Patents Examined by David B. Thomas
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Patent number: 11511402Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a powered screwdriver. The powered screwdriver includes a housing, a motor housed in the housing and a tool holder driven by the motor. The tool holder selectively holds both a screwdriver bit and a hex key. The hex key includes a bend such that legs of the hex key are transverse to one another.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Oleksiy P. Sergyeyenko, JianHui Jiang, JianFeng Zhang, Ana Garcia, Paul Gerard Gross
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Patent number: 11511409Abstract: A foreign object removing socket adaptor includes a pusher, an adaptor, an external thread, an internal tread, and a stop. The pusher includes a drive head and a main shaft. The adaptor includes a tool body, a socket attachment body, and a main channel. The drive head and the main shaft are adjacently connected to each other. The external thread is laterally connected around the main shaft. The stop is radially connected around the main shaft, opposite of the drive head. The tool body and the socket attachment body are adjacently connected to each other. The main channel concentrically traverses through the tool body and the socket attachment body. The internal thread is laterally connected within the main channel. The main shaft is threadedly engaged with the main channel through the external thread and the internal thread.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: GRIP HOLDINGS LLCInventors: Paul Kukucka, Thomas Stefan Kukucka
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Patent number: 11504826Abstract: A quick-turning wrench includes a driving end with a first jaw and a second jaw. The first and the second jaws respectively have a first and a second side, which face one another. The driving end defines an engaging space between the first and the second jaws. The driving end has a first grip-surface section, a second grip-surface section, and a third grip-surface section. The engaging space is partially delimited by the first, the second, and the third grip-surface sections. The first grip-surface section is adjacent to the first side and extends along a flat first phantom surface. The second and the third grip-surface sections are adjacent to the second side and respectively extend on a flat second phantom surface and a flat third phantom surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Hong Ann Tool Industries Co., Ltd.Inventor: Cheng-Wei Su
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Patent number: 11504828Abstract: An adapter is provided which allows an external driving tool to drive a driven tool such as an intraosseous needle assembly, where the external driving tool would otherwise be incompatible with the needle assembly. The adapter includes a driver connector having a bore, where the bore is to receive an external driver of the external driving tool. The adapter further includes a driver attached to the driver connector. A cross-sectional shape of the bore is different than a cross-sectional shape of the attached driver. The attached driver includes resilient legs which assist in securing the adapter to the needle assembly. The resilient legs may include protuberances to secure the adapter.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: THE SEABERG COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Eric E. Batdorf, Kyle Sims, Samuel Scheinberg
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Patent number: 11504829Abstract: A powered socket wrench assembly includes a power tool that has a back end and a front end. The power tool is elongated along a longitudinal axis extending between the back end and the front end thereby facilitating the power tool to be inserted into a hard to reach area. Additionally, the power tool includes a chuck that is rotated in a first direction or a second direction when the power tool is turned on. A drive unit is insertable into the chuck on the power tool thereby facilitating the power tool to rotate the drive unit when the power tool is turned on. The drive unit includes a socket that is rotatable about an axis oriented perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the power tool when the power tool is turned on.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Inventor: Joseph Pannone
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Patent number: 11498822Abstract: A screw cap twisting tool uses two primary members—a stationary member with gripping surface(s) and a high-mechanical-advantage-for-gripping pivoting member with gripping surface(s)—to easily and effectively grip and twist a screw cap. The screw cap twisting tool is easily operated by pushing the screw cap against the pivoting member. A screw cap twisting tool also uses a method for holding the pivoting member in its most open position before screw cap insertion. This method for holding the pivoting member in its most open position can be accomplished in numerous ways by using a force opposing feature, member, or mechanism that allows movement and/or deformation when force is applied and restores position and/or shape when force is removed. Examples include, but are not limited to: built-in elastic metal or plastic material, separate metal or plastic spring, separate elastic O-ring or rubber band, gravity, or magnetism.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Inventor: Jeffrey Lucas
