Patents Examined by Daniel McNally
  • Patent number: 12194582
    Abstract: A frame splining system for fitting substrate to a frame comprises a splining head that translates in three dimensions and rotates around a vertical axis. The splining head comprises a positioning wheel that translates ahead of a pressing wheel along a track of the frame to seat a spline in the track. A substrate cutting wheel runs ahead of the pressing wheel on an outer edge of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Haffner Machinery Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Kucer, Cemil Bulduk
  • Patent number: 12194689
    Abstract: The invention relates to covers for wastewater treatment lagoons, which are typically covered by expansive stretches of sheet-form, high density polyethylene (HDPE). The invention more particularly relates to improvements in attaching HDPE patches at distributed locations thereon, which patches provide locally increased thickness to the cover in service as seats for attachment of further attachments to the cover, such as for example and without limitation HDPE straps for retention of HDPE grout-filled ballast pipes, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Inventors: Kyle W. Burns, Mark Burns
  • Patent number: 12187923
    Abstract: Use of a synthetic resin system as an adhesive for chemical fixing technology, especially for fixing anchoring means in drilled holes, which synthetic resin system includes a) a reaction resin based on ?, ?-unsaturated compounds, b) a reaction resin based on compounds that include CH-acidic methylene groups, and c) a catalyst, and to related subject matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: fischerwerke Gmbh & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Weinelt, Martin Vogel, Ursula Link-Pfaff, Hannah Gehring
  • Patent number: 12188446
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a blade shell part of a wind turbine blade includes providing a mould for manufacturing a blade shell part of the wind turbine blade. The mould has a first moulding side with a first moulding surface that defines an outer shape of the blade shell part. The method comprises providing a blade shell part on the first moulding surface and providing a support element and attaching the support element to a fastening section of the blade shell part. Attaching the support element includes applying adhesive between the support element and the fastening part. The method also includes providing an air heating assembly having a cover extending in a longitudinal direction between a first cover end and a second cover end and extending in a transverse direction between a primary cover end and a secondary cover end, the cover defining a cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: LM WIND POWER A/S, LM Wind Power R&D (Holland) B.V., Blade Dynamics Limited
    Inventors: Manish Mukherjee, Jeppe Wendelboe, Lazlo Bartha
  • Patent number: 12180394
    Abstract: A hybrid system for use as an adhesive, coating or paint, wherein the hybrid system includes a) a reaction resin based on ?,?-unsaturated compounds, b) a reaction resin based on compounds that include CH-acidic methylene groups, and c) a primary amine, and to related subject matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: fischerwerke Gmbh & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Weinelt, Martin Vogel, Ursula Link-Pfaff, Hannah Gehring
  • Patent number: 12176012
    Abstract: An adhesive reactive to ultraviolet rays is applied to an actuator mounting portion of a suspension. An electrical conducting material is applied to a conductor and the like of the actuator mounting portion. When the adhesive is irradiated with ultraviolet rays, the viscosity of the adhesive is increased. A piezoelectric element is placed on the adhesive the viscosity of which is increased. Thereafter, the adhesive and the electrical conducting material are heated, whereby the adhesive and the electrical conducting material are cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shogo Ogaki
  • Patent number: 12172383
    Abstract: A system and method for welding two thermoplastic workpieces. The system has an ultrasonic tool, a support and a cooling unit. The ultrasonic tool is configured to generate mechanical vibrations. The system is configured to clamp together workpieces in the receiving region by the ultrasonic tool and the support if at least one fastening portion of the workpieces opposite one another is arranged in the receiving region. The ultrasonic tool is configured to introduce the mechanical vibrations into the fastening portion of the workpieces to weld the workpieces in a joining zone. The cooling unit is configured to cool, with cooling fluid, at least a part of the fastening portion of the workpieces and/or a cooling portion of the workpieces directly adjacent to the fastening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Alexei Vichniakov, Filipp Köhler
  • Patent number: 12162226
    Abstract: A butt fusion machine for joining of polyethylene pipe comprises a carriage assembly and a carriage controller disposed in the fusion machine. Programmed instructions stored in a non-volatile memory of the carriage controller control the carriage assembly for selectively operating in at least one of a manual, automatic, and semi-automatic mode of the butt fusion process. A butt fusion process, after a setup sequence includes (1) selecting a sequence of operating steps of a manual mode, an automatic mode, and a semi-automatic mode; and (2) executing the selected operating mode. The semi-automatic mode includes at least one step requiring intervention by an operator to confirm proceeding to a next step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: McElroy Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Bueno, Shawn Church, Jessica Meloy, Michael Pacheco
