Patents Examined by Jennifer Swinney
  • Razor handle having a retractable razor head carrier and a movable flap, and razor having such a handle
    Patent number: 9216516
    Abstract: A razor handle that includes an elongated hollow housing having an opening provided on the front end, a razor head carrier which is slidably mounted in the recess between a first non-shaving position in which the razor head carrier is retracted and completely located inside the recess, a second shaving position, and a sliding mechanism for moving the razor head carrier. The razor handle further includes a pivotally mounted movable flap having a closed position in which the flap closes the opening, and an open position in which the flap is fully open and gives way to the razor head carrier, the movable flap being driven by a linkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: BIC-VIOLEX S.A.
    Inventors: Samuel Ryan Rees, Ioannis Bozikis, Dimitris Efthimiadis
  • Strip-shaped body cutting position adjustment method and system for cutting apparatus
    Patent number: 9211693
    Abstract: A printing press control device and a cut-off register control device forcibly move a compensator roller by a set moving amount each time a set time elapses during a period from the start of speed acceleration to the end of speed acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: KOMORI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Inoue
  • Linkage mechanism for a razor
    Patent number: 9193079
    Abstract: A linkage mechanism for a wet shaving razor is provided. The linkage mechanism is pivotally connected to and suspended from the handle at one end and pivotally and removably attached to the cartridge carrier at an opposite end allowing the cartridge carrier to pivot about a virtual pivot axis located below the shaving plane and into the skin. The linkage mechanism provides flexibility in positioning the virtual pivot axis since it is not limited to the physical constraints of the cartridge. As a result, the shaving razor cartridge has a flatter contact with the skin throughout the shaving stroke providing shaving comfort with reduced nicks and cuts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Daren Mark Howell, Ian Anthony Goodhead, Terence Gordon Royle
  • Machine for the preparation of pieces of an oval or spherical fruit, such as a melon or watermelon
    Patent number: 9180603
    Abstract: Machine for the preparation of pieces of an oval or spherical fruit, such as a melon or watermelon, comprising: a first cutting station (10), predisposed to cut a fruit (100) into round portions (101) along parallel planes; a second cutting station (20), with two or more shaped blades (21a,b,c) predisposed to cut the round portions (101) into prismatic fragments; a sorting device (40), predisposed to detect a diameter of the round portions (101) and to assign each round portion (101) to a shaped blade (21a,b,c), selected on the basis of the diameter of the round portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: A.B.L. S.R.L.
    Inventors: Daniela Ascari, Luca Ascari
  • Fly-cutting head, system and method, and tooling and sheeting produced therewith
    Patent number: 9180524
    Abstract: A fly-cutting system is disclosed, and in particular one that comprises a dynamically-controllable actuator for controlling the position, orientation, or both position and orientation of a cutting element carried by a fly-cutting head. In certain embodiments, the actuator can adjust the position or orientation of a cutting element, or both, hundreds or thousands of times per second, enabling precise control over the shape of features formed by the cutting element in a surface of a workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Alan B. Campbell, Dale L. Ehnes, Daniel S. Wertz
  • Slidable miter saw with guiding mechanism
    Patent number: 9174288
    Abstract: A miter saw including: a base section; a saw blade; a cutting section; a support section; and a guiding mechanism. The support section includes a pivot support portion and a slide support portion. The pivot support portion supports the cutting section such that the cutting section is pivotally moved toward and away from the base section. The slide support portion slidably supports the pivot support portion to move the cutting section in a sliding direction that is in parallel with an upper surface of the base section and orthogonal to an axial direction of a rotational axis of the saw blade. The guiding mechanism is configured to guide a movement of the cutting section in the sliding direction in accordance with a pivotal movement of the cutting section toward the base section. The guiding mechanism is provided in association with the cutting section and the slide support portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Imamura, Shigeharu Ushiwata
  • Side blade lock and release mechanism for use with a knife
    Patent number: 9149940
    Abstract: A knife is provided. The knife comprises a handle and a blade configured to pivot with respect to the handle between an open position wherein a cutting edge of the blade is exposed and a closed position wherein the cutting edge of the blade is disposed within the handle, the blade including an abutting surface. The knife may further comprise a locking assembly configured to releasably lock the blade in the open position, the locking assembly comprising a biased, rotatable member having a canted surface for engaging a corresponding surface on the blade, wherein the canted surface and the corresponding surface are configured to secure the blade relative to the handle in the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: JPJ Investment Holding Corp.