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Patent number: 11491620Abstract: A setting tool for a setting tool system for setting capsule anchors is specified, having a shank and a head, arranged at one end of the shank, with a recess for receiving a drive head of a capsule anchor, wherein the shape of the recess is formed substantially by two superimposed hexagons that are arranged in an offset manner to one another. Further, a set for a setting tool system for setting capsule anchors is specified, having an adapter which is able to be coupled to a drive machine, and at least one setting tool. Moreover, a setting tool system is specified, including a setting tool for a setting tool system for setting capsule anchors or a set for a setting tool system for setting capsule anchors, and a capsule anchor and/or a drive machine.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventor: Tobias Donner
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Patent number: 11491818Abstract: The disclosure discloses a high-precision wheel assembling device, which is high in size and shape precision, good in dynamic balance, high in fatigue strength, good in rigidity and elasticity, light in weight, attractive in appearance and recyclable in material.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: CITIC Dicastal Co., Ltd.Inventors: Weidong Liu, Shiwen Xu, Minglei Li
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Patent number: 11492857Abstract: A torque device for guiding a first torque device member relative to a second torque device member includes the first and second torque device members. Each of the torque device members has an operational axis of rotation and three clamp bodies spaced about the operational axis. The clamp bodies are movable between a retracted passive position and an extended active position. The torque device also includes a guide ring on one of the torque device members. The guide ring includes one or more guide ring sections. In addition, the torque device includes at least two guide elements on the other of the torque device members. Each guide element being movable with one of the clamp bodies of the respective torque device member.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO NORWAY ASInventors: Jonathan Garrick Webb, David Allen Hill, Trond Werner Moen
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Patent number: 11491615Abstract: A method and device for rotational disconnection a nozzle from a valve body, to include transferring torque applied to an input adapter, through a gear system, to a rotational, self-centering chuck, with a plurality of jaws to secure a nozzle threadedly secured within a valve body, and an anchor tower extending from the base of the tool in the same direction as the tool that is positioned for nozzle release, so that the anchor tower may provide rotational fixation of the valve body while torque is applied to the nozzle, along with a manner to employ coordinatedly sized and positioned gears, which in combination multiply the leverage force or torque input into the tool for application to the rotational disconnection effort.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Inventor: Raul Mendoza
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Patent number: 11491595Abstract: A pick tooling device including a pick tool configured to pick up an object such as fastener, and a driver having a drive bit that is configured to drive the fastener. The pick tool may be a pneumatically-operable gripper tool that is used to pick up the fastener, or the pick tool may be a vacuum-operable pick tool that utilizes suction to pick up the fastener. The drive bit may be axially movable relative to the pick tool to engage and drive the fastener picked up by the pick tool. The device may include a tool changer having one side that is operably connected to the driver, and another side that is operably connected to a fastener-specific pick tool, in which the pick tool can be separated from the driver to permit quick-changeover to a different type of pick tool.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventor: Justin V. Farrell
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Patent number: 11484996Abstract: A dual-interface sewer cap removal device is provided. The device includes a base plate with a first side provided opposite a second side. A first interface is defined on the first side of the base plate. The first interface is designed to engage a slotted sewer cap. A second interface is defined on the second side of the base plate. The second interface is designed to engage a sewer cap. The second interface is structurally distinct from the first interface. An aperture is centrally disposed on the base plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2022Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Inventor: David A. Wilson
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Patent number: 11485009Abstract: The present invention provides an extendable wrench comprising: a wrench having a head portion and a shaft connected to a rear end of the head portion; an insertion hole recessed at a rear end of the shaft; a cover to dismountably close the insertion hole; an extension rod with a front end formed with a plug to be plug-connected with or separated from the insertion hole of the wrench; and an elastic positioning member provided between the plug of the extension rod and the insertion hole of the wrench, when the plug of the extension rod is plug-connected with the insertion hole, the elastic positioning member keeps the plug in position. Thereby, the wrench can be operated independently; when application of larger operating torque is required, the extension rod can be combined with a rear end of the wrench to form a longer operating arm of force to meet the requirements of large torque.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: KABO TOOL COMPANYInventor: Chih-Ching Hsieh
