Patents Examined by Chun Cheung
  • Patent number: 9782326
    Abstract: A medicine container and a method of forming the medicine container are described herein. The medicine container includes a bottle and a bottle cap removably connected to the bottle. A dose cup is disposed over the bottle cap, the dose cup having an opening defined by a perimeter. A tamper band is monolithically coupled to the perimeter of the dose cup. The tamper band is directly connected to the bottle by a destructively attached connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Tessy Plastics Corporation
    Inventor: David Young
  • Patent number: 9780824
    Abstract: A case for a portable electronic device includes a back wall with front face, a rear face and an outer edge. A containment wall extends forward from the front face around at least a portion of the outer edge of the back wall and is configured to hold the portable electronic device within the case by friction. The containment wall includes an unobscuring free end such that an entire front surface of the portable electronic device is unobscured from view when held within the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Inventor: Benjamin Saks
  • Patent number: 9776760
    Abstract: The disclosed retail case includes a base member and an upper member selectively attached to the base member. The base member has a bottom wall and at least two base walls extending from the bottom wall. The base walls have an outer surface and an inner surface. The upper member has a top wall and at least two upper walls extending from the top wall. The upper walls have an outer surface and an inner surface. The outer surface of the upper walls attaches to the inner surface of the respective base walls at an attachment portion of the upper walls that is selectively removable from the upper walls to allow the attachment portion to remain attached to the base member when the upper member is removed from the base member. The attachment portion may also associate with flap portions that are connected to form a divider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Kellogg Company
    Inventor: Karen Keeder
  • Patent number: 9771201
    Abstract: A glove packaging comprises a container for holding the gloves and a barrier positioned to cover at least a portion of an opening in the container. The barrier protects the gloves from airborne particles and other materials or contaminants that may contaminate the gloves prior to removal from the packaging. The barrier also includes an antimicrobial material for protecting the gloves from microorganisms, pathogens or other materials or contaminants that come in contact with the barrier to further reduce the possibility of contamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Medline Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Min Yao, Samuel T. H. Amdur, III
  • Patent number: 9771183
    Abstract: An bag with a top, a bottom and sides, wherein at least one side is convertible to a washable diaper changing surface. The diaper changing surface includes a flap that is movable from a closed state to an open state providing a portion of the diaper changing surface, and in the closed state sequesters soiled surfaces and items to prevent contamination of the remainder of the bag. The bag includes a number of pockets, sleeves and other cavities having visual indicators responsive to pocket contents, that indicate at a glance whether the pocket contains an item, or is empty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Inventor: Sarinya Oliver
  • Patent number: 9771198
    Abstract: In a cluster pack, encompassing elements encompass containers. One encompassing element includes shrink film; the other, which has an integrated carrying element, defines a ring surrounding the containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventor: Christopher Stuhlmann
  • Patent number: 9758286
    Abstract: A detergent product including a flexible box bag and soluble unit dose detergent pouch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Dominique Celine Ignace Marie Geeraert, Mostafa Elmihy, Neil John Rogers
  • Patent number: 9758297
    Abstract: The invention provides an adjustable tilting packaging box for liquid crystal module. The first solution includes: box, support rack for carrying liquid crystal module, supporting rack being connected to box bottom through first support element. First support element includes at least a first adjustment mechanism, connected to side of support rack; wherein, first adjustment mechanism including: a first support pillar, a resilient element and a positioning element. First support pillar is retractably connected to box bottom through resilient element; first support pillar is disposed with resilient buckle matching positioning element to realize multi-level rising and lowering of first support pillar. Through tilt angle of support rack making PCB located at lower end of leaning, the weight of PCB prevents PCB from folding up to cause crease in COF or damage to glass during bumpy transportation. The invention uses another means of angle adjustment mechanism to achieve same objective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Shihhsiang Chen, Jiahe Cheng
  • Patent number: 9756991
    Abstract: The present invention is an array of sanitary tissue products. The array of sanitary tissue products comprises a first packaged article and a second packaged article. The first packaged article comprises a first rolled sanitary tissue product wound onto a first fibrous core. The second packaged article comprises a second rolled sanitary tissue product wound onto a second fibrous core. The second rolled sanitary tissue product is wound loosely relative to the first rolled sanitary tissue product. The second fibrous core has an axial strength greater than the first fibrous core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Andre Mellin
  • Patent number: 9751674
    Abstract: A bandage dispenser has a mounting strip onto which are mounted a plurality of partially overlapping bandages. Each bandage is individually wrapped, and the wrapper has a bifurcated opening, with one half of the bifurcated opening bonded to the mounting strip and the second half of the bifurcated opening folded away from the mounting strip to facilitate manual grasping. A person operatively one-handedly grasps the second half of the bifurcated opening, pulls away from the mounting strip to release the sterile bandage, and then may release the bifurcated opening and grasp the sterile bandage. Once the bandage has been applied, a person will finish tearing the bandage wrapper from the mounting strip, revealing the next bandage wrapper bifurcated opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Inventor: Robert L. Hoover
  • Patent number: 9751397
    Abstract: This fueling device comprises a filler neck formed by stacking a first resin layer made of a first resin and a second resin layer made of a second resin that is harder than the first resin, such that the second resin layer is provided on an inner side of the first resin layer; and a mounting member mounted to a fuel injection opening side of the filler neck from outside. The first resin layer has a higher impact resistance than the second resin layer. The second resin layer has a higher fuel permeation resistance than the first resin layer. The filler neck includes an engagement element that is provided on the fuel injection opening side of the filler neck and is extended radially outward from the second resin layer to pass through the first resin layer. The mounting member is engaged with the engagement element to be mounted to the filler neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kito, Yoshinari Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 9751680
