Patents Examined by Alexander P Taousakis
  • Accessory making device, accessory making kit, and method for making accessory
    Patent number: 8943694
    Abstract: An accessory making device (1) of the present invention is a device for making an accessory including a core (83) formed into a substantially ring shape by connecting both ends of a stretchable cord-like body (46) having rubber-like elasticity and a decoration main body (83) disposed around the core in such a manner so as to abut both ends thereof against each other in a contracted state so as to be reduced in axial length. The accessory making device (1) includes a long rigid holder (5). The holder (5) can retain connecting portions (47M, 47F) on both end sides of the cord-like body (46) with the connecting portions (47M, 47F) of the cord-like body (46) separated from each other, and can be inserted through the decoration main body (83).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: The Pilot Ink Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Natsuko Kobayashi, Haruka Kasuga, Akio Nakashima
  • Method and apparatus for installing a racquet safety cord
    Patent number: 8925174
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for quickly and easily installing a safety cord in the butt of a racquet, without damaging the safety cord, includes a handle and an elongate structure having a loop for engaging the safety cord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Inventors: A. Cil Ciliberti, Ruben Gonzalez
  • Method and machining installation for the finishing of a crankshaft bearing bore
    Patent number: 8925198
    Abstract: In a method for the finishing of a crankshaft bearing bore in a cylinder crankcase of an internal combustion engine, starting from a prepared crankshaft bearing bore, a finished crankshaft bearing bore is produced with a prescribable desired size, a prescribable desired structure of the bore inner surface and a prescribable desired position of the bore axis. The prepared crankshaft bearing bore is first finished with at least one finishing tool with a geometrically defined cutting edge and then the honing of the crankshaft bearing bore is carried out. In a final finishing operation with a geometrically defined cutting edge immediately preceding the honing, an allowance of at least 0.4 mm is removed, and the honing tool is introduced into the bore coaxially in relation to the desired position of the bore axis and moved within the bore, an allowance of at least 0.08 mm being removed during the honing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignees: Nagel Maschinen-und Werkzeugfabrik GmbH, Grob-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Nagel, Martin Mayer, German Wankmiller, Georg Wassermann
  • Systems and methods and apparatus involving fabricating brush seals
    Patent number: 8925199
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a brush seal assembly comprising, bending a first plate member to a helical shape, bending a second plate member to a helical shape, securing the first plate member to a drum, winding a wire material around the drum and the first plate member, securing the second plate member to the drum, attaching the second plate member and the first plate member to the wire, and cutting the wire to define a bristle length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William Edward Adis, Bernard Arthur Couture, Jr., Marshall Gordon Jones, Michael Dennis Mack, Daniel Frederick Purdy
  • Constant velocity joint and method of making
    Patent number: 8925204
    Abstract: A method of making a CV joint is disclosed. The method includes forming a first rotatable shaft having a first longitudinal axis, the first shaft comprising an axle portion having on one end thereof an enlarged pocket end. The method also includes forming a plurality of inwardly extending bores into the enlarged pocket end along peripherally spaced, radially extending pocket axes to a bore depth. The method further includes forming a plurality of inwardly extending ball pockets that are disposed about the pocket axes to a pocket depth, wherein the bore depth is greater than the pocket depth, thereby forming a recessed lubricant reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation
    Inventor: Keith A. Kozlowski
  • Compressor thrust bearing surge protection
    Patent number: 8925197
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus of inhibiting a thrust bearing capacity of a compression system from being exceeded during a surge event in which a thrust bearing is biased with a biasing force to increase the thrust bearing overload margin between the capacity of thrust bearing to absorb axial forces and the greatest force produced during the surge event. This biasing force can be produced by appropriately sizing the high pressure seal on the side of the impeller opposite to the inlet of a compressor of the compression system so that the back disk force produced in the high pressure region of the high pressure seal and the low pressure region located inwardly of the high pressure region creates the desired bias force value and direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Praxair Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: John H. Royal, Michael J. Stanko
  • Methods for improving stent retention on a balloon catheter
    Patent number: 8925177
