a plate/strip, comprising a plate shape simulating test platform, a high current regulating power supply, a current regulating device, a thermal imager, a thermocouple, a non-contact type full field strain gauge, a high-power current control device and an electro-plastic control system; for a plate/strip with large width to thickness ratio and high hardness and brittleness alloy, different numbers of electrodes are arranged laterally along the movable supporting beam. A high-power current control device is used to realize the sub-regional control of the electric field, thermal field and stress field of the plate/strip; at the same time, the movable supporting beam and tension sensor are used to test the working conditions of the plate/strips with different lengths and widths, to simulate the instantaneous synchronous entanglement process between different fields.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: YANSHAN UNIVERSITYInventors: Lipo Yang, Gengliang Liu, Hailong Zhang, Jiaxuan Yang, Lei Pan, Yunpeng Liu
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Patent number: 11801575Abstract: A method for manufacturing a high-torque hexagonal drill shank includes: firstly producing an air module, wherein the lower end of the air module is inserted into a molding cavity of a mold, a high-pressure air is injected into the air module, and the surface of the air module is provided with a plurality of air outlets; evenly mixing metal powder and an organic binder together; injecting obtained particulates in a heating-plasticizing state into the molding cavity by an injection molding machine to solidify and form a hexagonal drill shank blank; forming a non-cylindrical cavity inside the hexagonal drill shank blank under the action of the air module; removing the binder in the hexagonal drill shank blank by thermal decomposition; and, finally, obtaining a high-torque hexagonal drill shank by sintering and densifying.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: JALOR INDUSTRY CO., LIMITEDInventor: Ning Jiang
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Patent number: 11794235Abstract: A button badge making machine includes a support frame and a lower die. The support frame includes a lower support member and first and second resilient units projecting upwardly from the lower support member and respectively having upwardly facing first and second support surfaces. The lower die includes a lower center die seat disposed on the lower support member, and a lower peripheral die seat surrounding and movable relative to the lower center die seat. The lower peripheral die seat is turnable about a rotating axis relative to the lower support member between first and second angular positions to be supported by the first and second support surfaces, respectively, with different resilient supports.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Inventor: Chin-Wen Yen
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Patent number: 11794231Abstract: Different divided tools are attached to tool attachment portions using automatic tool changers in proximity to slit tools that have already been attached to tool attachment portions. The attached different divided tools are moved toward the previously attached divided tools using the automatic tool changers, and the different divided tools are caused to abut on the previously attached divided tools. In a case in which a torque of a servomotor for moving the automatic tool changers in a left-right direction has reached a setting value set in advance, the different divided tools are detected to have abutted on the previously attached divided tools, and the moving of the different divided tools is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: AMADA CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsumi Watanabe, Yousuke Onagi, Yuto Nishihata
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Patent number: 11794041Abstract: A method for operating an electromechanical or electrohydraulic working device or rescue device is performed by an operator person and can be used autonomously. The working/rescue device includes a cutting tool having two cutting tool halves movable toward and away from one another and define a virtual cutting plane by their movement. The working/rescues device includes a housing, an electric motor; a pump or mechanical transmission, each driven by the electric motor for actuating the tool insert. An exchangeable rechargeable electrical energy source is in/on a device side of the working/rescue device and includes a housing. During operation of the working/rescue device, orientation of the working/rescue device is sensed and the relationship between the angular position of the working/rescue device cutting plane and the force applied by the cutting tool to the object to be cut is established and the working/rescue device is controlled in dependence on the relationship.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: LUKAS HYDRAULIK GMBHInventors: Carsten Sauerbier, Uwe Kirchner
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Patent number: 11788566Abstract: A ferrule connection interface may have a first composite ferrule having an outwardly threaded portion opposite a pole receiving portion. The interface may have a first pole bonded via an engineered adhesive to the first composite ferrule at the pole receiving portion of the first composite ferrule. The interface may also have a second composite ferrule having an inwardly threaded portion opposite a pole receiving portion, the inwardly threaded portion tightly meshing with the outwardly threaded portion of the first composite ferrule to form a tight connection. The interface may also have a second pole bonded via the engineered adhesive to the second composite ferrule at the pole receiving portion of the second composite ferrule. Both first and second composite ferrules are characterized by a lack of any metallic and/or electrically conductive materials.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Jameson, LLCInventor: Christopher Ryan Willis