Patents Examined by Charles Cooley
  • Patent number: 11833458
    Abstract: A pressurizing centrifugal dehydrator for removing moisture includes: an inner basket into which slurry is introduced; an outer basket surrounding the inner basket; a pressurization chamber disposed in the outer basket; and a gas supplying portion for supplying gas into the pressurization chamber, wherein the gas supplied to the pressurization chamber is ejected from the pressurization chamber toward a dehydration product positioned between the outer basket and the pressurization chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Ho Lee, Dae Young Shin, Sung Woo Jeong, Eun Jung Joo
  • Patent number: 11833482
    Abstract: A production method for producing a particle mixture in which two or more types of particles are mixed, including a step of adding a first additive to first particles and mixing the first additive with the first particles using a first mixer and a step of introducing the two or more types of particles including the first particles mixed with the first additive and second particles into a blender container of a gravity blender, and mixing the two or more types of particles inside the blender container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO SEIKA CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazushi Takemoto, Kenji Nakamura, Hideo Kazama
  • Patent number: 11826782
    Abstract: A hydraulic vibration generation device or hydraulic motor is provided. The device includes a manifold having an inner volume with a pressure chamber extending into the inner volume, a fluid inlet orifice and a fluid outlet orifice. The device further includes a vibration generating member having a grooved drive and an off-center weight and retaining plates. The inner volume receives the vibration generating member within the inner volume. The vibration generating member rotates and generates vibration in response to hydraulic fluid flowing into the manifold through the inlet orifice and directed through the pressure chamber, relieves pressure upon exiting the pressure chamber and out of the manifold through the outlet orifice. Also provided a hydraulic motor with a same manifold and pressure chamber, but with a power generating member having the same groove drive without and off-center weight. Rotation of the power generating member generates power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Inventor: Albert Ben Currey
  • Patent number: 11819813
    Abstract: A mixing apparatus for mixing or stirring substances includes a mixing tank for receiving the substances, a rotor arranged in the mixing tank with which a vane for mixing or stirring the substances can be driven to rotate about an axial direction, and a stator arranged outside the mixing tank and with which the rotor can be driven contactlessly magnetically to rotate about the axial direction in the operating state and is supported magnetically with respect to the stator. A bar extends in the axial direction and is rotationally fixed to the rotor, and a limiting element fixed with respect to the mixing tank cooperates with the bar, with the limiting element being configured such that the bar rotates with respect to the limiting element and with a tilt of the rotor being limited by a physical contact between the bar and the limiting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: LEVITRONIX GMBH
    Inventor: Reto Schöb
  • Patent number: 11820062
    Abstract: A screw includes a screw main body, a conveyance portion conveying a raw material, and a passage provided in the screw main body. The passage includes a first passage element, a second passage element, and a third passage element. The screw main body has a plurality of cylindrical bodies arranged in an axial direction of the rotating shaft. At least a portion of the conveyance portion is formed on outer peripheral surfaces of the cylindrical bodies adjacent to each other, and the passage is formed in the cylindrical body so as to cross over between the adjacent cylindrical bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignees: Shibaura Machine Co., Ltd., HSP Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Fujii, Takafumi Sameshima, Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11813580
    Abstract: A static mixer may include a housing having an inlet and an outlet. The static mixer may also include a mixing element arranged within the housing. The mixing element may include a plurality of blade disk pairs arranged in crisscrossing fashion, each blade disk, of the pairs of blade disks, comprising a plurality of parallel extending and spaced apart blades. In some examples, a blade disk may include a link connecting the end of each of the plurality of parallel extending and spaced apart blades. In some examples, the link may be a ring base. In other examples, the link may be a propped tie. Alternatively or additionally, a support perch may be provided for supporting a ring base of an adjoining module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NOV CANADA ULC
    Inventors: Luke C. Zenke, Ross Edward Brice
  • Patent number: 11813770
    Abstract: A concrete mixer vehicle includes a mixer drum, an additive admixture system, and a controller. The additive admixture system includes an air inlet valve, a fluid valve, an air valve, and a pump. The controller is configured to operate the additive admixture system to transition the additive admixture system between an additive addition mode, a drain mode, and a system clear mode. The controller transitions the additive admixture system into the additive addition mode and operates the pump until a desired amount of an additive is added to the mixer drum, transitions the additive admixture system into the drain mode for a predetermined amount of time in response to the desired amount of additive being added to the mixer drum, and transitions the additive admixture system into the system clear mode for a predetermined amount of time to clear stagnant fluid or built up mixture from the additive admixture system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Oshkosh Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan S. Datema, Jacob Holst, Andrew Setter
  • Patent number: 11813785
