Patents Examined by Danny Worrell
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Patent number: 11408102Abstract: An upper for an article of footwear may have a knitted component, where the knitted component has a first edge extending from a first side of a throat area of the upper, through a heel area of the upper, and to a second side of the throat area. At least a portion of the first edge may include a lattice structure, the lattice structuring having a first lattice band and a second lattice band, the first lattice band and the second lattice band having loops that are intermeshed in at least one location, where a plurality of first openings are located between the first lattice band and the second lattice band. At least one of the lattice bands may include a yarn having a tenacity of at least 5 g/d, and/or the first and second lattice bands may be formed from separate yarns.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Monica M. Poulsen, Erin C. Stevens
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Patent number: 11408103Abstract: A knitted upper for an article of footwear. The knitted upper is formed essentially as a single piece in a three-dimensional knitting process. The knitted upper includes at least one activated shrink yarn.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: adidas AGInventors: Rainer Unnewehr, Stefan Tamm, Claudiu-Ionut Popescu
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Patent number: 11408104Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure is a footwear article. The footwear article includes a double layer knitted upper having a foot bed, an upper portion continuous with the foot bed, an ankle opening, and an inner void for receiving a foot of a wearer. The double layer knitted upper has an outer knit layer defining an exterior surface of the double layer knitted upper. The double layer knitted upper also has an inner knit layer monolithically knit to the outer knit layer. The inner knit layer has a plurality of inner knit regions that spatially correspond to the plurality of outer knit regions of the outer knit layer. The outer knit layer and the inner knit layer substantially define the foot bed and the upper portion of the double layer knitted upper.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: The North Face Apparel Corp.Inventors: Alexander Dardinski, David Hass, Kurtis Schnackenberg, John Ly
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Patent number: 11408105Abstract: A feeder for a knitting machine may include: a carrier configured to secure the feeder to a knitting machine such that the feeder is movable along an axis with respect to a rail of the knitting machine; a feeder arm extending from the carrier, the feeder arm including a dispensing area configured for supplying a yarn to a needle bed of the knitting machine; and a cutting device coupled to the feeder arm, where the cutting device includes a cutting edge for cutting the yarn to disengage an upper portion of the yarn from the needle bed of the knitting machine.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Stuart W. Dealey, Adrian Meir, Gagandeep Singh
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Patent number: 11408106Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed for a counting crochet hook. An apparatus comprises a handle. The apparatus includes an elongate rod comprising a first end and second end, the first end coupled to the handle and the second end comprising a hook that is pointed with a lateral groove behind the hook. The apparatus further comprises a first button disposed on the handle. The first button is configured to increment a first counter when actuated. The apparatus additionally comprises a second button disposed on the handle. The second button is configured to increment a second counter when actuated. The apparatus also comprises a display disposed on the handle for displaying a value of the first counter and a value of the second counter.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: COUNTING CROCHET HOOK, L.L.C.Inventors: Braeden Moore, Chandra Moore, Timothy Hayford
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Patent number: 11401637Abstract: A device for keeping a thread tightened and secured while weaving is provided. The thread is allowed to advance in order to make a stitch and further allows the thread to return to an original position so that it remains tensioned for the next stitch. The device is retractable so not only secures the thread but returns it so that it never loses tension. In addition, it has openings designed to allow resting a needle when not weaving.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Inventor: Maria Ines Costa Saravia
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Patent number: 11401636Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a sock having an integrally knit, two-layered tab positioned interior to a collar of the sock, where the collar defines an opening for a wearer's foot. By positioning the tab interior to the collar, the tab can be used to assist the wearer in donning and/or doffing the sock by acting as the primary structure by which the wearer pulls an elastic collar around the wearer's foot when donning the sock.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Hannah R. Amis, Ronen Yehuda
