Patents Examined by John Blades
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Patent number: 12590486Abstract: A method for manufacturing a glazed unit, including a glass pane having an external face, an internal face and a peripheral edge, and an attachment system to allow mobility of the glass pane in vertical translation with respect to a door of a vehicle, the attachment system being located in an attachment zone and including a window holder having a U-shaped part, wherein the attachment system is attached to the glass pane by positioning the glass pane on a reference housing, then, applying an adhesive and positioning the window holder opposite a rim of the glass pane such that the adhesive is positioned in the U-shaped part, between the glass pane and the window holder, and the window holder having a lateral extension, distinct from the U-shaped part and located opposite the glass pane, applying a quick-hardening plastic material is applied on a lateral extension, and/or under a lateral extension.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: March 31, 2026Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN SEKURIT FRANCEInventor: Laurent Silvestrini
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Patent number: 12539698Abstract: A method for producing elastic laminates includes gripping first and second continuous elastic films in respective gripping zones by respective first and second stretching members, transversely stretching the first and second continuous elastic films by rotating said first and second stretching members about respective first and second axes of rotation inclined with respect to each other, and releasing the transversely stretched first and second continuous elastic films from the respective first and second stretching members in respective release zones aligned along a common transverse release line.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2022Date of Patent: February 3, 2026Assignee: Fameccanica.Data S.p.A.Inventors: Gabriele Sablone, Antonio D'Alberto
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Patent number: 12528278Abstract: The invention relates to a laminating device (10) and a laminating method for laminating at least one layer stack (11), comprising at least one substantially plate-shaped workpiece (11a) and at least one adhesive material layer (11b), by means of pressure and/or heat. The laminating device comprises a lower part (12) and an upper part that can be connected to the lower part (12) in a gas-tight manner. A working chamber (14) which can be opened and closed and which is for receiving the layer stack (11) during lamination is formed between the lower part (12) and the upper part (13). A pressure plate (15) can be moved along a press axis (a-a) in the working chamber (14) between the upper part (13) and the lower part (12). At least one sealing frame (21) is arranged between the lower part (12) and the upper part (13).Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: January 20, 2026Assignee: ROBERT BÜRKLE GMBHInventors: Daniel Klaus, Wolfgang Renz
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Patent number: 12529258Abstract: Provided are a glass panel unit and a method for manufacturing the glass panel unit, both of which are designed to overcome the problem of poor handleability of known glass panel units with no through holes. A glass panel unit includes a first panel, a second panel, a seal, and a boundary wall. The seal has a frame shape and hermetically bonds respective peripheral edge portions of the first panel and the second panel. The boundary wall partitions an internal space into a first space as a hermetically sealed evacuated space and a second space spatially separated from the first space. The first panel has a first through hole provided through a portion, corresponding to the second space, of the first panel. The second panel has a second through hole provided through a portion, corresponding to the second space and facing the first through hole, of the second panel.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 20, 2026Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tasuku Ishibashi, Eiichi Uriu, Hiroyuki Abe, Kazuya Hasegawa, Kenji Hasegawa, Masataka Nonaka, Takeshi Shimizu, Haruhiko Ishikawa
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Patent number: 12515841Abstract: A label wrapping device configured to warp a label around a cable includes a stripping part, a conveying roller, an insertion recess, a driving part and a controller. The conveying roller conveys the label peeled off a release paper by the stripping part in a conveying direction along a conveying path. The insertion recess is positioned downstream of the conveying roller in the conveying direction and is open toward the conveying path. The controller is configured to control the driving part: (a) to enable the conveying roller to convey the label peeled off the release paper in the conveying direction; and (b) to enable the conveying roller to halt conveyance of the label when an upstream end of the label becomes positioned downstream relative to the stripping part in the conveying direction and after the label covers at least a portion of an opening of the insertion recess.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 6, 2026Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shota Iijima
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Patent number: 12467310Abstract: A method of vacuum sealing a sacrificial panel to a structural panel, such as to form a walkway, is disclosed. The method comprises providing a sacrificial panel having a first side and a second, opposing side, providing a plurality of dots, applying the plurality of dots in a spaced relationship onto the first side of the sacrificial panel, applying a double-sided tape about the periphery of the first side of the sacrificial panel, providing a structural panel, placing the structural panel onto the first side of the sacrificial panel, wherein the dots create a gap between the sacrificial layer and the structural layer, and the double-sided tape provides an airtight seal between the sacrificial layer and the structural layer. The method further comprises providing a needle coupled to a vacuum device, inserting the needle into the gap between the sacrificial layer and the structural layer and operating the vacuum device to remove air from the gap between the sacrificial layer and the structural layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: November 11, 2025Assignee: SWG CONSULTING LLCInventors: Manuel Mojica, Micah Jones
