Patents Examined by Bao-Thieu L Nguyen
  • Container opening device and garment
    Patent number: 10226090
    Abstract: A garment structured to facilitate opening of a container, through the provision of an opening member mounted thereon. A garment includes a closure flap movable between a covering and a non-covering position, wherein the opening device includes a base and an opening member connected to said closure flap and movable therewith into an out of an exposed, operative orientation corresponding to the closure flap being disposed into and out of the covering relation to the pocket. When in the operative orientation, the opening member includes an apertured construction disposed and structured to engage and exert a removing force on a closure of the container, wherein the closure may be in the form of a cap on bottle or other container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Inventor: Abraham I. Allouche
  • Braided textile sleeve with axially collapsible, anti-kinking feature and method of construction thereof
    Patent number: 10208410
    Abstract: A protective textile sleeve and method of construction thereof are provided. The sleeve has a tubular wall of braided yarns extending lengthwise along a central longitudinal axis between opposite ends. At least some of the braided yarns including heat-set yarns, and the wall has a plurality of annular first regions forming generally convex ridges and a plurality of annular second regions forming generally concave valleys. The first regions alternate with the second regions along the central longitudinal axis. The first regions include a plurality of twisted yarns forming a plurality of closed loops, wherein at least some of the braided yarns pass through at least some of the closed loops within the first regions to enhance the radial stiffness and resistance of the wall to kinking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Powertrain LLC
    Inventors: Tianqi Gao, Leigh Krauser, Zhong Huai Zhang, Michael Piotrowski
  • Method and device for cutting lap in comber
    Patent number: 10208406
    Abstract: A method for cutting a lap in a comber includes applying pressure to a bobbin toward a lap roller. The method further includes forming a weak portion in the lap that is continuous from the bobbin to a nipper device in the state in which pressure is applied to the bobbin by pulling the lap toward the nipper device. The method further includes cancelling the applied pressure after forming the weak portion. The method further includes applying tension to the lap after forming the weak portion to cut the lap at the weak portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Makoto Yakushi
  • Method for operating a spindle of a two-for-one twisting or cabling machine
    Patent number: 10196761
    Abstract: A method for operating a spindle (2) of a two-for-one twisting or cabling machine which has an adjustable balloon-yarn-guide-eye (9), wherein for the operation of the spindle (2) under production conditions, the balloon-yarn-guide-eye (9) is adjusted, on the basis of a measured value (i) correlating with the energy consumption of the spindle drive (3), to a first operating position (AP1), in which a position-dependent minimum of the energy consumption of the spindle drive (3) is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Saurer Germany GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andrej Raisich, Jürgen Schnitzler
  • Bale opener
    Patent number: 10190238
    Abstract: A bale opener for the take-off of fiber tufts from fiber bales includes a take-off tower, which is arranged on a horizontal drive or a rotating frame, and a take-off arm. The take-off arm is held on the take-off tower in a guide so as to be vertically adjustable. A single lifting spindle having a longitudinal axis in the movement direction of the take-off arm is provided for the vertical adjustment of the take-off tower. The lifting spindle is fastened on the take-off tower and the take-off arm is connected to the lifting spindle via a nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG
    Inventors: Alexander Schmid, Gerhard Gschliesser
  • Device and method for producing a strand or a cable
    Patent number: 10190256
    Abstract: A device for producing a strand or a cable, in particular a wire strand or wire cable, which device includes a rotatable arrangement for feeding cords to a twisting point, at which the cords are to be twisted with one another, and an installation for heating at least one of the cords. The heating installation is rotatable jointly with the feed arrangement. The heating installation is designed to heat a cord provided for forming a center strand or a cable core and/or cords for forming outer strands, and preferably has burner for fuel and/or an electrically operated heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: CASAR DRAHTSEILWERK SAAR GMBH
    Inventor: Bruno Lauer
  • Sole structures and articles of footwear having a lightweight midsole member with protective elements
    Patent number: 10188174
