Patents Examined by Christopher Schatz
  • Method of making wearing article
    Patent number: 8580056
    Abstract: A wearing article configured so that loop elements engaged with associated hook elements will not ride up or curl up in the course of the production process. Mount members are attached to an inner sheet in a front waist region so as to extend along first lateral zones of the front waist region and hook elements are attached to a chassis by the intermediary of these mount members. Loop elements are attached to the inner sheet in a rear waist region so as to extend along second lateral zones of the rear waist region. Third regions of the respective mount members are formed with sticking zones operatively associated with outer lateral edges of the respective loop elements. The sticking zones formed on the respective mount members are temporarily joined to the loop elements as the hook elements are engaged with the associated loop elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Unicharm Corporation
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Kinoshita, Natsuko Aoyagi, Kayoko Tanaka, Yasuhiko Kenmochi
  • Apparatus and method for making a corrugated product
    Patent number: 8580061
    Abstract: The invention describes a device and method for making corrugated products. The device can be used with any substrate and includes, at least, first and second drive rollers for driving a middle substrate and a single wall corrugated product. In other embodiments the invention includes upper drive rollers, lower drive rollers and middle drive rollers for driving an upper substrate, a lower substrate and a middle substrate. The middle substrate is driven between the upper and lower substrates at a higher velocity to form flutes that are anchored between the upper an lower substrates thereby forming a corrugated product. The invention also provides for customized corrugated products having multiple fluted substrates in various desirable arrangements. Examples of such products include mattress, partition panels, other furniture and construction products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: BJ2, LLC
    Inventor: Jason Cik
  • Method for joining a profiled first structural component to a second structural component
    Patent number: 8574391
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for joining precured stringers to at least one structural component of an aircraft or spacecraft. A vacuum arrangement required for the joining is produced in two parts. In a first step, each precured stringer is covered in advance by a covering vacuum film. The stringers prepared in this manner are arranged on the structural component. Vacuum film strips are subsequently arranged in each case on adjacent stringers and over an intermediate space between the adjacent stringers. With the use of a vacuum sealing means, the vacuum film strips and the covering vacuum films 8 form a continuous vacuum arrangement. The stringers are subsequently joined under pressurization to the structural component with the use of this vacuum arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Sander, Hans Marquardt, Hauke Lengsfeld
  • Method and apparatus for determining blowout in a corrugation
    Patent number: 8574383
    Abstract: A corrugator includes a separation sensor for sensing separation of a corrugated medium and liner of a corrugated paperboard. Sensing the separation, also known as blowout or fluff out, allows the corrugator to be controlled to prevent problems which arise when corrugated paperboard having such a separation continues downstream along the corrugator. Typically, the corrugator is operated to cease downstream movement of the paperboard while a faulty segment which includes the separation is removed and the problem causing the separation is fixed, thereby providing for subsequent production of corrugated paperboard which is properly glued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Greif Packaging LLC
    Inventors: David W. Casey, Gregg A. Bryan, Karl U. Wuerminghausen
  • Process for applying a layered structure on a lens
    Patent number: 8562772
    Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement for applying a layered structure onto a convex surface of a lens. After thermoforming the layered structure, a curvature direction of the layered structure is inverted. The structure is then applied on the lens surface by continuously pushing the structure against the lens surface, starting from a contact point between a convex surface of the structure and the convex surface of the lens. The curvature direction of the layered structure is then inverted again, so that it recovers the curvature direction that resulted from thermoforming. Stresses within the layered structure are then reduced, and the structure can be assembled with the lens without defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Essilor International (compagnie Generale d'optique)
    Inventor: John Biteau
  • Fuel cell and fuel cell stack
    Patent number: 8557467
    Abstract: A fuel cell includes separators sandwiching electrolyte electrode assemblies. Each of the separators includes a fuel gas supply passage, four first bridges extending radially outwardly from the fuel gas supply section, and sandwiching sections connected to the first bridges. A fuel gas supply passage extends through the fuel gas supply section. Each of the sandwiching sections has a fuel gas channel and an oxygen-containing gas channel. The four electrolyte electrode assemblies are arranged concentrically around the fuel gas supply section. A fuel cell stack includes such fuel cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ogawa, Yukihiko Kiyohiro, Tsutomu Takahashi
  • Method of installing a pressing block suit of a solar panel
    Patent number: 8557081
    Abstract: A method of installing a pressing block suit of a solar panel to a mounting body, in the method, a pressing block suit of the solar panel is adhered to the mounting body with an adhesive or directly without adhesive. The processes of the method is easy and convenient, the cost of installing is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Inventors: Yan Sha, Xiaolin Sha
