Patents Examined by Jill Heitbrink
  • Patent number: 9908685
    Abstract: A method for producing a recyclable molded product is provided. The method includes injecting a coffee ground amalgam into a mold, injecting the coffee ground amalgam with a mycelium, incubating the molded coffee ground amalgam injected with the mycelium for a period of time, and dehydrating the molded coffee ground amalgam injected with the mycelium at a set temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Inventor: Carmenza Jaramillo de Echeverri
  • Patent number: 9868229
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to injection mold components, assemblies, and molding system that include superhard materials. Such injection mold components, assemblies, and systems may decrease wear of certain injection mold components, which may result in improved productivity of the injection mold and molding systems that utilize such components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: US SYNTHETIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Keith Judd, Terry Mitchell Lewis
  • Patent number: 9855694
    Abstract: A feed system for an injection molding machine. The feed system includes a first part with a first channel, and a second part with a second channel. The first channel and the second channel together form a molten plastic feed conduit when they are engaged. The first part and the second part are unbonded to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: IMFLUX INC.
    Inventors: Gene Michael Altonen, Ralph Edwin Neufarth, Chow-chi Huang, Michael Thomas Dodd, Matthew Lloyd Newman
  • Patent number: 9849615
    Abstract: In a sawing cord the three constituting elements of steel cord, sawing bead and sleeve polymer in between the beads must work optimally together. In order to improve the injection molding quality the inventors disclose an injection mold wherein the injection channels inject polymer from opposite sides of the steel cord into the injection cavity. The injection mold comprises two half molds that form the injection cavity when closed. Different preferred embodiments are described inclusive the use of channels having a tree structure, preferably a binary channel tree, preferably a balanced binary tree and most preferred a balanced binary tree with equal length pathways from feed channel to each injection channel. The use of heated channels is disclosed and the rules for balancing between the number of heated versus non-heated channels are explained. Furthermore the method to use such mold and the product resulting from the use of the mold are claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: NV BEKAERT SA
    Inventors: Dieter Ghillebert, Raf Clauws, Tom Baekelandt
  • Patent number: 9844901
    Abstract: A method for producing a molded product 70 involves the use of a mold 40 including a cavity 44 to which a molding material is supplied and an intercepting member 45 capable of moving back and forth within the cavity 44. The method comprises an interception step for moving the intercepting member 45 into the cavity 44 and an injection step for injecting the molding material into the cavity 44. During the injection step, the intercepting member 45 is used to regulate the flow of the molding member inside the cavity 44 at the initial stage of the injection. The intercepting member is thereafter pulled into the mold 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: TOSHIBA KIKAI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Asanuma
  • Patent number: 9844498
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a cosmetic article having a decorative embossed and/or debossed surface, based on at least one cosmetic product hot-poured into a container, this method making use of: a receptacle forming said container and having a peripheral wall and a bottom, said receptacle having at least one filling area, each filling area extending from the bottom of said receptacle and having a filling hole and at least one vent hole, and a closure member that cooperates with the receptacle to define an enclosed filling cavity with the at least one filling area, and having an embossed and/or debossed surface adapted to give the cosmetic product poured into said cavity an embossed and/or debossed surface, said method comprising at least the following steps: a) positioning the receptacle on the closure member so that the embossed and/or debossed surface extends into the filling area; b) hot-injecting the cosmetic product into the filling cavity by means of a filling head inserted in th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: PARFUMS CHRISTIAN DIOR
    Inventors: Emeric Baracat-Nasr, Xiaolu He
  • Patent number: 9844902
    Abstract: A modular molding system having a mold base assembly for assembling an interchangeable mold insert assemblage. The assembled mold insert assemblage defines an internal cavity for forming a molded object. Each mold insert assemblage can be disengaged from the mold base assembly and exchanged with a different mold insert assemblage having an internal cavity having different dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Zimmer, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas R. Holderman, Jeremy J. Pohler, Robert E. Klein, Thom E. Gidley, Devon Stump, Michael Brown
  • Patent number: 9821498
    Abstract: In an injection molding method, using a heating cylinder having on the front end thereof a discharge nozzle, a single axis screw is rotatable inside the heating cylinder, a fiber-supplying device fills reinforcing fiber into the heating cylinder, and injection molding is performed while supplying the reinforcing fiber and the resin starting material separately and supplying the reinforcing fiber on the front side of the resin starting material. The method includes a plasticization process for obtaining a specified amount of a kneaded product by retracting the screw while rotating in the normal direction to melt the resin starting material and knead reinforcing fiber into the melted resin starting material, and an injection process for discharging the kneaded product from the discharge nozzle by advancing the screw. Reinforcing fiber is supplied into the heating cylinder in the injection process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: U-MHI PLATECH CO., LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoji Okabe, Toshihiko Kariya, Naoki Toda, Munehiro Nobuta
  • Patent number: 9815234
    Abstract: An injection molding machine includes a base, a stationary platen fixed to the base for holding a first mold section, and a moving platen for holding a second mold section. The moving platen is slidably supported on a platen slide surface fixed to the base and moveable along a machine axis between a mold closed position, in which the moving platen is drawn towards the stationary platen, and a maximum daylight position, in which the moveable platen is spaced axially apart from the stationary platen by a platen opening. The machine further includes a carriage support structure slidably supporting a stack mold carriage for holding a mold center section. The stack mold carriage is translatable parallel to the machine axis between a carriage advanced position and a carriage retracted position spaced axially apart from the carriage advanced position by a carriage stroke length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: ATHENA AUTOMATION LTD
    Inventors: Robert D. Schad, Carsten Link, Hemant Kumar
  • Patent number: 9808971