    Abstract: Sole structures for articles of footwear, including athletic footwear, include a sole structure having a relatively soft and lightweight foam midsole component partially covered by at least one more rigid and/or dense cage (protective) component(s) and/or other protective component(s). The sole structures may include a first portion configured to support at least a heel and midfoot area of a wearer's foot, and an exposed outer edge of this first portion may include a billows structure that extends continuously from a medical midfoot or forefoot area of the sole structure to a lateral midfoot or forefoot area. This billows structure may include fewer than five billow outer ridges connected by billow interstitial areas located between adjacent billow outer ridges. Billow thickness at a rear end of the first portion may be larger than the thickness at a front end of the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick J. Dojan, Matthew J. Holmes, Troy C. Lindner, Benjamin Nethongkome, Dolores S. Thompson
  • Yarn manufacturing device
    Patent number: 10179959
    Abstract: A yarn producing apparatus produces carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn by aggregating CNT fibers. A substrate support supports a CNT forming substrate, a winding unit 7 continuously draws the CNT fibers, a yarn producing unit aggregates the CNT fibers, and a substrate replacing mechanism replaces the carbon nanotube forming substrate supported on the substrate support with another carbon nanotube forming substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumiaki Yano, Hiroki Takashima, Shuichi Fukuhara
  • Braided filament with particularized strand compositions and methods of manufacturing and using same
    Patent number: 10167582
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention is a braided filament including a plurality of strands each having at least one ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene fiber and at least one polyester fiber wherein the quantity of certain types of fibers in a first strand is the same as the quantity of the same type of fibers in a second strand. In a variant, one additional strand of the braided filament is a monofilament strand. In another variant, each strand is homogeneous with respect to the other strands and is made exclusively from ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene fibers and polyester fibers such that each strand has the same distribution and quantity of fiber types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: Stryker Corporation, Cortland Cable Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Craig Pilgeram, Luis Padilla, Aaron Vodnick
  • Channel plate adapter and open-end spinning device with a channel plate adapter
    Patent number: 10167577
    Abstract: A channel plate adapter is provided for use in a cover of a rotor housing of an open-end spinning device, wherein a rotor is rotatably arranged in the rotor housing. The channel plate adapter includes an output fiber channel that conveys fibers to the rotor, the output fiber channel having an inlet side where fibers enter and an outlet side from which the fibers exit towards the rotor. The output fiber channel further includes a bend between the inlet side and the outlet side, the bend splitting the output fiber channel into a first section formed between the inlet side and the bend, and a second section formed between the bend and the outlet side. The bend changes direction of the second section relative to the first section such that the second section is oriented against a direction of rotation of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Rieter AG
    Inventors: Siegfried Krohmer, Helmut Wollinger
  • Article of footwear having a sole structure
    Patent number: 10159305
    Abstract: An article of footwear may include a sole structure and an upper secured to the sole structure and configured to receive a foot. The sole structure may comprise a lasting board and sole plate construction. One of the lasting board and sole plate may have an opening along the center such that there is little to no overlap, or lamination, between the lasting board and the sole plate along the center of the article of footwear. Such a construction may eliminate weight while maintaining the support provided by the layers of the sole. Additionally, such a construction may enhance flexibility. In some embodiments, the article of footwear may include an insole. In some embodiments, the sole structure of the article of footwear may consist of an insole, a lasting board, and a sole plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergio Cavaliere, Giovanni Adami, Timothy J. Smith
  • Safety glove with fingertip protective member
    Patent number: 10143248
    Abstract: A safety glove having a protective member or insert extending around the fingertip of the safety glove is provided. The protective member may be positioned along the outer surface or the inner surface of the glove. Alternatively, the protective member may be integrally formed between two layers of glove material. The protective member terminates distally from an interphalangeal joint line to enable finger flexion in order to grasp an item, such as a slab of meat to be deskinned in a skinning machine. The glove may include a rough outer surface formed from thrice dipping the glove and allowing the glove to cure. Additionally, the glove may have a width near the wrist that is wider than the width near the palm to enable the glove to be rapidly removed (i.e., doffed) in an emergency event of the glove getting caught in a rotating blade on the skinning machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Summit Glove Inc.
