Patents Examined by Liang Dong
  • Patent number: 11648696
    Abstract: A razor including a head and a handle attached to the head via a pivot mechanism. An adjustable spring is used to orient the head. The head includes a top member, a bottom member, and one or more pins to retain a blade stack between the top member and the bottom member, the blade stack to comprise at least one razor blade and at least one spacer. The head also includes at least one removable fastener to enable the user to fasten the top member and the bottom member around the blade stack. The handle may be made of multiple segments with a common connection type making it reconfigurable by the user. The head may have channels to allow a fluid, gel or product from a cavity in the handle to the surface of the head. The handle may have a magnet at the end or in the last segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Inventor: Michael Friedman
  • Patent number: 11623357
    Abstract: A shaving device comprising a head assembly including a support member having at least one support member magnet and a blade cartridge having at least one face with at least one razor blade and configured to be rotatably coupled to the support member about a pivot axis. The blade cartridge includes at least one blade cartridge magnet having a pole aligned with a pole of the support member magnet to generate a magnetic force that urges the blade cartridge about the pivot axis towards an initial starting position (ISP), wherein the blade cartridge is further configured to rotate about the pivot axis away from the ISP upon application of an external force sufficient to overcome the magnetic force between the support member magnet and the blade cartridge magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Insignia IP Holding Company, LLC
    Inventors: Ruairidh Robertson, David Carpenter, Alan Kenneth Stratton, George K. Bonnoitt, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11618176
    Abstract: A food processor is provided that includes necessary blades and plates to carry out multiple functions of the food processor including slicing, shredding, and grating without having to remove and replace blades and plates to carry out those same functions. The motor of the food processor may operate in either the clockwise or counterclockwise direction. In the clockwise direction, the blades and plates within the cutting chamber may be configured to slice food at variable thicknesses, cut food at variable sizes in a julienne style, or grate food at various thicknesses. In the counterclockwise direction, food may be diced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Sunbeam Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Maxim Guyatt
  • Patent number: 11613031
    Abstract: A utility knife includes a body having a handle portion and a head portion, the handle portion having a plurality of recesses formed in the handle portion. Each of the recesses is capable of receiving at least one replacement blade. A grip is pivotally attached to the handle portion and configured to be positioned in an open position or a closed position, the grip in the open position providing access to the at least one replacement blade. A blade carrier is pivotally coupled to the body, the blade carrier having a post and being rotatable between a closed position and an open position. An active blade is received by the post of the blade carrier such that the post extends into an opening of the active blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: ACCUTEC, INC.
    Inventor: Jeffrey W. Wonderley
  • Patent number: 11607819
    Abstract: Anti-clogging manual razor cartridge equipped with an arrangement of rollers and cutting blades arranged in an alternating manner with each other, namely, a leading roller, a leading cutting blade, a trailing roller, a trailing cutting blade and a final cutting blade. Each of the cutting blades are bent to obliquely angle two portions thereof with one of the two portions terminating into a sharpened edge. The arrangement is such that the sharpened edge of the leading cutting blade is over the leading roller, the sharpened edge of the trailing cutting blade is over the trailing roller, the sharpened edge of the final cutting blade is over the trailing cutting blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Inventors: Erin K. Seferi, Nicholas L. Seferi
  • Patent number: 11597111
    Abstract: A safety razor is provided having a blade head capable of having an adjustable angle relative to a grasping handle and an adjustability of tension of a pivot to the blade. The blade head is connected by an adjustment mechanism for adjusting the blade head that is substantially enclosed within a conduit formed within the grasping handle. The blade head is angularly adjustable between an angle >95° from a linear centerline of the handle to about 22° from the linear centerline of the handle. A blade head adapter may be further provided to allow for attachment and use of alternate existing blade head cartridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventors: P. J. Insana, John Hollis, Gabriel Puerto, Mike Tracz, Joe Spalding, Jason Kocher, Jon Morgan, Monica Schnee, Amy Hawk
  • Patent number: 11597109
    Abstract: A shaving blade assembly (10) comprises a plurality of parallel blades (20) including a first blade (20) and a first rack-and-pinion mechanism (50) with a rack (51) coupled to the first blade (20) to actuate the first blade (20) in a first direction (M) orthogonal to a cutting edge (21) of the first blade (20). The shaving blade assembly (10) may be part of a razor (100,100?) and the position of the first blade (20) may be adjusted in the first direction (M) using a method comprising a step of actuating the first blade (20) in the first direction (M) through the rack-and-pinion mechanism (50).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: BIC Violex Single Member S.A.
