Patents Examined by Jenine Pagan
  • Patent number: 10098429
    Abstract: A jewelry box for holding jewelry is disclosed that has an elongate member having a first end and a second end, an inner surface and an outer surface, and that is foldable between an open position and a closed position, where the closed position is a box. A jewelry-receiving member protrudes from the inner surface of the elongate member for movement therewith and defines a receptacle to receive a piece of jewelry. The receptacle, in the open position, is oriented generally perpendicular to the inner surface of the elongate member and, in the closed position, after rotation of the jewelry-receiving member of about 90 degrees, is oriented generally parallel to the inner surface of the elongate member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Inventor: Roland Krainz
  • Patent number: 10103475
    Abstract: A connector and cabling system is provided. The system includes a plurality of pigtails, each pigtail of the plurality of pigtails are configured to couple to one of a plurality of electronic devices, wherein each electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices has a corresponding box or package. The system includes a cable and a plurality of first connectors. Each first connector of the plurality of first connectors is configured to extend through and attach to a wall of a box or opening of the package with a first port of the first connector inside the box. The first port is coupled to the pigtail, and a second port of the first connector outside the box or package. The second port is coupled to the cable. The plurality of electronic devices is provisioned via the cable, the plurality of first connectors and the plurality of pigtails, with each of the plurality of electronic devices, in the corresponding box or package. A method of preparing electronic devices for shipping is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: VCE IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Thaddeus Stoner, Joseph Layton
  • Patent number: 10093476
    Abstract: A collating system for rivets is provided that includes a rivet holder for supporting rivets in a predetermined pattern. In one form, the rivet holder includes a body having cavities for supporting the rivets therein. The rivet holder body includes a top plate member and a bottom plate member. The rivet holder has drive heads connected to the top plate member via frangible portions and the bottom plate member has retaining webs disposed below the drive heads. The top and bottom plates are secured together to capture heads of the rivets between the drive heads and retaining webs. The drive heads may be driven downward to drive the rivet heads from the rivet holder and into bores of a guide block with the retaining webs flexing to release the rivet head from the lower bottom plate member. A method of using the rivet collating system is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Flexible Steel Lacing Company
    Inventor: Joseph Vogrig
  • Patent number: 10082378
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device for containing and accessing ammunition. Specifically, a shell carrier assembly is presented herein that comprises a shell carrier holder, wherein the shell carrier holder comprises a releasable connector assembly; and a shell carrier, wherein at least a portion of the shell carrier holder and at least a portion of the shell carrier are operably coupled via the releasable connector. This device allows a wearer to quickly remove the shell carrier from the shotgun, allowing a fresh detachable shell carrier to be installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Inventor: Adam Roth
  • Patent number: 10059509
    Abstract: An assembly box for transportation is disclosed. The assembly box for transportation may comprise: a vertical corner frame arranged at a corner portion; first and second horizontal frames arranged perpendicularly, with the vertical corner frame interposed therebetween, so as to constitute upper and lower edge portions of a side wall; and corner brackets connecting the upper and lower ends of the vertical corner frames with ends of the first and second horizontal frames, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: SYSPAC SUPPLY CHAIN
    Inventor: Won Sun Erm
  • Patent number: 10045892
    Abstract: A wound care product is provided. It comprises a sealed chamber in which a wound care article is arranged around a support member in such a manner that a curved portion of the wound care article is in contact with the support member. The curved portion interconnects two other portions on opposite sides of the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: MÖLNLYCKE HEALTH CARE AB
    Inventors: Sami Ahsani Ghahreman, Anders Dahlberg, Linda Irelind, Olof Mellbring
  • Patent number: 10043695
    Abstract: Apparatus for carrying and shielding wafers includes a wafer container, a plurality of wafer cassettes disposed in the wafer container, and an engaging lock that prevents the wafer cassettes from shifting, the engaging lock being in direct contact with walls of the wafer cassettes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Himax Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Jui Tang Chang
  • Patent number: 10043696