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Patent number: 11401641Abstract: In a sewing machine, an arm includes, on one side thereof in a first direction, a head. A needle bar is disposed at the head to reciprocally move in a second direction. A feed mechanism feeds a workpiece from one side toward the other side of the head in a third direction. The projection unit disposed at the head projects a projection image toward a bed. The projection unit includes an emitter for projecting image light of the projection image. The photographing unit disposed at the head captures a photographing target. The photographing unit includes an incident portion on which light reflected by the photographing target is incident. The emitter and the incident portion are disposed further toward the one side of the arm in the first direction than the needle bar, and further toward the one side of the head in the third direction than the needle bar.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hidenori Oka, Mitsuhiro Iida
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Patent number: 11390971Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate generally to biosensing garments, and in particular, to systems and methods for monitoring respiration in a biosensing garment, whereby an improved integration of the respiration monitoring circuit into the garment is achieved, resulting in improved signal quality and durability. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an elongate member having a longitudinal axis and configured to be stretchable along its longitudinal axis. The elongate member includes a plurality of elastic members (e.g., a first elastic member, a second elastic member, and a third elastic member) that extend along the longitudinal axis. A conductive member is coupled to the first, second and third members, and forms a “curved” pattern along the longitudinal axis of the elongate member. The conductive member is configured to change from a first configuration to a second configuration as the elongate member stretches along its longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: HONEYWELL SAFETY PRODUCTS USA, INC.Inventor: Maria Elina Nurkka
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Patent number: 11384459Abstract: A knitted component including a first knit layer of a first yarn and a second knit layer of a second yarn. The second knit layer and the first knit layer are at least partially coextensive with each other and form a pocket between the first and second knit layers. A third yarn is at least partially positioned within the pocket and between the first and second knit layer. The third yarn is secured to the first knit layer at a first location within the pocket and to the second knit layer at a second location within the pocket. The pocket forms a raised structure when the knitted component is subjected to a stimulus.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Samuel L. Bartys, JoseLuis Mariscal, Seth M. Wiberg, Nicola A. Danby
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Patent number: 11384463Abstract: Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. A technique includes determining a fabric's response to a laser, capturing an initial image of a wear pattern on a garment, and processing the initial image to obtain a working image in grayscale. The working image is further processed to obtain a difference image by comparing each pixel relative to a dark reference. The difference image is converted to a laser values image by using the previously determined fabric response to the laser.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Levi Strauss & Co.Inventors: James Barton Sights, Christopher Schultz, Jennifer Schultz
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Patent number: 11377767Abstract: In feed dog mounting/unmounting mechanism, lever is slidably provided to feed base in the front-rear direction, and is forced backward by a lever force-applying spring. Upon sliding lever rearward, fixing target portion of feed dog 22 is fixedly held by base-side fixing portion of feed base and lever-side fixing portion of lever arranged in the front-rear direction. Stopper is provided to feed base so as to be movable in the upper-lower direction, and holds lever. When feed dog is mounted, stopper is pressed downward by feed dog, which moves stopper so as to allow lever to slide. With this, lever is slid due to force applied by the lever force-applying spring, thereby allowing fixing target portion to be held, interposed between base-side fixing portion and lever-side fixing portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: JANOME SEWING MACHINE CO., LTD.Inventors: Muneyuki Ishikawa, Norihiro Suzuki
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Patent number: 11365494Abstract: A knitted component may include a first side and an opposite second side and a first tubular knit structure having a first portion on the first side and a second portion on the second side, where the first portion is at least partially formed with a first yarn and where the second portion is at least partially formed with a different second yarn, and where the first yarn includes a thermoplastic polymer material with a melting point of about 200° C. or less. The knitted component may further include a fused surface region on the first side of the knitted component formed with the thermoplastic polymer material of the first yarn. The knitted component may further include an inlaid strand extending through a passage formed by the first tubular knit structure between the first portion and the second portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: William C. McFarland, II, Leah M. Resneck, Nikita A. Troufanov
