Patents Examined by Galen H Hauth
  • Patent number: 11612902
    Abstract: The invention relates to nozzle tips including a nozzle body and a tip portion, configured to minimize the accumulation of a resin on the nozzle tip as it is dispensed through the nozzle tip. The nozzle tip can contain a central flow channel and an internal portion that branches and guides the resin into multiple exiting flow channels that define tangential pathways to the outer surface of the nozzle tip. The nozzle tip can include grooves that define extended, sharply angled flow paths for the resin. Nozzle tips can have a neck portion separating a nozzle body and a tip end of the nozzle tip; here, a doughnut-shaped space located around the neck portion can be defined by the base of the nozzle, the crown of the nozzle, and the neck portion, for encouraging turbulent flow of the resin to scour the nozzle tip during dispensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Phoenix Closures, Inc.
    Inventor: Len Ekkert
  • Patent number: 11613047
    Abstract: Disclosed are a microwave-enhanced extruder facility and an organic reaction module. The microwave-enhanced extruder facility includes a screw extruder and a microwave generator. The screw extruder includes a feeding module and an organic reaction module. The feeding module includes a plurality of conveying blocks connected to each other. First barrels are clamped in the first conveying blocks, and screws are arranged in the first barrels. The organic reaction module is connected to the microwave generator and includes a second conveying block, and the microwave generator is connected to the second conveying block. The second conveying block is provided with two clamping plates and a frame connecting the two clamping plates. A second barrel is clamped in the second conveying block. Waveguide tubes are connected to the upper and lower ends of the second conveying blocks respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: GuangDong YCX Precision Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenshan Wei, Chen Li
  • Patent number: 11607862
    Abstract: Extruded molds and methods for manufacturing composite structures using the extruded molds are disclosed. The molds may include recessed or raised longitudinal features to impart a corresponding shape to the molded composite structures. The composite structures may be panels used to construct cargo vehicles, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Wabash National, L.P.
    Inventors: Travis Smith McCloud, Scott M. Lewit
  • Patent number: 11607831
    Abstract: An injection device has a screw disposed in a heating cylinder so as to be rotatable and movable in an axial direction. An injection stage supports the heating cylinder. A material supplying unit supplies a resin material to the heating cylinder. A material introducing member is disposed between the material supplying unit and the heating cylinder and introduces the resin material from the material supplying unit to the heating cylinder, The material introducing member has a cylindrical portion fitted in a vertical hole provided in the injection stage, and a lower part of the cylindrical portion is in abutting contact with the heating cylinder. A heat medium passage extends inside a sidewall of the cylindrical portion for flowing therethrough a temperature-controlled heat medium, and a heat-insulating air space is formed between an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion and a circumferential surface of the vertical hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Inventors: Yuichi Sakurada, Nanae Naito, Keita Arai, Hozumi Yoda, Hirofumi Murata
  • Patent number: 11607874
    Abstract: The embodiments disclosed are related to a steam peeling device for an automobile tinting film which includes: a wire frame banding module, a wire frame sleeve stainless pipe; a wire frame stent top plate; a pair of tapered slit fitting members; a U-shaped groove; a pair of gripping parts; a wire frame fixing groove; a cover plate; and a plurality of rivet holes. The steam peeling device of the present invention solves the problem of the conventional case that the wire frame banding is loosened during the steam peeling operation, the steam tarpaulin is separated, or a part of the steam is released, and thereby solves the trouble of resetting the wire frame banding during operation, thereby lowering the product unit cost through product productivity and function improvement, and reducing the time and labor costs further without resetting during operation along with the convenience of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Inventors: Hyeon Ho Bong, Hyeon U Bong, Da Ae Bong
  • Patent number: 11602908
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of mesh generation for an RTM process, including operations of: obtaining a geometry of a target object; generating a solid mesh of the target object according to the geometry; obtaining material characteristics of the target object; assembling a runner mesh with the solid mesh, wherein the runner mesh has grid dimensions different from those of the solid mesh; determining process parameters of the RTM process; and generating a forecasted result of the RTM process according to the solid mesh, the runner mesh, the process parameters, and the material characteristics. Generating the solid mesh includes operations of: dividing the geometry into modules; generating a first and second modular meshes corresponding to a first and second modules, wherein the second modular mesh abuts the first modular mesh, and the second modular mesh has grid dimensions different from those of the first modular mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: CORETECH SYSTEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ching-Kai Chou, Chien-Ting Wu, Hsun Yang, Li-Hsuan Shen, Chih-Chung Hsu, Chia-Hsiang Hsu, Rong-Yeu Chang
  • Patent number: 11590805
