Patents Examined by Allison E Helferty
  • Patent number: 12616337
    Abstract: Provided are basket with detachable cover plate for air fryer and air fryer having basket with detachable cover plate. The basket includes basket body and handle provided at side of basket body, and top portion of basket body is of opening structure, cover plate matched with opening is provided at opening of basket, and cover plate is detachably installed at opening of basket; the air fryer includes cooking cavity located inside air fryer, and basket and hot air device provided inside cooking cavity, and hot air device is located above basket, when cover plate is installed on basket, interior of basket is hermetically isolated by cover plate from hot air device, and when cover plate is detached from upper opening of basket, interior of basket is in communication with hot air device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: NINGBO CARELINE ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yichi Zhang
  • Patent number: 12569084
    Abstract: A cold brewer having a pitcher and lid for brewing a brewed effluent from a filter bag containing an organic material is disclosed. The pitcher has a pitcher top and bottom. The pitcher has a pitcher cavity for receiving the filter bag and the lid covers the pitcher top. The lid includes an outside portion, an inside portion, a rim that extends radially from a center of the lid, and a cylindrical sleeve. The cylindrical sleeve extends outward from the inside portion of the lid and defines a lid cavity that receives the filter bag when the filter bag is removed from the pitcher cavity and the outside portion is overturned and placed on the pitcher top. The lid includes drain holes that pass through the outside portion to the inside portion of the lid to drain the brewed effluent from the filter bag into the pitcher cavity when the filter bag is in a resting position within the lid cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: TODDY, LLC.
    Inventors: Julia Leach, Clint Kolda, Matthew Irish
  • Patent number: 12557935
    Abstract: A coffee grinder including a base and a grinding component is provided. The base includes a body part, a first assembly part, and a second assembly part. The first assembly part and the second assembly part are connected to the body part and protrude from one side of the body part. The first assembly part is disposed above the second assembly part and includes a drive shaft. One end of the drive shaft faces the second assembly part. The grinding component includes an outer burr module and an inner burr shaft assembled in the outer burr module. A side surface of the outer burr module is assembled to the second assembly part. The drive shaft of the first assembly part is assembled with one end of the inner burr shaft. One end of the drive shaft drives the inner burr shaft to rotate relative to the outer burr module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: Chuang-Kang Machinery Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsiang-Chen Yeh
  • Patent number: 12543883
    Abstract: A temperature controlling structure and a filter assembly including the same are provided, where the temperature controlling structure includes a bottom portion and a surrounding portion connected to the bottom portion, the bottom portion is configured for a filter cup detachably disposed thereon so that the filter cup is surrounded by an accommodation space defined by the surrounding portion and the bottom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Assignee: WISTRON CORP.
    Inventors: Chih-Kang Chen, Yu Tao Kao, Chien Huang, Yi-Nung Lin
  • Patent number: 12527439
    Abstract: A kitchen container includes a container body, a cover body, a rotating mechanism, and a drive element. The rotating mechanism includes a moving rack transversely movable on the cover body, a main gear driven by the moving rack and a drive gear driven by the main gear. The drive element is connected with the drive gear. The main gear is linked with the drive gear through at least one transmission set. The transmission set is disposed on a sliding trough and is shifted with rotation of the main gear. The transmission set shifts on the sliding trough to be a linked state with the drive gear when the main gear rotates in a rotating direction, and the transmission set shifts on the sliding trough to be disengaged from the linked state with the drive gear when the main gear rotates in another rotating direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: FREE-FREE INDUSTRIAL CORP
    Inventors: Yi-Liang Hou, Che-Hsin Liao, Chen-Yu Cheng
  • Patent number: 12514396
    Abstract: A drain tray for a solenoid valve of a machine for coffee dispensing includes a base portion that defines a collection cavity for at least one fluid coming from the machine. The drain tray includes a cover portion that defines a cover cavity which, together with the collection cavity of the base portion, defines a respective compartment. The drain tray includes at least one inlet connectable to the solenoid valve of the machine for the transit of a respective hot waste fluid towards the compartment. The drain tray includes an outlet for the outflow of at least one fluid coming from the machine accumulated inside the collection cavity of the base portion. The drain tray includes a heat exchanger, arranged inside the compartment having at least one coil arranged to remain at least partially immersed in the fluid of the solenoid valve of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: SIMONELLI GROUP S.P.A.
    Inventors: Claudio Enrico Cingolani, Mauro Parrini
  • Patent number: 12508670
    Abstract: Welding-apparatus configured to weld base-material through wire-material melted by welding-laser, includes: laser-applicator configured to apply welding-laser to welding-area; wire-feeder configured to feed wire-material to welding-area; detector provided on wire-feeder and configured to detect feed-amount of wire-material or reaction-force from wire-material; moving-unit configured to move welding-area or wire-material; controller configured to respectively control laser-applicator, wire-feeder, and moving-unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taisei Wakisaka, Noriyuki Unose
  • Patent number: 12490864
    Abstract: A combination pressure and open frying apparatus includes at least one selectively closeable frypot and a cover configured to selectively close the frypot. The selectively closeable frypot is configured to operate as a pressure frying platform when the cover is closed and configured to operate as an open frying platform when the cover is open. The apparatus includes a clamping mechanism with a spindle that includes a shaft and a handle that is configured to be selectively mounted to the shaft in a plurality of positions relative to the shaft. The apparatus may also include at least one second frypot that can operate at least as an open frying platform, with a common filtration system for the frypots having a selector valve and a failsafe valve, which prevents flow of cooking medium into at least one selectively closeable frypot when the selectively closeable frypot is pressurized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2025
    Assignee: Henny Penny Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Gogel, Matthew Johnson, Adrian Jason Pereira, Robert Wood, Wendell Murray
  • Patent number: 12365047
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to the aligning of a melting beam source in an additive manufacturing (AM) system. Methods of the disclosure may include forming a first test article and a second test article of different shapes on a build plate. The method further includes measuring a vertical scale, vertical alignment, horizontal scale, and an alignment of the melting beam source using the first and second test articles. The method includes determining whether one of the vertical scale, the vertical alignment, the horizontal scale, or the horizontal alignment of the melting beam source is not within a corresponding tolerance of a target specification. If at least one of the vertical scale, the vertical alignment, the horizontal scale, or the horizontal alignment is within the corresponding tolerance, the method includes adjusting the melting beam source of the AM system to align the melting beam source to yield the target specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: John Bryan Pourcho, Robert Joseph Rohrssen, Maxwell Evan Miller, James Joseph Murray, III, Michael Ryan Horton, Evan John Dozier, Clay Thomas Griffis, Chad Joseph Dulkiewicz