Patents Examined by Jonathan G Riley
  • Patent number: 11628582
    Abstract: This invention relates to a novel application of liquid-infused surface materials (LISM) to at least a portion of one or more surfaces of razor components (e.g., frame, housing, clips, blade supports, blade body, blade edge, lubricating bodies, guard, handle, grip, button). If applied to a skin contacting surface of a component, the one or more LISM layers may generally be abrasion-resistant, long-lasting or non-erodible, desirably elevating shaving performance, such as glide, comfort, rinsing, and cleanliness, while also simplifying the manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Neville Sonnenberg, Alison Fiona Stephens, Joia Kirin SpoonerFleming
  • Patent number: 11613035
    Abstract: A handle for a shaving razor in which the handle comprises a frame and a movable member assembly operably coupled to the frame such that the frame is disposed between the movable member assembly and where the movable member assembly portions are configured to move both above and below the frame. The movement can be linear or rotational. The movable member assembly comprises one or more springs. A razor handle includes a rigid member, a first member having one or more movable elements wherein a portion of the first member is connected to a first surface of the rigid member, a second member, the second member coupled to a second surface of the rigid member wherein a benefit delivery assembly is disposed in an area between the rigid member and the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Steven Michael Bourque, Robert Harold Johnson, Matthew Stephen Bauer, Jack Anthony Washington, Charles James Bassett, Christopher Ramm, Ashok Bakul Patel
  • Patent number: 11606911
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus and related methods (i.e. utilities) for trimming plants, in particular, buds and flowers, to remove unwanted plant material. A typical application would be to process a plant to leave only trimmed buds and flowers for use in potpourri, fragrant sashes, or as a prelude to further processing of essential oils. The utilities enable faster and safer production of plant material than prior plant processing machines. The utilities employ a coaxial drum and cutting element that counter rotate. This coaxial cutting element typically includes a plurality of cutting elements, to create a plurality of cutting interface that shear unwanted plant material form plant material within the drum and then collect this debris though, for example, a vacuum system. The use of the counter-rotating cutting interfaces allows for multiplying the cutting interfaces over prior existing machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: ETEROS TECHNOLOGIES USA, INC.
    Inventors: Dana Eliot Mosman, Donald Mosman, Angel Ramon Torrado Perez
  • Patent number: 11602151
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutting equipment having a cutting device with a cutting element and a drive device for the cutting element. The drive device includes a pneumatically driven piston/cylinder arrangement and a switch valve having a high-pressure input port, a high-pressure output port and a low-pressure output port, with the high-pressure input port coupled to a high-pressure source, the high-pressure output port coupled to a first cylinder chamber and the low-pressure output port coupled to a second cylinder chamber. The switch valve connects the high-pressure input port to the high-pressure output port upon application of a pressurized fluid, and connects the high-pressure output port to the low-pressure output port upon reduction of the pressure level of the pressurized fluid. The present invention further relates to a clipping machine for producing sausage-shaped products, including said cutting equipment, and a method for controlling the cutting equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Poly-clip System GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jörg Sames
  • Patent number: 11584032
    Abstract: A cutting machine with a cutting support for material to be cut has a vertically movable, horizontal blade bar which bears a blade for cutting the cut material located thereon. A vertically movable, horizontal clamping bar is for pushing down the material to be cut. Two guide plates are arranged adjacent to one another, spaced apart in parallel in the same vertical plane, and in each case said guide plates have an inclined linear slot in which the blade bar is guided, and on the front faces thereof facing one another in each case have a vertical guide on which the clamping bar is guided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Krug & Priester GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Holger Jenter
  • Patent number: 11577416
    Abstract: A razor is provided, including a handle to be gripped by a user, a power generation unit disposed in the handle and configured to provide rotational power, a drive transmission unit coupled to the power generation unit and configured to be rotated by the rotational power, a cartridge including a blade housing on which one or more blades are seated, and a drive receiving unit formed at one side of the cartridge and configured to be in contact with the drive transmission unit to cause the blade housing to perform a linear movement in response to rotation of the drive transmission unit, wherein the cartridge is coupled to the handle such that the cartridge is pivotable about a pivot axis perpendicular to a rotational axis of the power generation unit, and wherein the pivot axis intersects the drive transmission unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: DORCO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Ho Park, Jae Joon Lee, Sung Hee Son, Shin Hwan Park
  • Patent number: 11571828
