Patents Examined by Laura Edwards
  • Patent number: 11904347
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vacuum impregnation device for vacuum a impregnating a workpiece. The vacuum impregnation device may include a vacuum impregnation tank for storing glue, the vacuum impregnation tank including a side wall; a sliding block coupled to the side wall of the vacuum impregnation tank, the sliding block being adapted for supporting the workpiece above the glue; and an electromagnetic controller, the electromagnetic controller being disposed outside the vacuum impregnation tank and being operative to move the sliding block towards the side wall of the vacuum impregnation tank such that the workpiece is released and drops into the glue. This type of device has the advantages of simple structure, low cost and convenient operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Wenzhang Wu, Xingtian Yang, Xiaoqiong Meng
  • Patent number: 11896994
    Abstract: A coating device for supplying a liquid to a substrate, particularly in the form of an optionally printed web, foil, strip or sheet, comprises a reservoir for holding a quantity of liquid. A coating assembly is provided which is able and configured to take liquid from the reservoir and transfer it to the substrate. A supply delivers the liquid into the reservoir during operation. The supply is controllable and is able to lead a constant liquid flow into the reservoir. The reservoir is provided with a level detector capable and configured to detect a liquid level in the reservoir. Provided between the level detector tools and the coating assembly is a control which controls the coating assembly during operation on the basis of a detection (LS) of the liquid level in the reservoir in order to maintain the liquid level at a fixed value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Contiweb B.V.
    Inventor: Sjoerd Kappel
  • Patent number: 11877589
    Abstract: A donut icer or icing system is disclosed herein. The icing system is surprisingly more efficient than known methods of applying frosting to baked or fried goods, specifically, donuts. The increase in efficiency over known methods is accomplished generally through use of a plurality of conveyor belts, an icing bath, and a flip shaft assembly that allows frosted goods or donuts to flip icing side up before discharge from the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventor: Joe Tavares
  • Patent number: 11872823
    Abstract: A thread-coating module includes: a base plate having a printhead opening; an inkjet printhead received in the printhead opening; and a chamber unit having a mouth for engagement with the base plate and an ink-collection slot opposing the printhead. The chamber unit and the base plate are movable relative to each other for opening and closing a coating chamber comprising the base plate and the chamber unit, with the ink-collection slot being positioned opposite the printhead in the coating chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Memjet Technology Limited
    Inventor: Mark Profaca
  • Patent number: 11845103
    Abstract: Liquid applicators and methods. The liquid applicators include a frame and an applicator head operably coupled to the frame and configured to support a section of an applicator fabric for operable application of a liquid to a substrate. The liquid applicators further include a fabric conveyance system that is operably coupled to the frame and includes a fabric pay-out assembly configured to supply the applicator fabric to the applicator head and a fabric take-up assembly configured to receive the applicator fabric from the applicator head. The liquid applicators further include a liquid delivery system configured to deliver the liquid to the section of the applicator fabric. The methods include delivering the liquid to the section of applicator fabric, engaging the section of applicator fabric with the substrate, and moving the section of the applicator fabric across the substrate to apply the liquid thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Teresa Monique Ogletree, Zachary Andrew Schwindt, Colton Massey Smoot, Kevin Michael Bell, Raymond Henderson, Adam Clark
  • Patent number: 11839898
    Abstract: A double-sided coating device includes: a conveying mechanism for a base material that includes a first surface and a second surface; a first die that applies a first coating material onto the first surface; and a second die that applies a second coating material onto the second surface. The conveying mechanism includes: a roll that conveys the base material, in which the position at which the base material separates from the circumferential surface is higher than a target coating height of the base material; and a drawing section that draws the base material such as to bring the base material closer to the target coating height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daisuke Tokieda
  • Patent number: 11839899
    Abstract: A coating die includes: a first body; a second body; a discharge port; an intermediate member; a first shim to define a first flow passage; a second shim to define a second flow passage; and a confluence passage in which the first flow passage and the second flow passage join together and that communicates with the discharge port. The first shim includes a pair of first arms, and the second shim includes a pair of second arms. Each first arm includes a first female portion and a first male portion. Each second arm includes a second female portion and a second male portion. The first female portion and the second male portion are engaged with each other, and the first male portion and the second female portion are engaged with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION, PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eisuke Sato, Takanori Maruo, Hiroshi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11819874