    Abstract: A tire has a tread portion 2. The first middle land region 11 is provided with bend grooves 15 each having a first end 15a and a second end 15b. The first end 15a is connected to the first shoulder circumferential groove 5. The second end 15b is connected to one of the bend grooves 15 next in one of two opposite circumferential directions. Each bend groove 15 has two bent portions 16 and 17 at which the groove is bent. The bent angle ?1 at the first bent portion 16 is greater than the bent angle ?2 at the second bent portion 17.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Kawagoe, Toshiki Horiguchi, Mari Mishima, Kotaro Tahara
  • Patent number: 11584042
    Abstract: According to one implementation, a composite material forming jig includes molds and a tilting structure. The molds are developable for laminating fiber sheets, after or before impregnated with a resin, in a developed state where the molds are developed. At least one mold of the molds is capable of being inclined relatively to another mold of the molds so that the laminated fiber sheets are shaped. The tilting structure is adapted to develop the molds when the fiber sheets are laminated and incline the at least one mold when the laminated fiber sheets are shaped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 11584043
    Abstract: An ultrasonic device comprising a chamber (10) provided with an inlet bore (11), which receives a melted pressurized polymer, an outlet bore (12) and a sonotrode housing bore (13) through which a distal portion (21) of an ultrasonic head (20) is inserted into the chamber, wherein the distal portion is separated from the rest of the ultrasonic head by a first nodal plane (PN1) wherein there is a first surface (S1) in contact with a complementary surface of a ring seal (30) that closes the chamber, and wherein the ultrasonic head includes a second nodal plane (PN2) away from and parallel to the first nodal plane (PN1) coinciding with or adjacent to a second surface (S2) wherein an anchoring device (40) presses the ultrasonic head against the ring seal ensuring a tight closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Fundacio Eurecat
    Inventors: German Anibal Perez LLanos, Jose Antonio Marfil Romero, Maria Eugenia Rodriguez Sierra, Maria del Carmen Verge Estefania, Encarnacion Escudero Martinez, Francisco Javier Planta Torralba
  • Patent number: 11577442
    Abstract: A tube forming apparatus for forming polymeric tubing includes a housing between rear and discharge ends. The tube forming apparatus includes a core tube assembly with an exterior core tube and an inner core tube positioned partially therein and in an interior area of the housing. The tube forming apparatus includes a die that has an inner die-surface. A diverter tip is mounted in and extends from the inner core tube into the die forming a die opening between the die and the diverter tip. The tube forming apparatus includes a core tube adjustment system mounted proximate the rear end which includes an axial displacement device configured to axially position the core tube assembly for modulating wall thickness of the tube and/or an angular displacement device configured to modulate the inner core tube for modulating concentricity of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: DAVIS-STANDARD, LLC
    Inventors: John P. Christiano, Chad Allen Biron, Alexandre MacGregor, Joseph A. Wnuk, Christopher Rosivach, Saulius T. Eiva, Tyler Robert McKenna
  • Patent number: 11577441
    Abstract: The invention relates to a screw extruder (29) having a housing (30) comprising an intake housing (4), a degassing housing (5), and at least one housing bore (21, 22) running in the interior of the degassing housing (5) and implementing at least one internal wall segment (25; 26; 27; 28) of the degassing housing (5) and serving for receiving at least one auger shaft (7), and wherein the at least one wall segment (25; 26; 27; 28) of the at least one housing bore (21, 22) comprises at least one partition wall (13, 33) protruding into the at least one housing bore (21, 22) in the region of the degassing housing (5), and wherein at least one filter element (8) is disposed in the interior of the degassing housing (5) and at least partially encompasses the at least one auger shaft (7) and bears on the partition wall (13) in regions for implementing at least two spatial pressure regions (11, 12) sealed off from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Extricom Extrusion GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Erdmann, Thomas Bauer
  • Patent number: 11548192
    Abstract: An apparatus, and a system for manufacturing a bioplastic material from a blend solution of gum arabica (GA) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) is provided. The apparatus includes a panel having a first end, a second end distal to the first end, and a plurality of walls extending from a periphery of the panel, the panel configured to accommodate the blend solution. The apparatus further includes a plurality of support members coupled to the first end and the second end of the panel and configured to adjust a slope angle of the panel; and one or more vibration generating units coupled to the plurality of support members and configured to vibrate the panel when the blend solution flows from the first end to the second end of the panel. A method of preparing the bioplastic material is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: King Abdulaziz University
    Inventors: Sherif Shawki Zaki Hindi, Mona Othman I. Albureikan
  • Patent number: 11540580
    Abstract: Described herein are helmets comprising at least one surface reinforcing component. In some embodiments the surface reinforcing component comprises at least one anchoring feature embedded in a structural feature of the helmet, such as a force absorbing element. In other embodiments, the surface reinforcing component comprises fasteners configured to mate with a respective fastener on a shell of the helmet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Smith Optics, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Chilson
  • Patent number: 11526090
