Patents Examined by Alexander Thomas
  • Patent number: 9944207
    Abstract: A holder for a replaceable mat used in a vehicle having a base and at least one flap with a free edge that secures the replaceable mat. The flap may be integral to the base and may also be flexible to improve the efficiency of loading the replaceable mat. In other embodiments the flap is independent from the base and operatively secured by an attachment device to the base. Other features improve the ease of use and protective capabilities of the holder. The holder also improves safety for use in vehicles and is inexpensive to manufacture. The replaceable mat is preferably absorbent and freely disposable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Silver Plume, LLC
    Inventor: Gwendolyn Mary Garbarino
  • Patent number: 9937685
    Abstract: A natural fiber-based, engineered beam assembly comprising opposing top and bottom surfaces, opposing first and second side surfaces and a longitudinal axis. Loads applied to the beam assembly are normal to the top surface. Substantially parallel layers of flattened bamboo or vegetable cane culms are stacked and laminated together. Each layer is formed by at least one culm, and each culm has fiber bundles extending substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis and are impregnated with a binder. The density of the fiber bundles in the culm decreases across the culm's thickness from the exterior surface to the interior surface. At least a plurality of the culms have a common orientation, wherein the exterior surfaces face toward a same one of the top, bottom, first or second side surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Resource Fiber LLC
    Inventors: Leland Slaven, Jr., David Knight
  • Patent number: 9938198
    Abstract: Integrated ceramic matrix composite components for use in gas turbine engines are disclosed along with methods for making the same. The methods include coinfiltrating a greenbody assembly with ceramic matrix to produce an integrated component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc., Rolls-Royce High Temperature Composites Inc.
    Inventors: Sean E. Landwehr, Daniel K. Vetters, Ted J. Freeman, Robert J. Shinavski
  • Patent number: 9931968
    Abstract: A mat structure for a vehicle, in which an edging member capable of preventing impurities such as soil from falling down to an indoor floor of the vehicle is sewed on an upper surface of an edge of a mat, and a sewing device capable of easily sewing the edging member and a magic tape on the mat. The mat prevents impurities remaining on the upper mat from falling down to the indoor floor of the vehicle and contaminating inside the vehicle by using the protrusion portion, and passengers may scrape the impurities off bottoms of the passenger's shoes on the protrusion portion so that the impurities remain on the upper mat. Also, the protrusion portion protects a sewing line of the female magic tape against frictions with the bottoms of the shoes, and prevents the sewing line from being torn off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: GLOBAL THE ONE KOREA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sang Yeon Lee
  • Patent number: 9931809
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a composite material structure includes a first member and a second member. The first member has at least one first bonded surface. The second member has at least one second bonded surface to be bonded to the at least one first bonded surface. The second member is made of a composite material. At least one surface formed by fibers forming the composite material is used as the at least one second bonded surface by disposing end portions of the fibers, in the first member side, inside the composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Kosugi, Masakatsu Abe, Yuichiro Yasunaga
  • Patent number: 9931819
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vacuum insulation board (1) comprising: a hermetically closed covering (3) in which the pressure is lower than atmospheric pressure, a core material (5) made of organic aerogel placed inside said covering (3), said organic aerogel being based on a resin resulting at least in part from polyhydroxybenzene(s) R and formaldehyde(s) F, said organic aerogel being a polymeric monolithic organic gel comprising at least one water-soluble cationic polyelectrolyte, or said organic aerogel being a pyrolysate of said gel in the form of a porous carbon monolith comprising the product of the pyrolysis of said at least one water-soluble cationic polyelectrolyte P, said organic aerogel exhibiting a specific thermal conductivity of between 10 and 40 mW·m?1·K?1 at atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: HUTCHINSON
    Inventors: Nadine Poupa Parsigneau, Benjamin Swoboda, Cedric Huillet, Christophe Dominiak
  • Patent number: 9926966
