Patents Examined by Christopher C Caillouet
  • Patent number: 12145327
    Abstract: A fiber placement device includes an accumulation portion that stores and discharges a reinforcing fiber bundle including: a movable roller guided by a guide mechanism able to be moved in a constant movable range; a cylinder; a piston arranged within the cylinder; a coupling member coupling the movable roller and the piston; and an adjustment portion adjusting a force applied to the piston within the cylinder by discharging fluid from a space with the cylinder sealed on a side opposite the coupling member with respect to the piston within the cylinder or supplying the fluid into the space, the fluid is discharged from the space within the cylinder to apply a force to the piston to move the piston, a force is also applied to the movable roller through the coupling member to move the movable roller and thus a tension is applied to the reinforcing fiber bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Sato, Tamotsu Suzuki, Kentaro Nagasaki
  • Patent number: 12134932
    Abstract: A cabinet door having a first member with a first recess disposed along a top side of the center panel between a first stile and a second stile, a second recess disposed along a bottom side of the center panel between the first stile and the second stile, and a first veneer having a longitudinally extending grain pattern; a second member with a second veneer having a longitudinally extending grain pattern, and a first rabbet; and a third member with a third veneer having a longitudinally extending grain pattern; and a second rabbet; where the second member fits into the first recess, the third member fits into the second recess, and the longitudinally extending grain pattern of the second veneer is parallel to the longitudinally extending grain pattern of the third veneer and perpendicular to the longitudinally extending grain pattern of the first veneer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: DECORE-ATIVE SPECIALTIES INC.
    Inventor: Jack Laurence Albright
  • Patent number: 12127922
    Abstract: A method for making an absorbent article comprising an absorbent core comprising one or more channels, the method comprising the steps of: i. providing a first endless moving surface comprising a plurality of molds, each mold comprising a non-porous insert therein, typically said insert having the inverse shape of said channel(s), wherein the molds are in fluid communication with an under-pressure source except for said insert; ii. feeding a first nonwoven web to said first endless moving surface and over one or more said molds; iii. depositing an absorbent material, comprising cellulose fibers and/or superabsorbent polymer particles, over at least a portion of said nonwoven web; iv. removing said absorbent material from areas of the nonwoven web corresponding to said insert; v. applying a second nonwoven web directly or indirectly over the absorbent material, or folding said first nonwoven web, such to sandwich said absorbent material between upper and lower layers of said nonwoven web(s); vi.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: Ontex BV, Ontex Group NV
    Inventors: Thomas Heege, Ainas Weber, Christel Mailinger, Manfred Breu, Detlef Vollrath, Alissa Idelson, Christoph Wagner
  • Patent number: 12128637
    Abstract: A pressure foot device and system comprising a pressure foot device for guiding, forming and applying an elongate fiber tow, wherein the pressure foot device comprises a foot surface comprising a straight foot segment, a groove comprising a flared end and defining a groove midplane, and a foot shaft housing characterized by a foot shaft's axis of rotation that is orthogonal to the straight foot segment and comprised in the groove midplane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: 9T LABS AG
    Inventors: Leo Baumann, Lucien Segessemann, Chester Houwink, Martin Eichenhofer, Giovanni Cavolina
  • Patent number: 12121426
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for stretching, transferring, and bonding elastic parts under tension to an advancing carrier substrate during the assembly of absorbent articles. A continuous carrier substrate may be advanced in a machine direction at a first speed, and a discrete elastic part may be cut from a continuous elastic substrate having a direction of stretch in a cross direction. The speed of the discrete elastic part is changed from a second speed to the first speed, and the central region of the discrete elastic part is stretched in the cross direction. The discrete elastic part is bonded with the continuous carrier substrate such that the stretched central region extends in the cross direction between the first and second longitudinal edges of the continuous carrier substrate. The discrete elastic part may also be bonded with the carrier substrate with adhesive and/or mechanical bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Uwe Schneider, Michael Brian Quade, Jason Edward Naylor, Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, Urmish Popatlal Dalal, Keith Richard Willhaus
  • Patent number: 12115042
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for stretching, transferring, and bonding elastic parts under tension to an advancing carrier substrate during the assembly of absorbent articles. A continuous carrier substrate may be advanced in a machine direction at a first speed, and a discrete elastic part may be cut from a continuous elastic substrate having a direction of stretch in a cross direction. The speed of the discrete elastic part is changed from a second speed to the first speed, and the central region of the discrete elastic part is stretched in the cross direction. The discrete elastic part is bonded with the continuous carrier substrate such that the stretched central region extends in the cross direction between the first and second longitudinal edges of the continuous carrier substrate. The discrete elastic part may also be bonded with the carrier substrate with adhesive and/or mechanical bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Uwe Schneider, Michael Brian Quade, Jason Edward Naylor, Jeromy Thomas Raycheck
