Patents Examined by Katie L Gerth
  • Patent number: 11911888
    Abstract: Portable, hand held, battery operated, hydraulic tools are provided with a tool frame and one or more interchangeable working heads. When the working head is connected with the tool frame, a piston actuated by a hydraulic system within the tool frame applies force to the working head to perform a task. The tool includes a sensor for detecting the type of head connected with the tool and a mechanism for adjusting the amount of force applied to the head by the hydraulic system based on the detected head type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HUBBELL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: John David Lefavour, Daniel Paul Owens
  • Patent number: 11912554
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for dispensing and retrieving products is provided. A system may include: a grasping head; first and second grasping members, each grasping member comprising: a top member; a post member; and first and second grasping fingers, where the first and second grasping fingers extend from the post member and are spaced apart from the top member by a predetermined distance, where the first and second grasping members are connected to the grasping head, where at least one of the first and second grasping members is movably connected to the grasping head, where the at least one of the first and second grasping members is movable relative to the other of the first and second grasping members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MCKESSON CORPORTATION
    Inventors: Rich Herrschaft, Jason Warner
  • Patent number: 11897104
    Abstract: A fastener driving tool including a housing and a workpiece contact element movably connected to the housing, where the workpiece contact element is movable between a rest position and an activated position. A trigger assembly including a bottom assembly and a top assembly is movably connected to the housing. The tool includes an actuation lever movably connected to the bottom assembly of the trigger assembly and movable between a rest position and an engaged position. The top assembly includes a downwardly extending block configured to engage the actuation lever. A damper mechanism is associated with the actuation lever and is configured to control a rate of movement of the actuation lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Hanxin Zhao
  • Patent number: 11890735
    Abstract: A removal apparatus of a threaded post contains: a drive rod, a connection element, an actuation element, and a slidable sleeve. The connection element includes a locking groove and a notch. The actuation element includes a fitting fringe corresponding to the connection element, a cylindrical neck having a diameter less than a diameter of the fitting fringe, and an engagement disc having a diameter more than the diameter of the cylindrical neck. The diameter of fitting fringe is equal to a diameter of the connection element. The slidable sleeve includes a coupling space having a diameter equal to the diameter of the fitting fringe and the diameter of the connection element. The slidable sleeve is slid so that the coupling space abuts against the fitting fringe and the connection element, and the engagement disc is engaged in the locking groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SPECIALTY TOOL COMPANY
    Inventor: Chun Po Huang
  • Patent number: 11883943
    Abstract: An electric gardening machine includes a rod portion, including a machine tool head; an operation portion, disposed on the rod portion, including a first assembling portion having a first electrical terminal and a pressing member; and a controlling portion, including a shell body having a second assembling portion detachably assembled with the first assembling portion and a control module disposed in the shell body, a second electrical terminal of the control module being in electrical contact with the first electrical terminal, the control module being switchable by the pressing member to supply power to the machine tool head; wherein the shell body includes a first shell member and a second shell member connected with each other, the second electrical terminal is disposed through the first shell member, and the second assembling portion is disposed on the first shell member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventor: Ping-Tzu Ho
  • Patent number: 11883941
    Abstract: A hammer drill includes a housing inside which a motor, a tubular tool holder, a driving mechanism, a rotation conversion member, and an inner housing are disposed. The driving mechanism is configured to perform at least one of rotation actuation of the tool holder and hammering actuation of a bit. The inner housing supports the driving mechanism, supports the tool holder via a first bearing, and supports an output shaft via a second bearing. The inner housing is divided into a front housing holding the first bearing and a rear housing that is formed in a separate body from the front housing and holds the second bearing. The inner housing is formed by connecting the front housing to the rear housing in an axis line direction of the tool holder. A seal member sealing outside space of the inner housing inside the housing is disposed in the front housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Machida, Kiyonobu Yoshikane
  • Patent number: 11883942
    Abstract: The present invention relates broadly to a flow diverter disposed in a plenum area of a motor cylinder chamber (also referred to as kidney ports). The flow diverter acts as a barrier between a main inlet to the motor and an inlet to the cylinder chamber, and directs air or fluid to vane lifter ports of the motor before the air or fluid flows to the inlet to the cylinder chamber. In addition, the flow diverter can serve to regulate air or fluid flowing into the cylinder chamber to control power of the tool. The flow diverter allows for numerous options of where the main inlet to the motor can be positioned and provides a means of regulating the air or fluid flowing into the cylinder chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Snap-on Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard Bothmann, Brian King, Raymond E. Kinsley
  • Patent number: 11883939
    Abstract: A heat dissipating device is adapted to be mounted in an electric nail gun that includes a flywheel being rotatable about an axis, a first pulley being spaced apart from the flywheel, and a transmission belt being trained on the first pulley. The heat dissipating device includes a second pulley, a weight disc and a heat dissipating member that are adapted to be connected coaxially and co-rotatably to the flywheel. The second pulley is adapted to be trained by the transmission belt. The heat dissipating member includes a plurality of fan blades extending in a direction of the axis such that, during co-rotation of the flywheel, the weight disc and the heat dissipating member, the fan blades create a flow of air for cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Basso Industry Corp.
