Patents Examined by David Fidei
  • Patent number: 8919544
    Abstract: A holder includes a first outer sheet, a second outer sheet, and a handled portion. A base portion, a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion are formed on the second outer sheet. A latching piece is formed on the base portion, the latching piece having a bendable portion. The first supporting portion is folded relative to the base portion, and the second supporting portion is folded relative to the first supporting portion until the second supporting portion is held by the latching piece, the base portion, the first supporting portion and the second supporting portion cooperatively form a three-dimensional structure that can support the portable electronic device at an angle relative to the second outer sheet without collapsing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Chueh Lee
  • Patent number: 8919555
    Abstract: A needle storage device includes a base having a center post, and a tray disposed around the post. The tray has dividers defining multiple slots for receiving needles and other surgical instruments. A cover over the tray has an opening which exposes only one of those slots at a time. A needle other sharp device may be inserted through the opening into the slot below. The tray has a hub or button, exposed through a central opening in the cover, which can then be depressed and released to move the tray up and down between the base and the cover. A mechanism comprising teeth on both the tray and the cover angularly increments the tray beneath the opening, exposing a neighboring slot each time the tray is depressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Inventors: Sambhu N. Choudhury, Sean M. Lynch, Arturo David Sanchez
  • Patent number: 8919558
    Abstract: A package for an oral care implement comprising a container having a display portion and a periphery, and a backing attached to the container for defining an interior for receiving an oral care implement. The backing further comprises a first portion attached to a portion of the periphery for defining an interior of the container and a second portion attached to the display portion; wherein the second portion of the backing further comprises a separable portion that facilitates separation of the first portion of the backing from the display portion and thereby facilitates access to the interior of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Brian Bloch, David K. Lee, Alan Sorrentino, Quang Nguyen, Paul D. Carse
  • Patent number: 8915359
    Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-compartment container including a tearable inner packet, as well as methods for its use and manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Inventors: David DiLiberto, Katherine Adele Bukys, Christopher Roy Pinto, Mitchell Francis Rovito, Thomas E. Van Epps
  • Patent number: 8910786
    Abstract: Packaging for a motor, including an iron frame and a plurality of plastic pallets. The iron frame includes a baseboard, a left guardrail, a right guardrail, a dismountable compression bar, and a support bracket. The baseboard includes a frame and a plurality of connecting rods. Each plastic pallet includes a plurality of bosses and a recess. The connecting rods are interlaced horizontally and vertically inside the frame. A plurality of the support brackets is disposed beneath the frame. The frame includes a left side and a right side. Each side is provided with two connecting holders. The left guardrail and the right guardrail are connected to and are capable of turning around two corresponding connecting holders, respectively. The left guardrail and the right guardrail are stackable after being turned over. The top of the left and the right guardrail are unfolded by connecting to the compression bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Hubei Queen-Ocean Electrical Appliance Manufacture Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenqing Li, Pingfei Zhong, Song Jia
  • Patent number: 8910793
    Abstract: This invention pertains to a U-board split case assembly (10) and includes a generally U-shaped case (12) formed from a single blank. A plurality of display containers (14) are attached to and aligned within the U-shaped case. The U-shaped case is folded to include a bottom panel (20) with two opposed parallel side panels (16) extending from opposing edges of a bottom panel, and a shortened lip (22) extend from the front edge of the bottom panel. The plurality of display containers are attached to the side panels to secure the display containers within the U-shaped case. The display containers are removable from the U-shaped case by use of the severing zone (40) on the side panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Intercontinental Great Brands LLC
    Inventors: Paul K. Bowers, Julie Conlon, Bill Smilis, Ronell Scheller, Katherine Brink
  • Patent number: 8905233
    Abstract: An assembly for holding a transaction card, such as a gift card, upon an articulated, multi-panel structure that conforms to the shape of an underlying substrate, such as a box or other container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Gift Card Impressions, LLC
    Inventors: Brett R. Glass, Nicole E. Glass
  • Patent number: 8899417