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Patent number: 12459212Abstract: An electrofusion joint includes a tubular main body, a stopper portion, a first heat generation section, and a second heat generation section. The tubular main body includes a joint receiving portion. The stopper portion projects inwardly on an inner surface of the tubular main body. The first heat generation section includes a first heater wire wound and arranged at the joint receiving portion. The second heat generation section includes a second heater wire wound so that wound parts of the second heater wire are adjacent to each other and the second heater wire is in the stopper portion. The first heat generation section includes at least one heat generation portion in which the first heater wire is wound so that wound parts of the first heater wire are adjacent to each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 4, 2025Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Ayaka Kitagawa, Amiko Sakamoto, Hiroaki Kondou, Kouzou Makino, Tsuyoshi Katou
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Patent number: 12454122Abstract: A building panel with a surface layer including a wood veneer, a wood fibre based core and a sub-layer between the surface layer and the core. The sub-layer includes wood fibres and a binder. The surface layer has surface portions including material from the sub-layer. The surface portions including material from the sub-layer extend into the wood veneer.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: October 28, 2025Assignee: VÄLINGE INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko Pervan, Göran Ziegler
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Patent number: 12454104Abstract: An assembly jig for a cellular structure made from strips of material placed adjacent to each other and joined together so as to form first and second cells, opening on the first and second faces of the cellular structure, respectively. This assembly jig includes a housing delimited by a base and first and second side faces, configured for housing the strips of material of a cellular structure to be formed, superimposed on each other, a plurality of pins configured to be positioned between the superimposed strips of material in the first and/or second cells. An assembly device comprising the jig, and a method for manufacturing a cellular structure using the jig are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: October 28, 2025Assignee: Airbus Operations SASInventors: Florian Ravise, Maxime Gauthier, Manuel Teigne
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Patent number: 12442087Abstract: A method for coating a metallic support profile with a layer of a corrosion-resistant material, includes providing the metallic support profile with a surface to be coated, providing a layer element of the corrosion-resistant material adapted to the surface to be coated, applying an adhesive, curable substance to at least one of the surface to be coated and the layer element, applying the layer element to the surface to be coated, covering the arrangement of support profile and layer element by a compacting element, pressing the layer element onto the surface to be coated by the compacting element to achieve a predetermined joint thickness occupied by the adhesive substance, curing the adhesive substance while maintaining the joint thickness to generate a bond, and removing the compacting element.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: October 14, 2025Assignee: Premium Aerotec GmbHInventors: Ralph Maennich, Manuel Stiegelmeyr, Matthias Bensch, Thomas Geipel, Kilian Dallinger
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Patent number: 12358678Abstract: A manual sticker dispenser, configured to peel a sticker from a liner paper during a sticker conveying process. The manual sticker dispenser includes: a housing; a winding shaft, capable of winding the liner paper to convey the sticker to an output port; an operating member, configured to operatively reciprocate within a set range; and a transmission mechanism, transmission-connected to the operating member and the winding shaft, and capable of transmitting power output from the operating member to the winding shaft to drive the winding shaft to rotate. The transmission mechanism includes a one-way clutching device; the one-way clutching device is configured to be coupled in condition of the operating member moving in the first direction to implement a transmission of the power, and to be uncoupled in condition of the operating member moving in the second direction opposite to the first direction to disconnect the transmission of the power.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2024Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Inventor: Tianlong Wang
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Patent number: 12343971Abstract: A laminating roller, a laminating device, and a method for laminating a display apparatus are provided. A laminating device includes a stage on which a display module including a folding area foldable about a folding axis and at least one non-folding area, which is not folded, is configured to be seated; a pressing part over the stage to overlap the non-folding area and having a diameter; and a connection part over the stage to overlap the folding area and connected to the pressing part, and the connection part has a diameter less than that of the pressing part and extends in a direction perpendicular to the folding axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2023Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jaiku Shin, Jiwon Han, Wonbaek Lee, Seung-ho Jung, Taehyeog Jung, Kyungmin Choi
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Patent number: 12214926Abstract: A labeling machine, which includes a conveyor of containers to be labeled along an advancement path and at least one labeling unit arranged along the advancement path and provided with a respective transfer drum that can move in rotation about its own axis, with respect to a supporting base, and which is adapted to receive, in adhesion to its lateral surface, from a feeder unit, labels to be applied to the containers, at a feeding station, and to transfer the labels received at the feeding station to respective containers that arrive from the conveyor at a transfer station which is angularly spaced apart from the feeding station about the axis of the transfer drum; at least one portion of a sector of the lateral surface of the transfer drum is rotatably movable, with respect to the remaining part of the transfer drum.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: P.E. Labellers S.P.A.Inventor: Riccardo Bardini
