Patents Examined by David J. Walczak
  • Internal securing system for a collapsible tube
    Patent number: 11560258
    Abstract: Squeezable tubes for holding creams and gels such as toothpaste and a method for progressively collapsing and internally securing a tube in a flattened state. As the user squeezes the tube proximal to one end, the tube collapses. An internal mechanism to retain that portion of the tube in a collapsed position engages. The portion of the tube that no longer holds toothpaste remains in a relatively flat configuration of which sections may be cut off and thrown away. In an alternative embodiment, the internal mechanism is recyclable and/or releasable and the tube is refillable. Tubes may alternatively be used with many other types of contents such as hair shampoo and conditioner, paint, sunscreen, oil, frosting, pudding, ointments, powders, and liquids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Inventor: Jack Saltzberg
  • Control method for portable read-write pen and portable read-write pen
    Patent number: 11556191
    Abstract: A portable read-write pen and a control method for a portable read-write pen. The control method for a portable read-write pen includes the following steps: step S1 of detecting a state of a pen point of the portable read-write pen; and step S2 of controlling, according to the state of the pen point of the portable read-write pen, the portable read-write pen to enable a touch-read mode or a write-record mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: MPEN TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Feng Hu, Zhen Zhang, Dagang Zhang
  • Interchangeable broom bristle with releasable agent
    Patent number: 11553783
    Abstract: An interchangeable broom bristle with at least one releasable agent. The broom bristles may be part of a broom including a handle and a broom head. The bristles are adapted to include at least one agent, which when the broom is in use the at least one agent is released. The agent may be a perfume or the like which releases a scent via friction when adjacent bristles come into contact with each other. The agent may include an anti-bacterial composition and/or a cleaning agent. Additionally, the broom head may be adapted to be interchangeable. The bristles may take various forms and the bristle head may include at least one type or form of bristle and/or any combination of at least two types or forms of bristle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Inventor: Jacob Koby Ohayon
  • Cleaning brush attached to oral irrigator
    Patent number: 11547203
    Abstract: A cleaning brush is attached to an oral irrigator that includes a supply pipe stored in a body unit, which has a control unit on the lower side of a cleaning tank in which a cleaning solution is stored, such that cleaning is carried out by supplying the cleaning solution at a predetermined water pressure. The cleaning brush includes a supply hole to which the supply pipe is connected and which is provided on the upper side of a finger cover having an insertion space into which a finger is inserted. Nozzles are formed at predetermined intervals on the upper side of a nozzle unit to which the supply hole is connected. A brush protrudes from the peripheral upper side at which the nozzles are formed. The supply hole has a connection member protruding outward and has a connector having connector-connecting pipes formed on both sides thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventor: Young Girl Jeung
  • Cleaning brush kit and methods
    Patent number: 11540618
    Abstract: A cleaning brush kit includes a bottle brush and a straw brush. The bottle-cleaning brush and the straw-cleaning brush are designed to be stored together with each other, but separable such that each can be used without the other. The bottle brush includes storage compartment in its handle to store the straw brush. The bottle brush head includes an upper ring and a lower ring of appendages designed to clean hard-to-reach areas of bottles. The straw brush includes a shaft and helical blade wrapped around the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Zak Designs, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Gillespie, Seth Shepard
  • Cosmetic package for dispensing and applying a fluid product
    Patent number: 11540612
    Abstract: A cosmetic package for dispensing and applying a fluid product, the cosmetic package comprises a container for accommodating the fluid product and an applicator head coupled to the container. The applicator head comprises a plurality of ball members, an upper plate, a lower plate, and a connector. The lower plate supports the plurality of the ball members on an upper surface thereof. The upper plate covers the lower plate such that a part of the plurality of ball members is exposed to the outside through a plurality of openings of the upper plate. A duct of the upper plate extends through the lower plate and connects to an internal duct of the connector so that the fluid product can move from the internal duct of the connector to the upper plate and can be dispensed through a dispensing orifice formed in the upper plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: APR Beauty Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Min-Yan Zheng, Feng-Ying Fu, Jun Shen
  • Nail polish kit for use by an automated nail polish application apparatus
    Patent number: 11533978
    Abstract: A kit for usage by a nail polish application apparatus, the kit comprising one or more nail polish capsules. Each of the nail polish capsule(s) comprises a body portion defining a reservoir containing a nail polish fluid and a non-screw detachable cover having an integrated nail polish applying element. The non-screw detachable cover is mechanically coupled to an upper face of the body portion to seal an opening in the upper face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Nailomatic Ltd.
