Patents Examined by Adam J Eiseman
  • Patent number: 11819901
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: AMADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Sato, Shiro Hayashi, Shingo Kamada, Hideto Yamada, Yohei Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11813661
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TECNOMATIC SPA
    Inventors: Giovanni Ruggieri, Graziano Di Marcangelo
  • Patent number: 11806889
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Katie Kristine Glass, Zachary Aaron Freije, Matthew Travis Brightman, Nicholas Raymond Tenhundfeld
  • Patent number: 11801542
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: YANSHAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lipo Yang, Gengliang Liu, Hailong Zhang, Jiaxuan Yang, Lei Pan, Yunpeng Liu
  • Patent number: 11801575
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: JALOR INDUSTRY CO., LIMITED
    Inventor: Ning Jiang
  • Patent number: 11794235
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventor: Chin-Wen Yen
  • Patent number: 11794231
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: AMADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumi Watanabe, Yousuke Onagi, Yuto Nishihata
  • Patent number: 11794041
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: LUKAS HYDRAULIK GMBH
    Inventors: Carsten Sauerbier, Uwe Kirchner
  • Patent number: 11788566
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Jameson, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Ryan Willis
  • Patent number: 11785887
    Abstract: A trimmer has a guide tube and a tool unit connected to an end of the guide tube. A handlebar is secured to the guide tube and has handles connected to a respective end of the bar of the handlebar. Each handle has a shaft with a fastening end and a free end. The fastening end is provided to secure the handle on the power tool. The handles each have a front side facing the tool unit of the guide tube end and an oppositely positioned rear side. The handles each have an inner side and an outer side, wherein the inner sides face each other and wherein the outer sides face away from each other. At least one of the handles is provided with a heel of hand support designed as an elevation extending at the inner side and at the rear side of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Liv Bicheier, Roland Mandel, Simon Haug
  • Patent number: 11772145
    Abstract: A high efficiency stripper nozzle, with a through hole configured to be connected to the through hole of another nozzle, guide, or nozzle, which comprises several radial channels that pass through the nozzle from the perimeter zone to the hole at its entrance zone. The nozzle may be divided into several pieces which can be connected together in a removable way and replaceable, which may form the radial channels between them with different sections and angles with respect to the axis of the hole. The radial channels may contact externally with an opening located on one of the surfaces of the nozzle or on one of the surfaces of the nozzle to which the nozzle is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Nortek, S.A.
    Inventors: Jose Rafael Lazo, John Paul Gasparik
  • Patent number: 11772293
    Abstract: A knife assembly includes a knife blade of which a front edge is a cutting edge, a holder configured for supporting the knife blade, a clamp arranged for clamping the knife blade onto the holder, and a fastening mechanism cooperating with the clamp and the holder for securing and clamping We knife blade between the clamp and the holder with the cutting edge protruding at a front side of the knife assembly. The holder has a frontal part which is, in clamped state, in contact with a bottom side of the knife blade at a first distance from the cutting edge. The clamp has a leading edge which, in clamped state, clamps onto a top side of the knife blade and is located a second distance from the cutting edge, the second distance being smaller than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: FAM
    Inventor: Brent Bucks
  • Patent number: 11766795
    Abstract: A razor handle. The razor handle include a main body and a pivoting head pivotally coupled with the main body about a pivot axis. The pivoting head can have a substantially trapezoidal prism shape and can include a base member and a cover member that overlies the base member in a mating relationship and can have an internal compartment. The cover member can have a skin interfacing face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Eric Glenn Siegmann, Steven Michael Bourque, Thomas Alva Baer, Jin Kyung Kim, Regan Marie Fiascone
  • Patent number: 11766792
    Abstract: A blade replacement apparatus of an electric instrument is provided. The blade replacement apparatus includes a nut, a nut loosening/tightening member, a locking member, and an operating member. One of the nut loosening/tightening member and the operating member has a first matching portion, the locking member having a second matching portion. The operating member is movable between an operating position and a non-operating position. When the operating member is in the non-operating position, the first matching portion engages with the second matching portion, and the rotation of the nut loosening/tightening member is obstructed by the locking member. When the operating member is in the operating position, the first matching portion is disengaged from the second matching portion, and the rotation of the nut loosening/tightening member tightens or loosens the nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Techtronic Cordless GP
