Patents Examined by Darrell C Ford
  • Patent number: 10779674
    Abstract: A circulation cooking device includes a housing and two casings. Within the housing and the casings, there are provided two sets of a wheel control device, a temperature limiting thermostat, a circuit board for switch control, a mechanical fan for drawing cold air in and expelling hot air out, a main circuit board configured to activate heating and agitation; a drive source for agitation and testing, a support for heating member, an electric heating member, a fan blade assembly, and an inlet device. The circulation cooking device can mounted on a large container by a seat for single container or two small containers by a seat for double container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: PUC Perfect Union Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching Chan
  • Patent number: 10765263
    Abstract: A food skewer that provides a user with the experience of eating meat/food stuff off a bone that is not normally eaten off of a bone, includes a skewing piece and an end cap. The skewing piece is used to pierce and support the desired meat/food stuff, and also provides a portion for the user to grasp in order to maneuver the meat/food stuff. Meanwhile, the end cap secures the meat/food stuff to the skewing piece, protects the user from incurring injury from the skewing piece, and provides an additional portion for the user to grasp in order to maneuver the meat/food stuff. The skewing piece and the end cap may resemble one or more animal bones, such as a humerus bone, a rib bone, or a radius and ulna bone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Inventor: Jay Paul Grooten
  • Patent number: 10758962
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming and sealing an adjustable duct member for use in an air handling system. At least one work station accommodates a tapered work piece. A repositionable die is positioned relative to the work piece, and a cutting and forming assembly cooperates with the repositionable die to cut the work piece and form a coupling bead to reconnect the members together. A sealing assembly cooperates with the first repositioning die to seal the coupling bead in the first and second members. The work station includes an insertion channel having predetermined dimensions to accommodate at least a portion of the work piece. A clamping assembly is associated with the insertion channel to securely hold the tapered work piece at the predetermined position during the cutting and forming and sealing operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Cleveland Tool and Machine LLC
    Inventor: Victor Bota
  • Patent number: 10753401
    Abstract: A method for producing a roller bearing may include threading a cam roller onto a bearing sleeve until the cam roller abuts a first axial flange of the bearing sleeve and inserting a counter holder into the bearing sleeve until the first axial flange of the bearing sleeve abuts a stop of the counter holder. The method may also include heating the bearing sleeve and forming an opposite second axial flange via inserting a forming punch into the bearing sleeve after heating the bearing sleeve. The second axial flange may be formed such that the cam roller is held in the bearing sleeve with radial play and axial play after the bearing sleeve cools down. The method may further include removing the forming punch and the counter holder from within the bearing sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Thorsten Ihne, Mario Mohler
  • Patent number: 10744602
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for assembling a suspension. In one embodiment, a method includes altering a temperature of a first suspension component and then pressing the first suspension component and a second suspension component into engagement while the temperature remains substantially altered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Fox Factory, Inc.
    Inventors: William M. Becker, Derek D. Beich
  • Patent number: 10739081
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a vapor chamber water-filling section sealing structure. The vapor chamber water-filling section sealing structure includes a main body and a capillary structure. The main body has a first plate body and a second plate body, which are correspondingly mated with each other to together define an airtight chamber and a water-filling section. A flange is disposed along an outer periphery of the main body. The water-filling section has a water-filling notch and a water-filling passage. Two ends of the water-filling passage are respectively connected with the flange and the water-filling notch to communicate with the airtight chamber. A portion of the water-filling passage that is connected with the flange is pressed to have a height equal to the height of the flange or lower than the height of the flange. The capillary structure is disposed in the airtight chamber of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: ASIA VITAL COMPONENTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiao-Xiang Zhou, Jian Zhang, Han-Min Liu
  • Patent number: 10738874
    Abstract: A rolling bearing is mounted on a gear shaft, which extends along an axis and carries a first and a second toothing axially separated from each other by a cylindrical portion of the gear shaft. Such a cylindrical portion has an outer diameter smaller than that of the first toothing. The bearing is provided with rolling bodies, a cage with seats engageable by the rolling bodies, and an outer ring defining an outer rolling path for the rolling bodies. During assembly, the cage is fitted around the first toothing and axially displaced towards the second toothing until it is arranged around the cylindrical portion. In this step, the tenons of the cage pass in the slots between the teeth of the first toothing. Subsequently, the rolling bodies are radially inserted in the respective seats so as to be arranged against the cylindrical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: GE AVIO SRL
