Patents Examined by Alison L Hindenlang
  • Patent number: 11897175
    Abstract: A fluid cooled mold plate is disclosed. The fluid cooled mold plate has a front side, a rear side, and a perimeter that extends between its front and rear sides. A cooling chamber is formed within the mold plate. The cooling chamber has a front wall, a rear wall, and a perimeter wall that extends between the front and rear walls. An inlet fluid duct extends from a first side of the mold plate perimeter to a first end of the cooling chamber and an outlet fluid duct extends from a second side of the mold plate perimeter to a second end of the cooling chamber. The cooling chamber is occupied by a turbulence generating dispersion mesh that is secured between the front and rear walls the cooling chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: DME COMPANY LLC
    Inventors: David James Moore, Peter Richard Smith
  • Patent number: 11897173
    Abstract: An apparatus for injecting a molten material including an injector, a rail, a bell crank, and a frame supporting the injector via the rail for guiding the linear translation of the injector along the frame. The apparatus includes a first guide and a second guide slideably coupled to the rail, the second guide attached to the injector and spaced from the first guide along the rail, and a bell crank coupled to the first guide and second guide to provide a load-balancing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Mold-Masters (2007) Limited
    Inventor: Martin Kestle
  • Patent number: 11890793
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for assembling moulded bodies. The invention also relates to a moulded body which comprises a foam and at least one fibre (F), the fibre (F) is within a fibre range (FB2) inside the moulded body and is at least once at least partially divided, wherein at least one fibre (F) is completely divided. The invention further relates to the thus obtained assembled moulded body, and to a panel with contains the assembled moulded body and at least one layer (S1). The invention further relates to a method for producing the panel and to the use of the assembled moulded body and the claimed panel, for example, as a rotor blade in wind turbines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert Stein, Holger Ruckdaeschel, Rene Arbter, Tim Diehlmann, Gregor Daun, Marc Claude Martin
  • Patent number: 11891010
    Abstract: A lining element for use in a vehicle in order to cover an airbag includes a dimensionally stable backing layer with a first predetermined breaking region which is delimited from a surrounding region and/or from a second predetermined breaking region by at least one predetermined breaking line, where a plurality of regularly spaced predetermined breaking points are disposed along the predetermined breaking line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Martin Schwabl
  • Patent number: 11890789
    Abstract: A web forming apparatus includes a drum portion and a second web forming unit. The drum portion has an accommodating chamber capable of accommodating fragments, and accommodating powder supplied from a first supplying unit. The second web forming unit forms a second web by letting a mixture containing the fragments and the powder falling from the drum portion accumulate. The first supplying unit includes a storing chamber for storing the powder and an outlet portion provided below the storing chamber. The powder goes out of the storing chamber via the outlet portion. The drum portion has meshes formed in a net demarcating the accommodating chamber. The powder is able to pass through the meshes. The outlet portion is provided vertically over the net of the drum portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Koike, Satomi Yoshioka, Akio Ito
  • Patent number: 11884031
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods and systems for producing a preferably strand-like extrudate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: 9T Labs AG
    Inventors: Martin Eichenhofer, Giovanni Cavolina, Chester Houwink
  • Patent number: 11878451
    Abstract: In an aspect, a method of filling a plurality of cooling holes in an airfoil component, the method comprises injecting a curable composition into a fill channel such that the curable composition flows through the fill channel to the plurality of cooling holes; forming a plurality of beads of the curable composition on a surface of the component over the plurality of cooling holes; directing a radiation to the respective beads in directions parallel to the respective central axes of the cooling holes associated with the respective beads to cure curable composition of the respective beads; and heating the component to cure the curable composition located in the fill channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: DYMAX
    Inventors: Richard Levesque, Gregory Arcangeli, Keith Plimpton, Eric Wilmot, Michael Cunningham, Virginia P. Hogan
  • Patent number: 11872744
    Abstract: A parison tube former utilizes a radial compression heater to heat a very specific portion of a preform tube for stretching. The heater has a plurality of compression dies that form a central cavity for receiving the preform tube. The working surfaces of the compression dies close down onto the outer surface of the preform tube to heat the tube via conduction, which more accurately and precisely heats the preform tube. A first stretched portion of the preform tube is produced by stretching the preform tube after heating. A second portion of the preform tube is then located within the central cavity and is also heated by the radial compression heater and stretched to produce a second stretched portion of the preform tube and an unexpanded portion of the preform tube, or balloon portion of the parison tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: BLOCKWISE ENGINEERING LLC