    Abstract: A wafer container utilizes a rigid polymer tubular tower with slots and a “getter” therein for absorbing and filtering moisture and vapors within the wafer container. The tower preferably utilizes a purge grommet at the base of the container and may have a check valve therein to control the flow direction of gas (including air) into and out of the container and with respect to the tower. The tower is sealingly connected with the grommet. The tower may have a getter media piece rolled in an elongate circular fashion forming or shaped as a tube and disposed within the tower and may have axially extending. The media can provide active and/or passive filtration as well as having capabilities to be recharged. Front opening wafer containers for 300 mm sized wafers generally have a pair of recesses on each of the left and right side in the inside rear of the container portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Entegris, Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Watson, John Burns, Martin L. Forbes, Matthew A. Fuller, Mark V. Smith
  • Patent number: 10039630
    Abstract: An implant container for accommodating one or more bone plate implants has a base having a receiving structure configured to receive at least one bone plate implant so that the bone plate implant is held in a defined relationship relative to the base. A lid of the implant container has an opening and is movable relative to the base from a first position to at least a second position. In the first position the lid covers the receiving structure at least partially so as to prevent implant removal, whereas in the second position the lid provides access to the receiving structure via the opening so as to permit implant removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Stryker European Holdings I, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Funk, Thilo Jendreck
  • Patent number: 10028546
    Abstract: An apparatus and associated method contemplating an indicia marked on a package to identify a particular construction of color-mismatched footwear contained in the package. The indicia includes a brand identifying the footwear as being color-mismatched, a style identifying a characteristic construction of the footwear, and a generation level identifying an arrangement of the colors for the color-mismatched footwear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: DELSERVICES GROUP, INC.
    Inventor: Delbert Roy Spriggs
  • Patent number: 10021990
    Abstract: A convertible cooler comprises a cooler body, a lid having a top surface and a rear connector part, a bed extension having an adjoining edge and a sleeping surface, a bed extension connector pivotally connecting the adjoining edge to the rear connector part to rotate the bed extension between a stowed position, in which the bed extension rests flat upon the top surface of the lid, and an extended position, in which the sleeping surface of the bed extension is substantially coplanar with the top surface of the lid, and a leg assembly connected to the bed extension and adjustably supporting the bed extension above ground at a level that places the sleeping surface substantially coplanar with the top surface of the lid when in the extended position. The lid top surface and the sleeping surface of the bed extension are sized to permit a person to sleep thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Inventor: Cory Patronaggio
  • Patent number: 10017303
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a medical package for enclosing pharmaceutical composition or medical devices, with at least three degrees of child protection means. The package cannot be crushed or perforated by a child, and is provided with opening means which physically hinder children from opening the package. The opening means are counter-intuitive, so that reading instructions is necessary in order to open the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: MEDCOMB HOLDING APS
    Inventors: John Wagner, Flemming Wagner
  • Patent number: 10016889
    Abstract: A sleeve bracket assembly includes a rail base, a positioning board and multiple positioning mounts. The rail base includes two side boards and a connecting seat connecting with the side boards. Each side board has a sliding rail protruding from an inner surface of the side boards. The connecting seat has a positioning recess formed between the sliding rails and the connecting seat. The positioning board is an elastic elongated strip and mounted in the positioning recess of the rail base. The positioning mounts are rotatably and movably mounted in the rail base and abut the positioning board. The positioning mounts are positioned between the positioning board and the rail base. When no external force is applied, the positioning mounts will not move or rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Inventor: Jui-Chien Kao
  • Patent number: 9999697