    Abstract: The present invention provides an imprint apparatus that forms an imprint material pattern on a substrate by using a mold, comprising: a discharge unit on which a plurality of discharge outlets configured to discharge an imprint material are arranged; a measurement unit configured to measure a relative tilt between the discharge unit and the substrate; and a control unit configured to control a process of causing the discharge unit to discharge the imprint material while relatively moving the discharge unit and the substrate to each other, wherein the control unit is configured to change a relative movement direction of the discharge unit and the substrate in the process in accordance with the relative tilt measured by the measurement unit so as to reduce an arrangement error of the imprint material, discharged from the plurality of discharge outlets, on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryosuke Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 11518072
    Abstract: An automated manufacturing method and system and in-mold coated plastic article produced thereby are provided. The system includes a combination compression and injection mold and a plurality of program-controlled manipulators. An automatic sprayer supported on a first manipulator sprays at least a portion of a mold surface with an in-mold coating composition. An end effector supported on a second manipulator picks up a heated blank of moldable plastic sheet material from an oven and places the heated blank in the mold. An inner portion of the heated blank is forced into an article-defining cavity of the mold and into contact with at least a portion of the composition. The composition and the inner portion cure and bond to one another and a plastic compatible with the plastic of the sheet is injected into the mold so as to form the coated plastic article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Global IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher A. Heikkila, Steven A. Mitchell
  • Patent number: 11504894
    Abstract: An extrusion die may include a first die component and a second die component configured to mate with one another. The first die component may have a first body with a rim extending axially therefrom and at least one first channel through which a material is flowable, where the rim may define a recess. The second die component may have a second body with a platform extending axially therefrom and at least one second channel through which the material is flowable. The recess of the first die component may be configured to receive the platform. The rim of the first die component may include at least one protrusion extending radially into the recess, and the platform may include at least one notch complementary to the at least one protrusion to form a concordant step register for positioning the first die component and the second die component with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Gemini Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Jason Jurgess
  • Patent number: 11498273
    Abstract: A system and corresponding method to move build material in a three-dimensional (3D) printing system uses a gripper. The gripper is arranged to apply at least two opposing lateral forces to the build material. The at least two opposing lateral forces are applied to the build material, in conjunction with linear motion of the gripper, for at least a portion of a path the build material travels toward an extrusion head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Desktop Metal, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Burnham, John LaPlante, Aaron Preston, Richard Remo Fontana
  • Patent number: 11491697
    Abstract: On a rotary screen filtering device for medium to high-viscosity fluids, which comprises a rotary screen mounted for rotation in a housing, which screen has at least one screen element through which fluid can flow, the rotary screen, in the region of its sealing faces and the intermediate plates are fabricated or machined together so that they are of identical height. A gap width compensation layer is then inserted between the inlet plate and the intermediate plate and/or between the outlet plate and the intermediate plate. The package of plates is then pretensioned by means of screw bolts in such a manner that all the plates lie firmly against one another up to a maximum permissible operating pressure. Lubrication gaps of defined width are created between the sealing faces and the opposing inner faces of the inlet and outlet plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Gneuss GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Gneuss, Detlef Gneuss, Stephan Gneuss
  • Patent number: 11485047
    Abstract: The facility for manufacturing a profile strip made from several elastomer mixtures with different compositions by coextrusion includes at least two extruders which feed elastomer mixtures to an extrusion head. The extruders discharge directly into the extrusion head, which is interchangeable and groups together all of the dimensional tooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin
    Inventors: Christophe Ougier, Arnaud Letocart
  • Patent number: 11485063
    Abstract: A counter-rotating differential speed extrusion device includes a barrel and a screw mechanism in the barrel comprising a first and second screws. A crest diameter and a root diameter of the first screw are respectively meshed with that of the second screw; the first and second screws counter-rotate in differential speeds at a fixed rotation speed ratio; at least one first intermediate circular arc structure with a trend consistent with that of the crest diameter and the root diameter of the first screw is provided between the root diameter and the crest diameter of the first screw, a second intermediate circular arc structure tangent to the first intermediate circular arc structure and having a trend consistent with that of the root diameter and the crest diameter of the second screw is provided between the root diameter and the crest diameter of the second screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Wuyi University
    Inventors: Baiping Xu, Huiwen Yu, Shuping Xiao, Yaoxue Du