    Inventor: James L. Hull
  • Protective cover for an article of footwear
    Patent number: 10136694
    Abstract: A protective cover for an article of footwear can include a first portion covering the top and sides of the footwear and a second portion covering the back of the footwear. The first portion can include locations to receive at least part of a connecting mechanism, and the second portion of the cover can be connected to the first portion of the cover by the connecting mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Fi-Ber Sports, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Fischer, Michael Seibert, Cullen W. Hays
  • Midsole component and outer sole members with auxetic structure
    Patent number: 10111494
    Abstract: An article with a sole structure including a midsole component and an outer sole member are described. The sole structure includes a set of holes arranged in an auxetic configuration that permit the sole to expand in an auxetic manner. The set of holes extends through the midsole component and the outer sole member and both the midsole component and the outer sole member are exposed on an outer surface of the sole structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Tory M. Cross
  • Footwear having lace receiving strands
    Patent number: 10098417
    Abstract: An article of footwear may include an upper configured to receive a foot, and a sole structure fixedly attached to a bottom portion of the upper. The sole structure may include a ground-engaging outer member and the footwear may include a first strand configured to form at least a first lace receiving loop and extending through the outer member of the sole structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryant Russell Klug, Tetsuya T. Minami, James Molyneux
  • Devices, systems and methods for knot tying
    Patent number: 10099890
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus or device for making knots in a flexible element that engages a medical device, such as an IUD, and associated methods. The knot tying device receives the medical device in a loading element, and then threads the flexible member through an aperture of the medical device using a spooling element. A looping element and knotting element ties the flexible member into a knot. The devices, systems and methods can create a double loop surgeon's knot that are reproducible during the manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Medicines360
    Inventors: Rob Deckman, Ian Holland, Matt Sellars, Nick Brooks, Dave Phasey
  • Guide wheel for assemblies for fitting layers of armoring wires
    Patent number: 10093060
    Abstract: A guide wheel (26) for fitting a layer of carbon armor wires around a tubular core (24). The guide wheel (26) has a central cavity (32), an internal circular edge (34), and a peripheral circular edge (38) that extends coaxially at a distance from said internal circular edge (34), the guide wheel (26) includes a plurality of guiding devices (46), each of which is capable of guiding in translation a plurality of carbon armor wires, the guiding devices being mounted around said central cavity (32). The guiding device (46) includes a peripheral redirecting member (50) in order to be able to guide the carbon armor wires to the internal circular edge (34), and a central redirecting member (52) in order to be able to guide said carbon armor wires through a second curved passageway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignees: TECHNIP FRANCE
    Inventors: Vincent Douthe, Gilbert Laporte, Fabien Martinez
  • Modular garments
    Patent number: 10092045
    Abstract: A modular garment including first and second panels. The first and second panels are aligned with one another such that the first panel first side edge aligns with the second panel second side edge and the first panel second side edge aligns with the second panel side edge and wherein the at least one first panel male connector releasably engages the at least one second panel female connector and the at least one first panel female connector releasably engages the at least one second panel male connector to releasably interconnect the first and second panels to define the garment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Inventor: Faye Sevilla Smith
  • Head attire for golf accessories
    Patent number: 10080938
    Abstract: A head attire for golf accessories is an apparatus that is used to organize and carry small objects upon a player's head during a round of golf. The apparatus includes a bill, a head band, and an at least one tee pocket. The head band supports and holds the apparatus on the player's head, and the bill shields the player's eyes from the sun. The at least one tee pocket is integrated into the head band so that a golf tee can be carried by the apparatus similar to a person tucking a pen/pencil behind their ear. The tee pocket includes a slit opening and a pocket bag. The slit opening traverses into the pocket bag adjacent to the bill. The pocket bag is the actual means to carry the golf tee and is located within the head band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Inventor: Natalie M. Klas
  • Lariat device and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 10076100
    Abstract: Methods and systems for ropes used to catch livestock such as a cattle roping lariat. In one embodiment, the lariat includes a set of strands, each strand including a set of yarns surrounding a central core. The set of strands are twisted to form a twisted rope. The lariat is manufactured using a set of components including a head box, a tree-cross box with a branched strand tree device and a cross device, and a tail box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Inventor: Albert Dale Mikelson