Patents Examined by John C Merino
  • Patent number: 12245736
    Abstract: A cleaner head for a vacuum cleaner includes a suction cavity comprising an opening through which debris enters the cleaner head, and an outlet. An agitator is mounted in the suction cavity in a cantilevered manner for rotation relative thereto. The agitator includes a core having a first, free end, a second end remote from the free end, and upstanding helical ridges extending between the free end and the second end, and a row of bristles located between the helical ridges and inclined relative to the core in a direction extending towards the free end of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventor: Andrew John Isaacs
  • Patent number: 12245734
    Abstract: A washing bucket has a container with an interior defined by wall and a bottom, the fluid inlet affixed to the wall of the container, and a fluid outlet opening through the wall of the container. The fluid outlet is positioned at a level higher than a level of the fluid inlet. The fluid inlet communicates with the interior of the container. The fluid inlet is positioned adjacent to the bottom of the container. In particular, the fluid inlet is a tubular member having a plurality of openings. This plurality of openings opens to the interior of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Inventor: Tim Mcdonald
  • Patent number: 12245682
    Abstract: A powered toilet bowl brush for automatically cleaning an interior of a toilet bowl. The toilet bowl brush includes a splash guard member having a brush assembly disposed on a first side and a housing on an opposing side thereof. The splash guard member is sized to rest atop a perimeter of a toilet bowl and prevent liquid from splashing out of the toilet bowl when in use. A shaft extends from the housing and through the splash guard member, wherein a distal end of the shaft is secured to the brush assembly. The shaft is operably connected to a motor that moves the brush assembly along a vertical axis. In some embodiments, the brush assembly is rotatably secured to the shaft and is capable of rotating 360 degrees about the vertical axis. In operation, the brush assembly is activated to automatically clean the interior of the toilet bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Inventor: Freeman Gormany
  • Patent number: 12186762
    Abstract: A fluid spray nozzle includes a first member that is configured to be fixed to a sensor or a mounted portion to which the sensor is mounted, and a second member that is fixed to the first member. The first member has a fluid inlet and a first fluid passage that is connected to the fluid inlet. The second member has a second fluid passage that is connected to the first fluid passage, and a spray port from which the fluid that has passed through the second fluid passage is sprayed onto a predetermined location of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventor: Tomohisa Koseki
  • Patent number: 12179387
    Abstract: An apparatus can include a first material support member and a second material support member each configured to removably attach to a tile tray. The material support members can define a linear saw blade slot through which a saw blade extends while cutting a planar material. The apparatus also can include a first paddle and a second paddle each configured to interpose a respective portion of the planar material between the respective paddle and a respective one of the material support members. Each of the paddles further can be configured to engage the respective material support member using an alignment pin that fixes a position of the paddle relative to the position of the respective material support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: MMB DESIGNS LLC
    Inventors: Melissa Anne Davis, William Anthony Poffel, Marcus Thane Neely
  • Patent number: 12161284
    Abstract: An autonomous cleaning robot (e.g., an autonomous vacuum) may clean an environment using a cleaning head that is self-actuated. The cleaning head includes an actuator assembly comprising an actuator configured to control rotation and vertical movement of a cleaning roller, a controller, and a cleaning roller having an elongated cylindrical length connected to the actuator assembly. The cleaning head also includes a computer processor connected to the actuator assembly and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that causes the computer processor to map the environment based on sensor data captured by the autonomous vacuum. The computer processor may determine an optimal height for the cleaning head based on the map and instruct the actuator assembly to adjust the height of the cleaning head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: MATIC ROBOTS, INC.
    Inventors: Anshuman Kumar, Vishal Jain, Seungho Yang, Gavin Li, Mehul Nariyawala, Navneet Dalal
  • Patent number: 12134165
    Abstract: A grinding method for grinding a workpiece includes a first grinding step of grinding the workpiece in such a manner that an outer circumferential part of the workpiece becomes thinner than a central part of the workpiece, a measurement step of measuring the thickness of the workpiece at the outer circumferential part, and a second grinding step of grinding the workpiece. In the second grinding step, the grinding is started from the central part of the workpiece and the grinding is ended when the workpiece reaches a finished thickness decided based on the thickness of the workpiece at the outer circumferential part measured in the measurement step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoru Fujimura
  • Patent number: 12127724
    Abstract: A stick vacuum cleaner comprising an elongated shaft part, a housing arranged to be attached to the elongated shaft part, the housing comprising an air inlet, a container arranged to accommodate a removable air-permeable dust bag, a motor fan unit for creating an airflow, and an exhaust air outlet, a nozzle arranged at a first end of the elongated shaft part, the nozzle comprising a nozzle inlet via which debris is transported from a surface to be cleaned by means of the created airflow to the dust container, and a handle arranged at a second end of the elongated shaft part, wherein the container is arranged to be removably attached to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget Electrolux
    Inventors: Jesper Hederos, Oskar Lindström, Peter Mian, Dawid Dawod
  • Patent number: 12122016
    Abstract: A long rod grinding machine reduces the likelihood of dust escaping and falling. The long rod grinding machine includes a head and a rod having an end connected to the head and extending in a front-rear direction. The head includes an electric motor, a pad movable with a driving force from the electric motor, a vertical wall surrounding a radially outer edge of the pad, and a contact member located between the vertical wall and the pad and surrounding the radially outer edge of the pad. The contact member includes a brush holder having one or more through-holes extending in a radial direction of the pad, and a brush located below the brush holder and having a lower end located downward from a lower end of the vertical wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fumihide Sugita
  • Patent number: 12115600