    Inventors: Evaggelos Skodras, Yiannis Psomiadis
  • Patent number: 11590593
    Abstract: A power tool includes a spindle, a motor, an inner housing and an outer housing elastically connected to the inner housing. The inner housing is formed by a first inner housing portion formed of metal connected to a second inner housing portion formed of synthetic polymer. The first inner housing portion includes a housing part disposed in a front part of the outer housing, and a first extending part extending rearward from the housing part and disposed in a grip part of the outer housing. The second inner housing portion includes a second extending part that has a tubular shape and at least partially surrounds the first extending part, and a rear end part connected to the second extending part and disposed in a rear part of the outer housing. The first extending part extends rearward of a center of the second extending part in the front-rear direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yonosuke Aoki
  • Patent number: 11548177
    Abstract: An electric shaver, comprising an elongated handle for manually moving the personal care device along a body surface, a working head attached to said handle for effecting a personal care treatment to said body surface, at least one detector for detecting at least one behavioral parameter indicative of a user's behavior when handling the personal care device, and an adjusting mechanism for adjusting at least one working parameter of the working head in response to the detected behavioral parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Braun GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Fuellgrabe, Stefan Fuerst, Christian Neyer, Johannes Julian Weinkauff, Lucy Abigail Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 11548081
    Abstract: A powered threaded rod cutter includes first and second cutting dies, an electric motor, a planetary transmission positioned downstream of the motor, a drivetrain for converting a rotational output of the transmission to a pivoting movement of the first cutting die, and a clutch mechanism for redirecting torque from the motor away from a drivetrain and the first cutting die in response to the first cutting die seizing during a rod-cutting operation. The clutch mechanism includes a ring gear in the planetary transmission, and a spring that rotationally affixes the ring gear below a predetermined threshold of reaction torque through the drivetrain and permits rotation of the ring gear above the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Simon M. Gall, Terry L. Timmons
  • Patent number: 11541560
    Abstract: A precision shaving razor with low cost assembly. A bridge is unitarily molded having a leading platform, a handle attachment mechanism and first and a second cross member each molded to extend substantially perpendicularly to the leading platform. A plurality of base members is each unitarily molded to have a first peg and a second peg for attachment to the cross pieces. A plurality of blade covers each unitarily molded. A razor blade is sandwiched between each blade cover-base pair. In some instances, the blade covers are molded to have hard stops to facilitate precise blade position. In some cases, the bases define angular wash through channels and blade guards spaced to facilitate wash through. In some cases, the skin contacting surfaces of the razor are textured during molding to have a glide improving texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Rolling Razor, INc.
    Inventor: Leon Coresh
  • Patent number: 11541557
    Abstract: A folding knife including a blade assembly; a first plate; a first member; a spacer connected to a first end of the first member; and a first button connected to the first member between the first end of the first member and an opposing second end of the first member; wherein the spacer is configured to be inserted into a slot of the blade assembly to lock the blade assembly into an open orientation with respect to the first plate. The first member is configured to be rotated with respect to the first plate by the first button to allow the blade assembly to be unlocked. The first plate has an arcuate slot; wherein the arcuate slot is located closer to a first end of the first plate than to a second end; and wherein the first button is located between the arcuate slot and the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Inventor: Hai Feng She
  • Patent number: 11541565
    Abstract: A cardboard box dividing device and a cardboard box production device include: lower conveyors on which a plurality of connected cardboard box bodies are stacked and transported; upper conveyors disposed so as to face the lower conveyors from above and supporting upper portions of the plurality of stacked connected cardboard box bodies; a pressing device pressing, from above, the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors; a cutting knife disposed along a width direction of the connected cardboard box body and dividing the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies stacked on the lower conveyors into a front part and a rear part; and a lifting/lowering device relatively moving the cutting knife and the plurality of connected cardboard box bodies on the lower conveyors along an up-down direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori Iwai, Naoki Shigeyama, Masakazu Ohira, Yasunari Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11524348
