Patents Examined by Lee A Holly
  • Patent number: 12290912
    Abstract: A method for installing a screw in at least one through-orifice of a box-type structure, including inserting a body of a first tool into the through-orifice from an external region of the box-type structure, moving the body in an internal region of the box-type structure, towards an end of the box-type structure, securing the screw to the body, the first tool comprising a link connected to the body which remains accessible from the external region during the inserting, moving and securing steps, pulling on the link from the external region until the shank of the screw is positioned in the through-orifice, and separating the body from the screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Brice Albert, Benjamin Trarieux, Stéphane Daure, Julien Bigot, Damien Battistella
  • Patent number: 12285829
    Abstract: An automated system for assembling a framed article including a plurality of canvases and a plurality of assembled frames to be combined with the plurality of canvases to form the framed articles. Each assembled frame is formed of a rear panel and a frame member that are detachably attached to one another with one canvas being stretched across a front face of the frame member. The automated system includes an assembly station including a movable presser head that is configured to detach and lift the rear panel from the frame member and a plurality of movable side guide fingers that are configured to fold side edges of the canvas over sides of the frame member to permit the presser head to press the rear panel down over the folded side edges of the canvas into engagement with the frame member with the canvas being captured between the frame member and the rear panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: TRACER IMAGING LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Knospler, Steven M. Spiro, Ryan Kelly
  • Patent number: 12280247
    Abstract: The removing device is configured to remove a needle cover removably mounted on a distal tip of an injection device comprising a barrel. The removing device comprises a housing including a holder configured to hold the injection device and a needle cover remover configured to remove the needle cover from the injection device, a first abutment member provided on the holder and being configured to abut against the injection device, a second abutment member provided on the needle cover remover, and being configured to abut against the needle cover, and displacement means configured to displace the needle cover remover relative to the holder in a translational direction so that the first and second abutment members translationally move away from each other in order to separate the needle cover from the injection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Becton Dickinson France
    Inventors: Bo Yan, Longxiang Huang
  • Patent number: 12280892
    Abstract: A cradle for supporting an aircraft landing gear assembly is disclosed including a chassis for transporting the cradle and an arm movable between a stowed position and an elevated position with respect to the chassis. The arm has a set of clamps for securing the landing gear assembly to the cradle. In this way the landing gear assembly is held securely in the stowed position for storage and transport, and held securely in the elevated position for installation to an aircraft, such that damage to the landing gear assembly during transportation and installation is minimised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Dominique Chasteau, Guilherme Barsali
  • Patent number: 12280458
    Abstract: A method of mounting an elastic ring, e.g., sealing ring, on a body via a mounting unit is presented, having at least three fingers which are movable relative to each other. The method comprises holding and clamping the ring on the exterior side of the fingers which extend into a cross-section framed by the ring, moving at least one finger along a circle or a plurality of fingers along a common circle or a plurality of concentric circles such that the elastic ring is stretched and the cross-section thereof is increased, moving the ring and the component relative to each other so that the component projects into the cross-section and the ring extends around the component, moving one or more fingers relative to each other so that the ring contacts the component in sections between adjacent fingers, and moving the fingers out of the ring. Also disclosed are a mounting unit for executing the method, and a ring mounting device including such a mounting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Ohrmann GmbH
    Inventor: Coelestin Ohrmann
  • Patent number: 12268823
    Abstract: The invention is a method for restoring the use of a single-use RFA catheter system wherein the catheter is restored to first-use clean and sterilized status, and operating restrictions have been circumvented without affecting the first-use operational specifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Inventors: Chris Meyer, Seth Masek
  • Patent number: 12269532
    Abstract: A forming sheet metal part (1) for a vehicle frame includes: a first portion (2) being locally heat-softened after the sheet metal part (1) has been formed out. The part (1) further includes a dedicated three-dimensional distortion-absorbing area (4), defining an internal boundary (6) within which the first portion (2) is to be locally heat-softened after the sheet metal part (1) has been formed out. The distortion-absorbing area (4) is dimensioned such that once said locally heat-softening step has been performed, the internal boundary (6) is adjacent to the first portion (2) and encloses the first portion (2) to absorb the dimensional distortions induced by the locally heat-softened first portion. The invention further relates to a method for producing a forming sheet metal part (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: AUTOTECH ENGINEERING, S.L.