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Patent number: 11359313Abstract: The invention relates to a prosthetic porous knit based on a monofilament of a biocompatible polymer material, the pattern followed for the knitting of said monofilament on a warp knitting machine having two guide bars B1, B2 being the following, according to the ISO 11676 standard: Bar B1: 1.2/4.5/4.3/4.5/4.3/1.0/1.2/1.0// Bar B2: 4.3/1.0/1.2/1.0/1.2/4.5/4.3/4.5// The invention further relates to a method for producing such a knit and to a hernia prosthesis comprising such a knit.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: SOFRADIM PRODUCTIONInventor: Julie Lecuivre
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Patent number: 11352723Abstract: In one aspect of the disclosure, a knitted component for use in an article of footwear may include a first layer with a multi-bed first area having a first surface and an opposite facing second surface. The knitted component may include a second layer with a second area overlapping the first area. The second area may have a first surface and an opposite facing second surface. The knitted component may include a plurality of interlayer knit stitches interlooping at least one yarn of the first layer with at least one yarn of the second layer at an interface between the second surfaces of the first and second areas. The interior surfaces of the first area and the second area may define at least part of a freely separable area between the first and second areas.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Juan L. Aceves Tinajero, Nicola A. Danby, Fiona L. Lesecq, David F. Roth, Gagandeep Singh
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Patent number: 11346026Abstract: An upper for an article of footwear may include a knitted component having a first region located adjacent to an outer edge of the upper, where the first region of the knitted component includes an inner surface and an outer surface. The outer surface may include a fused area formed with a thermoformed thermoplastic material included with a first yarn. The inner surface may be at least partially formed with the second yarn and may substantially exclude the thermoplastic material.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Jessica Green, Chun-Ying Hsu, Jaroslav J. Lupinek, Darryl Matthews, William C. McFarland, II, Chun-Yao Tu, Yi-Ning Yang, Cheng-Ying Han
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Patent number: 11332857Abstract: A single- or double-knit circular knitting machine having a cylinder (11) equipped with cylinder needles and/or a dial equipped with dial needles for the production of single- or double-jersey knitted webs, which machine has at least one thread-selection device, threads being able to be supplied to any cylinder- and/or dial needle by the thread-selection device.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: SIPRA Patententwicklungs- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbHInventor: Dietmar Traenkle
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Patent number: 11326286Abstract: A stitch counting device for assisting users with counting the number of stitches made during stitchwork. The stitch counting device includes a casing, a first prong, a second prong, a display, a microcontroller, one or more fasteners, a fulcrum having a spring, a battery, and an interface input port. Methods for using the stitch counting device are also described.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Inventors: Alexander S. Bowen, Kimberly M. Bowen
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Patent number: 11326281Abstract: Knitted components may include a first knit layer including a first yarn, a second knit layer, and a plurality of inlaid courses of a high tenacity yarn having a tenacity of at least six grams-force per denier. The plurality of inlaid courses of the high tenacity yarn may include at least three courses of high tenacity yarn, each of which may be separated from an adjacent course of the first plurality of courses of the high tenacity yarn by no more than five courses of the first yarn.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Lauren E. Cox, Seth M. Wiberg, Roberto Zavala
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Patent number: 11326288Abstract: An independent presser foot drive mechanism and an embroidery machine includes a machine head, a needle bar drive mechanism mounted on the machine head, a needle bar drive block provided on a corresponding guide rod and movable up and down. The presser foot drive block further includes a presser foot drive motor that independently drives a presser foot, and a presser foot link assembly that connects the presser foot drive motor with the presser foot drive block to complete driving of the presser foot. The presser foot can be independently driven to move by providing the independent presser foot drive motor and the presser foot link assembly. According to corresponding embroidery processes, the presser foot can independently complete more complicated actions under the driving of the drive motor.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: ZHEJIANG HEHE ELECTRIC MACHINERY CO., LTDInventor: Zhengan Chen