  • Patent number: 12115694
    Abstract: In one embodiment, systems and methods include using an ultrasonic cutter in a ground detection system to prevent damage to a substrate. The method of detecting a substrate comprises attaching a workpiece clamp to the substrate. The method further comprises cutting a layer of coating disposed on the substrate with an ultrasonic cutter, wherein the ultrasonic cutter operates at a frequency of about 20 kHz to about 40 kHz, wherein the layer of coating is non-conductive. The method further comprises contacting the substrate with the ultrasonic cutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Sean McCrory, Matthew Timothy McKee, Matthew Short, Lance Cronley
  • Patent number: 12112976
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for fabricating a pseudo-substrate comprising the steps of providing a single crystal ingot, providing a handle substrate, cutting a thin slice from the single crystal ingot, and attaching the thin slice to the handle substrate to form a pseudo-substrate. According to the invention, the thickness of the thin slice is substantially equal or inferior to a critical thickness below which the slice, if taken alone, is no longer mechanically stable. The invention further relates to a semiconductor structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Soitec
    Inventors: Fabrice Letertre, Oleg Kononchuk
  • Patent number: 12097140
    Abstract: An absorbent article can have a topsheet layer, a liquid impermeable layer, and an absorbent core positioned between the topsheet layer and the liquid impermeable layer. The absorbent article can further include an exudate management layer in fluid communication with the topsheet layer. In various embodiments, the exudate management layer can be positioned on a body facing surface of the topsheet layer. In various embodiments, the exudate management layer can be positioned between the topsheet layer and the absorbent core. The exudate management layer has a first component which defines an opening for direct passage of body exudates into the absorbent core. The exudate management layer has a second component which at least partially overlaps the first component of the exudate management layer and further extends in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent article in a direction towards the posterior region of the absorbent article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew D. Woods, David J. Nickel, Jason G. Csida, Palani Raj R. Wallajapet, Hwa Y. Kim
  • Patent number: 12091583
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer compound peeling agent usable for peeling as many types of polymer compounds as possible and capable of reducing a burden required for a peeling treatment when a polymer compound having adhered to an adhesion object is peeled. The polymer compound peeling agent for peeling a polymer compound having adhered to an adhesion object contains a photoresponsive liquid crystal material having a phase structure reversibly transitioning between an isotropic phase and a liquid crystal phase due to photoisomerization based on irradiation lights of different wavelengths. When the polymer compound is adhered to the adhesion object, the photoresponsive liquid crystal material is contained in the polymer compound with the phase structure set to the isotropic phase, and the phase structure of the photoresponsive liquid crystal material is allowed to transition from the isotropic phase to the liquid crystal phase by photoisomerization based on the light irradiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignees: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, TAT INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamamoto, Kyohei Takuno, Keita Hirokawa
  • Patent number: 12091207
    Abstract: A method for applying labels to a cable or conduit with a known circumference, the method including supplying at least one label, wherein the at least one label has a known label height, the label height is greater than the known circumference of the cable or conduit, and the label has a bottom, middle, and top portions, providing at least one tamping device, tamping the middle portion of the at least one label to the cable or conduit with the at least one tamping device, wherein the middle portion of the at least one label adheres to the cable or conduit, providing a guide shoe assembly, pressing the top portion of the at least one label against the cable or conduit with the guide shoe assembly, and pressing the bottom portion of the at least one label against the cable or conduit with the guide shoe assembly, wherein the top portion of the at least one label and the bottom portion of the at least one label overlap after pressed onto the cable or conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Encore Wire Corporation
    Inventors: Mark D. Bennett, William T. Bigbee, Jr., Stephen S. Griffin
  • Patent number: 12076935
    Abstract: A device for welding thermoplastic tubes to a welding method, and to a welding knife. The device is provided for welding thermoplastic tubes, wherein the tubes are placed into tube holders and squeezed with the aid of tube clamps. A welding knife is moved between the first and the second tube holder and severs the tubes in the process. Cut ends and residual ends are thereby produced. The cut ends are aligned with one another by a relative movement of one tube holder with respect to the other tube holder and, by a horizontal movement of the two tube holders, are welded simultaneously to form continuous tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: REED ELECTRONICS AG
    Inventors: Peter Bühler, Willy Fluder, Markus Wyss
  • Patent number: 12065328
