Patents Examined by J. Gregory Pickett
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Patent number: 11787611Abstract: A storage apparatus which allows the secure storage of items within a cavity defined by a base, side walls and a top. Access can be gained to the cavity to allow the removal of introduction of said items by moving a portion of the apparatus between open and closed positions. Locking means are provided to allow the said portion to be retained in a closed position and at least one part of the apparatus is or is provided with at least one sacrificial element such that if a force is applied thereto in an attempt to break the locking means and gain unauthorised access to the cavity, the sacrificial element will break before a sufficient level of force can be applied to break the locking means and hence prevent the said at least one part being used as a means to exert force to break the locking means and gain unauthorised access and theft of items from the said cavity.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Power Box AGInventor: Tim Trollope
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Patent number: 11780655Abstract: A structure for one-touch opening/closing of a cap and a container, which simplifies one-touch opening/closing structure, prevents the cap from being self-opened due to internal or external pressure of the container, and facilitates smooth opening of the cap, is provided. The structure includes: a container including an the inlet and an engaging ledge formed on an outer surface; and a cap including a sealing portion and a cover portion, the sealing portion including a hook formed thereon corresponding to the engaging ledge, and opening the inlet of the container while ascending and closing the inlet of the container while descending as the hook is put on the engaging ledge, the cover portion being formed as a barrel-shaped body for the sealing portion, whereby productivity and assemblability of a product are improved, convenience of use is improved, and product quality and market competitiveness are maximized.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Inventor: Dong Seuk Chae
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Patent number: 11780324Abstract: A fuel tank for a vehicle includes a main tank comprising a first tank volume defined by an outside wall and an auxiliary tank extending from an aperture provided in the outside wall. The auxiliary tank is formed as a pocket-shaped continuation of the outside wall into the first tank volume bounded by the outside wall. The auxiliary tank forms a second tank volume which is separated from the first tank volume and opens into a filler neck which runs inside the first tank volume and emerges on the outside wall of the main tank.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventor: Ralf Ziegler
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Patent number: 11780075Abstract: Various storage units that stack with other units, such as in a modular system, are provided. The storage units couple within a modular system via coupling interfaces on the top and/or bottom surfaces that couple the storage units to other units in the modular system. The storage units include a cover and a latch, the cover restricting one or more drawers from being opened. In a specific embodiment, the cover is slidably stored within the housing of the storage unit. The storage unit includes one or more internal storage compartments defined at least in part by the one or more drawers.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool CorporationInventor: George Barton
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Patent number: 11780650Abstract: A cap for sealing a cartridge includes a cap body, a plug, and a biasing member. The cap body includes a cap wall and an annular wall extending from the cap wall. The annular wall defines a channel within and includes a retention member having a barb, a stop spaced apart from the barb, and a base extending circumferentially about a portion of the annular wall from the barb to the stop. The barb, the stop, and the base define a retention channel. The plug is positioned within the channel of the cap body. The plug includes a plug wall and a plug member extending from the plug wall. The biasing member is positioned within the channel of the cap body between the plug wall and the cap wall. The biasing member is configured to provide a biasing force to bias the cap wall away from the plug wall.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Nordson CorporationInventors: Brent A. Giansanti, Matthew E. Pappalardo
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Patent number: 11772858Abstract: An airtight device includes a container and an airtight cover on the container, and the airtight cover includes a fixing bracket, a door, and a pressuring handle. The fixing bracket has a through hole and a guiding slot, and the through hole communicates with internal space of the container. The guiding slot has adjacent first and second top surfaces, and the second top surface is higher than the first top surface. The door selectively covers the through hole. The pressuring handle pivoted on the door has a first section, a second section, and a rotating axis between the first and second sections, and the first section rotates relative to the second section. The second section receives a force to drive the first section to move from below the second top surface to below the first top surface such that the rotating axis pressures the door.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Chia-Hsing Chen, Chiu-Chin Chang, Yan-Hui Jian, Chih-Jui Chen, Chen-Hsiu Lee, Hsuan-Ting Liu, Chin-Lung Liu, Kuan-Lung Wu, Li-Hsiu Chen, Wen-Yin Tsai
