Patents Examined by Jenine Pagan
  • Container
    Patent number: 9650175
    Abstract: A container includes a body, at least one partitioning plug, a stopper and a driving rod. The body has an opening on one end thereof, as well as a closed end on an other end thereof. The at least one partitioning plug is disposed in the body to divide the body into at least two chambers, wherein each of the at least one partitioning plug has a through-hole. The stopper is disposed at the opening of the body and has a through-hole. The driving rod is equipped with at least one blocking portion movably engaged in the through-hole or through-holes of the at least one partitioning plug, wherein one end of the driving rod protrudes from the opening of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Inventor: Kuo-Cheng Wu
  • Apparatus and method for reconstituting a pharmaceutical and preparing the reconstituted pharmaceutical for transient application
    Patent number: 9649428
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for preparing a pharmaceutical for transient application includes a tray having a sealed compartment, a vial of an ophthalmic formulation of mitomycin-C, a diluent carrier containing sterilized water, and a syringe that are all contained together in a single package. The component parts of the apparatus are used together to reconstitute the contents of the vial with the water in the diluent carrier, and then draw the reconstituted drug into the scaled compartment of the tray by a suction force produced by the syringe. In the tray compartment, the reconstituted drug is absorbed in at least one absorbent pad. The absorbent pads may come in multiple shapes and or/sizes. The tray is opened to remove the pad and the absorbed drug from the tray compartment for use of the pad in transient application of the drug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: MOBIUS THERAPEUTICS, LLC
    Inventor: Edward J. Timm
  • Carrier tape, carrier tape manufacturing apparatus, and method of manufacturing carrier tape
    Patent number: 9635791
    Abstract: Provided is a carrier tape with improved tensile strength and flexural rigidity in a longitudinal direction of a base material, including recesses that can be provided at a narrow pitch in a first surface of the base material, and manufacturable at reduced cost, as well as to provide an apparatus and a method for manufacturing such a carrier tape. A carrier tape of the present invention is constituted by a strip-shaped base material, and includes a plurality of recesses provided in a first surface of the base material and for containing electronic components, a covering unit configured to seal openings of the recesses, and a projection provided on a second surface of the base material along a longitudinal direction of the base material. A length of the projection extends over at least two of the recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shogo Tokoi, Yasuhiro Shimizu
  • Packaging materials and methods
    Patent number: 9623622
    Abstract: An inflatable packaging material includes two outer films, a plurality of valve films, and a non-sealable material positioned between the valve films. The films are sealed together by a plurality of seals, including a valve seal extending across the material. The seals define a plurality of air columns and an inflation passage in communication with the columns. The non-sealable material is arranged to form valve portions positioned along the valve seal and spaced passage portions positioned along the inflation passage. The valve portions provide valve passages through the valve seal, to allow airflow into each air column. The passage portions are arranged such that one side seal passes through a space between the passage portions to seal one end of the inflation passage, and the other side seal passes through one of the passage portions to create an open inflation port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Inventor: Michael Baines
  • Ingredient release spout
    Patent number: 9592940
    Abstract: The present application provides an ingredient release spout with an ingredient therein for use on a container. The ingredient release spout may include a cap with the ingredient therein and a nozzle. The cap may include a diaphragm with a capsule insert extending therefrom. The nozzle may include a cutting device therein such that rotating the cap pulls the diaphragm and the capsule insert towards the cutting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Samuel Ombaku Nyambi, Fritz Seelhofer
  • Packing material for laundry treatment apparatus
    Patent number: 9580855
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a packing material for a laundry treatment apparatus having a casing with an entrance/exit hole through which laundry is entered and exited and an outer tub hung in the casing and having an opening through which the laundry is entered and exited, the packing material including a base part at a side of a predetermined fold line corresponding to the shape of the opening and a gap compensating part at another side of the fold line, wherein the base part is inserted into a space between the outer tub and an entrance/exit hole forming part forming the entrance/exit hole in the casing, and wherein the gap compensating part is inserted into an inside of the outer tub when the packing material is folded along the fold line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Daehee Kim
  • Christmas tree bag
    Patent number: 9578814
    Abstract: A Christmas tree bag is an apparatus which allows a user to easily carry and transport a Christmas tree and the like on a vehicle roof top while providing protection to a vehicles surface. The apparatus is comprised of a rectangular tarp like configuration that allows the user to enclose a Christmas tree within the tarp. The Christmas tree is placed on the tarp and the side edges are then brought together around the tree. The tree bag is secured around the Christmas tree with the attached straps. The outer surface includes a hand strap affixed for ease of carrying. The Christmas tree bag is then placed on a vehicle roof top and secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Inventor: Jay Michael Belschner
  • Inventive diabetic systems, tools, kits, and supplies for better diabetic living and mobility
    Patent number: 9572922
