Patents Examined by Anna K Kinsaul
  • Patent number: 11807446
    Abstract: A flat-packing machine for producing a package of compressed innerspring units comprises a press device having a first pressing tool and a second pressing tool. The press device is configured to compress an innerspring unit between the first pressing tool and the second pressing tool while one of the first pressing tool and the second pressing tool holds one or more further previously compressed innerspring units in a compressed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: L&P Swiss Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Stjepan Vadlja, Josip Maric, Dinko Ursic, Stjepan Glozinic
  • Patent number: 11806852
    Abstract: A nail gun nozzle mechanism includes a clamping wall, a retaining wall, and a switch unit. The clamping wall defines a firing space. The retaining wall defines a withdrawn space that is in spatial communication with the firing space. The switch unit includes a linkage member, and a bracket member. The bracket member is movable relative to the clamping wall between a firing position, where the bracket member is distal from the clamping wall and is disposed in the withdrawn space, and a non-firing position, where the bracket member is proximate to the clamping wall and blocking at least a portion of the firing space. The linkage member resiliently biases the bracket member toward the non-firing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: PANREX INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chen-Ho Ou
  • Patent number: 11806108
    Abstract: A re-usable medical procedure power tool includes enclosed housing including a tool attachment portion, a handle portion connected to a tool attachment portion and a power portion. A removable, single use, contamination-blocking cover substantially covering the housing, the handle portion the power portion. The cover also includes an opening adjacent an exposed first end of the tool attachment portion, whereby a tool accessory is selectively attached to and removed from the first end of the tool attachment portion during a medical procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Insurgical, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter M Aman, Frederick N Matthews, Matthew Jones, Richard Acevedo, Daniel Tagtow, Roy Melling
  • Patent number: 11801654
    Abstract: An expanding machine includes a chassis, a feeding roller carrying a honeycomb paper, a guiding roller, and an expansion roller assembly including an upper expansion roller, a lower expansion roller, and a passage gap. The upper expansion roller includes upper projection assemblies that are staggered with respect to each other. Each of the projecting assemblies includes upper projecting portions and upper supporting portions that are alternate with respect to each other. The lower expansion roller includes projecting portions and supporting portions corresponding to the upper expansion roller. When the expansion roller assembly is put into rotation, the upper projecting portions correspond to the lower supporting portion, and the lower projecting portions correspond to the upper supporting portions, so that the projections that are separately arranged may pull and expand the honeycomb paper, making it not readily compress down the honeycomb paper or generating apparent compressing marking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: 1teck Automation Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tung-Lung Chiang
  • Patent number: 11801954
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a strapping machine with an improved edge-protector positioner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Felsecker, Janusz Ciurkot, Jeffrey D. Termanas
  • Patent number: 11794323
    Abstract: A combustion-powered fastener-driving tool that include a chamber member retainer assembly configured to enable the controller of the tool to prevent the chamber member of the tool from moving to an open unsealed position and to ensure the tool's combustion chamber remains sealed until the piston fully returns to its pre-firing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Larry Moeller, Olivier Baudrand, Andrew David Litch, Hanxin Zhao
  • Patent number: 11793513
    Abstract: A surgical system is disclosed comprising a firing member movable from a proximal position toward a distal position during a firing stroke, a motor configured to drive the firing member toward the distal position, and a control system configured to operate in an open-loop configuration and a closed-loop configuration. In the open-loop configuration, the control system is configured to cause the motor to drive the firing member to a predetermined position between the proximal position and the distal position, determine a time required to drive the firing member to the predetermined position, compare the determined time to a predetermined time, and set a motor velocity of the motor based on the comparison. In the closed-loop configuration, the control system is configured to drive the firing member at the set motor velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Jason L. Harris, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, David C. Yates, Douglas E. Withers, Shane R. Adams
  • Patent number: 11787028
    Abstract: A quick fastening device, which comprises an energy storage medium, an impact unit, and a driving mechanism; the driving mechanism comprises a fixed sun gear, an output shaft not linked to the sun gear, a crank fixed on the upper end of the output shaft, a planetary gear installed on the crank in a spinning manner and capable of revolving around the sun gear as the crank rotates, and a connecting rod module mounted on the upper end of the planetary gear and connected to the impact unit. A linkage element is arranged between the planetary gear and the sun gear for driving the planetary gear to rotate in a direction opposite to the direction in which the planetary gear revolves relative to the sun gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: UNIWISDOM TECHNOLOGY (SUZHOU) CO., LTD
    Inventor: Ying Xu
  • Patent number: 11780619
