Patents Examined by H. Liu
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Patent number: 11999090Abstract: A method of classifying a temperature control branch of a molding tool includes producing molded parts in cycles by a portion of the molding tool by introducing heat into the molding tool, and/or cyclically activating a heating device, with introduction of heat into the molding tool, conveying temperature control medium through the temperature control branch of the molding tool to dissipate the introduced heat, measuring a temporal branch temperature profile of the temperature control medium in the temperature control branch over several production cycles, analyzing a curve behavior of the branch temperature profile and/or of a variable derived from the branch temperature profile, in particular of a branch heat flow, over several production cycles, and sorting the temperature control branch into one of at least two categories, according to greater and/or smaller influence on the heat budget of the portion of the molding tool, on the basis of the curve behavior.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: ENGEL AUSTRIA GmbHInventor: Mathias Schlaeger
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Patent number: 11996746Abstract: A method of securing magnetizable inserts within cores of an electric converter includes placing an assembly of rotor cores in a transfer molding press, the magnetizable inserts being disposed within cavities of the rotor cores and the cavities of the rotor cores being in fluid communication, placing a polymer preform proximate a central portion of the assembly of rotor cores, displacing the polymer preform such that the polymer preform changes state and flows radially and then axially through each of the cavities of the rotor cores, removing the assembly of rotor cores from the transfer molding press, and removing polymer waste from the assembly of rotor cores.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, ABB Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Briscoe, Nick Sochacki, Al Marrocco, Jeffrey Cameron, Michael Mollan
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Patent number: 11981055Abstract: The present invention relates to an injection mold, an injection molding machine including the injection mold, and a method of manufacturing an injection-molded product using the injection molding machine. More specifically, the present invention relates to an injection mold including a mold having a mold surface on which one or more deposition layers are formed, wherein the deposition layer includes a fluororesin homopolymer or polyether ether ketone (PEEK); an injection molding machine including the injection mold; and a method of manufacturing an injection-molded product using the injection molding machine.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Inki Min, Dongchul Shim, Cheol Hwan Hwang, Minchul Lee, In Woo Kim
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Patent number: 11981079Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices including a light guide tool for multi-axis additive manufacturing. The light guide tool includes a tubular light guide. The tubular light guide may be made from an optically transmissive material enclosed by one or more reflective side walls that are interposed between opposing optically transmissive ends. The light guide tool includes an optical coupling fixed to a first end of the optically transmissive ends of the tubular light guide. The optical coupling is configured to couple to a lens. The light guide tool includes a transparent non-stick coating. The transparent non-stick coating is adhered over a second end of the optically transmissive ends of the tubular light guide. The light guide tool includes a lens. The lens is coupled to the optical coupling and configured to emit a two-dimensional light pattern.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAInventors: Yong Chen, Xiangjia Li
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Patent number: 11980830Abstract: The invention relates to molds that are used to craft snow or sand into different shapes. Specifically, the present invention provides a mechanism for compressing the snow or sand, then assisting in the compression of the snow or sand, and/or assisting with the ejection of the same from the mold in order to produce an improved shape.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Inventors: Jim D. Putnam, Lara J. Putnam
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Patent number: 11969520Abstract: A method of preparing an inorganic binder for medical use according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes preparing a starting material using a-TCP powder and phosphate powder each of which has a predetermined particle size, producing a paste having a predetermined viscosity that is suitable for formation of a molded article having a predetermined shape by homogeneously mixing the starting material, adding water or saline to the homogeneously mixed starting material, and kneading the resulting mixture, subjecting the molded article to hydration reaction, and washing and drying the molded article having undergone the hydration reaction to obtain an inorganic binder containing OCP and HA crystal phases.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: HUDENS BIO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kye Lim Yun, Suk Young Kim, Joo Seong Kim, Jae Ick Han, Hak Noh
