Patents Examined by Michael R. Mansen
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Patent number: 12110202Abstract: A sheet storage device includes a first reel that is disposed along a first axis and around which a first tape is wound; a second reel that is disposed along a second axis and around which a second tape is wound; a drum that is disposed along a third axis so as to wound a sheet, that is sandwiched between the first tape and the second tape at least partially overlapping each other, on an outer peripheral surface of the drum together with the first tape and the second tape; a first tape path between the first reel and the drum; a second tape path between the second reel and the drum; and a changing mechanism disposed in at least one of the first tape path or the second path, the changing mechanism changing a position of a corresponding tape to a direction parallel to the third axis.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Takuro Hamada, Kei Isshiki
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Patent number: 12103829Abstract: A chain inlet/outlet, from which a load chain on a load side is hauled in or paid out, has a first guide groove having a first longitudinal groove and a first lateral groove. The chain inlet/outlet also has a second guide groove that is provided on a deeper side of a body part than the first guide groove is and has a second longitudinal groove and a second lateral groove. The first guide groove has narrowed parts that determine, when each link of the load chain is pulled in, into which of the first longitudinal groove and the first lateral groove the link is introduced, and expanded groove parts having a width larger than the groove width of the narrowed parts and provided on the outer side, farther away from the center of the chain inlet/outlet than the narrowed parts.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: KITO CORPORATIONInventor: Shinya Omura
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Patent number: 12103819Abstract: The invention relates to a construction arrangement of an elevator, comprising a hoistway in a building, the hoistway comprising a hoistway opening, the opening delimited by lower and upper edge structures; a load in the hoistway lower than said opening; a hoisting arrangement for hoisting said load, said hoisting arrangement comprising a support structure higher than said load; a hoisting device; and flexible tension member connected to said load; the flexible tension member being movable with said hoisting device to hoist the load by a hoisting force. Said support structure comprises an anchoring beam structure comprising a lower end engaging the lower edge structure, and an upper end engaging the upper edge structure; and a support beam structure connected to the anchoring beam structure, protruding from the anchoring beam structure into the hoistway; said flexible tension member hanging in the hoistway supported by the support beam structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Kone CorporationInventors: Markku Haapaniemi, Matti Rasanen, Jari Ryhanen, Jaakko Kahila, Jorma Mustalahti, Otto Lanz, Janne Laine, Aki Haikonen, Anssi Venho, Mikko Kukkola, Wen Sheng Luo, XueSong Pan, Kai Guo
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Patent number: 12098762Abstract: A low axial runout driven pulley through the application of a spindle shaft utilizing multiple sets of bearings with radial clearance to the shaft. Utilizing a belt-driven pulley supporting overhanging loads with low axial runout provided by a spindle shaft with radial clearance to supporting bearings. Further axial clamp loading may be provided through multiple sets of bearings by the application of a fastener, such as a shaft bolt and a sleeve that press against the inner races of the bearings in the axial direction with this clamp load. The belt-driven pulley with low axial runout through the application of a spindle shaft utilizing at least two sets of bearings with radial clearance to the shaft may be utilized with heavy-duty trucking, marine, industrial, and other systems that utilize an overhung driven component.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Gates CorporationInventors: Marc Cadarette, Jason Jacques, Robert Masse, Michael Koppeser
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Patent number: 12098761Abstract: A drive system for a vehicle includes a chain ring and a drive chain. The chain ring has a plurality of teeth serially arranged and joined to one another. A first subset of teeth has a first outer face that applies a lateral pressure to a link of a drive chain in a first direction. A second subset of teeth has a second outer face that applies a lateral pressure to another link of a drive chain in a second direction. The teeth all have substantially the same width. The top surfaces of the teeth are offset from the centerline of the drive chain. The centerlines of the top surfaces of the teeth are arranged asymmetrically on one side of the centerline of the drive chain.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Eko Sport, Inc.Inventors: Scott Winans, Darek C. Barefoot, Timothy A. Fry
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Patent number: 12091272Abstract: An apparatus for transporting a tail end in a fiber web machine from one structural section to another includes nozzles for guiding the tail end on the guide plate by means of an air flow such that the blown air is brought onto a guide plate shaped into a curve in such a way that the air flow of the blown air guides the tail end onto the curved guide plate by means of a bump functioning as an aerodynamic profile formed in the curved guide plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: RUNTECH SYSTEMS OYInventors: Kimma Loippo, Juhani Lehto, Markku Kajander, Mertsi Lindeman