    Abstract: An injection molding apparatus and method of fabricating a molded part are provided. The apparatus may include a barrel, a nozzle enclosing an end of the barrel and defining an opening in fluid communication with an inside of the barrel, and an extrusion screw positioned at least partially inside the barrel and rotatable relative to the barrel. The extrusion screw may include a screw tip. Relative axial movement between the barrel and the extrusion screw may open or close the opening of the nozzle to permit or prevent, respectively, material flow through the opening of the nozzle. The method may include clamping a mold, opening a nozzle, rotating the extrusion screw to pump a molten material into the mold until the mold is filled, closing the nozzle, and unclamping the mold to release a molded part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: EXTRUDE TO FILL, LLC
    Inventor: Richard Ernest Fitzpatrick
  • Patent number: 9808976
    Abstract: When an injection member such as a screw injecting a molten material into a mold is attached to an injection molding machine, a buffer spacer is provided between the injection member and a power transmission member such as an injection shaft sleeve transmitting forward/backward moving power to the injection member. Then, the buffer spacer is fixed to the power transmission member by a bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Asaoka, Satoshi Yano
  • Patent number: 9802346
    Abstract: A method of molding a building product may include providing an injection mold with a plurality of gates located adjacent a perimeter of the injection mold. The method may further include commingling a first material and a second material into a flow. The second material may be a color that contrasts with a color of the first material. The method may include injecting the commingled flow into the plurality of gates to form an injection molded building product, and removing the molded building product from the injection mold. In addition, the second material may extend through an interior of the molded building product and appear as contrasting streaks on an exterior of the building product to form a variegated grain appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: CERTAINTEED CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert D. Shaw, David J. Stucky, Travis R. Arbogast, Randall M. Elinski, Stephen W. Steffes
  • Patent number: 9796120
    Abstract: An injection molding system for making a molded item freely fall in demolding process from a mold, the injection molding system comprising: a molded item photographing device, an image analysis device, and a molded item classification device, wherein the image analysis device is configured to perform analysis of appearance feature of the molded item, and make the item classification unit classify the molded item based on result of the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuatsu Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 9789639
    Abstract: A mold-clamping device includes a fixed mold plate including a fixed mold; a movable mold plate including a movable mold; a hydraulic cylinder allowing the movable mold plate to approach or be separated from the fixed mold plate; a hydraulic pressure supply source supplying a hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic cylinder; and a control unit performing driving control on the hydraulic pressure supply source. The control unit includes a flow rate decrease control unit for deceleration for decreasing a flow rate of the hydraulic fluid according to a deceleration gradient set in advance when a movement of the movable mold plate is decelerated according to the deceleration gradient, and a flow rate increase control unit for controlling the flow rate of the hydraulic fluid to increase when the flow rate of the hydraulic fluid is decreased according to the deceleration gradient by the flow rate decrease control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAV INDUSTRIES PLASTIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ikarashi, Mamoru Kawasaki, Takehiro Irie, Toshihiko Kariya
  • Patent number: 9789638
    Abstract: A moving apparatus is disclosed that may be for moving a tool of an injection molding machine. It may comprise a beam having at least a part that extends generally longitudinally in a first direction. The beam may be configured such that the tool can be moved relative to the beam in said first direction. The apparatus may also comprise an actuator for moving the at least a part of the beam in a second direction. Also disclosed is a method of moving a tool. The method may comprise: (a) moving a tool along a beam that generally extends in a first direction; and (b) moving at least a part of the beam in a second direction. The first directions may be orthogonal to second directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: HUSKY INJECTION MOLDING SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventor: Gerry Ha
  • Patent number: 9782920
    Abstract: A resin injection nozzle is provided with a first mating surface on an inner-diameter side and a second mating surface on an outer-diameter side relative to the first mating surface, and a through-hole is provided extending from a void defined between the first and second mating surfaces toward the distal end of the resin injection nozzle. Thus, gas generated from a molten resin can be effectively discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shoutarou Sekiguchi, Hiroyasu Asaoka
  • Patent number: 9782921
    Abstract: An injection molding machine and an additional injection device are provided such that a power interruption signal is output to a controller of the injection molding machine or the additional injection device on the destination when it is detected that a movable door is opened and a state of position confirmation means for the movable door is transmitted to the injection molding machine or the additional injection device on the destination through a communication line. Thus, the state of the position confirmation means can be transmitted and notified without decreasing maintainability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuhiro Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 9776347
    Abstract: An improved mechanism for retaining screws for a conduit body cover is disclosed. The screws are retained by a layer of PVC lining the inner surface of holes in the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Thomas & Betts International, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Seidel, James Scritchfield
  • Patent number: 9776349
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling the closing speed of valve gated nozzles are disclosed. In one embodiment, a hot runner have a valve gated nozzle including a valve stem movable between an open position and a closed position is provided. The valve stem is moved at a first speed for a first portion of valve stem closure and a second speed for a second end portion of the valve stem closure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: James Osborne Plumpton, Sarah Kathleen Overfield, Abdeslam Bouti
  • Patent number: 9770857
    Abstract: An injection molding system including a robot includes an injection molding device, and the robot is fixed in a machine housing of the injection molding device, and motion range of the robot includes interior region of the machine housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoaki Seki, Wataru Shiraishi