Patents Examined by Bobby Yeonjin Kim
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Patent number: 11945018Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventor: Shigeru Matsumoto
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Patent number: 11946267Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Itagaki, Akira Kasahara, Norihiro Nagai
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Patent number: 11945022Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Inventor: Joshua Cosby
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Patent number: 11931871Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobutaka Tashima, Masato Utsugi
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Patent number: 11898358Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kouichirou Morimura, Yusuke Yoshida, Makoto Kosuge, Tetsuro Fukuda
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Patent number: 11897019Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Steven Todd Albright, Robert Joseph Will, Dennis Cornelius Stammen
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Patent number: 11890664Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Richard James Edward Mercer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Bradley James Miller
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Patent number: 11890732Abstract: A binding machine includes a body part, a feeding unit configured to feed a wire, a first guide and a second guide extending in a first direction from an end portion on one side of the body part, arranged 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, a twisting unit configured to twist the wire guided by the first guide and the second guide, and a guide moving part configured to change the interval from a first distance to a second distance shorter than the first distance.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Morijiri, Nobutaka Tashima, Shinpei Sugihara
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Patent number: 11877700Abstract: A blender blade having four tapered arms extending from a central body. Each arm includes a front cutting edge, a back edge, and a tipped end which exhibits a small, sharpened cutting edge at a slight angle from the front cutting edge. One of the arms is planar to the body, one arm includes a most preferred slight bend of about 6.0°, and the final two arms have a most preferred bend of about 16.7°.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: NuWave, LLCInventors: Jung S. Moon, Eubene Sin
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Patent number: 11878824Abstract: A robot hand includes a gripping mechanism. The gripping mechanism includes a pair of gripping claws that perform opening and closing operations in a horizontal direction intersecting with an extending direction of an electric wire. The gripping claw has a lower claw portion that functions as a scooping claw by moving obliquely upward from below. Before or during a bundling operation, a control device of a robot causes the lower claw portion of the gripping claw to move obliquely upward from below to scoop up all electric wires to be bundled.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Takahito Saitou, Jun Yagi, Tetsuo Iwao
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Patent number: 11871765Abstract: A blade assembly for a micro puree machine including a central support hub, a cutting blade, a mixing blade, a central opening, an angled ledge and an undercut. The cutting blade extends outward from a circumferential surface of the central support hub and defines a curved leading edge. The central opening is configured to receive a power shaft therein. The angled ledge is located at an upper end of the central support hub and extends about at least a portion of an outer perimeter of the central support hub. The undercut is located on the outer perimeter of the central support hub and is positioned closer to a lower end of the central support hub than the angled ledge. The undercut includes an engagement surface that extends outwards from a central axis of the central support hub and is configured to receive and retain a clip mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: SHARKNINJA OPERATING LLCInventors: Ming Li Shi, Xu Sheng Deng, Pushan He, Ping Chu
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Patent number: 11865598Abstract: A method for manufacturing flexible rolling of metal strips, in which a metal strip with pre-definable material thickness is guided through a mill stand by at least two operating steps, which includes several rolls, the metallic strip is during the rolling operation set to lead through a roll gap, where a curve bending line is steered to achieve a defined profile.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Outokumpu OyjInventors: Thorsten Piniek, Andreas Zeidler, Stefan Schuberth
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Patent number: 11866918Abstract: The present invention relates to a food waste disposer that is configured to allow an opening and closing plate adapted to open and close a drain pipe to be open only when a motor operates, so that normally, the drain pipe from which water is discharged is closed, thereby preventing bad smell and sewage from flowing backward from the drain pipe, to allow a propeller adapted to forcedly discharge the water from a casing to the drain pipe to be driven reversely and to thus close the opening and closing plate if the motor is driven reversely, so that gears inside a pulverizing part rotate to circulate the water in the casing and thus to automatically clean the casing, without any separation of the casing, and to allow a magnetic material to be built in a hopper so that if iron introduced into the hopper is sensed by sensors, the pulverizing part stops working and is thus prevented from being damaged by the iron.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventor: Yong-Goo Kim
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Patent number: 11859396Abstract: A binding machine includes a wire feeding unit configured to feed a wire to be wound on an object to be bound, a cutting unit configured to cut the wire wound on the object to be bound, and a binding unit configured to twist the wire wound on the object to be bound. The cutting unit includes a pair of blade parts configured to interpose the wire therebetween and cut the wire. One or both of the pair of blade parts include a delay part which is configured to delay cutting a part of the wire as compared to a remaining part of the wire.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.Inventor: Osamu Itagaki