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Patent number: 11772851Abstract: A cap for an applicator includes an inlet, a base having a connection portion embodied for connecting the cap to the applicator or a container formed therein, a head that receives an application part of the applicator within the head, and a projection formed at a top part of the cap. The top part formed at an opposite end to the inlet, and the projection cooperating with an outlet of the applicator. The head includes a cylindrical or conical inner or outer shape and the connection portion has a round inner or outer shape, that is an oval, round or square shape.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: MEDMIX SWITZERLAND AGInventor: Christian Wieland
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Patent number: 11767156Abstract: Insulating devices are disclosed that are designed to hold a beverage container, such as a can or a plastic or glass bottle. The devices include a body designed to maintain the temperature of the contents of the container and a base mounted on the body. The base includes an exposed surface configured to prevent sliding of the device on a surface on which the device is placed. The base may also be configured to enhance the stiffness of the lower part of the body and may improve the insulating characteristics of the device, for example, if the device is placed on a surface having a temperature that is significantly hotter or colder than the air temperature.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2023Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Puffin Coolers LLCInventors: Michael C. Salmon, Byron Jay Linton, Jr., Tyrone Hugh Hazen
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Patent number: 11753215Abstract: A container closure of synthetic resin is for a container having a mouth-and-neck portion with an external thread on an outer periphery thereof and an engaging jaw portion positioned below the external thread. The container closure includes a body and a tamper evident skirt portion, and is configured to not be entirely separated from the mouth-and-neck portion of the container even after unsealing the container at the mouth-and-neck portion. At least in an angle region in which a protruding piece on a skirt wall of the body is present, an extending portion is defined at an engaging piece on the tamper evident skirt portion. When the container closure is mounted on the mouth-and-neck portion of the container, the extending portion of the container closure is positioned between the engaging jaw portion of the mouth-and-neck portion of the container and the tamper evident skirt portion of the container closure.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: NIPPON CLOSURES CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinji Oomori, Takashi Sugiyama
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Patent number: 11757269Abstract: A junction box, comprising a housing having an open top and a closed bottom, a cover, arranged to secure to the open top of the housing, a flexible casing having four side members arranged to sealably surround the housing, an outwardly extending shelf fixedly secured to an outside surface of the four side members of the flexible casing, and, a flexible rim fixedly secured to a top surface of the shelf forming a pair of oppositely arranged V-shaped channels on a bottom surface of the shelf.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Inventor: Tyler Uebelhoer
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Patent number: 11753241Abstract: An intelligent garbage can includes an end cover rack of which the interior is hollow and the middle portion is horizontally provided with a support; a first member of which the middle portion is hollow and which is provided above the support; and a second member of which the middle portion is hollow and which is provided below the support; wherein one side of the second member is provided with an arc-shaped connecting portion extending outwards in a radial direction, and the arc-shaped connecting portion is bent upwards to form an arc-shaped surface. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the arc-shaped connecting portion is provided on the bottom surface of the end cover, so that the sealing of the connection position of a garbage can containing box and the end cover is enhanced, and user experience is improved.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: DREAME TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.Inventor: Hao Yu
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Patent number: 11753219Abstract: Provided is a cap of a container. The cap has an image formed thereon and includes a first part and a second part. When the cap is opened, the first part is separated from a container body of the container, and the second part remains on the container body of the container. The image is formed on a region straddling both a side surface of the first part and a side surface of the second part.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Kazuki Funahashi
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Patent number: 11753231Abstract: A packing tray (10) for packaging glass bottles (B), such as a glass wine bottle, the packing tray comprising: a plastic foam or molded fiber sheet (12) comprising a top wall (14) and an array (20) of recessed cell pockets (22) extending from the top wall; the top wall having a peripheral surface (18) surrounding the array of cell pockets and defining a top reference plane TRP; each cell pocket (22) comprising an open ring-shaped recess (24) having an elongated longitudinal axis LA transverse to the TRP and configured to be substantially aligned with a longitudinal axis of a glass bottle disposed upright in the recess; the ring-shaped recess (24) including an upper cell portion (26) of a first diameter (FD) larger than a body diameter (BD) of the glass bottle, and lower ring portion (28) having resilient elements (30) radially disposed and spaced apart about a circumference (C) of the ring-shaped recess (24) and that extend radially inwardly from the first diameter (FD) and configured to engage the body diType: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Tekni-Plex, Inc.Inventors: James Ronning, Jeff Burroughs
