Patents Examined by Benjamin A Schiffman
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Patent number: 11881690Abstract: Provided is an insulating coating device for an electric wire, including a pressing pipe. The pressing pipe includes two first pressing parts which are configured to divide the pressing pipe into two parts along a longitudinal cross section of the pressing pipe, an inner wall of the pressing pipe is provided with an air bag, and the air bag is provided with an air pipe joint which penetrates to an outside of the pressing pipe. In the insulating coating device for the electric wire, a self-curing insulating material is coated on joints of the electric wires, the air bag is used to squeeze the self-curing insulating material such that the self-curing insulating material is shaped and compacted, so that cavities generated in a coating process is reduced, and the self-curing insulating material is uniformly attached to the joints of the electric wires.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: STATE GRID HUZHOU POWER SUPPLY COMPANYInventors: Zhen Chen, Jing Xu, Wenhui Xu, Weixun Qin, Yongsheng Xu, Zhen Wang, Liupei Wei, Feng Zhou, Xinlong Wu, Xiaobin Shen, Jie Chai, Meng Tang, Kai Shen
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Patent number: 11872737Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for controlling an injection unit to transfer a material to a mold cavity includes a first actuator and a second actuator, and a controller that is operatively connected to the first actuator and the second actuator. The first and second actuators are coupled to a ram of the injection unit. The first actuator rotates the ram within the barrel, and the second actuator translates the ram within the barrel. During a material fill stage of an injection cycle, the controller controls the first actuator to rotate the ram within the barrel. The controller also controls the second actuator to translate the ram within the barrel, and controls the second actuator to retract the ram away from a nozzle of the injection unit while exerting a compression force on the ram towards the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Promess, Inc.Inventors: Scot Stodart, Andrew H. Joseph, Glenn W. Nausley, Jr.
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Patent number: 11865800Abstract: A mold includes a tread-forming surface to shape a tread surface. The tread-forming surface can include projections to form circumferential grooves, and land surface-forming portions to form land surfaces. Among the three land surface-forming portions aligned in an axial direction with the projections interposed therebetween, the land surface-forming portion located between the two projections can be a curved land surface-forming portion. A contour of the curved land surface-forming portion can be represented by one or more circular arcs. A boundary between a reference side surface of each projection and the curved land surface-forming portion can be a reference boundary point, and the reference boundary point can be located inward of a reference forming surface of the tread-forming surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Rena Onitsuka, Ryuhei Sanae
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Patent number: 11858185Abstract: A movable platen according to the present invention includes: a mold clamping platen 42 having a projecting portion 62 in a mold closing direction-side surface; a mold mounting platen 44 mounted to the projecting portion 62 of the mold clamping platen 42; and a guide mechanism 50 fixed to the mold clamping platen 42 and supporting the mold mounting platen 44. Only the mold clamping platen 42 is fixed to the guide mechanism 50, while the mold mounting platen 44 is not fixed but placed on platen surface support portions 52.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Shibaura Machine Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Kitta, Noriyuki Sasaki, Masato Kinoshita
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Patent number: 11845209Abstract: A catheter has extruded length of tubing and an injection molded tip that facilitates insertion of the catheter into the body. The catheter is fabricated by the steps of providing the tubing, for example, by extruding the tubing from a thermoplastic resin cutting the tubing to the desired length, inserting a plug into the tubing, inserting one end of the tubing into an injection mold cavity, creating and forming a tip in an injection molding step, and demolding the tubing with the formed tip.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Hollister IncorporatedInventor: Thomas H. Gilman
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Patent number: 11806959Abstract: A molding tool for forming a non-pneumatic tire includes a wheel portion cavity, a tread ring portion cavity, and a plurality of spoke cavities extending between the wheel portion cavity and the tread ring portion cavity. At least a subset spoke cavities within the plurality of spoke cavities include at least one of a non-uniform thickness, a non-uniform width, and a non-uniform surface. Also, the molding tool can include a conformal thermal control channel, e.g., a conformal cooling channel and/or a conformal heating channel, proximate to at least one mold cavity.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Janice Lisa Tardiff, Adam Wirth, Wesley Grant Morris, Cindy Sofia Barrera-Martinez