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Patent number: 11858020Abstract: A method for producing a metallic strip or sheet, in which the strip or sheet is rolled in a multi-stand rolling mill and is discharged downstream of the last roll stand of the rolling mill in a conveying direction. The strip or sheet is cooled in the multi-stand rolling mill and/or downstream of the rolling mill as viewed in the conveying direction, wherein a temperature of the strip or sheet is measured upstream of the last roll stand of the rolling mill as viewed in conveying direction. Based on this measured temperature, a temperature for the strip or sheet at the exit of the last roll stand of the rolling mill is then determined by calculation with the aid of a temperature calculation model, with which further temperature processes of the manufacturing method can be controlled or regulated after a comparison with a predetermined reference value.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SMS GROUP GMBHInventors: August Sprock, Christoph Hassel, Kai Grybel
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Patent number: 11858174Abstract: A system and method are for separating the layers of multilayer plastics, the fragments of multilayer plastic being carried into a receptacle (1) pressurized for 10 to 60 seconds. The receptacle is pressurized using overheated vapor generated in a boiler and introduced into the receptacle until reaching a pressure between 1 and 12 bar and a temperature between 100 and 191.12° C. The fragments are then carried to a discharge tank at a relative pressure between ?0.7 and 0.1 bar and at a temperature between 15 and 25° C. for between 1 and 5 minutes. The multilayer fragments are later transferred to a mechanical separation unit where the fragments are separated into fragments of single-layer plastic and, lastly, to a mechanical sorting unit where the fragments are sorted by material.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2018Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: REPETCO INNOVATIONS S.L.Inventors: Amalio Garrido Escudero, Alexandra Martínez Gracia, Pedro Antonio Escudero Marín
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Patent number: 11856895Abstract: A bale binding mechanism is configured to wrap twine around a bale of severed crop material. The bale binding mechanism broadly includes a baling needle, a twine tensioner, and a sensor. A baler chassis presents a baling chamber in which the bale is formed. The baling needle is shiftable up and down relative to the baling chamber, with the needle being shiftable to advance twine upwardly along an end of the bale. The twine tensioner is configured to maintain tension on a tensioned twine section extending between the twine tensioner and the needle, with the tensioned twine section defining a twine feed axis. The twine tensioner includes a tension device that restricts upward advancement of the tensioned twine section. The twine tensioner also includes a shiftable guide element.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventors: Bernard D. Regier, Dino Rey Valdez, Maynard M. Herron, Patrick Kendrick, Nathan Ensminger
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Patent number: 11858670Abstract: A binding machine includes: a wire feeding unit configured to feed a wire; a curl forming unit configured to form a path along which the wire fed by the wire feeding unit is to be wound around a to-be-bound object; a butting part against which the to-be-bound object is to be butted; a cutting unit configured to cut the wire wound on the to-be-bound object; a binding unit configured to twist the wire wound on the to-be-bound object and cut by the cutting unit; and a tension applying part configured to apply tension to the wire to be cut at the cutting unit with a force higher than a force applied in a loosening direction of the wire wound on the to-be-bound object.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Osamu Itagaki, Shinpei Sugihara, Kouichirou Morimura, Yusuke Yoshida, Ichiro Kusakari
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Patent number: 11850653Abstract: A binding machine includes: a wire feeding unit; a curl forming unit; a cutting unit; a binding unit; a motor; and a control unit. The binding unit includes: a rotary shaft to be driven by the motor; a wire engaging body configured to engage the wire and to rotate together with the rotary shaft, thereby twisting the wire; and a rotation regulation part configured to regulate rotation of the wire engaging body. The control unit is configured to control stop of the motor rotating in a direction of twisting the wire, based on a position in a rotation direction of the wire engaging body and a position at which the rotation of the wire engaging body can be regulated by the rotation regulation part.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: MAX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Yoshida, Kouichirou Morimura, Ichiro Kusakari
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Patent number: 11850818Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments of a system and method for baling recyclable materials and managing the baling of recyclable materials. The apparatus for baling includes a baler for compressing and baling recyclable materials, a scale, label printer, and a processor. Certain embodiments further comprise at least one digital camera, RFID dispenser, and an internet connection that allows the processor to transmit collected data to a remote database for further analysis. The disclosed method for baling recyclable materials comprising the steps of baling materials; weighing the bale automatically using a digital scale operably connected to the processor; recording the weight of the bale automatically; and printing a label which displays the recorded weight of the bale. Additionally, the method may comprise inputting information and/or automatically recording data, and/or automatically transmitting the data associated with a bale to a remote database.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2023Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: WM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HOLDINGS, L.L.C.Inventors: Chung Wah Chan, Ricardo J. Perez