Patents Examined by David J. Walczak
  • Patent number: 12030338
    Abstract: A fountain pen with a quick-filling coupling includes a nib assembly, a housing with a main tank and a writing tank formed therein, a rotatable finial at an end of the fountain pen opposite from the nib assembly, and a coupling for placing the housing on an ink feed device. A first sealing unit, arranged between the writing tank and the main tank, can be selectively opened and closed for filling the writing tank via the main tank. A second sealing unit, arranged between the writing tank and the nib assembly, can be selectively opened and closed for supplying ink to the nib assembly. A third sealing unit, arranged between the main tank and the coupling, can be opened and closed for filling at least the main tank. The finial is operably coupled to the pen for controlling the opening state of the first and second sealing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Montblanc-Simplo GmbH
    Inventors: Thilo Wagner, Tim Ole Meikert
  • Patent number: 12030337
    Abstract: A refillable free ink writing instrument including a body having a rear end, a front end and an ink reservoir disposed between the rear end and the front end, a writing tip mounted on the front end and a plug mounted on the rear end, wherein the plug is configured to close an opening in fluid communication with the ink reservoir, the plug being configured to be removable from the rear end to refill the ink reservoir with water and concentrated ink refill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SOCIÉTÉ BIC
    Inventors: Arnaud Bez, Etienne Roudaut
  • Patent number: 12030336
    Abstract: Pressing type writing stationery including: a pen barrel (1), a pen refill (2) and a pressing positioning assembly (3). The pen refill (2) is configured with a pen point (21). The pressing positioning assembly (3) comprises a guide piece (31), a sliding piece (32) and a positioning piece (33), a guide sliding groove (311) is provided on the guide piece (31), and a rotary driving part (312) and a positioning cooperation part (313) are provided in the guide sliding groove (311); the sliding piece (32) is slidably mounted on the guide piece (31) in the length direction of the guide sliding groove (311); the positioning piece (33) is rotatably mounted on the sliding piece (32), and a positioning part (331) is provided on the positioning piece (33); the positioning part (331) is slidably provided in the guide sliding groove (311); and the guide piece (31) is provided in the pen barrel (1), and the sliding piece (32) is connected to the pen refill (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: QINGDAO BEST POINT STATIONERY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuanhong Wang
  • Patent number: 12029304
    Abstract: A paper lipstick tube with threads, including a lipstick tube body which includes an A lipstick tubing, a B lipstick tubing, a C lipstick tubing, a pin, a D lipstick tubing, an F lipstick tubing, an M lipstick tubing, a K lipstick tubing, a cover tube H, a circular gasket and cream. The B lipstick tubing is rotatably installed inside the F lipstick tubing. The lipstick tube body is a container with a push-pull function made of only paper and a small amount of natural bamboo or wood materials. Through mutual rotation of the F lipstick tubing and the B lipstick tubing, upward and downward shearing forces are applied to the pin spirally through the threaded groove in the B lipstick tubing. At the same time, the pin is also in up-and-down guide openings of the D lipstick tubing, so that the C lipstick tubing can only move up and down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Dongguan Fengcai Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jing He, Guorui Deng
  • Patent number: 12029310
    Abstract: An oral care system includes a main body, and a brush manually movable between a stowed and a deployed position. The brush includes a head, and bristles having respective first ends attached to the head and distal ends together defining a bristle surface for tooth cleaning in use. A toothpaste dispensing apparatus is carried by the main body and is configured to place toothpaste directly onto the bristle surface defined by the distal ends of the bristles when the brush is in the stowed position. The dispensing apparatus is configured to place toothpaste directly onto the bristle surface defined by the distal ends of the bristles without saturating the bristles at their first ends attached to the head. The toothpaste dispensing apparatus includes a port through which toothpaste is dispensed, and the port aligns with the bristles when the brush is at the stowed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Inventors: Stephanie M. Pierce, Preston E. Pierce
  • Patent number: 12023954
    Abstract: The combination marker and eraser includes both a marker, such as those used with erasable whiteboards and markerboards, for example, and an eraser for the marker combined in a single writing implement. The combination marker and eraser includes the marker and a hollow housing. The body of the marker is received within the hollow housing such that the writing tip of the marker is positioned exterior to the hollow housing. A strip of eraser material is attached to an exterior surface of the hollow housing. The combination marker and eraser further includes an outer shell rotatably mounted about the hollow housing. The outer shell has a slot formed therethrough such that rotation of the outer shell with respect to the hollow housing selectively either covers the strip of eraser material or exposes the strip of eraser material through the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ibrahim Abdullah Alkhateeb, Abdullah Mohammed Aladsani, Fahad Ahmed M. Alnaim