    Inventors: Laura Galceran Oms, David Corón Moreno, Marti Meca Martínez, Sergi Marquez Duran
  • Patent number: 12257656
    Abstract: A method of providing an inert atmosphere to the inside of a piping assembly prior to and during welding, including introducing a canister, and a deflated bladder which surrounds the canister, into a piping assembly to be welded. Introducing purge gas, thereby inflating the deflated bladder and sealing the canister against the inside of the piping assembly to be welded. Introducing excess purge gas from the bladder into a primary purge gas diffuser, thereby producing a first diffused purge gas stream. Introducing the first diffused purge gas stream into a secondary purge gas diffuser, thereby producing a secondary diffused purge gas stream. Introducing the secondary diffused purge gas stream into a tertiary purge gas diffuser, thereby producing a third purge gas stream. And introducing the third purge gas stream into the inside of the piping assembly to be welded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Airgas, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Laymon, Frederick A. Schweighardt
  • Patent number: 12257620
    Abstract: A joining tool unit including a hold-down device, a linearly movable tool, and a tool counter element. The hold-down device and the tool counter element are provided opposite each other, a workpiece lies on the tool counter element when the workpiece is arranged on the joining tool unit, and the hold-down device is arranged to be supported on a surface of the workpiece. The hold-down device has a light-guiding system, and the light-guiding system is designed to guide a light beam of a light in the direction of a joint location of the workpiece when the workpiece is arranged on the joining tool unit. The light-guiding system is provided on the hold-down device such that the light beam is irradiated onto the joint location solely at an angle which is greater than 0° relative to a movement axis of the linearly movable tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignees: TOX PRESSOTECHNIK GMBH & CO. KG, ALPHA LASER GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Badent, Wolfgang Pfeiffer, Marcus Matzke, Juergen Sollner
  • Patent number: 12258873
    Abstract: A system for use in servicing a machine. The system includes a tubular body including a longitudinal axis, a tip end, a dispensing nozzle defined at the tip end, and an interior channel in flow communication with the dispensing nozzle. The tubular body is configured to be flexible. An actuator is configured to selectively modify an orientation of the tubular body, and a reservoir is in flow communication with the interior channel. The reservoir is configured to supply a maintenance fluid to the tubular body for discharge from the dispensing nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Deepak Trivedi, Todd William Danko, Mark John Zajkowski, Don Mark Lipkin
  • Patent number: 12252927
    Abstract: A doorstop system includes a doorstop and a bracket. The doorstop includes a foot, a recess area within the foot, an opening in a bottom surface of the foot around the recess area, and pockets in opposite sides of the recess area extending to the bottom surface of the foot. The bracket is sized to fit into the recess area of the doorstop and includes a body and protrusions on opposite sides of the body. The protrusions are positioned and sized to mate with the doorstop pockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Inventor: Robert O. Duff
  • Patent number: 12241177
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a device including a diamond crystal, the method including making available a substrate, growing a crystalline diamond layer on the substrate, the layer having a crystal lattice, the layer including at least a first set of XV centers in the crystal lattice, each XV center having a quantification axis, a main direction being defined for the first set, the quantification axes of the XV centers of the first set being parallel to the main direction, the normal direction being distinct from the main direction of the first set, removing a first part of the diamond layer in order to reveal a first face perpendicular to the main direction of the first set, and removing of a second part of the diamond layer in order to reveal a second face perpendicular to the first face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Thierry Debuisschert, Ludovic Mayer, Alexandre Tallaire, Jocelyn Achard, Ovidiu Brinza
  • Patent number: 12240031
    Abstract: Parking detent pawls are known which are suitable for securely holding a vehicle in a parked state. The aim of the invention is to provide a detent pawl for a parking lock which is characterized by a high degree of operational reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: FEINTOOL INTERNATIONAL HOLDING AG, ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Julia Klein, Tobias Miller, Martin Meyer, Matthias List, Gilbert Fuerer, Ulrich Schlatter, Marco Soldati
  • Patent number: 12233493
