Patents Examined by Elizabeth M Kerr
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Patent number: 12250975Abstract: A volatizer is provided including a multifunction cap secured over the open end of a body or other device, the chamber or other part of the device holding an amount of material to be extracted by selective volatization therein and including a thermo-indicator thereon or therein capable of deforming, actuating or otherwise indicating upon heating to a preselected temperature to provide an indication of the proper temperature for volatilization and extraction of the selected and or target compound from the material within the device.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: DynaVap, LLCInventor: George R. Breiwa, III
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Patent number: 12246388Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of resistance spot welding that can inhibit Liquid Metal Embrittlement-induced cracking in zinc-coated steel plates irrespective of the degrees of tensile strength. One aspect of the present disclosure provides a method of resistance spot welding. The method comprises welding a workpiece with a resistance spot welding apparatus. The workpiece includes two or more steel plates in an overlapping state. The two or more steel plates include at least one steel plate coated with zinc. The welding includes welding while compressing a high-tensile steel plate among the two or more steel plates in a direction intersecting a direction of a thickness of the high-tensile steel plate. The high-tensile steel plate has a tensile strength higher than a tensile strength of another steel plate among the two or more steel plates.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Futaba Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shota Muto
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Patent number: 12234436Abstract: A liquid treatment apparatus imparts a distinctive flavor and scent to beverages and other liquids. In one embodiment, a wooden wave insert body undulates and crosses a center line, while the wood grain runs substantially parallel to the center line and does not undulate materially. In another embodiment, a wooden plug passes through and is affixed to the wall of a beverage container, and imparts a distinctive flavor and scent through an aging process that includes controlled oxidation. The wooden plug includes a hollow bolt having a bolt opening exposed to ambient air, a closed bolt head distal to the bolt opening, and a bolt fluid exchange passage between the bolt opening and the closed bolt head. The bolt passes through the wooden block between the bolt head and container wall. The bolt fluid exchange passage couples ambient air to the wooden block interior.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2024Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Inventors: Peter S. Theisen, John A. Theisen, Adam J. Theisen, Allen P. Theisen
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Patent number: 12237295Abstract: Provided is a flip-chip laser bonding system for bonding a semiconductor chip in the form of a flip chip to a substrate using a laser beam. In the flip-chip laser bonding system, the semiconductor chip is laser-bonded to the substrate while pressure is applied to the semiconductor chip. Accordingly, even a semiconductor chip that is bent or is capable of being bent can be bonded to a semiconductor chip without contact failure.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: PROTEC CO., LTD.Inventor: Geunsik Ahn
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Patent number: 12207765Abstract: Disclosed in an embodiment of the present application is a mixing apparatus, mixing machine, and cooking utensil. A mixing apparatus that can be fitted to an electric motor assembly. The electric motor assembly is able to drive the mixing apparatus to rotate for mixing food ingredients. The mixing apparatus comprises a connection part, stirring rods extended from the connection part and stirring bars. The positions at which the stirring bars are fitted to the stirring rods can be adjusted based on the type and quantity of food ingredients to increase mixing uniformity.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: IB APPLIANCES US HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Yude Han, Yi Qin, Jiwei Wang
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Patent number: 12185872Abstract: A steam chamber has enhanced planarity of its cooking surface, and a method for making the same via friction welding is provided. An array of stays within the steam chamber are friction welded to the undersurface of the upper plate, opposite the cooking surface, thus minimizing the heat affected zone and distortion of the cooking surface as compared, for example, to arc welding. A lower plate includes an array of holes sized and configured to be engaged by the array of stays, and is then welded to the array of stays via plug welds or rosette welds at the hole/stay junction. The resulting steam chamber preserves a high level of planarity in the cooking surface, while allowing the use of a relatively thin top plate for thermal and cooking efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: AccuTemp Products, Inc.Inventors: Lawrence P. Zepp, Dale Taylor