    Inventor: Wen Hao
  • Cutting tool
    Patent number: 9144201
    Abstract: A cutting tool includes a first and a second element having a handle in a first end and a cutting element in a second end. A spring element is arranged between the first and second element to move the handles away from each other, and an adjustment mechanism sets a maximum opening angle for the handles. The adjustment mechanism includes a groove in a side surface of the first element, an adjustment ring is arranged to a side surface of the second element, and a shaft which is rotatably arranged to protrude through a hole in the second element, a first end of the shaft engaging the engagement surface of the adjustment ring and a second end of the shaft having an eccentric part protruding into the groove in the first element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Fiskars Brands Finland Oy Ab
    Inventors: Olli-Pekka Vänttilä, Sami Lyytikäinen
  • Cutting guide with seam allowance recess
    Patent number: 9138904
    Abstract: A cutting guide having a seam allowance recess and methods of cutting a piece of material with such cutting guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: USAUS, Inc.
    Inventors: Janna Lee Thomas, Paul Roger Thomas
  • Tools with a thermo-mechanically modified working region and methods of forming such tools
    Patent number: 9132567
    Abstract: Tools with a thermo-mechanically modified working region and methods of forming such tools. The tool includes a working region containing steel altered by a thermo-mechanical process to contain modified carbide and/or alloy bands. In use, a surface of the working region contacts a workpiece when the tool is used to perform a metal-forming operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Dayton Progress Corporation
    Inventors: Christon L. Shepard, Ronald R. LaParre, Shrinidhi Chandrasekharan, James M. Loffler, Alan L. Shaffer
  • Electric shaver
    Patent number: 9108325
    Abstract: An electric shaver includes: a main body; an outer blade provided to an end of the main body and having a blade hole defined by a bar; and an inner blade provided inward of the outer blade and configured to reciprocate in a longitudinal direction of the outer blade to cut hair in the blade hole with the outer blade. The bar has a hair raising portion coming in contact with hair upon movement of the outer blade on a skin surface to raise hair up from the skin surface. A contact pressure on the skin surface to be exerted by the outer blade in a first portion of the outer blade is greater than that in a second portion of the outer blade. Hair raising performance in raising hair up from the skin surface in the first portion is smaller than hair raising performance in the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigetoshi Sakon, Kenji Narita, Jyuzaemon Iwasaki, Makoto Fukutani, Hiroaki Shimizu, Takeshi Shiba
  • Band saw machine with a rod having an adjustable position to accommodate various sized workpieces
    Patent number: 9089912
    Abstract: A band saw machine with a rod having an adjustable position to accommodate various sized workpieces includes a movable member which is mounted on a saw frame and movable relative to a movable clamp arm. The movable member and the fixing member each have a rack, and the racks are in parallel to each other. The rod includes a gear shaft engaged with the racks. When the movable clamp arm moves to accommodate the size of a workpiece, the rack of the movable member drives the gear shaft to move along the rack of the fixing member, which causes position change of the rod, so that the rod is automatically moved to a position where it can detect the workpiece in a reliable manner. Therefore, the size of the workpiece to be clamped is not limited by the position of the rod anymore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: EVERISING MACHINE CO.
    Inventor: Shu-Chia Chiao
  • Lifting rod assembly with a coolant supply and pressurizing device
    Patent number: 9085036
    Abstract: A lifting rod assembly with a coolant supply and pressurizing device includes a pipe with an inner passage. The inner passage includes an open input end, an open output end, and an input section and an output section sequentially arranged from the open input end toward the open output end. The output section is in communication with the output end. In the inner passage is movably disposed a slider which is provided with a plurality of pressure flutes, each of the pressure flutes has a diameter smaller than the diameter of the input section, and both ends of the slider are provided with a plurality of buffers, a band saw of a band saw machine is allowed to insert in the output end of the lifting rod assembly, and the slider is abutted against the band saw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: EVERISING MACHINE CO.