  • Patent number: 12022828
    Abstract: A wearable disinfecting device includes a skin-protective glove and a disinfecting material. The disinfecting material is attached to the external surface on the palm side of the skin-protective glove. The disinfecting material includes an absorbent material that is at least partially saturated with a disinfecting liquid. The skin-protective glove is chemically resistant to the disinfecting liquid. A protective film that covers the disinfecting material can be releasably attached to the external surface of the skin-protective glove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: ENTJ Enterprises, LLC
    Inventor: Nicole Dow
  • Patent number: 12016446
    Abstract: A device for application of substance to a human body surface comprising an applicator portion, the applicator portion having a topically applied substance support surface, and the topically applied substance support surface having an outer portion and a gripping portion. A personal hygiene or other topically applied substance is secured to the topically applied substance support surface on the applicator portion of said base. The applicator portion defines a top surface and at least one extension, the extension being configured to allow the substantially unobstructed flow of molten personal hygiene or topically applied substance radially outwardly toward the outer portion of the topically applied substance support surface. The extension defines at least a portion of the topically applied substance support surface. A protective member, defines a closed compartment protecting and housing the personal hygiene or topically applied substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventor: Richard P. Morrow
  • Patent number: 12011948
    Abstract: A double-head marker pen includes a first penholder, a second penholder and a connecting tube; one end of the first penholder is formed with a first pen head, and one end of the second penholder is formed with a second pen head; and an end of the first penholder away from the first pen head is detachably connected with an end of the second penholder away from the second pen head by the connecting tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: CHINA FIRST PENCIL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bingyang Zhang
  • Patent number: 12011076
    Abstract: A center tube core includes a prong, a spiral rotatably sleeved on the prong, and a bead slidably mounted in the prong so as to carry a product. The side wall of the prong is provided with a slide slot that extends axially, the outer wall of the bead is provided with a slide block that extends radially out from the slide slot, and the inner wall of the spiral is provided with a feeding thread that acts on the slide block. The prong, the bead and the spiral are all made using a metal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG AXILONE SHUNHUA ALUMINUM & PLASTIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Weifeng Zhu, Yongqing Fang, Jianhua Song
  • Patent number: 12004682
    Abstract: A cookware seasoning wipe made of a natural or synthetic fabric for conditioning cast iron cookware and steel cookware to create a nonstick surface. Specifically, the present invention refers to a pre-impregnated “wipe” that releases a mix of oils and waxes to the cookware surface, that when heated, polymerizes to create a durable nonstick-like surface, commonly referred to as “seasoning” the cookware. When used to season cookware, the user wipes the surface of the cookware when heating, which naturally releases a thin, even layer of the oil and wax. This process ensures the optimal amount of oil and wax to polymerize and properly protect the cookware's surface. Overall, this is a superior seasoning method because the user no longer has to decide what to use, when to apply it, and how much is needed, all while reducing waste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jordan Tyler de Geus, Blaire Lauren Burstein
  • Patent number: 12005730
    Abstract: A writing instrument may include a self-healing sealing component to prevent the internal components of the writing instrument from drying out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SOCIÉTÉ BIC
    Inventors: David Duffy, Bernadette Elliott-Bowman
  • Patent number: 11998651
    Abstract: Fluid applicators with precise volume dispensing control for dispensing fluids such as a disinfectant in a controlled manner. Such fluid applicators may include a barrel including a sidewall having an inside surface defining a chamber for retaining a fluid, an end press, a push rod disposed within the chamber, the push rod having a push button and a piercing tip, a cap attached to a port via a hinge to cover a hydrophobic filter disposed on the sidewall of the chamber, a one-way valve disposed on the outlet on a distal end of the barrel, a disinfectant disposed within the chamber; a housing having a base and an open proximal end; and a fluid applicator sponge disposed in the base of the housing. An alternate fluid may include a deformable end press, a plurality of volume scale markings on an outer surface of the barrel, a push rod, a one-way valve and applicator sponge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Manish Kumar, Karthik M R, Balaji Kannan, Prasad Govindaraj, Shishir Prasad, Kevin M. Ryan
