Patents Examined by Francisco W Tschen
  • Patent number: 11883982
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for compression casting concrete to reduce the amount of cement, including: adopting any existing concrete mix proportion designed for concrete of given strength, mixing the concrete, pouring the concrete into a mould, and compressing the concrete at a given pressure, where 28-day strength of the compacted concrete is increased; gradually reducing the amount of cement while keeping the amounts of other materials unchanged, where 28-day strength of the concrete is gradually reduced until the concrete meets a design index; proportionally reducing amounts of water and cement in a last mix proportion while keeping the amounts of other materials unchanged, where during compression casting of the concrete, discharge of cement paste is gradually reduced until no cement paste is discharged; and compression casting a concrete member according to a final mix proportion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen University
    Inventors: Yufei Wu, Biao Hu, Xun Wang
  • Patent number: 11882841
    Abstract: Device for rolling up a dough piece on a separator sheet, comprising a rolling chamber for receiving a flat sheet with a dough piece on top, and configured for rolling up the separator sheet and the dough piece, wherein the chamber comprises a controllable release opening for controlled transfer of the rolled up sheet with the dough piece to a receptacle and at least one sensor for determining directly or indirectly a closure position and/or end of the separator sheet and providing a signal representing said position, a controller for controlling the controllable release opening based on the signal from the sensor; and the receptacle for receiving the dough sheet being configured for holding the dough piece in a predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: RADIE B.V.
    Inventor: Johannes Josephus Antonius Van Blokland
  • Patent number: 11883985
    Abstract: Systems and methods for casting solid propellants include a mandrel for forming geometric features in a perforation of a propellant grain. In various embodiments, the mandrel includes a frangible portion that is removed from the propellant grain after the propellant grain has cured around the mandrel. A second portion of the mandrel may be left behind in the propellant grain. The mandrel may include a support structured disposed in the through hole of the mandrel. The support structure may include a plurality of longitudinal channels for directed exhaust gasses through the mandrel upon ignition of the propellant grain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Wilson, Jean C. Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11878448
    Abstract: A method for producing an object made of a polymeric material, said polymeric material having a melting temperature (TF), comprises the steps of: melting the polymeric material; after the step of melting, cooling the polymeric material below the melting temperature (TF) in a cooling zone; severing a dose from a flow of polymeric material coming from the cooling zone by means of a severing element (5); obtaining said object by shaping the dose between a male forming element and a female forming element (10) which move towards one another with a mutual movement speed, the dose having a temperature lower than said melting temperature (TF). Between a start-of-forming configuration, in which the dose is in contact with both the male forming element and the female forming element (10), and a start-of-deceleration configuration, in which the male forming element and the female forming element (10) begin to decelerate relative to one another, the mutual movement speed is greater than 10 mm/s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: SACMI COOPERATIVA MECCANICI IMOLA SOCIETA′ COOPERATIVA
    Inventors: Fiorenzo Parrinello, Fabrizio Pucci
  • Patent number: 11878497
    Abstract: A system for ultrasonic bonding of elastic includes a rotating roll. The rotating roll has an exterior surface. A removable shell layer is attached to the external surface. The removable shell layer includes one or more patterned segments. The patterned segments include a shell channels formed through the removable shell layer to form a pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Todd Douglas Lenser, Justin B. Owens, Jeffry Rosiak
  • Patent number: 11866566
    Abstract: Tooling and components of an injection-molding system may be used to mold a foam article. The tooling and components may include features that control parameters of the injection-molding and foaming process, such as temperature, pressure, shot size, shot placement, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Hossein Allen Baghdadi, Sami Mohamad Fakhouri, Floyd Whitney Miles, Joseph Thomas Muth, Bradley C. Tutmark
  • Patent number: 11857013
    Abstract: Embodiments provide methods of assembling an apparel product. The method includes applying a composition to a portion of a major component of the apparel product or a portion of a minor component of the apparel product. The method includes coupling the portion of the minor component with the portion of the major component via the composition. The major component forms a base portion of the apparel product and is configured to be supported and worn at least partially over a portion of a wearer. The minor component forms a secondary portion configured to be coupled to the major component with an adhesive. The method includes converting the composition to form the adhesive and the apparel product. The adhesive including a shape memory material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: CreateMe Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Caglar Remzi Becer, Daniel John MacKinnon, Yongqiang Li