    Abstract: A conveyance portion, a barrier portion, and a path are provided at places of a portion of a screw main body in which a kneading portion is provided. In at least one of the places, an entrance is opened to cause raw materials, conveyance of which is limited by a barrier portion to increase pressure on the raw materials, to flow in. The raw materials flowing in from the entrance flow through the path in the opposite direction to a conveyance direction of the conveyance portion. An exit is opened in an outer circumferential surface of the screw main body at a position outside the conveyance portion in which the entrance is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Shibaura Machine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Kobayashi, Shigeyuki Fujii, Takafumi Sameshima
  • Patent number: 11806895
    Abstract: A concrete mixer system includes a control system configured to provide a first input to a drum drive system to rotate a drum of a concrete mixer at a target speed while the drum is empty and clean, acquire operating data regarding an operating characteristic of the drum drive system to determine a baseline operating characteristic of the drum drive system in response to the first input, provide a second input to the drum drive system to rotate the drum at the target speed following one or more uses of the concrete mixer and while the drum is empty, acquire the operating data to determine a current operating characteristic of the drum drive system in response to the second input, and provide a buildup notification indicating that there is a buildup of drum contents within the drum in response to a difference between the baseline operating characteristic and the current operating characteristic exceeding a threshold differential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Oshkosh Corporation
    Inventors: Cody D. Clifton, Bryan S. Datema, Zhenyi Wei, Ted Tesmer
  • Patent number: 11794157
    Abstract: A system for bone cement includes a vial holder configured for receiving a vial and including a holding structure for maintaining the vial in the vial holder. The vial includes a monomer component for bone cement. A holder chamber is configured to receive and secure the vial holder. The vial holder is advanced toward a vial-breaking device for breaking the vial and releasing its contents into the holder chamber past the elastomeric seal. Once the vial holder is advanced further the elastomeric seal is deformed to form a seal and prevent fumes produced from escaping from the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: KYPHON SARL
    Inventors: Neil S. Sasaki, Bryan A. Click
  • Patent number: 11780117
    Abstract: A device (1) and method for the production of plastic parts (2), having a first plastic feed device (3a) for feeding a first liquid plastic starting component (K1); a second plastic feed device (3b) for feeding a second liquid plastic starting component (K2); a mixing device (5) with a mixing chamber (6), wherein in the mixing chamber the liquid plastic starting components that can be fed by the plastic feed devices can be mixed to form a plastic mixture (KG); a discharge nozzle (7) for discharging the plastic mixture; and a cooling device (8) for the mixing device, wherein a drying device (9) surrounding the mixing device at least in regions is provided, wherein the drying device has a separating device (10), a drying chamber (T) formed between the separating device and the mixing device, and a desiccant feeding device (11) opening into the drying chamber are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HENKEL AG & CO., KGaA
    Inventor: Mario Metzler
  • Patent number: 11779891
    Abstract: A worm shaft for a mixing and kneading machine in particular for continuous preparation processes, comprising a shaft rod, on the circumferential surface of which blade elements are arranged which are spaced apart from one another and which extend outward from the circumferential surface of the shaft rod, wherein the blade elements are arranged on the shaft rod, at least in one section extending in the axial direction of the worm shaft, in three rows extending in the axial direction of the worm shaft, wherein at least one of the blade elements of one of the rows is different from one of the blade elements of one of the other rows, and/or the rows of blade elements, viewed in cross-section of the shaft rod, are distributed irregularly over the circumference defined by the outer circumferential surface of the shaft rod, and wherein the angular distance between the midpoints M of the outer circumferential surfaces of the blade elements on the circumferential surface of the shaft rod of adjacent rows differs betw
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: BUSS AG
    Inventors: Martin Schötzau, Wolfgang Walter
  • Patent number: 11780116
    Abstract: Methods for modifying a recycled fine powder of concrete and uses thereof. A method for modifying a recycled fine powder can include: crushing a collected waste concrete block with a crusher, grinding with a ball mill, and passing through a 100-mesh sieve, to obtain a recycled fine powder with d50 of 13.5 ?m; placing the obtained recycled fine powder in a dry environment at a high temperature, drying, then taking out, and cooling to room temperature; preparing tannic acid solutions with different concentrations, mixing the cooled recycled fine powder with the prepared tannic acid solutions, and continuously stirring by a glass rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Anhui University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Liang Wang, Zhiqiang Liu, Hao Wang, Wenfeng Shen, Ying Xu, Yubiao Wei, Fan Yang
  • Patent number: 11772104
    Abstract: A decanter centrifuge includes one or more nozzles through which a slurry may be discharged from a feed chamber into a separation zone within a centrifuge bowl. A scroll conveyor may be coaxially aligned in the separation zone within the centrifuge bowl around the circumference of the feed chamber. In the separation zone, the slurry can be separated into at least a light phase and a heavy phase by centrifugal acceleration generated by rotation of the centrifuge bowl, the feed chamber, and/or the scroll conveyor. Each separated phase can discharge from the centrifuge bowl via respective discharge ports. Each nozzle may include a rectangular aperture and differentiated profiles of its leading edge and trailing edge. In some embodiments, the leading edge of the aperture comprises a rounded profile, while the trailing edge comprises an abrupt edge or a less-rounded edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO, L.P.
