Patents Examined by Gloria R. Weeks
  • Patent number: 12122118
    Abstract: A packaging machine for forming doy-pack bags includes: a base; a reel-holding frame, configured to carry a reel of packaging film or a sheet-holding reel having a band with packaging sheets; a gripping and folding group configured to pick up and fold like a book, by facing two symmetrical parts thereof, either a portion of the packaging film or a packaging sheet; shaping apparatus for shaping a recessed bottom (B) of a doy-pack bag (A); a joiner for sealing the facing side edges of the two symmetrical parts either of a portion of the packaging film or of a packaging sheet; pick-up apparatus adapted to remove the portion of the packaging film or the packaging sheet, folded and with the facing side edges sealed, from the gripping and folding group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Inventors: Lorenzo Speggiorin, Cristina Speggiorin, Marco Speggiorin
  • Patent number: 12121693
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for sterilizing and filling vessels which are kept in a sterile environment while being filled are capped before filling and immediately thereafter are ready to be displaced into a potentially contaminating environment while retaining a predetermined SAL are disclosed. Such vessels can be syringes use for dispensing Avastin or conventional syringes. Also method and apparatus for making an eye drop bottle using a conventional medical syringe which can be used in kits made according to the present invention are disclosed. In addition, a method for modifying conventional eye drop bottles for use in kits made according to the instant invention is disclosed. Further, a method for linking single convenience kits to form increased numbers of vessels filled by the same single act, used to fill a single convenience kit, is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: THORNE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Gale Harrison Thorne, Gale Harrison Thorne, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12115636
    Abstract: To reduce size increase, a power tool includes a motor, an output shaft located frontward from the motor, rotatable by the motor, and having an insertion hole extending rearward from a front end of the output shaft, a bearing supporting the output shaft in a rotatable manner, a locking member supported by the output shaft and movable to a locking position for locking a tip tool placed in the insertion hole and to an unlocking position for unlocking the tip tool, a bit sleeve surrounding the output shaft, and movable to a movement-restricting position for restricting radially outward movement of the locking member and to a movement-permitting position for permitting radially outward movement of the locking member, and an operable member operable to move the bit sleeve and at least partly overlapping the bearing in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeshi Kamiya
  • Patent number: 12108951
    Abstract: A staple cartridge comprising a cartridge body, a sensor array, and a thermal control system is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Patrick L. Creamer, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Shane R. Adams, Jason L Harris
  • Patent number: 12103724
    Abstract: A shrink wrapping apparatus, and associated process, includes a housing (turbine) having a wall forming a passage dimensioned to receive the associated container assembly and associated sleeve. The passage has an inlet and an outlet spaced therefrom. A steam/hot air path communicates with the passage to provide steam from an associated steam source to at least a portion of the passage in order to shrink wrap the associated sleeve on the associated container assembly as the container assembly and sleeve move through the passage. The apparatus also includes a stop member for engaging the associated container assembly and holding in the passage for a predetermined amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Inventor: Kenneth Anthony Loritz
  • Patent number: 12097635
    Abstract: A refill includes a peripheral wall defining a space capable of accommodating staples therein. The peripheral wall includes a bottom wall having a first side, a second side opposite to the first side, and a third side connecting end portions of the first side and the second side, a first side wall standing from the first side, a second side wall standing from the second side and opposing the first side wall, and a front wall positioned above the third side and connecting the first side wall and the second side wall. A first opening is formed on the first side wall and the front wall to extend across a boundary between the first side wall and the front wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Shimizu, Futoshi Kameda, Katsunori Manabe, Kiichi Haramiishi
  • Patent number: 12096933
    Abstract: A surgical instrument comprised of an end effector having two opposing tissue-compression surfaces, wherein at least one of the tissue-compressing surfaces is movable with respect to the other of the tissue-compressing surfaces, and a handle connected to the end effector. The handle comprises a power source, an electric motor supplied with power from the power source, and a closure assembly comprising a drive part that is selectively moved by the motor along a drive-part axis and is operatively connected to the end effector such that, when the motor is supplied with power, the drive part advances the movable tissue-compressing surface towards the opposing tissue-compressing surface at a differential rate of speed dependent upon a position of the drive part along the drive-part axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Cllag GmbH International
    Inventors: Kevin W. Smith, Thomas O. Bales, Jr., Derek Dee Deville, Carlos Rivera, Matthew A. Palmer
  • Patent number: 12089849
    Abstract: A fastener cartridge can include, one, a cartridge body comprising a deck and a plurality of fastener cavities and, two, a plurality of fasteners positioned in the fastener cavities. The cartridge body can further comprise extensions extending from the deck having different sizes and/or configurations. The extensions can control the flow of tissue relative to the deck and/or support the fasteners as they are ejected from the fastener cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Thomas W. Huitema, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Geoffrey C. Hueil, Jason L. Harris
  • Patent number: 12089838
    Abstract: A shipping cover for a staple cartridge includes a body having an upper surface and a lower surface that is in close opposition to the staple cartridge when the shipping cover is secured to the staple cartridge. The shipping cover includes a latch that is received within a body of the staple cartridge to secure the shipping cover to the cartridge body. The latch is manually movable by a clinician to facilitate removal of the shipping cover from the staple cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Lan Chang, Xiao Zhou, Hui Zhan, Jun Zhang
  • Patent number: 12090617
    Abstract: A power tool, such as a hammer drill (100), has first and second battery mount parts (160A, 160B) that are aligned in a longitudinal direction of the power tool. First and second batteries (170A, 170B) are mountable thereon in series along a straight line that extends in the longitudinal direction. The first battery (170A) is mounted on the first battery mount part (160A) by sliding along the straight line towards the second battery mount part (160B). The second battery (170B) is mounted on the second battery mount part (170B) by sliding along the straight line towards the first battery mount part (170A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyonobu Yoshikane, Hajime Takeuchi, Yoshiro Tada, Masanori Furusawa, Masao Miwa, Shinji Onoda, Yoshitaka Machida
  • Patent number: 12083656
    Abstract: A fastener driving device includes a housing assembly, a nose assembly connected to the housing assembly, a magazine for carrying a supply of fasteners through a feed channel along a feed direction toward the nose assembly, and a plurality of stop pawls independently movable about a common pivot axis. Each stop pawl has a distal end extending into the feed channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: STANLEY FASTENING SYSTEMS, L.P.