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a case having a shock absorbing structure for an electronic device which includes a protective shell, a side enclosure frame, and a shock absorbing block. The shock absorbing block is constructed to have a plurality of recesses formed on the side wall of the protective shell such that adjacent recesses are separated by a partition. The recesses are rectangular and the plurality of recesses has a continuous unitary construction along lower part of the four sides of the protective shell. In addition, the side enclosure frame includes an upper protrusion and a lower protrusion, formed on an inner-facing surface of the side enclosure frame. The side wall of the protective shell includes an upper cavity and a lower cavity. The upper protrusion fits within the upper cavity and the lower protrusion fits within the lower cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SPIGEN KOREA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dae-Young Kim
  • Patent number: 9750664
    Abstract: To provide an infant drinking device with a more reliable aerator, the infant drinking device comprises a teat, a reservoir for holding a liquid, a connector for detachably connecting the reservoir to the teat, and an aerator. The aerator (e.g., a duckbill valve) includes a deformable opening (e.g., a slit) whereby internal/external pressure differential during use of the device is reduced in an open position of the opening by allowing air to enter through the opening into the reservoir and such that leakage of fluid from an inside of the drinking device to an outside of the drinking device is hindered in a closed position of the opening. During assembly of the teat, connector and reservoir, a minimally defined deformation of the opening of the aerator is enforced by at least one of a geometrical property and a material property of the teat or the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: KONINKLIJE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Jason Palmer, Bart-Jan Zwart, Christopher John Huff
  • Patent number: 9751686
    Abstract: A containment tube includes a sealed tube comprising silicon carbide, first and second ends, an inner bore extending along at least a portion of its axial length between the first and second ends, and contains a radioactive material within the bore of the sealed tube. The first end has a plug residing in the inner bore to close the first end, and the second end has a distal wall that closes the inner bore at the second. At least one of the first or second ends is bonded to the sealed tube by a sinter bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN CERAMICS & PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Lawrence M. Banach, John M. Bevilacqua, Steven W. Lanzone
  • Patent number: 9743734
    Abstract: A protective case for a mobile or handheld device is disclosed. The case includes front and rear cover components that are configured to rotate relative to one another so that the case is capable of being configured by the user into have multi-mode use configurations. The case includes a rotatable magnetic clasp that rotates to magnetically secure the case in desired configuration. The magnetic clasp includes a rotatable magnet component attached to one end region of the case and a fixedly positioned and oriented magnet secured to another opposing end region of the case. The rotation of the magnet allows the user to re-orient the polarity of the magnetic component to facilitate mechanical and magnetic retention of the desired configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Incipio, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Bemis
  • Patent number: 9738414
    Abstract: A paper pallet according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a plurality of leg beams each formed such that a cross section thereof has a rectangular shape, each leg beam being long in one direction. At least one of the plurality of leg beams includes: a laminated structure in which a plurality of sheet-like paper core materials are laminated in a width direction of the leg beam orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the leg beam and which has a cavity formed therein; and a honeycomb structure fitted into the cavity of the laminated structure and having a plurality of tubular cells extending in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Masakazu Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9738418
    Abstract: A storage combination basket assembly includes one or multiple storage devices each including a base, a peripheral wall upwardly extended from the base and a positioning member connected to the peripheral wall with two opposite ends thereof respectively spaced from the peripheral wall by a gap, a support frame including first and second body frame rod segments arranged in parallel and respectively disposed in the gaps between the two opposite ends of the positioning member and the peripheral wall, and one or multiple stoppers connected to the first and second body frame rod segments of the support frame for supporting the one or multiple storage devices, each having two stop blocks disposed at two opposite ends thereof and respectively hooked in the peripheral wall of one respective storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Dongguan Master United Plastic & Hardware Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsung-Yu Tsai
  • Patent number: 9731863
    Abstract: A container for holding product therein during shipment and being returned for reuse has a body, slotted guides attached to opposite sides of the body, and a plurality of dunnage supports extending between the guides. Outer portions of the dunnage supports may have one or more narrowed or flattened portions which enable the dunnage supports to slide along the slots. Dunnage holding parts is suspended by the dunnage supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Bradford Company
    Inventors: Judson A. Bradford, Timothy A. Bublitz, Eric S. Bruinsma
  • Patent number: 9731155
    Abstract: The flame arrester is optimized for installation within fuel containers. The flame arrester has an optional elongate, generally cylindrical skeletal frame having opposing first and second ends. The first end is configured as a mounting flange adapted for permanent, immovable installation within the tank or container and the second end may include a spring-loaded check valve. The frame is covered by a woven or nonwoven textile material, or alternatively, by a porous or foraminous sheet material. Fuel and vapors pass through the cylindrical textile wall, the porosity of the textile serving to prevent flame propagation through the textile material. The pore size is between 0.4 mm and 3.2 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Inventor: Brian Riordan
  • Patent number: 9731093
    Abstract: A catheter assembly includes a catheter, a fluid containing sleeve, and a container. The catheter may include a tubular portion between a proximal end and a distal end, a coating on a length of the tubular portion, and at least one drainage opening on the distal end. The fluid containing sleeve is designed for arrangement on the tubular portion to maintain the coating in a hydrated state. The container may have at least one foil inner layer containing therein the catheter and the fluid containing sleeve. Substantially or nearly all fluid contained in the container may be disposed in the fluid containing sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: C. R. Bard, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Terry