Patents Examined by Bobby Yeonjin Kim
  • Patent number: 11976479
    Abstract: A binding machine includes a body part, a feeding unit configured to feed a wire, a first guide extending in a first direction from an end portion on one side of the body part, configured to guide the wire fed by the feeding unit, and having a first induction part provided on a tip end-side in the first direction, a second guide spaced from the first guide with an interval, in which a binding object is inserted, in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and configured to guide the wire fed by the feeding unit, and a twisting unit configured to twist the wire. The first induction part is constituted by a surface inclined in a direction in which the interval between the first guide and the second guide decreases from a tip end-side toward a base end-side of the first induction part in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Morijiri, Nobutaka Tashima, Shinpei Sugihara
  • Patent number: 11975335
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hydrogel shredding device. The hydrogel shredding device includes: a first barrel body in which a first transfer space for transferring a hydrogel is formed, and extending in a first direction; a first transfer unit installed in the first barrel body and transferring the hydrogel in the first transfer space; a second barrel body installed on a lateral side of the first barrel body, and in which a second transfer space connected to the first transfer space extends in a second direction traversing the first direction; a second transfer unit installed in the second barrel body and transferring the hydrogel in the second transfer space; a cutter member installed in the second barrel body and pulverizing the hydrogel transferred by the second transfer unit; and a porous plate for discharging the hydrogel particles pulverized by the cutter member to an outside of the second barrel body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventor: Heechang Woo
  • Patent number: 11976480
    Abstract: A reinforcing bar binding machine capable of reliably performing a wire gripping operation includes a first movable gripping member that is displaced in a direction to contact with and separate from one side of a fixed gripping member and a second movable gripping member that is displaced in a direction to contact with and separate from the other side of the fixed gripping member. A bending portion brings the first movable gripping member and the second movable gripping member into and out of contact with the fixed gripping member. The fixed gripping member includes a shaft that rotatably supports the first movable gripping member and the second movable gripping member. Further, the bending portion includes an opening and closing pin that pushes an opening and closing guide hole provided in the first movable gripping member, and an opening and closing guide hole provided in the second movable gripping member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Nagaoka, Akira Kasahara
  • Patent number: 11969733
    Abstract: A production device for preparing a building material using a fine particle silt in iron tailings includes an operation desk and a grinding device. During movement of edge plates, gears are located inside a side groove and keep meshing with toothed grooves, the edge plates will drive various gears to rotate along a same direction and drive grinding balls and connecting shafts to rotate while moving, the grinding balls will perform grinding treatment on the fine particle silt at the inner end of the grinding cabinet while rotating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, MEE
    Inventors: Houhu Zhang, Bing Ma, Hao Zhou, Yuanshun Xu, Guodong Kang, Yi Wang, Xiaowei Xu
  • Patent number: 11969737
    Abstract: A plant for shredding metal waste, comprising at least one working chamber, means for shredding metal waste and motor means operatively connected to the shredding means. The plant further comprising sensor means operatively associated with the motor means and/or shredding means for monitoring at predetermined time intervals at least one working parameter connected to the wear thereof, and at least one data processing unit operatively connected to the sensor means. The data processing unit including: data storage means for storing for a predetermined period of time the values of said at least one working parameter detected by said sensor means and an an artificial intelligence software program so as to allow the plant manager to plan the maintenance of the motor means and/or shredding means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventors: Valerio Zanaglio, Michele Grazioli
  • Patent number: 11970792
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing reinforcement meshes and spinning stations therefor. Reinforcement rods to be joined with the spinning wires are supplied by advancing means from the rear end of the apparatus, and a special mechanism prevents that the wire breaks during its encounter with the reinforcement rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PEDAX GMBH
    Inventor: Kurt Offersen
  • Patent number: 11969780