    Inventors: Jordan Bradley Boyd, Ed Goff, Jeremiah J. Warriner
  • Patent number: 11873376
    Abstract: A fiber-reinforced resin material used for molding a fiber-reinforced resin which includes a matrix resin and reinforcing fiber bundles A including chopped fiber bundles each including 100 or more single fibers, wherein the product of an average porosity within fiber bundles Pfav (?) and an average fiber bundle thickness tfav (mm) is 0 mm or more and 0.01 mm or less and a porosity of composite Pc (?) is 0.02 or more and 0.4 or less, and a method for producing the same. The fiber-reinforced resin material is a molding material excellent in terms of productivity and reduction in LCA, which can give high mechanical properties to a molded article using the molding material and further which is excellent also in flowability during molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsuki Fuse, Satoshi Seike, Akihiko Matsui, Kazuma Ura
  • Patent number: 11872736
    Abstract: An injection molding system comprising: a first selected valve, one or more downstream valves, delivering a fluid to a mold cavity, at least one fluid property sensor, each valve associated with a position sensor that detects opening of a gate at an actual open gate time to the controller, the controller automatically adjusting time of instruction to open the gates on a subsequent injection cycle by an adjustment time equal to any delay in time between a predetermined open gate target time and an actual open gate time, wherein the system forms a first one or more parts or objects, the user inspecting or measuring the first one or more parts or objects and manually adjusts the predetermined open gate target time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SYNVENTIVE MOLDING SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Mark Moss
  • Patent number: 11872727
    Abstract: An artificial flower, plant, or other botanical is produced from an aqueous agar-based solidifying mixture. The artificial botanical may be colored as desired by adding one or more colorants. The artificial botanical may also be scented by adding a perfume, odorant, or other scent. Because the artificial botanical is produced using the aqueous agar-based solidifying mixture, no animal-based gelatin products are used. The artificial botanical may thus also be edible and satisfies vegan diets. The artificial botanical may thus also be flavored by adding a flavoring, such as fruit, concentrate, or sweetener. The artificial botanical may be all-natural and edible by adding mica powder as the colorant and by adding glycerin as the flavoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Inventor: Yi Hsuan Sung
  • Patent number: 11865743
    Abstract: Method for injection moulding one or more parts using an injection moulding machine and tool including at least one mould cavity, and a feed system comprising at least one gate and at least one runner that is located upstream of the at least one gate. The at least one runner includes at least one moveable wall and the method includes changing at least one cross-sectional dimension of the at least one runner by moving the at least one moveable wall in order achieve at least one of to vary a flow rate of material in the at least one runner, to apply a holding pressure to material in the at least one runner and consequently to the at least one mould cavity, or to compress residue in the at least one runner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: FLEXIJECT AB
    Inventor: Lennart Karlsson
  • Patent number: 11865755
    Abstract: A method of performing an injection cycle having a duration comprising: beginning the injection cycle with the valve pins associated with two or more nozzles in a gate closed position, selecting a first one of the two or more nozzles and controllably driving its associated valve pin from the gate closed position to a selected first axial upstream position, upon downstream flow of the injection fluid through a cavity the preselected distance, controllably driving the valve pin associated with the other of the two or more nozzles to a selected second axial position upstream, holding or controllably driving the valve pin associated with the first one of the two or more nozzles in or to one or more reduced flow axial upstream positions that are partially closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Synventive Molding Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: William Henderson, Ling Feng, Andrew Dovey
  • Patent number: 11858843
    Abstract: A device for annealing glass panes includes rollers for transporting the glass panes and two sets of slit-shaped nozzles, which run parallel to the axes of the rollers and from which cooling air can be directed onto both sides of the glass panes. In the device, cooling air acts as effectively as possible on the two surfaces of the glass pane, and anisotropies and stresses within the glass are reduced. This can be achieved by each nozzle being formed as a continuous flow channel, which extends over the width of the glass panes and on both parallel running sides of which partitions are arranged, for the forming of a flow pocket assigned to this flow channel. The cooling air that comes back from the glass panes is returned between this flow channel and the associated partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: sedak GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fritz Schlögl, Alexander Dechand