    Inventors: Avichay Mor Yosef, Ron Miller, Omri Moran, Gil Sokol
  • Retractive writing utensil
    Patent number: 11535050
    Abstract: A retractive writing utensil includes a shaft tube, a core stored in the shaft tube in such a manner as to protrude from a front end of the shaft tube when moved forward, and an urging member that is stretched and contracted in the shaft tube in a front-rear direction, wherein the urging member is located adjacent to the core radially outward in such a manner that the center of the urging member is positioned radially outside the core, and urges the core rearward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: ZEBRA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masataka Mizutori
  • Rotating lotion-dispensing body brush
    Patent number: 11533979
    Abstract: The rotating lotion dispensing body brush is a brush. The rotating lotion dispensing body brush is adapted for use with a patient. The rotating lotion dispensing body brush is configured for use with a lotion. The rotating lotion dispensing body brush applies the lotion to the patient. The rotating lotion dispensing body brush comprises a brush structure, a control circuit, and a fluidic network. The brush structure contains the lotion, the control circuit, and the fluidic network. The control circuit pumps the lotion through the fluidic network. The control circuit rotates the brush structure. The fluidic network transports the lotion from the brush head to the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventor: Samira Rehan
  • Bolt action pen with refill adapter and reversable pocket clip
    Patent number: 11535049
    Abstract: A bolt-action pen body is adapted as a universal receiver of an ink cartridge refill. The bolt action pen includes a hollow cylindrical pen body. A tip is removably coupled with an outer barrel at the distal end of the pen body. A refill cartridge is selectively extensible and retractable from the tip by a lever action movement of a bolt and a bolt carrier within a slot defined through a sidewall of the pen body. The bolt action pen provides for universal adjustment to various shapes of refill cartridges. An inner barrel is coupled with the pen body and is configured to adjust the pen body to a longitudinal length of the refill cartridge. A collet carried within the tip is configured for compressive adjustment to a diameter of writing end of the refill cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventors: Zheng Huang, Chadwick Sterling Parker
  • Animal care and/or cleaning device
    Patent number: 11528889
    Abstract: An animal care or cleaning device has a brush (2) mounted on a brush shaft (16), drivable by an electric motor drive (36) to rotate the brush (2). The brush shaft is rotatably mounted in a bearing (14) provided on a support (4, 6), and has an actuator by which the drive (36) can be actuated as a function of contact of the brush (2) with an animal body. The bearing (14) has at least one shaft bearing (14) that holds the axis of rotation of the brush (2) in a fixed positional relationship to the support (4, 6). The drive (36) is driven by torque acting on the brush shaft (16) in one or other direction of rotation, caused by an impact motion of the animal body on the brush (2), and is carried along at most to a predeterminable dead stop on the support (4, 6). The drive triggers the actuator (42) for actuating the drive (36) during this motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: SUEVIA HAIGES GMBH
    Inventor: Frank Haiges
  • Stick-type cosmetic container for controlling rotational angle of rotating body at predetermined angle
    Patent number: 11523673
    Abstract: A stick-type cosmetic container for controlling the rotational angle of a rotating body at a predetermined angle, which allows stick cosmetics to be withdrawn from or inserted in a main body by the rotation of the rotating body, has a first rotational angle adjusting part formed at the lower part of the main body, and a second rotational angle adjusting member formed inside the rotating body so as to be elastically movable up and down, such that the first rotational angle adjusting part and the second rotational angle adjusting member engage with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: PUM-TECH KOREA CO., LTD
    Inventor: Do Hoon Lee
  • Internal pressure regulating marker pen
    Patent number: 11524517
    Abstract: A writing implement is configured to dispense material onto a work surface. The writing implement includes a body having a first end, a second end, and an inner surface. The writing implement also includes a nib coupled to the first end. The nib is configured to allow the material to be dispensed onto the work piece. The writing implement further includes a pressure regulating assembly coupled to the body. The pressure regulating assembly and the inner surface define a cavity configured to hold the material. The pressure regulating assembly is moveable relative to the body in response to a pressure change within the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventor: James G. Ballard
  • Multi-function pen
    Patent number: 11518185