    Abstract: A system for end-folding a wrapping onto a stack of bags includes a folding machine having a first folding station and a second folding station. The first folding station configured to receive the stack of bags with the wrapping partially covering the stack of bags and defining wrapping flaps, and is further configured to end-fold one or more of the wrapping flaps of the wrapping onto the stack of bags while leaving other flaps unfolded. The second folding station is downstream from the first folding station is configured to receive the stack of bags from the first folding station and further end-fold unfolded wrapping flaps of the wrapping onto the stack of bags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: H.G. Weber and Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Christel, Ben Davidson, Pat Kiel, Ryan Thiem
  • Patent number: 11780200
    Abstract: Apparatus for manufacturing an open-mouth bag of at least one layer of a flexible bag material, and method of manufacturing a bag by such apparatus. The apparatus includes a shaping device with a shaping box in the contour of the bag shape to be formed, with a top end and a bottom end, a conveying device for transporting the bag material along the shaping box, a closing device for joining the bag material along the shaping box to form a tube, and a closing station for generating a bag bottom, which is disposed beneath the bottom end of the shaping box. A partial vacuum device is configured to generate intermittently, a partial vacuum. When manufacturing a bag, the bag material is draped around the shaping box in the contour of the bag shape to be formed as continuous material and is joined to form a tube by the closing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HAVER & BOECKER OHG
    Inventor: Willi Vollenkemper
  • Patent number: 11780066
    Abstract: A fastener driving tool includes a cylinder, a piston movably disposed within the cylinder, a striking rod operable by the piston and having lift teeth, and a lift and release mechanism for lifting and releasing the striking rod and the piston. The mechanism includes a rotatable toothed disc which has disc teeth that sequentially engage with the lift teeth as the striking rod is lifted from a lower driven position toward an upper retracted position. The toothed disc is movable relative to the striking rod with a torque generated as a result of a non-meshing interference to bring the rotating axis of the toothed disc into deflection away from the striking rod for releasing the interference, and is further biased by a biasing member back to its original position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CHONGQING HYBEST TOOLS GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yimin Zhu
  • Patent number: 11780061
    Abstract: An impact tool includes a housing, an electric motor supported within the housing and having a motor shaft, and a drive assembly configured to convert a continuous rotational input from the motor shaft to consecutive rotational impacts upon a workpiece. The drive assembly includes a camshaft having front and rear portions. A gear assembly is coupled between the motor shaft and the drive assembly, the gear assembly including a ring gear that is rotationally and radially fixed relative to the housing and a plurality of planet gears meshed with the ring gear. Each of the plurality of planet gears is coupled to the rear portion of the camshaft, and a line of action of a radial load exerted by the rear portion of the camshaft on the housing passes through one of the plurality of planet gears and the ring gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jacob P. Schneider, Gerald A. Zucca, FengKun Lu, Guang Hu
  • Patent number: 11780617
    Abstract: A system for enhanced conveying of flexible packages includes a packaging system, an inflation system, and a conveying system. The packaging system is configured to place an object in a flexible package. The inflation system is configured to insert a gas into the flexible package. The packaging system is further configured to seal an edge of the flexible package in an inflated state with the object and the inserted gas inside the flexible package. The conveying system is configured to convey the flexible package while the flexible package is substantially in the inflated state. The flexible package is configured to permit gas to escape the flexible package at a controlled flow rate such that the flexible package remains substantially in the inflated state while being conveyed by the conveying system and the flexible package transitions to being substantially in a deflated state after being conveyed by the conveying system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Sealed Air Corporation (US)
    Inventors: Thomas Orsini, Mark Garceau, David Cenedella, Robert Simonelli, Michael Kalinowski, Kyle Brown, John Gilbert
  • Patent number: 11772950
    Abstract: A laser alignment tool for capping heads. The laser alignment tool comprising in combination an adapter housing that is adaptable to a headset or spindle on a capping machine, a laser bore housing, a laser pointer contained in the laser bore housing and a laser center platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventors: Mike Scott, Michael Degraw
  • Patent number: 11766771
    Abstract: A clinch fastener mechanism including a pivoting base configured to be pivotally connected to a pneumatic fastener tool. The clinch fastener mechanism further includes a clinch arm pivotally connected to the pivoting base at a proximal end of the clinch arm; and a clinch plate disposed on a distal end of the clinch arm, wherein tool operates within three pressure zones. The system may also include a two-valve system which works by moving pressure throughout three specific zones. The first pressure zone has pressure introduced to it by the user attaching the tool to a pressure delivery source, such as a compressor, or other source. The second pressure zone may be used to operate the clinch arm or a safety mechanism. Mechanical safeties may be configured to prevent accidental or double firing of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Pneutools, Inc.