    Abstract: A pocket sized diabetic kit carrying supplies that a diabetic patient will need for 24 hours includes but not limited to Lancet pen, lancets, small test strip bottle filled with test strips, blood test meter, one or more insulin types stored in a plurality of pre-filled syringes, one syringe splint or just one hard plunger, a plurality of alcohol pads, one blood plotter pad, Velcro straps and a syringe clipper. The pocket diabetic kit is compact, small and thin and can fit into a pocket so that a diabetic patient can be easily carried in the pants' pocket or other pockets without causing inconvenience or uncomfortable. The present invention also discloses ways to modify supplies including tools, medication syringes, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Inventor: Larry Leonard
  • Packing box of portable device
    Patent number: 9561878
    Abstract: A packing box of a portable device is provided, which includes a main plate body and a frame plate body. Plates, which are adjacent to the main plate body and the frame plate body, are respectively disposed with fold-lines; such that a first side plate of the main plate body overlaps a first bonding plate and a third side plate overlaps a second bonding plate to form an accommodating space.: first frame plate, a second frame plate and a third frame plate of the frame plate body are overlapped with one another, so that the first frame plate, the second fame plate and the third frame plate, which are overlapped with one another, separate the accommodating space through a third bounding plate of the frame plate body. When the main plate body and the frame plate body are flattened, the plates are parallel to one another and flat-shaped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignees: SHINYOPTICS CORP., SHINWA TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ming-Chun Lee, Xiang-Min Hu
  • Merchandise storage container with integrated tool
    Patent number: 9561890
    Abstract: A merchandise storage container includes a tool that is used with the merchandise provided in the container. The tool is an integral part of the storage container until the user of the merchandise separates the tool from the container and uses it with the merchandise from the container. In one embodiment, a paperboard-based merchandise storage container having a storage chamber for flexible screen savers includes a squeegee that is integrally formed during the formation of the merchandise storage container. The squeegee is separable from the container after the user accesses the screen savers so that the user has a squeegee ready for the installation of the screen savers on a phone or tablet computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Inventor: James Robert Denney
  • Container for surgical instruments and system including same
    Patent number: 9545459
    Abstract: A system for use in an orthopedic surgical procedure including a container for orthopedic surgical instruments. The container includes a first shell, and a second shell configured to be coupled to the first shell to define a chamber therein. The second shell is configured to be coupled to the first shell in a plurality of orientations including a first orientation in which fluid is permitted to advance into and out of the chamber, and a second orientation in fluid is prevented from advancing into and out of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: DEPUY IRELAND UNLIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Kurt A. Scott, Kyle S. Moore, Jason T. Sherman
  • Pod and purge system using the same
    Patent number: 9543177
    Abstract: An object is to prevent the partial pressure of oxidative gas over time in an FOUP mounted on an FIMS system and left open. A surface purge unit is provided on a side opposite to the opening of the FOUP in such a way that wafers supported in the FOUP is located between the opening and the surface purge unit. The surface purge unit ejects inert gas from a plurality of vent holes provided in its surface toward the opening. Uniform purging or replacement of the interior of the FOUP with inert gas can be achieved by creating inert gas flow from an inert gas supply part extending over a surface in the direction from the interior of the FOUP toward the opening along the wafer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiko Miyajima, Tadamasa Iwamoto, Jun Emoto
  • Container with personalization system
    Patent number: 9516961
    Abstract: The present invention provides a container including a system for personal identification. A series of bands are mounted between ridges formed circumferentially around the container. The bands have symbols printed in a color similar to the container. The bands can be rotated around the container to position selected symbols over a patch printed on the container in a contrasting color to make the selected symbol visible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Inventors: Alexander N. Yambao, Maria Yambao, Ashley Yambao, Allen Yambao
  • Packing body
    Patent number: 9517872
    Abstract: A packing body is provided, which is configured to pack an intended apparatus therein. The packing body includes a first sheet formed in such a bag shape as to entirely wrap the intended apparatus therein, a cushion member configured to protect at least a corner of an outer surface of the intended apparatus wrapped in the first sheet, a second sheet configured to be placed between the first sheet and the cushion member at the corner of the outer surface of the intended apparatus packed in the packing body, the second sheet being further configured to cause a lower frictional force between the second sheet and the first sheet than between the second sheet and the cushion member, and a packing box configured to entirely cover the intended apparatus from an outside of the cushion member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomofumi Murano, Kazuyoshi Minaminaka
  • Tab for a closure and process for making such tab
    Patent number: 9511411
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tab for a closure, comprising a tab body having at one side a tab nose for opening the closure, and at the other side a tab lever having a finger opening for activating the tab lever, which finger opening is surrounded by a distal lever part connected by lateral lever legs to the tab body, wherein in the lever legs are formed aligned hinge parts in the form of lateral lever leg parts of reduced bending strength, to a closure and container comprising such tab, and to a process for making such tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Impress Group B.V.