    Abstract: A method of crimping a stent on a balloon of a catheter assembly is provided. A polymeric stent is disposed over a balloon in an inflated configuration. The stent is crimped over the inflated balloon to a reduced crimped configuration so that the stent is secured onto the balloon. The balloon wall membrane is wedged or pinched between the strut elements of the stent for increasing the retention of the stent on the balloon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Huang, David C. Gale, Daniel Castro
  • Flexible seam joint for use in robotic skin
    Patent number: 8927081
    Abstract: An artificial skin such as an outer covering or skin for an animatronic character. The skin may be formed by a method that includes providing a mold assembly with an exterior mold and a core. In the mold assembly, a cavity is formed between inner surfaces of the exterior mold and exterior surfaces of the core that defines the skin system. The mold assembly includes a seam-forming wall extending between the inner and exterior surfaces. The method includes inserting an elongate, tubular guide through holes in the seam-forming wall and pouring an elastomeric material into the mold to occupy the cavity between the exterior mold and the interior core. The method includes, after the material has hardened, cutting a seam in the skin system by cutting the material along the seam-forming wall. The tubular guide is separated into guide segments and a staggered joint is formed at the cut seam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan S. Tye, Philip John Jackson
  • Processing method for brake rotor-equiped wheel bearing devices
    Patent number: 8914965
    Abstract: An outer member and an inner member constituting a wheel bearing device are assembled and the brake rotor is fixed to the hub ring of the inner member. In this state, the pad slide surfaces of the brake rotor are lathed with the reference provided by a wheel pilot end surface. Alternatively, the wheel pilot end surface of the hub ring by chucking the knuckle pilot of the outer member with the wheel bearing device put in its assembled state, and the pad slide surfaces of the brake rotor are lathed with the reference provided by the wheel pilot end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyotake Shibata, Kazunari Yamamoto, Kazuhisa Shigeoka, Taku Nishiki, Kazuo Komori, Takao Maeda
  • Application roller and manufacturing method of application roller
    Patent number: 8914978
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of an application roller that applies a coating solution onto a surface of a substrate, wherein the application roller includes a roller body that includes a large diameter portion and small diameter portions coaxially extended from both ends of the large diameter portion, the manufacturing method includes: overlaying a resin layer on at least an outer periphery of each of the small diameter portions; forming a masking portion on the outer periphery of each of the small diameter portions by processing an outer periphery of the resin layer; and forming an application groove portion on an outer periphery of the large diameter portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Yamazaki
  • Service apparatus for turbomachine
    Patent number: 8910374
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a service apparatus for a turbomachine. The service apparatus can include: a frame for coupling to an opening in the turbomachine; a bridge member operably coupled to the frame and spanning a width of the frame, the bridge member being substantially movable along a length of the frame; and a crane member operably coupled to the bridge member, the crane member being substantially movable along the width of the frame, wherein the crane member includes at least one attachment device for attaching to an object within the turbomachine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael Alan Davi, James Robert Hollis, Sean Cornelius O'Meara, Wayne David Sullivan
  • Ring manufacturing method, apparatus of the same and rings manufactured by the ring manufacturing method
    Patent number: 8910382
    Abstract: Form the oval rings 25 from the circular rings 23. Then, twist the oval rings 25, for instance three times, around center of the longitudinal direction, and create the ring portion for male 31 and the binding portion at the both side of the binding portion. After that, obtain the rings for male 2 and the rings for female 3 by cutting the binding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Mokumeganeya Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaki Takahashi
  • Iron golf club and method for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 8910368
    Abstract: In order to sharpen and harden a corner portion of a score line edge portion of an iron golf club having a plurality of score lines on a face surface within a prescribed range, heat input is implemented on an edge portion of a groove through laser irradiation after the groove is machined and, as a result, the edge portion is hardened and melted to form a rounded corner R. The hardness is set at a Vickers hardness value (HV) of at least 350. The corner R forms a part of a contour line of the edge portion and this contour line is formed to exist between a first circle that contacts the face surface and a side surface of the groove and has a radius of 0.010 inches (0.254 millimeters) and a second circle that is concentric with the first circle and has a radius of 0.011 inches (0.2794 millimeters).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: K.K. Endo Seisakusho