    Abstract: A tool box contains: a body, a lifting mechanism, at least one holder, and a controlling mechanism. The lifting mechanism is fixed on the body and includes a rotating assembly and a guiding member. The rotating assembly has a first end disposed in the body and a second end mounted in the guiding member so as to rotate on the body. The at least one holder is used to hold at least one tool set and is mounted on the rotating assembly of the lifting mechanism, such that the at least one holder is driven by the rotating assembly to lift and rotate. The controlling mechanism includes at least one resilient element for driving the rotating assembly to rotate and a control member disposed in the body, such that the rotating assembly of the lifting mechanism is positioned on the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Inventors: Chao-Ming Chen, Chun-Chia Shih
  • Patent number: 8887909
    Abstract: An encasing for a mobile device is disclosed. The encasing includes a front portion including a discontinuous surface area configured to receive a bottom surface of the mobile device, a back portion opposite the front portion, and side portions configured to convexly couple to side surfaces of the mobile device. The side portions include a side region comprising a moveable flap configured to rotate when inserting and removing the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Inventors: Kevin McCarthy, Justin H. Knight
  • Patent number: 8887912
    Abstract: A multi-pack assembly for containing and dispensing one or more new pen needles, and receiving and containing used pen needles after use, is provided, wherein a plurality of both new and used pen needles can be contained in a series of storage vessels, each secured to an adjacent storage vessel thereby forming an easily managed multi-pack assembly shape, and providing caps for each individual pen needle storage vessel to provide a sterility barrier and which can be opened independently of one another, and which can be closed in the same manner after use to prevent unwanted interaction with the used pen needles contained therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: David S. Chapin, Daniel M. Stipe, Sean P. Sullivan
  • Patent number: 8881905
    Abstract: In summary there is provided in one embodiment a combination of a pan with a label for holding a roasting bag. The pan is defined by having a bottom base having a base periphery edge and a sidewall extending upwardly from the base periphery edge and terminating at a side edge to create a well therebetween. The label includes front and rear sides. The rear side being secured to the bottom base and includes a pocket formed thereon. The pocket has an access opening into an internal space of the pocket. The roasting bag is positioned within and removable from the pocket of the label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Handi-Foil Corporation
    Inventors: Norton Sarnoff, David Sarnoff, Raj Patel
  • Patent number: 8875891
    Abstract: A press-through package for articles such as medicines which can reliably prevent a recipient from accidentally swallowing the whole package without opening it, including solid medicines M stored in a plurality of pockets of a base sheet one by one and the pockets sealed by a cover film having attached to the rear surface of the base sheet, wherein the entire package of the press-through package is made in a cylindrical form which cannot allow a recipient from accidentally swallowing and from which the medicines can be taken out easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignees: Yamashita Works, Co., Ltd., Titan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Yamashita, Akiyoshi Yasusato, Tetsuya Yamashita, Kenji Hamada, Goro Kuratani, Masakazu Sugino, Yuko Hanazono, Yoshihiko Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8875890
    Abstract: A postal envelope bag having a cushioning function includes two outer films, two inner films, heat resisting materials, transverse heat-sealing lines, longitudinal heat-sealing lines, air columns, neck heat-sealing lines, an air filling passage, air inlets and heat-sealing blocks, where air entering the air-filling port expands the air filling passage, the two outer films are pulled apart outward in a longitudinal direction and are contracted in a transverse direction; the heat-sealing blocks thrusts the two inner films, the portions of the two inner films coated with the heat resisting material are pulled apart outward in the longitudinal direction, and third segments drives the two inner films to open the air inlet as the two outer films are pulled apart outward in the longitudinal direction; after entering the air column, the air presses the second sides of the two inner films to close the air column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignees: Air-Bag Packing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yaw-Shin Liao, Chieh-Hua Liao
  • Patent number: 8875895
    Abstract: The storage body includes a tape formed with recess portions that dip in in a thickness direction formed at intervals along the tape length direction and a cover that is superimposed on the tape and closes off openings of the recess portions. The tape is fixed to the tape by intermediate fixing portions and a pair of side fixing portions. The intermediate fixing portions are formed between the mutually adjacent recess portions. The pair of side fixing portions include overlapping portions and connect portions. The overlapping portions are formed at the two tape width direction sides of the intermediate fixing portions so as to overlap with the intermediate fixing portions along the tape length direction. The connect portions are formed with constant width connecting together the respective overlapping portions disposed in lines along the tape length direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Keiichi Sasamura, Koichi Murata, Masahiko Ishiguri, Naoyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8875886