  • Reduced cycle time manufacturing processes for thick film resistive devices
    Patent number: 8557082
    Abstract: A process of forming a resistive device such as a load resistor or a heater is provided that includes forming a dielectric layer onto a substrate, a target, or an adjacent functional layer, wherein the dielectric layer in one form defines a single layer of dielectric tape. The dielectric tape is laminated to the substrate, the target, or the adjacent functional layer through a single predetermined cycle of pressure, temperature and time, and then a resistive layer is farmed on the dielectric layer, and a protective layer is formed over the resistive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Angie Privett, Roger Brummell, Larry Forbis
  • Apparatus and methods for forming filter sleeves having circumferential pleats for use in a bag-type filter assembly
    Patent number: 8545658
    Abstract: Systems are provided for fabricating a plurality of possible pleat packs used in the formation of circumferentially pleated filter sleeves comprising a substantially horizontal contact surface, a pleating machine having cutting structure, operatively positioned proximate the substantially horizontal contact plane, for delivering continuous upstanding pleat packs of a predetermined pleat formation to the horizontal contact surface, structure for guiding the upstanding pleat packs received from the pleating machine into a flattened condition, structure for securing the pleat packs in the flattened condition and structure for forming the flattened pleat packs into a predetermined length for subsequent formation into sleeves of circumferential pleats. Methods for fabricating a plurality of possible pleat packs used in the formation of circumferentially pleated filter sleeves are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Aaron Spearin, Craig Spisinski, Mahesh Z. Patel, Keith Wesner, Jack H. Vining, Jr., James Beausoleil
  • Current collector for catalytic electrode
    Patent number: 8541135
    Abstract: The invention is an electrochemical cell with a catalytic electrode and an aqueous alkaline electrolyte within a cell housing having one or more ports for the passage of a gas to or from the catalytic electrode and a process for making the cell. The catalytic electrode includes a catalytic layer, containing a catalytic material, and a porous current collector, at least partially embedded in the catalytic layer. The current collector includes a substrate with an electrically conductive metal layer, in contact with the catalytic material on the side of the current collector facing the ports, and a coating including electrically conductive particles, in contact with the catalytic layer on the side facing the separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Eveready Battery Co, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne B. Bennett, Jingdong Guo
  • Method of making coated glass article, and intermediate product used in same
    Patent number: 8506737
    Abstract: A method of making an insulating glass (IG) window unit includes: having a coated article including a multi-layered low-E coating on a glass substrate; at least two flexible protective sheets adhered to a top surface of the low-E coating via at least an adhesive layer, and a protective coating over the low-E coating and/or over at least one of the flexible protective sheets in order to substantially fill one or more gaps formed between the low-E coating and the flexible protective sheet(s) and/or between the flexible protective sheets; and following cutting, edge seaming, and/or washing, removing at least part of the temporary protective coating by peeling the protective sheets off and removing at least part of the protective coating when peeling off the protective sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignees: Centre Luxembourgeois de Recherches pour le Verre et al Ceramique S.A. (C.R.V.C.), Guardian Industries Corp.
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Sol, Herbert Lage, John A. Vanderploeg, Desaraju V. Varaprasad, Lutz Henkel, Marcel Schloremberg
  • Method of filling and sealing a fluorescent layer in a slot space defined by two optical lenses and a partition ring
    Patent number: 8496771
    Abstract: A method of filling and sealing a fluorescent layer in a slot space defined by two optical lenses and a partition ring is disclosed, in which a slot space is defined by two optical glasses and a partition frame having a partition ring on the inner wall surface. The partition frame is installed with two slots diametrically opposite to each other, and the slot space is evacuated to allow filling of a fluorescent material, and then the two slots are sealed so that the moisture is prevented from permeating into the fluorescent layer, and thus the optical performance can be maintained over a long period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Gem Weltronics TWN Corporation
    Inventors: Jon-Fwu Hwu, Yung-Fu Wu, Kui-Chiang Liu
  • Automatic labeling and packaging system label folding and application
    Patent number: 8480834
    Abstract: The method of labeling of a container including a medication includes, in at least one embodiment, reducing a size of the label using a label apparatus and reducing the label size using the label apparatus, applying a surface securing adhesive to at least one surface securing section of the label using an adhesive application apparatus, and attaching the at least one surface securing section of the label to the container with the securing adhesive. The method also includes applying a label securing adhesive to the label to maintain the label in the reduced orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Medco Health Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Wayne Rice, James G. McErlean, E. Christian Hess, Andrew P. Booler, Allen Petten, P. Thomas Shupert, Michael Joseph Szesko, Orlando Vidal, Mark A. Detri
  • Bag member for compression prebonding, holding tool for producing laminated glass, and device of producing laminated glass and method of producing the same
    Patent number: 8475620