    Inventors: Chia-Yu Chien, Jian-Rung Wu
  • Patent number: 11878828
    Abstract: There is described an outfeed device for a packaging assembly configured to form and seal a plurality of packages containing a pourable product; the outfeed device comprises an input station, at which it receives, in use, the packages, and an output station, at which the packages exit, in use, from the outfeed device; the outfeed device comprises at least one selectively operable cart element cyclically movable along an endless path, comprising a receiving portion defining a receiving seat for picking one single package at a time at input station, housing at least part of the package, and being configured to bring the package from the input station to the output station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Giorgio Mattioli, Massimiliano Barbi, Dino Neri, Massimo Fratti, Richard John Pedretti
  • Patent number: 11878402
    Abstract: An example hydraulic tool includes: a fluid reservoir; a pump; an electric motor; a cylinder; a piston; a first trigger button; a second trigger button; and a controller configured to perform operations comprising: receiving a first signal when the first trigger button is triggered, responsively, causing the electric motor to rotate in a first rotational direction, thereby: (i) causing the pump to provide fluid to the cylinder, and (ii) causing the piston to move in a first linear direction, thereafter, receiving a second signal when the second trigger button is triggered, and responsively to the second signal, causing the electric motor to rotate in a second rotational direction opposite the first rotational direction, thereby: (i) opening a fluid path from the cylinder to the fluid reservoir, and (ii) causing the piston to move in a second linear direction opposite the first linear direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Eric D. Norquist, James G. Ballard, Kris J. Kanack, Luke J. Skinner, Robert Jensen, Marc S. D'Antuono, Peter Davies
  • Patent number: 11872679
    Abstract: The invention provides a pneumatic nail gun, comprising a gun body, a nail box, a fork and a nail forming device. The gun body comprises a sliding groove, a nail outlet adjacent to the sliding groove and a push block. The nail box and the fork are fixed on the gun body. The nail box is configured to place a plurality of strip nails to be sequentially exposed from the nail outlet. The formed fork comprises two forming surfaces with unequal heights, and the two forming surfaces are adjacent to the nail outlet. The nail forming device comprises two jaw arms, two control arms and a push seat, and the push block drives the two control arms to drive the two jaw arms to rotate and close the two forming jaws, and to drive the push seat to slide on the sliding groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: ANN-CHAIN ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hui-Cheng Cheng
  • Patent number: 11866212
    Abstract: A product bagging assembly and method of manipulating a web material bag that is operable to create a bag opening that is greater than six inches and which is operable without substantially detracting from product throughput associated with use and operation of the product bagging assembly. In a preferred embodiment, the bag opening/dosing assembly includes a first actuator and a second actuator that are connected to one another such that a position of one of the actuators can be manipulated by operation of the other actuator. The product bagging assembly can be provided as a kit configured for plug and play operation with previously provided bag and product delivery systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Pregis Sharp Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Jeramy Williams, Daniel J. Folger
  • Patent number: 11865693
    Abstract: A tool that mounts on a power driver or other tool for installing framing members in a building ensures proper and uniform spacing of the framing members. A support that may be a C-shaped band clamp removably attaches to the power tool. A generally tubular gauge body snap-attaches in place and a slide member disposed within the gauge body is adjustable to extend a sufficient amount so the combined length of the tubular gauge body and the extended slide member provide a proper spacing for the framing members. A slide lock for holds the slide member at the extended position. This allows the measuring and installation to be done without the installer having to set the power tool down or use a ruler or tape measure once the spacing is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: William Phelps
  • Patent number: 11865686
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a battery-powered stapling tool. A stapling tool includes a drive wheel, a slide comprising a first slide segment and a second slide segment, and a drive shaft receivable by the slide, wherein the drive shaft is coupled to and drivable by the drive wheel such that rotation of the drive wheel in a first rotational direction moves the drive shaft from the first slide segment to the second slide segment back to the first slide segment. The stapling tool further includes a lifting element, wherein the lifting element defines the slide and is drivable by the drive shaft, and an ejector coupled to the lifting element and drivable by the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Signode Industrial Group LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Hubschmid, Dimitrios Takidis, Michael Wettstein
