Patents Examined by Andrew T Kirsch
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Patent number: 11591143Abstract: Various embodiments of containers are described having child-resistant closures. The containers can include a body having at least one wall that at least partially defines a hollow interior portion into which goods or other products can be stored. A wall of at least one of the body and cap can include a set of apertures that collectively define a compression region, which acts a living spring to allow compression of the wall to permit seating of lugs or other projection within notches.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Greenlane Holdings LLCInventor: Steven Hwang
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Patent number: 11591142Abstract: The container with a lid attached to a threaded closure mechanism includes a receptacle having a mouth surrounded by a thread, a lid, a sealing ring and a closure mechanism formed by a disc with a hollow interior and a perimetral tubular skirt provided with an engagement configuration complementary to the thread of the receptacle. The closure mechanism surrounds the lid and holds it against the mouth of the receptacle by means of a threaded attachment between the engagement configuration of the closure mechanism and the thread of the receptacle, assuring proper hermetic closure of the lid with the receptacle in cooperation with the sealing ring and a retainer element connected to the closure mechanism to constrict an insertion passage thereof thereby retaining the lid into the closure mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Inventor: Bettina Bottger
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Patent number: 11592611Abstract: A tray module includes a tray in which a plurality of display device components are alternately stackable with a plurality of protective sheets. Each of a protective sheet among the plurality of protective sheets includes: a first polymer layer including a first polymer resin which is foamed, and top and bottom surfaces opposite to each other; a second polymer layer on each of the top and bottom surfaces of the first polymer layer, the second polymer layer including a second polymer resin; and a paper layer defining an outer surface of the protective sheet.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin-wook Cho, Ja Huem Koo, Bo bae Sim, Sung jin Joo, Wonjun Choi
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Patent number: 11584104Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a storage container including a roof and two opposing side walls. At least one of the roof and the two side walls comprises a panel member including an inner skin, an outer skin, and a core between the inner skin and the outer skin. The panel member also including an inner skin trailing edge extending beyond the core and the outer skin and an outer skin leading edge, opposite the inner skin trailing edge, extending beyond the core and the inner skin. A viscoelastic tape is provided along the trailing edge and leading edge to maintain the position of the panel. Multiple panels can be joined with an adhesive material, with the viscoelastic tape maintaining the connection between the panels while the adhesive material sets and preventing the adhesive material from exiting past the trailing and leading edges.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Wabash National, L.P.Inventors: James A. Sweet, Brandon M. Davenport
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Patent number: 11571836Abstract: Preform assembly for blow moulding a container, comprising at least a first and a second perform, wherein the first perform is positioned inside the second perform before blow moulding the performs into the container, wherein each perform has a body forming portion having a wall thickness of less than about 8 millimetres, preferably less than about 6 mm.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: HEINEKEN SUPPLY CHAIN B.V.Inventors: Bernardus Cornelis Johannes Landman, Pieter Gerard Witte
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Patent number: 11565585Abstract: A motor vehicle tank that includes a tank container formed by a tank wall, and a holding element to fasten a component to the tank wall at an interior of the tank container. The holding element has at least one attachment point for fastening the holding element to the tank wall, at least one fastening element for fastening the component to the holding element, and a plurality of spring elements arranged between the at least one attachment point and the fastening element to facilitate fastening of the component to the tank wall in a spring-elastically decoupled manner.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: MAGNA Energy Storage Systems GesmbHInventors: Thomas Fuchs, Laura Heidenbauer
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Patent number: 11559154Abstract: The Invention is a standard set of round, cylindrical and spherical pieces that form objects to hold other objects and food, to transport things and to build modular elegant and beautiful constructions. For example, the Invention's pieces can be used as spherical flowerpots that are arranged along a walkway with flowers, and those same flowerpots can be stacked to support a flowerpot a few feet off the ground. Furthermore, the flowerpots can be stacked to form columns that vines grow on. Pieces can be made exponentially larger and smaller, and features on pieces can also be made exponentially larger and smaller, while maintaining compatibility within the system of Invention pieces. For example, the stacked boxes that are FIG. 33 can be elongated to stack in a manner that forms the pattern of a standard brick wall's interlocking pieces.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Inventor: Jonathan Hendrik Van Ee