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a mechanism that does not cause a situation such as corrosion of the iron tip with an air nozzle due to blowing off solder from the iron tip of the soldering iron, and a mechanism capable of coping with various shapes of iron tips. In order to achieve the object of the present invention, an iron tip cleaner device for a soldering iron includes a cleaner chamber including a wall surface and an air jetting holes that is provided in the wall surface and jets air for blowing off solder on an iron tip. The solder on the iron tip is blown off by convection air generated when the air jetted from the air jetting holes collides with the wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SHORITSU ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Nakajima, Shinobu Yamamoto, Takeshi Mimura
  • Patent number: 12110629
    Abstract: A duct cleaning appliance is adapted for cleaning a ventilation system of a clothes dryer. The duct cleaning appliance includes a hollow duct cleaning tool operatively connected at an open proximal end to a portable airstream appliance adapted for generating a pressurized airflow. An open distal end of the duct cleaning tool is placed over a screen housing opening of the clothes dryer, such that the distal end closely engages the clothes dryer to operatively air-seal the screen housing opening. The portable airstream appliance is then activated to direct the pressurized airflow through the duct cleaning tool, lint exhaust and ventilation system of the clothes dryer, thereby evacuating lint and debris collected inside the ductwork of the ventilation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Inventor: Kenneth Steve Ramsey
  • Patent number: 12059771
    Abstract: A glass polishing apparatus includes a jig that holds a glass structure. The glass polishing apparatus includes a first flat portion, a second flat portion opposite to the first flat portion, and a curved portion connecting the first flat portion to the second flat portion. The jig and includes a first holding surface holding the first flat portion, a second holding surface disposed opposite to the first holding surface and holding the second flat portion, and a third holding surface connecting the first holding surface to the second holding surface and holding the curved portion. At least a portion of a roller unit having a cylindrical shape is inserted between the first flat portion and the second flat portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gyu In Shim, Byung Hoon Kang, Seung Kim, Seung Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 12053856
    Abstract: An apparatus for machining flat workpieces has at least two tool carriers mounted to machining heads that are drivable by at least a first drive unit. The tool carrier of one machining head is arranged such that it is movable in a shifting range (V1) along a first axis relative to the carrier unit. The tool carrier of a second machining head is arranged such that it is movable in a shifting area (V2) along the first axis relative to the carrier unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Inventor: Georg Weber
  • Patent number: 12043969
    Abstract: A blower appliance includes: a carrying harness, at least one blower fastener, a blower having an air outlet, and a nozzle, connected downstream of the air outlet by way of an elastic bellows having a return effect. The blower fastener having an articulation having a return effect, which tends to return the axis of the air outlet of the fan body towards a rest position, the articulation having a return component, parallel to the spinal axis, with a second spinal return stiffness, the second spinal return stiffness being greater than the first spinal return stiffness of the elastic bellows. The blower appliance finds applications in the maintenance of parks and gardens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Inventor: Thibault Remy
  • Patent number: 11969133
    Abstract: A hand vacuum cleaner has a cyclonic unit comprising a first cyclonic stage and a second cyclonic stage. The front end of the first cyclonic stage has a front door that is moveable between a closed position and an open position. A latch secures the front door in the closed position. The front door has a first portion which is rotatably mounted to a front end of a cyclone unit sidewall and a second portion angularly spaced around the front door from the first portion, the second portion having the latch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Omachron Intellectual Property Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Ernest Conrad
  • Patent number: 11944258
    Abstract: A cleaner includes a suction unit, a main body including a cyclone unit for separating dust from air suctioned through the suction unit, and a dust container that stores dust separated in the cyclone unit below the cyclone unit. A filter unit is disposed inside the cyclone unit for filtering the air, and a movable unit disposed inside the cyclone unit includes a cleaning part for cleaning the outer circumference of the filter unit. An operation unit disposed outside the main body moves the movable unit and the cleaning part to remove dust from the outer surface of the filter unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Youngjoo Lee, Jungmin Ko, Soohan Eo, Kietak Hyun, Inkyu Hwang
  • Patent number: 11872669
    Abstract: A processing machine includes a chuck table, a chuck table cover having an opening through which a holding surface of the chuck table can protrude, a processing unit having a spindle, a spindle housing, and a mount portion arranged on a lower end portion of the spindle, the processing unit being configured to process a workpiece by a processing tool mounted on a lower part of the mount portion, a processing chamber construction cover that covers the chuck table and the mount portion. The processing machine further includes a processing tool cover that is secured to a lower end portion of the spindle housing and that has an upper wall and a side wall that extends downwardly from the upper wall. The processing tool cover is disposed inside the processing chamber construction cover and covers the processing tool from above and sides by the upper and side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Moriya, Tomohiro Shirahama
  • Patent number: 11826879
    Abstract: There is provided a cutting machine for cutting a wafer using a cutting blade. The cutting machine includes a shape storage section, a shape measurement unit, a determination section, and an end face correction device. The shape storage section stores a cross-sectional shape of a support surface, which a mount of a cutting unit has, in an axial direction of a spindle. The shape measurement unit contactlessly measures the cross-sectional shape of the support surface in the axial direction of the spindle. Through a comparison between the cross-sectional shape stored in the shape storage section and the cross-sectional shape measured by the shape measurement unit, the determination section determines whether or not the support surface needs a correction. The end face correction device corrects a shape of the support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shun Takeda