Patents Examined by David G Shutty
  • Patent number: 12220803
    Abstract: An attachment for a hand-held power tool, wherein the attachment has an attachment housing and a drive element on a drive side, which drive element can be coupled to a machine output element of the hand-held power tool in order to drive the attachment and is firmly connected to an output element of the attachment or is motion-coupled via a gear to drive a working tool, wherein the attachment has a fastening device on the drive side for detachable fastening to the hand-held power tool, wherein the fastening device has at least one support surface that is stationary with respect to the attachment housing for providing support on the hand-held power tool in the direction of a support axis and at least one locking body adjustable between a locking position and an unlocking position and loaded into the locking position by a spring assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Benjamin Allgaier, Peter Seiler, Alexander Lautenschläger
  • Patent number: 12214608
    Abstract: A method is provided for applying a laser marking to a sheet of material forming a capsule from portions of the sheet of material using a pair of die rollers wherein the location of the laser marking is established such that it does not overlap at least one of a seal between the pair of sheets of material formed during the formation of the capsule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: TECHNOPHAR EQUIPMENT AND SERVICE (2007) LTD.
    Inventors: Paul Lukas, Stelian Ursachi, Thomas Stecko
  • Patent number: 12214915
    Abstract: A strapping device for strapping packages, having a packing table on which the package passes through the strapping device along a movement path, having a strapping frame, having a rotation device in the packing table, having a strapping channel which is formed by the strapping frame, and having closure flaps which close a channel opening of the channel member which is arranged in the packing table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLC
    Inventor: Friedhelm Schulz
  • Patent number: 12212264
    Abstract: An impact power tool includes a housing, a motor, a controller, an impact mechanism configured to be driven by the motor, and an output spindle configured to receive rotational impacts from the impact mechanism to rotate the output spindle. The controller is configured to detect a first impact of the rotational impacts or to detect when the motor speed drops below a speed threshold value. The controller is configured to control the motor to have a first non-zero target rotational speed using closed loop control for a predetermined time period after the first impact is detected or when the motor speed dropping below the speed threshold value is detected. The controller is configured to control the motor to have a second non-zero target rotational speed using the closed loop control after the predetermined time period. The first non-zero target rotational speed is less than the second non-zero target rotational speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: BLACK & DECKER INC.
    Inventors: Brian E. Friedman, Peter Hague Wadeson, Eric Louis Kunz, BhanuPrakash Villuri, Tyler Petrus, Wing W. Lin
  • Patent number: 12201060
    Abstract: A work equipment (10) is described, comprising: —a pole (20); —a work apparatus (W) fixed to a first end of the pole (20), comprising a work tool (30), —a support body (45), fixed to a second end of the pole (20), for housing a power supply battery (P) operatively connected to the work apparatus (W), said power supply battery (P) being removably associated with the support body (45), characterized in that a damper element (95) is positioned between the support body (45) and the power supply battery (P).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: EMAK S.P.A.
    Inventors: Lorenzo Castellari, Andrea Bertani, Andrea Catellani
  • Patent number: 12179302
    Abstract: A packing machine and a method for adjusting multiple machine elements on a packaging machine. The position of each machine element is changeable by driving an assigned spindle in a rotary manner. A position measuring device is present on each spindle to measure the position of the assigned spindle. The measurement data of the different position measuring devices are transmittable to a control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: ROVEMA GMBH
    Inventor: Peter Trepke
  • Patent number: 12172282
    Abstract: A rotary hammer selectively operates in multiple modes including a first mode and a second mode. The rotary hammer includes a switch, a motor, a switch manipulation member, a locking member, and a mode detecting device. The switch manipulation member includes a body, and a protrusion that is movable between a protruding position and a retracted position. The body houses a solenoid configured to operate based on a detection result of the mode detecting device. The locking member is movable between an unlock position and a lock position where the locking member holds the switch manipulation member in an ON position by abutting the protrusion in the protruding position. The protrusion is integrated with a plunger of the solenoid. The protrusion is configured to be in the protruding position when the present mode is the first mode, and in the retracted position when the present mode is the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Takeuchi, Kei Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12171273
    Abstract: A system for assembling electronic cigarette parts comprising cartridges and for filling the cartridges includes a first conveyor; a first group of carrier units connected to the first conveyor to be movable independently along the first conveyor and to receive and hold the parts; a first group of working stations for assembling/inspecting the cigarette parts on the first conveyor; a second conveyor, downstream of the first conveyor; and a second group of carrier units connected to the second conveyor to be movable independently along the second conveyor and to receive and hold the parts; a second group of working stations for assembling/inspecting the parts on the second conveyor; and a filling station, disposed between the first and second conveyors to receive the parts from the first conveyor, fill the respective cartridges, and feed the parts with the filled cartridges towards the second conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: G.D S.P.A.