    Inventor: Shu-Chia Chiao
  • Fly-cutting system and method, and related tooling and articles
    Patent number: 9003934
    Abstract: Methods of fly-cutting a workpiece are disclosed, and in methods in which the position of a fly-cutting head or its associated cutting element is known as a function of time. Also disclosed are methods of forming features, such as grooves or groove segments, in a workpiece such as a cylindrical roll. The features may be provided according to one or more disclosed patterns. Articles made using tools machined in the manner described are also provided, such as polymeric film or sheeting that exhibit certain beneficial properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: James P. Burke, Alan B. Campbell, Dale L. Ehnes, Daniel S. Wertz
  • Cutting tool, an arrangement and a method for chip removing machining with spring members for biasing a clamping body
    Patent number: 8985914
    Abstract: In a cutting tool for chip removing machining a holder for a cutter has a body received therein and movable with surfaces to bear against the cutter for defining the position of the cutter in the direction of an intended axis of rotation of the holder as well as a screw which may be screwed in a threaded bore in the holder. Spring members are arranged to act between the holder and the body for biasing the body against said screw portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Seco Tools AB
    Inventor: Mikael Jansson
  • Magnet splitting device and magnet splitting method
    Patent number: 8967441
    Abstract: A magnet splitting device includes a one-side holder for holding a plurality of pre-split magnets on one sides of respective splitting grooves, an other-side holder for holding the magnets on the other sides, and an actuating unit for causing relative movement of the other-side holder to split the magnets all at once. The other-side holder includes a plurality of other-side independent holding parts for holding the magnets independently. The actuating unit includes a plurality of independent actuating parts for moving the other-side independent holding parts independently and a simultaneous operating part for simultaneously operating the holding parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasushi Nishikuma, Yasuji Taketsuna
  • Cutting tool
    Patent number: 8961074
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a cutting tool, comprising: at least one cutting insert; a tool body including a pocket portion to which the cutting insert is mounted; a means for fixing the cutting insert to the pocket portion of the tool body; and a screw for finely adjusting the position of the cutting insert fixed to the pocket portion of the tool body. The screw has a head portion, a threaded portion and a portion for connecting the head portion to the threaded portion. The pocket portion has a bottom surface with a screw hole formed thereon into which the threaded portion is fastened. It also has a side wall comprising a surface for closely contacting the head portion of the screw. The head portion of the screw closely contacts and resiliently pressurizes the close contact surface of the pocket portion when the threaded portion is fastened into the screw hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: TaeguTec, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Hee Choi, Chang Gyu Park
  • Vise clamping tool for table-type circular sawing machine
    Patent number: 8960062
    Abstract: A vise clamping tool for a table-type circular sawing machine includes a rotating arm assembly connected to a supporting shaft. The rotating arm assembly has a first rotating arm connected to the supporting shaft and a second rotating arm provided with a clamping component. The second rotating arm is pivotally connected to the first rotating arm around a first pivoting axis oriented along the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Chervon (HK) Limited
    Inventor: Zhifeng Chen
  • Utility knife
    Patent number: 8955226
    Abstract: A utility knife includes a handle, a blade assembly secured to the handle, a blade cover mechanically coupled to the handle facilitating manipulability of the blade cover to an extended position over the blade assembly, and a slider that is repositionable along the handle to release the blade cover from the extended position, the slider being pivotally coupled to the blade assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Pacific Handy Cutter, Inc.
    Inventors: G. Gerry Schmidt, John Andrew Duval
  • Apparatus for cutting paper logs in a plurality of rolls
    Patent number: 8950306
    Abstract: An apparatus for cutting paper logs in a plurality of rolls is disclosed. The apparatus has at least one longitudinal input channel and at least one output channel defining circular housings and being arranged in a succession among them. The channels have mobile walls with an upper mobile portion and a lower mobile portion. The lower mobile portion is connected with a structure for supporting the apparatus on one side and with an intermediate portion of the upper mobile portion on another side. The upper mobile portion has a free upper end and a base end connected to a movable cursor. A mobile actuator for moving the walls, which engages the upper mobile portion at the base end is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Gambini International S.A.
    Inventor: Giovanni Gambini