  • Patent number: 11858209
    Abstract: A fabricating apparatus includes a powder layer forming device, a fabrication liquid discharge device, and processing circuitry. The powder layer forming device is configured to form a powder layer. The fabrication liquid discharge device is configured to discharge fabrication liquid onto the powder layer. The processing circuitry is configured to control the fabrication liquid discharge device to discharge the fabrication liquid with a first kinetic energy and then discharge the fabrication liquid with a second kinetic energy higher than the first kinetic energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Nagatomo, Kenichiroh Hashimoto, Hisataka Takagi, Takuei Nishio
  • Patent number: 11859067
    Abstract: Tooling and components of an injection-molding system may be used to mold a foam article. The tooling and components may include features that control parameters of the injection-molding and foaming process, such as temperature, pressure, shot size, shot placement, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Hossein Allen Baghdadi, Sami Mohamad Fakhouri, Floyd Whitney Miles, Joseph Thomas Muth, Bradley C. Tutmark
  • Patent number: 11851769
    Abstract: Methods for preparing an environmental barrier coating and the resulting coating are provided. The methods and products include the incorporation of a continuous ceramic inner layer and a segmented ceramic outer layer on a CMC component. The segmented ceramic outer layer may be formed by thermal spray techniques. The coating is more stable at higher temperatures and provides for a longer lifetime of the coated component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Julin Wan, Larry Steven Rosenzweig
  • Patent number: 11849732
    Abstract: The invention relates to a winding machine (2) for dough, in particular for winding dough strips, and to a method for winding dough using such a machine (2), wherein the winding machine (2) comprises: a main body (4); a control unit; a roller (6) which is rotatably mounted on the main body (4) about a rotational axis, wherein dough strips can be wound onto the roller (6) when the winding machine (2) is in use; a motor (30) for rotationally driving the roller (6); and a pressing device (11) for pressing dough, which is rolled up on the roller (6), against the roller (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventor: Richard Koplar
  • Patent number: 11851362
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a window glass according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: preparing a carrier film; forming an assembly by attaching the carrier film to a window base; coating a UV resin on a jig; placing the assembly on the jig so that the window base faces downwards; attaching the assembly and the UV resin on the jig to each other by using a roller; primarily curing the UV resin by performing primary UV irradiation to an upper portion of the assembly attached with the UV resin on the jig; removing an uncured portion of the UV resin; and secondarily curing a remaining portion of the UV resin from which the uncured portion of the UV resin has been removed by performing secondary UV irradiation to the remaining portion of the UV resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehoon Jeong, Gyeongmin Kim, Taehwan Kim, Sanggu Kim, Sungguk An, Hungkun Ahn
  • Patent number: 11845252
    Abstract: A flexible display device includes a display panel including a bendable area and a non-bendable area which is adjacent to the bendable area in a direction, a window facing the display panel, and an adhesive layer between the display panel and the window. The adhesive layer includes a bendable portion corresponding to the bendable area and having a thickness which varies along the direction to define a wrinkled shape of the bendable portion, and a non-bendable portion corresponding to the non-bendable area and having a thickness which is constant along the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hwanjin Kim
  • Patent number: 11848495
    Abstract: The present invention is a unique process of manufacturing rigid members with precise “shape keeping” properties and with reflective properties pertaining to radio frequency energy, so that air, land, sea and space devices or vehicles may be constructed including parabolic reflectors formed without discrete permanent layering. Rather, such parabolic reflectors or similarly, vehicles, may be formed by homogeneous construction where discrete layering is absent, and where energy reflectivity or scattering characteristics are embedded within the homogeneous mixture of carbon nanotubes and associated graphite powders and epoxy, resins and hardeners. The mixture of carbon graphite nanofiber and carbon nanotubes generates higher electrode conductivity and magnetized attraction through molecular polarization. In effect, the rigid members may be tuned based on the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Inventor: Alexander Socransky
  • Patent number: 11844355
    Abstract: A machine opening and closing element for processing raw material having a first element and a second element through which the processed raw material passes, wherein the first element is connected to a mechanism which is connected to a power shaft, said first mechanism being in charge of generating a motion of the first element towards the second element. In particular, the machine for opening and closing element has a coupling arranged in a perforation of a support, such that the coupling may rotate in the perforation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Compañia de Galletas Noel S.A.S.