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Patent number: 11806937Abstract: A multi-material three-dimensional printing apparatus is provided. The provided apparatus includes two or more print stations. Each of the print stations includes a substrate, a transportation device, a dispersion device, a compaction device, a printing device, a fixing device, and a fluidized materials removal device. The apparatus also includes an assembly apparatus in communication with the two or more print stations via the transportation device. The apparatus also includes one or more transfer devices in communication with the assembly apparatus. The apparatus also includes a computing and controlling device configured to control the operations of the two or more print stations, the assembly apparatus and the one or more transfer devices.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Sakuu CorporationInventors: Philip Eugene Rogren, Morteza Vatani
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Patent number: 11787088Abstract: A method of recycling a first polymer from a multi-component polymer product may include subjecting the multi-component polymer product that includes a first polymer and at least one additional component to conditions to melt the first polymer; and filtering the at least one additional component from the molten first polymer.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Braskem S.A.Inventors: Marcelo Farah, Bárbara Iria Silva Mano, Ana Paula Rodrigues Camilo
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Patent number: 11782341Abstract: An imprint apparatus that forms a pattern made of an imprint material on each of a plurality of shot regions of a substrate, includes a user interface configured to allow a user to perform editing for assigning each of the plurality of shot regions to any one of a plurality of groups such that each of the plurality of groups is formed by at least one shot region onto which the imprint material is continuously supplied from a dispenser.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yousuke Kondo
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Patent number: 11780975Abstract: A method for preparing a composite material that includes the steps of: (i) heat treating natural lignocellulosic fibers at a temperature of 130 to 320° C. for 2 minutes to 24 hours in an atmosphere oxygen-deficient in and in the presence of water vapor, and (ii) mixing the heat treated natural lignocellulosic fibers with at least one thermoplastic polymer in the molten state and whose melting point is less than or equal to 230° C. The method is useful for producing vehicle parts from a composite material having natural lignocellulosic fibers with reduced volatile organic compound odor emissions.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: FAURECIA INTERIEUR INDUSTRIEInventors: Laurence Dufrancatel, Hassane Boudhani, Jeremie Lebihan, Nicolas Coiffier
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Patent number: 11772309Abstract: A flexible discontinuous process produces a series of at least two articles containing thermally insulating polyurethane foam from at least three streams (A), (B) and (C). The process involves mixing the at least three streams with different mixing ratios and injecting the mixture into cavities of the articles. A production unit can be used for performing this process.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Hendrik Wagner, Marko Grever, Joachim Holle, Joerg Krogmann
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Patent number: 11768195Abstract: A method of forming a nanopore in a lipid bilayer is disclosed. A nanopore forming solution is deposited over a lipid bilayer. The nanopore forming solution has a concentration level and a corresponding activity level of pore molecules such that nanopores are substantially not formed un-stimulated in the lipid bilayer. Formation of a nanopore in the lipid bilayer is initiated by applying an agitation stimulus level to the lipid bilayer. In some embodiments, the concentration level and the corresponding activity level of pore molecules are at levels such that less than 30 percent of a plurality of available lipid bilayers have nanopores formed un-stimulated therein.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Roger J. A. Chen, Randall Davis
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Patent number: 11766834Abstract: A method of forming and assembling a foldable plastic utility enclosure using molds to form sides of the enclosure, preferably using glass fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite. The molds are constructed to form a central hole in hinge members which are formed on ends of the sides. The central hole of the hinge member is molded with two molding parts, wherein one or both of the molding parts have a solid central portion that forms the central hole. The sides are removed from the molds after curing and the sides are assembled to form the utility enclosure while the sides are still hot from the molding process. Hinge pins are inserted into the central holes of the hinge members to form hinges and to prevent the sides from warping during cooling. Assembling the sides and inserting hinge pins to form the utility enclosure is completed within approximately 10 minutes after removing the sides from the molds.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLCInventors: Dustin Kyle Nolen, Raymond George Thompson