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Patent number: 11964443Abstract: The invention relates to a method for connecting a connection piece to a U-shaped ring anchor for a head module for rail vehicles, the head module consisting predominantly of fiber-reinforced plastic material and having an outer shell and the ring anchor consisting of fiber-reinforced plastic material and being arranged in the roof region of the outer shell as a stiffening means. According to the method, connecting elements are fed through the dry or matrix-material-impregnated, unconsolidated fiber reinforcement structure of the ring anchor.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignees: CRRC QINGDAO SIFANG CO., LTD., CG RAIL—CHINESISCH-DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGS- UND ENTWICKLUNGSZENTRUM FÜR BAHN- UND VERKEHRSTECHNIK DRESDEN GMBHInventors: Jian Du, Peng Lin, Dongfang Chen, Zhengmin Zhang, Yonggui Zhang, Chunpeng Cao, Werner Hufenbach, Andreas Ulbricht
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Patent number: 11964413Abstract: The disclosed and claimed concept provides for an overmold that is applied to substantially all of the exposed portions of a wood handle for a tool.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: The Ames Companies, Inc.Inventors: Royden H. Gibson, Marcus E. Norden, Sam D. Hector, Jim H. Bennett, Carl R. Walker
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Patent number: 11941324Abstract: A method of manufacturing an interface for a body part using an additive manufacturing process is described. The method obtaining a digital model of the body part and modifying the digital model to create a plurality of compression areas. The compression areas are spaced circumferentially around a long axis of the digital model to create a compression pattern. The compression pattern is sized and dimensioned to compress soft tissue of the body part against the skeletal structure such that motion of the skeletal structure towards a wall of the interface is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Inventors: Randall D. Alley, T. Walley Williams, III
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Patent number: 11932973Abstract: A method for manufacturing a polymer-based fibrous scaffold is disclosed. The method includes the following step: providing an electrospinning device comprising a collector; and injecting a polymer solution into the electrospinning device to produce a single jet fiber, wherein the single jet fiber is piled on the collector to form a fibrous scaffold.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: ACADEMIA SINICAInventors: Chia-Fu Chou, Balchandar Navaneethan
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Patent number: 11932737Abstract: A polymer composition capable of being additively manufactured includes a polymer matrix and a magnetically receptive additive. The polymer composition may be additively manufactured or extruded to form a tool which may be used to form a composite part.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: AIRTECH INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: Aubrey Gerald Jackson, Zachary Ian Skelton, Philip Lunn, Guy Rene Schindler
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Patent number: 11934097Abstract: The present invention provides an imprinting method, which includes the steps of: adding a soluble material to a master mold; solidifying the soluble material to form a soluble mold having a mold pattern; adhering a taking device to the soluble mold to separate the soluble mold from the master mold; placing the soluble mold on a polymer layer of a workpiece for imprint; applying a high temperature and a pressure to the soluble mold to allow the polymer layer having an imprint pattern corresponding to the mold pattern and being solidified, and to remove the taking device from the soluble mold; and providing a solvent to dissolve the soluble mold to obtain an imprint workpiece having the imprint pattern.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: EVER RADIANT INCORPORATIONInventor: Sung-Wen Tsai
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Patent number: 11919212Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to hollow profiles and methods of preparing the same for joining operations. A method herein can include placing a dam within a channel defined by the hollow profile, fitting a die block over an end of the channel, and injecting a flowable composition through an injection port into the channel. Another method can include defining a volume within a first member using at least one flow control device, filling the defined volume with a flowable polymeric composition, allowing the flowable polymeric composition to solidify to form a solid portion in the first member, and mechanically modifying the solid portion to define a joining surface suitable for joining to the second member. Other embodiments are also included herein.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Andersen CorporationInventors: Craig Michael Johnson, Jared Asa Shanholtzer, Justin Michael Depew, Paul Michael Allan Morris, William Peter Gengler, Jeffrey Lee Skeels, Justin John Reinke