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Patent number: 12186824Abstract: A projection welding electrode holder has a holder body, a holder barrel, and a coned-disc spring. The holder body is configured for attachment to a welding machine and defines a holder body bore. The holder barrel is carried within the holder body bore and has a holder head that extends therefrom for attachment to a welding electrode. The holder barrel is movable relative to the holder body between a first position, in which the holder head extends from the holder body bore a first distance, and a second position, in which the holder head extends from the holder body bore a second distance, the first distance being greater than the second distance. The coned-disc spring resides within the holder body bore, biases the holder barrel toward the first position, and is compressed by movement of the holder barrel from the first position to the second position.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: TUFFALOY PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Priyesh Dodhia, Mitchell Albert Radford
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Patent number: 12181221Abstract: An enclosure of a steel-making furnace system includes a support structure including a frame that defines an interior, a supply line for supplying a cooling liquid from a reservoir, and a return line fluidly coupled to the supply line and the reservoir. A plurality of panels includes sinuously winding piping having an inlet and an outlet. The inlet is fluidly coupled to the supply line and the outlet is fluidly coupled to the return line. The frame includes a plurality of support members spaced from one another, where each of the plurality of support members defines a slot. Each of the plurality of panels is removably and slidably received with the slot for coupling to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: AMERIFAB, INC.Inventor: Richard J. Manasek
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Patent number: 12171360Abstract: An electric kettle having a handle coupled to one end of a body is proposed. The electric kettle includes: a body receiving water or food therein; a lid configured to shield an open upper side of the body; a base provided at a lower side of the body and configured to support the body; a spout provided on an upper end of the body and guiding a discharge of the water or food contained inside the body; and a handle fastened to the upper end of the body and configured to be held by hand. According to the configuration of the electric kettle, there are advantages of providing a compact and aesthetic appearance and improving assemblability.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jaehoon Ahn, Hoyong Jang, Seungje Park, Donghyun Kim, Sangki Lee
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Patent number: 12177945Abstract: Disclosed herein is a temperature control element for heating a sensor for detecting surroundings, having a three-dimensional plastic component, characterized in that at least one metallized structure is integrated into the plastic component or respectively provided therein, wherein the metallized structure is configured in such a manner that it assumes a heating function. A sensor arrangement for detecting surroundings is also disclosed, having a sensor for detecting surroundings as well as a temperature control element.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbHInventors: Martin Grünwald, Franz Pfeiffer
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Patent number: 12172241Abstract: A flux core wire for a welding method, having a tubular wire sheath, a wire core of flux powder, which is surrounded by the tubular wire sheath, wherein the wire sheath and the wire core have a composition such that during the welding a melt of CuSn12Ni2 materialises.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Renk GmbHInventors: Steffen Barth, Martin Limmer
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Patent number: 12170211Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes an energy distribution correcting unit that forms skirt parts of a Gaussian distribution of an energy distribution in a Y-axis direction regarding a laser beam emitted from a laser oscillator into a perpendicular distribution, an imaging lens group composed of two or more lenses that form an image of the beam shape of the laser beam for which the energy distribution has been corrected by the energy distribution correcting unit on the upper surface of the workpiece, and one cylindrical lens that adjusts the energy density in an X-axis direction regarding the laser beam for which the energy distribution has been corrected by the energy distribution correcting unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: DISCO CORPORATIONInventor: Yuta Yoshida
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Patent number: 12165904Abstract: In order to provide a component manufacturing apparatus and a component manufacturing method that can normally chuck and fix a component holding film to a chuck table in a heated state, the present component manufacturing apparatus 1 includes a chucking and fixing means 20 that chucks and fixes a component holding film to a heated chucking surface 21a, and a preventing means 30 that prevents heat convection, occurring on the chucking surface 21a, from contacting the film. The present component manufacturing method includes a setting step of chucking and fixing the film to the heated chucking surface 21a, and the setting step includes a preventing step of preventing heat convection, occurring on the chucking surface 21a, from contacting the film.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS TOHCELLO, INC.Inventor: Eiji Hayashishita
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Patent number: 12162099Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing welding type power is disclosed. The output is cyclical, and is a controlled voltage output during the background and/or peak and a controlled current output during the transition up and/or down. During the controlled current portion the output is responsive to output voltage.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Robert R. Davidson, Richard J. Schuh, Justin M. Durik, Thomas A. Bunker