    Inventors: Paolo Altamura, Salvatore Percacciolo, Leonardo Orlando, Marco Maffiotto
  • Patent number: 10734776
    Abstract: A process provides for manufacturing and formation of a series of metallic end products within a stamping machine. The metallic end products are formed from two subcomponents comprising a first work component and a second work component. The work components are coupled together through a toggle lock procedure formed as part of the process. The two resultant work components which form the end product are simultaneously formed, thereby providing significant advantages with respect to work cycle time to produce the resultant product, relative to the time required when individual work components are sequentially produced through the use of mechanical operations to which a first work component is processed, and then formation of a second work component is processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Inventor: Norman R. Byrne
  • Patent number: 10727638
    Abstract: An arrangement for assembling cables having cable processing devices arranged in parallel adjacent to one another wherein each cable processing device includes processing stations for processing cable ends of a cable, a cable conveying device running along a longitudinal machine axis for transporting the cable to at least one of the processing stations in the direction of the longitudinal machine axis, and a central control unit for operating the cable processing device which is arranged to a side of the cable processing device with respect to the longitudinal machine axis. The cable processing devices are arranged in at least one group with two adjacent cable processing devices, wherein due to a mirror-image configuration the central control units and the cable transport control units of the two adjacent cable processing devices forming the group are arranged facing and opposite one another to increase efficiency and ergonomics for an operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: KOMAX HOLDING AG
    Inventor: Beat Fuchs
  • Patent number: 10716429
    Abstract: A machine for preparing beverages, in particular espresso coffee, comprises a hydraulic circuit including a brewing unit, a water tank, a pump having the inlet connected in fluid communication to the tank, and the outlet or delivery connected in fluid communication to the brewing unit. A normally closed one-way hydraulic valve, which is set between the pump and the brewing unit, enables a flow of water toward the brewing unit when the pressure of the water delivered by the pump exceeds a substantially predetermined threshold. There is a heating means for heating the water delivered by the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Luigi Lavazza S.p.A.
    Inventors: Denis Rotta, Andrea Colonna, Luciano Gabriele Picone, Simone Rosetta, Danilo Bolognese
  • Patent number: 10711934
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pipe is described, wherein the method comprises a step of fastening a second mechanical quick connection member to a rectilinear hollow tubular body, a step of positioning the rectilinear hollow tubular body in a bending machine so that the angular coding mechanism of the second mechanical quick connection member is in a reference angular position with respect to said bending machine, and a step of bending the rectilinear hollow tubular body as a function of said angular reference position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: STELIA AEROSPACE
    Inventor: Damien Sireude
  • Patent number: 10704584
    Abstract: A process for joining fiber composite materials using self-piercing rivets. The process includes contacting first and second panels. The second panel is a fiber composite material. The process further includes elevating a temperature of only a fastening portion of the second panel. The process also includes placing the first and second panels on a die and joining the first and second panels with one or more rivets while the fastening portion is at an elevated temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Aindrea McKelvey Campbell, Garret Sankey Huff, Amanda Kay Freis
  • Patent number: 10696092
    Abstract: A method and a device are provided for manufacturing spokes from a wire material, in particular for at least partially muscle-powered two-wheeled vehicles. The spokes include a spoke shaft having at least two shaft sections. The shaft sections differ in at least one cross-section. For shaping the cross-sections, the wire material is reshaped at least in sections by means of a shaping tool. The relative position of the wire material relative to the shaping tool is varied in the axial direction during reshaping. For shaping the cross-sections in the two shaft sections the relative position of the wire material relative to the shaping tool is varied by way of different positioning movements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: DT SWISS INC.
    Inventors: Alberto Lafuente, Benedikt Barandun, Adrian Scheidegger
  • Patent number: 10683631
    Abstract: A method of decoupling a cylinder from a jaw in a demolition tool is disclosed. The jaw may have spaced apart first and second lugs. The method may include unlocking a first end of a pin from a first lug. The pin may have a groove adjacent the first end. The method may include rotating the first and second lugs in a first direction (A) from a first lug position to a second lug position wherein the pin slides through the first and second lugs and the first end moves from the first lug to the second lug to uncouple the cylinder from the jaw. The method may also include engaging a locking element biasingly supported on the second lug into the groove to retain the pin at the second lug. Further, the method may include moving the cylinder from between the spaced apart first and second lugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Caterpillar Work Tools B.V.