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Patent number: 11554898Abstract: Provided is a crate coupleable to another crate or to a variety of carrying platforms. The crate having a base and side-walls upwardly extending from the base, of which at least two opposite side-walls are locking side-walls extending parallel to one another, each of the locking side-walls is configured at a top or a bottom surface thereof with at least one sliding locking slot extending parallel to said locking side-wall and defining a primary sliding path, the at least one sliding locking slot is configured with at least one arresting rib and an uncovered portion extending behind the at least one arresting rib, another one of the top or a bottom surface of the locking side-walls is configured with at least one locking tongue disposed parallel to said locking side-wall and configured for sliding arresting with a respective locking slot.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignees: KETER PLASTIC LTD., MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATIONInventors: Yaron Brunner, Omer Menashri, Grant T. Squiers
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Patent number: 11548381Abstract: A fuel-storage tank for a vehicle includes a body defining an interior volume having a floor and a ceiling and configured to store fuel. The tank further includes an anti-slosh reinforcement column extending between the floor and the ceiling. The anti-slosh reinforcement column has a vertical baffle extending between the floor and the ceiling. The vertical baffle has opposing first and second major faces and edges extending therebetween. A horizontal baffle of the column has upper and lower major faces and edges extending therebetween. The horizontal baffle is rigidly supported on the vertical baffle such that the first and second major faces are substantially perpendicular to the upper and lower major faces.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dhaval Vaishnav, Enrique Lopez Hernandez, Luis Felipe Blas Martinez, Kristian Ulyses Flores AviƱa, Miguel Angel Leon Guerrero, Virginia Ortega Conde
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Patent number: 11542055Abstract: A delaminatable container excellent in productivity is provided. According to an exemplary aspect, a delaminatable container, includes a container body having an outer shell and an inner bag, the inner bag delaminating from the outer shell and being shrunk with a decrease in contents, wherein the container body includes a bottom seal protrusion protruding from a bottom surface of a storage portion to store the contents, and the bottom seal protrusion is a sealing portion of, in blow molding using a cylindrical laminated parison provided with an outer layer constituting the outer shell and an inner layer constituting the inner bag, the laminated parison and is bent.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: KYORAKU CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinsuke Taruno
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Patent number: 11542068Abstract: Tamper resistant systems and devices and methods of forming the same are disclosed. A tamper resistant system includes a container having a container body defining a cavity having a threaded opening therein, a threaded closure removably covering the threaded opening, and a frangible component including a length of material having a first end and a second end. The first end is integrated with the container body such that the frangible component and the container body have a single piece construction and the frangible component extends from the container body. The second end is coupled to the threaded closure. Subsequent removal of the threaded closure from the container causes damage to at least one of the frangible component, the threaded closure, and the container body. The frangible component, the threaded closure, and the container body are at least partially constructed of an environmentally friendly material.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Double Double D, LLCInventor: Jim F. Warner
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Patent number: 11541745Abstract: An assembly for a fluid tank includes a baffle and a fluid transfer line. The baffle includes a first deflecting surface defining a first part of the tank and a second deflecting surface defining a second part of the tank. The fluid transfer line extends from the first part to the second part and is linked to the baffle by a linkage supported by the assembly. The extension of the fluid transfer line in the first part defines a first portion of the fluid transfer line, and the extension of the fluid transfer line in the second part defines a second portion of the fluid transfer line. The linkage allows for simultaneous rotation of the first portion and the second portion of the fluid transfer line towards a surface including one of the deflecting surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Plastic Omnium Advanced Innovation and ResearchInventors: Jeremy Lempicki, Masa Higashi, James Grech, Syed Habib
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Patent number: 11540653Abstract: In a general aspect, a multi-piece vessel can include a body defining an interior volume, and a base. The body can include a closed end, and an open end opposite the closed end. The base can have a foot arranged in a plane. The base can include a stem arranged along a longitudinal axis that is orthogonal to the plane, and a first magnetic element disposed at an end of the stem. The multi-piece vessel can also include an attachment assembly coupled with the closed end of the body, the attachment assembly having a second magnetic element configured to form a magnetic coupling with the first magnetic element, and a retention feature defined on a surface of the attachment assembly distal from the body.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Inventor: James Haug
