Patents Examined by Himchan Song
  • Patent number: 12208593
    Abstract: A device for the production of padding product, including a product guide, a product drive along a drive axis (Y), a device for crumpling the product, which is designed to be alternatively, by a back-and-forth motion, in a position that constrains the product and a product release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: GP System
    Inventor: Jacky Peterlini
  • Patent number: 12208933
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of forming a paperboard packaging container from a rectangular body blank, the method comprising the steps of providing a rectangular body blank having a first end edge and a second side edge, forming a tubular container body from the rectangular body blank, sealing together the first and the second side edge of the body blank, closing the first end opening by pressing a paperboard disc into the first end opening, pressing the first end of the tubular container body into a curl forming portion of a curling tool, filling the packaging container with bulk solids, and closing the second end opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: GPI Systems AB
    Inventor: Simon Holka
  • Patent number: 12202638
    Abstract: A system for closing a shipping container that has a rectangular bottom wall, upstanding side walls extending from the periphery of the bottom wall, and an open top end, includes a sled capable of moving the container between a first station and a second station spaced from the first station, and a flap-folding assembly movable with the sled. The flap-folding assembly is configured to inwardly fold flaps of the container while the sled moves the container between the first station and the second station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Ranpak Corp.
    Inventors: Uwe Klarner, Remi Parisse, Jean-Yves Sia
  • Patent number: 12195222
    Abstract: A packaging machine for producing blister packs has an inspection device with at least one detection device configured to optically detect individual blister packs. The upper side and the lower side of each blister pack is inspected by means of the at least one optical detection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: UHLMANN PAC-SYSTEME GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ruf, Stefan Haaga, Jochen Miller, Joerg Riekenbrauck
  • Patent number: 12187478
    Abstract: A carton assembly machine for cartons (17) for packing articles (15, 15?), comprising means for feeding an unassembled carton in a feed direction, the said carton having a plurality of side flaps or panels (18, 19) whose folds are essentially parallel to the said feed direction folded onto a central portion (25) of the carton, the said machine further comprising a movable element (26) designed to move between a first position away from the route of the carton and a second position in which the said element is designed to be Inserted underneath, at an edge (27) of at least one of said side flaps or panels (19), so that the latter is raised with respect to the said central portion, in particular, in cooperation with the carton feeding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: C.M.C. S.P.A.
    Inventor: Lorenzo Ponti
  • Patent number: 12179953
    Abstract: An apparatus for packaging includes a film supplying station presenting a roll support configured to receive a feed roll and to rotate it around a respective unwinding axis to unroll consecutive portions of plastic film. A selected unrolled portion having width significantly greater than its length is positioned inside a packaging station with the width aligned along the alignment direction of a row of product loaded supports to be packaged. The packaging station heat seals the selected unrolled portion to the underlying row of product loaded supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Cryovac, LLC
    Inventors: Matteo Colaone, Duncan George McIntyre
  • Patent number: 12172784
    Abstract: Disclosed is a medicine transfer unit including a body portion having one side and another side which are opened and an opening or closing portion connected to the body portion to be changeable in state. Here, the opening or closing portion includes a bottom portion configured to close the other side of the body portion in a first state and to open the other side of the body portion when the first state changes to a second state and a jamming prevention portion extending from the bottom portion toward an inside of a sidewall of the body portion on the basis of the first state so as to prevent the stored medicine from being jammed on sidewalls of the body portion and not being dispensed through the other side in the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: JVM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Joon Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 12172274
    Abstract: A powered fastener driver includes a driver blade movable from a top-dead-center (TDC) position toward a driven or bottom-dead-center (BDC) position, a gas spring mechanism for driving the driver blade toward the BDC position, a lifter assembly having a rotary lifter for returning the driver blade from the BDC position toward the TDC position, a motor that provides torque to the rotary lifter to return the driven blade from the BDC position toward the TDC position, and a cam which, during operation of the rotary lifter, causes the rotary lifter to axially move along a rotational axis defined by the rotary lifter between a first position, in which the rotary lifter is engageable with the driver blade, and a second position, in which the rotary lifter is not engageable with the driver blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Marcus Wechselberger, Troy C. Thorson, David A. Bierdeman
  • Patent number: 12172789
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and techniques for automated manipulation of an adjustable container are described. An example apparatus includes a gantry and a plurality of motors. The plurality of motors are attached to the gantry. The plurality of motors are adapted to automatically adjust one or more dividers within a container to form a volume around one or more items within the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Garett Ochs, Joshua Arleigh Burright
  • Patent number: 12161534
    Abstract: A machine for producing sanitary articles includes a plurality of processing stations including automated apparatus for forming sanitary articles which advance along a machine direction. The machine includes a multi-axis industrial robot arranged to automatically clean and/or inspect the automated apparatus of the processing stations. The machine has a positive impact on sustainability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Fameccanica.Data S.p.A.