    Inventor: Elkín de Jesús Álvarez Granda
  • Patent number: 11842909
    Abstract: The invention relates to a press for encapsulating electronic components mounted on a carrier, comprising: at least two press parts displaceable relative to each other, a drive system for the displacement of the press parts, and an intelligent control adapted to control the drive system of the press parts wherein the drive system comprises at least two individual controllable actuators, the intelligent control further connects to plural displacement sensors for detecting the relative displacement of the press parts, and wherein the intelligent control is adapted to control the actuators of the drive system dynamically over time based on the measured values detected with the displacement sensors. The invention also relates to an actuator set to convert a prior art press into a press according to the present invention as well as to a method for encapsulating electronic components mounted on a carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Besi Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Wilhelmus Gerardus Jozef Gal, Henricus Antonius Maria Fierkens
  • Patent number: 11840759
    Abstract: A method includes: forming a titanium nitride base film containing silicon by alternately repeating: precipitation of titanium nitride by alternately and repeatedly supplying a titanium-containing gas, and supplying a nitriding gas to a substrate on which a recess is formed; and precipitation of silicon nitride by alternately and repeatedly supplying a silicon-containing gas, and supplying a nitriding gas to the substrate; and subsequently, forming a tungsten film so as to bury tungsten in the recess in which the titanium nitride base film is formed, by alternately and repeatedly supplying a raw material gas containing a tungsten raw material and a reaction gas reacting with the raw material gas, to the substrate. A supply flow rate of the silicon-containing gas is adjusted so that a content of the silicon in the titanium nitride base film is high on an opening side rather than on an inner side of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Masafumi Takahashi, Kenji Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Masaki Sano
  • Patent number: 11833800
    Abstract: A method for forming a three-dimensional curved surface on a laminated substrate is provided. In the method, the laminated substrate is brought into close contact with an elastic sheet. Here, the laminated substrate comprises a support substrate and a conductive layer on the support substrate, and the support substrate comprises a resin substrate comprising a thermoplastic resin. The elastic sheet is deformed while the laminated substrate is in close contact with the elastic sheet. The laminated substrate is brought into close contact with a temperature-controlled mold to soften the resin substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Tohru Yashiro, Kohji Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Takahashi, Sukchan Kim
  • Patent number: 11833788
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a multi-layer substrate, said substrate comprising a multifunctional coating, and to the use of the substrate produced by this method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HENKEL AG & CO, KGaA
    Inventors: Roland Bochnia, Stefan Strenger, Rainer Bongers, Mario Eckers
  • Patent number: 11826957
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention may relate to a print surface for a three-dimensional object printer. The print surface may comprise an elastic first layer, a binding layer for securing the printing surface to the three-dimensional object printer; and an adhesive layer for adhering the first layer to the binding layer. Three-dimensional objects are printed onto the first layer by controlled extrusion of molten material. Printed objects can be obtained by decoupling the binding layer from the three-dimensional object printer and detaching the object from the first layer by applying bending moments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Toybox Labs, LLC
    Inventor: Benjamin Baltes