Patents Examined by Joseph Leyson
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Patent number: 8186986Abstract: A device for drawing melt-spun filaments for forming a spunbonded fabric includes at least one guide member. The filaments are guided through a slot-shaped nozzle, onto which compressed air is applied, and which conveys the filaments through the drawing nozzle. Guide members are provided on both sides of the slot on the base of the slot-shaped outlet, which cause a uniform structure of the fabric due to their shaping. This is achieved when a guide member has a plurality of notches parallel to the conveying direction, and the opposite guide member has a plurality of bores, which passively connect the space between the guide member with the environment.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2009Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Holger Schöttler, Dimitrios Sapouridis
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Patent number: 8186987Abstract: Provided is a nano-fiber manufacturing apparatus which manufactures nano-fibers by an electrostatic explosion, and has a low possibility of explosion even when a flammable solvent is used. The nano-fiber manufacturing apparatus (101) having an ejection unit (110) which ejects solution (200) that is raw material liquid for nano-fibers (200) to a manufacturing space in which the nano-fibers (200) are manufactured by an electrostatic explosion of the solution (200), and a charging unit which charges the solution (200). The nano-fiber manufacturing apparatus (101) includes a gas supply source (103) which supplies safety gas to change an atmosphere of the manufacturing space, in which the solution (200) is ejected, into a low oxygen atmosphere, and a partition (102) which maintains the manufacturing space at a lower oxygen atmosphere than an atmosphere of an outside space of the partition (102).Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2008Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hiroto Sumida, Takahiro Kurokawa, Kazunori Ishikawa, Mitsuhiro Takahashi, Mikio Takezawa, Yoshiaki Tominaga
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Patent number: 8177539Abstract: A device for melt spinning multi-component fibers including at least two melt inlets for introducing separately guided melt components is presented. The device includes a feed plate having a plurality of feed channels for distributing the melt components, a distributor block associated with the feed plate, and a nozzle plate adjoining the distributor block and including a plurality of nozzle bores, wherein the distributor block has several thin distributor plates stacked on top of each other and each have a hole pattern with multiple distribution openings. The thin distributor plates are configured inside the distributor block such that a plurality of melt channels form, which connect the feed channels of the feed plate to the nozzle bores of the nozzle plate. In order to implement high flow volumes, multiple distributor plates having identical hole patterns of the distribution openings are stacked in a tightly sealing manner inside the distributor block.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2010Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Mathias Groner-Rothermel, Volker Birkholz
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Patent number: 8167603Abstract: The invention under consideration concerns a device for the production of corrugated pipes made of thermoplastic, in which mold jaws, which complement each other in pairs, are conducted jointly in a cycle along a mold section that leads away from an extruder head; they are moved apart at the end of the mold section and are returned to its beginning separately from one another with a mold section device for the movement of the mold jaws along the mold section, which has a supporting table with drive means for the mold jaws on the mold section, and with a return conveying device for the return conveyance of the mold jaws from the end of the mold section to its beginning, which has an outlet assembly to move apart the mold jaws at the end of the mold section and/or an inlet assembly to move in the mold jaws at the beginning of the mold section.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2005Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Drossbach GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Claus Hetzner, Michael Hurler
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Patent number: 8162644Abstract: The invention is made to accelerate extrusion forming by reducing a friction between a forming rubber formed to cover a cord or formed to extrude and an inner wall face of a path at inside of a die as the die used for an extrusion forming head, a portion of an upstream portion of a rubber forming path (2) reaching a front end outlet (4) from a rubber storing portion (3) at inside of a die main body 1 is provided with a fluid sending inlet (8) for sending a fluid between an outer peripheral face of a forming rubber (R1) at inside of the rubber forming path (2) and an inner wall face of the path and a resistance of passing the forming rubber (R1) on a downstream side is reduced by the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2006Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeo Kudo, Tetsuo Tatara, Osamu Fujiki
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Patent number: 8157556Abstract: A system for controlling the dimensions of an extrudate exiting an extruder and for compensating for the variations in the extrusion rate of the extruder, expansion rate and rate of travel of the extrudate through sizing devices by changing the speed of an extrudate puller device, includes an extruder which extrudes the extrudate; a conveyor system comprising rollers and a series of sizing devices; a puller device for pulling the extrudate through the sizing devices; and a laser proximity measuring device to assist the system in keeping the desired shape of the extrudate. The laser proximity measuring device includes at least one pair of optical non-contact displacement transducers, a real time processor, and an interactive touch screen display unit. The transducers emit a laser beam which provides a laser point on the side of the extrudate.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2007Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Strandex CorporationInventor: David F. Dostal
