Patents Examined by Jacob T Minskey
  • Patent number: 11926110
    Abstract: A method for forming a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic control surface includes forming first and second skins from a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin. The method further includes overmolding fiber-reinforced thermoplastic features onto the first skin and/or second skin, including stiffener structures, sidewalls, and/or hinges. The method further comprises welding or consolidating the first and second skins together, along with the associated internal features overmolded thereon to form a single-piece, stiffened, fiber-reinforced thermoplastic control surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ROHR, INC.
    Inventors: Samantha Landis, Guinevere Berg, Andrew Cai, Johann Steven Schrell
  • Patent number: 11926141
    Abstract: A structural member including a lightweight core, one or more skins, and a crosslinking nanolayer interposed therebetween that results in significant mechanical strength in the structure. The core is a polymer of reduced density by way of included voids, such as an open or closed cell foam, honeycomb, or corrugated structure. The core polymer has a lower density and may have a higher softening or melting temperature than the polymer skin materials. The core may be discontinuous at the interface with the skin such that only a small percentage of the core surface is actually in contact with the skin compared to the overall area of the interface. The skin may be a thermoplastic layer that attaches to the core material. The skin may be a composite material including non-thermoplastic reinforcements. The crosslinking nanolayer is covalently bonded to the surface of the core material and provides molecular compatibility with the skin material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Altum LLC
    Inventors: Greg A. Karst, Kyle T. Gaines, Dominic P. Grandominico
  • Patent number: 11926083
    Abstract: The dating system for molds comprises a marking element (1) that engraves a determined date; wherein said marking element (1) comprises interchangeable inserts (2) indicating said determined date, said determined date being defined by letters and/or numbers, forming a line. It permits to obtain the advantages of: the reading of the information is much clearer than the traditional date stamps; it requires a minimum space, which allows to adapt it to practically any mold; and it is much more dynamic than traditional daters, as it can provide date information in multiple formats, such as day and month, or week and year number, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: COMERCIAL DE UTILES Y MOLDES, S.A.
    Inventor: Alberto Navarra Pruna
  • Patent number: 11925537
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to stranded elastomeric laminates (including bi-laminates and tri-laminates) comprising beamed elastics and may have inventive Dtex-to-Nonwoven-Basis-Weight-Ratios, Dtex-to-Spacing-Ratios, and/or Void-Area-to-Strand-Area-Ratios. The stranded laminates of the present disclosure may be used for disposable absorbent article components (including pant belts) and may comprise inventive bonding arrangements that yield inventive textures and texture arrangements. When the inventive stranded elastomeric laminates are used for pant belts, the pants may have inventive Application-Forces, Sustained-Fit-Load-Forces, and Sustained-Fit-Unload-Forces. Further, when absorbent articles are packaged under compression at inventive In-Bag-Stack-Heights, the stranded elastomeric laminates of the present disclosure maintain their inventive properties and characteristics, including their inventive textures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gary D. LaVon, Bret D. Seitz, Uwe Schneider, Joseph A. Eckstein, Vanessa M. Melendez, Monica R. Tournoux, Corinne A. Rowley, Elizabeth J. Bruns
  • Patent number: 11926087
    Abstract: A testing apparatus for obtaining mechanical properties of a polymer composite extruded from a nozzle of a compounding extruder includes a plurality of pairs of roller units that roll the polymer composite along a first direction. Each of the pairs of roller units includes a first roller unit and a second roller unit disposed such that a center of the first roller unit and a center of the second roller unit are separated by a predetermined distance in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. The pairs of roller units are disposed along the first direction such that the predetermined distance of each of the pairs of roller units increases stepwise along the first direction. The pairs of roller units strain a vulnerable portion of the polymer composite in the second direction. The testing apparatus further includes a sensor that measures stress in the vulnerable portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Karsten Bruening, Jun Amano
  • Patent number: 11926109
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite vessel assembly (20) includes the steps of filling a first chamber defined by a first liner (28,30,32) with a first granulated material (96) through a first orifice (98) in the first liner. A vacuum is then applied to the first chamber, and the first orifice is plugged. The first liner may then be enveloped with a first layer (84) for structural rigidity followed by relief of the vacuum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrzej Ernest Kuczek, Ellen Y. Sun, Wenping Zhao
  • Patent number: 11919209
    Abstract: Machine tools for machining or processing a workpiece can include at least one tool with at least one relative movement between the workpiece and the tool. The machine tool has at least one pressure line circuit with at least one pump unit and with at least one energy storage which is in flow connection with the pump unit via a pressure line, wherein the pump unit has at least one mechanically driven pump element for sucking in or sucking out a medium and is in flow connection with the pressure line, and the pump element is mechanically coupled to a component of the machine tool which is also moved during proper operation of the machine tool in such a way that the component moved by the machine tool drives the pump element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Nienstedt GmbH