    Inventor: Johannes Lambert Leonardus Van Gemert
  • Patent number: 10675723
    Abstract: A system and method for precisely inserting threaded fasteners using a linear rotary actuator. The method includes aligning the threaded fastener with the threaded hole, soft landing the threaded fastener in contact with the threaded hole, aligning the ends of the threads, soft landing the threaded fastener in contact with the threaded hole, and snugging the threaded fastener. Additional threaded fasteners may be inserted and snugged before a final torque specification is applied to each of the fasteners. The system includes a linear rotary actuator and a tool for driving and coupling to the threaded fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Systems, Machines, Automation Components Corporation
    Inventors: Edward A. Neff, Naoyuki Okada, Stephen Curtiss
  • Patent number: 10675671
    Abstract: A two-part mechanical fastener comprising an elongated body with a bore slidably carrying a mandrel adapted to interferingly engage the body is described. The fastener body has one or more protuberances on its exterior surface. In an aspect, the protuberances form a thread. The fastener is adapted to form an opening in, and penetrate, a stack of two or more workpieces. To secure the workpieces in the workpiece stack and form a robust joint, the fastener body is deformed by the mandrel, expanding the body, so that a body end engages a surface of the workpiece stack and the one or more protuberances are brought into engagement with the walls of the opening. Methods of using such a fastener to secure non-ferrous or polymer-based sheet-like workpieces to one another are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Pei-Chung Wang, Steven Cipriano, Bradley J. Blaski, Richard C. Janis
  • Patent number: 10675726
    Abstract: A base configuration of a processing machine line including a machine tool loaded on a base provided with a processing module that performs specified processing on a work, and an auto loader that transfers the work between processing modules, the base being configured such that a rail member of the auto loader that has a length to match the width of the base is assembled on a front section of the base, and, when multiple bases are arranged next to each other in an adjacent position at which rail members can be connected, an additional rail member is able to be attached to and removed from an additional base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Hirata, Daisuke Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 10668606
    Abstract: In a method for installing a key locked insert to a workpiece, the workpiece has a hole open to a first surface. The method includes: threading an insert body into the hole; threading a first portion of a mandrel into the insert body; after the threading of the first portion into the insert body, mating a second portion of the mandrel with an actuator; and using the actuator to extend an anvil relative to the mandrel to drive keys of the insert through a thread of the workpiece hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Derek T. Welch, Ricky D. Tucker
  • Patent number: 10655672
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for producing an angular contact roller bearing with unilaterally delimiting rims. The disclosure also relates to multiple variants of a device for assembling the angular contact roller bearing. The method may include conically forming an inner raceway into a cylindrical section of an outer shell surface of an inner bearing ring such that the inner raceway is inclined relative to the bearing axis of rotation (AL) and is delimited at one end by a rim, conically forming an outer raceway into a cylindrical section of an inner shell surface of an outer bearing ring such that the outer raceway is inclined relative to the bearing axis of rotation (AL) and is delimited at one end by a rim, and assembling the inner and outer bearing rings and a multiplicity of roller-type rolling bodies, which roll on the raceways of said bearing rings, in accordance with an eccentric assembly method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Hofmann, Reinhard Rumpel, Ernst Geiger, Rainer Eidloth
  • Patent number: 10639578
    Abstract: Provided is a filter exchange device attached to a holding frame disposed in a duct and configured to exchange a plurality of filter materials configured to filter a gas flowing through the duct, and the filter exchange device includes an exchange device main body, a moving device configured to move the exchange device main body, and a control device configured to control the exchange device main body and the moving device, wherein the exchange device main body has a casing in which an accommodating space is formed, an exchange mechanism configured to remove a used filter material attached to the holding frame and attach a filter material for exchange accommodated in the casing, and a blocking unit configured to block a gas flowing through the duct from passing through a portion to which the filter material is attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Kitaguchi