    Inventors: Enio Giovanni Cianci, Diego Gualtieri, Matteo Antonioli, Anselmo Cicchitti
  • Patent number: 12161326
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a surgical stapling anvil is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of manufacturing a first anvil member and a second anvil member. The first anvil member comprises a tissue-facing surface comprising a plurality of staple forming pockets defined therein and a longitudinal cavity comprising anvil ledges configured to be engaged by anvil-camming portions of a firing member of a surgical stapling instrument. The method further comprises the steps of polishing the ledges of the first anvil member and welding the first anvil member and the second anvil member together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jerome R. Morgan, Jason L. Harris, Gregory J. Bakos, Anil K. Nalagatla
  • Patent number: 12151836
    Abstract: A system for grabbing and filling pills into a blister pack is provided and associated corresponding method. The system includes a vacuum pill-manipulator provided with prongs having holes at their tip to retain pills. The vacuum pill-manipulator is configured to transition from a pill-retaining configuration where suction is applied at the tip of each prong to hold the pills during movement, to a pill-releasing configuration where suction is released to drop the pills in corresponding pill-chambers. A robotized arm is provided with the vacuum pill-manipulator, and is controllable to: move the vacuum pill-manipulator from a pill-container rack, for grabbing a pill-container, to a pill-container retaining station, to suction pills at the tips of the prongs; and move, in the pill-retaining configuration, the vacuum pill-manipulator to the blister pack location, and position the vacuum pill-manipulator to align the tip of each prong with the corresponding pill-chamber for the pill-releasing configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: 9155-0020 Quebec Inc.
    Inventor: Etienne Bouthiette
  • Patent number: 12129062
    Abstract: A packaging machine may include a grouping device comprising a spreading area with a spreading table having a base body and a plurality of support bars adjustable in their transverse spacing, each having at least one row of seats extending in a longitudinal direction, each for one product. The grouping device may also include at least one transverse drive for adjusting the transverse spacing, for producing a single-layer group having an even or uneven number of rows of products, and for inserting the group into an outer package. The plurality of support bars include a plurality of double-row support bars which cannot be moved relative to one another in the transverse direction, and at least two single-row support bars that are movable relative to one another in the transverse direction positioned between two of the double-row support bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Gerhard Schubert GmbH
    Inventor: Sebastian Brand
  • Patent number: 12122025
    Abstract: A pneumatic tool includes a drive mechanism configured to drive by an air pressure of compressed air, a head valve having a first chamber configured to reserve compressed air that is supplied from an air source, and configured to drive the drive mechanism, according to a state of the compressed air in the first chamber, a trigger valve configured to actuate the head valve by exhausting the compressed air in the first chamber, and a control valve configured to disable actuation of the trigger valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Max Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12116151
    Abstract: Tamping simulators are provided. The tamping simulator includes a powder cylinder; a dosing receptacle; a tamping pin having a first end and a second end, the tamping pin being configured to be moved between a raised position and a lowered position such that the second end is received into the powder cylinder and the dosing receptacle in an instance in which the tamping pin is in the lowered position; a tamping spring operably coupled to the first end of the tamping pin and being configured to relieve compression pressure from the tamping pin; and a compression scale operably coupled to the tamping spring and being configured to indicate an amount of compression pressure absorbed by the tamping spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: CAPSCANADA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stephen Lee, Joseph Quist, Delbert Jepperson, Jason Jepperson, Andreas J. Bertele
  • Patent number: 12110142
    Abstract: A machine for the preparation of medical product includes a device for loading bags of medical product into the machine. The device includes a shaft with the ability to rotate and two or more adaptors for housing injection points of bags of medical product arranged on the shaft. The rotation of the shaft causes the adaptors arranged on the shaft to rotate. Two stops define a position for loading bags by an operator and an operating position of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: KIRO GRIFOLS, S.L.