    Abstract: A circular saw blade includes a plurality of cutting teeth repeatedly alternating between a first set of cutting teeth and a second set of cutting teeth around the periphery of the saw blade. Each first set of cutting teeth includes at least two efficient cutting teeth, each second set of cutting teeth comprising at least one robust cutting tooth. Each first set of teeth and each second set of teeth are configured such that, if one tooth in the first set of teeth breaks, the chip load in the immediately following second set of teeth increases by less than approximately 45%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Asif Elliston, Kenneth E. Hall, Graham E. Lincoln
  • Patent number: 11513291
    Abstract: An optical fiber cleaving apparatus includes: a main body on which an optical fiber having a predetermined length of a glass fiber portion exposed at a tip is placed; a cover member which fixes the optical fiber between the cover member and the main body; a blade member which scratches the glass fiber portion of the fixed optical fiber; and a breaking member which breaks the glass fiber portion at the scratched portion. The optical fiber cleaving apparatus further includes a retreat member which moves a broken end portion of the optical fiber to a position that does not contact with the blade member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC OPTIFRONTIER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinsuke Kurino
  • Patent number: 11504872
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a food processing apparatus with a scanner with a scanning unit for determining properties of a food product, in particular a food bar, with at least two substantially parallel separately drivable conveyor tracks for supplying the food products to the scanner, and with a control unit for controlling the drive of the conveyor tracks. According to the disclosure, the control unit is adapted to separately control the drive of the conveyor tracks to convey at least one food product of a first conveyor track and at least one food product of a further conveyor track sequentially through a scanning area of the scanner. The disclosure further relates to a method for scanning food products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Weber Maschinenbau GmbH Breidenbach
    Inventor: Ingo Rother
  • Patent number: 11491681
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a lumber handling and cutting apparatus, including an incoming material conveyor assembly, a material infeed assembly adjacent to the incoming material conveyor assembly, a cutting assembly adjacent to the material infeed assembly, a material outfeed assembly adjacent to the cutting assembly, an outgoing material conveyor assembly adjacent to the cutting assembly, and a printer assembly adjacent to the incoming material conveyor assembly and the material infeed assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald E. Findley, Mark K. Gipson
  • Patent number: 11491676
    Abstract: A cutting machine includes a cutting support for material to be cut, a vertically movable blade bar which bears a blade for cutting the cut material located thereon, a cutting drive for vertically moving the blade bar, a vertically movable clamping bar for pushing down the material to be cut and a pressing drive for vertically moving the clamping bar. The cutting drive and the pressing drive are formed by a single drive which rotates a cam disc to and fro, wherein the blade bar is motion-coupled to the cam disc via a first coupling mechanism which acts on the cam disc eccentrically to the axis of rotation thereof. The clamping bar is motion-coupled to the cam disc via a second coupling mechanism, the one end thereof acting on the outer contour of the cam disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Krug & Priester GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Holger Jenter
  • Patent number: 11491563
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a cutting system including a movable blade operably coupled to a motor is disclosed, wherein the cutting system comprises a diverting feature. In some embodiments, a diverter proximity relative to the movable blade is selected to facilitate diversion of a material during cutting. In at least one embodiment, the movable blade may be a circular blade or a reciprocating blade with a thickness of less than 3/32 of an inch. A cutting system according to the present invention may be coupled to a container, for example, a residential trash container or a residential recycling container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventors: Trent N. Butcher, Larry A. Butcher
  • Patent number: 11485034
    Abstract: A shaving device comprising a handle, a support member, a blade cartridge retention frame, and a replaceable blade assembly. The support member is disposed about a first end of the handle and includes at least one arm extending outward from a yoke. The blade cartridge retention frame includes a blade cartridge retention frame magnet and is coupled to the at least one arm and configured to pivot about a pivot axis. The replaceable blade assembly includes a blade assembly magnet and a blade assembly body having a face with a razor blade. The blade assembly magnet and the blade cartridge retention frame magnet are configured to create a repulsive magnetic force therebetween to releasably couple the replaceable blade assembly to the blade cartridge retention frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: INSIGNIA IP HOLDING COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Ruairidh Robertson