    Abstract: A reusable hanging device includes: an adhesion layer, a plate layer, and a hook body. Wherein, the adhesion layer is a low stickiness soft plastic made of a thermoplastic elastomer composite material, and it is vacuum-absorbed onto a smooth surface of a wall or a smooth surface of a wall having tiny bumps, by means of the super strong friction force produced on the smooth surface of a wall by the atmospheric pressure. The plate layer is made of hard material, formed integrally on a surface of the adhesion layer. And the hook body is also made of hard material, formed integrally on a surface of the plated layer. In application, the adhesion layer is absorbed onto a smooth surface of a wall by vacuum, the super strong friction force thus produced enables the hook body to hang object of 0˜112.6 kgf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Inventors: Cheng-Ta Tseng, Tso-Hua Yeh
  • Patent number: 9924765
    Abstract: A fastening device includes a base including a top surface; a first fastening field extending from the top surface of the base and including a plurality of first fastening elements, each of the first fastening elements including a fastening feature, the fastening feature of at least some of the first fastening elements extending in a first direction; and a second fastening field extending from the top surface of the base and comprising a plurality of second fastening elements, each of the second fastening elements including a fastening feature, the fastening features of all of the second fastening elements extending in a second direction that is angled with respect to the first direction, the second fastening field divided from the first fastening field by a dividing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: YKK Corporation of America
    Inventor: Wolfgang E. Coronel
  • Patent number: 9926122
    Abstract: A laminate structure, package, and associated method of manufacturing are described, where the laminate structure includes a first film layer having an uncut laser-distorted region, a second film layer having an inner laser score line laminated to the first film layer, and a third film layer having an outer score line laminated to the second film layer. The inner laser score line is in line with the laser-distorted region, and the outer score line is offset from the inner laser score line and the laser-distorted region. When a consumer peels back the third film layer via the outer score line, the first film layer breaks along the laser-distorted region to form a first film layer cut line continuous with the inner laser score line, allowing the first film layer and the second film layer to be moved together with the third film layer for opening the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: SONOCO DEVELOPMENT, INC.
    Inventor: Jacob Donald Prue Branyon
  • Patent number: 9925747
    Abstract: Provided is an outer cover material for a vacuum insulator, sequentially comprising: one or more layers of a polyester film; a polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) film adhered to a lower surface of the polyester film; and a sealing film adhered to a lower surface of the PVOH film. Also provided is a vacuum insulator, comprising a core material consisting of a fiberglass; and the outer cover material under internal pressure, accommodating the core material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: LG HAUSYS, LTD.
    Inventors: Myung Lee, Eun Joo Kim, Seong Moon Jung, Hyun Jae Kim
  • Patent number: 9914324
    Abstract: A kit for making a simulated stained glass article, having a light-transmissive molded plastic substrate with an array of ridges on one major surface, laterally defining a pattern of upwardly open spaces, and a set of light-transmissive molded plastic colored stickers that are respectively peripherally shaped to fit conformingly into the spaces of the pattern. Side walls of the ridges are beveled at an angle sufficient to enable release of the substrate from a mold but are steep enough to facilitate precise placement of the stickers in the spaces and to minimize transmission of light around the edges of the stickers. In an article made from the kit, the stickers and ridges simulate the glass pieces and lead cames of a conventional stained glass window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: MELISSA & DOUG LLC
    Inventors: Melissa Beth Bernstein, Sofia E. Dumery, Ken Weiland
  • Patent number: 9911366
    Abstract: A shield strip includes an elongated central web, a plurality of printable identification plates for identifying electrical components, the plurality of identification plates being arranged on two sides of the central web in each case in succession along the central web and being connected to the central web via connecting webs, and at least two holding pins of a different shape and/or size being arranged on the central web, wherein the at least two holding pins are formed in each case for engagement in an associated mounting of a magazine of a printing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Markus Hilmstedt, Thomas Poelker, Uwe Frigge, Albrecht Schierholz, Joachim Jacke, Fabian Haak, Sandra Klocke
  • Patent number: 9902247
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a vehicle window component and a vehicle window component, wherein the method for manufacturing the vehicle window comprises: providing a vehicle window substrate and an elastic body; adhering the elastic body to a surface of the vehicle window substrate, wherein the surface is close to a lateral side of the vehicle window substrate; and implementing an injection molding process for forming an encapsulation, wherein the injection molding process is performed at an injection molding temperature lower than a melting temperature of the elastic body. The method for manufacturing a vehicle window component and the vehicle window component provided by the present disclosure may have no shrink mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Jun Zhou, Jianhong Hu