  • Patent number: 11992107
    Abstract: A packaging device and a refill device, wherein the packaging device comprises a first case cap, a first case body and a lifting mechanism; the first case body has a first end and a second end, and the first case cap is snap-fitted on the first end of the first case body; the lifting mechanism comprises a base and a lifting platform, wherein the base and the lifting platform are movably connected, the base is arranged at the second end of the first case body, and the lifting platform is arranged in the first case body; and the lifting platform can move close to or away from the base, and the lifting mechanism is detachably connected to the first case body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PPK (SHANGHAI) PACKAGING CO., LTD
    Inventor: Helin Zhou
  • Patent number: 11993099
    Abstract: A ballpoint pen. In the ballpoint pen, an oil-based ballpoint pen ink composition has an ink viscosity with a range of 500 mPa·s to 15000 mPa·s inclusive at 20° C. and a shear rate of 500 sec?1. A ball has a ball diameter of 0.5 mm or less. A tip distal end portion includes a first swaged portion and a second swaged portion. The first swaged portion has an inclination angle with a range of 90 degrees to 100 degrees inclusive. The second swaged portion is provided closer to a distal end side of a ballpoint pen tip than the first swaged portion and has an inclination angle with a range of 110 degrees to 130 degrees inclusive. An angle of a bottom wall of a ball holding chamber is the same as the inclination angle of the second swaged portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA PILOT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Sanada, Hidenori Kudou, Takeshi Fujii
  • Patent number: 11987068
    Abstract: A marking pen, comprising: a shaft cylinder; a porous pen core accommodated in the shaft cylinder, and configured to project from, and retract into, an opening part provided at a tip end of the shaft cylinder; an inner cotton accommodated in the shaft cylinder, and filled with an aqueous ink composition to be fed to the pen core, the aqueous ink composition including a water soluble organic solvent in an amount of from 20 mass % to 60 mass %; and a delivery mechanism configured to cause a tip end of the pen core to project from, and retract into, the opening part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI PENCIL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Yusuke Kobayashi, Toru Nakajima, Akiko Hirayama, Koji Takada
  • Patent number: 11986550
    Abstract: A lip composition. The lip composition may include at least 40% by weight of one or more emollients, at least 20% by weight of waxes, the waxes including a hard wax and a soft wax, and a plurality of fillers including silica silylate and cellulose. The lip composition may be free of water and silicones, and may be vegan. The lip composition preferably includes no more than 6% by weight of fillers, and preferably includes no more than about 3% by weight of colorants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: L'OREAL
    Inventors: Monika Lushka, Susan Ashley Desteno
  • Patent number: 11986925
    Abstract: Chemically impregnated applicators used to provide hydrophobic surfaces on chemical mechanical polishing system components and related application methods are shown. A method of forming a hydrophobic coating on a surface of a polishing system component includes cleaning the surface of the polishing system component to remove a polishing fluid residue therefrom and applying a hydrophobicity causing chemical solution to the surface of the polishing system component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Shantanu Rajiv Gadgil, Sumit Subhash Patankar, Nathan Arron Davis, Michael J. Coughlin, Allen L. D'Ambra
  • Patent number: 11986080
    Abstract: A replaceable aluminum alloy box for deodorant cream includes an upper cover, a middle case and a lower cover. The upper cover is threadedly connected with the middle case. The middle case is rotatably connected with the lower cover. The upper cover, the middle case and the lower cover form an accommodation cavity with a cup in the accommodation cavity. The lower cover is fixed with a nut. The nut is fixed with a threaded rod. The threaded rod is threadedly connected with an inner disk which is located in the cup. The threaded rod passes through a bottom of the cup. By rotating the lower cover, the cream is driven up and down by the inner disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SamBound New Material Technology packaging Limited
    Inventor: Binglu Li
  • Patent number: 11980518
    Abstract: A dental treatment appliance includes a treatment system which transmits a pulsed signal towards the oral cavity and receives a signal returned from the oral cavity. A controller actuates the treatment of the oral cavity of the user depending on the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventor: Michele Benetti