    Inventors: Gong Meng Shu, Da Zheng Li
  • Patent number: 11752647
    Abstract: A hair clipper bladeset includes a stationary blade having a front, stationary toothed edge and an opposite, stationary rear edge, the stationary blade defining a transverse track, a moving blade having a front, moving toothed edge and an opposite, moving rear edge, and a lower blade guide disposed between the moving blade and the stationary blade and configured for reciprocating in the track and maintaining lateral alignment of the moving blade relative to the stationary blade during lateral reciprocating movement of the moving blade. The moving blade has an engagement formation. An upper blade guide connects with the engagement formation for moving with the moving blade in the lateral reciprocating movement. A drive arm has a blade end operatively engaging the upper blade guide, and an opposite follower end configured for receiving a hair clipper drive element, the drive arm pivots about a drive post located on the stationary blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: WAHL CLIPPER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Bruce V. Johnson
  • Patent number: 11731293
    Abstract: A bolster-actuated folding knife may have a folding knife blade whose opening and closing is controlled by an actuator on the knife's handle. This bolster-actuator may rotate in either of two rotational directions about the same pivot as the knife blade. When a user rotates the bolster-actuator in one direction, the bolster's pin may impinge via direct contact with the knife blade forcing the knife blade fully open. When a rotates the bolster-actuator in the opposite direction bolster-actuator rotation and thus bolster pin deflection may cause the knife's locking tab to disengage from a cutout in the knife blade, unlocking the knife blade from its fully locked-open position and urging the knife blade to close. Thus, the bolster-actuated folding knife may provide a convenient means to open and close a locking, folding knife with only one hand, and without substantial interference with the knife's aesthetic appeal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Holy Grail Forge, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Edwin Nelson, III
  • Patent number: 11731297
    Abstract: In certain embodiments, a personal care device can include a housing, a functional assembly attached to the housing, a motor disposed within the housing and operatively connected to the functional assembly to move one or more components of the functional assembly, and a switch configured to move between at least two states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Sincerely Ltd. B.V.
    Inventors: Anthony Ashcroft, Joshua Funamura, Jonathan P. Ive, Patrick Kessler, Eugene Whang, Christopher Wilson, Suhang Zhou
  • Patent number: 11717981
    Abstract: A vacuum rotary knife is fluidly connectable to a vacuum source conduit. The rotary knife includes an annular blade and a knife head. The knife head supports the blade for rotation about a rotational axis. The knife head presents a vacuum port fluidly connectable to the conduit. The vacuum port is spaced from the blade such that the knife head defines a suction pathway extending between the blade and the vacuum port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Hantover, Inc.
    Inventor: Clark A. Levsen
  • Patent number: 11697215
    Abstract: A surgical hair clipper includes a clipper body and a blade assembly connected to the clipper body. The blade assembly includes a moveable blade configured to reciprocate to remove hair from a skin area and a blade housing that houses the moveable blade. The blade housing has a guide surface that faces the skin area during a hair removal process. A touch sensor is exposed at the guide surface for contact with the skin area during use. A processor receives a signal from the touch sensor when the touch sensor contacts the skin area. The processor uses logic saved in a memory to instruct a feedback device to provide an indication of skin contact between the touch sensor and the skin area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 2200, Inc.
    Inventors: Isaias Tellez, Robert Radford, Sara Tillman, Camille A. Sendlak
  • Patent number: 11691307
    Abstract: A handle. The handle can have a main body and a first substantially flat arm having a first distal end and a first proximal end defining a first arm opening can be coupled to a first location of the main body. A second substantially flat arm having a second distal end and a second proximal end defining a second arm opening, can be coupled to a second location of the main body. The first and second distal ends can be in spaced relationship and have pivotally coupled therebetween a pivoting head having a trapezoidal prism shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Charles James Bassett, Steven Michael Bourque, Michael Tejpaul Verasamy, Jack Anthony Washington