Patents Examined by Brijesh V Patel
  • Patent number: 10940754
    Abstract: A tank manufactured from a plastic material and having a reinforcement member. The reinforcement member having a first portion made of a first material weldable to the plastic material of the tank; and a second portion made of a second material having a tensile stress at break which is three to nine times larger than the tensile stress at yield of the first material. The second portion having at least one through-hole, and the first material extends in said at least one through-hole and at opposite sides of said second portion adjacent said at least one through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Plastic Omnium Advanced Innovation and Research
    Inventor: Bjorn Criel
  • Patent number: 10941905
    Abstract: An accumulator vessel (10) includes a screwable portion (3) and a lid portion (2) that is positioned at an axially inner side of the screwable portion and an axially inner surface configures a pressure bearing plane. The lid portion includes a protruding portion (22) extending axially outward on an inner circumferential side, and the protruding portion configured to abut against an axially inner end side of the screwable portion to separate an axially inner surface of the screwable portion on an outer circumferential side thereof apart from an axially outer surface of the lid portion on an outer circumferential side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: THE JAPAN STEEL WORKS, LTD., TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yoru Wada, Yusuke Yanagisawa, Hirokazu Tsuji
  • Patent number: 10934062
    Abstract: A cap (1) for a container or for a straw for a flexible pouch, in particular for containing liquid foods, such as fruit juice and other similar drinks, is provided with a guarantee seal (8) and an annular wall (10) having a lower free rim (10a) having a waved pattern so as to better observe the guarantee seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: GUALA PACK S.p.A.
    Inventor: Stefano Tamarindo
  • Patent number: 10926915
    Abstract: A collapsible container includes a bottom and longitudinal and transverse side walls rising up from this bottom and is designed so as to be foldable in the direction of the bottom, wherein at least one of the side walls can additionally be folded outwards in such a way that its inner side wall surface, which lies at the top in this position, and the surface of the bottom form a common plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Georg Utz Holding AG
    Inventor: Axel Ritzberger
  • Patent number: 10914563
    Abstract: An apparatus for storing and/or shipping explosive components, such as shaped charges, is generally described. In an embodiment, the apparatus includes a shielding assembly. The shielding assembly may include a shielding panel having a body made of metal foam and an aperture formed within the body. In an embodiment, the body is sandwiched between an upper and a lower layer. The shielding panel is configured to receive a shaped charge. Thus, the apparatus is capable of at least preventing and/or limiting ballistic transfer in the event of detonation of a shaped charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Liam McNelis, Frank Haron Preiss, Joern Olaf Loehken, Arash Shahinpour, Joerg Mueller
  • Patent number: 10912623
    Abstract: A sterilization wrap system with features for protecting a sterilization wrap and/or a sterilization tray of the sterilization wrap system is provided. Such features include strap or belt protectors, edge protectors, corner protectors, and/or expandable protectors, which each may provide protection of one or more areas of the sterilization wrap and/or tray when positioned against an outer surface of the wrap and/or between an inner surface of the wrap and a container for holding implements to be sterilized. A size-selectable protection system also is provided. The size-selectable protection system provides a material having a plurality of perforations such that a length of the material may be selected and detached from the rest of the material. The selected length of material may be used with a sterilization wrap system to protect a sterilization wrap and/or sterilization tray from cuts, tears, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: O&M Halyard, Inc.
    Inventors: Wendy Takken, Ajay Houde, Audra Wright, Khoa Lien, Joe Cesa, Anthony Stephen Spencer, Paige O'Shea
  • Patent number: 10906695
    Abstract: A system for axial coupling a first member with a second member is provided. The first member comprises a polygonal locking neck telescopingly receiving a polygonal portion of the second member. An inside wall of the locking neck comprises at least one arresting member and an angular locking member, configured for selectively arresting the angular arresting member and retaining the second member at a locked position. An inside face of the polygonal portion of the second member comprises a flat face portion and an arresting portion extending at a reflex angle with respect to the flat face portion, and a plurality of locking teeth disposed along the arresting portion, each configured for engaging with the at least one arresting member. The flat face portion is partitioned from the arresting portion by an axially extending angular arresting member configured for arresting by the locking member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: PLASEL PLASTIC LTD.
    Inventor: Nir Hadar
  • Patent number: 10899495
    Abstract: Provided is a storage unit for welding wire including an outer case in which an outer bottom supporting part is formed in a lower end thereof and a wire accommodation part configured to store a wound welding wire is formed therein, a bottom part seated on and coupled to the outer bottom supporting part, and an inner case configured to come into close contact with an inner surface of the outer case and having an inner bottom supporting part seated on the bottom part, formed in a lower portion thereof, wherein the outer case includes a strength reinforcement part and a shock absorption part formed at an inner side of the strength reinforcement part to absorb a shock from the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: KISWEL LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Hun Kim, A Ra Na
  • Patent number: 10899494
    Abstract: A product package is disclosed having e a frame part with a recess for a product and a removable inner lining. The frame part includes a base and connected side walls, end walls, and corner parts. The side and end walls each include a first part folded from the base and a second part folded from the first part toward the base. The side and end wall second parts include a cut edge which is fitted into the recess of the package, and the inner lining is fitted on top of the second parts so as to enclose the cut edges. The inner lining also includes an edge section which forms an edge flange extending over top edges of the frame part and a package lid which is arranged to be fastened to said flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: JOSPAK OY
    Inventor: Jouni Suokas
  • Patent number: 10899511
    Abstract: Closure for a container mouth, the closure comprising: a cover portion (18) for covering at least a portion of the container mouth; a fastener portion (20) for engaging the container for fastening the closure to the container; and a peelable bracing portion (22) extending generally in a circumferential direction of or around an axis of the closure, the bracing portion overlapping at least partly the cover portion and the fastener portion, and configured to reinforce the closure by bearing, as shear stress at an interface between the bracing portion and at least one of the cover portion and fastener portion, support force in or between one or both of the cover portion and the fastener portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventor: Francis Showering
  • Patent number: 10899492
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a cup including a base, a sidewall extending upward from the base to a top of the cup to define an internal cavity and an open top, wherein the sidewall includes an upper sidewall and a lower sidewall located between the upper sidewall and the base. The lower sidewall can include a lower wall and a plurality of raised ribs extending radially outward from the lower wall and being separated by recesses and the ribs and recesses being elongated in a direction between the top and the base. The cup can include an annular ledge connects the upper sidewall to the lower sidewall, wherein the annular ledge extends inwardly from the upper sidewall to the lower sidewall and forms a reduction in width of the sidewall between the upper sidewall and the lower sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Airlite Plastics Co.