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing a carrier card on which a transaction card is mounted and to which an envelope is integrally but detachably attached are described. According to one aspect, a carrier card arrangement that is suitable for carrying a transaction card includes a carrier portion and an envelope portion that is integrally formed with an edge of the carrier portion. The edge of the carrier portion is at least partially defined by at least one perforation. The carrier portion includes a first surface that is on an opposite side of the carrier portion from a second surface. The envelope portion has a third surface that at least partially abuts the second surface, and is sized to accommodate the transaction card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Judith Brill, Philip J. Luongo, Jr., Ian S. Macnider
  • Patent number: 8869977
    Abstract: A device for securing credit cards, ID cards, etc is provided. The device comprises a base element configured to be coupled to a smart phone. The base element includes an adhesive backing for removeably coupling the device the smart phone. A pocket panel is attached to the base element with a flexible fabric such as suede, leather or other textile or non-textile material to form a repository or pocket into which items can be inserted. A thumb hole is provided to provide access for slidably removing cards placed in the pocket. The pocket may optionally include a spacer element to define a cavity large enough for multiple cards. The pocket may optionally also include a pressure element to secure the cards in the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Inventor: Spencer Nlkosey
  • Patent number: 8857616
    Abstract: Reference apparatus and storage and dispensing apparatus (such as for storing and/or dispensing the reference apparatus) are disclosed. In some embodiments, the reference apparatus may include a unitary planar material having a first panel, a second panel, and a third panel disposed between the first and second panels. The first and second panels may be configured to be folded between a folded position in which the first and second panels are parallel to the third panel, and an unfolded position in which the first and second panels are coplanar with the third panel relative to the folded position. One of the first and second panels may include an attachment portion configured to receive a receiving portion of the other of the first and second panels to secure the first, second, and third panels together in the folded position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Inventor: Jeffrey N Olsen
  • Patent number: 8857618
    Abstract: A child's portable travel station includes an enclosure with a handle, the enclosure having a lid hinged to a case and having a bean bag or other conformable member attached to the bottom of the case. A receptacle for a beverage container is open at the top surface of the lid and is supported on the floor of the case. An opening in the top surface opens into the beverage container. The top of the beverage container is generally flush with the top surface. The top surface provides a work surface for a child using the travel station. The enclosure includes an internal volume to hold toys, books, writing utensils and other possessions of the child.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Inventor: George Dennis
  • Patent number: 8851286
    Abstract: The disclosure pertains to a vessel for holding replacement heart valves and associated positioning and installation apparatus which is configured and adapted to contain a biocidal sterilization fluid during and following exposure of a delivery system for the replacement heart valve to sterilization by ionizing radiation and methods of use therefor. The vessel includes a shield which limits exposure of biologically derived material therein to radiation. The vessel also provides a storage and shipping container for the replacement heart valve in which the biologically derived material is maintained in a sterile fluid environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed Inc.
    Inventors: Robert T. Chang, Brian K. McCollum, Michael J. Conroy
  • Patent number: 8844727
    Abstract: A package that may be constructed into a point of purchase display includes a plurality of bottom uprights set in a tray, and a plurality of top uprights that are kept in folded form in a space between the bottom uprights. The top uprights are assembled and placed on top of the bottom uprights to form a completed display. The bottom uprights may contain shelves with product stocked thereon, and the space between the bottom uprights may contain product to be stocked on the top uprights after the top uprights are assembled on top of the bottom uprights. The top uprights may be assembled and placed on top of the bottom uprights by a retailer or other end user without requiring glue or fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Excel Container, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony Buhagiar