    Inventors: Floyd Wilder, Neil Mackley, Carlos Garza Gutierrez, Nicholas Kasunic
  • Patent number: 11774412
    Abstract: A centrifugal separation type FFF device where a rotor can be rotated at a high speed safely so that particles of a smaller size in a sample liquid can be classified. A field flow fractionation device is provided with: a channel that is attached to the inner circumferential surface of the peripheral portion of a rotor and where a classification flow path is created; flow paths for feeding a sample liquid into and out from the classification flow path; and a rotational drive mechanism for rotating the rotational axis, wherein a channel installation portion is formed on one side of the peripheral portion, and a mass balancer portion for adjusting the mass distribution of the rotor is formed on the other side with the rotor base in between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Honda, Kengo Aoki, Haruhisa Kato
  • Patent number: 11772059
    Abstract: A mixing device comprising a multi-element spring system in which an eccentric load, coupled to a rotor of a motor, is located towards a first end of a first beam realising a backbone for the mixing device. One or more connections interconnect the backbone respectively to one or more other beams to produce the multi-element spring system. A load, such as a vial or other container in which is located a diluent, is located remotely from the motor. As such, the spring system supports two independent but complementary eccentric load generating subsystems arising from, respectively, the controlled rotation of the rotor (and its eccentric load) and then, in response to rotation of the connected eccentric load on the rotor, swirling of the diluent in the vial/container. Both these eccentric loads contribute to a complex multidirectional flexing of the multi-element spring system relative to a fixed anchor point, with this multidirectional flexing working to induce a swirling motion in the contents of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventor: Thomas Joseph Edwards
  • Patent number: 11773031
    Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided for a system in which liquid carbon dioxide, or a mixture of liquid and gaseous carbon dioxide, is converted to solid carbon dioxide by exiting an orifice at a sufficient pressure drop, e.g., for delivery of carbon dioxide to a concrete mixture in a mixer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: CARBONCURE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Dean Paul Forgeron, Joshua Jeremy Brown, George Sean Monkman, Paul J. Sandberg
  • Patent number: 11766807
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices, are developed for in-situ placement of a concrete mix that can have the thixotropy to hold vertical dimension without containment, while maintaining pliability to be pumped into place and manipulated to a desired shape, and can be combined with concrete set accelerators, allowing subsequent layers of this concrete mix to be continuously stacked in place to build tall walls and such without the use of forms. Concrete without these special properties is pumped toward the point of placement where it is modified by injecting and mixing, into that line of pumped concrete, an admixture containing thixotropes, thickeners and/or set accelerators or other modifiers to provide these properties and other improvements. This method allows conventional plant batching with commonly available constituent materials for batching an economical concrete that is delivered to a jobsite and then is pumped most of the way to a point of placement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventor: Michael George Butler
  • Patent number: 11759794
    Abstract: Provided is a centrifuge. In a centrifuge sample container (40) having a body part (41) and a bottom part (42), the body part (41) has two parallel flat surfaces, and includes an opening (44) having an elliptical shape from above view. The bottom part (42) is formed by a semi-cylindrical part (42a) and quarter spherical parts (42b) connected to the sides of the semi-cylindrical part. A height (H) of the sample container is greater than a length (L2) in the short axis direction of the opening, and a curvature radius (R1) of the outer surface of an arc part of the elliptical shape, a curvature radius (R2) of the outer surface of the semi-cylindrical part, and a curvature radius (R3) of the outer surface of the quarter spherical parts are equal. A flange part (43) that expands radially outward is formed on the opening (44) of the body part (41).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Eppendorf Himac Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Sato, Kenichi Nemoto
  • Patent number: 11759855
    Abstract: A device and a process for the continuous application of a refractory slurry to a surface incorporate a batch reactor (10) for the controlled mixing of the slurry, a product vessel (60) in communication with the batch reactor (10) to contain the mixed slurry, and a variable-rate spraying applicator or nozzle in communication with the product vessel and with an air supply. A controller (100) controls input to, output from, and the operation of, the batch mixer (10), and monitors batch production. The controller (100) monitors the amount of slurry contained in the product vessel (60). If the level of slurry in the product hopper is such that the product hopper cannot accommodate an additional batch of slurry, the controller interrupts batch production and resumes production when the product hopper can accept the contents of the batch reactor (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: VESUVIUS USA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bedadibhas Mohanty, David R. Self