  • Patent number: 11858187
    Abstract: A mold apparatus including a mold, a cooling flow path, and a sensing module is provided. The mold has a cavity. The sensing module is adapted to sense at least one of a temperature and a pressure in the cavity. The sensing module is surrounded by the cooling flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Chung Yuan Christian University
    Inventors: Shia-Chung Chen, Yung-Hsiang Chang, Yan-Xiang Liang, Yu-Hung Ting
  • Patent number: 11858178
    Abstract: The injection mold has a mold core including a first part and a second part. The parts are mobile relative to one another between a first injection position in which they are moved together to form an injection cavity permitting the injection of a material to form an injected part (50; 50?), and a second demolding position in which they are moved away from one another to permit the demolding of the injected part (50; 50?). The injection mold has at least one ejector designed to contribute to the demolding, and at least one movable intermediate plate (10; 10?, 20?), separate from the two parts of the mold core. The intermediate pate is arranged between the two parts of the mold core, and has at least one cutout (12; 12?, 22?) forming at least one part of the injection cavity of the injection mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ROLEX SA
    Inventors: Grégoire Fluri, Laurent Mincone
  • Patent number: 11850791
    Abstract: In one example, a device for printing a three-dimensional object is described. The device may include at least one material application unit to deposit at least one material for a voxel of the three-dimensional object, a vertical cavity surface emitting laser array comprising a plurality of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, the plurality of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers including a first vertical cavity surface emitting laser to operate at a first wavelength and a second vertical cavity surface emitting laser to operate at a second wavelength, and a processor to control a deposition of the at least one material for the voxel via the at least one material application unit and to control an application of electromagnetic energy via at least one of the plurality of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers to the voxel to alter at least one property of the at least one material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: David George, Chandrakant Patel, Lihua Zhao, Michael Renne Ty Tan
  • Patent number: 11845207
    Abstract: An injection device includes: a swivel base; and an injection unit mounted on the swivel base and configured to be rotatable, in which the injection unit is provided with a swivel mechanism including: a horizontal support shaft having a tip end portion fixed to the injection unit; an axle penetrated by the support shaft at a position eccentric from an axis and rotatably provided with respect to the support shaft; and a wheel penetrated by the axle at a position of an axis and is rotatably provided with respect to the axle, in which in a case where a rotation position is set to a stop position, the wheel is apart from the swivel base, and in which in a case where the rotation position is set to a swivel position, the wheel contacts with the swivel base and the injection unit is swivelable on the swivel base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD.
    Inventor: Souma Mitani
  • Patent number: 11833003
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of a blank of a ceramic material, wherein a first ceramic material and then a second ceramic material of different compositions are filled into a mold and wherein the materials are pressed and after pressing are sintered. Thereby, a layer of the first ceramic material is filled into the mold, a first open cavity is formed in the layer, the second ceramic material is filled into the first open cavity and the materials are pressed together and are then heat-treated. Both the first ceramic material and the second ceramic material contain, or consists of, lithium silicate glass ceramic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: DENTSPLY SIRONA INC.
    Inventors: Markus Vollmann, Lothar Volkl, Stefan Fecher, Carsten Wiesner
  • Patent number: 11826932
    Abstract: A system for producing foams for prosthetics and orthotics include a heated housing that stores monomer containers, temperature-controlled hoses separately coupled with the containers and configured to receive monomers from the containers, a dispensing gun assembly fluidly coupled with the containers by the hoses, and a computer controller configured to control a dispensing time period during which the monomers are dispensed from the containers and through the hoses to the dispensing gun assembly and dispensed out of the dispensing gun assembly as a polymer foam. The controller is configured to stop dispensing of the polymer foam out of the dispensing gun assembly upon expiration of the dispensing time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: HITEK FABRICATION
    Inventor: Shawn Bright