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Patent number: 11919243Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional component 14 by means of an additive construction method in which the component 14 is constructed by solidifying construction material 9 that can be solidified using radiation 18, especially a selective laser melting method or a selective laser sintering method, in which the component 14 is produced by successively solidifying construction material 9 that can be solidified using the impact of radiation 18 by melting or sintering, comprising the following features: providing an additive construction apparatus 1, especially an SLM apparatus or an SLS apparatus, comprising a process chamber 3, a construction platform 7 for carrying the construction material 9, and a radiation source arranged above the construction platform 7 for generating a point-type or linear energy input for creating a melting or sintering section in the construction material 9, providing a sensor apparatus 31 for selective detection of created melting or sintering sectiType: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Concept Laser GmbHInventor: Frank Herzog
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Patent number: 11911937Abstract: A method of post manufacture processing of 3D printed parts involves a step of forming at least one treatment aperture through an exterior shell of a 3D printed part to provide access to a lattice of multiple layers of extruded thermo-plastic filaments within a hollow cavity of the part. The method involves a step of inserting a stabilizing substance that flows before it is set and then hardens when set through the at least one treatment aperture into the hollow cavity of the part. The method involves a step of coating the lattice with the stabilizing substance to fill spaces between the multiple layers and between individual thermo-plastic filaments, such that, when set, the stabilizing substance fixes the multiple layers of extruded thermo-plastic filaments of the lattice in position. The method reinforces and stabilizes the internal lattice structure of the part, without significantly adding material or increasing manufacturing cost.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Inventor: Robert Thiessen
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Patent number: 11910886Abstract: A process for manufacturing a multi-layered sole directly on the upper, of the type that employs the technique known as “direct injection on the upper”, by which soles are made of a plastic material and consist of a plurality of layers with different colour, density, softness and physical-mechanical properties. Said layers form at least an external sole, called “outsole”, an internal sole, called “insole” that adheres and extends only partially or totally on the surface of the upper, and an intermediate sole, called “midsole”, that is intended to hold the other two above-said soles. Said process provides for the use of a single mould which is brought, when suitably equipped, in a well-defined sequence, in front of at least three distinct injectors (I1, I2, I3) in order to obtain, also in sequence, by at least a first moulding operation (P1) the lower portion of the sole, i.e. the “outsole”, by at least a second moulding operation (P2) the upper part of the sole, i.e.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Inventor: Filippo Scolaro
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Patent number: 11897196Abstract: An additive manufacturing system, and associated methods, comprise an image projection system comprising a plurality of image projectors that project a composite image onto a build area within a resin pool. The composite image comprises a plurality of sub-images arranged in an array. The properties of each sub-image and the alignment of the position of each sub image within the composite image can be adjusted using a set of filters comprising: 1) an irradiance mask that normalizes irradiance, 2) a gamma adjustment mask that adjusts sub-image energy based on a reactivity of the resin, and 3) a warp correction filter that provides geometric correction.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Intrepid AutomationInventors: Ben Wynne, Jamie Lynn Etcheson, Christopher Sean Tanner, Robert Lee Mueller, Ivan Dejesus Chousal
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Patent number: 11890807Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling additive manufacturing processes are disclosed. The systems can include multiple laser directors, soot-removal devices, magnetic chucks, replenishable powder distribution blades, automated powder level detectors, and/or overall process automation techniques.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Blue Origin, LLCInventors: Landon Luick, Steven James Craigen
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Patent number: 11878469Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods of providing heat to enable an FDM additive manufacturing nozzle having refined print control and enhanced printing speed. The heating element may include at least one sheath sized to fittedly engage around an outer circumference of the FDM printer nozzle; at least one wire coil at least partially contacting an inner diameter of the sheath; and at least one energy receiver associated with the at least one wire coil.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: JABIL INC.Inventors: William MacNeish, Erik GJovik
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Patent number: 11878468Abstract: Apparatuses, systems and methods of providing heat to enable an FDM additive manufacturing nozzle having refined print control and enhanced printing speed. The heating element may include at least one sheath sized to fittedly engage around an outer circumference of the FDM printer nozzle; at least one wire coil at least partially contacting an inner diameter of the sheath; and at least one energy receiver associated with the at least one wire coil.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: JABIL INC.Inventors: William MacNeish, Erik GJovik