    Abstract: A shaving razor handle includes, a main body, a pair of arms extending from the main body, and a pivoting head. The pivoting head includes a base member and a biasing member. The base member is pivotally coupled with the pair of arms to facilitate pivoting of the pivoting head about a pivot axis between a home position and a fully pivoted position. The base member includes a front wall and a rear wall. The front wall includes a front exterior surface. The rear wall includes a rear exterior surface. The biasing member is operably coupled with the main body and is configured to bias the pivoting head into the home position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Robert Harold Johnson, Jack Anthony Washington, Matthew Michael Long, Michael Tejpaul Verasamy, Aiqin Li
  • Patent number: 11565431
    Abstract: A protective device and a method of transmitting an alert from the device, in which the protective device is handheld and includes a flexible sheath disposed between an upper member and a lower member. When the device is compressed, elongated defensive components protrude through openings in the upper member. In some cases, the upper member also includes protruding portions extending upward from the upper member and/or an arm portion extending outward to a side of the device. A signal alert may be automatically transmitted upon device compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: ALBL LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Levine, Joshua D. Levine, Evan M. Levine
  • Patent number: 11565434
    Abstract: The invention relates to a shaving unit (11) for use in a shaving device (1). The shaving unit comprises a supporting member (19, 21a, 21b, 21c) and at least two hair cutting units (7a, 7b, 7c) supported by the supporting member. Each hair cutting unit comprises an external cutting member (25a) with hair-entry openings (31) and an internal cutting member (27a) which is rotatable relative to the external cutting member about an axis of rotation (41) and which has a plurality of hair-cutting elements (35). The shaving unit further comprises a retaining structure (23a, 23b, 23c) which is releasably couplable to the supporting member and which is configured to retain the at least two hair cutting units in an operational position relative to the supporting member in an assembled condition of the shaving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Hendrik Klaas Paauw, Hilde Seip
  • Patent number: 11559814
    Abstract: The application relates to a double acting demolition device according to one embodiment for demolishing structures. The device includes a first crushing jaw for crushing operation, a first cutting jaw for cutting operation, and a combination jaw. The first jaws are separate jaws. The combination jaw is attachable to the first cutting jaw for constructing a second crushing jaw and to the first crushing jaw for constructing a second cutting jaw. The second crushing jaw is used jointly with the first crushing jaw in crushing operation and the second cutting jaw is used jointly with the first cutting jaw in cutting operation. In crushing operation, the first crushing jaw rotates around a fulcrum other than that of the second cutting jaw in cutting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAVONLINNAN PR-URAKOINTI OY
    Inventor: Jarkko Brunou
  • Patent number: 11547182
    Abstract: An installing hole forming mechanism includes at least one guiding sleeve and an inserting set. The at least one guiding sleeve includes a bore. The inserting set is detachably coupled to the at least one guiding sleeve and includes at least one spike configured to couple to the bore of the at least one guiding sleeve. The at least one spike includes a tip. When the at least one spike passes through the bore of the at least one guiding sleeve, the tip exposes from the guiding sleeve, and the at least one spike and the at least one guiding sleeve are forced to puncture a shoe such that at least one installing hole is formed on the shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventor: Chin-Chu Chen
  • Patent number: 11541562
    Abstract: A cutting tool mechanism comprises a base, a fixing module disposed on the base for fixing a product to be disassembled, a first moving mechanism disposed on a side of the fixing module, and a three-dimensional cutter rotatably disposed on the first moving mechanism and matched with the fixing module. The first moving mechanism extends in a first direction and is configured to drive the three-dimensional cutter to move in the first direction, and the three-dimensional cutter is configured to be driven to move in a second direction and in a third direction, each of the second direction and the third direction being perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TRIPLE WIN TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Mei Cai, Yen-Sheng Lin, Xing Yu
  • Patent number: 11529694
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a replaceable-blade-type saw in which a handle fitting part can be insertably engaged in a guide member even if the width dimension of the handle fitting part is greater than the width dimension of the guide member. In a handle fitting part 3 of a saw blade 1 is formed a slit part 8, which is configured from a first slit part 6 formed inward from the side edge part of the handle fitting part 3, and a second slit part 7 formed as a continuation of the first slit part 6 as well as being formed toward the distal end side of the handle fitting part 3 from an inner end part 6A of the first slit part 6, and a slit outer-side part 9 positioned on the outer side of the slit part 8 of the handle fitting part 3 is elastically moved or elastically deformed inward by the slit part 8 when bearing external force exerted inward from the side-edge-part side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: TAKAGI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Ishida, Yoshiaki Yokota
  • Patent number: 11524422