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Patent number: 11745920Abstract: An application container includes a main body that holds an application material, a cap, and a weakened portion that connects the cap to an outer peripheral surface of the main body. The main body has a tubular shape that extends in an axial direction and forms an opening to expose the application material. The cap overlaps the opening of the main body in the axial direction. The weakened portion is oriented substantially in a circumferential direction of the main body, at a position that is located away from the opening in the axial direction of the main body, and is configured to be split in response to an external force, so as to separate the cap from the main body.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Inventor: Yoshikazu Tani
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Patent number: 11744338Abstract: A jewelry storage case comprises a first portion having a first surface and a wall extending from a periphery of the first surface; a base having a generally planar surface and positioned on the first surface of the first portion; and a plurality of projections extending upward from the planar surface of the base, the projections spaced apart from one another to receive a portion of jewelry.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Blingo Bags Ltd.Inventor: Julia Catherine Dawe
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Patent number: 11745922Abstract: A closure for a container, and more specifically a closure that is selectively openable and/or lockable providing, for example, one or more child resistant opening features is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Berry Global, Inc.Inventors: Jordan Robert French, Seth A. Tempel, John A. Vassallo, Steven Daniel Gift
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Patent number: 11738382Abstract: The principles of the present invention further provide both a shaped metal container and its preforms that exhibit a rounded grain structure characteristic created by an annealing process and a method for making a shaped metal container. The process of making said metal container results in a quicker process time and uses less metals (at least 10% metal weight savings), thus allowing for a decrease in the costs of making such shaped metal containers. A shaped metal container may include work hardened rolled sheet-metal defining a sidewall, an opening, and a base, where at least one section along the sidewall has grains with an average aspect ratio less than about 4 to 1.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignees: The Coca-Cola Company, Ardagh MP Group Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Philippe Niec, Marc Lemiale, John Adams, Yuping Lin
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Patent number: 11737538Abstract: A go-bag is disclosed. The bag is designed to contain valuables and important documents, and protect these contents during an emergency evacuation situation. The bag can waterproof and float in water. The bag can also be made of a flame resistant material. The bag can include a self-orienting feature where the bag can float in water and automatically rotate to achieve the proper orientation so that the integrated solar panel is facing upwards towards the sun.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Meredith Beveridge Lecocke, Michael J. Maciolek, Robert Wiseman Simpson, Daniel Christopher Bitsis, Jr., Bobby Lawrence Mohs, Manfred Amann, Emily Margaret Gray, Donnette Moncrief Brown
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Patent number: 11731449Abstract: A modular assembly that is configured to be magnetically coupled to another object, such as a white board or glass board, is provided. The magnetic strength of the modular assembly can be adjusted. The modular assembly includes an article, such as a tray or other type of holder for receiving materials like markers and papers, and a module that houses magnets. The article can include a magnet housing portion with a magnet housing retention feature. The module can include a magnet housing with one or more magnets held therein. The magnet housing can include an article coupling feature. The module can slide into the magnet housing portion of the article and be secured in place by the engagement of the magnet housing retention feature and the article coupling feature.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Amazing Magnets, LLCInventors: Timothy Paul Boettcher, Luke T. Bilisoly
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Patent number: 11730313Abstract: A slow cooker liner system with integrated dividers is provided. The system includes an annular support that secures to an upper support opening edge of a slow cooker or similar cooking vessel. A stabilizing member divider extends across the opening of the slow cooker for additional stability. The system further includes a plurality of individual liners. Each individual liner has a closed lower end and an open upper end. The open upper end further includes a locking device. In operation, the user can removably secure liners to the annular support in a desired configuration. The liners can have different shapes and sizes, such that the user can divide the interior of the slow cooker into distinct cooking chambers. After cooking, the liners can be removed from the annular support via the locking device for disposal.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Inventor: Kirsten Wilkins