    Abstract: A multi-function pen includes a cap; a metal body connected with the cap, where a first accommodating cavity is formed between the metal body and the cap, an outer wall of the metal body is provided with a gap for opening a bottle cap, and the gap is disposed below the first accommodating cavity; a light emitting structure accommodated in the first accommodating cavity; a nib in threaded connection with the metal body, where a second accommodating cavity is formed between the nib and the metal body; and a refill accommodated in the second accommodating cavity. The multi-function pen can meet the basic working demands of electricians and woodworkers, and is small, light, convenient to be put in pockets of operators and practical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen Zhixinda Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yihao Xiao
  • Cosmetic package for discharging a powder product
    Patent number: 11517094
    Abstract: A cosmetic package comprising a roller for discharging a powder product. The cosmetic package comprises an outer cap, an inner cap, an insert, the roller, a container, and a base plug. The container has an open bottom end which is closed by the base plug. The insert is mounted within the container above a cosmetics accommodating space of the container. A bottom surface of the insert includes two support members for rotatably accommodating two axle projections of the roller such that at least a portion of the roller is disposed rotatably within the cosmetics accommodating space of the container and another portion of the roller extending outside the cosmetics accommodating space from an aperture located at a bottom end of the insert. The inner cap forms a tight seal with the insert and the roller to prevent leakage of powder product from the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: APR Beauty Group Inc
    Inventors: Min-Yan Zheng, Feng-Ying Fu
  • Cosmetic retrieval device
    Patent number: 11517096
    Abstract: A cosmetic retrieval device for retrieving cosmetic product from a container, the device comprising: a handle adapted for being gripped by a user; a head with a flexible wiping member extending outwardly therefrom, the wiping member having a substantially wedge shaped configuration for wiping inner walls of the container for retrieving product during use; a neck extending between the handle and the head, the neck comprising a proximal neck portion located adjacent the head; a distal neck portion located adjacent the handle wherein the proximal neck portion is narrower than the distal neck portion and wherein thickness of the curved neck portion gradually decreases from the distal neck portion to the proximal neck portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: MLD & CO. PTY LTD
    Inventor: Aleesha Watson
  • Rod-shaped cosmetic material feeding container
    Patent number: 11510479
    Abstract: A rod-shaped cosmetic material feeding container includes a sleeve that is capable of accommodating a rod-shaped cosmetic material, a barrel that is engaged with the sleeve so as to be rotatable relative to the sleeve, a screw that is disposed inside the barrel so as to be synchronously rotatable, and a mechanism portion that is accommodated inside the sleeve and the barrel and configured to feed out the rod-shaped cosmetic material. The screw includes a slope and a female screw. The mechanism portion includes a lead holder, an ejection rod, and a propelling rod. The sleeve has an advancing limit reached by the lead holder of the mechanism portion fed out by a screwing action of the female screw and a male screw when the sleeve and the barrel are rotated relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOKIWA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arata Sasaki, Akira Haruyama
  • Skin lotion dispenser
    Patent number: 11510478
    Abstract: A refillable skin lotion dispenser includes a refillable lotion housing having an openable collar located at or adjacent a first end thereof. The collar includes a dispensing valve configured to dispense lotion therethrough under gravity; and an annular sponge permanently secured to the collar and configured to surround the dispensing valve so as to be operative to spread dispensed lotion over an area of skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventors: Kelli Jayne Aspland, Laura Jayne Griffin
  • Fine tip stylus nd pen with aperture for coaxial, retraction and placement
    Patent number: 11511560
    Abstract: A writing instrument for alternating between an active stylus tip and an ink pen tip which is retractable from and displaceable through an annular opening at one end of the writing instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventors: John Alford, Peter Veiga, Fang Te Hsiang
  • Container and dispenser system and apparatus
    Patent number: 11510476
    Abstract: An apparatus and system including: a top cap comprising a press button; a pump actuator partially disposed in the top cap, where a depression of the press button actuates the pump actuator; a front plate comprising a nozzle opening disposed proximate a first end of the front plate, where the front plate is attached to the top cap; a front nozzle attached to the pump actuator and disposed through the nozzle opening in the front plate; an indentation on a top surface of the front plate, where the front nozzle is angled to disperse a liquid onto the indentation; and a bottle attached to the pump actuator, wherein the bottle is configured to contain the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: REA.DEEMING BEAUTY, INC.
    Inventors: Rea Ann Silva, Brittany Blass, Barnabas Kegye