    Inventors: Prudencio S. Canlas, Jr., Jeff Peng, Hao Chang, Adam C. Tillinghast
  • Patent number: 12075899
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (10) for preparing a cosmetic composition comprising: —a structure defining a housing receiving at least one capsule (16) containing at least one constituent of the cosmetic composition, —an outlet nozzle (32), —a piston movable in translation in relation to the structure in the housing, suitable for perforating the or each capsule (16) and conveying contents of each capsule (16) to the outlet nozzle (32), and—a preform (54) fluidically connected to the outlet nozzle (32). The preform (54) has an inner surface (72) having a concavity lower than half of a thickness of the preform (54), intended to be arranged facing the housing and to be deformed by the conveyance of the contents of each capsule (16), so as to form a receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: L'OREAL
    Inventor: Eric Dehaudt
  • Patent number: 12075791
    Abstract: A paper interleaver that is separate from the food patty molding machine for inserting a sheet of paper underneath a meat patty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: TOMAHAWK MANUFACTURING, INC.
    Inventor: Richard Payne
  • Patent number: 12042144
    Abstract: The present teaching relates to a reset apparatus including a first transmission mechanism, a first rotary transmission mechanism, a one-way rotary transmission mechanism, and a second rotary transmission mechanism; a stapler; and a medical device. The one-way rotary transmission mechanism only rotates in a set direction, and is connected with the second rotary transmission mechanism, and drives the same to rotate towards the set direction. In a first state, the first transmission mechanism is connected with the first rotary transmission mechanism which drives the first transmission mechanism to act along the set direction. In a second state, the first transmission mechanism is connected with the second rotary transmission mechanism which drives the first transmission mechanism to act along the set direction. The present invention achieves manual resetting when the device is accidentally shut down, and is simple in structure, and safe and reliable in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: EZISURG MEDICAL CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Jiafu Ji, Renmu Tan, Honglin Nie, Lei Wang, Jun Yang
  • Patent number: 12035914
    Abstract: A method of coating a slip ring for use with a surgical instrument is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a slip ring including a plurality of conductive elements, and depositing a material less conductive than the conductive elements onto the conductive elements of the slip ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Shane R. Adams, David C. Yates, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris
  • Patent number: 12036652
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stapler for box edges which fixes edge portions of a box, presses an end of an iron core, and doubly pulls a handle bar so as to minimize protrusion of the end of the iron core. The stapler includes a load bar and a push plate which can locate an iron core on an iron core support plate when the handle bar is pulled first and presses the end portions of the iron core inward when the handle bar is pulled second.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Inventor: Young Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 12030683
    Abstract: A filling station includes a transport tray having a plurality of transfer receptacles, an optical detection device configured to generate one or more images of transfer receptacles having drug portions arranged therein and a control device coupled to the optical detection device. The control device causes display of a filling template of which transfer receptacles are to be filled with one or more drug portions and compares an actual filling of the transfer receptacles based on the one or more images of the transfer receptacles generated by the optical detection device to ta target filling. The control device also determines if no deviation exists between the actual filling and the target filling and releases the transport tray for transferring the drug portions to a secondary tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: CAREFUSION GERMANY 326 GMBH
    Inventor: Christoph Hellenbrand
  • Patent number: 12029424
    Abstract: Embodiments include an end effector including an anvil, the anvil having an anvil face, a cartridge having a cartridge face, the cartridge being configured to retain a plurality of staples, a cord, and a buttress being coupled with the anvil face or the cartridge face and including a planar section of material and a plurality of loops extending laterally from a first side and a second side of the planar section of material, wherein at least one of the anvil or the cartridge includes a plurality of cord supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Standard Bariatrics, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam R. Dunki-Jacobs, Jonathan R. Thompson, Richard P. Nuchols
  • Patent number: 12030687
    Abstract: Coil has been produced by coiling of a strip. The coil has two end faces and a lateral surface, and also a coil eye having an eye axis. The binding bands have a binding band width. Initially, while a first subregion of the lateral surface of the coil, as seen in the direction of the eye axis, is resting on a first rest, those binding bands which, as seen in the direction of the eye axis, surround the coil completely outside the first subregion are removed. Then, while a second subregion of the coil, as seen in the direction of the eye axis, is resting on the first rest or a second rest, those binding bands which were not removed are removed. The first and the second subregion, as seen in the direction of the eye axis, are spaced apart from one another at least by the binding band width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Primetals Technologies Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Königshofer, Ralf Smukalski
  • Patent number: 12030688
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical container processing system for removing pharmaceuticals from a batch of containers includes a cutter to cut open the batch of containers. A holder has a plurality of container receivers defining container receiving spaces sized and shaped to hold the batch of containers. One or both of the holder or the cutter are movable between a loading position and a cutting position. In the loading position, the plurality of container receiving spaces are accessible to receive the batch of containers. In the cutting position, the cutter is in registration with the batch of containers held by holder to cut the batch of containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert E. Hoffman