    Abstract: Apparatus for forming wire components, which are in this example springs, comprises a supply station (202), for supplying spring forming material, such as metallic wire W. The supply station includes a pair of guide rollers (204) and pair of driven feed rollers (206), mounted on a heavy support plate (216). The wire is fed through a flexible sheath FS to a remotely located wire shaping device, in particular a spring forming device 208, comprising forming tools (210), a pitch control tool (212) and a cutter (214). The forming tools (210) and the pitch control tool (212) form the wire into a spring S, which is cut from the supply of wire when it is complete. The tools (210, 212) and cutter (214) are controlled remotely from a control station (220) via a bundle of flexible control cables (222), which may include a power cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HS PRODUCTS LTD
    Inventors: Simon Spinks, David Clare
  • Patent number: 11971205
    Abstract: The present invention provides an ice shaver with a 360° splash guard and shield. The guard circumscribes a gap between a top deck and a shave deck. In one aspect, a front arcuate portion of the guard can be a door that slides open and closed around an annular track. In another aspect, another rear arcuate portion of the guard can magnetically mount to the top deck. In another aspect, a channel can be positioned under the guard as an embedded water drainage channel positioned concentrically and underneath the rear floating magnetic splash guard to capture the water droplets spun off from the ice block and direct the water to a drainage opening in the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Pioneer Family Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Griffiths, Robin Peng
  • Patent number: 11965353
    Abstract: Fence mesh including line wires, and stay wires extending laterally across and intersecting the line wires to form a mesh, wherein a first type of wire knot is formed by a knot wire around the line wire and stay wire at intersections of the stay wires with the line wires in a primary zone, and wherein a second type of wire knot is formed by a knot wire around the line wire and stay wire at intersections of the stay wires with the line wires in a secondary zone, characterised in that the first type of wire knot is different from the second type of wire knot; and a machine for the formation of such a mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: UMC INNOVATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark William Ullrich, Owen Joris Meijer, Michael Raymund Burtscher
  • Patent number: 11958100
    Abstract: The wire fed or pulled back from the reel by the feeding unit can be properly restricted. The invention relates to a binding machine (2) having a feeding unit (16) for feeding out a wire (3) from a reel (12) provided in a housing unit (11). With respect to the entering route (81) of the wire (3) when the wire (3) drawn out from the reel (12) by the feeding unit (16) is guided to the feeding unit (83), the first restriction unit (83) that restricts the drawing portion (3a) of the wire (3) disposed between the reel (12) and the feeding unit (16) from being deviating from the entering route (81) is provided inside the housing unit (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Kasahara, Osamu Itagaki, Ichiro Kusakari, Takeshi Morijiri
  • Patent number: 11958055
    Abstract: A mobile cone plant with canted run-on jacks for limited vibration of the chassis without a need for clamping or extremely tight tolerances in telescopic jack parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Terex USA, LLC
    Inventors: Rex Mikle Carter, Edwin J. Sauser, Alexander Evan Ross
  • Patent number: 11951519
    Abstract: A system and method for an improved material flow through an extrusion machine by altering the material properties in a magnetic field are provided. The electromagnetic extrusion system includes a ram that is moved into a chamber containing an extrusion material to force the extrusion material out of an opening defined, at least in part, by a die to create an extrusion with a cross-sectional shape corresponding to the predetermined shape of the opening. An electromagnetic winding of electrically conductive material is embedded within a tool retainer block surrounding the container and is helically wound about the chamber and carries a DC electrical current to generate a magnetic field having a magnetic flux density of at least 2 Tesla within the extrusion material to dissipate dislocation defect structures in the extrusion material being extruded via the magnetoplasticity effect. The magnetic field therefore provides for reduced flow stress on the tooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MAGNA INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Jeremiah John Brady, Edward Karl Steinebach, Gerard Michael Ludtka
  • Patent number: 11945018
    Abstract: In drilling processing on a press-formed inclined portion, a hole is formed with high precision without occurrence of damage to a blade of a punch or slipping of the punch. Embodiments include a method where two through holes are formed in a blank before press-forming which are opposed to each other in the inclined direction of the inclined portion, each through portion partially forming a peripheral edge portion of the hole. The inclined portion is formed using press processing on the blank. Piercing processing using a punch is performed while pressing the inclined portion, so that the two opposed through holes are connected, thereby forming the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeru Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11945022