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Patent number: 8157555Abstract: An extrusion feed device for a composite resin capable of forming a composite resin extruded material having a variety of layer configurations not necessarily symmetrical. A plurality of cylindrical flow passages (3) and (4) for feeding a molten resin, an opening/closing valve (7) capable of opening/closing a center flow passage (36) and a cylindrical flow passage (4a), and a center opening/closing valve (39) capable of opening/closing the center flow passage are provided at the upstream side end part (2a) of a discharge passage (2) for delivering the composite resin extruded material. A main resin (30a) forming an outside layer is always fed from the cylindrical flow passage (3), and the other molten resin (30b) and/or (30c) as an auxiliary resin is fed, at a proper timing, from the cylindrical flow passage (4) and the center flow passage (36) on the inside into the molten resin (30a) on the outside by controlling the opening/closing valve (7) or the center opening/closing valve (39).Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2005Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.Inventors: Hotaka Fukabori, Tsuneo Imatani, Makoto Etoh, Kazunobu Watanabe
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Patent number: 8157554Abstract: The invention relates to the rotary spinning electrode of an elongated shape into the device for production of nanofibres through electrostatic spinning of polymer solutions comprising a pair of end faces, between them there are positioned spinning members formed by wire, which are distributed equally along the circumference and parallel with axis of rotation of the rotary spinning electrode, while the end faces are made of electrically non-conducting material and all the spinning members are mutually connected in a electrically conductive manner.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2007Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignees: Elmarco S.R.O.Inventors: David Petras, Miroslav Maly, Jan Pozner, Jan Trdlicka, Martin Kovac
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Patent number: 8157557Abstract: A rotary die head for a film blowing machine for use with a starch-based biodegradable material including a core mould and an outer body. The core mould includes a spiral core mould sleeved on a center pivot and a rotary core mould fixed on the center pivot, jointed with each other. A motor drives the center pivot and the rotary core mould to rotate. The outer body includes an inner die casing sleeved on the spiral core mould, an outer die casing fit with the inner die casing, and a mouth die casing. The inner die casing, the mouth die casing, the spiral core mould, and the rotary core mould form a material flow and molding channel consisting of a herringbone feed-in slot, spiral conveying slots, an annular gap buffer zone, a tapering cone passage, an annular loosing cavity, and a final molding gap in turn from bottom to top.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2010Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Inventors: Yong Fang, Ping Wu
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Patent number: 8147233Abstract: An apparatus for highly controlled color composition and distribution within the face mix of semi-dry concrete mix paving stones.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2009Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignees: Calstone, Rekers GmbH Maschinen-und AnlagenbauInventors: Matthew K. Morey, James Grossi, Robert Van Baarsel, Arjan Kemp, Bernhard Veerkamp
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Patent number: 8137088Abstract: The invention relates to a device for depositing synthetic fibers to form a non-woven web. The fibers are transported through a take-off nozzle by means of an air stream in the direction of a depositing belt. The device is provided with a guide duct for guiding fibers from the take-off nozzle to the depositing belt, said duct having a mobile retaining flap on one end of a longitudinal side that faces the depositing belt. To obtain a depositing area on the depositing belt that is separate from the environment as the position of the retaining flap is modified, the retaining flap is formed by a support and an elastic sealing lip, which is held in frictional contact with the depositing belt.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2005Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Oerlikon Textile GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Galliano Boscolo, Hans-Holger Heesch
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Patent number: 8137094Abstract: A process for manufacturing a composite yarn including continuous glass filaments intermingled with continuous organic thermoplastic filaments and an apparatus for implementing the process. The continuous glass filaments come from a bushing and are separated into plural sheets. The continuous organic thermoplastic filaments come from a spinning head and are separated into plural sheets. The thermoplastic filaments are thrown into the glass filaments so as to mingle them, in a ratio of at least one sheet of thermoplastic filaments in each sheet of glass filaments, the mingled filaments then being gathered into at least one composite yarn.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2008Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: OCV Intellectual Capital, LLCInventors: Philippe Boissonnat, Daniel Richard
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Patent number: 8128395Abstract: A honeycomb segment-forming die includes: an introducing portion provided on an introduction face side and having a plurality of back holes, and a forming portion provided on an formation face side and having slits communicating with the back holes. The forming portion has a polygonal outer peripheral shape and forms a prismatic honeycomb segment by passing kneaded clay for forming which is introduced from the back holes of the introducing portion through the slits of the forming portion, and a gap between slits formed in each of corner portions including a vertex of the polygonal forming portion is larger than a gap of slits formed in the central portion of the forming portion. This enables to form a honeycomb segment having high compressive strength.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2009Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Shindo, Tomoki Nagae