  • Patent number: 9897009
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a flexible thermal blanket assembly, comprising: a stack-up of material layers that are configured to wrap around a component, a plurality of snaps configured to be mechanically fastened through the material layers, and a cap configured as a baffle to prevent thermal energy located at an exterior of the thermal blanket assembly from entering an interior of the thermal blanket assembly when the thermal blanket assembly is assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Paul E. Strong, Younus Ahmed, William Bogue, Michael Chrysosferidis
  • Patent number: 9878845
    Abstract: The cover for a container having an outwardly projecting handle includes a skirt having a panel section for at least partially wrapping around the container. An attachment mechanism may be disposed on one end of the panel section and be selectively engageable with an opposite end of the panel section to retain the skirt around the container and below the outwardly projecting handle. The cover may also include a lip projecting inwardly about an upper periphery of the skirt having a size and shape relatively smaller than an upper rim of the container. In this respect, the lip is configured for slide-on engagement and support by the rim. Additionally, the cover includes a tab downwardly extending from the lip underneath the outwardly projecting handle for select engagement with the panel section such that the skirt, the panel section, the lip, and the tab cooperate to substantially cover the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Inventor: Sheryl Lynn Thornton
  • Patent number: 9878488
    Abstract: A vacuum heat insulation material includes outer covering material which has a gas barrier property and a core material that is provided in an inside of outer covering material, the inside of the outer covering material being vacuum sealed, in which a sealed portion that is configured by sealing the peripheral edge of outer covering material, fin that is formed on the peripheral edge of outer covering material, and compressed portion which is formed by a protrusion being compressed, the protrusion is generated when the peripheral edge of outer covering material is folded back toward the core material are provided. Thereby, it is possible to provide a vacuum heat insulation material that is able to suppress reduction of a heat insulation property when a plurality of sheets are disposed lined up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Miyamoto, Shinya Kojima, Shuuichi Yakushi, Noriyuki Miyaji
  • Patent number: 9879358
    Abstract: A heat shield assembly for an epitaxy chamber is described herein. The heat shield assembly has a heat shield member and a preheat member. The heat shield member is disposed on the preheat member. The heat shield member has a cutout portion that exposes a portion of the preheat member. The preheat member has a recessed portion to receive the heat shield member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichi Oki, Yuji Aoki, Yoshinobu Mori
  • Patent number: 9867489
    Abstract: A drop cloth retention system includes a drop cloth that may be positioned on a support surface. Thus, the support surface is protected from being contaminated. A clamping unit is provided and the clamping unit may be positioned on the support surface. The clamping engages the drop cloth such that the drop cloth is inhibited from moving on the support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Inventor: Bennie Sales
  • Patent number: 9868133
    Abstract: A masking device for covering a masking area. The masking device includes a first member, a second member, and a third member. The masking device further includes a base formed by the first member, the second member, and the third member. The base defines a top surface and a bottom surface. The masking device further includes a pull tab formed by the first member and the second member. The pull tab extends away from the top surface of the base. The bottom surface includes an adhesive. The bottom surface is configured for removable attachment to the masking area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Engineered Products and Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mario Lopez, Jr., Chad M. Cushman, Kissak Sarajian
  • Patent number: 9863159
    Abstract: A floatable flexible sealed waterproof cover for pools, made of a flexible waterproof bottom sheet, a flexible waterproof upper sheet and several rods made of a foam material. The bottom sheet and the upper sheet are welded to each other on their four sides. The upper sheet and the bottom sheet are connected by a number of lines that construct hollow sleeves between them and the rods are inserted into the sleeves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Inventor: Eithan Wiseman