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Myodo, Junichi Amano
  • Forging method for producing a piston or piston skirt
    Patent number: 8904634
    Abstract: A forging method for producing a piston skirt having two skirt walls and two box walls connecting the skirt walls may include forging, to the piston skirt, the skirt walls at least slightly conically towards the outside of the piston skirt via a first forging die. The box walls may be forged to the piston skirt, wherein each box wall has a hub inside and a hub outside. The box walls may be moulded via a second forging die, wherein the hub outside of each box wall runs at least one of substantially parallel to the piston axis and slightly sloping to an outside of their hub inside towards a free end of the piston skirt to the outside. The skirt walls may be drawn, simultaneously with moulding of the box walls, into a position that is approximately parallel to the piston axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Iβler
  • Machine with a supporting framework for holding a covering
    Patent number: 8904624
    Abstract: A method of making a supporting framework for holding a covering for a container-treatment machine that includes a machine element that is at least partially covered by the covering, and in which columns and cross members are connected to one another in a centering manner at node points includes equipping a column with a connecting flange. This connecting flange is folded relative to a non-folded lug. The connecting flange centers the column relative to a cross-member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Berger, Eberhard Sendobry
  • Combustion system and method of assembling the same
    Patent number: 8893382
    Abstract: A method of assembling a combustion system for a gas turbine engine includes providing a combustion chamber frame, an inner casing structure, and an outer casing structure. The method also includes mounting the combustion chamber frame between the inner casing structure and the outer casing structure such that the combustion chamber frame is coupled to the inner casing structure and the outer casing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: David Bruce Patterson, Donald Michael Corsmeier, Craig Douglas Young, Donald Lee Gardner, James Edward Thompson, Daniel Dale Brown, Glenn Edward Wiehe, Donald Scott Yeager, Mark Willard Marusko, Michael Joseph Zerbe
  • Apparatus and methods for connecting a drain pan overflow sensor to a ductless mini-split HVAC system
    Patent number: 8887392
    Abstract: Apparatus useful for connecting a drain pan overflow sensor to the evaporator assembly of a ductless mini-split HVAC system includes at least one carrier extending upwardly from the overflow sensor and at least one connector releasably engageable with the carrier and at least one fin and/or evaporator coil tube of the evaporator assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: The Rectorseal Corporation
    Inventors: Zhengyi Xu, Robert Allen Martinelli
  • Extruded member with altered radial fins
    Patent number: 8887398
    Abstract: A method of extruding a component includes: creating a first design of a component, wherein in the first design the component comprises a member and is configured for an implementation; adding at least one radial fin to the member in the first design, the member and the radial fins being a second design of the component; extruding a piece that conforms to the second design and has at least one extruded radial fin; and altering the extruded radial fin on the extruded piece, the alteration adding or enhancing a structural property of the component in the implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael J. Baldwin
  • Manufacturing heat exchanger from porous medium and conduits
    Patent number: 8875395
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger comprising at least one heat conducting conduit for passage of a first medium and at least one block of an open cell porous medium for passage of a second medium. The method comprises providing at least one groove in the open cell porous medium. Thereafter, the porous medium is bent in a direction such that at least part of the grooves are opened and heat conducting conduits are applied in this at least one opened groove. Thereafter, the porous medium is rebend such that the heat conducting conduits are locked in said open cell porous medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Universiteit Gent
    Inventors: Franky Wallaert, Peter De Jaeger, Johan Hugelier
  • Manufacturing method for toothed part and manufacturing device for toothed part
    Patent number: 8875396
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a toothed part including a bottom surface portion and a side wall portion provided to extend upright from an outer peripheral end portion of the bottom surface portion, the side wall portion being formed with teeth. The manufacturing method includes a half drawing process of performing draw shaping on a material having a disk shape to form the bottom surface portion and the side wall portion, an inside diameter of which becomes larger in a direction away from the bottom surface portion; and a tooth shaping process of forming the teeth in the side wall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Iwata, Tomoyuki Hori, Naoki Yokoyama, Hiroshi Shibata, Masayuki Maki