    Abstract: A method for producing a heat transfer sheet, includes: (A1) forming a mixture including at least one of a carbon fiber and a boron nitride flake, an inorganic filler, and a binder resin into a molded body in which the at least one of the carbon fiber and the boron nitride flake is oriented in a thickness direction of the molded body; (B1) slicing the molded body into a sheet shape to obtain a molded sheet; (C1) pressing the molded sheet; and (D1), after the pressing, inserting the molded sheet between films and performing a vacuum packing of the molded sheet with the films such that an uncured component of the binder resin present inside the molded sheet is exuded to a surface of the molded sheet, which is the heat transfer sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Dexerials Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Mukasa, Yusuke Kubo, Keisuke Aramaki
  • Patent number: 12234646
    Abstract: A building truss including a structural floor element, a vertical support on each side of the structural floor element, rafters spanning the vertical supports, a structural horizontal tie which interconnects the rafters, and a roof peak on the horizontal tie. A building is constructed by erecting multiple trusses parallel to each other in sequence in a longitudinal direction spanning one gable end to the opposed gable end. Each building truss defines the full room and roof spaces and provides the required structural strength. Each truss defines a 2D envelope; the floor element spanning in the horizontal direction, vertical supports for the vertical direction, and a roof assembly joining the two vertical supports. Each truss is unitary and constructing the multiple trusses parallel to each other provides a 3D structural building envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Trussed Systems Limited
    Inventor: Kim Elizabeth Aitken
  • Patent number: 12226301
    Abstract: Methods of forming topographical features on an article, for example on a medical devices that has a surface configured to promote the migration of cells onto the surface of the medical device. In particular, the resulting surface of the medical device has a noncontiguous pattern of topographical features formed therein or thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Vactronix Scientific, LLC
    Inventors: Scott P. Carpenter, Michael Poor, Julio C. Palmaz
  • Patent number: 12220769
    Abstract: A method for forming a pressure fit hermetic seal between a second component (104) and an interior member (108) is disclosed. The method comprises steps of coupling the second component (104) to a first component (102) by applying heat to one or more of the first component (102) and the second component (104) and allowing the first component (102) and the second component (104) to cool, wherein the applying heat step and allowing to cool step form the hermetic seal by causing compression of a hermetic element (106) against the second component (104) and by causing compression of the hermetic element (106) against the interior member (108).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MICRO MOTION, INC.
    Inventor: Clinton R. Griffin
  • Patent number: 12220777
    Abstract: Even when a tapping screw is used in a soft material, it is determined whether or not a screw tightening defect has occurred. A PLC (10) comprises a determination unit (13) which for a rotational torque data sequence having a predetermined number of data points, generates a normalized torque data sequence that is the amount of change with respect to rotational torque at a first data point of the data sequence, and determines whether screw tightening is defective, on the basis of the normalized torque data sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Sasaki, Takanori Shibutani
  • Patent number: 12215008
    Abstract: A method for removing a fin fan motor from a heat exchanger includes positioning a motor lifting device beneath the fin fan motor, moving a carriage of the motor lifting device upward in a vertical direction with respect to a base member of the motor lifting device along a vertical guide column, moving one or more vertical support members into a locked position, the one or more vertical support members spaced apart from the vertical guide column and extending between the carriage and the base member, where the one or more vertical support members restrict vertical movement of the carriage with respect to the base member in the locked position, and moving the fin fan motor to the carriage of the motor lifting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Nishan Xavier Chammany Thomas, Abdulmunem H. Taisan, Abdullah G. Alotaibi
  • Patent number: 12209608
    Abstract: A rod connector is provided including a disc portion, a first shaft portion and a second shaft portion. The disc portion has a first side configured to engage a first rod and a second side configured to engage a second rod. The first shaft portion extends from the first side of the disc portion and includes threads along at least a portion of the length thereof for engaging threads of the first rod to draw the first rod into engagement with the disc portion. The second shaft portion extends from the second side of the disc portion and includes threads along at least a portion of the length thereof for engaging threads of the second rod to draw the second rod into engagement with the disc portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: House of Atlas, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Moss, Alan Arthur Ford