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Patent number: 8123511Abstract: The present invention provides a slot die that includes a flow passageway that includes a transverse flow-providing manifold, a flow metering section that provides a transverse flow metering gap, and an exit channel that includes an exit orifice. In accordance with the invention, a transverse flow metering gap may beneficially be selected independent of changing the gap or width of the exit office, using one or more normally non-adjustable die bodies.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2007Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Cloeren IncorporatedInventor: Peter F. Cloeren
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Patent number: 8113811Abstract: Techniques for preparing PNCs are provided. In one embodiment, a polymer extruding device may include a barrel configured to accommodate a composite material, a shaft rotatably disposed in the barrel, and a motor coupled to the shaft and configured to rotate the shaft, thereby moving the composite material. The polymer extruding device may further include a die including one or more injectors configured to inject nano particles into the die to cause shear stress to be exerted to the composite material, thereby forming a layer of the nano particles on a surface of the composite material.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: SNU R&DB FoundationInventor: Youngtack Shim
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Patent number: 8105064Abstract: For the purpose of molding a multilayered film/sheet having a highly precise thickness of each layer, movable choker bars (31, 32) are movably arranged in the middle of molten resin channels (111, 112), and a plurality of choker adjustment bolts (35, 36) are arranged at a predetermined pitch in the die width direction. The choker bars with the choker adjustment bolts are moved so as to adjust the gap in a choker portion. Thermal conductors (37, 38) are provided with the respective choker adjustment bolts.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2006Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Nozawa, Koji Mizunuma
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Patent number: 8096799Abstract: A spider for an extrusion apparatus located upstream from a die, through which a profile is extruded. The spider can have an outer housing with a central flow passage therethrough. An inner hub can be positioned within the central passage for supporting an inner portion of the die. At least one spider leg can be secured to the outer housing and the inner hub, and support the inner hub within the central passage. The at least one spider leg can recess radially rearwardly outwardly in the downstream direction such that molten polymer flowing through the central passage flows around the at least one spider leg, separating and rejoining together earlier in inner radial regions close to the inner hub than in outer radial regions close to the outer housing for reducing spider lines on inside surfaces of extruded profiles.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2008Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: American Maplan CorporationInventor: John Michael Wallen
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Patent number: 8092204Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for inflation extrusion molding of pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, the apparatus including: one or a plurality of extruders; a die into which one or a plurality of resin materials including at least a resin material for forming a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and extruded respectively from the extruders are respectively introduced and which extrudes from an ejection opening the resin materials into an inflated cylindrical shape having a predetermined diameter in accordance with an inflation method; and two stabilizers facing each other at a predetermined angle so as to upwardly approach each other, and defining a space therebetween through which the cylindrically-shaped resin materials extruded from the die are passed to be deformed into a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet in a flattened elliptical shape having a predetermined width, in which the stabilizers each have a plurality of air floating portions each of which blows air toward the resin materials; andType: GrantFiled: July 8, 2010Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Nitto Denko CorporationInventors: Kooki Ooyama, Shinsuke Ikishima, Naoto Hayashi, Tadao Torii, Toshihisa Yamane, Yuuki Katou
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Patent number: 8092207Abstract: The present invention provides a slot die that includes a flow passageway that includes a transverse flow-providing manifold, a flow metering section that provides a transverse flow metering gap, and an exit channel that includes an exit orifice. In accordance with the invention, the transverse flow metering gap may beneficially be selected independent of changing the gap or width of the exit office, using one or more normally non-adjustable die bodies.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2007Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Cloeren IncorporatedInventor: Peter F. Cloeren
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Patent number: 8062017Abstract: A splice bar for a tire tread die designed for providing a narrow strip of electrically conductive rubber extending from a lower under tread to the surface of the outer tread by positioning a slotted chimney block in a the outer tread rubber passage and having a passage between the chimney slot and the under tread rubber passage specially shaped for improving the flow of rubber during extrusion. This passage is essentially straight for guiding a strip-shaped stream of rubber of the under tread to the chimney slot. The passage intersects the rear surface of the splice bar to form a generally rectangular shaped corridor extending from the rear surface to the chimney slot.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2008Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber CoInventor: Damien Ghislain Clausse