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Patent number: 12203321Abstract: A work in progress includes: a pair of glass substrates arranged to face each other; a peripheral wall having a frame shape and disposed between the pair of glass substrates; a boundary wall; and an evacuation port. The boundary wall hermetically separates an internal space, surrounded with the pair of glass substrates and the peripheral wall, into an evacuation space, a buffer space, and a ventilation space. The evacuation port connects the ventilation space to an external environment. The evacuation space and the buffer space have a lower internal pressure than the ventilation space. A predetermined part, including the evacuation space but excluding parts covering the buffer space and the ventilation space, of the work in progress, forms the glass panel unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Eiichi Uriu, Tasuku Ishibashi, Kazuya Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Abe, Masataka Nonaka, Takeshi Shimizu, Haruhiko Ishikawa
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Patent number: 12199393Abstract: A method of assembling a waterproof structure includes the following operations. Connect a first input/output connector of a circuit board to a first positioning fixture. A first elastic adhesive is combined with a first rigid board. An end of the first positioning fixture away from the first input/output connector is passed out of the first rigid board, and the first input/output connector and the first elastic adhesive are separated on two sides of the first rigid board. The circuit board is arranged in the casing, wherein the first positioning fixture is inserted from the first input/output opening on the first wall inside the casing, so that the first elastic adhesive adheres the first rigid board to the first wall of the casing, and the first elastic adhesive fills a spacing between the first positioning fixture and the first input/output opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignees: Inventec (Pudong) Technology Corporation, INVENTEC CORPORATIONInventors: Chia-Chen Chen, Yin-Chang Cheng, Tang-An Liu, Yung-Hung Chu, Chi-Zen Peng
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Patent number: 12145763Abstract: Subject matter described in this disclosure relates to a label applicator for varied surfaces. In some instances, the label applicator may include one or more elements that may adjust to individual package properties and may adjust from one package to the next. For example, in one aspect the label applicator may include a label-retaining surface that is nonlinear. In other examples, the label applicator may include a force attenuator that dampens compressive forces between the label applicator and the package. In a further example, the label applicator may include an articulating joint that permits pivotable adjustment when a label applicator contacts a package. In yet another example, the label applicator may include a magnetic coupling attaching the label applicator to an actuator to provide a breakaway and reattachment mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA, INC.Inventor: James Cossey
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Patent number: 12122551Abstract: A wire guide assembly is provided for the accurate labeling of different diameter elongated objects, wires, or cables within a wrapping mechanism of an elongated object label applicator. The label applicator guide permits elongated objects of different diameters to be placed within substantially the center of the wrapping mechanism to continuously facilitate proper application of a label to different sized elongated objects.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Panduit Corp.Inventors: Roger D. Segroves, Kevin L Nelson
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Patent number: 12103289Abstract: The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method of an electrode outer casing capable of improving a yield in a manufacturing method of an electrode outer casing which uses a laminated film and implementing an increase in productivity. The manufacturing method of an electrode outer casing disclosed herein includes a preparation step of preparing a multilayer laminated film which has at least a plurality of resin film layers, a transport step of transporting the laminated film to an unevenness forming section in order to form an uneven shape, a forming step of forming the laminated film in the unevenness forming section, and a cutting step of cutting the laminated film having been subjected to the forming step.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: PRIME PLANET ENERGY & SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventor: Satoshi Nakashima
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Patent number: 12084220Abstract: A label vacuum-grip cylinder calibration system comprising an indicator support holder supporting a first indicator and a second indicator. The indicators each have a display face with a display. Projection areas of the display faces project perpendicularly from the display faces. The indicator support holder supports the first indicator and the second indicator such that a first projection area and a second projection area do not overlap and neither the first indicator nor the second indicator obscures either display.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: AMTIG ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS, LLCInventor: Steven Groholski
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Patent number: 12084910Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for manufacturing vacuum glass. An apparatus for manufacturing vacuum glass, according to an embodiment of the present invention, includes an exhaust finishing frit inserted into an exhaust hole of a plate glass assembly so as to seal the exhaust hole in an exhaust process. In addition, the exhaust finishing frit comprises: a frit body having a body top part on which a cap frit is placed; a depressed portion which is upwardly depressed from the bottom of the frit body; and an exhaust guide part which is formed to penetrate the outer circumferential surface of the frit body. Thus, it is possible to prevent bubbles from being generated in the exhaust finishing frit during a finishing process.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Sora Kim, Soyoon Kim, Youngseok Kim, Eunsoo Yang