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Patent number: 11484995Abstract: The subject matter described in this specification relates generally to a tool for installing a flexible metal conduit screw-in connector onto a flexible metal conduit and a method for installing the flexible metal conduit connector tool. The flexible metal conduit screw-in connector tool includes a handle, a centering rod, and two studs. The flexible metal conduit connector tool is to engage a flexible metal conduit screw-in connector.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Anthony, Inc.Inventor: Kenneth Wilson Huffines
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Patent number: 11478905Abstract: Devices or sockets having multi-sided outer surfaces are disclosed herein. An exemplary device can include an outer surface comprising multiple outer sides; an inner surface comprising multiple inner sides; a first end portion; a second end portion opposite the first end portion; a first recess extending from the first end portion toward the second end portion; and a second recess extending from the second end portion toward the first end portion. The second recess can include a cross-sectional dimension smaller than the cross-sectional dimension of the first recess. The device can be a hexagonal socket. In some embodiments, individual sockets are stackable on and within one another.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Inventor: Herman William Janzen, III
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Patent number: 11478906Abstract: A multipurpose hand tool may include a body portion, and a first hex socket tool integrally formed with a first side of the body portion. The multipurpose hand tool may include a second hex socket tool integrally formed with a second side of the body portion that opposes the first side of the body portion, and a screwdriver tool integrally formed with a third side of the body portion. The multipurpose hand tool may include a wrench tool integrally formed with a fourth side of the body portion that opposes the third side of the body portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Erik Sheehan, Marc J. Durocher, Jr.
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Patent number: 11473613Abstract: A reaction washer is optimized for lock-on, optional stiction ring and for a predetermined indentation depth of bidirectional serrations for secure reaction torque transfer during initial and full actuation of respective nut or bolt heads resting on it. An optional lock-on ring embedded around the reaction socket is ergonomically actuated to latch on and off underneath the reaction washer. Axial offset of the peak stress areas away from the actuation socket edges provides for reduced actuation socket diameter and consequently for the entire tool and system remaining substantially within radial assembly limits established for prior art actuation sockets alone. A coupling unit is attached to and tightened on a power torque wrench via a clamp tool utilizing the power wrench's own torque. A hand hold groove and a lock able snap release button offset from the coupling castle snap connection contribute to safe and ergonomic operation and system peak performance.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Inventor: Johannes P Schneeberger
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Patent number: 11465270Abstract: A fire hydrant wrench includes a wrench-head able to fasten to the pentagonal interface of a fire-hydrant and a handle able to be selectively extended or retracted by a user. The wrench includes a cylindrical rod which may be contained by and telescopes within a tubular handle. A cap on a handle-end of the tubular handle prevents the cylindrical rod from leaving the handle in one direction, while a collar affixed externally to the cylindrical rod prevents it from leaving the handle in the opposite direction. The tool-head containing the wrench is affixed to a tool-end of the cylindrical rod which protrudes from the tubular handle in all positions.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Inventor: Sebastian Fodera
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Patent number: 11465269Abstract: Multiple attached lanyard systems for attaching to a power tool, with each lanyard system comprising a lanyard attached to a driver piece holder that holds a driver piece and is connected to a retraction system. The multiple attached lanyard systems providing a different driver pieces that can be selected by pulling each driver piece out of its attached lanyard system, extending the driver piece past a driver piece receiver and inserting the driver piece into the driver piece receiver.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Inventor: James Gregory Brull
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Patent number: 11458602Abstract: A hex tool including a hex head having a hex portion for engaging socket head cap screws or wrenches. The hex portion also having a body portion extending from the hex portion. The body portion having a spherical-shaped cavity disposed therein. The hex tool also includes a handle with a ball end and a primary handle portion. The ball end disposed in the spherical-shaped cavity to provide the hex tool a significant range of motion during use. Another type of hex tool having a hex head having a hex cavity for engaging a hex head bolt. The hex head also having a body portion extending from the hex cavity. The body portion having a spherical-shaped cavity disposed therein. The hex tool also including a handle with a ball end and a primary handle portion. The ball end disposed in the spherical-shaped cavity to provide the hex tool a significant range of motion during use.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Inventor: Raul Marin