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Patent number: 12090462Abstract: A self-cleaning conduit for a hydrocarbon fluid. The conduit includes a tube and a movable sleeve. The tube has an interior surface defining a flow passage for the hydrocarbon fluid. The movable sleeve is positioned within the flow passage to abut the interior surface and is movable along the interior surface in response to a change in an operating characteristic of the conduit to break-up deposits on the interior surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Hiranya Nath, Thomas D. Woodrow, Scott Alan Schimmels, Arvind Namadevan, Mohan Raju, Subramani Adhiachari, Prasant Bilaiya, Rajesh Kumar
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Patent number: 12082571Abstract: A braking device of a double bearing reel that brakes a spool rotatably mounted on a reel body of a double bearing reel on which a fishing line may be wound, the braking device provided with a braked unit attached to the spool, a braking unit that applies a braking force to the braked unit, a motor capable of driving a part of the braked unit, a reduction mechanism that transmits drive of the motor to a part of the braked unit, and a power supply that supplies electric power to the motor, in which a reduction ratio r of the reduction mechanism satisfies r>Mmax/C when holding torque of the motor is set to C, and maximum torque required to move the braked unit is set to Mmax.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: GLOBERIDE, INC.Inventor: Hiromu Yasuda
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Patent number: 12087607Abstract: An article transport vehicle includes a travel body; a holding device that holds an article; and a lift device that is on the travel body, and that raises and lowers the holding device with respect to the travel body. The holding device includes: a connection portion connected to the lift device and an article support portion that supports the article; an elastic support mechanism that is between the article support portion and the connection portion, and that supports the article support portion against the connection portion while being elastic in a vertical direction, and a guide mechanism that guides the article support portion in the vertical direction with respect to the connection portion. The guide mechanism allows the article support portion to move parallel with the vertical direction with respect to the connection portion and restricts swinging of the article support portion with respect to the connection portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daichi Tomida, Hiroshi Otsuka
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Patent number: 12077415Abstract: An apparatus for guiding and braking an elevator system traveling body movable along a guide track includes a holder fastened to the body, a guide device and a braking device. The holder transmits guiding forces between the guide device, guided on at least one track surface in the longitudinal direction, and the body. The guide device is held on and is elastically movable relative to the holder transverse to the longitudinal direction by at least a predetermined tolerance distance. The braking device includes a carrier and a braking element movable between a deactivated configuration, in which a braking surface of the braking element is laterally spaced apart from the guide track, and an activated configuration, in which the braking surface abuts the guide track, in a reversible manner by an activation distance transverse to the guide track. The carrier of the braking device is rigidly coupled to the guide device.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: INVENTIO AGInventors: Michael Geisshüsler, Faruk Osmanbasic, Adrian Steiner, Julian Stähli, Volker Zapf
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Patent number: 12077407Abstract: A reel includes a first reel member and a second reel member. The first reel member includes a first barrel portion, a first flange portion, and a first hub portion, and the second reel member includes a second barrel portion, a second flange portion, and a second hub portion. The first barrel portion and the second barrel portion are configured to be coupled with one another. The first barrel portion includes an inner wall and an outer wall that are spaced apart from one another in a radial direction of the first barrel portion, and the first barrel portion, the first flange portion, and the first hub portion are portions of a first single piece structure of unitary construction.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.Inventors: Jay A. Kisselstein, Richard Maroney, Noah P. Montena, Brian K. Hanson
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Patent number: 12078246Abstract: A belt tensioner for a belt system having a compression spring internal to the tensioning arm, the tensioning arm pivotable in relation to the pivot shaft and the tensioner base. The compression spring provides an axial force against an axially slidable hub bearing, which moves to accommodate variations in spring force and/or dimensional changes.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Gates CorporationInventors: Sangkyu Kim, Michael Koppeser