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Patent number: 11529825Abstract: A paint package lid (14, 114) includes a base wall (54) having a lid base wall upper surface (56) and a lid base wall lower surface (58), a container coupling rim (60) disposed radially outwardly with respect to the base wall and having a rim upper surface (62), and a closure well (64, 164) disposed radially inwardly with respect to the base wall. The closure well includes a radially outer wall (82) extending downwardly with respect to the base wall, a lower wall (84) extending radially inwardly with respect to the radially outer wall and establishing a lowermost surface (85) of the lid, and a neck (86, 186) disposed radially inwardly with respect to the radially outer wall and extending upwardly from the lower wall and having a closure coupling (95). Also disclosed is lid and closure assembly and a paint package (10, 110, 210) including the lid.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: BEHR PROCESS CORPORATIONInventors: Bruce Boos, Gregory James Warren
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Patent number: 11524818Abstract: A one-piece molded container comprising a lid and a container body is provided. The container body and lid are connected by a living hinge. The container body has interior protrusions extending from a bottom portion in an interior of the container body to limit nesting of the containers. The container body has a recess on a bottom portion on an exterior portion of the container and a dual-prong lid-locking mechanism, the lid-locking mechanism including a first prong, a second prong being a tamper-evident tearaway portion, and a protrusion extending downwardly from an interior portion of the lid.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Halex/Scott Fetzer CompanyInventors: David Vaughn McElveen, II, Daniel Felipe Restrepo, Randal Charles Moss
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Patent number: 11498722Abstract: A re-useable partitioning seal used storage containers creates a virtually airtight chambers, to preserve products therein. A disc or differently shaped layer, with flat top and bottom surfaces, is configured to fit against the interior surface of a storage container. A thin, flexible perimeter forming a gasket around the layer, and a handle attached to the layer without fissure or cavity, thereby providing and a single piece, inexpensive re-useable partitioning seal.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Inventor: Mark Reynolds
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Patent number: 11493263Abstract: A basket for lining an ice chest includes four flexible walls configured to roll up, a bottom, and at least two handles. At least one wall includes perforations configured to allow water or ice to pass through the perforations. The four flexible walls are made of silicone, rubber, elastic, or any combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Inventor: Nicholas Santoro
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Patent number: 11490590Abstract: A portable pet canteen having a flexible bladder with peripheral edges and defining a footprint, an upper wall of the bladder defining an upper mouth, and a cavity being formed within the bladder. A rigid inner scaffold is secured to the upper mouth of the bladder and extends into the cavity. The inner scaffold has a height defined by side walls, the side walls having apertures for passage of water. An upper lid secures to an upper edge of the rigid inner scaffold such as with mating threads to form a closure such that the portable pet canteen is watertight. Water may be retained within the bladder until such time as the upper lid is removed and the canteen placed on the ground for the pet to drink from within the inner scaffold which provides a relatively wide opening. The canteen may be placed within a flexible outer cover for protection, which can also have various handles or straps for ease of transportation.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Inventor: Dennis Domingos
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Patent number: 11485545Abstract: A refillable container that includes: an inner container; a support member configured to support the inner container; and a cover having a tubular shape, which is fitted, from above the inner container, to an outer periphery of the inner container supported on the support member so as to accommodate the inner container therein, and is fitted to the support member. The support member includes: a support base portion including a tubular leg portion and having a raised bottom; and a support frame portion, which is provided on an upper surface of a bottom plate of the support base portion, and is configured to support the bottom of the inner container. The support base portion includes a seat step portion on which an opening end of the cover fitted to the support member is seated. The cover is made of hard plastic, and the support member is made of soft plastic.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: NIPPON PAPERS INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hideki Okude, Takaharu Noda
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Patent number: 11472610Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods provided herein are useful for dispensing a fluid, such as a thixotropic fluid. In some embodiments, a bottle having a closure cap includes a flip top, a base, and a disk, where the base and disk define a mixing chamber configured to facilitate mixing of any serum or liquid separated from the fluid back therein. In some configurations, the base has a central opening through which the fluid exits and an internal shaft with a non-planar end surface opposite the central opening. In some configurations, the non-planar end surface and the disk define channels between the mixing chamber and the internal shaft. In some embodiments, the disk includes a central opening, a plurality of partial annular openings through a planar surface of the disk, and projections extending into the mixing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: H.J. Heinz Company Brands LLCInventors: Balint Hiltser, Guus Lueb