    Abstract: This invention relates to a dispenser device for and a method of applying a structural adhesive to an application surface on a wind turbine blade structure, wherein the dispenser device comprises a housing forming a reservoir configured to hold a surplus of structural adhesive during dispensing. The reservoir is connected to an inlet for supplying the structural adhesive and an outlet for dispensing the structural adhesive. The outlet may be a side opening arranged in an exchangeable housing part. The dispenser device may also comprise an adjustable mechanism connected to a plate member configured to be moved relative to the side opening. The operation of the adjustable mechanism is controlled via a control unit or a control element. The exchangeable housing part or adjustable mechanism enables the cross-sectional profile, the width and/or the height of the dispensed structural adhesive to be changed before or during dispensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: LM WP PATENT HOLDING A/S
    Inventors: Shashidhar Patil, Roelof Willem Schuring, Michael Wenani Nielsen, Suresh Babu Gangavar Pandarinath, Rakesh Kumar Angural
  • Patent number: 11819876
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a slot die coating apparatus for coating an electrode active material slurry onto an electrode collector, the slot die coating apparatus including a coating roller, a die comprising a lower discharge opening, through which a first electrode active material slurry is discharged, and an upper die located on the upper side of the lower die and having an upper discharge opening, through which a second electrode active material slurry is discharged, and an upper air vent may be installed in the upper die and a lower air vent may be installed in the lower die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Inventors: Ki Tae Kim, Do Hyun Lee, Taek Soo Lee, Cheolwoo Kim, Sang Hoon Choy
  • Patent number: 11794205
    Abstract: A method for applying a product by roller on a surface of a substrate (112) transported horizontally with respect to an application head (111, 111?) is discloses. The method includes moving the application head (111, 111?) immediately from a lowered position of the application head (111, 111?), wherein the application roller (122, 122?) applies the product in a predetermined position of the surface of the substrate, to a raised position of the application head (111, 111?), wherein the application roller (122, 122?) does not apply product; or vice versa. An application system using the method for applying a product by roller is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventor: Jesus Francisco Barberan Latorre
  • Patent number: 11780261
    Abstract: An egg-drawing toy with an adjustable support spacing, which adopts a vertical structure with two supports, is stable in support, and is suitable for fixing eggs or toy eggs. In addition, the lower support is designed to have an elastic support structure, and the spacing between the upper support and the lower support is adjustable, which is automatically achieved by a compression spring, thereby realizing the support and positioning of eggs with different sizes between the upper support and the lower support, and thus having better universality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventor: Yunlong Li
  • Patent number: 11779953
    Abstract: A slot die for manufacturing a rechargeable battery electrode includes a first block with a chamber to accommodate an active material slurry, a second block facing and attached to the first block, a shim between the first and second blocks and including facing end portions, and a slot between the first and second blocks, and between the facing end portions, the slot including a first side defined by the first block, and a second side defined by the second block and facing the first side. Each of the end portions of the shim includes a width adjuster protruding to a second reference point from a first reference point in a width direction by a first adjusting width, extending to a third reference point from the second reference point at a first angle with respect to a discharging direction, and having a first adjusting length in the discharging direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD., KOREA UNIVERSITY Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Won-Gi Ahn, Yongho Kim, Jin Seok Park, Juhye Bae, Hyeri Eom, Min-young Jeong, Hyun Wook Jung
  • Patent number: 11745195
    Abstract: An atomizing spray nozzle device includes an atomizing zone housing that receives different phases of materials used to form a coating. The atomizing zone housing mixes the different phases of the materials into a two-phase mixture of ceramic-liquid droplets in a carrier gas. The device also includes a plenum housing fluidly coupled with the atomizing housing and extending from the atomizing housing to a delivery end. The plenum housing includes an interior plenum that receives the two-phase mixture of ceramic-liquid droplets in the carrier gas from the atomizing zone housing. The device also includes one or more delivery nozzles fluidly coupled with the plenum chamber. The delivery nozzles provide outlets from which the two-phase mixture of ceramic-liquid droplets in the carrier gas is delivered onto one or more surfaces of a target object as the coating on the target object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Ambarish Jayant Kulkarni, Hrishikesh Keshavan, Mehmet Dede, Bernard Patrick Bewlay, Guanghua Wang, Byron Pritchard, Michael Solomon Idelchik
  • Patent number: 11731159
    Abstract: A reciprocating glue dispenser dispensing switch includes a switching device main body, a needle holding base, a sliding wear-resistant plate, and a driving device. The switching device main body is equipped with a double liquid inlet, the needle holding base is equipped with a mixed glue outlet, the sliding wear-resistant plate is installed between the switching device main body and the needle holding base, and the sliding wear-resistant plate is equipped with a sliding wear-resistant plate opening. The driving device is utilized to move the sliding wear-resistant plate. A mixed double-liquid glue passes through the double liquid inlet, the sliding wear-resistant plate opening and the glue outlet to dispense a mixed double-liquid glue while the double liquid inlet, the sliding wear-resistant plate opening and the glue outlet are overlapped. In addition, a double liquid dispensing equipment is also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Advanced Jet Automation Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Lu-Min Chen, Mu-Huang Liu, Tsung-Lin Tsai