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Patent number: 12071327Abstract: A load bearing member for a lifting and/or hoisting system includes a plurality of tension members arranged along a width of the load bearing member. Each tension member includes a plurality of load carrying fibers arranged to extend in a direction parallel to a length of the load bearing member and a matrix material in which the plurality of load carrying fibers are arranged. The load bearing member further includes a lateral layer and a jacket material at least partially encapsulating the plurality of tension members.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Wenping Zhao, Daniel A. Mosher, John P. Wesson, Paul Papas, Gopal R. Krishnan, Brad Guilani, Richard N. Fargo
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Patent number: 12071328Abstract: A method of providing position control information for controlling the movement of a spreader (400) of a crane (10) towards a spreader target position is disclosed. The method comprises measuring both the distance to the loading/unloading target position (32, 36) and the distance to a position of the spreader (400) for determining both a loading/unloading target position (32, 36) and the position of the spreader (400) in a fixed coordinate system. The method also comprises causing position control information corresponding to the position of the spreader (400) and the loading/unloading target position (32, 36) to be transmitted to the crane (10).Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: KALMAR FINLAND OYInventors: Jyrki Kouhia, Jyri Lukkala, Tomi Tuulkari, Mikko Asikainen
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Patent number: 12066079Abstract: The present invention relates to an article having an elastic main body based on at least one thermoplastic elastomer or based on a vulcanizate and having an article surface that is provided with a textile overlay in the form of a plated knitted fabric, wherein the textile overlay is composed of at least two types of yarn that alternate in the individual knitted courses at regular intervals.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbHInventors: Henning Kanzow, Felicitas Broianigo, Roman Gaska
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Patent number: 12060239Abstract: A reel body is the reel body in which an adhesive film having an adhesive layer on a base material layer is wound around a winding core. The adhesive film does not have a protective layer on the adhesive layer and is wound around the winding core in a state in which the adhesive layer and the base material layer are contiguous to each other in the radial direction of the winding core. A width of the winding core in an axial direction is smaller than a width of the adhesive film. In a rolled body of the adhesive film, an overhang portion jutting out in the axial direction of the winding core is provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Inventor: Naoki Tomori
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Patent number: 12060240Abstract: Provided are a roller assembly, a battery cell manufacturing device, and an adjustment method of a roller, which relates to the field of battery manufacturing technology. The roller assembly includes a holder, a roller, and a first adjusting member. The roller is rotatably mounted on the holder. The first adjusting member is rotatably mounted on the holder, and one end of the roller is rotatably connected to the first adjusting member. A rotation axis of the roller does not coincide with a rotation axis of the first adjusting member. One end of the roller is rotatably mounted on the holder through the first adjusting member. The rotation axis of the first adjusting member does not coincide with the rotation axis of the roller, and therefore, rotation of the first adjusting member is capable of driving a corresponding end of the roller to rotate, thereby adjusting an extension direction of the roller.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2023Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Yongli Zhang, Jun Hu, Gang Zeng, Keqiang Li, Ruhu Liao, Zhihua Wen
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Patent number: 12059584Abstract: A portable power-driven system, such as an ascender/descender arrangement, ensures that a rope used in relation to the portable power-driven system is securely handled when in an operational state.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: SKYLOTEC GMBHInventors: Claude Boulliat, Jimmy Eiterjord
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Patent number: 12060137Abstract: A lifting element, such as for a vessel or vehicle, comprising a lifting element, such as an oblong element, rotated by a number of electrical motors via a rotatable, such as an eccentric, element. The eccentric element ensures that the lifting element can only be tilted within a predetermined angle area increasing the safety thereof. Multiple electric motors are used where one motor counteracts the other within an angle interval to ensure that the tilting element does not tilt undesirably.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: MacArtney A/SInventors: Mads Drachmann, Lasse Møller Rasmussen
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Patent number: 12054224Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides an electromechanical rear derailleur for a bicycle including a base member that is configured to be coupled to a frame member of a bicycle. The derailleur includes a movable member and a link mechanism that movably couples the movable member to the base member. A motor is positioned at the movable member to move the movable member.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2023Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: SRAM, LLCInventors: Christopher Shipman, Brian Jordan