  • Patent number: 12152169
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a paste that can suppress fluctuations in viscosity at a printing temperature to perform printing without unevenness, and is sintered fast even in an inert gas atmosphere such as nitrogen to form a highly accurate conductive wiring and a joined structure excellent in joining strength. The present disclosure provides an adhesive conductive paste for forming a conductive wiring and/or a joined structure to connect electronic elements, the adhesive conductive paste including a conductive particle and a solvent. The adhesive conductive paste contains, as the conductive particle, a silver particle (A) having an average particle size of 1 nm or greater and less than 100 nm and a silver particle (B) having an average particle size of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: DAICEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Kobatake, Tomoya Egawa, Yasuyuki Akai
  • Patent number: 12151440
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for producing a joined-resin product in which two or more resin members are joined. The apparatus includes: a surface treatment mechanism comprising an electrode unit generating ionized gas, and a member holding mechanism arranged at a position separated from the electrode unit by a space and holding the resin member, the surface treatment mechanism activating a surface to be joined of the resin member held by the member holding mechanism, by the ionized gas generated by the electrode unit; and a joining mechanism bonding the two or more resin members together where at least one of surfaces to be joined facing each other is activated by the surface treatment mechanism, at the respective surfaces to be joined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Yamashita, Shunpei Tonai, Kazuya Kanasugi
  • Patent number: 12145322
    Abstract: A tool for welding a light pane to a housing of a motor vehicle light, the tool comprising a base body and at least one heating element arranged on the base body, wherein the heating element is displaceable relative to the base body between an idle position and a welding position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Odo Karger
  • Patent number: 12145323
    Abstract: To achieve universal welding of thermoplastic workpiece parts with simple equipment, an infrared light transmission welding method is disclosed in which simple polychromatic, incoherent infrared light is generated by a simple infrared light source and is directed through a first workpiece part to a weld point for the purposes of connection to a second workpiece part. In particular, the infrared light is directed through a transparent bracing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Alexei Vichniakov
  • Patent number: 12144120
    Abstract: A mold includes a mold base material and a rugged structure located at a main surface of the mold base material. The rugged structure includes a plurality of linearly shaped projected portions for forming wiring, and a circularly shaped projected portion for forming a pad portion, in which a light-shielding layer is provided at a top portion flat surface of the circularly shaped projected portion for forming the pad portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryohei Kasai, Tadashi Furukawa, Ryo Furugen, Teppei Sotoda, Tetsushi Hosoda, Ayako Furuse
  • Patent number: 12134235
    Abstract: An example method of joining a first structure and a second structure is described that includes forming a bond cavity between a first structure and a second structure, placing a semi-permeable breather material at one or more exits of the bond cavity, placing a vacuum bag around the bond cavity and the semi-permeable breather material, evacuating the bond cavity via a vacuum port and forcing adhesive into the bond cavity via an adhesive port while the bond cavity is evacuated, and curing the adhesive via one or more heaters to bond the first structure to the second structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Joseph L. Hafenrichter, Gary E. Georgeson
  • Patent number: 12121944
    Abstract: The use of bacteria-based binders to bind and strengthen 3D printed compositions; bio-plastic 3D printing materials comprised of combinations of particles of organic substrates such as coffee, pistachio shells and coconut shells, as well as sand (and combinations of one or more of the foregoing); processes for creating scent-free bio-plastic 3D printing material and products from such particles; the application of a copper finish, chrome finish and powder finish to bio-plastics made from such particles; and products and fixtures, such as sinks, toilets, faucets, coffee mug molds, lighting fixtures, and coffee cups, comprising non-flammable bio-plastic created by a process of 3D printing from such particles. Processes for imparting color or structure or surface texture to these and binding and strengthening them using enzyme-secreting bacteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Common Ground Lab Inc.