    Inventor: Jan Groneberg
  • Patent number: 11919255
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin molding material by which, when the fiber-reinforced resin molding material is manufactured, separated fiber bundles can be supplied to a cutting machine in stable condition while avoiding the influence of meandering of the fiber bundles or slanting or meandering of filaments occurring in the fiber bundles. A method for manufacturing a sheet-shaped fiber-reinforced resin molding material in which spaces between filaments of cut-out fiber bundles (CF) are impregnated with resin includes, so that a condition of the following expression (1) is satisfied, intermittently separating fibers of the continuous fiber bundles (CF) in a longitudinal direction by a rotational blade (18) serving as a fiber separating part and cutting out the fiber bundles with an interval therebetween in a longitudinal direction of a cutting machine (13A) to obtain the cut-out fiber bundles (CF).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Tadao Samejima, Yukihiro Mizutori, Yasushi Watanabe, Junji Kanehagi
  • Patent number: 11919396
    Abstract: Embodiments of a curved vehicle display including a display module having a display surface, a curved glass substrate disposed on the display surface having a first major surface, a second major surface having a second surface area, and a thickness in a range from 0.05 mm to 2 mm, wherein the second major surface comprises a first radius of curvature of 200 mm or greater, wherein, when the display module emits a light, the light transmitted through the glass substrate has a substantially uniform color along 75% or more of the second surface area, when viewed at a viewing angle at a distance of 0.5 meters from the second surface. Methods of forming a curved vehicle display are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jeffrey Michael Benjamin, Jordon Thomas Boggs, Atul Kumar, Cheng-Chung Li, Yawei Sun
  • Patent number: 11911536
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for molding a self-supporting silk fibroin catheter stent, which comprises preparing an excellent catheter stent by a mold casting and freeze-drying molding process using silk fibroin as a raw material. The raw material is silk fibroin extracted from natural mulberry silk; and the mold is a hollow tubular mold, having an outer shell that is a transparent polyethylene straw with a diameter of 6 mm and an inner core that is a fiber rod FRP with a diameter of 3 mm, with the two ends being closed. The mold casting and freeze-drying molding process comprises the steps of casting; pre-freezing; removing the mold and placing the mold onto a pre-frozen freeze-drying plate; and freeze-drying. The freeze-drying procedure comprises: (1) a pre-freezing stage; (2) a freezing-vacuum transition stage; (3) a gradient temperature-rising and freeze-drying stage; and (4) a secondary freeze-drying stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Ning Gu, Xin Liu
  • Patent number: 11911945
    Abstract: Provided are an injection molding machine and an injection molding method. An injection molding machine includes: a plasticizing unit which rotates a screw to plasticize a molding material inside a plastication cylinder, and an injection unit. The injection unit has: a plunger reciprocally moving inside an injection chamber, and an injection driving device reciprocally moving the plunger. By driving the injection driving device to move the plunger backward and forward inside the injection chamber, and driving a rotary driving device to alternately rotate the screw in a normal rotation direction and a reverse rotation direction, the molding material is controlled to reciprocate between the plastication cylinder and the injection chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Kubo, Hisakazu Araki, Koichi Hirota, Kenzo Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11911944
    Abstract: Provided is an injection device and an injection control method which are capable of preventing a drooping phenomenon from an injection nozzle even during high cycle molding, and capable of appropriately plasticizing and molding a resin having poor thermal stability. An injection device (10) of the disclosure includes: an injection cylinder (30) which accumulates a molding material and has an injection nozzle (33) at the front; an injection plunger (31) which is moved backward in the injection cylinder (30); an injection plunger driving device (50, 150) which moves the injection plunger (31) backward; and an injection controller (60, 160). The injection controller (60, 160) retreats the injection plunger (31) by the injection plunger driving device (50, 150) to perform metering in a plastication metering step of metering the molding material supplied into the injection cylinder (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Sodick Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Aiba, Shingo Taniguchi, Tasuku Okano
  • Patent number: 11904562
    Abstract: A tire vulcanization mold includes a molding surface for molding a tire during vulcanization molding. The molding surface can include a first region in which a plurality of recesses for forming a plurality of projections on a surface of the tire can be provided. In the first region, at least two of the recesses can be arranged per mm2. Each of the recesses can include a side wall surface, a bottom surface, and a virtual recess central axis extending in a depth direction of the recess. In a cross-sectional view of the recess including the recess central axis, the bottom surface can include a bottom projection projecting outward in the depth direction, and the side wall surface can include an arc-shaped surface smoothly connected to the bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Hamada, Takayuki Wada, Mai Ito
  • Patent number: 11905380