    Abstract: A holding tool 2 for use in producing of laminated glass includes a frame 3, a bag member 4 and a supporting member 6b for suspending the bag member 4 from the frame 3. The bag member 4 is made of a film with flexibility and airtightness, is provided with a sealable opening and has evacuating ports 7a and 7b in the vicinity of an periphery of a flat shape thereof having the periphery sealed. The frame 3 has a first frame member 3w and a second frame member 3y opposing each other and disposed outside the periphery of the bag member 4, and the bag member 4 is suspended by the supporting member 6b movably against the frame 3 on a holding face formed at least by the first frame member 3w and the second frame member 3y inside an area formed by connecting ends of these frame members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Matsuoka, Tsutomu Anbo, Shigeru Hirata, Tsutomu Mizukami, Yoshiyuki Sato
  • Segmented mandrel for high temperature bonding of metallic axisymmetric shells having complex curvatures
    Patent number: 8474684
    Abstract: A method for bonding a composite multi-layer shell having complex curvature by the delta-alpha high temperature bonding process uses a novel tool. The tool includes a plurality of segments that combine to form a mandrel assembly having a substantially continuous outer surface. The outer surface has a substantially axisymmetric shape including a complex curvature. When the segments are combined to form the mandrel assembly, at least one of the segments is configured to be movable in a substantially inward direction without substantial obstruction by any other segment. The segments are constructed of a first material have a first coefficient of thermal expansion that is greater than a second coefficient of thermal expansion of a second material of a composite multi-layer shell to be bonded together using the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Rohr, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Edward Sommer, Mark Alan Ramsey, David Dwain Rishel
  • Continuous molded emitter
    Patent number: 8469294
    Abstract: A self-contained flow path unit (202), (302), (400), (500) includes a continuous flow path operatively connected to a continuous strip member to form a self-contained flow path unit. The self-contained flow path unit may be accumulated for later use in forming an irrigation hose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: The Toro Company
    Inventors: John D. Mata, William C. Taylor, Jr., Jeffrey A. Vildibill
  • Method and tooling for manufacture of co-cured composite structures
    Patent number: 8460502
    Abstract: A method and part forming apparatus configured for forming an aircraft stringer. The part forming apparatus may comprise a forming tool, a rigid plate, and a hollow bladder. The forming tool may comprise a material trough, a bladder extension trough laterally aligned with and open to the material trough, and a recessed pocket extending from either side of the bladder extension trough and adjacent to the material trough. The method comprises placing composite material into the material trough, placing the bladder onto the composite material and through the bladder extension trough, placing the rigid plate into the recessed pocket and over the bladder, and then placing skin laminate over the bladder and the composite material. Once each of these components is in place, the forming tool may be vacuum bagged and the composite material and skin laminate may be co-cured to form the stringer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Blaise F. Bergmann, Dwight D. Spaulding, John P. McPherson
  • Gastro-laryngeal mask
    Patent number: 8449713
    Abstract: A method of making a device by integrally molding. The device includes an inflatable mask comprising a relatively stiff component and a relatively soft compliant flexible component. The mask is insertable, at least when deflated, through a mouth of the patient to an inserted location within a patient. The inserted location is near a laryngeal inlet of the patient. The device also includes an airway tube and an evacuation tube coupled to the mask. The relatively soft compliant flexible component of the mask is integrally formed in a single moulding operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: The Laryngeal Mask Company Limited
    Inventor: Archibald I. J. Brain
  • Coated article with low-E coating including IR reflecting layer(s) and corresponding method
    Patent number: 8440037
    Abstract: A coated article is provided that may be heat treated in certain example embodiments. A coating of the coated article includes a zinc oxide inclusive layer located over and contacting a contact layer that is in contact with an infrared (IR) reflecting layer of a material such as silver. It has been found that the use of such a zinc oxide inclusive layer results in improved thermal stability upon heat treatment, increased visible transmission, and/or lower sheet resistance (Rs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignees: Centre Luxembourgeois de Recherches pour le Verre et la Ceramique S.A. (C.R.V.C.), Guardian Industries Corp.
    Inventors: Anton Dietrich, Philip J. Lingle, Jens-Peter Muller, Jean-Marc Lemmer
  • Method of preparing glass and ceramic enamels on glass for adhesive bonding
    Patent number: 8435371
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention is a method comprising contacting a composition comprising i) alumina particles having a particle size of about 1 to about 40 microns and a Mohs hardness of about 9.0 to about 9.5; ii) one or more alkyl sulphates; iii) one or more thickeners; and iv) water with the surface of glass or a ceramic frit disposed on the surface of glass. The contacting can be performed by applying the composition to the surface of the glass or the ceramic frit using an application apparatus. In one embodiment, the composition further comprises a lubricant. In another embodiment, the composition further comprises one or more ethoxylated alcohols. In another embodiment, the composition further comprises one or more fragrances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Schmatloch, Robert J. Mills, Richard Steiner, Edwin Zueger