    Abstract: A packaging for sterile products, comprising a tray and a hood made from cellular plastic material comprising at least two covering sheets held at a distance from one another by a plurality of spacers having cells longitudinally parallel to each other, the tray and the hood comprising a base and sidewalls cut from a plate of said material and with at least one of said sidewalls having double thickness and being formed by folding two panels of the plate around the folding lines perpendicular to the direction of said spacers. The interior covering sheets are perforated to allow the passage of a sterilizing gas through said covering sheet, the perforations allowing the passage of the gas but preventing the passage of dust, wide cut-outs traversing at least the other covering sheet of the plate in order to ensure communication of said cells with the outside and being provided along the folding lines of said panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: DS SMITH PLASTICS FRANCE
    Inventors: Jacques Antoine, Daniel Baumann, Jérémy Freneat, Christian Maire, Sébastien Miranda
  • Patent number: 9994068
    Abstract: An artist's palette is provided herein including: a body having a first, generally flat surface; a protruding first ridge running along an edge of the first surface; and, a pane removably mountable to the body, the pane being transparent or sufficiently translucent to permit visual color matching through the pane of a sample of prepared paint disposed on the pane with a reference sample disposed between the pane and the body. The artist's palette may be provided as part of an assembly which also includes a cover removably mountable to the body, the cover being configured to be mounted to the body without any portion of the cover contacting the first surface and without any portion of the cover contacting the pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Inventors: David Kassan, David Lemyre
  • Patent number: 9985378
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid extraction module (1) for extracting liquid from a liquid tank, in particular of an exhaust-gas aftertreatment system of a motor vehicle, having an insert part (2) which is produced at least substantially from plastic and which has at least one extraction opening (5) and at least one plug connector (14) for the electrical contacting of an electrical consumer (10, 7) of the liquid extraction module (1). It is provided that a housing (16) of the plug connector (14) is formed separately and has at least one encapsulated undercut (22, 32) for fastening to the insert part (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ewgenij Landes, Steffen Schott
  • Patent number: 9968169
    Abstract: A protective case for a mobile device having a retractable home button protective cover is disclosed. The home button cover is configured to allow the user to reversibly cover and uncover the home button of the mobile electronic device by moving the home button cover from a fully open position to a fully closed position. When in the closed position, the home button cover physically protects or isolates the home button from user interaction. A child-proof locking mechanism is provided to secure and lock the home button in the closed position. In one implementation, the protective case is configured to have a front portion that includes the retractable home button cover and a back portion to which the front portion is reversibly secured. The front portion is configured to retain the mobile device for insertion into the back portion. Various aspects of the construction and implementation of the protective case and the home button mechanism and its use are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Incipio, LLC
    Inventors: Jennifer Jo Pelton, Andy Fathollahi, Peter Tu
  • Patent number: 9961968
    Abstract: The invention provides an improved sleeve for a key fob with Radio Frequency (RF) blocking features to block undesired communications with the key fob.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Inventor: David E Mulcahy
  • Patent number: 9960064
    Abstract: The lateral substrate support part has: a plurality of plate parts, which have a parallel positional relationship, and support end portions of a plurality of substrates; and a plate-part support part, which supports the plate part, and is fixed to a side wall. The plate-part support part has: a groove-forming portion having a groove formed therein, said groove linearly extending over the whole plate parts in the direction intersecting the plate parts; a protrusion, which is formed in the groove, and which protrudes such that the protrusion reduces the width of the groove in the direction orthogonal to the direction in which the groove extends; and a positioned part that is formed at a center portion of the groove in the direction in which the groove extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignees: Miraial Co., Ltd., Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuta Kanamori
  • Patent number: 9950200
    Abstract: A closing device is provided for a container of a respirator with two container shells (2, 2?) joining each other at front surfaces, with at least one tightening strap (4), which encloses a part of a container shell outer surface located at right angles to the front surfaces. Two holding elements (5, 5?) are each provided with a recess (6, 6?) and are formed at the free ends of the tightening strap (4). A closing element (7) is formed in a U-shaped pattern with two legs (8) and meshes with each recess (6, 6?) of the holding elements (5, 5?). The legs (8) of the closing element (7) can be pulled out of the recess (6, 6?) of the holding elements (5, 5?) to take off the tightening strap (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Dirk Henf, Christian Wilhelm