    Inventors: Brad Crosby, Carter Ash, Brent Frazier, David Hull
  • Patent number: 10898294
    Abstract: A tail cap is disclosed having a body portion having a top side and a bottom side with the bottom side having a first plug portion and a second plug portion, a pull, and a central portion connected between the body portion and the pull. Another tail cap is disclosed having a body portion having a top side and a bottom side with the bottom side having a first plug portion and a second plug portion and the top side having a third plug portion and a fourth plug portion, a pull, and a central portion connected between the body portion and the pull.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: STOMA VENTURES, LLC
    Inventor: Edward Arguello
  • Patent number: 10893730
    Abstract: Healthcare kits and care packs are provided. A pack (4000) can include a container (4001) and a branding sleeve (4002). The pack can include a pair of flaps (4200, 4800) to close each end. The flaps can be prolate spheroid to define a concave end profile when closed and a convex profile when open. Alternatively, a pack (700) can include a base layer (100) and selectively detachable pouches (701, 702). The base layer can selectively fold about the pouches to form a briefcase or suitcase appearance. A fastening extension (116) can selectively hold the base layer in the closed configuration, or can be used as a hanging loop to hang the pack in an open configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Medline Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Deborah B. Adler, Susan Macinnes, Yayun Huang
  • Patent number: 10889411
    Abstract: A package includes a container formed to include a product-storage region and a mouth arranged to open into the product-storage region and a closure configured to mate with the container and establish a closed arrangement of the package and to be separated from the package at the option of a user to establish an opened arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Berry Plastics Corporation
    Inventors: Mark N. Russell, Daniel A. Bloom, Scott L. Fisher, Jason A. Rowe
  • Patent number: 10882680
    Abstract: A container for both cryopreservation and transportation including a thermal insulating container which has an inlet-outlet port for a substance to be stored and a lid for opening and closing the inlet-outlet port at the top thereof, a storage section which has a bottomed tubular shape, is fixed in the thermal insulating container and capable of taking in and out the substance stored from the inlet-outlet port, and a wave-suppression plate which is positioned laterally in a space between the storage section and an inner wall of the thermal insulating container, and suppresses waving of the cryogenic liquefied gas in a liquid state accumulated in the space between the storage section and the inner wall of the thermal insulating container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignees: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION, MEDICEO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Yonai, Tsuyoshi Kunii, Yoshiaki Tomofuji
  • Patent number: 10874472
    Abstract: A lid for a sterile container includes a lid component and at least one gas exchange section on the lid component. The lid also includes at least one frame for receiving a filter device on a lid inner face on the at least one gas exchange section, at least one outer cover which covers the at least one gas exchange section on a lid outer face, and at least one connection element which is inserted in the lid component to secure the outer cover to the lid outer face and secure the frame to the lid inner face. The lid can be incorporated into a sterile container and feature an outer cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: AESCULAP AG
    Inventor: Gerhard Aicher
  • Patent number: 10870515
    Abstract: A container sleeve system and method of manufacture thereof can include: a container having a shoulder; and a sleeve having coupling ends coupled together with a handle therebetween, the coupling ends including a rounded overhang, the coupling ends including bottom retention recesses formed within a bottom side thereof, and the shoulder extending through the rounded overhang, and the handle including a handle body providing thickness to the handle, the handle body formed on the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Inventor: Joseph Pearce
  • Patent number: 10864316
    Abstract: Packages of sterile needles are described herein. Such packages may include a container, a tray having a plurality of receiving apertures that are sized and shaped to receive a needle hub or a needle shield, a plurality of needles disposed within the plurality of receiving apertures; and a lid being supported by the container. The lid and container form an enclosure for the plurality of needles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Thomas Fraites, Adam Kristopher Brakoniecki
  • Patent number: 10858145
    Abstract: A carrier includes a front portion with a first plurality of panels and a back portion with a second plurality of panels. The first plurality of panels at least partially surrounds a front interior space for receiving at least one container and includes a front panel, a front central panel, and at least one front side panel. The second plurality of panels at least partially surrounds a back interior space for receiving at least one container and includes a back panel, a back central panel, and at least one back side panel. The front central panel and the back central panel are separably connected at a line of weakening and are at least partially in face-to-face contact in a first configuration of the carrier, the carrier is positionable to a second configuration wherein the front portion and the back portion are at least partially separated at the line of weakening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond R. Spivey, Sr., Colin P. Ford, John Murdick Holley, Jr., Ana Gonzalez, Jon Thompson, Brian Smalley
  • Patent number: 10858163
    Abstract: Disclosed are package assemblies and methods of making the same, wherein the assemblies can include, among other elements, an outer carton defining an interior product storage compartment; an inner product support card slidably received within the product storage compartment; the inner support card having a main body portion and one or more flaps; and one or more primary product packages, each being secured to one of the one or more flaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: WestRock MWV, LLC
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Vercoe, Marty Jones, Steven P. Jones