    Inventor: Jake Miller
  • Patent number: 12122086
    Abstract: At least one infrared element arrangement having at least one infrared element (3) comprising a plurality of infrared radiators (4) is mounted on a frame moveable with respect to a synthetic filter fabric mounted to a filtering surface. The frame may have wheels or the like such that the infrared radiators may be moved along the length of the filtering surface to heat the synthetic filter fabric (6) to a temperature of 100 to 160° C. for shrinking the fabric (6) on the filtering surface (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Valmet Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tapio Salminen, Antti Mäkinen
  • Patent number: 12122076
    Abstract: A process for producing shaped parts from particle foams comprising providing particle foam particles, wetting the particle foam particles with an aqueous emulsion of at least one polyolefin and thereby obtaining functionalisable particle foam particles, drying the wetted and functionalisable particle foam particles, shaping the functionalisable particle foam particles, heating the shaped functionalisable particle foam particles to a temperature below the melting range of the particle foam particles and thereby functionalising the shaped functionalisable particle foam particles, heating the shaped, functionalisable particle foam particles to a temperature below the melting range of the particle foam particles and thereby functionalising the shaped, functionalisable particle foam particles, wherein the particle foam particles are bonded together, and cooling and thereby obtaining the particle foam moulding, wherein the aqueous emulsion of the at least one polyolefin is an aqueous emulsion comprising at least o
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Wörthwein-Teubert GbR
    Inventors: Gerd Niemeyer, Wolfgang Teubert, Hans Wörthwein
  • Patent number: 12122103
    Abstract: A method of directly joining a polymer to a metal along a joint interface through the formation of C—O-M chemical bonds, where M represents an element in the metal to be joined. The method includes heating the metal to a predetermined temperature above a glass transition temperature of the polymer and less than a flash ignition temperature of the polymer and less than a metal melting temperature of the metal; and applying force to the joint interface of the metal and the polymer to generate intimate atomic contact between the metal and the polymer to create C—O-M chemical bonds between the metal and the polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: The Regents of The University of Michigan
    Inventors: Fengchao Liu, Pingsha Dong
  • Patent number: 12115735
    Abstract: A resin connector (10) includes a tubular connector main body portion (11) which is formed to contain a reinforcing filler in a main portion base material resin, and a tubular connector end portion (12) which is formed of a end portion base material resin without containing the reinforcing filler or containing the reinforcing filler at a lower proportion than the connector main body portion (11) and is joined to the connector main body portion (11) to constitute a tubular end portion. The resin tube (20) is formed of a material having a higher absorption rate of a laser beam than the connector end portion (12) and is fitted to the connector end portion (12) to be welded to an inner peripheral surface or an outer peripheral surface of the connector end portion (12) and not to be welded to the connector main body portion (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Sumitomo Riko Company Limited
    Inventors: Yorihiro Takimoto, Koji Mizutani, Kazuhiro Saiki
  • Patent number: 12115772
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for cold-stamping onto a three-dimensional object. In a first step, an adhesive is applied to the object at a first workstation. In a second step, a transfer film is pressed onto the object by a pressing device at a second workstation. At the same time, the adhesive is cured at the second workstation. As a result, the decorative material of the transfer film adheres to the object at the positions on the object which are provided with adhesive. If, following this, the transfer film is removed from the three-dimensional object after being pressed on, the decorative material remains on the object at the desired positions. At the positions at which in the first step no adhesive has been applied to the object, the decorative material does not adhere to the object but rather remains on the carrier film of the transfer film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: ISIMAT GMBH SIEBDRUCKMASCHINEN, LEONHARD KURZ STIFTUNG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Roeder, Volker Schmitt, Franz Rauner