    Abstract: An article bender apparatus that assists in joining two separate malleable article line free ends in a selected helical wrap, the article bender apparatus including a disc that has a slot disposed therethrough that originates from the center at a root extending radially outward, a shoe having a selectable pivotal lock to a face of the disc, wherein the shoe is in an open state when the slot is open and the shoe is in a closed locked state when the shoe partially covers the slot leaving the slot root section open. Also, a means for rotating the disc about the root, operationally the disc is inserted onto a first line free end portion to the root, the shoe is placed in the closed locked state, with the shoe intersecting a second line free end portion, next rotating the disc to helically wrap the second line about the first line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventor: Joshua Cosby
  • Patent number: 11944978
    Abstract: A material processing tool assembly includes a tool for material processing having a base section and a processing section extending from the base section; and a tool mounting block mountable on an outer surface of a support base. The mounting block has a base surface and a tool mounting surface intersecting the base surface. The base surface has a protuberance extending away therefrom and spaced apart from the tool mounting surface to define a tool receiving gap between the protuberance and the tool mounting surface. The base section of the tool is snugly received in the tool receiving gap between the tool mounting surface and the protuberance in abutment with the tool mounting surface, the processing section of the tool extending past the protuberance. A displaceable material processing head and method of mounting a material processing tool to a mounting block secured to a displaceable head are also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Alamo Group Inc.
    Inventor: Laurent Denis
  • Patent number: 11946267
    Abstract: A binding machine includes a wire feeding unit configured to feed a wire, a curl guide configured to curl the wire fed by the wire feeding unit around an object to be bound, a binding unit including a twisting shaft provided to be rotatable around a predetermined axis, and a gripping part provided at one end side of the twisting shaft, wherein the gripping part is configured to grip the wire curled by the curl guide and the twisting shaft is configured to twist the gripped wire so as to bind the object, a binding machine main body having one end side at which the curl guide is arranged and configured to accommodate therein the wire feeding unit and the binding unit, and a setting unit provided at an opposite end side of the binding machine main body and configured to set a predetermined operation condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Itagaki, Akira Kasahara, Norihiro Nagai
  • Patent number: 11931871
    Abstract: A binding machine includes a wire feeding unit, a curl forming unit, a cutting unit, and a binding unit. The binding unit includes a locking member that includes a first hook and a second hook and that locks the wire by moving the first hook toward the second hook. The locking member includes a locking part that locks the wire in a state in which the first hook has been moved toward the second hook, and an unlocking part that makes it possible for the first hook to be movable away from the second hook with such an amount of movement that the locked wire does not come off between the first hook and the second hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobutaka Tashima, Masato Utsugi
  • Patent number: 11898358
    Abstract: A binding machine includes a wire feeder, a curl forming part, a cutter, and a binding part configured to twist the wire wound on the object and cut by the cutter. The binding part includes a wire locking body to which the wire is locked; a rotating shaft configured to operate the wire locking body; and a wire holding part including a first member and a second member. The wire holding part is configured to bend the wire wound on the object in an axial direction of the rotating shaft by the relative movement of the first member and the second member approaching each other, and to hold the wire. The cutter is provided in a wire feeding path between the wire feeder and the wire holding part, and is configured to cut the wire after the wire is held by the wire holding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouichirou Morimura, Yusuke Yoshida, Makoto Kosuge, Tetsuro Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11897019
    Abstract: A retainer assembly includes a retaining member assembly and a motion assembly. The retaining member assembly is structured to selectively retain at least one shell in a transfer belt assembly belt recess. The retaining member assembly includes a retaining member. The motion assembly is structured to move the retaining member between a first position, wherein the retaining member is spaced from the transfer belt assembly transfer belt, and, a second position, wherein the retaining member is disposed a retaining distance from the transfer belt assembly transfer belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Todd Albright, Robert Joseph Will, Dennis Cornelius Stammen
  • Patent number: 11890664
    Abstract: A drive assembly for a necker machine includes a plurality of motors, each motor including an output shaft, a plurality of drive wheel assemblies, each drive wheel assembly operatively coupled to an associated necker machine drive shaft, and a number of timing/drive belts operatively coupled to each drive wheel assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: Richard James Edward Mercer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Bradley James Miller