    Inventors: Luca Testoni, Luca Lanzarini, Massimo Sartoni, Luca Federici
  • Patent number: 12168287
    Abstract: A power tool comprises a housing and an inner assembly mounted at least partially within the housing and configured to move between a first position and a second position with respect to the housing. The inner assembly comprises a motor assembly. The power tool also comprises a mounting frame for guiding the inner assembly between the first position and the second position and having a cable guide for guiding at least part of a cable connected between the motor assembly and a component fixed relative to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Bernhart, Tobias Heep, Andre Herdling, Jochen Seipp, Patrick Walther, Stefan Gensmann
  • Patent number: 12164281
    Abstract: A hand-guided garden, forestry and/or construction working apparatus has an inactive state, an active state and a variable setting, as well as an apparatus operator control element which can be activated by a user. In the inactive state, the garden, forestry and/or construction working apparatus is designed to be transferred into the active state triggered by activation of the apparatus operator control element, and in the active state the garden, forestry and/or construction working apparatus is designed to change the setting and not to be transferred into the inactive state triggered by activation of the apparatus operator control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dirk Foerstner, Denis Ehrler, Michael Varga
  • Patent number: 12157596
    Abstract: A capping station has a first conveying system designed to move a plurality of full bottles; a second conveying system, arranged above the first conveying system, designed to move a plurality of caps; a capping device designed to pick up at least one cap from the second conveying system in order to apply the cap to a bottle carried by the first conveying system; and a heating unit comprising at least one heating device, a support beam carrying the heating device, a main operating device designed to move the support beam between a rest position in which the heating device is far from the bottles and a work position in which the heating device is close to the bottles to heat at least the neck of the bottles, and a safety operating device independent of the main operating device, designed to move the support beam between the work and rest positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: G.D SOCIETA' PER AZIONI
    Inventors: Luca Mariani, Luca Testoni, Andrea Dondini, Luca Federici
  • Patent number: 12145756
    Abstract: A strapping device for strapping packages, having a packing table via which the package is moved along a movement path through the device, having a strapping frame which is oriented transversely with respect to the movement path and through which the package passes during its movement through the device, having a strap channel which is open in the direction of the frame interior, is formed by the strapping frame and has at least two vertical channel legs which are arranged on both sides of the movement path of the package, and having a multiplicity of strap channel flaps which are secured on the strapping device channel so as to be moveable by way of an articulated leg and are provided with a covering leg which overlies approximately half of the channel opening in the direction of a strap channel longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLC
    Inventors: Friedhelm Schulz, Hans G. Kastner
  • Patent number: 12138771
    Abstract: A chainsaw (electric working tool) includes a body case, a cutting part (working implement), and a motor, wherein the motor is mounted in a motor case disposed in a cooling route; an intake communicating with the cooling route is opened on the body case and communicates through the retention chamber with the cooling route; an air filter is inserted into the body case and arranged adjacent to the intake; the body case has a filter insertion/extraction hole opened thereon and the hole communicates with the retention chamber, through which hole the air filter is attachable to and removable from the retention chamber and be a cover for it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisato Osawa, Takeshi Maeno, Satsuki Yuzuki, Noriyuki Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 12134155
    Abstract: A power tool including a motor configured to produce an output, and a sensor configured to measure an acceleration of the power tool along at least one of three spatial axes and generate an output signal related to the acceleration. The power tool further including a controller configured to receive the output signal related to the acceleration of the power tool from the sensor, compare the acceleration of the power tool to a free-fall acceleration threshold, initiate a timer when the acceleration of the power tool corresponds to the free-fall acceleration threshold, compare the timer to a free-fall timer threshold, and stop the motor from producing the output when the timer is greater than or equal to the free-fall timer threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Abbott, Hannah E. Phipps, Carter H. Ypma, Daniel E. Endean, Nicholas J. LePar, Grace Whitmore, Niladri Basu Bal, Arhum M. Zafar
  • Patent number: 12128537