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a shaping material that contains a cyclic olefin polymer and has a low content of a volatile impurity. This method for producing a shaping material is a method which includes passing a raw-material resin in a molten state through an extruder to produce a shaping material, and in which the extruder is equipped with a cylinder, a screw housed within the cylinder, a resin introduction port for introducing the raw-material resin into the cylinder, a resin discharge port for discharging the molten resin from the cylinder, a fluid injection port for injecting carbon dioxide or water into the cylinder between the resin introduction port and the resin discharge port, and a fluid discharge port for removing fluid in the cylinder by suction downstream of the fluid injection port and between the resin introduction port and the resin discharge port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eito Ariura, Satoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11904516
    Abstract: An additive feeder system is presented which is operable for use in a plastic injection molding machine including an injection component and a clamping component. The additive feeder system includes a feeder control unit, a feeder supply mechanism and feeder dosage control mechanism. The additive feeder system is operable to provide a specific dosage of the additive materiel in real-time for mixing with the raw material to achieve desired product characteristics. The additive feeder system may be applied to injection molding and extrusion, such as molding processes, plastic molding processes, blow molding, compression molding, extrusion molding, injection molding and laminating, and comprising additive feeders, for example for color mixing and nutrient supplements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: Ofri Zamir
  • Patent number: 11904500
    Abstract: An apparatus for making and depositing bricks includes a nozzle having an inlet opening, an outlet opening, and a plurality of walls surrounding the outlet opening. At least one of the walls is configured to retract relative to the other walls. When a first brick is deposited, all of the nozzle walls are in the extended position. When subsequent bricks are deposited, one or more of the nozzle walls are retracted so that the form for the subsequent bricks is provided by the walls that are in the extended position and the sides of the already-deposited bricks. In this manner, the nozzle is configured to deposit the bricks directly adjacent to each other without any space or intervening material between them. The bricks may be deposited in a heated state and they meld together as they cool. The nozzle is particularly advantageous for paving autonomously in otherwise inaccessible locations, such as surfaces on the moon or other planets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Astroport Space Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Ximenes, Isaac Olson, Ronald Wells, John Michael Berringer
  • Patent number: 11904137
    Abstract: A method of making a needle guard includes providing a mold having a portion defining a volume, the volume being a hollow cylinder with non-uniform walls with a pair of slots therein, the slots being open at one end and closed at the other end, the pair of slots having a major portion of constant width. The walls are thicker at the other end than at the one end. The method includes filling the volume with polymer and releasing a molded part from said mold and cooling a molded part resulting from the filling and releasing such that temperature that the widths of the pair of slots is non-uniform after cooling. The needle guard has upper and lower jaws defining a channel and coming together at a hinge. A winged needle can be inserted between the jaws, with the wings of the winged needle passing through slots between the jaws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NxStage Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Brugger, Christopher D. Pierson, Steven C. Alford
  • Patent number: 11905413
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device assembly and methods useful for producing molded silicone rubber products from liquid silicone rubber compositions (“LSR”) via injection molding. The methods provide a flexible process to produce faster cured silicone rubber products from LSR and allow for use of low curing temperature in the molding cavities without drastically lowering cure speed of the LSR and the physical properties of the produced molded silicone rubber material, therefore allowing liquid silicone rubber overmolding on or over heat sensitive substrates. The device assembly of the invention allows a faster cycle and the use of precise dosing and mixing units thus creating a flexible process to produce cured silicone rubber products faster from liquid silicone rubber (LSR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ELKEM SILICONES USA CORP.
    Inventors: Ted Johnson, Nicole McMullen, Todd Lawrence, Leeanne Brown
  • Patent number: 11904512
    Abstract: A method of making a vehicle headrest restraint and connecting first and second molds to form a mold cavity. A first material is injected with a first density into the mold cavity. A second material is injected with a second density into the mold cavity. The first and second materials are allowed to develop an integrally formed headrest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Jeremy Sutton
  • Patent number: 11897244
    Abstract: A nonwoven laminate having at least two nonwoven layers is made by first spinning, cooling, and stretching, first crimped multicomponent filaments to form a first nonwoven web that is deposited on a deposition device. Then second continuous continuous filaments including an elastomer based on polypropylene are spun, cooled, and stretched to form a second nonwoven web that is deposited on the first nonwoven web and thereby forming the nonwoven laminate that it then consolidated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: REIFENHAEUSER GMBH & CO. KG MASCHINENFABRIK
    Inventors: Tobias Wagner, Patrick Bohl, Detlef Frey