    Inventors: Gerardus Johannes Josephus Tielbeke, Aart Leendert Emmerzaal
  • Can-shaped container having a protective inner layer
    Patent number: 9511902
    Abstract: A container such as a can for holding a product to be packaged, in particular a food item, includes a can body (1) made up of a bottom element (2) which is extended by a side wall (3), the can body (1) defining an inner packaging space (6) and including an inner surface (7) made at least partially of tin, which is covered with a protective layer (10) intended for resisting the chemical activity of the product to be packaged. The protective layer (10) includes, distributed over at least one portion of the surface thereof, a plurality of pores (11) through each one of which an area (7a) opposite the tin inner surface (7) can be accessed from the inner container space (6), in particular to allow the release of tin while minimizing the aesthetic impact caused by the chemical activity of the product to be packaged on the tin inner surface (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: ARDAGH MP GROUP NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventor: Alain Le Talludec
  • Storage clipboard with quick-access weapon holder
    Patent number: 9500441
    Abstract: A storage clipboard has a quick-access weapon holder assembly wherein the storage clipboard has an exterior appearance that is the same as a conventional storage clipboard so as to not raise awareness of the existence of the weapon to a person viewing the container. The actuator is disposed in the bottom of a storage-style clipboard so that the user may actuate the weapon deployment with a finger of his hand holding the clipboard while grasping the weapon with the other hand. The clipboard may be configured to be carried by either hand of the user. When actuated, the weapon holder opens a door panel in the side of the clipboard to present the weapon in an accessible location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Inventor: Daniel Keith Kirby, Jr.
  • Pivotal structure for a receiving seat of a toolbox
    Patent number: 9486912
    Abstract: A toolbox includes a toolbox body having a bottom wall and a chamber delimited by the bottom wall. Two plates are mounted to and extend perpendicularly to the bottom wall. Each plate includes at least one pivot hole in the form of a partial hole having first and second stop walls. Each of the first and second stop walls extends away from a center of the partial hole. At least one receiving seat includes a plurality of grooves and two sidewalls. An axle is formed on each sidewall and is pivotably engaged in the pivot hole of one of the plates. Each axle is semi-cylindrical and includes a rectilinear wall having a length slightly smaller than a diameter of the pivot hole. The rectilinear wall includes two half sections respectively having first and second abutment portions corresponding to a storage position and an extended position of the receiving seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Inventor: Su-Chiu Chen
  • Packaging and preparation tray for a delivery system
    Patent number: 9486604
    Abstract: A tray and packaging system for a prosthetic valve delivery system permits conversion from a storage and/or shipping configuration to a set up and preparation configuration. In a first configuration, a delivery system can be supported by first and second main trays with the elongate catheter of the delivery system arranged to extend linearly from the first main tray to the second main tray, and in a second configuration, the delivery system can be supported by the first and second main trays with the elongate catheter of the delivery system turned back in a U-shaped manner with the deployment portion of the delivery system positioned to the side of the control handle portion of the delivery system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Murray, Sameer Upadhyaya, Mark Casley, Patrick Macaulay, Ak Masud, Paul Cassidy, David Clarke
  • Carrier packages and methods of erecting carrier packages
    Patent number: 9475628
    Abstract: A carrier package is constructed to tightly secure articles within the package. During loading, pushing the containers into the package causes the side panels of the package to deform so that the height of the package decreases and the width of the package increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Graphic Packaging International, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrea Coltri-Johnson