Patents Examined by Christopher S. Kim
  • Patent number: 11590827
    Abstract: An air freshener has a carrier with a pair of tabs defining a gap. A center tab extends from the pair of tabs and defines a longitudinal axis. At least one scented body is carried by one of the pair of tabs. The pair of tabs and the at least one scented body extend laterally with respect to the longitudinal axis of the center tab in opposite directions. The pair of tabs and the at least one scented body have a lateral width greater than a longitudinal depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Energizer Group Limited
    Inventor: Raul Garcia
  • Patent number: 11589502
    Abstract: Described herein are implements and applicators for placement of fluid applications with respect to agricultural plants of agricultural fields. In one embodiment, a fluid applicator for applying fluid to plants in rows in a field includes a frame, at least one applicator arm disposed in a rhizosphere of plants during fluid flow through the applicator, and a fluid conduit connected to the frame and disposed in the row between plants to deliver fluid to the row between plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: PRECISION PLANTING, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Stoller, Ian Radtke
  • Patent number: 11583869
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a nozzle device for emitting at least one emission medium onto a component, preferably onto a fold, an edge or a transition joint of the component. The nozzle device comprises at least two nozzle plates arranged adjoining one another, wherein a first nozzle plate comprises at least one opening for emitting at least one emission jet and a second nozzle plate comprises at least two openings for emitting at least two emission jets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dürr Systems AG
    Inventors: Bernd Kraft, Dmitri Noak
  • Patent number: 11583873
    Abstract: A sprinkler includes an inlet aperture, an outlet aperture, a body, a conical member, and a deflector. The inlet aperture receives fire suppressant agent at an inlet end of the sprinkler and the outlet aperture is at an outlet end of the sprinkler. The body extends along a longitudinal axis and includes an inner volume forming a fluid flow path between the inlet end and the outlet end of the sprinkler. The conical member is positioned at the outlet end of the sprinkler directs the fire suppressant agent outwards. The deflector receives fire suppressant agent from the conical member and distributes the fire suppressant agent about a service area. The deflector includes multiple tines, which each extend along a corresponding radial axis that is substantially perpendicular with the longitudinal axis. Each tine is offset by an angular amount about the corresponding radial axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TYCO FIRE PRODUCTS LP
    Inventors: Travis W. Kuffel, Stephen A. Barker, Donald Bjorkman
  • Patent number: 11578827
    Abstract: A sprinkler with a push-in connection includes a sprinkler frame, an operating element, and a sealing cap. The sprinkler also includes one or more sealing gaskets and a retainer. Each such sealing gasket is located at least partially within a groove in the sprinkler frame. The retainer is also at least partially located within a groove in the sprinkler frame. The retainer connects to the internal bore of a welded outlet or a mechanical outlet when the sprinkler is installed in the outlet. The one or more gaskets seal against the internal bore of a welded outlet or a mechanical outlet when the sprinkler is installed in the outlet. The retainer is a spring mechanism so that the diameter of the retainer is reduced when the sprinkler is inserted into the internal bore of the outlet, and the retainer maintains pressure against the outlet internal bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: The Reliable Automatic Sprinkler Co. Inc.