    Inventor: Frederick William Lamb
  • Patent number: 11759930
    Abstract: A locking device for adjusting nailing force of an electric nail comprises a power box, a driving motor, and an upper cylinder and lower cylinder provided on the right side of the power box. The driving motor is connected with connecting arm through a reducing mechanism. The end of the connecting arm is provided with an eccentric spindle. A lower piston is provided inside the lower cylinder. The lower piston is hinged with a piston arm on its top side. The piston arm is connected to the eccentric spindle. An upper piston is provided inside the upper cylinder. A firing pin is provided at the center of the sidewall on the left side of the upper piston. The left end of the firing pin sticks out of the upper cylinder. A fixing part is provided on the left side of the upper cylinder and above the power box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Zhejiang Rongpeng Air Tools Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhonghua Jiang, Xiaorong Li, Fazheng Yang
  • Patent number: 11760517
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vertical packaging machine configured for packaging a product. The machine may include a supply conduit formed by at least one hopper through which the product to be packaged is introduced in the supply conduit. A tube is arranged downstream the hopper. The supply conduit includes at least a first passage conduit and a second passage conduit which are separated from one another such that each of the first and passage conduits offers a different path for the product to be packaged. Each of the first and second passage conduits includes a first injection opening and a second injection opening, the first injection openings being located at different heights and in different angular positions in reference to the second injection openings. The machine also includes one or more injection devices and that are configured to inject gas into the first and second gas injection openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ULMA PACKAGING, S. COOP
    Inventors: Alberto Otxoa-Aizpurua Calvo, Maitane Ayala Martín
  • Patent number: 11760521
    Abstract: A method and a device for filling containers with products, in which the products are successively conveyed horizontally to a filling installation in which the products, while being combined to form individual product groups, are grouped, and an offered-up container, which is conveyed horizontally to the filling installation, is filled in a single track with one or a plurality of product groups, wherein the filled containers subsequently are in particular horizontally transported away. The method includes conveying the products in multiple tracks to the filling installation, grouping the products to form product groups, feeding the product groups in multiple tracks to a common revolving vertical conveyor of the filling installation, conveying the product groups to an ejection position from which the product groups are conveyed onward in a single track to an offered-up container, and filling the offered-up container with at least one of the product groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG)
    Inventors: Dennis Schmidt, Andreas Prahm, Andreas Neufeld, Frank Sachs
  • Patent number: 11753199
    Abstract: An applicator for attaching a handle comprises three arms, each of which extends radially from the horizontal axis along an arm axis. Each of the arms comprises a cutter, a holder, and a displacer. The holder comprises a pneumatic interface for using negative pressure to hold or guide an endless band as well as the carrying handle that results therefrom. The displacer displaces the pneumatic interface along a direction defined by the arm axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Nitsch, Stefan Van Heukelum, Stefan Wagner
  • Patent number: 11751874
    Abstract: A surgical device includes an end effector and a handle assembly operably coupled to the end effector. The end effector includes an anvil assembly and a cartridge assembly pivotally coupled to one another. The cartridge assembly includes a staple cartridge, a cartridge carrier, and a strain gauge. The cartridge carrier includes an elongated support channel configured to receive the staple cartridge, the elongated support channel defined by an inner first surface and a pair of inner second surfaces. The inner first surface includes a recess defined therein, and the strain gauge is disposed within the recess. The handle assembly includes a power-pack configured to receive sensor data from the strain gauge of the end effector and to control a function of the end effector in response to the sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: COVIDEN LP
    Inventors: Matthew Eschbach, David Nicholas, Russell Pribanic