    Abstract: A rotary tool assembly includes a rotary tool having a body with a working end and a rear end, a motor disposed within the body, and a drive shaft rotatably driven by the motor. A base of the rotary tool assembly includes a battery receptacle configured to receive a battery pack and a stand for supporting the rotary tool when the rotary tool is not in use. The stand includes two arms defining a tool receptacle therebetween in which the rotary tool is supported. A power cord extends between the base and the rotary tool to transfer electric power from the base to the rotary tool to selectively power the motor. The battery pack is received in the battery receptacle for form a foot of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Techtronic Cordless GP
    Inventors: James W. Jenkins, Jesse J. Jerabek, David Bayless, I. Daniel Smith, Brent N. Gregorich, Ashley Poteet, Yun Biao Bai, De Xiang Jin, Yan Jun Zhang
  • Patent number: 12116159
    Abstract: A packaging machine includes an imager that images a packaging pack punched by a punching device, and a control device. The control device includes a position shift amount calculator that calculates, on the basis of a packaging pack image of the packaging pack captured by the imager, a punching position shift amount of a punching position of a pack film, a punching position correction amount calculator that calculates, from the punching position shift amount, a punching position correction amount with respect to the punching position of the pack film, a slit position controller that adjusts, on the basis of the punching position correction amount, a rotation angle of a film feeding roller, and a film guide position controller that adjusts, on the basis of the punching position correction amount, the position of a film guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: MARUHO HATSUJYO KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Ohura, Akihiro Okada
  • Patent number: 12115635
    Abstract: A control method for a percussive hand-held power tool (1) includes the steps: detecting a switching state of an operating button (12), detecting a temperature T using a temperature sensor (22), activating an electropneumatic striking mechanism (5) in response to an actuation of the operating button (12), an exciter (13) of the electropneumatic striking mechanism (5) being moved forward and backward along a working axis (3) at a repetition rate R, whereby a striker (14) coupled to the exciter (13) via a pneumatic chamber (16) is also moved. If the temperature T is greater than a limiting temperature Tc, the repetition rate R is continuously increased from idle up to a setpoint value (21). A duration until reaching the setpoint value (21) is less than 10 cycles. If the temperature T is less than the limiting temperature Tc, a duration until reaching the setpoint value (21) is greater than 200 cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Hartmann, Franz Moessnang, Laurent-Sebastian Kock, Philipp Lorenz, Eduard Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 12115637
    Abstract: Hammer drill and/or chipping hammer (100) having a drive motor (70), an impact mechanism (10) and a tool fitting (50) for fitting a tool (110), wherein the impact mechanism (10) has an anvil (30) that is axially displaceable in an anvil guide (20) and acts on the tool (110), wherein the impact mechanism (10) has an idle-strike damper element (11), which acts between the anvil (30) and the tool fitting (50), and wherein the impact mechanism has a guide housing (80), which engages at least partially around the anvil (30) and/or the tool fitting (50), wherein an additional idle-strike damper element (31) is provided, which acts between the tool fitting (50) and the guide housing (80).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Josef Fünfer, Ulrich Mandel
  • Patent number: 12115639
    Abstract: A drilling tool configured to operate in two drilling modes, respectively with and without hammer action, said tool comprising a front end equipped with a rotating part for mounting a drill bit by way of an SDS-type push-fitting, characterized in that said rotating part comprises a mechanism for the removable attachment to a first longitudinal end of a tubular extension, this tubular extension being configured to extend along and around a drill bit mounted in the rotating part and comprising a second longitudinal end configured to bear at least one screw-driving element, such that the tool can be used for a screw-driving operation even when it is equipped with the drill bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Matthieu Perrier, Ludovic Tournier
  • Patent number: 12110147
    Abstract: A horizontal forming device, in particular for horizontal flow pack machines, comprises at least one, in particular roller-free, forming unit, in particular a forming shoulder, and comprises at least one support unit, which are configured for forming a packaging material web into a packaging material tube, wherein the forming unit and the support unit together delimit a guiding gap which the packaging material web can be guided through, the horizontal forming device further comprising at least one compensation unit, which is configured to movably support the forming unit and/or the support unit in such a way that, at least during a forming of the packaging material tube, the forming unit and the support unit are movable relative to each other, in particular in order to enable a compensation movement of the forming unit and/or the support unit relative to each other during a forming of the packaging material tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Syntegon Packaging Systems AG
    Inventor: Michael Lopes