    Inventors: Steven D. Wolin, George S. Polan
  • Patent number: 11571595
    Abstract: Ignition-quenching covers are configured to quench an ignition event in a combustible environment triggered by an ignition source associated with an ignition-risk structure. Ignition-quenching covers comprise a porous body that includes two or more porous elements and are configured to cover the ignition-risk structure, wherein the ignition-risk structure is associated with a potential ignition source that may produce the ignition event in the combustible environment. The porous body defines passages sized to quench the ignition event. Methods comprise installing a porous ignition-quenching cover over an ignition-risk structure to prevent bulk combustion, e.g., of a fuel vapor in a fuel tank, due to an ignition event associated with the ignition-risk structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Jason Scott Damazo, Eddie Kwon, Arthur C. Day, John Rubrecht Lowell
  • Patent number: 11565277
    Abstract: A compact hot air gun comprising a body, an air blowing pump, an air outlet tube, and a heating coil. The air blowing pump is disposed in the body. The air outlet tube has an end connected to the air blowing pump and another end extending beyond the body. The heating coil is disposed in the another end of the air outlet tube opposite to the air blowing pump. The compact hot air gun can generate an ignition effect by using hot air through the above structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Pro-Iroda Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Yung Chieh Lee
  • Patent number: 11558997
    Abstract: Described herein are implements and applicators for placement of fluid applications with respect to agricultural plants of agricultural fields. In one embodiment, a fluid applicator includes at least one applicator arm, a first nozzle disposed to apply fluid to a rhizosphere of the plants, and a second nozzle disposed to apply fluid between the row of plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Precision Planting LLC
    Inventors: Jason Stoller, Ian Radtke
  • Patent number: 11554192
    Abstract: A volatile composition dispenser including a container having a bottom wall and side walls extending circumferentially around the bottom wall to define a reservoir and a perfume composition contained in the container. The side walls have a circumferential inner edge defining a reservoir opening. A reservoir opening plane extends across the reservoir opening and intersects the circumferential inner edge. There is a first depth and a second depth between the bottom wall and the reservoir opening plane, wherein D1 is longer than D2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kumaresh Govindan Radhakrishnan, Rahul Vyas, Thinh Nguyen Ha, Stefano Deflorian
  • Patent number: 11547886
    Abstract: An automatic valve includes a body configured to receive a piston axially therein, the piston being movable within the body between a first axial position in which the piston is configured to seal a valve opening when pneumatic pressure is applied to the piston and a second axial position in which the piston is configured to be withdrawn from the valve opening such that a fire suppression agent can enter the valve body through the valve opening, wherein the piston includes a channel longitudinally therethrough and a check valve positioned within the channel such that fluid can enter the check valve in a first longitudinal direction but not in a second longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: REACTON FIRE SUPPRESSION LTD
    Inventors: Theodoros Koutsos, Edward Michael John Barnes
  • Patent number: 11547884
    Abstract: An assembly for an aircraft, the assembly including a pylon with a lateral wall pierced by a window, a tank with a neck blocked by a film and carrying a first anchoring arrangement, and a fixing arrangement for fixing at least a part of the tank bearing the neck inside the pylon, a discharge pipe, and a discharge head. The head includes an explosive cartridge and a hole with a second anchoring arrangement in which discharges the discharge pipe. The discharge head is fixed inside the pylon facing the window. The explosive cartridge is designed to generate in the hole a shockwave sufficient to rupture the film. An assembly of this kind enables simple and rapid removal of the tank from and installation thereof inside the pylon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Julien Cayssials, Jean Geliot, Adeline Soulie
  • Patent number: 11548016
    Abstract: A shower head including a base body, a jet disc held on a shower jet discharge side of the base body and including at least one jet discharge opening, and a jet disc holding device for fixing the jet disc on a jet disc holding region of the base body. Illustratively, the jet disk holding device includes a plurality of plug connector pins and associated pin through-passage openings, across which a respective one of the plug connector pins is passed through, wherein the respective pin through-passage opening is provided on the jet disk holding region of the base body or on the jet disk, and wherein the plug connector pins and the pin through-passage openings are configured for latched retaining of the plug connector pins within the pin through-passage openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Hansgrohe SE
    Inventors: Ulrich Kinle, Fabian Melle
  • Patent number: 11541406
    Abstract: A spray nozzle for spraying material includes an outlet, a mixing section, an inlet for the material, and a buffer space for pressurized gas. The mixing section is in fluid communication with the outlet. The inlet is in fluid communication with the mixing section. The buffer space is in fluid communication with the mixing section via two or more separate gas supply channels. The inlet comprises a separating wall configured to divide a flow of material to be sprayed into two separate flow passages prior to entry into the mixing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: MEDMIX SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Ryan Pelletier, Hayden Turner, Robert Lindsey
  • Patent number: 11541258