  • Patent number: 11858103
    Abstract: A clamping grip for a hydraulic tamper has an ergonomic handle and a vertical post having an angled base secured to a clamp. At each distal end of the clamp is an aperture. The ergonomic handle is secured to the vertical post via a ball and socket joint which permits the handle to swivel freely about the vertical post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventor: Dylan Myers
  • Patent number: 11845579
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method are for sealing packages on a flatbed machine. The package is formed from a base-film web and a water-soluble cover-film web. The sealing apparatus includes a liquid supply, at least one moistening unit, and a pressing device for vertically pressing and sealing the cover-film web together with the base-film web. The moistening unit has a moistening roller and a spraying device, the moistening unit being able to be switched between a first operating state and a second operating state. In the first operating state, the moistening roller acts on the cover-film web at a roller moistening location. During or after a machine standstill period, the sealing apparatus is transferred to a second operating state in which the spraying device acts on a spray portion of the cover-film web. The spray portion lies between the roller moistening location and the sealing location in the feed region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Harro Hoefliger Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Thaler, Daniel Birkhold
  • Patent number: 11845171
    Abstract: An oxygen sensor socket kit provides an air impact driver and at least one slotted socket forming an annulus forming an inside surface with a plurality rectangular flats parallel to and symmetrically arranged around a central axis. The slot is slot formed through the socket sidewall positioned in place of one or a portion of one of the rectangular flats. An outer surface incorporates at least one radially offset protrusion forming a wing body and having a planar striking surface that lies along a radial projection from the central axis on a plane that intersects central axis. A striking surface forms one or more recesses of a concave shape to receive in a rounded tool tip an air impact driver. The driver has an offset distal portion having an angular offset sufficient to allow a direction of an impact force directly laterally offset from a centerline of the output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Inventor: Harrold Andresen
  • Patent number: 11834215
    Abstract: An aseptic packaging machine includes a web-shaped packaging material feed, a sterilizer-filler nozzle assembly with a form section 40, a product supply duct, a sterilization medium supply duct, and an exhaust duct. One or more pre-sterilization medium supply feeds are connectable to a product inlet connector and a sterilization medium inlet connector. A collector cup 70 is movable relative to the nozzle assembly between an inactive and a docking position. The collector cup delimits one or more interior spaces 71a, 72a designed to, in the docking position, enclose a product outlet portion 4 to collect and/or drain away pre-sterilization media during a pre-sterilization of the nozzle assembly get to flow through and along it, and to also enclose the sterilization medium outlet portion 16 and/or exhaust inlet portion 22 in the docking position inside its one or more interior spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: JBT Food & Dairy Systems B.V.
    Inventors: Arjan Tervoort, Marijn Luijten
  • Patent number: 11819991
    Abstract: A retaining device adapted for use with an electric nail gun includes a retaining member; a swing arm unit adapted to swing between a proximate position and a distal position with respect to a flywheel of the nail gun; an impact unit movably connected to the swing arm unit, including an engaging portion, and being movable between a pre-striking position, where the engaging portion is confined within the retaining member when the swing arm unit is at the distal position, and a striking position, where the engaging portion is removed from the retaining member; and a retrieving unit connected between the impact unit and the swing arm unit, and configured to bias the impact unit to move to the pre-striking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Basso Industry Corp.
    Inventors: Chia-Yu Chien, Ching-Han Chang
  • Patent number: 11806854
    Abstract: A battery-operated palm stapler, an insert for holding a fastener, and a method of installing a fastener using the palm stapler. The stapler includes a housing with a telescoping barrel extending outwardly therefrom. An insert is engaged in the barrel's bore and is held in place by magnets. The insert body defines a slot for receiving fasteners therein. The slot extends from a top wall of the body to a bottom wall thereof. At least one magnet is provided in the body adjacent the slot and is used to hold fasteners in a correct orientation for installation. A sensor probe provided in the body is operable to detect if voltage is carried in electrical cables adjacent which fasteners are to be installed. The probe deactivates a hammer actuating mechanism if voltage is detected. Inserts holding different types of fastener may be selectively engaged with the palm stapler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: BRAHMA INDUSTRIES LLC
    Inventors: Mark Ferris, Eric A. Miller, Jr., John D. Fiegener, Marcus R. Hanna, Ryan Thompson, William P. Liteplo