    Abstract: In a method of operating a flat-bed die-cutter a printing substrate in the form of a web is fed to a die-cutting module of the flat-bed die-cutter, a web section is severed from the web and removed as waste. The web is guided through the die-cutting module and the web section is severed from the web in or downstream of the die-cutting module and removed as waste. Products are thus formed by die-cutting a web while reducing waste and periods of standstill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventor: Werner Schwab
  • Patent number: 11518703
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a glass sheet includes a start point forming step of forming a scribe line on a preset cutting portion of a glass sheet, a setting step of causing, through use of a support member having a groove-shaped recess, the support member to support the glass sheet having the scribe line formed thereon from one surface side so that the preset cutting portion is arranged on the recess, and a cutting step of generating a negative pressure in the recess to bend the preset cutting portion on the recess so that the one surface side protrudes, to thereby cut the glass sheet along the preset cutting portion with the scribe line as the start point. At the time of performing the cutting step, the entire recess is covered with a cover member from another surface side of the glass sheet through intermediation of the glass sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takimoto, Taisei Matsubushi, Masao Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11517427
    Abstract: Systems, dies, and methods are provided for processing pericardial tissue. The method includes positioning a die-cut assembly over the pericardial tissue, the die-cut assembly including a die having a plate, a die pattern, and an opening, the die pattern attached to the plate, the opening formed in the plate to provide access to the pericardial tissue, and measuring a thickness of the tissue through the opening. The die-cut assembly may be mounted for automated vertical movement, and a platen on which the tissue is placed is capable of automated horizontal movement. Different target areas on the tissue can be assessed by measuring the thickness through the die, and when an area is deemed suitable the die pattern cuts a shape therefrom. The system is useful for cutting uniform thickness heart valve leaflets, and can be automated to speed up the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
    Inventors: Oanh H. Nguyen, Ivan Jankovic, Diana Nguyen-Thien-Nhon, Juan C. Velez, Jon Boomgarden
  • Patent number: 11498236
    Abstract: A slicing machine cuts slices of cutting material. The slicing machine has: a machine housing holding a motor and circular blade driven by the motor; a product feed, which feeds the cutting material to the circular blade; a stop plate; and a slidably arranged carriage, which feeds the cutting material to the blade. The blade is mounted directly on a bearing shaft arranged in the drive motor for the circular blade. The drive motor includes at a stator and rotor, which is detachable from the stator. The stator is in the machine housing. The machine housing has an insertion opening where, in the assembled state, the stator is arranged and through which the rotor is at least partially inserted into the stator. The slicing machine has an attachment device comprising at least one fastener that is configured to fasten the rotor and the stator to the machine housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Bizerba SE & Co. KG
    Inventor: Markus Oesterle
  • Patent number: 11498232
    Abstract: The haircutter according to the invention serves for trimming and styling hair and comprises a grip and a blade head connected with the grip. A working section is disposed at one longitudinal face of the blade head and recessed from an alignment line of the longitudinal face. A haircutting blade having at least one cutting edge is accommodated in the blade head and disposed so as to expose at least part of its cutting edge in the working section and to not protrude beyond the alignment line. The blade head comprises a guiding device having at least one placing surface for the hair to be trimmed so that the hair to be trimmed lies at a defined angle to the cutting edge as the placing surface is placed against the hair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: The Calligraphy Cut Company GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Brormann
  • Patent number: 11491669
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus cuts a workpiece by a cutting blade. The cutting apparatus includes a mount flange on which the cutting blade is mounted and a replacement apparatus that replaces the cutting blade mounted on the mount flange with the cutting blade for replacement. The replacement apparatus includes a rotating part, a first holding part that holds the cutting blade mounted on the mount flange on a front surface side, a second holding part that holds the cutting blade for replacement on a front surface side, and a nut rotation part that has a nut holding part that holds a nut for fixing the cutting blade to the mount flange and rotates the nut held by the nut holding part. The rotating part is coupled to the first holding part, the second holding part, and the nut rotation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Terada, Yoshitaka Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11491675
    Abstract: A rotating blade slicer is provided. The slicer includes a housing, a carriage assembly that is slidably movable along the housing with respect to the knife. A gauge plate is provided to set cutting depth. The carriage assembly movably supports a weighted plate that is slidably mounted upon the carriage assembly and is configured to be disposed upon an upper surface of a food product intended to be sliced by the knife. The weighted plate supported by an arm that is slidably mounted to the carriage assembly, wherein the weighted plate is removably attached to the arm such that the weighted plate can be removed from and connected to the arm without any external tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Globe Food Equipment Co.
    Inventors: Heather Brianna Dwire, Bethany Nicole Farrier