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a fire extinguishing system for a battery pack, including a detection control apparatus, a fire suppression apparatus, and a hydrant water extinguishing apparatus. The detection control apparatus is disposed inside or outside a battery pack. The fire suppression apparatus and the hydrant water extinguishing apparatus are disposed outside the battery pack. The detection control apparatus is connected to the fire suppression apparatus. The hydrant water extinguishing apparatus is connected to the fire suppression apparatus. Beneficial effects: It is ensured that initial fire can be suppressed and later reignition can be resolved, so that fire extinguishing is adequate. Fire is directly extinguished at a core position inside the battery pack. An exhaust filter device gains valuable time after initial fire extinguishing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: YANTAI CHUNGWAY NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lilei Zhang, Yifeng Zhao, Mingming Li, Yanwei Bi, Zhaojun Li, Xiaotong Shi
  • Patent number: 11534775
    Abstract: The disclosure concerns a shower device for creating at least one water jet pattern with a structural assembly, with a nozzle assembly and with a lighting assembly. It is proposed that the structural assembly provides an exit opening for the emergence of the water discharged by the nozzle assembly and has an outer edge region running about the edge of the exit opening, that the exit opening during the shower operation is only partly occupied with emerging water at any given time, that the nozzle assembly is arranged distributed along at least a portion of the edge of the exit opening at the edge region and that the path of the water discharged by the nozzle assembly during the shower operation runs each time from the edge region in the direction of the exit opening and then through the exit opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Dornbracht AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Michael Neumayr
  • Patent number: 11523602
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a spray boom for an agricultural machine in which the boom is arranged as a truss with interior diagonal struts of the truss being configured to absorb tension and compression energy imparted by deflections over the length of the boom with such energy being dissipated as heat. In one aspect, the diagonal strut could comprise a rod moveable with respect to a tube with a polymer, such as an elastomeric material, arranged in the tube to dampen the movement. The tension and compression of the diagonal strut could subject the dampener to a shearing force which could be absorbed by the dampener rather than transferred to the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: CNH INDUSTRIAL AMERICA LLC
    Inventor: Roy A. Bittner
  • Patent number: 11524192
    Abstract: A propulsion assembly including a turbomachine attached to a pylon, and a fire-fighting system, the turbomachine including fire zones, the fire-fighting system including two reservoirs of pressurized extinguishing agent in the pylon and a distribution line connecting the reservoirs to nozzles. The distribution line includes connected pipes having a low point between the reservoirs and the nozzles, and, for each low point, a fluid drainage device for evacuating fluid. The drainage device includes a fluid passage for fluid evacuation from the distribution line and a mechanism for shutting off the fluid passage, the mechanism movable under effect of distribution line pressure, between a first position where it opens the fluid passage and a second position where it closes the fluid passage, the second position being reached when the pressure in the distribution line is greater than or equal to a predetermined pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Julien Cayssials, Adeline Soulie, Arnaud Guichot, Nicolas Brachet
  • Patent number: 11517932
    Abstract: A fountain apparatus (100) includes a submersible pump (1), a water supply pipe (2) including one end connected to a discharge port (13b) of the submersible pump (1), a rotating mechanism (5) including a rotating shaft (51) and a water jet nozzle (50) configured to jet water supplied through the water supply pipe (2), and a support mechanism (4) provided at the other end of the water supply pipe (2) and configured to rotatably support the rotating mechanism (5) via the rotating shaft (51). The water jet nozzle (50) includes a first jet nozzle (53) configured to jet the water in a jetting direction having a propulsive force component in a circumferential direction of the rotating shaft (51).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Tsurumi Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shizuo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11517930
    Abstract: According to some illustrative embodiments, an angularly adjustable spray nozzle is employed that includes: a base section having a water flow path extending lengthwise there-through; a head section aligned at an end of the base section and rotatably mounted to the base section; wherein a flow path through the base section is inclined at an angle to a flow path through the head section such that when the head section is rotated a predetermined extent relative to the base section, the spray device is moved between a substantially straight configuration of the head section with respect to the base section and an angular configuration of the head section with respect to the base section; wherein the head section includes a rotatable turret assembly having a plurality of selectable spray type discharge ports and a sleeve to which the rotatable turret assembly is mounted, the rotatable turret assembly including labels on a periphery thereof corresponding to respective ones of the selectable spray type discharge po
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Melnor, Inc.
    Inventors: Ha V Duong, Vicky A Michael, Juergen Nies, Mark Hoyle
  • Patent number: 11511305
    Abstract: An adapter for selectively connecting an accessory to a spray gun has an upstream connector for connecting to the spray gun, a downstream connector for connecting to accessory, a gasket located between the upstream and downstream connectors, and the upstream and downstream connectors are selectively connected together. When connected, one of the upstream and downstream connectors has a cylindrical portion at least partially inserted into another one of the upstream and downstream connectors, and a post projecting radially from the cylindrical portion. The other one of the upstream and downstream connectors has an arcuate slot being shaped and structured to receive the post of the one of the upstream and downstream connectors. A spray gun assembly has spray gun, an accessory and at least one adapter connecting the spray gun and the accessory together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: LES ENTREPRISES FRANCOIS MASSE INC.
    Inventor: Jean-Francois Masse