  • Patent number: 11731157
    Abstract: A drum coater device (10) for coating tablets, comprising a mixing drum (18) which can be rotated about an axis of rotation (20) and which has an interior (24) for arranging a tablet batch to be coated, further comprising a spraying device for introducing a coating material into the interior, wherein the mixing drum has a hollow-cylindrical, perforated wall which delimits at least part of the interior of the mixing drum, wherein mixing elements for mixing the tablets of a tablet batch are arranged on the inner side, which faces the interior, of the wall, wherein pairs (36) of mixing elements (34a, 34b) form legs which are oriented with respect to one another in a V shape, wherein the distance between the legs of a pair widens from a central annular region, as seen along the axis of rotation, of the wall in the direction of lateral annular regions adjacent to the central annular region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Hüttlin GmbH
    Inventors: Christopher Pfanstiel, Ian Warr, Norbert Zerrer
  • Patent number: 11731158
    Abstract: An applicator for a coating product comprising printing nozzles, each including an outlet channel emerging in the downstream direction by a coating product discharge orifice. The printing nozzles are distributed on at least two faces of a body of the applicator and the discharge orifices of these nozzles extend along at least two nonparallel planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Exel Industries
    Inventors: Nicolas Chouan, Cyrille Medard
  • Patent number: 11707759
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a coating head includes a coating bar, nozzles, a first member, second members, third members, elastic members, and a position controller. The coating bar faces a coating member. The nozzles supply a liquid toward the coating bar. The first member includes first recesses. A portion of the nozzles is between the first recesses and the third members. The portion of the nozzles and the third members are fixed to the first member by the second members. The elastic members are located in at least first, second, or third positions. The first position is between the third members and the second members. The second position is between the portion of the first recesses and the nozzles. The third position is between the portion of the nozzles and the third members. The position controller controls a relative position between the coating bar and the nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Naito, Naomi Shida, Kohei Nara, Takahiro Kokubo, Yutaka Saita
  • Patent number: 11700859
    Abstract: A pizza saucer having a housing in which components may be mounted. The housing includes a base having an upwardly facing deck, a neck that extends from the base to a head, and a manifold mounted to the head facing the deck. The housing contains at least one pump to convey pizza sauce from a source to the manifold, and a computer that controls a rotary prime mover in the base with a driveshaft extending through the deck to a tray drivingly linked to the driveshaft. An input, such as a touchscreen, is mounted to the head and faces the user during operation. With the touchscreen, the user may input the crust size. The computer actuates the pumps and the rotary prime mover, simultaneously causing the crust to rotate 360-370 degrees and the manifold to dispense sauce onto the crust until the crust is coated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Edge Exponential LLC
    Inventors: Hayden Frea, James E. Grote
  • Patent number: 11694881
    Abstract: A stage according to an exemplary embodiment has an electrostatic chuck. The electrostatic chuck has a base and a chuck main body. The chuck main body is provided on the base and configured to hold a substrate with electrostatic attractive force. The chuck main body has a plurality of first heaters and a plurality of second heaters. The number of second heaters is larger than the number of first heaters. The first heater controller drives the plurality of first heaters by an alternating current output or a direct current output from a first power source. The second heater controller drives the plurality of second heaters by an alternating current output or a direct current output from a second power source which has electric power lower than electric power of the output from the first power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroki Endo, Katsuyuki Koizumi, Naohiko Okunishi
  • Patent number: 11691171
    Abstract: A device is disclosed including a frame, a transfer roller with a circumferential lateral wall, a drive unit, a slit nozzle with a muzzle end for dispensing lacquer, and a deformation unit. The slit nozzle and the deformation unit are each connected to the frame, and an outside contact surface of the lateral wall includes several depressions, the transfer roller is mounted rotatably about an axis of rotation at the frame. The drive unit is configured to drive the transfer roller in a rotation direction of the transfer roller, such that the lateral wall continuously passes through a first angular range and the second angular range, each fixed to the frame. The deformation unit is arranged to elastically deform the lateral wall resulting in a respective first deformation section of the lateral wall passing through the first angular range and a respective second deformation section of the lateral wall passing through the second angular range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Waldemar Kümmel, Daniel Kress, Christian Schepp, Alexander Gillessen, Pierre Zahlen, Sebastian Kerger