    Abstract: A system for splicing together multiple sheets of generally rigid material into a continuous sheet. The system includes a cart with a cutting mechanism and a sealing mechanism. The cutting mechanism is configured to cut a pattern of segments through the sheet materials that can be interlocked to form a seam. The interlocking segments may include asymmetrical features. The sealing mechanism can apply tape to the seal to secure it. The splicing system may be used while one of the multiple sheets of generally rigid material is concurrently in use by a packaging machine without interruption to the packaging machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: PACKSIZE LLC
    Inventor: Clinton Engleman
  • Patent number: 12037522
    Abstract: An object of a first embodiment of the present invention is to provide an electrical debonding type adhesive sheet which can be applied while inhibiting the trapping of air bubbles and while easily avoiding surface irregularities, etc., and which gives a joined body that can be easily debonded. The electrical debonding type adhesive sheet according to the first embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate for voltage application, a first adhesive layer, which is constituted of an electrically debondable adhesive and is formed on an electroconductive surface of the substrate for voltage application, and a second adhesive layer, which is formed on the opposite surface of the substrate for voltage application, the electrical debonding type adhesive sheet including a plurality of linked parts and a linking part which links the plurality of linked parts to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori Akamatsu, Kaori Mizobata, Ryo Awane, Akira Hirao, Junji Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 12023877
    Abstract: An AFP head providing a plurality of fiber element tows under tension to a compaction roller which in operation presses the individual tows onto a substrate to produce a part. A separate laser heat source, such as an individual laser module, is provided for each pair of tows or tetrad of tows. Each laser is separately controllable to provide an on/off capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Electroimpact, Inc.
    Inventor: Marcus Jordan Boyle
  • Patent number: 12009230
    Abstract: A bonding device has two chucks, two gas pressure regulators and a control unit. The chucks each have a holding surface with pressure ports fluidically connected to the respective gas pressure regulator. The control unit is electrically and/or wirelessly connected to the gas pressure regulators and configured to control gas pressure regulators independently from each other. Support elements movably mounted within the pressure ports, are provided to measure the amount of substrate deflection and adjust the respective gas pressures and also to apply additional mechanical pressure to the substrates. The two chucks may be mounted on corresponding support structures so as to be thermally isolated therefrom. The temperature of the two chucks may be equalised by moving the chucks into contact. A chuck tempering device may be used for equalising the temperature of the two chucks. The bonding device is used for bonding two substrates by bonding wave propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SUSS MICROTEC LITHOGRAPHY GMBH
    Inventor: George Gregory
  • Patent number: 11993415
    Abstract: A machine and a method for labeling containers, the machine including a transfer drum, fed by an assembly for unwinding a labeling ribbon and provided with cutting elements, which is adapted to bring the individual labels, separated after cutting, into contact with corresponding containers which are supported by a conveyor; a roller for spreading adhesive faces the transfer drum and is designed to apply, to the labels that are present on the ribbon, at least one line of adhesive prior to their separation from the ribbon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: P.E. Labellers S.P.A.
    Inventors: Nicola Schinelli, Bruno Negri
  • Patent number: 11990802
    Abstract: To prevent an adhesive agent from adhering to a die set for outer shape punching and avoid contamination of the die set by the adhesive agent even if the adhesive agent protrudes from the outer shape contour of a laminated iron core, a laminated iron core manufacturing device includes: a first punch (32) and a first die (48) for punching a part of an outer shape of each iron core lamina in a sheet steel strip; an adhesive agent applying apparatus (60) configured to apply an adhesive agent on an adhesive agent application region including a portion defined in the sheet steel strip by punching by the first punch (32) and the first die 48; and a second punch (34) and a second die (50) configured to punch the outer shape of each iron core lamina other than the part punched by the first punch (32) and the first die (48) from the sheet steel strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Kuroda Precision Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironobu Okudaira, Hideo Horii, Kenichi Shindo
  • Patent number: 11958706
    Abstract: A consumer width sized roll comprising wound web material comprising a tail. The tail may comprise a bonding material. The bonding material may be arranged in a novel pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Bret A. Sims, Dan T. Anderson, Brent M. Borovskis, Victoria Grace Strain, Gustav Andre Mellin
  • Patent number: 11950989
    Abstract: Disposable hygiene article comprising a liquid-permeable topsheet, a liquid-impermeable backsheet and an absorbent core, flexible side flaps arranged on opposite sides of the absorbent core for attaching the article to a garment, and liquid side barriers arranged substantially along longitudinal edges of the absorbent core. The flexible side flaps each comprise at least a side layer which is secured to the topsheet by means of a seam, the seam partitioning the side layer in a first part and a second part with the first part extending from the seam towards the longitudinal centre axis and the second part extending from the seam away from said longitudinal centre axis. The first parts form the liquid side barriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG
    Inventors: Philip Blomström, Shadi Ståhl, Anna Bagger-Sjöbäck