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Patent number: 11759790Abstract: Method for processing organic material is disclosed which breaks down the inedible components of fruit and vegetables (core, skin, pips, pithy material) into an edible substance with a cream-like consistency. The method includes pressurizing the material and forcing it through a passage having a number of end-to-end sections which are at right angles to one another. The material as it emerges from each section impacts on the impact surface at the end of each section and changes direction and flows into the next section of the series.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Inventors: Roy Walter Henderson, Jan Abraham Vlok
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Patent number: 11731909Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention describe a method for manufacture of a gel material comprising the steps of: forming a gel sheet by dispensing a gel precursor mixture; allowing gelation to occur to the gel precursor mixture; and cooling the formed gel with a cooling system to control reaction rate.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Inventors: George L. Gould, Kevin A. Schmidt, Christopher L. Marlette, Shahrooz Zaghi
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Patent number: 11724473Abstract: A method for purifying powdered silicon carbide is in the form of a starting material to form a silicon carbide having a purity of at least 99.9%. This method has the following method steps: providing a starting material having a grain size of less than 100 ?m and a silicon carbide content with at least 98% purity; and heating the starting material in a vacuum or oxygen-free atmosphere to a temperature above 1700° C. over a period of at least 8 minutes.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: KILLINE OPTICAL LTDInventors: Marc René André Louis Lefebvre, Hervé François Serge Jacquier
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Patent number: 11707881Abstract: A method for printing uses at least one bio-ink. The method also uses at least one laser print head to deposit at least one droplet of at least one bio-ink onto a depositing surface of a receiving substrate. The printing method uses at least one nozzle print head to deposit at least one droplet of at least one bio-ink onto a depositing surface of the same receiving substrate as the laser print head.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignees: Universite de Bordeaux, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale-lnsermInventor: Fabien Guillemot
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Patent number: 11709421Abstract: An imprint apparatus for forming a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate using a mold having a mesa including a pattern region where a pattern and a mark are formed. The apparatus includes an alignment optical system which includes an illumination system configured to illuminate the mark with illumination light and a detecting system configured to detect an image of the mark illuminated by the illumination system. The illumination system includes a limiter configured to limit incidence of the illumination light to a side of the mesa, a ridge line of the mesa, and an outer region of the side.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ken-ichiro Shinoda, Tooru Kawashima
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Patent number: 11701807Abstract: A molding apparatus includes a mold comprising a stationary outer mold with a substantially tubular mold cavity, a moveable end mold with an end mold cavity alignable with the tubular mold cavity, and a stationary elongated mold core with a fluid channel therethrough, the mold core extending through the tubular cavity into the end mold cavity. A method of using the apparatus includes injecting a molding material at a material flow rate into the mold, moving the end mold at a speed in a linear direction from a first position to a second position, supplying a fluid at a fluid flow rate to the fluid channel, and varying at least one of the material flow rate, the end mold speed and the fluid flow rate as the end mold moves from the first position to the second position.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Hollister IncorporatedInventors: Horacio Montes de Oca Balderas, Herbert Eichler, Gottfried Steiner, Daniel A. March, Gilberto Marchetti
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Patent number: 11691371Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing an artificial leather shoe upper which comprises steps of preparing plural pieces of artificial leather upper material, setting a thermoforming machine, placing the plural pieces of artificial leather upper material in the thermoforming machine, pumping out excess air of a lower die block of the thermoforming machine, thermoforming the plural pieces of artificial leather upper material to obtain a semi-finished product, and demoulding, image recognition, laser cutting and coloring the semi-finished product to obtain the artificial leather shoe upper.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Zhong Qiang Yi Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tzu-Chiang Kao