    Inventors: Borja Lizari Illarramendi, Naiara Telleria Garay, Patxi Urtzelai Aranbarri, Jose Ignacio Andres Pineda, Amaia Ilzarbe Andres
  • Patent number: 12110145
    Abstract: An opening system including a cutting device for cutting an adhesive tape; a suctioning and lifting device for suctioning a upper panels, which are separated from each other because the adhesive tape is cut by the cutting device; rod members which are elongated to be inserted into gaps, when the gaps are formed between the upper panels and upper edges of side surfaces in the packaging box because the upper panels are spaced apart from the side panels by the suctioning and lifting device; and an opening device which moves the respective rod members while being in contact with lower surfaces of the upper panels such that the upper panels are rotated outward with respect to boundaries between the upper panels and the side panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: CJ CHEILJEDANG CORPORATION
    Inventors: Myung Ho Kim, Sung Woo Park, Bong Yong Sung, Hee Dong Son, Dae Hwa Kim, Sun Kyu Kim, Soo Hyun Kim, Hak Dong Kim, In Soo Jung
  • Patent number: 12103807
    Abstract: A folding device for placing an elastomer thin sleeve on a retainer includes a mandrel, one or more rollers, and a drive system. The mandrel is configured to translate relative to a portion of the folding device. The mandrel is adapted to releasably receive the retainer. The one or more rollers are configured to rotate relative to the mandrel. The rotation of the one or more rollers being configured to fold the sleeve onto the retainer. The drive system is configured to translate the mandrel and turn the one or more rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Devicor Medical Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew P. Nock
  • Patent number: 12075814
    Abstract: A manufacturing machine method for the production of a tubular element provided with a filter at one end, includes, an insertion conveyor, which moves at least one pocket along an insertion path; a transfer station, where the pocket receives the tubular element inside the seat; an insertion station, where a filter is inserted into the tubular element housed in the seat; a tubular inserting body, with the shape of a truncated cone, is arranged in the area of the insertion station; an actuator designed to produce a relative movement between the pocket and the inserting body so as to at least partially place the inserting body inside the tubular element housed in the pocket; and a pushing element designed to push the filter along the entire inserting body until it comes out of the inserting body, so as to insert the filter into the tubular element surrounding the inserting body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SASIB S.P.A.
    Inventors: Roberto Ghiotti, Enrico Manfredi, Yuri Negrini
  • Patent number: 12077328
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for packaging articles (2). Outer packages (3) are moved by a first conveying device (10) and then by a second conveying device (20), which second conveying device (20) is located next to the first conveying device (10). Furthermore, articles (2) are inserted into an outer package (3), while the outer package (3) is located on the first conveyor (10) and/or the second conveyor (20). The outer packages (3) are received on the first conveyor (10) by format parts (5) and, together with their respective format part (5), are transferred to the second conveyor (20). The outer packages (3), which will be continuously arranged on the format parts until then, will be removed from the format parts (5) together with the inserted articles (2). The format parts (5) will then be returned to the first conveyor (10) for renewed seizure of outer packages (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Krones Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Jens Losert