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Patent number: 12150219Abstract: A ceramic heater includes a ceramic plate. An outer-peripheral-side resistance heating element is disposed in an outer peripheral zone of the ceramic plate. A wire line extends from each of a pair of terminals disposed in a central portion of the ceramic plate toward the outer peripheral zone, and a portion of the wire line close to the outer peripheral zone is a linear portion. A connection terminal is a conductive member connecting between the wire line and the outer-peripheral-side resistance heating element, and includes a first hole into which the linear portion of the wire line is inserted and a second hole into which an end portion of the outer-peripheral-side resistance heating element is inserted.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Nobori, Takuji Kimura, Tomohisa Mizoguchi
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Patent number: 12147252Abstract: A heater assembly for an aerosol-generating system is provided, including: an electrically insulating support having an aperture; an electrical heating element disposed across the aperture in the electrically insulating support, being configured to heat a liquid aerosol-forming substrate to form an aerosol, and being substantially flat; capillary material, wherein a portion of the capillary material is in contact with the electrical heating element, and the capillary material is configured to convey the liquid aerosol-forming substrate to the electrical heating element; and two electrical contacts respectively connected to ends of the electrical heating element, the two electrical contacts supported by the electrically insulating support. An aerosol-generating system including an aerosol-generating device and a cartridge is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Alexandre Malgat, Noori Moyad Brifcani, Rui Batista, Oleg Mironov
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Patent number: 12144143Abstract: An electric range is provided. The electric range may include a case; at least one heating unit configured to heat an object; at least one drive circuit configured to drive the heating unit; at least one display configured to display visual information; at least one air blowing fan configured to output air; and at least one air guide configured to guide air output from the air blowing fan to the drive circuit. The air output from the air blowing fan may be supplied to a first end of the air guide, and a height of an upper surface of the first end of the air guide may be greater than a height of an upper surface of the air blowing fan. A first portion of the air output from the air blowing fan may be discharged through a gap between the upper surface of the first end of the air guide and the upper surface of the air blowing fan, and supplied to the display.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jungmin Cha, Junghyeon Cho, Jinwoo Park
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Patent number: 12129014Abstract: A cabin lining element for an aircraft cabin which is arranged in the interior of an aircraft fuselage structure, having a fuselage structure side and a cabin side. The cabin lining element comprises an electrically contactable heating lacquer layer at least in regions on its fuselage structure side. A rib is provided for an aircraft fuselage structure, having at least one foot portion on the outer skin facing side and a cabin facing side head portion. The rib comprises an electrically contactable heating lacquer layer at least in regions on a side of the head portion facing the cabin. As a result of the heating lacquer layer, it is possible to omit insulation which otherwise surrounds the rib heads and, as a consequence, to enlarge the width of the cabin.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Stephan Risse, Rainer Müller
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Patent number: 12089772Abstract: Provided herein is a coffee machine, comprising a main body (1) that comprises a housing (101) of the main body, a pot liner (103) disposed within the housing (101), a heating mechanism for heating liquid in the pot liner (103), and a container (106) disposed above the pot liner (103) and being in communication with the inner space of the pot liner (103); a capsule base (2) detachably connected on the bottom of the main body (1); and a power-controller holder (3) detachably connected to the outside of the housing (101), for supporting, powering and controlling the main body (1). The coffee machine as described herein has a modularized structure for ease of using the coffee machine in various settings and ease of disassembly, maintenance and cleaning of the coffee machine.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Inventor: Jianming Cai
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Patent number: 12087559Abstract: A heater controller controls power supplied to a heater capable of adjusting the temperature of a placement surface such that the heater reaches a set temperature. A temperature monitor measures the power supplied in the non-ignited state where the plasma is not ignited and in the transient state where the power supplied to the heater decreases after the plasma is ignited, while the power is controlled such that the temperature of the heater becomes constant. A parameter calculator calculates a heat input amount and the thermal resistance by using the power supplied in the non-ignited state and in the transient state to perform a fitting on a calculation model for calculating the power supplied in the transient state. A set temperature calculator calculates the set temperature of the heater at which the wafer reaches the target temperature, using the heat input amount and thermal resistance.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventor: Shinsuke Oka